Year: 1859

the superior interest to he promoted BY
} that organization. The powers of party
organization will be directed 10 the adj


vancement of the interest of the controlling


power in that organization. This is iueyita.


bic. 1t would be illogical, contrary to all


human experience, to what we daily see


around US to suppose that majority in


any political organization would knowing.
| ly permit anything to be done prejudicial


to their permanent interest. 1t is a ques-


tion of power what party will do; and


power gives to party its distinctive charac-
Nteristics. do not by this necessarily i'm


peach the patriotism of this controlling


power. What is patriotism and what is


not, every man must judge for himself


Therefor do not necessarily say that our


Southern friends are disloyal to the Con-


stitution and the Union. Isay their policy


is unjust to the people of the free States,


and threatening to the safety and interests


of the people of all sections of the country.


Where is the power of the Democratic par
tyG Is it in Ohio! Is it in Indianal Is


it in the free States of the Union? Out of
eighteen free States, the Democratic party


is only partly in power in five of them


And in thirteen the Republican party is in


power. In the South the Democratic par
ty is in power III fourteen out of the fif


teen slave States. Look TO your Congress,


what do you see there? Out of the thir-


ty-nine members of the Democratic party
in the Senate of the United States, there


are but ten Senators from the free States.


The other twenty nine are from the South


ern States. OF the other ten, two of them


are ahti-lecompton. Of the remaining


eight, two of them do not represent a ma
jorily of the people of the States that sent


them. My friend Mr.. Pugh, from the day
of his election 10 the present time has not
expressed the will of the majority of the
people of Ohio, because he has BEEN op-
posed to the sentiments expressed by them.


Mr.. Douglas, who was returned to the
Senate last winter, also represents minor
ity of the people of Illinois, as shown by
the popular vote at the last election.


The Democratic party, of the free States,
in Congress, is powerless body, that might
as well not be there, except for the talent
of the members they send there. There
are in the Senate ten democrats from the
North and twee,y-nine from the South,
and the result is the twenty-nine invariably
control the ten. There is no Democratic
Senator from the free State LtAe-hcad
of any important e7mInIttee of the Senate.
The South has the important committees
in its grasp and it holds them. Go 10 the
House and what do you see of the elected
members. Now there are not over thirty
Democrats from the free States, whereas
there are sixty-four democrats, elected and
certain to be elected from the Southern
States. The Republican party has one
hundred and thirteen members elected to
the next House from the free States.-
Where then, is the power of the DEM
ocratic party? For all the purposes
Of legislation, both as regards its imitation
and execution, the democratic party Of the
free States is powerless in both branches of
the Federal Legislature.


| insist that this Democratic party of
the South in the Senate Of the United |
States will permit no man to receive their
approval for any office unless he subscribe
10 Democratic opinions and Democratic
principles as they are Interpreted in the
South. Looking to the facts haze given
you, are you surprised that the great end
and object of the Democratic party is to
strengthen and extend slavery over the Ter
ritories of the United States? Are you
surprised at the conduct of the Democratic
party of the North for the last twenty
years, in their submission to the slave
power? Are you surprised that upon the
questions that have excited the public at
tention, the annexation of Texas, and other
measures for the spread of slavery, the
Democratic party of the North have uni
formly surrendered? The South has made
no attempt upon them when they have not,
sooner or later, surrendered. They were
at first opposed to the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, yet when tho repeal
was impatieutly demanded by the South.
we find the Democratic party yielding to
the demand.


II is no answer that Mr.. Douglas pro-
posed it. They approved the purchase of
the Mesilla Valley for the purpose of ex-
tending slavery. The repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise defeated that party
Upon the question of the power of Con-
gress to protect slavery in the Territories,
they viii fan in with the South, and the
same in regard to the African slave trade.
They will continue to surrender to the
South, simply because the power of the
party is in the southern branch of the par
ty. The power that controls the Demo-
cratic party has fixed all this. What Mr..
Wise and Mr.. Stephens say in regard to
the Dred Scott decision, the Democratic
party in the north must either accede to,
or withdraw from their southern brethern;
which latter they will not do. The south
ern Interpretation of the Drcd Scott deci-
sion must and will be accepted by the Dem
ocratic party. You see how it is, and it
affords you an answer as to what will be
sequel of the demands ofthe South.


am speaking of great interests which
affect the country at large, and | repeat to
you, that the power of the Democratic par
ty lies in that portion of the party South
Of Mason and Dixou's line. Whatever may
be necessary to promote the interests of {
hat party, either the African slave trade,
Dr. the purchase of Cuba, that power will {