Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 6 October 1860 — Page 1

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Walker

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vmon vASHiKroTeK. WASHINGTON,

Saturday, Sep. 22.

To the Editor of the Enquirer Sibley has scoured the Pacific 1 contract, and will commence operations forthwith. He. has funds and will carry the enterprise through.

»the M.attor oj ine jznquiror r-~ —"T"" Sibley has secured the Pacific Telegraph that the whole disunion coterie, from YanT I _MI cey down, are not anxious for the, election of Lincoln, having given" -bp entirely all enterprise unougn. hope of electing Breckinridge and Lane, Captain Meigs is greatly indignant at however muelH^-imiy-howl-against him. treatment be has received from the All their future-hopes now hang on his election. If either Douglas [or Bell should

the Government, and will resign at once.— The administration of the. aqueduct has been an imperium in impcrio ever since its commencement.

R. J. Haldeman, ia behalf oftheDougDemocracy of Pennsylvania, is out in a.card in regard to the proposed schemes of fusion in that State. After referring to the existence of a Disunion party at the South, and to the irregular action of the Seoeders, he, nevertheless* consents to a union of all the elements opposed to the trained bands of Republicanism, and says, while aware therefore of the responsibility, I, as. a.inember.of the National Democratic Committee for Pennsylvania,, did not hesitate to write witl» tbe Hon. Henry M. Falter, in presenting the following written proposition to the Horn W. H.. Welsh, Chairaaaa of the Committee, which was appointed by himself as President of the Reading Convention

The undersigned having in full view the disasters to the country which would recult from the election of Lincoln and Hamlin, have resolved to recommend a .Union Democratic Anti-Itepublican. Electoral ticket, to bo formed in the following manner, to wit: The twelve electors of the Reading ticket, which are assented to by all branches of the Democratic partyten electors selected by the friends of Bell and Everett five additional electors from the Reading ticket, to be assented to by a majority of the undersigned, in all twen-ty-seven, to the committee of the several organisations to which they belong. k.:

As it was necessary for nie to depart from Philadelphia on Monday morning, the 17th of September, with the lion. H. V. Johnson, 1 left the above paper with the Hon. 11. J. Walker, authoriring him, in the presence of Mr. Johnson, to sign my name should Mr. Welsh, at the expected interview iu the morniog, sign his.

lelegraphed to nie, and at six I

imgllUU

It is surmised that the report of Walk-

The leading Disunionists all over the South arc vigorously engaged in perfecting their plans to rule or ruin the government. I have recently learned from one of the best informed gentlemen of the South, that the Prcsidcntfully sympathizes with the Disunionists, and countenances the contemplated attempt to precipitate the cotton States into a revolution in case they fail to elect Breckinridge and Lane. This plan will be matured and carried before tke 4th of March.

Alabama last winter, by a unanimous Vote of her Legislature, made it the duty of the Governor, upon the receipt of the intelligensc of the election of a Republican President, to issue bis proclamation, directing the election of delegates to a convention, which shall take immediate steps to withdraw Alabama from the Union before the 4th of March. The duty of Gov. Moore in the premises is imperative, no discretion being allowed him. Two hundred thousand dollars was appropriated by the same Legislature to arm the militia.— Similar resolutions have also passed the Legislatures of SouthdSaroKna and Mississippi, and the latter also appropriated two hundred thousand dollars for arms. The conservative men who have heretofore been a check \ipon the Disunionists of South Carolina, have yielded to the prevailing pressure, and, are now the most cealous for disunion in case Lincoln should be elected. You will thus see that these movements are being made in earnest.— The people of the Northwest have no idea of the extent of this disunion feeling.

The Southern League has an active or-

(frcjit

.« n. a.

will never., say he is not for disunion in case Lincoln ife elected. Let not tbe people of the North think for one moment

be elected they arc .crushed out forever Be prepared to see the .greatest military preparations in the South that have, occurred thcresinee theRe volution. Virginia, even, will not be: laggard. Measures are now on foot to

induce

The fears of Lincoln's election is based upon the theory that the Democratic party in the North is as badly split up as it is in the South. These impressions have been madfe upon the Southern inind by the false representations of the Northern officeholders and their press, that arc continually deceiving the Administration as regards the strength of Breckinridge in the Norths

Senator Hunter, who* is naturally timid, is using his best efforts to bring about a reconciliation between the Democracy of Virginia. lie sees, the approaching storm that threatens darkness to the .political sky, ftnd renders the pending events of the next three months as the most important and vital in their consequences that the country ever passed through.

