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positive law, which preserves its fore long that we pledge ourselves as a party to defend after the reason, occasion, and time itself, you against your State or my State, and evf rum whence it was created, is erased from i ery State, or against foreign invasion in the

the memory; it is of a nature that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." That decision has never been questioned in this country, until this new light of the Democratic party fell upon it in the decision of the Dred Scott case, in 1S56. I say all the jurists, all men at home and abroad, who profess the christian religion, and obey tha equally imperative mandate of progressive humanity, coneur in the belief that slavery is so contrary to natural law that nothing but positive law can support it. Under our Constitution, we adopted the common law of England, and that was the law of this State, and of others, and it was decided again and again in the courts of Louisiana, and of Kentucky, of Virginia and of Tennessee, and in the other States of the Union, I believe, without exception, that slavery was local and could only exist by virtue of positive law, and whan a citizen of Louisiana took his

slave to France, a despotic government, and trying out in good faith this associated brothbrought her back, her application to bcde-lerhood of confederated States, not to take

dared free was carried to the Supreme Court! of Louisiana and it was decided that inas much as she had been carried into free territory she was free, according to all the dicta upon the subject, 'once free and always free.' It has always been held that slavery was an institution of municipal law and the moment it was carried beyond the pale of that law, that moment the rights of humanity and the great reason to which all law appeals, step ped in and gave freedom, all have determin-

ed in the same way, every decision baa been believing that we can or desire to rnonopin the same direction. jolize all the offices in the country. This althjb fugitive blavjc law. (legation cannot lie against us, therefore it

I cannot dwell upon this matter to go all irough the able argument of Justice Curtis, I at there is no argument which he does not t thron but there is no argument produce, to support the position w'jich I have laid down as being correct, save one. lhat u ltia mnnk tttlbasl stf Anrl m II vAllll. ted fugitive slave law. Let me ask you if under the constitution slavery goes into the territory of the United States, what do you want with a fugitive slave law? Answer me that. Why would you not be protected in your slave property as much in any State of the Union if it is property there, and yet you stood in Congress week alter week, and month after month, aud I might say year after year, contending for the recognition of i the rights of the slave holding community to recover fugitive slaves. It was all absurdity to quarrel about power which you assert is in the Constitution. You cannot prove that the Constitution gives the power. It cannot be done. It is in vain that you struggle against the whole authority and common sense of ages. You now talk of legislative intervention by Congress to protect slavery in the terri-1 tories. What do you want with it if the j Constitution does not give it? What right have you to it? I therefore deny, on the part of the Republican party, that there is any such power under the Constitution per ae to carry slavery into the territories of the United States. That was not the doctrine of the Democracy of 1852 or 1856. and only after the enunciation of the Cincinnati platform, and the election of James Buchanan, did the Supreme Court screw themselves up to the point that they could say that it was law. Two of the ablest and most distinSuished jurists declaring that it was obiter iota, and was no law. God grant for our freedom, every man's, white and black, that Tou should say in your legislative assemblies and national conventions, that it is no law. As I live, it is not the law! CONSKQUKNCKS OF TH DEMOCRATIC CLAIM. See where it leads. Suppose that they have, under the Constitution, the right to carry slavery into the Territories, have you not a right to carry those same slaves into Ohio? You have the right to carry a cow or a horse, a coat or a watch, into Ohio, and if under the Constitution slavery is just as sacred and inviolate as this species of property, how dare Gov. Chase say you shall not bring your slaves and take possession of the hotels of Columbus and the farms now occupied by honest freemen? I tell you why you cannot; it is because the right you assume does not exist. The Constitution says: "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land," dec. There is the whole substance of the matter. If the Dred Scott decision is right, then there is not one single foot of any but slave territory from the Gult of Mexico to the hills of Maine. If that be true, then indeed there is no cootlict going on, in .the language of Seward aud the Democratic party, between freedom and despotism, but that conflict is ended, and you and I, and all of us, are subject to a despotic power, which is higher than the great dicta ot all the learned jurists that have preceded us; higher than the Constitutions of the States and the sovereignty of conventions; and last, if not least, higher than the Constitutions of the United Stales; the palladium of liberty to us. If it be so, the conflict is ended and we are all slaves; we are suoject to a despotic power over which we have no control none on God's earth. There is no appeal to popular sovereignty or States rights; there is but one appeal, and that is to revolution; an appeal to arms and the God of Hosts which God forbid. Therefore I deny that we are factiously purposing to prevent the admission of any more 6laveholding Sta'es. The fourth charge is that we propose "to repeal the Fugitive Slave law, and practical ly refuse to obey the Constitution on that ' subject." I do not deny that i.i some of the States there has been an effort made of that kind, but I do utterly deny that there is any such clause in the platform of 1S56 or the call of 1M0. Without dwelling further upon that, I pass it by, saying that I do not care to avow that I stand on the subject with Daniel Webster, the man of whom all others in this country, wo have styled the expounper of the Constitution certainly upon constitutional law the highest authority this country or any other has ever seen. Mr. Webster, although he was overpersuaded, flattered with the idea that he would get Southern support by yielding his true born opinion, said what, in his speech of 7th of March? He said "that this was a power that belonged not to Congress, but to the several States." That is my belief, but the Republican party, desirous of harmony, yielded it, and struck it out of our platform in 1S56. and do not proposo to incorporate it in the platform of OTHER CHARGES REFERRED TO. Fifth, to refuse to prevent or punish by Stat action, the spoliation of slave property. but on the contrary to make it a criminal of fense in their citizens to obey tha laws of the Union. 11 so far as they protect property in African slaves. Uentlemea, don t we tell you in our call that we go for protecting the rights of all the States, and so far from hindering you in the return of your property.

