A a DI - .... "" , -... • . s w ~.....q y.,... 47, atopAqty.,,,,,,,,,,visimmadtv, ,Aysicrwidls,,,..l itnaigadjima i ricraftzroll' '1 alrll, ar __ _....... ....._ .__________________ _ ....... RRpublican Steam Printing Office,- 4 cit i ~ , , , , 0.. o__ ..,-..„ ~,, , , 1 liawliv ,S. Lntbrops' Building, up staiti, 1 4 •i ... . , 1 : e jrlaepeileilf `4epttblie,q4; i'll, , . , - , - , ~ _ it i ~,, .1 F.," ,0-.• ~ s , ,y - n c I L.g „'' -t.„,.. ,, ',..• . v ' ~. , - 1 , ) 'a a: .: ', '' , 4- '.. ''' 4 ' " ‘ s i - , i -''; , I . , r. I 1 • ..I r i t 1 i i P t. ;l * 4 _ ' .. : 4 ,.. ? a• 1 t... 4 n tpiritto rtrur TurnsuAr, Ar %pun( SR, M R CL '- , 1 , 7 .. 1 '''' 1 ' ..., 7 ; 1 • .•., z . t uvo.l couvrt frs.o.l ur ` 1 ' .4. 4 \ f - -. . • „ .... .1 , '. H. RAZI.ER, t`,., I% . 1 ' - ... , I IAT • $1,50 t TZAR IN A iltinCE. ' i ' E s { L SztSe- kr....m.. _ II El BUSINFLSS . cAirps.- , Dr. NC". C. . •ZuLtS ANTI Sl.'lll.itON.!nii-laz.- hiruPele, In Au. fru t'eutte. It rued,. Lost/end ti all Ilx calit of his 1c the trezttnierit td Chrnale t`entpe. tituq. Co. rtt., 1.559.-Cnlft !)r& Blakeslee .& Biash • then - Ist - I,a nailer the ahur.3harne for theftmt , i .O 0111t4 (11.titli of lt.t.ir Itnoefilny In r Ow, tic luvaliiip.lific. Ottoe at the rrpldence tulthtupy tp , tween the vt!hkze-, tr;Pit,r,,ttle . t/FDP,EDS r, ....it or No. - Gt3ntSthul. CO; t . , Mr. who cut lalt. La. by A.. A. Hall, rActrnr.R Deal., :in n7l kindlt 1: Si unr . Aug..1..1, .1. Bacon -& Weeks, • Eats 11,..t. or ar.ll 1 1 41,4 tic tlrzilims and a(aJllir . .lt Drier! Irekch Plck/us, 1111.-4, For, F6h, La.l. Tallow, Pork. S3:t. 1 1 , 1 , 59,:tf - =- - El MEt 2,. Lines,.• MILE TATTAIt,Ic:: Bkk.,, over ite.,4l ME ME , . 'I Ream 0, Tyler,. )i :,..1... ,.. .7 ,, Rz . s t .6-;.„..3.1.4!....t4,....0::,),z3.., \rt. en . ,!!, inns: e. 4 \1 I. en ... ;.•.... 0: - , ms. ' flt::‘,l Of I , '; .s•lgnii , ....;: . ! ‘ l l4 kj , icc 4. l . nen ' ti r n. ' q l 4 - - 1 1 -1 , William — H. Cooper & C 0... • tT kNKTiRS, SIICC,...nrs ' to VAST. (. 1 )0PE.41. h .4n7:114w, t,,T1.7.101:1, Ti‘rnl,tkrc et,44•SR, nt.Nr.l - intxtri. MD- , .. ORS *al 'OM the at. . _ .:_____ - : ~• - H. Garrott, ~ . - 11 - 11;iI.•ff ' •IALIe and lI.ETAIL DEALER In {Lorle. GRAIS. 1 t - t ''`• ST III; nn• Mt brut/.• rl. • : , ..ilt ^ r 0.,,,, I'mtt In Otter. • .•. ' ! - I•i;X - on.i I 3ul! r.na Lind 11 . - ...0.„•5t b.nnds . .l + - bOO% by th e ..... • : - ...:, 11r0: 1•7. -. .01,„nt; 'the N. v.v..: 0.,,, Lei i 1:•,,, i.ir •I •5••,..1t 1.3 .•• ~. 11.-:-.1 or, Load. All ordorA Iron, .11• - •rc•rom, n.o:r Dealer! , -., ; -..,.-.4 11%. At:o,-;.1,1 to. ..a. , — ild -Ii 1.,b1 t••r C.: - .40,3y001,1n1t,;. •.... -,•I all lend. of In -liters produce In th.lr.,,,buti. '• • ' 3... , •1:1411:-., T . :11,31m ell ;;,d, la9:-IT . • , . , • • , , : .! G. F. Fordhap., . . — - a" .- ''' - fsT.Foll 112 tE r -iff;;;INZ„E2 , iI4/4 ,11,,,,-N . • . . „ . ~ --„. ~ on one door below Ket; e r .I:qv:A:las. •,`l , - , • ,:, - .•;o. ' ,ldaran I. 1-5:9- I ' ; • • , . . • I . 3. - H. smith, . . IN I ''A rrrun of RI RINI.EI.••:S.SA DDI.„ El.:, nr.l TRUNKS, „Id Is; w InTZlllllNguennnim COUnty, Pa. ._ ,' 31.,:rn. , • ttaryltl, 1,T.0.-Iy .- • I -• I __ • • ' Reeler 4 Stoddard. ' 1 1 -y. , :.1 . 1. , , , 111 t thp0r. rn d yrs ,... .l.4 l, ,,i n c) . .;e l L c . t tl i tr t z t a Findlugs,t , ...). Krrt.rra, r 11. N. 1NT91,1/41117. '1.61 ~ P4,. 1 ,17.1. 1, 1..t,',.-V-21:1 . , .. %. . .... `. . E. H. Rogers, . ; .. . 4 • - - :,) „. .4,,,:, tbr..III.SNVFA rralin i d all te. -• ..,,,, lg . FL1;1 , ..!N.. f....5.E,R1.4“E5,, WAG.- C2an... .....,, .-. I f.• 1..,...t,1,1e. ~ !1.