The most important movement of the whole campaign will take place as soon as the result of the October elections shall he known, provided the elections on that day go for the Democracy. Look out for a startling denouement.

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^^find"'^ Welsh the Senate of the United States In his together. Mr. Welsh declined the propo- celebrated Koehester speech, delivered eition not as an individual, for 3Ir. Walker October 25th, 1828, which we find in Greekept distinctly before him that I was

ac'*'Joy's

iar official!v, "and that he treated with him

tag for me officially. He, however intimated thata propvsition for an electoral ticket mmposcd of nine Douglas, nine Bell and Yiverett and nine Breckinridge men might be acceptable. This, was of course, too vague, and besides could not, under any vircuinstanecs, be accepted. Individually I have gone to the utmost limits beyond the wishes of most of the Douglas men. 1 have agreed to recommend seventeen of the Beading electoral ticket and ten Bell and Everett men to the true Democratic committee. This is the farthest limit of patriotic eonccssion. I may be severely condemned by my own friends for the liberality of the offer, but I hope they will remember that the crisis is imminent, and the peril to the Union great. At all eveuts the Douglas party of Pennsylvania are now in the attitude of having been willin-

Of the National Democratic Committee ho commenced the practice! for Pennsylvania.

j,c republican party in

Text Book, page 162, occurs the fol

lowing Without stopping to ascertain critically, the origin of the present Democratic party, we may conceive its claim to date troni the era of good feeling which occurred under President Monroe. At that time, in this State [New York] and about that time in many others of the tree States, the Democratic party deliberately disjranchised'the free colored or African citizen, and it has deliberately continued this disfranchisement ever "since. This was an effective aid to slavery for while the slaveholder votes for his slaves against freedom, the freed slave in the free States is prohibited from voting against slavery.

Again, on page ICS, Mr. Seward says It (the Democratic party) disfranchised the free, wsroes ou the ground that if left

www in iuv u»..u..v to cnj\v the right of suffrage, he might seto make great concessions for the purpose jucc the free white citizen into amalgauiaof defeating the Kcpublicans. I do not tjon jth his wronged and despised racc.

advise them to go one step further in treating with a rebellious and seceding Democratic faction. Certainly I would not. for while corresponding with the Bell and Everett men as honorable opponents, I can not regard the Brcckinridgcr's in any otlirr light than as wild and destructive rebels, and in the main throughout the South disunionists. |Signed| B. J- HALDEMAN

Such is the testimony which Senator

Seward bears on this point. That great leader of the Republican party holds it as a critnc against Democrats that they have deprived negroes of the right-of suffrage, while Republican orators who conic to make spoechcs to the people of Southern Indiana, tell them that it is.the Democrats

From the above it will be seen that the WHAT T.«K J-or T.ik maixk Brcckitcs desire no arrangement, and that thus interposes unnecessary difficulties.

It is sumnsca wianuc rupuii» ui »»«»«-.~ a *, execution i. prendre. .1 trust it A will so prove. Walker is an imprudent, but at the samo time a gallant inan, who fought, as ho believed, in the cause of freedom.

M.KCTIOX ISDICATKS. The result of the Maine election is anything but encouraging to the Republican

brtn .b'jtafiisniMU

Governor

Letcher to call the Legislature, together, to unite in action with the other Southern States. It is gravely deh?igd_by leading Republicans hero whether,: in, view of the disunion feeling at the South, the millitary preparations that arc being made in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and otherStates, preparations for calling tbaLegislaturA of *l.c NuriHern States should not be made.

CLEVELAND.

IRORE TESTfMOS

OI' WII.I/IA.n II.