Territories. Of course if we are honest in

one purpose, we are honest in the other, and we cannot be honest in that avowal if we are dishonest in the first imputation. Sixth. "To abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia." I need not read our platform again, but I defy any man to find any sucb a clause in it. Seventh. "To abolish it in tha forts, arsenals, dock yards and other places in the South where Congress has exclusive jurisdiction." There is no such clause as that in the platform of 1856. or the call of 1860. Eighth. "To abolish the internal and coastwise trade." There is no such clause as that in either. Ninth. "To limit, harras and frown upon the institution in every mode of political action, and by every form of public opinion." Wi make a directly opposite avowal. So far from that, we not only are compelled by the 'necessity of the case, but we propose in car Emancipationists alone upon our platform, not simply to appoint them to offices, but we propose and invite slaveholders to act in conjunction with us, and to assist us in carrying out the Government, which we shall in all probability so soon control. How can this be true? How can we then intend to harass the institution by every mode of political action? Why, gentlemen, the thing is impossible in the nature of things, and unless you have proof that we are dishonest, there is no J'" Jn at Lour feeL. y h,, 1 have b,een ProJee - day, I received a copy o: ting these notes of the Cincinnati uazetie, one oi tne leaning nepuoiicari papers in the Union, and probably the foremost paper in the West, and which probably has Ingest aggregate circulation and 1 iind it says that we are willing to go Crittenden, Botts, Bell or any other slaveholder for President, if he be the choice of the Convention. Does that look like excluding you from the Presidency or any other office? Old John J. Crittenden, a man that I have always loved and admired, a man, who if he had been left unbiased to his own noble inspirations, would ve ?od whre 1 stand, where we. of the Republican party stand by the old Henry Clay Whig ground, against the extension of Slavery. Let me here read what Henry Clay says upon that subject, a sentiment which Crittenden no doubt has endorsed through a long life. The Democrats have got wonderfully in love with Henry Clay of late. The old man they abused and slander ed all his life, but now they come to us and say we will defend old Henry from your assaults. The man who was persecuted for a life time, the man who went to his grave in sorrow under the imputations made against him by these same Democrats, is now taken up and they call upon old line Whigs old Clay Whigs to come out and crush out the Republicans who stand by the doctrine of that same Clay, in favor of the non-extension of Slavery. Henry Clay said in the last year of his life, in his last term of public service. in his grey haired old age: " Coming as I do from a slave State, it is my solemn, deliberate and well matured determination that no power, no earthly power, shall compel me to vote for the positive introduction of Slavery either North or South of that line." Oh, for shame, Democrats, to claim to be the protectors of the fame and glory of Henry Clay aud of his principles, when there, by the last will and testament that he publicly made before the nation, he plants himself fairly and squarely upon the Republican platform. That sentiment I stand here to night to vindicate, and the followers of Mr. Crittenden would stand up to defend .it if they had full bent for their honest inclinations. God grant that he himself may stand up to it, and that they may change, for as God is, I would not sooner vote for any other man than John J. Crittenden, for every word that comes from his mouth is John J. Crittenden himself, the man that says that the ground that is good to stand on is good to fall on. Yet we are accused of all these purposes. I am pretty nearly through, gentlemen. It is not very often that I get a chance to speak to you, and when I do, I want to say as much as I can. I can't get even to talk to you through the press. I establish a press here and there, and when old Cass. Clay gets away, they jump upon my followers and put it down, and I can't speak through the post office, for a letter of mine is eight days on an hour's journey, or it never reaches its destination. ACCUSATIONS WITH INTEREST. I Now' for the eruished what is sauce for the goose is sauce grander." fLauhter.l My distinfriend, John C. Breckenridge, has all his allegations answered by the record not Cassius Clay says so. But he has indulged iu speculation and inferences, and I intend to turn the tables 011 hi in a little in that way. Laughter. That is so! It is 'so very late, however, that I cannot possibly ! . .1 -1 - , ii comment upon tuese var ous clauses; 1 win therefore omit discussion. In turn, I accuse Gov. Magoffin, Vice President Breckenridge, and the Democratic party, on the following counts, seventeen of them, that is principle with interest at about the rate of seventy per cent. 1st. Of obtaining and using power under false pretences. Read their last platforms. 2d. Of false pretences, aa Democratic party claiming to be the special gnardians and conservators of the liberty of the peo ple and cancelling them by the overthrow of the great common law guards ot tree men. hich secure them from the illegal search of the persons, papers and homes. Witness, gentlemen, all the reported caes of outrage made through all the Slave S'.ates from the beginning of the government, the formation of the Constitution, and ending in the year i860. Look to the record of the Slave States of the Union where outrages of this kind are not only perpetrated, but are attempted to be vindicated hy the press, outrages against which there is no redress, and none even affected to be attempted to be enforced. 3. As false in the nullification of the laws of constitutional comity. See the case of Hoar and others. See the article of the Constitution which authorizes citizens of the several StaUs to sua in the Federal courts of the United States. You all know how thai was. 4. Of violation of the treaty with Mexico. There was a war made with Mexico while she was at peace with us. where we are told in the report that our Gen. Taylor marched amidst men, women and children flying from their heaarthstonea in consequence of the invasion of tha United States forces. A voice "Who made the war?" The Democrats! They did it as they said to extend the area of freedom," and the way they now extend the area of freedom, I

will tell you. I find a Senator of Texas was driven out of the community, (or an exSenator,) because he said he did not believe that it was extending the area of freedom to strike all these rights down; where he could not have his own portfolio free (from search by Judge Lynch. 5. Of the practice of the slave trade. Yes, gentlemen, distinguished persons in the South have boasted openly, not only that they intend to violate the laws prohibiting Slave trade, but that they have proceeded to carry their purposes into execution, and had landed upon the Southern coasts what have been notoriously acknowledged to be Slaves fresh from the coasts of Africa, and we have yet to learn of the first punishment for this violation oi law. ADYICB GRATIS. Here I remember to speak of those Xorth-

