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Ti8: rro mm Aim ih tvrtrrr.
Whole No. 163,
J JOHN .V. CAMEROX,
XDITUR AJtt VROr&IltOK.
f tkbk o iuwciiimaa! . ?
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v Ma DttHi an-au'ina. aj,uJallrraraaasrai,aiaatatto
aata af M k.nu ;
I,.' wwt.tni ta di.. .v.Uaua Ui.tr oaoa" Ik mi of tkayaaa,
' HUM MUI Vaa k,i HMtr latanllaa m kaftva tM
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ajar ml il f DM BUbla. k MOMf
" tcbka or Dvrroni ''
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boardar tL JACiUION IIUTEt, f ...
Ala will aba ant rt.tt( opaa raaiuaablti 1
tanaa, all tak Uaualaiil dOrlvMr m raw Unix aar
ritk thxr awtrouaga, lh U prvauiaa r i tb a guau
and aaraful bokriuf! and m flu ft Ul ba trrtrd to
wmh Imm wbo ir tU.
-t iAKEt J0UN8OX.
fayaitaf Ula, K. C, Jaai )6, ltt&T J&T-tf
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Ut mi Ft-ty srr 6odt nati ramp &
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rartiaailar atUalioa Bald U
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WM. H. IIAIUII,
Attorney at Law,
; TATETTEVILLI, N. 0.
I , orncs OS ou iTutrr.
"Law Copartnership."
Wt, tka BBdawirnd, kaaa lliUday tormtl Urn
Cap.rtw.pblp, i .ill p.lc.-l. U. Curt,
f Ua 6Uoiiin aoaaiiaa f Uta 8ua ! CbatnM, Xmm-
MUM, Nn, H ,utJ0HTU!,
J. A Bl'EARS. .
ATTORNEY AT, LAW
AHdraaa, T
U0-1.
HanaU Ca., C.
(lltlU COHSISSIOX AD FOSWARDLXG
MERtILM,
IVilminfflon V. C
ANDHEWTTSTEDMAN,
ATTCaiIXY AT LAT7,
DiTTlllUUOl'U. -'
W wui altaad U Co aad apwJir Ca.rtt of
viawio,
. JOHN WINSLOW
Attorney at Law. v
Edgcworth Female Seminary,
, GlmiSSOEOUGH,' N. 'G-,
yarv fpHS alJoB af liia InalitutUa
X willtaa.maaw.amA'ftlDAT JAJiU-
w- ir ad. mi.
Tatttuon ofatoitr Udejiizned a alhbnwia wr-
thing oaoaaaarjr t a Ub(auitl ad rmmmm-
I.I UflatCNllaat. OrrU prwbiMtM la 4ia ta
tfit H!it Urunrbru ,r
Ntithfr Ubr j r, a baa Wan ttarl tsaaeur
lb 4inM'i f l?l . ' !. - ' "tiu.. i. 'tkclr ari.
"I tt ciulajuttaaulDtrau, aoyraetif hislructioa,
.' RICnAUD 8TERLIX0, Prioalpal
Daeambrr 129-7
POLITICAL'
, - . SPEECH OF MA, DAVJ3, ,
Of MARYLAND, ,
ON TJIE I'ltESIDNrS JWSSACr.
Hocat or Brkaat ativm, Jaa. 6, j 8 7
Tb. qoestlon of refrrin th. I'ro.idcnt'a t.
to tb. Com iu it t. of tli. WboJa oo tbett jo
oflho Unirni beinu nndor conaiJeratioO- :
Mr. David, of Mirjrland, Mid : Sir. Spent. ,
grave psrplexitlc bars orinen io interpretii,p i ,
teaching of th. iat. eluotion. A lingular :.
v.nitj of fiew bu beca reald. Goo tic
of tb. aa' ptrtjr Lave diflertd u widtJ ll
oi oppoiita partuj. Tb. graduallv .iJuuing i
clof di'baie bat drawn io great nuaiben oa f
lido. Ai Democrat and Uepablican Lave 1
erijiplud in tb. conflict, frwli frienja hare r
in io th. rctcn. j and tb rtiult ' eterv
baabeea that-doubt ba bi ) '
haj
recent dubitt. in tltia Uw iiuti Lm,;.'. i uu
aullioritiui fur an j opinion, with tortin jiiy fur
any fact, with vi.wa eoofuunded u utiiaWilii.
bio, ia eodlcji mift Ujar. .
.Tk. gentlemen of tu Adttiioictnitio!! hat. ex
biitited aoia. aDiUTenea on tba question wbo
opened th. debate. Wherever tb. renponjibililj
oHaMiit4rilNr4warcaaialCArrrle. UeaU, tb. irreal diUerence of opioloo tbat It lut
u wkiob Ua Utile the euatia ef eonotrj alar- elicited luor. ILaa JuiUfy Die, now that the C&
iroJ cot the bltterncat of bla banrt la aharp
i uporatioa of hia udgee, forgot tco the 1'reai
1 nl ia tb. partioan, nod inHaaied tb. paaaiooa
adT oooaouuDir, tb. TitaJ. of tit. Republic
liut, M r. Speaker, th people baf taught avoi.
on worthy of being learned, not tco. the
caidetit would inculcate, woe auch a are ejaUh
,1 to Deuiocratio heart, jet fruiiul of warning
d adutohltioB, And quit, riaibl. to" the doll eat
. .. ' -
it prorea that ntaorlty of tb. peopl deeired
e Hi. Bacbanaa Preaident of th. United
it. Nobody arer doubud that.