% urku.....mhip.s.ta! of the , -- -v'-- ,•, - ,..,....t, at the f 441 a'.! . .own Aced. 4 few tog! rulti of :,.."4-ar.e., ..: r..,.. wLer.: tu.,,wllTl,u h.q.,,y t.. ruaivu 'Llie ~.1..1", of • _-' _ .i. • •: tI ^ I , l:ring In 1114 lit.. t •,. ' 1 ti',..T,`A; M, 1.,:' , .. 4.-ly , , ~. - 1 H. D. lieinnett • , B-, iil7 DER, Srailry. k z us'iaubuutut Com, v., ' 11, .- ;., .. ~.ffey rnfurti,the pefq.'.e of :ea. , - 4.1 . 110 . , . • . .. , 5..“1 te141.1.0:,11 4 .• cvl: - .i.!rs.%in:t 4e :s pre- - -, .... • '.".. ' 1 ...421 41“:' 1t,v1...,. 4 , 1.! 1/•:a!/ ., . .t ~ L. VI • l'inuzita Win re..f.l,e 1'edu11c,...,,, .......u. etz., Citt...,,t.. Sei.t... 1...'.; , 5.-11' - - -- William 'B. Simpson, • • ry.T..il FAII:EIt. Nverked fur the 14..5t • e.ar w::11 C.e meiteelikif el - moll - men, he well ; , tit te.t 0;:,-.11. '• • •41 . . I ~.• : W et,tern!~fnlr.mi.:Turn •.- If on ca,:ei • Pa. ell • E. W. .1.40 rd, E. D. Metonym% E. 0 IS, S. /fender, 1.. Sc:vs, C. 1,. . • r_...„ m , • wm.w.smi,,, 4 Co., . Au, „, . , t:21.111.:N ET A ti 3 ICIIA 113. M ANL - . 1 7 23 C. z., 11.:, rF. EL,Vcor,uto:l3 on 1.1::,I, ki,:ts ...* if C 4.1.11:iC? FaT,Trcrx, forai.had a: • • ~ ..J.:,,• ..r! V. - L4 a Ro.:::Is f , ot of M or U:, 3 , 1 ria.t. . . 3!,,,,,, Fa 4 May 3:6, • • r • Hayden Broilers, „ Cr/.. :,-I,...nrlPcdlr;_,::..virplied YurkJobiStig Prices. William a William I Jessup, AT Pm:llrn An Sanne ' . i.7ar'froll Warne, LuLerr:e 7 . _ I Wm. H. Jessup ; .. , ..'!„.7IA-i- 1.... , ..w, yo TA .1";+1" rt'14.1 , , AND C011!.415•'..,'.E.T:1,1r •'.. , '.E.T:1,1r DE.EDn.. 4 . . r tnr. dt_tp or : 6 .irsc York, will all:..nd -•.....--• (1,:: - .11.tee. tc lf.a. w:t.li;nrcaiptansi and ednilty. ' ... , ..!o.le S lucre, OCCD ;I rtl by lint. 11 - !!!Imm Jn.r.v..117 ; AP. - . T- -- • —. . • .---4 1 Bentley dz . Fitch, . , . •!-.. I:1 7 1AT LAW. AND £. I, CNTY LAND AQ.ENTS.— •• , :f.... ~, ,t ,jf Ile Curt I.louse;'.ll.Arru.r., P. - M.ri, ! I. T. FITCH. 1 .., Albert, Chamberlin. . - ~ ,;.Ey AT LA 14 - . 4;i1) .t ESTICE C.l , TILE PE:IOE. ~ or E 1...1.,,,a B. Co:;llturi.,l_ 4 ltdcrks.a.i.. It.. ,•• • • A; linEhriell, - ~.. ITIVEY . CarNsELII.n: AT LAW, ()Else 01'1 T S. B 7; ~,,, D ru s 4 torr,;-SE,,,craw.o, I>zrsT, ra.-113.1 William N. Grover, rrrsitNY T LAW. ET Loma.lftwrar. Practices o* h, •_• '•vm Oforra P.toosto, LDd olo'votoa LatoNolf cht,:tty to , Lrf s.l e. imahre . from a`.r, 1 ala reciter prom - So. au ameataut Mroc: : Peze. Iper .1!„ • lloYd *-Webster, ' .- • In lover, More Pipe, Tin, Cop r, and Sheet 11111oWD/1114/.l,ith. iG ad k -, ,i,11. I "fitu:ll.lll..:ll4terl4.ln. 5/I(.ll.South • iiL trl.: Ci.4 - penter bop tea; Atettiodfio. Church. Z.A. t.. truerrna. • =Mfl=l= .hn. Cobb,, topractlet. MED:LINE:Ind SE MG EMT. tia.ll lu Mau:rune. Po, o 4 attva. wiltell Le mat fayartd. OF.F3 CE iuvtr Z. toette Sturle's:Eot el. IN _~` :t' Dr A. Gifford, tatti'se or,r F 13: Chardlef.e. Store.— o Flll be given to lisertiLg Teeth ou Gt4ld or ,aew oper..tl4na avarr.areled. Good -tt .10. Z. Dimpok, • . . itir.C.M6S:lOl% permanchtivlocatodlthsnel: ctnuar. P.. OFFICE 6,er SA e 2 ticutee • .1-ge F. - • pr.l linuworatl.le Cotlegcn nanneutly 19•=ted .0,-4 I:etsd. Ya. ht.,,hridy the Sl. E. - Mny let, 1557 'IT Liar. H•'Smii:h t , ' tinhoonce nod ofacc. ' .11he lizpt.g cbureb,C.North ode,) In Mont. 'O.4 4 .',cular Ettntl rn o ill he given to In.ert it.oro 4nd to filling decaTit u t teeth. Virgil. - ei Terrell, AIEDICIIr- (. 1 11E311(3A LA. VaruiShl.4 VITitiOIV ,ilrAwenre, en Toper., Jove/4-y. Irf t.ureirsi lertroterutz, Truwee, lb! ---and Agent for all of the mast impulaele.e.enf Mont e. FeJ • • •' .13handler At Jessup; - eictlla,g;Grueerlet 1 1 ('°Ijk' ku 1 44 Ar " eane, Stoerrep we, ioner, etc., j Post Blithers, J •• CrooDs.,,ic;rcerricri, CrOckery, Trarisenr.; etc.rornet.of Turnpike Moot end kunlic Ave J. Lyons & Son. ; ; j : XT MOODS, O mice:rt.:4. llardware. Crockery I,lndeque: and Skeet.'