' era allies that to-day you are afraid to trust. i l on are right. 1 tell you now you are right, and I am going to give you a little extra adl vice. Some of you are wanting to know how i long they will stand by you. They will stand : by you just so long as you pay them, and no longer, and the moment you cease to have nrnnnrth r.mmi m innn ihw) will leave you. That is the kind of men you have for your Northern allies. Gentlemen, I take it that you are all men of sense, and so I put it to you hero to night, if I was to get up here and say that I believed slavery was a divine institution, and that all my pre vious declarations were false, that I was convinced I had been wrong, and that it was preferable to liberty; and a religious institution favored of God, as Gov. Magoffin has said, would not every one of you put your hand upon your purse, for fear I would steal your money? You would at once say, "that man thinks to-day as he always did, and in addition to all the rascalities we have charged upon him, he is an infernal hypocrite; we will not tiust him." It is because I come out and tell you what I believe, that you today trust me to going among your negroes. Move the scene over the line, and it is just the same. The man who has ever seen the sanctity of the hearthstone preserved inviolate, and who has rone into some common j school to receive his education, and who has j watched the unparalleled development of the j free States, who reads his primer or his English reader, and studies the Bible, and rises from the reading and tells you that from his observation, the condition of slavery is the true condition of humanity, will some day teach you that at last the unjust thing shall not prosper, and a lie shall not live forever. He who has seen all these things, and turns round and tells you in the Siuth: " I have lived under all these institutions, and I believe slavery to be a good thing, a divine in- i stitution, the best state of society," don't you ; know enough to say that that man is not fit to be trusted? Some of your orators said today, state the truth and make them tell tha truth, survive or perish. That is the true sentiment. You ought not to trust them. I will tell you who you ought to trust. I trust the man who says: Gentlemen, I don't believe that slavery is a divine institution, that it is any source of political, social or moral good; but I believe, you had better try all the chemical power of Heaven and in the winds, the steam power and the power of the waters, than to hold the African in bondage, because, after all it is but a blunder in an economical point of view; and although we are determined to &tand by your institutions, don't ask us to deny the life which we live out in letters, so that all the nations of earth can read. We not only believe that liberty is prefable, but we believe that slavery is a curse to white and black." that is the man for you to trust. 1 am here to day and gone to-morrow, but . I tell you if the time ever does come when the slaveholders need aid to protect them from the violence of slaves rising for freedom, that aid will come from the men who are opposed to the Northern Democracy, and not from the Democracy of the North themselves, because, there is not a logical argument on God's earth that can bring them to the con- : elusions which they pretend to draw. There fore, it was that Stephen A. Douglas was ready to beat yon in 1857-8, when you were attempting to force slavery upon Kansas. He has backed down beyond doubt to- ! day, but if you had not elected him Senator, he would have been in the Republican ranks, j You are right, when you say you can't trust, (these, (a voice-"we didn't say so") You i did say so. I appeal to the reports of the ! Convention to bear me out. This was said: j "if they would not march up to that line, set them down, let them go." W hy let them go? Because, you don't trust them of course. i If vou trust them, you will want them to 6tand by you; it they are your friends, you want them all. Mr. Silvertooth said, that Stephen A- Douglas was outside the Democratic party already. Why? Because he ! stands upon the Democratic platform of j 1856. I A voice in the crowd. Did the Conven tion coincide with that view? Mr. Clay. llr. Graves' resolutions were j voted down, which I understood to coincide j with Douglas view A voice. Was he named? Mr. Clay. If you vote down the doctrine and the man that makes a speech, you don't j leave much of the man. fLauhter.l I tell you, Douglas stands no chance. Yoa have already degraded him from the Chairman- , ship of the Committee on Territories in the f U. S. Senate, are you going to take him up j again? Your own Senators wont trust him, can you believe in. a man whose masters are continually watching him, pistol and bowieknife in hand. Breckinbridge is the boy ! i believe. Guthrie is an honest man, as honest ; a man as the Democratic party has built up 1 for a number of years, and that is not saying much. j FILLICrsTKRISG. j 6. I charge the Democratic party with Cllibnstering. You all know what that means. ' Going out with armed bands of men from the United States, "extending the area of free dom," performing John Brown raids, entering upon general invasion to set humanity right, when the gallant old tar. Commodore Paulding received instructions, if he caught Walker to bring him home. The old fellow thought the President of the United States meant what be said, and he went out. ordered his marines out, and brought home tha individual, and what did the President say? j v ny, saia ne, -i nave a great notion to disi m's you from the service. You are a damn'd ; old fool." Laughter. ' Did I not tell you ; Commodore at Ostend, before I became a candidate of the Southern Democracy, that we i wanted Cuba, and we would buy it if we ! 1 it c.: i -,. .. I wuiu, uu ii cjia woaia not sen it, we would take it any way; and do you suppose that when we say, we don't mean to have Nicarauga, we don't want to have it' Yon are an old fool." Therefore, I say as these men are not punished, bat as Walker goes to visit the President of the United States that you are guilty of filiibosterin. If be bad been taken at sea by any Government of sumcient power abroad that dare execute the law contrary to your sympathy, he would have been hong until he was dead, dead.