HE1VARD.

byMr^kcTjt^being''disthitly IS While Oliver P. -Morton and other lie that was acting in my official capacity, as publican stump orators, to say nothing of it was indeed impossible to divest myself i,ejr newspaper organs, are charging that of it, and the accompanying information

it wflg irtin

the Bell and iiverctt State Committee, was bestowing the right of suffrage ou negioes, it may he well enough to look at the testimony on this point of W II. Reward, the

prepared to. sign the recommendation. Mr. Welsh declined immediate action. Mr.

Van BuVen and the Demo,»f

Doiiglas in Indiana

DEMONSTRATION IN INDIANAPOLIS I

ARRIVAL OFHERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.

A CMMtfeM H«wt U»-

their majority since the September clcc tion of 1856, cast a gloom over their hopes. A loss of nine thousand in that State, on an increased vote of fifteen thousand, wo show a loss—taking Mnincas a criterion— in New York of forty-eight thousand, which gain, in view of the fusion of the Bell and Douglas men, makos New York hopelessly lost to Lincoln. It would be equal and indicates a loss in Ohio of thirty-thousand, which loss would give your State to Douglas by a majority of fourteen thousand. Take this calculation, in connection with the fact that, in uo election which has taken placc in any of the free States since 1856, save Pennsylvania, have the Republicans retained their strength. Their majorities have been largely diminished sincc that time. The Republican tornado of that year-has spent its force.

WIBE AWAKE MOTTOES. The Ohio Wide Awakes earry banners with the following inscription "We believe the negro is human—he has a soul—he has intdhct—and in so far as the right of suffrage or any other light of citizenship is concerned, he should be placed on an equality icith the rest of mankind."

An American traveler run a large

invoice of valuable cigars into Kngland by putting them in a lox, under a false bottom, with rattlesnakes on top. The customs officials did not wish to investigate.

The Black-Republicans and South

ern Fire-eaters are alike engaged in the work of precipitating the cotton States into a revolution." The former are the black precipitates and the latter the red precipitate*.—Louisville Journal,

BKAUTIFCL. EXTRACT.—Helping a

ty girl out of the mad.

Ealkuiiua!

A GRAND PROCESSION! Speeches by Douglas & Johnson!

CRAND TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION!

The heavy rain of Wednesday night was succeeded by a lowering Thursday, and filled the minds of some of the ardent Douglas men with gloomy apprehensions for the morrow. Others were still hopeful that the day would be propitious, and that the promised crowds, would be on liand-to.welcoqie .to the Capitol of Indiana* the Great Cbieftan, upon whom the hopes of. the Democracy are centered. All believed, however, that, rain or shine, the enthusiasm of the, masses was so great, that the town would be filled anyhow, but wanted it to, be overflowing, and in that hope they were not disappointed.

At four o'clock in the morning, the Jcffcrsonville train came in with seventeen cars, well filled, containing-a.large .delegation from Louisville, Ky., and from New Albany, jan'd fitom this hour: the.stream people from tKe country'''was constant.-^-They literally came down in droves of thousands, in wagons,^carriages, and on horseback, with music and with banners.

THE MORNING.

By daylight the streets were alive with people, and in every direction the eye fell' processions winding around the streets moving to their appointed' places, while the car was filled with the sounds of martial music. The/lrum and fife was the favorite, and the musicians themselves had they been gathered^ into one body, would have made a regiment. The morning still looked gloomy, and it was still uncertain at daybreak whether the sun would condescend to shine on the fclc or not. The camps in the neighborhood broke and Morgan county poured in her one hundred and forty-six wagons, and one thousand two hundred persons, mostly all voters, about early breakfast time. Montgomery county followed with a delegation nearly as large These delegations passed under the tri- jls

umphal arch and were loudly cheered as.

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shals were busy from early dawn, receiving and escorting the different organiza-

tions, but it was utterly impossible to keep the run of them. Wc had intended to note them and their numbers as they came in, but gave it up as impracticable for any ten men to accomplish.^

THi: DECORATIONS.