„Nfeede, Are.; al., caf{y Avvutte, Alkaprnoan, 4 4,rorte, TN I.) I ;.. LER ' s /N , tysa.ats Read & c 0.,: • , , [iP.T 6001.7,5, Omni; Mi:licit:ea. Patatta, 011 a a•ar,c, f.atotaitry, !roe. Owls, Watches. Saar. krfame+T. fie. Itr.clall9cfi....Mosractax. , '• r .,•' ...... .' ... .....wlth . . • • c r "sap: . — l3aldwin & Allen ' 4 ~.._....t. t.,41. lailut.. lafi.,aia,ia EauF, SAIL rei - k. Fl 4. ~1...: 7 - ' 61 1 . '! ... . . m ., L . 4:aadoaL, Ckwar road Timothy seed.: AL* +.:1:11h: . :: Ar 4 tt t :Ve:o 3 l l l2 l trAkOW J.ltlacil l olge . 'II . 44. 1 1) . I • • . • ' S.-Cobb t - • ec— ut the store. r'eee s nity occupied loci. Montrose, Pa. ! :• • . ••••• k:r•.: y aI • N ,WS OFFICE. *-- • qty isiunk4TEu tiEna4rAk,El4V-Al3- r Icac at the Mcyttrotir Book *MC • • - ; . • , A. N. • • , izter3r. . Au;:cll.lp.w.kNrrTatiir iiinoktyn: - 11; iitated F;t,' X . ;,t 44, . 1 syrap. batirs. nane-she wlll try :teik var bee with lII* 021041 M. *NC • • • . , . • • . • FMB NON! kflifili-AM LINCOLN,' AT COLUMBUS, QlllO., .4 THE .COPYRIGHT.ESSAY EXPLODED. .. -atter 1 §vereigiity Identical, with the Slave Trade. .. , . . Ii . Cott:mous, Ohio, Sept. Ifith; 1850: 1 , y ri..i i. Ohio i s iii rommotion, t From the Lakes . to i t.l:e _Ohio river, the Buckeye ,' , .tate is tossed the with • iloliticul-Tempest. - Your .reporter arrived here' last ftver,:ng and found the people sit the Buckeye 'Cm-d -ill, see=-.ingly one and all—politicians, Merchants, it salopkeepers, and mechanics, and the circle of gliesta 4 the hotels—inigaged in talking pplitiesi, fighting .tt ehattles of Dennison and Rininey overagain, dis tilissing copyright sovereignty s and .Congcessional in olrvention, and all eagerly expecting 'the coining of kbrOarn Lineoln who had overmatched the ,Little •Tant in lilineis, wrenched front his reluctant. lilts 'the: liistiannotnicement - of the Freeport doctrine, 'and 1 - .. • 'tit ally I:al . ..finished him before the people. Each men, On had tier sect; Lincoln, was giving his neighhor itilesolption of his tali form, , sttiltitig features, Cx pqessive tip.muli,•aliti 1..11...ny complexion. Ftfo-day;ii large number of his friends called on hint titiliis hotel, to see a Man of whom so witch but been i.. 44,1, to welcome lam to , the State, and • express their ioid oat ate to him for th e aid of his strong arm - in till-, , intird-fo-dait contest. Thee o'ekek was the hour at licit re ivas.annouireed to :.peak, but immediately • iifli.r dinner the eloWil-begau to collect akound s i the St4te House. ' . I - , flir.lldticoin began speaking 1: three o'clock, and. cp . iitinikil about two lkotte.L. Ile spoke with a :More (I/borate manner than dining we lU,n,,t, cawisaiiirs,, b ll:/, .I , i/11 much hupressivonci.s and great clearness's:it enilliciation, keepici . t.i a rul ' i, 3 , tionu voice throughout. On„heing inttodUced to the. au:lichee by the lion. (deli. 31. ralF.ons - , elb s tiriti.,ia of the Ilepithhean Stare Cetxtrai Committee, Mr. Ithicein sal; , gii.fott• err:if:Ns 4 , 1 ante .S7tfa: OF On to :- - 1 Can .noVfai to.-rti.eniber tact I appcni for the first time be4ireitaniturtietice it this lion- great State—an nudi r.iiii. tit.:t is texiustirmoi tit - hear such speakers as I.'o t it - iii;..ind Criase and :Wale and many other re , lioW.nial ire, ; and to nembering this, I feel that it willJbe t weii for 30 , i ; as'fur ore, that you should -not mite your expectai imiskto that standard to which you . 