It prove, tbat minority of tb. peopl. were la
ror of th. Kaniaj-Nebnwka aot JNobody ever
Mtion.d tb.t
ft prove that a ttiloority of th. people approve
l'retldvot fioroe' adiuioiatretioD. Nobody
r doubted that ; but nobody know Low aniall
t miooiity ia. , ' . . '
'i tt a n.lriftrity of the peopta ar. eoo-
' ; ' my bo priUmred
T, . ter jiuuUkd
r
G. W.' Williams & Co.
TT VE jiat iWd a Utp aad veil eelaetad aa.
11
aaanU
1 March IT, ISii.
3-tf
, Second Stock ,
: b; f. pearce
S aow reoaNLoc. diraetiroai Saw York, biaataand
Stack ef
ft'aUl am! lTItT Vrj 'Cootf,
Amanf vbicb aaar b f.tid, tbt latent and aaoat (aab-
ivaabt atyloa ef Latiiaa' Praa Oooda, tluaka, Maav
tillu, aaJ all al jla of tairtirr.
lAlaa OKTLFMCSU OOOlS f vry variatv,
wbieb ftlli baaaid CUCAPatukulcaala arrauil. Tba
La4ia are raapecti'ui'jr totiUd to fia na a mil.
0. T. rLAHVt,
Bay Streat, PayatUvUla, Oct. , W4: Ht-U
lVli?
rvawiaad.
Jaa'r to.
bat. ha need for week, in reviewing the Held,
luinuiing up Aha reeulta, and pointing the atten
tion of tba beoDle to the irreat direraitv with which
9 t
thaquettioo they hav decided and th judgment
thev are euppoaed to bar pronounced ba been
interpreted. Sir, tbia diacuaaioB wo not opened
either by the gctitttiinan frow Ohio, (Sir. Camp
bell,) or by another gcntlouian ia the other winir
of the Capitol, now not Tar distant, (senator Wii-
aoo ) It oriioated neither in tbi House nor
in tb. Senate. Jirtt Kurd is oukJ in the
'indent's nuKxe. II. wat justly fearful that
U)peotCi niiiht mutake their rebuke for aa ap
proval : that their unaided vision might not dia-
oover the eomfort under the cattiinuoo. nor b.
quit aWare that behind a frowoiug Provideooe
they bid a atiiiliog je; and therefore h.witlv
availed bimaelf ef bit couititutiooal privilegt to
' It proven that the minority Which preferred
Mr. liuobanan w-na no located ia Variou Slate
that uodcr tb. Constitution it could caat a ma
jority of tb. vote, of the electoral college; and
tbi tb. only point touching tbat nitnoniy about
which there wa ever much doubt.
It prove tbat a majority of the people ar op
posed to that administration of President Pierce
which a minority propoee to continue for four
year.
It prove tbat a majority of th. peopl. o( the
country think it time tbat tb micgovernment of
KainuM luouid cease.
It prove tbat no diversity of interpretation can
itort anvthiue bt condemnation of the princi-,
pie and th rmrpose of tb KanimK-Ncbra'ka act
from a majority of tb people of toe country.
It prove tbat Mr. iiuebanan come, into power
with a decided majority of lb people againat bitn ;
with every proposed principle of b Adouniatrs
lion condemnetj beforehand ; with the great De
mocratic majority in the Senate nvrowed to. tbe
vary verge of a bar. worttog majority; with tbe
uoum of Ueprcaeutatives, so far a any expert
cue teaches, againat him ; with only about one-
third of the Ucpreaentative from tbe .North ia
r. r.
JOUNSON.
dtai rn.r aiafl tiiawv a-liifl Miradif in a minir!
VrOP UOiagSCS, f llJ,r "K P m uT1 tic, and oi.00 by tb dm..um of their oppo-
Alaa, PKKD OATS. Juat ,."'U,.V'-
har be it from v. to imitate tbe spin wbwb
breathe through that cxtraurdinarr ducnnieo.
They only can fitly apologize fur it wbo can esti
mate ih bitterness of a spirit broken by sack a
fall. I do not care to "pen any eontroveray eith
er with it statemects, its reasonings, or Its aeolj-
ing ; bat 1 may be allowed to a a u fur infruv
-L1.D FOR SUE.
ffMI! abeilbr efars for sai f.ar boadrad aad
I thirty aers of Umd, (aaora ar tm) aitaatad and
Ifiuj la ttaa furk ef Iba bit a aad b f Raft Saaanpa, r
ifebaaoa caealy. S. 0. Tboa wuhinf te furekaae,
mil da wall U asamm tba land, aa a daacnptum of I nun. mod tb. country to profit by Its tesebmrt.
