Speech of Judge Kelley
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Speech of Judge Kelley: Delivered at Spring Garden Hall, Tuesday Evening, September 16, 1856 Have you heard the news from Maine, boys? I (Great applause.) Such were the words with, which I commenced an address to the friends of Polk, Dallas, and Shunk, in 1844, about this season of the year, in the district of Spring Garden; and the Democratic news that had come that day, - the day succeeding a gubernatorial and congressional election - was esteemed as the sure presage of victory to the party, as we esteem the news to-day. (Cheers.) We live in curious times, politically, my friends. Why is it that the Democratic star of the East, and the young Democratic Giant of the West, have wheeled into line and put themselves on either side of the Whig Gibraltar, Vermont? Why stand Democratic Maine and Iowa, supporting Whig Vermont? There is a significance in the fact. It tells, to those who understand it, the whole secret of the uprising of the people which has made a party (so far as Pennsylvania is concerned but a few weeks old,) the master of the destinies of the Commonwealth, and the party to settle the coming national election. (Immense applause.) The Whigs of old and the Democrats of old, however they differed upon other questions, agreed upon one; - indeed, their agreement was so entire that no question was made upon that subject. They differed as to a National Bank; they differed as to Tariff; they differed as to the distribution of the public lands; they differed as to the improvement of rivers and harbors by the General Government; but they agreed as the patriots who framed the Constitution and who gave our government consistency by the earliest action under it - they agreed between themselves, and with the great men who had moved before them, that slavery was a local domestic State institution; that, being such, the General Government had no concern with it within the limits of any one of the States. They agreed, in esteeming it a great social and political evil. They held that the Territories, being the common property of the States and of the people, and having been confined by the Constitution of the United States to Congress, (it having been made the duty of Congress to make all necessary regulations for the Territories,) it was the business of Congress to legislate for the Territories, and to exclude from them so great a social and political evil as Slavery. There was no diversity of opinion on this subject among those who achieved the freedom of our country. There was no diversity of opinion upon this subject among those who established the confederacy and governed the country during the existence of the confederation. There was no disagreement among the earlier members of Congress during the administration of George Washington, or between that great man and and the great men who made up his cabinets. I have stated the doctrine held by them all - that the States were sovereign and independent - that over the institutions of the States Congress had no control that the Territories were the common property of the States, and that it was the duty of Congress to legislate for the Territories; and by all their actions they showed that they agreed in the opinion, that, it being the duty of Congress to legislate for the Territories, it was their duty to legislate in such a manner as should promote the welfare of the people, and, therefore, to exclude Slavery from the common domain. (Loud cheers.) I shall not detain you by dwelling upon the circumstances of the great ordinance of 1787, which gave freedom to Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. That Territory was the property of Virginia, a slave State, and, had no confederation taken place, no Union been framed, it would have been slave territory, as the mother State was. It was ceded, though in the southern portions of it were contained considerable numbers of slaves, especially
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