3t-cdild liao , . pis.ti jia;titied in raising them had one of . iii,:ide iii-toii-len thetiappeltred before. on. You r.ofild, i.eskips bemuly prepiering a flifappointukent iert4 - oulTselvcs, ar.,l ;,..s it consequence:4 your disap puifitnittit, morthic..Con to ins... l'hop i e, therefore, 3 - 01;„intilivoinrbrue. a ith very 4i:if:ler:de expectations; ani.i. , pi t imps, if you 1 , ill give inn tour itttention, I shall be ,thi i eto nterest s-,,ii i , i a moderate - degre e . ..4petwipg lierefor thq.first. tinic id my life, I have !fel some it hat en.t.arrassed fiCr a' tovie by way of i n trOduct ioa to .mv speech, but ihl.re been relieved .frotifi that einbari.,ssatimi by an introduction -which the Pit id.,`. 7 .4 etc:i.tiwt_l_liclfve_th e ha.ue. e.....trav4„..... in lifspqerorni ,, morntlig. in this paper 1 nave rea,cfian articie in whielf.among oilier statements - I firlhe followings . 4 ii debating OW Scnatt„,r Douglas during the medrrable contest of I.,st fall, Mr. Lilicoln declared in tßvor of tieg,r_o sutTrage, and athimptcd to defend dirAile. conception agairrst triii, Little {iiant." . I tikention tins flow; at the opening.of my - remarks, for the Limpose of making three ednituents upon it. TheAirat I have already ; -, iirmi,i',...l--=it furnishes tne an jr,trollnetory topic; the i recu.d is to show• . that the dentteman is mistaken ;.thirdly, to cive'him an opmktunity to cor:eCt it. .(A voice—.!`illat he won't do" . )• t S lu.,• ; ;:thij,iirei lilac"; in retard to , this matter being a misty - e:''l have fonr , l ti3i . d. it is not mitirel.v safe,.l when one•rs Misrepresented under leis very nose 'to 1 lilloak. the fuistepresentation to ern - uncontradicted.' I drertsforf!pitipose, here at the outset, not only to sr,:y , that.this i,i- 3 ' wire-re: resentation, but to show conclu , sift 4 ilispt is on; and you ',till bear with rac,'while I reap a duple Of extracts-from that very "rnomora hlr olebaif. with Judge Douglas last year, to which this ilewipaper refers. It was In -the first pitched - bi,talf; wllOirli SenatorTlonglas and myself had, at the , towth' , ..f Ottawa. I spoke, and the language was re p'ert;tl :rein me which I - will now read. flaying been pre%lonslw readingsitn extract -I continued as follows: " ...0..v. gefitlemem-I diin't want to read 'at any ,greaFer k:ingth, but thi i : is the frue.compiesiou.of all i haie ever said in regard to tine -institution of ale: , cry arid the black race. ,This Is the whale ofit, and anything that argues me into Lis'idea of perfect set criallrinl rblitical equality with the negt, o, is buys - riect - putislud - finnaetic arvingetfietit of words, by iivhicg a man can prune a horse chestnut to be a /1 , 11..35t-hut horse. I v.-ili say byre, while upon this'sul;- ,ict;t,ihnt'l have no purpose directly - or indirectly _tie Intervie ilith the institution of slafery in.the • taws wheel it bats.; I believe I hare 116 lawful right to do soli and I lave no idellatitip to do so. Ihi hive no I l i pvivitse 10 'introduce pOlitiCal 'and Ferman equality be. tavel tiiil• hite arid black races: - There is a phys kid tient:tee between the two, Which, in my judge ruent4vEr I irobably - fore i Cr for bid their- living, tugeth lin npOit the footing of rea feet equ'ality, and inasmuch. 'kis it pecolues a necessity that there; !litiL ' lii: a '.:111 'rereni)e, b=its wed as Judge D.ougiss, mn in favor of the ri ce to which I belong, Laying the superior PG 'S:him-4 I have never ntid anything to the contrary, but I,2lol4lth:ft notwithsta n ding tilt tlii_i, - there is no 1 rens* iu -rite world why the negro is not entitled to' I ail the 1,4 ,r /trill rights enumerated in the Declaration 'Of liiiiicpeildence, the right to life; • libetts, •anti the „ purst'pt of liap i ,;:w. k cs: 1 bold that he is as unich en titled:4n thes•^: as the white man. 