H Bars arania oa aaaiaaa. a wui mi toa auaaa naatam
Ud aa Tf.Si.ir tba Stth day al Ttbrwj , 1W7.
far Ui-Uatr Barusaiar affir to
M. . BROWS,
- ' fair Flaj, Rubaioa Co., Jt. C :
Jaa. 20, 1837. ,14Wl
NOTICE.
Dents; and tbu tbat, for ail bis cherished pur
poses of mischief, bis Administration is paralyxtd
Lefuro its Lirth.
" ' Still mote, sir, it dissipate, tb sweet delusion
of tb dead heroes of tbe Nebraska act, that there
was a day of resurrection for them. It demon
strates that tbe blast which proatrated its friend
ia the North wa DO passing squall ; that no sober
second thHijrbt bs changed their first thoupbt,
but tbat a settled and unchangeable hostility
through all tb. Nottb condemn them to a hope
lett and pitiable minority. Tbe death wound, J
ratlterkhink, has been dealt to tbat party which
intently boasted itself perpetual plague to tbe
Jlepubu, tt now, worse than the scotched snake,
ffrgrrs to it pave, tike a woanded glsdistor,
ti A. McLEAH dalB kln(t eonataatly oa
J7 fcasd vail MMetae sues oc us'a.tm&3 aad
lb.t 20Uld, waiab tbay will sell ebaap fur cwh ar
airkanra lor pradaaa, at HmiU a Ptura, bo M-
Lasas , 23 aallra Areas yayrtlavuia, aa Ik larnpike
M.
Jasaary 2, 1M7. ' lWWf
R. H. SAiNDFORD,
ATT0RI'.WD COIASELIOS
OOe as Dr. Ua4 s Saw BailJta, aa Bow iraat.
A. M. Campbell,
Auolimecr and Cftmmiuim Merchant,
talLLtWlHC STHEKT,
rty-iUtf ill, N. c.
1-aV 10, 183.
fl
Charles Banks,
COIPECTIOSEH,
WHOLESALE ASD RETAIL DEALKR 15
forth Fruit, JTiUt, Cijitrti Tvcei &..
iit eex thi:i:t,
rajreuevlll., H. 0.
jaaaary 18, 184. '
J, Sv BANKS,
tOniSSlOIZAXD FOSWARDLXG
MERCHANT.
WILWIttiTOS,
iM 6,1840. .
.1rtli Citrolltm.
10-ly
david Mcduffie, .
FArmkTlLLB, S..C, - u
awrtfuny Isadars hia services to parson, la tu a ana
aaTlhe 4j4niBg eoeuUs wiibing work dons io bis
sin. .
" .faly 18, 1858.
A .OT VEAR'S CALL TO 0.E AXD ALL
"rjrl. OTi:KlIV npttuU
I) ly tradara kia tkakka to a
gaearoaa poblie, for lb Htra? jai
Ttmt be ba rroalaad fraaa tkaia
arace b baa eoamaad baatBtaa
tita aa book, and fa y atraH at
taiitioB aad aatirinf iuJuiiry, luaiar.
it a ooBlinaam-a of thir faaara.
Ha kas aow aa baad and will eoa-
aiaiiUy krp a good jaortaaaat of Saddla, lltiulaa,
Martiagata. Alao, CarrUfs, boggy, and 8ly Har
aeaa af all varialia and of hia oaa maouacinra
U&tint la bis employ trxt-rato workwea ia tba dilfar
tnt bfali of bs bnsiawas, ha ia not uoJar Ilia ue
avaaitr af kercine Northern wark fur ai. lis has
! ua band fur Ja nafa ked CarriaK CvlUra ;
Wajraa, i:rfft, Vufw, aa4 Uroaara Whips orara
ry. dowriptiua, aad aaary slbar srlicla aaaally kept ia
hia lift.
Rrpairliin attrsJad to as maaal dons saar aad
sritit dloBatrk. -
21. B. Ua tarnratly rrqnfta all tbnaa loJebtrd te
tb lata firm of lloo.oa A Otarby to call and aettla
tb eUinu b bold apiiat tbra, aa tba MtUvuiaatof
tba eo-partnarahip rtquir it wilbaut delay.
Jaory , Ii7. li&-3ai
DISSOLUTION. r
("lOVNCIL, RAY A CO. bai tbi day dlaaoWcdeo
j partnorabip by aiatuaJ eoonrot. Alas. Ray ia
autiwriiad to ua tk nam of th firm in liquidation.
Ua may ba foua,d at Ih aUad formerly occupied by
Uieat, ahara all iodebtad to the 8 no ar requaati-d to
ealUad ettlr LoaWrlodtttgane il not be Jlten.
JOHN T. TOlTSClL,
ALRX. RAY.
JOll.N A. NICHOLSON.
Novtmbar 1, lb68. 14-ti
A
FOR SALE,
U2-ly.
' COOK & JOHNSON, .