dead, and there would hare been the last of Billy the blue eyed man of destiny. 7. You have established a censorship of the press, by a Post-Office Usurpation. 8. Of a violation of the Constitution which, provides that tha citizens of each Slate shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities in the several States. 9. Of sympathizing with foreign despoU.as Russia and Austria against Hungary. 10. Of violating the compromise measures of 1850. 11. Of violating the compromise of IS 20. 12. Of the usurpation by the Supreme Court of political power, in the Dred Scott case, where they undertake to overthrow the decisions of all the State Courts, and the acts of all the Presidents, who lived in the days

of the revolution, and in the assumption by what the Courts say is obiter dicta of powers belonging to the legislative department, po litical powers, not judicial. 13. Of raising a civil war in Kansas, and prosecuting John Brown's raids, as I have shown. 14. Of introducing a sham "Popular SovI ereignty. 15- ur an attempt to legislate slavery inthe Territory of Kansas by this latter day Lecompton movement. 6- Ut denying naturalized citizens equal protection with natives. 17. Of attempting to throw the Republic into a condition of eoUonial vassalage, undex tha rule of European power. L-t as look at that. That is the last count I find. Mr. Breckenridge, the papers tell us, hast said yes, sir.John has said there ia trouble brewog. What is the matter, John? You and the. Democratic party have had possession of the G overnment for nearly three quarters of a century; you have put up and you have put down; you have had control of the domestic and foreign po !iey of the country , you have been ornuip otent in States and in the Union, in the Senate and i.i Congress; you have had the executive and judicial department of the Government, and the country is sick, is it? Why, what is the matter? Who has been doctoriu;r it? Who hat caused this breaking op of bonds of anion, of which we bare heard to day? I am sr.d, yoa are sal, we are all sad. It is indeed a sorry surht to see a people in time of peace and prosperity, dragged to the verge of dissolution, aud the curious part of it ij, and the cruel part is, that if one of yoa had a wife or daughter tha' you tenderly loved as you ought, yoa would not act at yoa now do with this Union that yoa boast of so much. God knows, as bad a ma. as I an thought to be, and as Kentuckians are thought to be in general, I love my wife above all women: Bhe is iu health, and she goes and comes, she smiles aud cries, works and plays, and dies all those things that nature demands her to do, and if I call in some doctor upon some imaginary or real afllie tion of the great internal course of health, and the doctor brings her to the bed, the rose fads from her cheek, the bright eyes becomes dim, the full and round form becomes emaciated, and I say "why, Doctur, the woman is dyine. in the name of God, what are you going to do?" "Well," says he, "the woman is dying, I am sorry, but lam going to vindicate myself in history.1 Great Gal, are we American people, the free people of the nation to die, and if the Union is to be dissolved, he intends to vindicate the Democratic party in history. I tell yaa, good sense calls for a ehanga of d jotors. The Democratic party has brought y9a on the road to the devil. Change your pilot your rulers. Tarn them out and put other men at the helm. A voice Who do you propose? Mr. Clay. I am willing to take, for instance, that much calumniated man, Seward, Chase, or McLane, Lincoln, Bites, .Bill, Bolts, or old Kentucky's favorite son, Crittenden, ( aplau3-3 provided we could hava him fairly and squarely up on the platform. Anybody except the old doctor. I have got a sad dislike for him. (Laughter.) Dissonmos . Let us look a little at that thing of dissolution. A body would suppose, with Canada far removed, that when it has become dangerons for me to speak where there are millions of white men to a few hundred thousand slaves, that slave property had become unsafe. Dissolve the Uaiou, and move the line to the north of the Ohio, and woald you have additional security? Does any man suppose is any man mad enough to suppose that if these people, once bound together by a common brotherhood of suffering, by association in churches, by a common Christianity, by the ties of education, cannot remain in peace in the Union, that they would remain in peace oat of it? Does Mr. Breckenridge or Gov. Magoffin suppose such a case as that? Yoa have your answer when yoa see Gov. Wise, who in the last Presidential race, talked of seising the arsenal and marching upon Washington to take possession of the archives, and preventing the inauguration of a Republican President, saying now if any fighting is to be done it is to be doue in the Union, and not out of it; when yoa see your Democratic orators talking round and becoming the defenders of the Union . Don't yoa all begin to see the folly of this thing? Don't yoa all see, what all men of common sense mast see, that outside of the Union there lies less security to slave property? Certainly yoa do. Nobody supposes that there would be anything other than the way r. Caldwell said to day. Do yon suppose yoa would have peace? No. sir, it would be war to the knife and the knife to the hilt. That is what woald be the result. Where is your security for your slave property, then? Would you, eight millions of white men, enter upon a contest with twenty millions, and hold your slaves at home? It is not to be heard of. More safety! Nol The fact i?, you would have to sacrifice your negroes, like France and II angary did their slave property, at once, at the beginning of the war. Then what would you gain so far as yoa are slaveholders? What are the nnn.alM7phn!ilN 1 r irftin Why it. remind- mo of a history that a friend of mine, au ingenious man. used to tell of a white man and an Indian. They got into a fight, and after a while the Indian proving too hard, the white man took to Lis heels, and while outrunning the Indian, the latter cried out, "stop, white man, stop," and the white man hollowed out, "stop, I will be dn'tied if I do." Why, gentlemen, yoa a?k all of us non slaveholders of the Union, who have borce all the opKlara to those rales and regulations of despotism a?aicst which we rose no in arms in 1776 What do yoa propose to give as in liea of this great Union as a protection ? Why, the Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer says: We will send to Louis Napoleon, and we will ask him to lend us some troops Xo defend us! O, aharne! shame! Are yoa going to bring us to this? is this the reward that you offer us, that von will call on Lonis Napoleon, the despot of France, and his troops, and he will defend as against those Northern traitors and faaatica Are yoa ready for that. Democrats? We have been led long by Democratic leaders. Is this the feast to which yoa have invited os, that after yoa can be no longer preserved, that they will get Louis Napoleon (they can't trust Victoria sbe has too many notions of freedom about her.) to preserve us? What does it meaa? It means going absolutely back into French despotism. Are you ready for that? The Vice President is unfortunate in his allusion to the great Athenian orator. It is we whi defend the liberties of the people, and they who propose to. call in Phillip of Macedon Louis Napoleon, is it not? The battles in Kansas, which were fought for the common liberty, is the reproach of Eschine' Not only these, bat all the glory of the ill as trio us dead is in vain, if tha democratic party consummate the subjecting as to a foreign and alien despotism! I woald that I coold evoke the ge&ins of the U! us trio as defender of Grecian liberty, that my voice, like his, coold toaeh the hearts of ny countrymen with the divine fire of my own aspirations, tiil they woald be again ready to cry oos with one voice, "Let as march against PhiLip! No, gentlemen. That is the reason I eame here to-night, because I heard this thing talked of because it is threatened. I come to tell yoa as I live, es we all live, there