'l, agree with Judge ' Doug, if,, he is 'Lonny equal in many reapects—cer. ' minitMoiLfri color, pcihaps not in - moral or iniellec , . nail , Itiotlythedts. , But in the right to - eat the bread, with4t ilAre of,tir,y 4 hody else, Which Ids own hand „„.., 1 sex he. 7..., :nit'ignai; and tht , ilF4:ll of Jr . sdur Potty -las l _diteill. flue! of every I,i:viv!.! loogy!.".. - . '- tilt ii,s,ubsequent occitsifti, wilco the reason for maki 41 3 .- fateutOtt like 'this !coined, I said.: , - " . W.lfita I waS lit the hotel to•ilav, au elderly gcn tienini\ c-Piedupcn me lo.kuow ti Nether' l.was really in litv.Or of Producing a perreet .eqUality bftween .the , Heii .43 3 ., u pd whi te - p - eople:, While I had .1...0t prLF :FOeckito It Sz•olf on th.iscoccasion fo s t ay inueltiad that suijem, yft as the question was asked.tne I thought I ,nould ofisupy - perhapativentlindes hisitying'ionie thingtlu fitgard to it. • I - will say then' that I tun hot, • !nor etOr liaVO bOutitilfivOr oil Winging about in any , Way itie social and political' etpiality of the -white and b4leb. ,; :i'aveg—it:at I Ant not nor ever Lave been in fliv'eu- off Waking. voters or jaitora orpegtoeS, nor of geilifilisigilton to hold • 011iee, or intertnarry 'with wititeatexple ; and I will say in addition to this that , ' therepi, a Sillysical difference' betiteen the white and black ainevi.which I believe will forever forbid 'the: , • ~, - two r.fees ving: together op teruni!, of so'Cittland Po natal ifm” Irv.: Arid' insist; as they cannot so live,- V i , , ,liii 1114 de _ reniain..togethee there . muit be ; the Vitt, itiq.i of superior and Wielder, and I,- as much - as atielothir Inc-n ate in favor ed 46415 the -superior po,:it,,ido ahl•sizne;i it; the widm race. ' . l city upon this occilsi6n Ptio nut peretive [ that I:lee:Ruse -the white . , man is!tolMeetite superior-NialtiOn; die negro, should be deified 4 , verythitig; Ido not Understand that be- I, cause i db'bet,,Watztm negro, woman for a kare I mint ticeizssarily Want - her for* a itiife..' 117 under- • St:ending; is that I can just let hey . alone.' . 1 am 'nor/ iin my, littlol yeisi,atiti I eertai Is never leave had a Iblackttromin - Air , cithet a 144 . 0t... it wili,-, So . it LI sectinsio the ; quite possible for tz . to geialong with:- out inakifig Other slaves. or ; w yes of , negnpes. I - will add oVtitis that - I have`neve ,ileen to knew!- 'edge 4ilitp;divontair, or eltdd, w e was.:in• favor, of introdi.4 ' a perfect equality, . „mai and politlettl, 1, lietweip. ~ gives and *bite situ . .1 I recollect of but - One di i n isliediastance that' ever s - heard 'of so ' frepetitlyfiti to tip tititisti, edsaf i I ctiirredlawayt.—aini, i t thltt is ille.-0, , :e of.Jodge DoughM'a,•olil friend;---fled. 14chaii Nijohuson. I w4l4cisoidd -to the,renarits , . ttaie'-ina4 4 , - (for I am not going to - enter atlarge union tliiti:pubjeet,) that I tiave neiret:' bs - td• - the's lean apiiorolkinslop that./ or any frifOiiigitwoi2Wparry- tie. - pots gibstpo iritsioolay to ittlep.tlat*fratal is; : but II Jades 90A la hill itien 4 . l 4 l .,MUSP- bt,i, P#4 • •.•. - 2 f, lONTRUSE, PA. Of 3ivo:sl 80.2. .Fiutver danein tie' A. 017. c f, fn ytte2,.; j .. i- • a 111=111Effiffla ...i7t4w,,..