The decorations of the streets and buildings were elaborate and most tasteful and beautiful. The chaste and exquisite taste of the female mind, and the workmanship of the delicate fingers of the fair daughters of Indiana, were visible in all the ornamentation steamers with mottoes of welcome, with pendant flags and evergreen wreaths, spanned all the principal streets. Illinois street, from the depot north, lined as it is with shade trees not yet stripped of their foliage, presented as charming a picturcas the inindconceive.*, and all along that broad avenue—Washington street— black with people at the early morning

hour,

before the gayer colors of the ladic.s

were visible, streamers waved over the moving of pcoplo »,1 innumerable

arches similarly adorned were thrown

The triumphal »reh, confessedly the fin-1"«». «o«M est, the grandest structure of the kind ever seen in the West, was built at ihe intersection of Washington with Illinois street and Keutucky avenue—the Bates and Palmer Houses occupying comers diagonally opposite. The street space is there wide and it was iu the centre of this space that the arch or rather series of four arches stood. A front was presented

greens, surmounted

pret

them upon the structure. lour tall flagstaffs rose from the tops of the columns, from which as many large American flags floated. This is but a bare skeleton of tho beautiful structure, and can convey no adequate idea of it, or of the taste that adorned it—mainly the work of the fair ladies of our city, who cheerfully devoted many*3flyg to twining the garlands and weaving the chaplets that crowned it.

Far ujp the street opposite Ycager's

Hall another arch of an entirely different construction was also,erected. Three tall straight hickory .poles over one hundred feet high, were planted, one in the.centre of the street, and one at each curb, and from the top3 of them festoons of oak, leaves were hung..

To attempt a description of the various decorations along Washington street from the canal to Pogue's run would be'a tedious task but the view of it was one.of the finest sights we ever beheld, and can be appreciated only by those of the many thousands that looked upon it.

„. ,, I —a job of no ordinary difficulty that

tlicv passed up Illinois street. I lie iuar-! ... ,.

floated from the roofs of houses „„d 'l,ctc

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ARRIVAL OF GOVERNOR JOHNSON. .Governor Johnson aarived in the morning train over the'Central road. He. slipped qnietly in and almost unnoticed repaired to~ the Palmer House and took rooms. It was soon known that he was in the city, and the greatest anxiety was manifested to see him. He .was weary, however, and having received calls up to breakfast time, he excused himself for a few hours repose, promising that he would address the meeting at thegrove if he was at all in condition to do so.

MR. DOUGLAS WITH THE PEOPLE. During the morning hours Mr. Douglas was around among the people. He held no states drawing room or formal levee, but being refreshed by a night's rest, he mingled freely with the people in the spacious halls of the Bates House. The great centre of the crowd was,- of course, the famous corners of the Bates and Palmer Houses, for they always are such at. everv great gathering in our city, and on this occasion they were a little more so than usual and from this great center the crowd worked like bees into the Bates House, passing up by one entrance and down by another. Mr. Douglas would sometimes find himself drove to the wall by the pressure, but he always managed by some good-natured remark to relieve himself when the position become irksome, and took his chances with the rest of the popular sovereigns. His affability during the hours that he thus smoked his cigar, and chatted with the people, without state or ecrcmony, gained him, we have no doubt many friends. He is off hand and self-re-liant, and the people fee land know that he one of themselves at a glance. He started at one time fo: the Palmer House

densely packed mass. Some of his friends

ly packed

wished to clear the road for him, but he forbade it, and said lie would prefer to elbow his way for himself. It was thus lie mingled with the masses without ccrcmony while the marshaling was going on for the procession to the grove.

THE ARRIVAL OF T1IE TRAINS.

The excursion trains over the several railroads were of the mammoth description that few cities besides Indianapolis arc accustomed to behold. Here we arc familiar with long trains of cars loaded with people, and arc aware of the capacity of our roads to bring numbers that in some pluccs would appear fabulous. At no State fair ever held here was there ever in one day, half the numbers poured into the streets as there were yesterday. As the successive trains disgorged their

freight, the sounds of music and of checring in the direction of the railroad tracks: would suggest that the crowds on the streets leading south from Washington

street, were being packed closer, but trom

fluttered from the windows. I he tele graph poles were wreathed with by a band of music would somehow Greens interspersed with flowers, and goth- druggie through, and be led to a position

c»ulJ

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tri„ The head of a column of uuitormed men,

of the nortb

.t ton, running cast and west, and that is all across the side-walks.