is not a single true Republican but will shed his last drop of blood before he will submit to this; they will fight you for a thousand years ere they will submit; they will not relapse into French servitude. We preach no new doctrine, we invoke no new God, but standing by the old doctrine of '76, upon which our fathers fought and died, we say, with Crittenden, that "thai which is good to stand upon is good ground to fall upon." We invoke the people of the North and South to stand by the Constitution of the United States, and vindicate it beyond the possibility of a doubt. Who are the men that have avowed the intention to dissolve the Union? Look at all our record. Not a single county meeting, nor district convention, nor State assembly, nor national convention of the Republican party has ever declared that, in any emergency, will

they dissolve the Union. Jf ), sirs, we say all the' time that we submit to Democratic rule while yoa slaveholders rule us, and we submit because we know of no other policy, no other alternative, except it be force, and when that is used all law is silent, and the Government becomes a desptism; whenever you resort to violence you have an auarchy as has Mexico, which is continually at war because it does not stand by any Constitution or law. All our pledges and our antecedents prove that we are bound to be loyal to the union of these States; and, therefore, I say we can safely claim your suffrages, not taking us by our avowals, but taking us by our acts If we have submitted for eighty years we are willing to submit for eighty years more, unless we can pursuade you to take hold of those glorious privileges which we feel to be right. helper's crisis. There is a man in Carolina whose father was born, it is said, upon North Carolina soil, and we know not how many centuries before his ancestors lived there, and it so happened that he belonged to that large class of North Carolina that may be called the working class, the non slaveholders. He saw the in-

(luence of slavery upon the interests of that streets where his services may bo desired. Genclass of men, and he broke away from the , tlen:en who are disposed to subscribe for this purtrammels of that party, and published a book, P?e are req -tested to instruct their families to put ind he tells us that however good a thing don whatever sums they miy deem proper. ilave labor is for the slaveholder, free U "ss for us to commend this system of I .bor is better for the non-slaveholders. He ! Pf5". ' ? p-t to all that , our

', ikes lira llm nAttaria r f f ha I r- n 4 nt i - - . ind he compiles at all unquestioned, and hows how the instituion of the South affects fhe mass. He appeals to these masses and ' sks them to see for themselves and act upon ; leir knowledge thus obtained, if this thing m not according to the doctrine of Jefferson,

ns which I believe was pretty good Democ-jBC"

iacy once? Now about this book I am going to be rank. I did recommend this book. I say i have real this book carefully, and there is

no a omjjio iiicouumry uocirine in u mere , uuitmg with the Wesley an Church, does not give U not a single appeal to the slave. If it be my views on reliriou aud political subjects. I asurrection among a people professing to be '. believe the religion of Jesus Christ is entirely dis'ree to appeal to the legal white voters of the 'connected from all political affairs of civil gov-