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
English, German, sad American Haf J-
- . wfirejtnd Cullerjr.
Jryl8,16i4.
T. G & B. G. WORTH,
Commission and Forwarding
JIEfiCflATS,
riluiln;tan. If. C.
jt Usual Bdrajjees msd oa eomirnmsaU.
ft-lj-P - .
found tb
he r'4 to see
, blcDOMALD. f
167-tf
A CARD.
Th adrlpid woold repotf11y Inform bi old
t-i.A. .ml KBHtomars wst n
(! . Laata. Whar b will
O W W W as-' 1 - 1 iTf
thorn. 1 V
rsy.tA.vlll., 5. C, Ja. , 1857;.
v Book Bindery
Bs HlRDIB.'asrries oa th Book-biading basl
' una, la tb cood story of Clark A Woo war'.
Clothing Emporium, wbar b.Wtll rTaadiaeot.
bindiag In any eiyie oaairam.
Jaa' J 16, J 85. .
t-lY
Ulanks for sale at tHis Office,
TO MCrc- of Und, wall adapted to tb cul
ture of ooru, eettnn, wheat, oats, to., iymg within
two miles of Waduaborouab, In Adhou Coui.ty. On
th jremia la a oooifortubl dwalling together with
kit Baeeaaary utbouea, and tevoral negro cabin, a
gaodOin bans and Cottoa Screw. Tba place ilea
near the route of th contaiaplaud Rail Road from
Wilmington to Charlotte. ' :
AS0C3 MclVElt, Jr.,
, JOHS L. McIVEH.
For furthor partienlsrs "ply to A. Little, Ead.., or
W. B. Troy, Wsdeafiorouj,.
Secmber 15, 1850.: . 154-tf
. STATU OF NORTH CAROLINA,
RICHMOND COUJiTi.
Court of Equity, Fall Term, A. O. 1856.
R. 8. McDonald va.. Daoial Carria, Hugh Curria, Aa-
5as Curria, Laueblio Curric, Hugh Carri eon of
ob, John MLb sad wife Margaret, James 8.
. Raster, Jamee Angtla Baxter, DuBiel Tboua. Bax
ter, John Wancll Baxter, Uughurt ie Daxter, and Bo
: thuaa B. McKeoiia and wit Abiga.iL
I Petition fur.tb sale of land. ".
Ia tbis, rate, it appearing to tba Mtiafaetion of th
Clark -anil Master that Daniel Curria, Hugtr 'farrier
Angua Carrie, Lsaehli. Curria, Hugh Curria son of
Jobs, John Mclean and wiUMtrgarat, Jamas 8. Bax
ter, James Angua Baxter, Dakiel Tkoma Jtaxife-r,
John Wenell Baxtor, and Hugh Curria Baxtor, ara
non-residents of tins hute ; it is therefor ordered
that psblieatisa b mad for six weeks in th North
Carolina Argun, notifying mid Defendants personally
to bo and appear a tba Court of Kqoity, to be held
for the County of Itiebmend, ia tba town of Rocking-
bam, on tb third Monday of March, In tb year of
oaf Lord one thousand sight handrail and kftv-aaven,
teas aad there to pld, anawar or demur to this pe
tition, tb.rwia Judgment are tonfaM will b eulorad
aad tba eauae beard ax fru ss to tbem.
Witneaa. Jobn W. Lrak, l.ler an Maaur or our
aid Court, at offlo in Rockingbam th third .Monday
ia 8eptmbr, 4. 1. 1866.
- - -" . n r v . v n
- . . jvn.i n . uax, ss. bu, n.
Jaa. SI, IS:.- 160::BJl.gO
It reTfcjbr -smo acU of ainister import. Ih
Preaideut Crat Wacbv n '
1'bst ss Senator represent tbeir repeectlv
State, and meiubt rs of the House of ltepresenta-
litet their revpweuv. eouatitucocic io each of the
Slates, o lb President represents tbe gweat
i.;. t'n:.i k'..,M iw ,.
" S'.oUon Bonsoarta .aid to an insuLordinsto ' VB ,0 Ul 01 7t D Ior
Anemb!y, lou U only tbe deputie. of ogl. P"7 f .
' i ' I Thaia art anma nf tka Imbihib ahaut whmh I
proviooe; I represent tu nation: i has, to ..... , .... ,. . .
! compare . mafl tliopi with great, or President I 'nk fw ?.be VZ ' 1' 7 P"
Wpicifu;!y. tsiai N our lower .pbere, wherem - -,d oay ,U'f f "bf"
tcVLiM Ubav. aot aoseemlv. "lie Uai, Mr. hT to tbe V"1"
.W-r A mid all tbe div.rsiti. tl.cr, j. on. i " T .rT; .
lad which no one ba controverted. It was fair- f1re.oee of P"oeJJPU lhs d"V
ly ststed by the geutlemsn from Teancssce, and i lM P"7- t TTT-a . v
d .pparent on every retur. of tb. .rv.Yole. , Tbetb.er ,b W!1 01 F,T A rT '
Mr. kchsnsn keod. tbe chsir of StatVagsiast dn'"oa made or evaded worth of Ma,
the will of a majority of shout four hundred thou-j00 ' t-
Mndof the p4lof the United Sut. If, fT? T "? Tr
therefore, ,hrLiJen, rr-pre-oto th. regWi hen-
Lulstioftbe Union, Jr. llucLsn.nTcIot f ' J-l?-n im.tui,g a North-
r . ' era and a Southern l'era.ierat to mciu -he same
represent, lut miarrprfsenU the petpie of th. . . . . .. , ,.