to cach of the four diverging streets.— their chcers would be answered by enthuThosc froutiiig north and south had Wei- siastic men who stood by to welcome them, conic to Indiana" in large gilt letters on Tbeu would follow the scramble for some the span of the arches, and those fronting sort of formation in line, and the efforts of cast and west had "Douglas and John- the Marshals to get their directions along son." The arclics were sprung on four many hundred yards of a crowded and columns about twenty-five feet high, wound jammed up street, and finally they march with the American flag. The caps from off having one half of their lorce lost which the arches sprung were heavy and the surrounding crowds. richly ornamented, and showed a bust of |.

by small flags leaniug sonville 3,000 the Peru 2,600 and an

outward, with lamps still above them, and approximate return from eighty cars over at ni"ht a flood of light was thrown from the Bcllefontaine gives 3,000. This gives

oM\ ashing.

one of those immense trains arrived. *,

At the depot however, the scene was different. A long train would come in sight, slowly winding its huge body around a curve, and in most instances the tops of the ears, and the platforms, where they had them, were covered with men. They came with hats swinging in the air and the loud hurrah ringing from stentorian throats, and

How many came by railroad we have no

Douglas on eachffDm every point of view, accurate knowledge. We have reports The arches were a perfect semi-circle, from some of the railroads which enables with the broad ground blue, upon which us to fix it, at a low estimate at 30,000 the lettering above alluded to was placed, persons. ^The Cincinnati road reports relieved by wreathes of roses and ever- 11,534 tbe Lafayette, 1,600 the Jeffer-

21,700 over those five roads, and taking the population along the line of the Central, the Madison and the Terre Haute, their facilities for transportation of passengers, the size of the trains they brought in, and the numbers they usually bring to our city on all public occasions, we think 8,300 a low estimate for them. This will give 30,000 by railroad, and it is certainly an under estimate. Bat after all the ^reat bulk of tbe people arrived by other

«dJil CRAWFORDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, OCTOBER 6, 18fi0. «f-'.r:'.r-.'.. WHOLE NUMBER %(•.

means of travel, as our streets and the .suburbs of our city demonstrated clearly, j, SSZIFI THE PROCESSIOX. I

Tb say the procession was grand and imposing would convey but an indefinite idea of it. The difficulty of forming the heterogeneous mass of which it was to be composed into line, and marching it past, a given point had been foreseen by Captain Lord, the Grand Marshal, and in the morning it was evident to every one that the great bulk of the wagons must be left out, and they were. The delegations, formed on the streets north of Washington street, and parallel to it, their right resting on East street, from whence the parade was to move west along Washington, passing under the arch, past the State house ana to the military ground. This waB the line of march for the,united body, and. Washington

street

between those

points was to be cleared, at eleven^ At that hour the back streets were crowded to exccss, and the wagons streamed out into Washington street for the length of three or four squares, and had to be marchcd away as a distinct body.

A few minutes past twelve the head of the procession passed our stand point at the Sentinel office, led by tbe Indianapolis Martial Band, in alight wagon, drawn by black horses. Four hundred uniformed horsemen, riding two abreast froni Zionsvillc, in Boone county, and from Pike, Washington and .Wayne townships, in.this county, the. whole under the command of Capt. Shoup, came next. This Was a grand display. The horses were spirited, and the riders noble specimens of Western men.

The City Greys Band next, immediately preceded an open baroueh, drawn by four white horses, in which stood Judge Douglas with Col. Palmer, the Chairman of the State Central Committee nud others members thereof. Mr. Douglas was greeted, along the entire line, from the windows filled with ladies, from the roofs of the houses and from the closely packed streets, by the waving of handkerchiefs, the swinging of hats and by most vociferous cheers. He waved his hat in return and bowed to the crowds.