sountry, for whose protection the Constitu tion professes to be made, to rise from a serfdom to the bame power and control of the government that the free laborers and free people of the North have done; it is insurrectionary. Let me go one step further, and say, that there were some places in that book published by him that we did not regard as just; and inasmuch as we conceived that the slaveholders held their property on the tenure that the British held it, we thought it was a po litical question we thought that the slaveholders should not be taxed. I wrote to him that that was a foolish thing, but it was understood that all these objectionable things should be expunged, as Mr. Blair, of Missouri, has said. lie says it was understood that these parts were to be stricken out, not that they were incendiary, but that it was a blunder not to be urged. I tell you, gentlemen, I stand on Uelp r's pamphlet, and you may make the most of what 1 say (Cries of "Goon, and "We will 6tand by you all night.") I have stood by you all the long days of my youth and manhood, extinguished all the aspiration of ambition, suflered ignominy and . . i i i i j contempt, been denounced, spurned and . . . . 1 v r avoided by the men whose interests I was ar - gumg, by the white man, and wronged by the black man; but still holding myself true to one purpose, I stand there still. What to me now are the rosy tints of life, with my hair silvered over, with my sinews stiffened, with age; in the course of humaa events, t... k,f t;i.i. i v t bave but little time to remain here. I say, y . i t.I Kentuckianf.come war come peace. I trust in God I may have the fortune to stay there the re t ot my days, ana that although the millions may depart from me, there will be in Kentucky one standing true to the last, ! whose aspirations may be, however vision- j ary, however theoretical, true to the banner: which I would have float over us. The : same old banner of 1776 each stripe with 1 the progress of the ages paling into a bright-1 er galaxy of stars! in the language of j Webster, its motto no such miserable inter rogatory, as what is all this worth? Nor those other words of delusion and folly, "Slavery and Union," far less "Slavery first and Union afterwards," and yet more "Slavery with or without Union!" But his own glorious sentiments for the which and with which with filial piety I walk backwards and cover his late political nakedness! "LibERTT ASD UNION, BOW AND FoBKVER, OSK ASD Ihe VtltiuUum. RICHMOXD. IXD-, JAN. 88th, I860. C'oxoaiKS Douglass made a speech of two hours oa Monday last. It is said to have been a most humiliating effort to bis friends, who supposed he would indignantly repe the assaults upon him by the friends of the administration; but iike a whipped dog be bowed his head to the overruling power of the Siaveocrecy. He waj replied to by Mr. Fessecden, of Maine. In the House, Barksdale made a dull speech, which cleared the Hall. He was replied to by Mr. Corwin, in a speech which net only brought the members to their seats and clustering aroosd him, but filled the galleries with a dense throng of visitors. There is no indication when a Speaker will be elected. It ia not the South which ia alone to blame for the failure to organise the House of Representatives at Washington. Five members from the city of New York, Sickles, Cochrane, Uaclay, Briggs and H. F- Clark, by voting for Socrates, coald organize the noose at once. If there is any excase for the persistent coarse ol the Soathera members, there is mash less for these gentlemen, representing the great commercial city of the country, and especially of the free States. Washisoto, Jan. 24. It is indicated to-day, that Sherman will withdraw, and some other Republican elected. It is said Corwin does not want the position. Corwin a late speech is said to be the gieatsst effort of his life. Beelf gives no new testimony implicates bat few persons and no Republicans. jtaT'Tae Opposition members of the Legiala tare of Tennessee, have nominated Jobn BeU as their candidate for President.

CwsrwtMf Dittrict Gmfnittn The editor of the New Castle Courier, referring to the fact that ths last Congressional Convention failed to appiat a committee to t.x the time and place of holding the next Convention for the nomination ot a candidate for Congress, proposes that he "Chairmen of the respective Concty Committees, have full powers to act until the meeting of the next District Convention." We see bat little necessity for a committee, nnless a disagreement should arise as to the time a.d place, and of the character of said Convection. We are in favor of holding just such Convections as we have htrvtofore held in taror of Cambridge as the place of meeting, and 4th of July as the time. If our Republican friends da not agree with us, we wilt change to suit them. j-The Republicans of Henry county met in Convention ou Saturday last. It was largely attended and the best spirit prevailed. O. P. Morton addressed the convention and the delegates to the State Convention were instructed to vote for Mr. Morton for Governor. t-fla Fayette coanty, on the ISth inst., the Republicans met in eoaety convention. The attendance was so large that manv were unable to eet'w the Court House. Hon. C. B. Smith and