-..,..xit-, OF rim 61 7:0:Emn6:p '` AI appOliensieni {list .to keep.tliem front pledge that I will t . ofilits State,. w h iel people with itegroe. There g niy friend. Upon former oc . • tO . ..re hick this netri i ' [laughter] has 'tirliw not only pereert-e:a teat rat ,tot at an. suffrage; but Om 11 substantially,and . ci, it.: ,llitving 'show ,worti 3 Of. coin:tient .1 . this :: that I-pritsun t itoiteSt:raii triftli-1. great mistake,"] an obligCd to me For fit portunity to• corre made; before it has icon call idina liai. The giant himself tel..] I have seen . it were otherwise ti - subject of the negro be somewhat relieve sively imthat subjec therefore,•wijl'out It on this suliject: , The-American people, on the first day ofJanuarv, 1654; found the•Afi can slave trade prohibited by 'a law of COn * gl•tais. it a majority of the States of this. Union,they fisund A Heim slavery, orttny-other sort. of, slavery, prohibitco . ,by, htate constitutions. They, afsh fitted a law exit ing, supposed to be Valid, by which slavery was el eluded front talmost all the ter ritory the tinned Sta es then owned.. This was the' condition of the con try, with reference..tO the in stitution of shivery, cat the first. of .Intinary, 18d4. A few date niter that a bill was introduced' into Con gress which, ran tlir ugh :its regular course: itt life two brunches of the 'atioual Legislature, and finally passed imo a law in t to mouth of May, by 'which the act ciftotigreles propbiting slavery front, going into the - NM-similes of the Crafted State's was repealed.--.: In Connection witlit.l a law itself; and, intact ,in the terms of the law, the then . exiSting prohibition nits not only repealed, bit there was a .deeiaration of a. purpose on the part .f . congre..4.s never there:dim: tO exercise arty power t tat 'they tnight ha't'e,, real or supposed, to prohibi .the exams:oW. or ..aprearl of lacerv. This• was a cry great change; :for the law•-' • - thus repealed ivak.ur mare. than Entrry,jears: narra-i ing. Following Laphi y egou the IieSIS of this action oft.7ollgtes.s, a doosid of the Supreme Coati is made, by which it is decliir, that Congress, if it desires to prohibit the spread of slavery into 'the Territosies, has it, constitutional ..t.er td do so:- Not only so, but that dceision .i... s down principles, which, ii pai , hed to their logica conclusion—l say:push e d to theirlogical conclusio , would dcside.,,exPlicitly that the constitutions of Al e free States, forbidding slav ery, are themselves in - constitutional. Siirk mei I do sot say.theAdges snit this ; rai let no Man say that • I.afrirm the Judges ti, d these sorbs; 1,5 . t I only say . it istny opinion that ; hat tile; did say ; if pressed to its logical cOnelusion . will inevitt:Rly result_ thus. [(Nies of "good!. goo. : 11 ...„1, : -. --- . . . ILook:, :t. at these tit' )g,1,. the; ;:einti.iieati party; a.? I Onders_tatutits, prhiei des mid policy, heliet.e that' there i s great danger'of die. institution of slavery be ing. spread out and' extended, until it is . ultimately made alike ;awful in al the Stattesao this Union; so l'idlieving, to prevent- that incidental and Ultimate consummation, is•the *real and chief Purpose ol .the Republican organizativi. • 1 say -"chief rut l ick" of the 'Republican . organization;. tor it is- certainly true that if the nationaClio - se shall fall into the hands of the Republicans, they , ill have' Mamma to' all the anber.ioadaers-otanato' lal housekeeoinin i t ...ww.,s-5... 7 ~. tt.w. •! 'tuts emet 1111 , 3`r at purpose of tile itepub.funn party:is eminently con. orvative. It proposes nothing save and except to re tote this got - eminent to its original tune,; in regat. I to.. this ,eletnent of. slavery, and there to maim.' it ; looking'- for fio further change, in-retest:n.6o t, it,:jlari that which the origi nal framers of the got ntheta themselves : expected and looked fotward to,. ' ~, _ - The:chief danger to-this purpose Of the. neptitili / _Can parry is not just nsr the revival - of the African slave trade, or the rata a..e of a .con greaf q,a le .d ... s l ave code, or the teciarilig.Of's new, second Dyed ,Secitt derision, making Aar , ry lawful in all the States: These , ars. not pressing its just now. The}' are not, quite ready, yet. Ili . authors of these - :measure: knew-that we are too s tong, for them; bntthey will Le ,welt us in due timetuul• we. • Will. be grappling - frith them hand to hand iftheY'are not-now - headed off„! 