United Fute. I , I tb.oS-it appear, that the great majority of the
The 'President further instruct n in wb.t thw f000 Uwd. of Wen' ,r hot . to
ropl have decided in the election of Mr. Bud,, i ?" Pc'PS - t
H.L "Thoy b.v. ksserted," be sVr, a. lot , blunders, a. . weary of it. ag.tst.oos, abhor 1U
con-titutionul Luslitv of each and all of it Stateal h!f '.S"
of th Union, a State " He mean that ther "u' "S"""
.ho by .their voles elected Mr. Buchsnat, Wrl f " - barber of the pubho peace,
for that Principle contested by their opp.mer.to, '-f rTotan,cf Md refor- uor the dls-
or he mean nothing. If it baa settled ihat pria- i " i, u7
eple.it proves 'th. T. msjorit, of the peopl. of ! flh PPto f th b"? W,lU
the United State, ore ovLJ to lb. JZL of I 'T.eW? f JTJ
opposed to lb. equiliiy
tba Sute. . -
"They have affirmed, y the President,
"the constitutional equality or eacnand allot the
cilixeu of tuo United Stole as eilixens, wbut
evor their religion, wherever their birth or their
residence."' If so. then it prove tbat a great
majority of the people of the United Stale. Veny
the ryau'Vy tf the ciiimnt of the CxUcd StutfS,
deny Uurir eyualitflj rtiuun wVetr ' religion
deny their equality by reason of their residence,
deny tfioir eqiwlUj by reason of thcit birth 1 .
Tbey hat. aasurud," say the President,
" th imiolability of tb constitutional riphto of
the different section of the Union." Theo a
majority of the people of the United State bare
io the fate eonteM been inimical to tbe contitu-:
tional right of tha States, and have bcn en 'lea
voring to brenk tbera down.
The President further informs as that " thy
hav. procluimed their dovoted and unalterable
attachment to the Union arid to the Constitution,
ss objects of interest superior o all tubjeola of
local or sectional controversy, aa the safeguard of
th. right of ail, as the spirit and th essence of
. ... - , i . n L
tne liberty, pence, ana greatness oi ice xtepuo
lio." ; y. -v: , v
If o, then a majority of the people of the
United States have declared against those great
criuciple : thrr are inimical to the existence of
this Constitution ; they ar. inimical to the rights
of some groat sections of the country ; they are
bent on war and wot oo peace, for a great major
ity of the peoplu have voted against the man who,
the President says, is the symbol of this decision.
Sir, if the President's opinion is right tbsttbose
great and vital principle were in contest, then
the vote of the people Is more full of awful por
tent than any thvy havq ever east, and th. day
of onr dissolution draw nigh. If they wen not
in contest, then that message is the most ungra
cious urcssin ever Sung by a President on tbe
people who lifted him above hi fellow.
It is of evil example for the President to ha,
departed, in the language of hi message, from
the severe courtesy, ,the respectful reserve, the
passionless dignity observed by hi predecessor
in alluding to tjittajyndijrat of sovereign States, or
the motive of great bodies of tbe people in the
highest function pt their sovereignty. It i of
all things most deplorable that, elevated above
th. turbulent atmosphere of a popular canvass,
the President should hav. looped to tbrregtoa
of tbe etorm, been wayd by tbe paion of the
trife whose ex senses it war hi high doty to have
restrained, and that, stung by tb. great eondew
atioa of th. rot of th. people, should hat
power aver tb. qnoatioa .of slavery. You will
vr hoar of another slave State; we will make
Kansas a free State; and therefore We are wil- .
ling to abide by tbo principle f the Kansas-,
Nebraska aot, becsAise, although it ought not to
bav. beta passed, it perhaps wiil do no barm. '
While oar Southern brethren sty it i a Southern .
triumph, w will claim it at a Northeia on).
Tbat will ensbl. us to maintain our position at
th. North in the party, and give us tb. full .
Adviotsg. of our overwhelming power to vote
lavery from the Terntone. ij, ur, ia
more than on. handbill and it mora than oue
newipaper, bow many In boots Dot to inquire,
it ba been seen Je, I have en with my own
eye, iu Pennsylvania and 'New York, KepubJi
ean taunted by Democrat with being; opposed .
to freedom for baviog voted for Dunn's liiL X
taw in mort than on. place, in mora than on.
handbill, proclaimed, ''Buchanan, BrecLInriJg, ,
aad Free avanaas!" and the result of the ddjo-juy
oivm of Chs wordJ of tb. Eunaaa- hieh wk c upoo this Boor Hotweta twa,
' -' " - - - ; i - ' J reatlewien fram Illipou V!trti!r t
tavumed by the Pemocratta party iu that State.