O. P. Morton, E-q , addressed the meeting. The last named gentleman was recommended as the caudidite for Governor. This is the sentiment of e utern Indiana, and many other portions of the S ate. J jb Stout, Kq, of Fayette Coanty, is announced as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Auditor of State. Mr. Stout has had much experience as Coanty Auditor, acd was deservedly pojvlar in tha performance of the ties nfttie oJie. We sho ild be pleased to see the nomination conferred up a Mr. Stoat, and he will receive tae uuited support of Eastern Indiana. jsThe Territorial Legislature of Kansas was convened in extra session oa Friday last, by the the Governor. Both branches immediately passed resolutions to adjourn to Lawrence. The Govercor vetoed the resolutions, and they were immediately passed over his head. Priva'e IVakhmen. Mr.' Baily will in the course of a rew days call upon our citizens residing iu the different parts of the city, for the parpose of procuring the necessary number of patrons t i i ustifv hitu iu dIuc'iiht watchmen unon the iBuiiiiua mil 1 1 i: i ill :irii 1 1 1 1 1 1 tt ft:i ii ; n wucu tucr ' .... UU hours of the night. i Mr. Bailey has received a threatening rote for : goinsr beyond what is conceived to be his 'limits' ' he authorizes us to say that no threat will de u'r him from the performance of his duty. He is able aaJ at n:l ,i:,,e3 prepaid to protect hi in "um ""'"s "OJ' wu" H way. Miltos, Iod, Jan. 11, I860. Mbssr. floixowAY & Pivis : Gents: In last U'Pt V "a I . ! ' . .1 1 ri m .nil, rema.ba VAlofioa t mw eminent. Christ said his kingdom was not of this world. The subject of slavery I leave where Christ left it. fie instructed masters how to treat their servants, and servants to be obedient to their masters, and thus he left it, and thus I leave it. I never had anything to do with slavety. Those that have must stand or fall before the judges of all this earth. I think mire of tha true religion of Jesus Christ than all the honors of civil government. I was never an Abolitionist, neither am I one uow. Let every one be fully persuaded in his own mind oa this subject. As you have misrepresented my views on religion and politics before the public, I hope you will have the goodness to give these as my views on this subject. Very respectfully, J. C. Chambsslain. We give placa to the above note with pleasure. Our object ia noticing the fact was the strange idea of a suppsrter of the present administration, being at the same ti'ne an admirer of the doctrines preached by John Wesley, and now held by the Church bearing bis name. It is not our purpose to get into a controversy in regard to theological questions; but oar friend Chamber laiu says he believes "the religion of Jesus Christ is entirely disconnected from all political affairs of civil government1 We believe the same so far as loeofocos are concerned; bat we coald have no ; confidence in any civil government that ia not i based P J the P"r'p''' hich Christ taught and j P'ched. They were the principles upon which ; oar government wa? based, bat they have been .,B . . , , ' ,. . 3 sadly abused under democratts rule. The "sam ; of all viu8iDie8" DM alI10gt destroyed the origisal : iaQj mark3 ij dowo by our fathers. If we bad , room we would like to compare the faith and ! creed of the Wesleyan church with modern de j mocreey, but have not. and therefore aak our i friend of the postofficeat Milton to take one mare !8JeP- ad clear 8kirU of inconsistencies that hang around him as a member of the Wes- , . 8 . , . . , leyan church and of the democratic party. We t the houe(jt COQvictiong of M n. and re ) to s?e a man who makes a fair start stambling on kis way. Rev. J. C. Flstchkr The lecture of Mr. Fletcher, delivered in Starr Hall, on Saturday evening last, on "Brazil and the Brazilians" was listened to, by, not a large, but an appreciative audience. We were unable to be present but it is spoken of as having been highly interesting. O.l Sund.iv mornincr hp. nrichpd in ths Pna byterian church, on Prater, and was listened to ith marked attention, and admired for his style aud able argwuecits. On Sabbath evening Le preached at a union meeting in the Chapel on the Bible, to a crowd ed bouse. Many were unable to procure seats acd many others were forced to go away from an inability to get in the house. On Monday evening be lectured again in Starr Hall on the Wai-dkxsks. among whom he spent a considerable length of time. There was a large iudier.ee. A ereneral desire has beea expressed to have Mr Fletcher visit our city again, and we are informed that he may possibly do so in a short time, if arrangements are made for that purpose. It is to be boped the Jaaior Sons will give - this matter iui mediate attention. With proper eft jrta crowded bouses can be obtained. DR. O. S. LEAVITT will deliver a lecture on the -'Com mer rial Cause and Care of Slavery-,' In Engine Hall, No. 3, TO-NIGHT. Admission FREE. The Grand Concert. This is to be the grand affair of the season The Band are making every necessary preparation the oriJioal Estell Band have volaateered their services, and other attractive featares will make np a programrre which cannot fail to please The Band deeerve a fall, crowded end paying boose. Shall they have it f We feel that oar people owe it to them, then let every man. woman acd child who has any love for mosie be oa band. Friday evening of lest we. k, ike proprietor of the American House at Cealrtville gave a brilliant entertainment to his boarders and many friends. The festivities were kept ap to an tarly boar, when the company retired to their bootee; hoping that Mr. Rowan and bis lady may five to enjoy many more sack scenes. jty- We woald call the attectioa of ell lovers of good cuffe to the celebrated French. CoWui Pot now on hand and for sale by oar friend Lefevre. which is warranted to make good toff as ree ommeaded by the Bar. J. C. Fletcher, ia hie leatare oa Monday evening; with his recipe and one of these coffee pots, yoa eeaoot tail in baring good co See. We again say to every coffee drinker, call at the City Steve Store, and eet a Frenth Ccfft Pel.