'I hey arc not now he chief danger to:: the pur pose of the Republican - rgadazition.; hut the\ most imminent danger that n w threatetis that pwrpoe, is alai insidious Douglas Opular Sovereignty ; This is the tninCr.and sapper.. Vhile if does not propose to revive the African star. code; noi'to.malce a sec :is prepating us for th these ultiumie enemies come on, anti the word ranee shall be given., Sovereignty—for there under:Stand it, hetwehn popular Sovereignty: . . • 1 , .. I believe there-is a ermine 'popular stmereignty. ' I thine a dsfinition of a - genuine pophlar sovereignty, in the abstract,' wouhl . e about this—that: eiteli• limn =half do precisely as lt pleases with 'hitdsolf, and with. all those 'things w lch eizlusively 'content hini. ':- Applied to governMent, this principle would.be; that ha general government s talldo all those things Which pertain to it, and all 11. i. local governments ;shall dO i ~. precisely as they pleaselitt respect' to•thosei . matters which 'exclusively colleen/ theta. .I tindeaud that this government of the Unital- States, tinder Which ' we live, is based upon this principle, and I lam nsis nnderStood if it is suPpistid that I lim'c any war to make upon' that principlr. . Now, - what is Judge :oughts's Popular Sovereign : . ty ? It is, as a principle, no other than that., if one man chooses to malt a elate of nnother malt, neithei - that other man or anyfmy else has n-right to object.' .(Cheers and laUghter.). Applied in government,. as l a .h e seeks:to apply it, it 10 this—.if, in w new iterritory" into, which a few people re beginning to enter 'for the purpose of making t cir linmei, duty choose - to itlierexclude slavery fr ni their linnts,-or to estabi., lb-h it there, however on . or. the 'other may affect the PersOtts tube enslar 4.1, or the infinitely; greater number of persons who are afterward to inhalyt that tert.iinyy,-or the other members-of the families 'of conintunitics; of which !they arc bul itti. ' incipient member, or the general head of the familY of . States _ ' as parent of •all7—Lowe:er their action. Indy nffect. one or the other of the, , the:els no power'Pr right to intetfere. Thetis D uile .s's f r eptdur Sutleragnty. l i t . • applied.- • - He has-a good deal cr trouble with. hisgopulim Soveteignty.. His explanations explanatory of ex ilatiatioris explained aie irkerniinahle (laughterP The most lem,rthy and, eis I suppose,- (be Most pia turcly. considered of his 011,3"6 trip* Of 'exPlanations,t is his great csiey.; iu ilarpees -Magazine (laughter). I' will not attempt to on* upon. any very thorough, investigatitut of his argument; as there made and pre. seated. I will nevertheless occupy a good i portitni Of your thae'here iu desiring younittention, to ..cer -1 tali points in it.- Ruch of you as.may'have read thiS ... document, will have ierceived that the - Judile t earlY . in the document quotes from two*persous as; belong-4, lug to the Republican party. without naming thent,r bat who - cad he readily recognized as being Gover4 nor Sewers:lir hlew. ypri and myself. It 'ls true;. ' that exactly fifteen months ago this day, I bil , lieve, I; teethe first time expressed a sentiment' upon this; sinijedt, and iniueit a mantlei that it should get into, Mint; that the public might see it beybod the , circle'. "of my hewers;. and my expression of it. at that. time: is the 'quotation of . .it that; Judge- ' Douglas ; makes.; ife has not. made the quotation with accuracy, but: . justice tO'him requires /tie to say that it is sulticient-.:. ly accurate not to change its sense..; The - sense of hat quotation condehsed 1.1) thk.