Year: 1860

The following speech was made by Mr..
Gaulden of Georgia, at the Douglas Conven-
tion in Baltimore. We copy it as we find it
in the Baltimore American. Let Northern
Democrats read the argument of Douglas
Democrat for the Slave trade:


Mr.. President and gentlemen Of the Con
vention, l come here from Georgia, ip-
dorsed by her State Convention, and by the
Convention at Charleston. This ought surely
give TO give me right to be heard before
you, and though 1 have not joined my fortune
in the State Of Georgia either to the house OF
! Y orl1 or the house OF Lancaster, ] feel that !
have 81 right here to speak to the great Demo
cratic party of the United States. | have
been panied as citizen of these United
: ates, to see the element of disruption and
djsorganization which seem to prevail in the
midst Of this most intelligent assembly. ]
have felt that the experiment of the capabil-
ity of man for self government was about
shrieking to leave tie word. But | trust
that this may be the darkest hour inst before
the day, and that from these elements of dis
cord, the representatives of the intelligent


4 mcrcan people here assembled may be able
to devise plan upon which the great Demo
cratic party OF the United States may be
united, aud that we will yet add another vic
tory to the many we have already achieved.


am an advocate for maintaining the in
tegrity Of the National Democratic party; l
belong to the extreme South am a pro-sa-
very man in every sense of the word, aye, and
an African slave trade man. This institution
Of slavery, as | have elsewhere, has done more
to advance the prosperity and intelligence Of
the white race, and of the human race, than
all else together. Ibelieve it to be founded
upon the law of God | believe it to be
blessing to all races. l believe that liberty
would not truly exist in this Western World
except by maintaining the integrity Of the
great National Democratic party. As for
this .'irrcpressible conflict party, with their
serried ranks now ready to march down upon
us, | have no faith in it, because it is founded
in anarchy, in everything that is opposed to
human progress while understand the idea
of the great National Democratic party to|
be non-interventon iii its broadcst SENSE Now
my Northern friends, do not know that ]
can do anything in Georgia to reconcile these
matters, but whatever l can do | will do.


| say that onr friends i'll Georgia, who are
crying out for protection to slavery in the Ter
ritories, are advocating mere theory, a mere
abstraction, thing that is not and cannot be
They would do much better if they would de-
mand protection from the General Govern
ment and have a line of police established
along the border Of the slave States TO catch
and hang the thieving abolitionists who are
stealing our nggcrs That is u means Of pro-
lection Why? Because it is practical
Here is my old native State of Firginia-the
slave 4rading and slave-breeding State Of Nir-
gna-


Delegate from Virginia. call the gentle
man to order. He casts an imputation upon
Virginia by calling her the "slave-breeding
State of Virginia"


Mr. Gaulden-Well, I will say the slave
breeding State of Georgia, then ] glory in i
being a slave-breeder myself / will face the
music myself, and have got as many negroes
as any man from the State Of Virginia. And
as / invited the gentlemen of this Convtn-
ton at Charleston to visit my plantation, i
will say again that if they will come to see
me, will show them as fine a lot of negroes.
and the pure African, too, as they can find
anywhere. And will show them as hand
some a set of children there as can be seen,
and any quantity Of them, too And ] wish
that Virginia may be as good as!aVe-hreedlh9
State as Georgia, and in saying that do moi
mean to be disrespectful to Virginia.


Now, want no Office, | never asked for
any, did not ask the State Convention to |
send mc here; but | am here to tell You the |
truth to you all, and this is my idea OF non
intervention. ] want the State of Virginia, |
if she has negrces~to have as many as she
pleases IL you want slavery in the State oi
Massachusetts, want you to have it, If You
want slavery in Indiana, and Ohio and Wis
consin, and Minnesota in Gods name have At
1t is your right to have slaves, and just As
many or as few as you please; will never
join any party which desires to force slavery |
anywhere, or to keep it from any place.
believe that is regulated by the law OF God
of natures God, and all history proves that to
be so, and all that l ask is "hands oil, leave
it to the people of the States and oI the Ter
ritories to settle that matter for themselves
under the Constitution of the United States.


And now, while am up, want to put my |
veto upon one thing. l know that | am not /
going tn Ire applanded in what say hut