The Car of liberty," from Conncrsvillc, an elegant structure, drawn by four match horses, and filled with little misses, conspicuous among whom was the Goddess," immediately followed the baroueh contain^ Judge Dougla3, and then came the Counersville delegation, under Captain Fryberger, dressed in blue hunting shirts of fine material, glazed caps, pants blaclc, carrying swinging lamps, and marching four abreast with the utmost military precision and dressing. Wc must be par-

The City Wards, headed by the Guards Band came next. The First, Sixth and Seventh wards and one other, with a blue uniform, made a^splcndid show. The First Ward wore red caps, white shirts, black pants and were out in full force, under their untiring leader, Captain Taylor.— They had numerous banners devices and carricatures, which attracted a great deal of attention. The Sixth and Seventh Wards were also strongly represented.— Tho uniformed delegations on foot from other counties, cities and towns, each with a band came in company after company for at least a mile. Two strong companies from Henry County, were conspicuous, not only for their dress, but for their order in marching.

{One

company wore yellow-

blouses, with capes richly trimmed, black pants and glazed caps, and the other light blue frock coats, white pants and glazed caps. The carriage containing Governor Johnson, with several members of the'calls so large a number together at thi

State Central Committee, was placed between the Henry county, and the Battle Ground delegations. Those last from La-

Shelby and Fountain counties, were con-: American people

G'rawfordsvillc wore red caps with blue bands, black pants and green capes. The standard bearers of the Montgomery delegation were nicely and richly dressed.— They had red shirts, made sailor fashion, richly trimmed and dotted with stars.

The trades followed the footmen. A large wagon, drawn by six horses with riders, contained the section of a house at

blowing and striking, making nails and

This was the contribution of Mr of the Fifth Ward. There were

in sight. One car from' Cumberland was filled with young ladies dressed in blue, with a motto on the side, White husbands or none." Lawrence and Warren townships contributed largely to the procession both in numbers and iu arrangement and display, and so did Sugar Creek township in Hancock county.

The delegation from Dearborn county, twenty-five hundred strong, with five hundred Little Giants iu uniform, led by Mentor's brass baud from Cincinnati, closed tbe procession. All honor to Old Dearborn, that never missed a Democratic fire nor never bolted a Democratic ticket

The maiu procession was an hour and thirty-five minutes passing a given point, making deductions for all necessary stoppages, and not counting those portions not fairly in line.

AT THE GROUND.

The Military or old State Fair ground, was fijll, and that is all we can say as to the crowd there. lt contains about ten acres and in places around the stand the people were packed as elo3C as herrings, and on the edges not so much so. By Republican count, if it had been their crowd it would make one hundred thousand, and at one time there was over the half of that number actually on the ground. The proceedings were opened oil the stand by the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, stating that Lieut. Gov. Hammond would introduce the distinguished guests of the Democracy of the State. Gov. Hammond presented Judge Douglas and Gov. Johnson in the following language Judge Douglas and Gov. Johnson

doncd for saying, although some delcga-j jn ^1A(i ]iave a welcome more eloquent and predicated on that principle. Hence in tions beat Connersvillc in numbers, none equaled them in discipline.

extend

central point. In a time of profound peace, when the country abounds with plenty and prosperity, it is remarkable to find discord and irritation prevailing in the

fayettc wore red lance caps, green capes, land. One would suppose that a grateful black pants, and as well as those from people would be content with the blessings Ilcnry county carried swinging lamps. which enjoy and yet we find this f.oun- ,, ., ,r

Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Morgan

trv distracted by sectional hate and see-

ti«na, strifn

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from

spicuous in this part of the procession. [the cause of this sectional strife and disA company from Anders: wore blue content. here must be a cause, and if ,. .., vou will reflect, think vou will find that blouses, with capes richly trimmed with ,, ,. ., it exists in the attempt, on the part oi tfie lacc, black pants, glazed caps and carried pcc|eral Government, to control the domes-, lances or pikes in their hands. One from tic institutions of the people in the Terri-

m0" co,,stitutiou.

horse shoes. Then came the most novel of whether the American people

all. Five wagons contained a brewery in Iquiesce in the doctrine of

full workinsr order, with la»ge casks and 'as affirmed in the

kegs of liquor following a, produet.-

I Ten years ago wc were fighting the sani'-

batt!c arc

many gouu

[first as to the

propriety

-leikcl principle, yet all

seven or to maintain^ it whonjt a rp,)e

Union

Democrats

where the children set as naturally at. ^e Union men then as Jackson had been corn ctneds of iny their books aa if under the roof in the dis-1 Sfore him in the days of nullification.- for Kentuek a, 1 ,u mu-app trict from which it came with the master