I base nowhere heard it asserted that it ws
anywhere maintained a an accepted dogma of
that party at the North that Congress had n
power over the question of slsvery io the territo
ries; that the people had no power over it in th.
Territories ; that the people ought not to exclude
slavery from the Territory of Kan&as; that they
were opposed to the people doing it. And uu
leas there be gentlemen wiio cso reconcile 'and
justify all thoe things, then there is a great
and wide a gulf in a point of policy a there i
in point of constitutional principle between th.
Democrat of tbe North and the Democrat of
the Sooth. For what matters it to the South
that Concress shall Dot interfere if another in- .
strument is substituted which will interfere T It
it mora humiliating to the South to bare a line
! of fair division, like tbat of 1S20, giving part
: to the South and part to the North a line and
, boundary of peace forever established here by
the Congress of the United State than to be
rudely expelled by a congress of Kn& squat
ters ? here, where she is represented by fcer el
oquent jons; in the Senate, where she i pro
tected by her eual vote ; ly the President, arm
ed with the veto sgsinat ail oppression, nther
than there, where the is eot represented, ba no
voice and no veto? Or ar ber interest mor.
likely to be tenderly dealt with by the rude back-.
woodsmn or the European Red Lepub!iaa 7 Or,
if she may be excluded, is it so much more to
her taste, or docs it better comport with ber dig
nity, that a few rambling emigrant get together
ioalogrcbio ly our sulhori'y sr, under that
bulwark of Southern nhu, the Kansas act
and to improve the price of bind proclaim tbat : .
slavery shall not exist ; that at the line a man fa ' '
a hunting f-hirt, with a rifle cn bis shoulder sod
a bowie-knife it bis belt, shall Haunt a blotched,
copy of the Wiltnot proviso in the face of th.
Southern emigrant, nd bid bira bck in th
name of the squatter kings, than that here, on
solemn cwesultotwn, ucb. part, two be mad. that
petce, aad oot war, , may reia ia th Kepiiblief
Doe that made of settling the matter touch th.
dignity of the South let, or rather doe it not
plied to wrinfrom the terrors of the country an
approval, real or apparent, of th conduct of tbe
Administration ; and they have by thisgreut vote
indicated tbeir abiding hostility to a policy which
has brought the Republic to the verge of ruiu.
This, I take it, ia ttu judgment of tba American
people, ouly they were to unfortunate as to differ
as to the measure of redraw ; sod the penalty of
this blunder is tbe continuance of tbat domina
tion in the Executive Chair for four years moie.
' Tbw condemned by the popular vote, these
gentlemen "of ibe miffority are: ingenious in t-
trscting an approval oi tneir policy ana princi
ples; but id the vain effort of they hav revealed
that the minority itself is divided as muoh with
itself I from it opponent. While claiming n
arprovnl of their principles by the country, the
minority to itself wrangling as to ' what these
principles Sre.
The world has long known that they were
divided on every question of domestio policy;
that (heir harmonious ranks included protee
ttoniata. Th. last sessiou exhibited great inter
nal improvement bills passed over the vote by
Democ ratio votes. But stilt they boasted that
on the slaverry question-the shibboleth of-thcir
fuith 'Democrat were every where the same
faithful friends of tbe Southern and Northern
rights-i-alone at te North worthy of trust. They
passed th. Kansaa act to vindicate the right of
the South to enter Territories with theirwlaves;
they, thetefore, alone are worthy f Southern
eountenaocel Thru have wrung frmn the coun
try th. approval of the 'principle of that act;
tAcjp hav. vindicated jhe equality of the : States;
thy have asserted the right of the people of a
Territory to frame their own domestic institutions;
and for these things the country has. conferred
power oa umm. .
Sir, tn rvansaa acs was u cuiuia uu im vj
th. light of the labs Ijlectioo. What my opin
iont of it are ia immatoriat. I desire now to deal
with it A istarKolly--to deduce some eonclusion
from th. discussion that has rolled around me
for o king.
. The Kanwi-Nebraska bill was introduced, it
Is said, to vindicate the equality of the States,
and th. right of the South to carry their slaves
Into the Territories. That act oonferred on the
Territorial Legislature power -4,over all proper
subjects of legislation ; and its framers, for fear
that there might be one subject of legislation
that was withdrawn from their consideration, io
extending over them th. law of th. United
States, laid: "Excepting the law ef 1820, which,
bein g IncoOiiAtent with th- principle) of the
legislation of 1850, h hereby declsred inopera
tive and void, it beiag th. tru. intent ind mean,
ing of this act' aa if there might hare been
doubt io th mind of th country a to what thai
act intended to toufcr on tb. people "it being
tb. intent of thi act to leav the peopl. of th.