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This System of PemBaanahin & tk purposes, fast superseding all others. rixrai uo uaaoara oi uairographis learning in all the principal cities of New York, and throurhont tlv P.m,i yersally meeting with approbation from the most intelligent and progressive teachers. It u a singular intereetieg fact, that no system baa been published on the semi-an-guir pnucipte lor toe last fifteen years, but which has been secretly purloined from the Speneerian System, the antKn nr vv R- Spencer is aa onpteteadiag man. but possessing the true elements of greatness and Biu id ate Bran Mr. Lusk has long bean successful teachlV9 unriT1 Tn. and as a rapid, off hand penman, has few if any superiors, let Mr. Baldwin has tha boldness to saw "that his angular stuff is uovariably acknowledged by business men. to be the only System of any use to them." Mr. B. certainly knows that this sssertion is on true, ne would bare na believe, that as a teacher, he has no superior or equal. The reasoiv he does not adopt Spencer's System is' he cannot write it; no man will teach the angular system if Jhe cannot tcrite Spencer's. Mr. B. says: "The best of all anrnmenta in ftmr nt l.t system is, the invariable eertainty of S pence ri an Teachers running into it whan writing rapidly." Here he makes an assertion which is simply not true, and for which he ia in-r. 1. 1 J He has been a close observer he says for jthe last ten years, but has never in a single j instance found the Span earian hand used in jany kind of business. Truly, he has been a very aun observer, as the spenoenan system is now taught iu nearly all ths commercial colleges, written by the pupils of thosa schools, and used in business every day. He proposes to teaoh the Spencerian system to his pupils if they prefer it. Ha can not write it; how can he teaoh it? A ram cannot serve God and mammon, neither will he teach two systems of writiug. Never mind our hist, Mr. B. ; it will ft tit -with ba'f the gas required to keep your air cattle in motion. I propose, as a test of Spencer's system of writintr. and mv skill as a nenman. to either write or teach a trial class with Mr. B ti l win or any teacher of the angular hand in tli4 . . state. Jan. 21, 1860. J. A. Nesbit. MARRIED, Suu Uy vraing. th M intt.. by Tt r . J. V. R. Millar. Mr; William BoLANtiia t Mar Jans Kelt of Marion, Ind. Rrpubllran Claa at Hlllaboro. The Rpubliiot Fraoktla towatatp wilt orjnin a Republican CUb at IlilLUoro oa Saturday eremn next. vry body t iavitod to eUeod. HepaMieaa Claa. Tha nxt rettilar Club maatioe will ball on Mon day avening next, at tha Hall of Kafiao Company Vo . H. A lall UUtKUOM-u nqiMN. 1 mm poopia rropaotiv of party ara tnTitad to b pr ant. Henrttealtaral Betciety. Thera will ba a asotinR of this aooUty, at tWr loom in tha HU of tha No. 9'a oa Satantay naxt. at o'clock P. M. A gaaarat attoadaaoa ia ruqaaital. aV-Two or three pleasantly located rooms or part of a residence, wanted; aptly at this office. ssTTbe Circuit Court will commence its next session on Monday next. -Tbe Court of Common Pleas will adjxirn on Saturday next. oa Messrs. Iligio dc Co., of Abingtoa haro trall their Abinzton mill to Mr. Lather Crocker, for tha . - j. k. H.. ..... II.... 4 nu, 'itioa will be presenter! to too city fjoancil at ill noil j meeting asking tha establishment of a night watch by j the city an ths appointment of 8. U. V ilk Ins as chief. Acomplianoe with tha reqaaat of the petitoajers woald eiv much satisfaction. dostrabla and it rat raw nun avsti proporiy sa ondrem lor saio tor farther particular enquire at thia ofliio. Vaughtn Brothers haro purchased the hoaaa oa tha eoroor of Main and l'rDklin Street of ThacMant Wright pries $t000. Mr 2. Campbell hassolrfhis Jroory store aad hones to Mr. Eli Brown. Mr. (J. Henry is about to build on the aouth-weet corner nf Main ant Franklin street a largs busiasa hoaaa 9 1 by 30 feet. The Temperance orders parposs snaking arrangement for lor a Hall ia tha third story. THE COUNTY EXIM'NBaS, for Wayne Conoty. will meet in L. A. Kates' Sohool-roo a. opposite tha Post-OSos, Richmond, oa Setarday, Feb. 4th, at 10 o'clock, a- m. Although Congress has fallad to alswt a Speaker, ths proprietor of ths Mow York Storo never fails to supply his customers with good bargains. Us is now rslieving his shelves and countess of goods at price below tbs lowest prioss ovsv known before, for the parpose of making room for his Baring Stook. This is no idle declaration, for his system of bosiaes ia to clear oat his old stosk twioe a yoar, for ths tnrp-sa of insuring new styles of goods at all timss to Lis customers. Call toon if yoa waat bargains. Boswetl's rooaas is tha pteeeto get good pictures. He takes pictures that coalman 1 prosaism s Atlantic Qoathly for February, 7-2t At tha CITY BOOKSTORE. Inapartaat te ran Amongst tha groat variety of improved machinery ia Richmond, no article that wo bars seen deserres a motw favorable notico frotw tha farming community than tbs Cross-Cut Wood Saw, whisk oar friend '. W. Robinson is building, tt is eertainly tbs mot complete arrangement tor sawing logs into store or other wood over i erected, it eaa bo nv ached to and ran by any kind of horse powor or portable engine, is simple in its construction, eoovenieat to baaale, and will cut from twenty-Sro to thirty eords of stove wood in ono day. Every farmer should hava one of these valuable saws and wa feel eontdent that they will he fully eoavineed of their atility by calling at ar. Robinson shop, on Main street. KeMllfaae Notice. Flder A. S. HO BBS of tbo Christian Congregation will preach at tbo English Lutheran Church in this rity. on next Priday evening, al-S past 6 o clojk, aai continue ovor Lord's d ay. IndtajasUloa BIestlaff. A sail has been made by a large Bomber of ths cittaen of Economy aad Tieiatty for a Congressional meeting to be held at (his plana oa Friday tbo SI day of February, at 10 o'clock, a. as., to giro expression to the painful feelings caused by tao lata iahaman and ernei treatment of tha Rev. Daniel Worth, formerly a worthy aad highly rcipectexf ettisaa of this neighborhood, who is now incarcerated la a arisoa ia North Carolina, for no other alleged saass than selling Helper's Impending Crisis. Oae or two abia spsaaers are expected. Friend of Freedom sows oat, a ao "impending crisis" is now taking plane ia oar (i jvernaseat, sad wa are called to tbo rescue. The paper of Weyaa, Howry, aav Randolph, are requested to publish. B. JE.MBTSU, .Secy. HoTue and Lot For Sale ! 'PHI beaseaad sVetattb jaaettaa of Free and Mart a oa etreets eaxlaovse eeateia Ore reosaa. f 1 celtar.inMaztarea.aM. These ia ess the US a gvet well of water, cistern, frai tress. Crape Vtaas east Was accessary evt esriMiars. AlMtwoasoirablebatMlae tots a few rvte sswtk of tne a Sots, frentlng beta oa treat aad Maria a eta. All er eats rreaerts- will eo seM toe one third ia hand, halaacs ta eoo aa4 two rears, aast Isajasllass e-a Sirea. JOtta C. HAD LEV jeaaary sua. isew. 7tf AdnsJalatrator'i Bala. RTIU. be eels a rah Us Sato, aw rstOay tae 17th day of v Sihrasry asst. as tha aas sasistassaa ? Han Harrev S re wties anssh esse at a-eaastssaa Ihs sassi n 1 1 i i 1 1 -afae. moomtmitrnf e Oarrtasyas, stock Ctarm. ratsaiag tssulsmsass. Mssstihsll smS aLMshia srnstare. Ska. smo ta oasasaawos as tS e'eloek. on saiS V- T erase liberal enS snaSo suaosra mm She oar sale 4 das stun Seats gteea by -a. SSU, - W ATT- ""EH Ordrsw rus w r wewx fTI H AS KTCLL Y raeetvsji asvd pnmsllj eaweated hy a nasWsiynal who has oa hstsad a pretty geneswsns Hsa re., a se ass taea, eaa sot - . 8, t, 10, 11. M. IS, H. aad ). atvd Z. VZZ rr wyro ware. Two eooe-s aorin ot ssswas. iiiiiiisia saewntag. ea Hint

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