Or is it to be decided by your own laws, by your own rules of judicature?  If by the latter, then there is no good ground for controversy.  We do not advocate that any country shall empty its poor houses, get rid of the duty of supporting its paupers, and throw that charge upon us.  We could not permit any country to empty its prisons and penitentiaries to mingle that portion of its population with ours.  But we do war against the use of terms that delude the people, and are intended to exclude the high-spirited and hard-working men who contribute to the bone, the sinew, and the wealth of our country. [Applause.]

Such, then, my friends, is the opposition to the democracy, the only national party.  The opposition, I say, claims two things from the federal government, neither of which it has the constitutional power to perform.  It agitates this section of the Union in relation to property which it has not, and of which, I say, it knows literally nothing.  For had the orator (Mr. Giddings) who was quoted to-night, known anything of the relations between the master and the slave, he would not have talked of the slave armed with the British bayonet.  Our doors are unlocked at night; we live among them with no more fear of them than of our cows and oxen.  We lie down to sleep trusting to them for our defence, and the bond between the master and the slave is as near as that which exists between capital and labor anywhere.  Now, about the idea of British bayonets in the hands of slaves:  The delusion which has always excited my surprise the most has been that which has led so many of the northern men to strike hands with the British abolitionists to make war on their southern brethren.  If they could effect their ends, and Great Britain could insert the wedge which should separate the States, what further use would she have for the northern section?  You are the competitors of Great Britain in the vast field of manufacture, whom she most fears, and though she may be with you in the scheme which would effect a separation of these States, yet the moment that separation should be effected she would be under the promptings of interest your worst enemy. [Applause.] Our fathers fought and bled to secure the common interests of the country.  They reclaimed us from colonial bondage to national independence.  They stamped upon it free trade in order that the interests of all might be promoted, that each section might be interwoven with the other—­in order that there might be the strongest bond of mutual dependence.  And step by step, from that day to this, that common and mutual dependence has been growing.