Tmritonr (ay, air, 'of th Territory'), perfeotly
free to form their own Institution to suit them
selves." Early ia the last session of Con grass
it became apparent that there ws s diversity a
to th. objeutaod effect of tint act- A the tes-
aion prograwd that diversity grew wider. The,
asm. word war. carried luto tb. Democratic
platform; they were earried into th. disc.ssiont
before the people; and I now dostr to ask, io th.
face of gentlemen, how far ther ts any conform
ity of view - betw.a tb. two wing of th
Lemooratio party? I aver at th outset tbat they
tre as widely divided as ia, th. Republican party
from lb Democratio parry, and upon exactly
the asm. question of constitution! power that
rt at th hi
wt.
1-er can I do coiiaovervy, 1 presume,
among gentlemen here a to thi great fact,' tbat
th langua. of th) Kansas Nebratks act confer
by graut, as tbe gentleman from Georgia (Jr.
Stephens) so accurately described tt tbis morn
ing, uwon tbe people of tbe Territories all the
legislative powers tbat Congress esn confer; and
a the Constitution ssjs tbat "all legislative power
herein granted is vested in tbe Congress, which
shsll consist of a Senate and House of Represen
tatives," it is plain that, unless the doctrine of
squatter sovereignty as expounded ty the gen
tleman from Oeorgis be accurate, then this Loo-
greM bu conferred all tbe power upon the peo
ple of the Territories which can exist under the
Constitution, and that tbey have and can Lave
no power from sny other source. Now the pinuh
arise. One set of gentlemen say, '-Oh, that
bill due not autliorixe th people pf the Terri
tories to exclude slavery." Another set of gen
tlemen say "Ob, that bill doe authorize1 the
people to exclude slavery." Then we bsve ex
planations flora the Southern wing tf tbe party
that it authorises them to exclude it only when
tbey come to form their State censtitution. "No,"
ay Democratic gentle meo from th North, "tbe
Isnguag i universal, it authorise the people of
the Territories to exercine all legislative power
consistent with tbe Constitution, and we say that
tbey can exercise it soar, ia their Territorial
condition. As a mere question of lecal inter
pretation, there can be no dipute a to the mean
ing of the word. Ther may arise a question
hetber Conu,res Lave Puwe: to confer that
authority; but if Cobgrta have it, then uuq.u
Uouably U bu been conferred. ,
Tber is therefore, a difference - between l&e
two wings of the Democratic party. It is not,
Mr. Speakci, a mere difference of interpretation.
It is not a mere dispute about the legal meaning
of the words they bsve nsed. , It is not a mere
accident of legislation which a scratch of the pen
could change. It is not something which hu
been sprung upon them by accident, of. which
they had ae itatica bhre u arrival. liut upon
that 'most delicate of all question, that oae oo
which tbe minority boast themielve the special
Af-MilM nf tliA Knnlh .anil ir, rwfpntfuwl tn m hi..h
the uv tbeir Northern brethren are more Lith- touch it mora ? Or is justice a. ore or lei likely
ful ilto !-gentlemen kt the 'North; Too. tLtto uon? . , , .,
" Vu, out li a ui uu cuunucuc mi ail, wmj
the geodeoien from Tennessee end South Caro
lina ; " fr if tbe people are opposed to slararj
they won't protect it 2" Ind ted ' tbenit is only '
more apparent that the ouly point of agreement
between the Northern and Southern Democrat
is ia the fact that directly or indirectly, by law,
or without law, they both sduiit-slavery may te
excluded. One would tappoae the South had
stu.Il favor to be gtttcful fur. A right without
s reitedy is the lawyer's sbsurdiiy ; yet for this
t! country has beri brought to the verge of
civil wr'
- Prostrated in one effort, they try tbeir limping
logic on another. Their merit and unity consist
iu their SKertion of the equality of the Suite
and the right of the pecpleof a territory to form
their own domestic institution j the principles
of the acts of lb5d violated fcy that of IS-'O,
and restored and reinaugunited by the KsDass
Nebnisk set, its vivifying principle.
Sir. the President libelled the. living and his
friends rob the dead to cover his nakedness. Tbe
very purpose und principle of the set of 1820
were to vindicate the equality of the State and
the right of the people to form tbeir own consti
tution without control; it was signed by Mr.
Monroe for that very reason ; sad they doubly -blunder
iu Jaw and history when under pretent. "
of those principles they lepealed it.
The sets ef 1850 inaugurated no new princi
ple. They were acts of couiprvoibe giv ing and
taking, like that of lb-U wisely suited 4o th
question, and not opoo the interpretation cf .the
IkOKuaee of the Kansas Nebraska bill, ther is
a radical, iuberent, profound difference, splitting
tbem from top te bottom, as irreconcilable ss
sny other diversity of party views that eaa be
exhibited ia the history of the It (public. It
cannot be pushed sside u a mere diversity of
opinion on tbe Kausas-Ncbrsska set, because it
is carried buck to toe very foundation of tbe
Constitution. And then we ean understand what
otherwise, pel haps, we migbt not so well be able
to understand, Low it is that the Northern gen
tlemen of the Democratic party have supported
tie principles of the Kansas-Nebraska set, snd
hav. aoited in the election of a President. Why,
Mr. Speaker, the propriety of that act was not
submitted to the people now at this election.
