Year: 1860

coming slave territory, am ready to as
sert the principle of the exclusion ofslavc-
ry am pledged to it from the year
1887. have been pledged to it again
and will perform these pledges


Perhaps it is well to repeat what the
Republicans will not do They will not d.
rccty nor indirectly, meddle with slavery in
the slave states; not because they think
slavery less an evil in state than in a
territory, but because, under our system
of government, we of the free states have
no constitutional power to interfere with
slavery in the states.


And now, as to what the Republican
party will do, if you take US at our word
and help US elect a Republican President,
! will tell you. We will promptly admit
/ Kansas as a state in this Union, and put
an end at once to that controversy We
will settle with the Mormons in accordance
with the Philadelphia PLATFORM We will
prevent the planting of slavery in New
Mexico. We will adopt the homestead
and presumption policy in the settlement
of the public lands. We will invite any
man, who is willing to work, and has Il
wife and children to support, and no bet
ter means of livelihood, to aid in the de-
yelopcmcnt Of the resources of our coun-
try by establishing new homestead in
the West. And, my friends, you need
not fear that this will be sectional
measure. for as many thousands of poor
white men in the southern states will a.
vail themselves of this law as there will
be from the northern states
/ Wewll then solve the great problem ofthc
age-a Pacific railway, with it, outskirts
of mail routes and settlements not on
some devious course through deserts along
the Mexican boundry, but ON that line in
whatever latitude it may be, that the
skill of engineers may select as the best
/ Give the universal Yankee nation fair
chance, and a free selection of routes, and
the iron horse will soon be stcaming away
up those magnificent slopes stretching from
/ the eastern borders of Kansas to the
Rocky Mountains thence through one of
the numerous passes Of that great back
bone Of the continent to the waters Of the
+ Pacific. Short as human life is, some of
u- will live to see that grand idea con-
summatcd


/ Composed as the Republican party is of
wings and democrats, and holding some-
what oppste creed, upon the question Of
the tariff, it will be prepared to consider
without party bias al in spirit Of mod
Grafton. how duties on imports may be i'm
posed sufficient to meet the necessary ex-
penses of the government, and yet so as to
be least burdensomc upon the people and
most seryiceablc to the industrial interests
of the country.


We have heard good deal of COM
plant that we have circulated book
written by native and citizen of slave
state against slavery. have recently
read that book for the first time, and my
astonishment is almost equal to the con-
tempt with which | have always regarded
the clamor about the book. 1t is chiefly
made up of statistical information show
ing the relative value of free and slave
/ labor, and of the opinions of eminent men
from the North and the South of this and
/ foreign countries, as to the social, moral
and political influence of slavery. So far
a. this information goes, it is cminenty
proper for circulation. Such portions
could be read with profit BY the very men
who have made the most clamor about the
book 1t is book that believe any in
telligcnt man could read, condcmning what
/ is wrong in it, and yet obtaining from it
useful suggestions That portion of the
book written by the author which is adj
+ dressed to his fellow non-savcholdcrs of
the southern states, evinces Il bitterness
that has its parallel in the speeches and
dcnunciations made by men in the interest
of slavery OH the floor Of Congress. |
have listened, over and over again, to the
same character of harangue, to the same
violent, rude and exciting language, with
the simple difference that the subjects Of
denunciation were the " Black Republic
cans instead of shareholders.


None knew better how groudless was
the clamor against this book than the very
men who made it; none knew better my
opinions than they did, and, in the frank
ness of private intercourse, | never knew
one of them who did not respect the hon.
est conviction of the northern people
against slavery. But the clamor was to
deter the southern opposition from acting
with the Republicans, to mislead the
southern people as to our principles and
purposes, and to give few northern men,
elected by Republicans votes, prctext
for violating their engagements.


In the North opinion Is free, and where
ever opinion Is free the right is more than
a match for the wrong Here any one
may extol the beauties of slavery, polyga-
my, Mohammedanism-of anything and
everything. He may write about it, talk
about it, preach about it, Here we are
not afraid of tract, a book or speech.
Freedom of discussion always begcts diff
erence of opinion. In the South, opinion
upon the slave question is not free; the
most moderate opinions against slavery can
not there be uttered safely. The mails
are opened and robbed northern men
arc watched as cnimies books are burn
cd, as Bibles have been done in times past.
There is no open channel through which
the southern mind can be reached upon
the subject of slavery. 1t was considered
a remarkable fact that Cassius VI. Clay