Year: 1860

dishonest | can imagine no reason for engag-
ing such as sentinels over our entire fortunes
Just so long as Our custom-houseS, post Offices
navy-yards, and miuts shall be stocked with
thousands, selected virtually by those who are
in banded opposition to u.s. and whose princi-
pal business, we are instructed to believe, is
eompounding politics with perfdy, it will be
impossible to render our condition better than


it is. These leper-yards must be cleansed.-
Their occupants load the air with q conta-
gous corruption. Throughout their bodies
and their souls, they bear the marks of the
dstemper with which the aristocratic pollu-
zionist has touched them. | risk but little 10
saying, that at this very hour, this mighty
phalanx, scattered throughout the eighteen
Northern States, having common and pow
erful bond of union, are devising measures to
despoil our industrial classes, by confnng them
in densely crowded fields of labor, or forcing
them to enter into competition and companion,
ship with ignorant and brutalized bondmen.
They, all, yes all, have been brought to be
lieve that the doctrines of the Declaration Of
Independence are but stereotyped lies that
the founders of the nation had but sorry
conception of inaIienable rights; that the
Constitution which they framed was intended
as an instrument of cruelty and crime and
that the fairest feature of free republican as
sociation is a union of States peopled- with the
lowest grade of slaves Am | right? What
is the trouble against which we have to con-
tend ? Is it not the steady influence of what
may with propriety be called political con-
spraces to mislead the public mind, and taint
the public heart Is it not an administration
blackencd with treachery, and crooked and
tottering under the weight of its depravity,
using all the patronage of otsce, and all the
fascinations of position to utterly destroy US,
by making the Territories of the country but
garrisons for the enemies Of freedom, and the
labor of white men degrading and fruitless,
beyond the limits of the present States If
am in error, what is the correct interpreta-
tion Of the political diScordS of the last six
years


anticipate fully that my suggested mode
of redress for existing abuses will be denounc
ed as sectional to which [ answer, if it be so
the antidote to bane may be q bane itself,
"simiLia simiHbuS curdatur." But its liability
to the charge is denied. The real sectionalism
is arrayed against Us | do but counsel syS-
tematic aud persistent resistance. In studies
Of the fundamental doctrines of our common
charter and in the dispensations Of the favors
of government, we should never know q \ North
a South, an East or a West. My complaint
is that others act as if they thought different
ly. | trust we shall always be able to com
mand the exercise Of snch q patriotism aud
comfy as to forever preclude US from ag-
gression upon q section inferior to ours in every
element of material strength and greatness. 1t
can never be otherwise than dastardly to press
upon the weak aud sickly.


1t will be noticed that have spoken Of the
Democratic Party without reference to its pre-
sent distractions. My reason for so dong is
found in the opinion entertain that these dis
sensious do not affect issues as neither branch
indicates disposition to meet, fairly and open
y the great political problem OF the times. 10
casting our votes we should be accn ately in-
formed as to their effect upon the policy we
desire to see established We should not be
made instruments in tae hands of any ambi-
tious man, or in the hands of any combination
of reckless aud unscrupulouS men to force an
unnatural growth of Slavery in the country,
and to blast the hopes of our own people,
contrary to what has heretofore been the un-
derstanding of the Constitution Of the United
States, and in paIpable violation of what has
been regarded a settled national policy 1t
should be a matter Of singing regret to us, if
from our bearing in the present contest we
could fairly be charged hereafter with viola
tion of the principles we have long professed to
cherish, or with having imposed any, the Sigh
test, impediment in the pathway of a rational,
well grounded and progressive liberty.


The all-absorbing question now presented TO
the American citizen, for what will prove to
be bis ultimate decision, | have watched mar
rowly as it has risen into Importance from
year to year, and think know the opinions
of the several Presidential candidates respect
ing it.


am not aware that the supporters of Mr..
BRECKENRIDGE attempt any concealment as to
his designs in case of his success If they should
desire to resort to prevarcation, they have
placed it entirely without their power by the
frankness and boldness, and had almost said
the reckIessness of their declarations. He has
been put forth prominently, alike in speech and
platform, as the Achilles of the armies of the
South and as the determined foe of free soil,
free speech and free men. He stands upon no
single Democratic sentiment, unless, indeed,
what were regarded by all statesmen within
the last fifteen years as the pretentiouS heresles
of JOHN c. CALHOUN, can be so regarded. He
so reads the teachings of the sages of the past
and their primary law, as to make it fruitess
to attempt an exclusion of bis peculiar and
favorite institution from the organized Terri
ritories and so as to make it Indispensable
that Congresses, Courts and Presidents should
exercise all their Ingenuity and all their powers
to fortify and sustain it there. Legislative
action is to be invoked, judicial DEGREES had,
executive fats pronounced navies equipped,
and armies marshaled, to exclude forever every
settler therefrom who will not bow down be-
fore the black god OF his idolatrcus worship.
| appeal to You freemen, to know whether this