That question was passed upon in tbe election
of this Congress; and this side of the House
tve tbe answer of the whole North as towhett -er
it ought or .ouiiht not to have been pa&g d.
No one proposed its repeal snd the restoration
of the compromise but Mr; Dunn, ad that was
made s ground of attack by Northern Democrats
on Republicans. The nuestioa at the North
Was one of reprisal and retaliation, revence and
conquest, not ' defence snd restoration; snd Dcmo
cratsand -Re publics ns only srpied . the question
which of the two bctepresettted'tbe North tn
Aaf contest for the Territories.
But then soother question emse, whether there
could not be such an interpretation l.ut upon
-that act as would enable getittemeo at the oorth
still to stand wrth the Detuou
their votes for the ucoe man
in principle and pursuing a policy not mert'lv
different from but hostile to the purpose of the.
Sautherq Democrats. Therefore it ts that while
at tli. South w. have beard a universal interpre
tion that that act does not cooler upon, that
there is no power in the people of a Territory
to exclude slavery aad I speak now in the face
of a great majority of Southern gentlemen who
were active in the Canvass, and who can correct
me if wrong: -I say there was a unanimous in
terpretation by Democratic gentlemen through
out th. South as to the purpose, meaning, and
effect of the Kanaas-Nebrasks act w& can uu
dereund how it was that, while throagbout the
whole South that law was claimed as a great
Southern triumph, not merely in point of prin
ciple, but in. point of policy and fact, as opening
a hitherto barred territory to slavery, and.gw.
iog a chance for another slave State to restore
the disturbed equilibrium of the Union, assouie
thing to mod. the South to the Democratic party
forever for the great boon conferred .upon them,
the Democrats of the North could say, "We will
ocrttie psrtv,jind kS, mJM " iVM .. 1"-?!L,
m, slthoush- differiLg '' teotra Oovnrnmnnt of Mexico, sod, if Con
a policy "not mert-lvl erei wolJ P38 10 '"'1 force as Uw pf
Cougress, jut as the r rencn aua fpanisn lav.
were left in full for ia Florida an Louisiana
when repealed north cf 3oa ilt by tbe act of
IS20. ' '. ''.'
Jf the acts of l$-r)0 provided for theadniisssiou
of States, with or without alayfr, as. the people
uight prefer, then tbat was the very principle eon- '
accrs ted forever .as the law of the Republic by tbe
act of 1S-Q ; for the one purpose of the law of ,
1S20 was to divide the territory between- the
North and South,' and ly the rame authority to
make one part slave sod the other part free terU
torv, while s Territory ; and the other thing set
tled in that law-and from thst day down to the
Kansas-Nebraska act never assailed or controvert.
ed by sny party koownto tbe history of the Re
public, and remaining now the accepted and .
conceded law of the Constitution everywhere, ex
cent among a few wild "Abolitionists of . the Gar
rison and Becober school was that the" people .
of th Territory could, and alone Could, fram.
their own institutions when thy come to form
accept with them that measure, not that we tbeir btote constitution ; ana tost v.ongress couia
i i i..-! , vntA for it. not that I neither impose a condition rroecdeut nor bind
WUUIU ' ' ,,. . , .
bv a compact tneir aosoiure-soTereisDiy gVer iO0
matter. The effort ia the Missouri contest waa
to place an inhibition on tbe State of Musuri,
to cau"the people of that Territory to provide
we would have dared to have advocated it; but
now that the thing is done and ' cannot be un.
done, preferring the Democratic, party to sny
other party, and seeing tbeir strength at the
South, we are willing to aid that party at the
South, and are willing to" adopt tbe principles
of the Kansas-Nebraska act-iritA o glut, yield-
r . ,f n, nrinninlAM.' not ailiuittint'. for !
. iino.l insta...t. that Conzrest" has not th. power land, who then ttood as Maryland
tn WUlato nnon the subject of slavery in the have her sons to stand, defending
Territories, not breathing sncha suggestion; yet
we ar willing to abide by the principles "of the
Kansaa Nebraska act as we sAaU interpret it.
Haw intemret it? "It is the best measure
freedom: it breaks down all th a compromises;
it leave th question open; it confers legisla
tive power upon th people of the Territory. tV .
specially in their constitution .gainst ''tbe exis
tence of slavery. It was that which was voted
down voted down, as I have said before, on tlio
iui mortal argumentof William Pinckuey, of Mary.
would always
the constitu
tional rights of the weaker against the aggression
of the stronger ; whose words or gioTy vindicat
iftir the sbsolute equal'ty of the States against
for ! tlu? usurpation ot the L nitca Mate irom toe bi
nr ln.irf to tbat eaual aninmens or me man oi
Massachusetts, who ten years after maintained
the annremaoy of the United Stole, .gainst th
will agtw that ti. pecpV f a Tenitorj have .ncroachmenU of the Sute. Oa tlwaecyclopean