:$My

itate this glorious country into a revolt! tion in 1832, Clay and Webster, the leaders of the Whig party, like true patriots, abandoned their party feeling and rallied around "Old Hickory" as the leader of theUniou men. [Hurrah for Jackson, and hurrah for Douglas.J At a subsequent period, when the peacc of this Union was endangered by sectional strife on the sla-' very question, Jackson having been taken to the hom.c of his fathers, Clay became the leader of the Union men and we Dein-' ocrats then rallied under Clay as he had previously rallied under Jackson. After the compromise measures of 1850 h%d been adopted, both of the great political parties in this country agreed to carry out,, the principles of those measures as the fu ture policy of this country. In 1852, when the Democracy assembled at Baltimore and nominated Pieffce for President, we, adopted an nrticlo in our platform pledging our liAkand fidelity to the principle of.. nonJ^^Hpntion. [Cries of "that's so."]! VQ0KK?- Whig party assembled at the „. sara^Tlacc in tlie same year, for the purpose of nominating their candidate for tho', Presidency, after presenting the name of General Scott, they affirmed the principle}" of non-intervention as a cardinal urticlc iu the Whig creed.

Thus, it appears, that only eight years ago every Whig and every Democrat stood pledged to that principle as common to, the creed of both parties. While you .* Whigs and wc Democrats then agreed on the .slavery question wc differed on other, (juestions. We quarreled about the bank, the tariff distribution, the specie circular, the sub-treasury. Differing on these wo pledged our faith one to the other nnd both to the country that we would stand togcther by the principle of non-intervention on the slavery question in order to preserve the peace of the Union. What has become of those questions upon which Whigs and Democrats differed Every one of them has been consigned to history. I shall not stop to inquire which was right or which was wrong on these dead issues. hot the dead take care of the dead. Let ,• the historian record tho great struggle between Whigs and Democrats and let posterity decide between them. [Cheers.]— To-day I only propose to deal with a living issue.

I have been deputed by this vast concourse of citizens of Indiana to welcome you to the Capitol of our State. Wc welcome you because in you wc recognize the gallant and distinguished standard bearers of the only national and conservative Democratic party in the Union. We welcome you also, because in you we behold distinguished members of the highest legislative tribunal iu the world, and that distinction won by you when occupying seats in the Senate of the United States side byside with such men as Clay, Webster, and Calhoun. But above and beyond all this, wc welcome you to our midst, hccau.c in you we recognize the true, faithful aiidjtromg to abandon it?—[Cries of "No," constant advocates of non intervention by ",'• vej-"]—mid whether you old DomoCongress with the subject of slavery in I i(s, who have heretofore stood pledged the States or Territories, believing as wc to it and have achieved so many triumphs do, that the establishment of this prinei-

The only planks now left of the Whig and Democratic platforms is the principle of non-interference by Congress with slavery in the Territories. I wish to inquiro whether the old Whigs who were pledged to the doctrine of non-intervention are now V:

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pie and its application to that iesti is [Unanimous "No."] 1 say to you to-day, tbe only tiling that can give jieaej a:! l| have on many previous occasions, I quiet to the country in the settlement ol shall not abandon that principle if every this agitating question of slavery and as Wh and every Democrat in America you arc tbe most eloquent advocates of nbanilons it. [Loud cheers.[ I believe this great principle, our citizens have come up here, that they may by their presence

impressive than it is in the power of man ]$f 1, when, as Chairman of the Committo

by the use of mere words. The tee on Territories, I brought forward a presence of so vast a number of our fellow t„ organize the Territories of Ncbraseitizens to meet and to greet you is a welcome of itself that any man, however distinguished, might be proud of. They have not met you here from idle curiosity alone to see and to greet you but they came here because, in their judgments, they are convinced that you are right upon this important question. They came here, too,

iting onL.

portion of the

another. What is

toriea. [Cheers.] ongress has never

attcmpted to interfere with the question of slavery without arousing the fiercest pas-: sions of the American people, and arrayin the North against the South, and Congress has never abandoned that system of interference without restoring peace and harmony to a distracted country. Then I ask you if it is not our duty as patriots to pursue that line of policy which will restore peace and a fraternal feeling to all por-

which plasterers were at work, lathing and tions of the American people, and make plastering. Another contained a black- us a vast body of brethren under a cornsmith shop, where the men were busy

