Speech On Hon Wm Barksdale of Mississippi On the Presidential Election
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* I propose now, Mr. Chairman, to consider for a moment the Black Eepuhlican party. To show its unhallowed purposes, I give helow its platform, together with extracts from the speecbes of some of its most, distinguished champions : " That we invite the affiliation and co-operation of men of all parlies, however differing from us in other rei?pects, in support of the principles herein declared ; and, believinsj that the spirit of our institutions, as well iis the consiitutinn of our country, gua...rantifs liberty of conscience and equJity of riichts am')ng cit zens, we oppose all le^^islation impairing their sc-curiiy. "This convention of delee:ates, assembled in pursuance of a call addresse) to th : people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who nre opposed to the reppal of the Missouri ComproiTiise, to the policy of the present adrninistration, to the extension of slavery into free territoiy, in favor of the admission of Kansas as a free State, of restoring the action of the fedei-al government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson, and for the purpose of presenting candidates for the offices of President and Vice President, do resolve : "That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence, and imb'tdied in the federal constitution, is essential to the preservation of our rppublican insti- tutions, and that the federal constitution, the rights of the States, and the Union of the States, mus' and shall be pr/ served.
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