]10\v going to abandon it?—

the perpetuity of this Union is dependent upon its maintenance. I had supposed Whig and Democratic parties

and approbation, bid you God speed, in when the this, to our country, vital political contest, |,oth pledged their faith to this principle, But here I stand not to convince you by that slavery agitation was forever ended, words that you arc welcome to Indiana.— arid that hereafter when wc organized TerLook out upon this vast assemblage, and ritorial Governments, they would all bo

lea and Kansas, I moulded it oil the plan of the compromise measures of 1850, as agreed to by Whigs and Democrats.— ["That's so The Missouri Compromise was repealed only for the purpose of carrying out the plan of banishing the slavery question from the halls of Congress and jferriiiK it to the Territories, subject to

because they are the friends of the Union, the limitations of the Constitution. ["That's and in favor of preserving it inviolate it!" "Hurra for Douglas!,' and cheers.— and they arc here to cheer you on as its \v0 agreed that when the Territorial Legdistinguished advocates. Now, fellow-cit- islatures acted upon tbe subjected of sfaizens, permit me to introduce to you two

vcry

of the greatest popular sovereigns of the legislation they might make a ease in tho day: Judge Douglas of Illinois, and Gov. Territorial.Courts and appeal it to the SuJohnson, of Georgia. promo Court, whose decision would be

JUDCSE uorcr.AS SI'ICKCII. I linal, and when the question was thus setMr. Douglas said tied every good citizen should abide the Gov. Hammond, I return to you for my- result ami carry the decision into effect.— self and for Gov. Johnson, our sincere [(In-nt, applause.] I hold that every man thanks for the cordial manner in \. hich ho voted for the Kansas-Nebraska bill you have received us. Such a demons'ra- airreed to those propositions. There was tion as this have never before witnessed

if anybody was dissatisfied with their

differences of opinion as to this point,

upon the American continent. [Applause.] There was no misunderstanding as to the What'mean.4 this vast concourse of citizens There must be some cause which

true intent and meaning of the bill. There were differences of opinion as to how tin

Court would decide when the Territorial Legislature should act, and because then were and it was a judicial question which Congress could not settle, therefore it was referred to tho Courts, as it properly sho'd have been under the Constitution. 1 stand to-day by the aggrcinent. ["That is tho doctrine!".,. '.'Never desert it!" and ap-

Five years ago came to Indianapolis, and made a

speech

my etitin applause.

Hurrah for iJou^.a..]

Hun. .Join

occupied a

The question

then was

would

ac-

non-intervention

compromise

Wllil!

I loo"- Miue

Unl?n,

uC(!,7

d-!

in explanation of the

Kansas-Nebraska bill, and then I defined it to mean precisely what I now tell you it. Iocs mean. ["That's a fact,', True," &c.]• Five years ago I was invited to attend a

Mass Convention of the Democracy

~f Lexington, Kentucky, in order that I

mi:rht

expJain the true meaning of the Ne-

br.iska bill. I visited Kentucky at tho personal solicitation of .John C. Ureckinridge, tries among the crowd of "Hush, now," "J'e still," ".Silence," and a prcs--iire towards tiie stand as if eager to hear,] and, in presence of the

assembled

ju-

sands on College at Lexington, I the Ka N:bras! a bill just. do now, and M". Kreekinridge

exp

hto'H.l

the Maud apphudin and approving spoodi. ("He ui

traitor," and

('. Mason, of Kentucky, who tii 11 of the .stand, here re

marked -Mr. Harney and myself were present at, that time, and can both testify to tho tact yuu have stated.

Mr. Douglas—The Hon. .John C.Mason of Kentucky, so well known as a faithful

K„„tuckv, so well known as a laiLUiui

of a op 11 and efficient member of Congress, rise*

011

the stand and tells us that he was prcs-

cn at

When South Carolina attempted to pree.p Mr. Ma.on --U *cn. l-t m.mbcii o.

that meeting at Lexington, together