--1 that thisslavery - elemeul is a durable element of dia.; cord among use and thane shall probably-ant...have; perfeetpeece in thiaeountrY. with it until it 'either' toasters the free principle in our •goventment or is' s 6 far mashed-4 -1 1 the (tee prier/pie es forthe . pal. lie mind to rest ii its tiellef -that. It is going to tits ; end::: Tina sentiment, 'which I stow express in this: way, was at xta great • disttunce . of time, . Ocala/J:1. ini different language , and..ivonnectitM With lame . 01- , lateral Idctit expressed . by povernetifle:Ward.i . *lnd a Douglas tots ' been so ainclf annoy** ' by the es si sion of that sentiment dial he has itxtostantli ; I. , - -; Here; In almost all his speech** since it w as. pt 4,i been referring to it. I find he . alhided to 4 in_ A liiii; speech here; as well us hittise cap ' eseif . ,(laughi , , 4 ter)..4 dottot,noW fhlteezPoe Ail kr-il C e. t u .v" .J . of tasking 4 . 4llatimg.gytringgeot so 'show taut wis Kerr sigtisikiits ispromice 0 chit leidoisirtie . in' ; - ,4)z : © .igaptl-..• ..0...4i.,k4+. :;,:.4.[([A;i*gi. NTROSE 'PA., THURSDAY 'OOTO T hey !night, if there. were 'no ,irtsv; it,' . I kir°. !tin' Feleinn the vet) , last nand by the law 1 fortlids the marrying .qf white • . . ~.you hive briefly !what .1 hive, lions, 'said — upon' the ,subject sper, to the.eiten4 sof its. ability tho public attention. In it lon a probability that in that 'con time say I has in Tatriir if negro hsoluto 'proof . that Mice—once ceexpres,ilr,—.Pdtielicreil agRIM 'yoll • this; there s reinains lint a n that newspaper 'article. It the editbr of that (leper is an ing man, [a voice -=.-,4 that's a, that lie 'a ill ho very greatly' Idling him thus ,early an op. thO inismireseniation he ,has .un so long . l ha titudicions people [Laughter and applatie.} • ias.heen here, reeently.• [Laugh. brill report of his speech. , If ; Ipi , crisant tO nut tOtrocluce' the' isu topiO.6or discussion, I plight by the fact that he dealt exclu while ho was hero. I shall. itation.Cr. diffidence, enter up trade, nor to pa.;S n slake /.nd Dred Six)tt h onslaugbt and charge . when ththeyahall be` ready to Foft (4111pataitor - th4to 'to say this DOpttlai Popular 3 II broad distincton, 11.9 it that ankle and a genuirie other icirdi4'7 'shall not atop to 'say 'elf that 'might properly be said ;upon . this-peitit I t but - I Only • ask year attention to it for the putpose , ' of making one or, two pointanpon it. -. • ' ' ' ' .. • ' * If you will read the copy-44 essay;e you will die-. cover that Judge Douglas liiinselflaYs that a Contra: versy between the American Chlolies .and• the gov:- moment Ufflreat Thitaili begibron;theslareryl tines , Lion in 1698, and continued from tbat tine until' the Revolution . ; and while he'did not say str; - We all knowi•that it has continued with rPore or lest vie-.lenee - ever sine's} the 'ltevoliition. l -'' .1 t '' Then wo 'need not appeal to histlry - , to the derlaw ; aliens of. the framers of .the goreinment, lint wi lama fretriJndge Douglak Itimsetftbat silvery-beim to bean erenient of discord amoag, the white Owl* of this•country as far lack ha 1699,l or one Inefdred• .and sixty Years ago, .or five. generatinnatof>uhM— coutiting thirty years to me generation. :tow it would.seem to rue that it might hiwo occurred to Judge Douglas, Or anybOly whole , Waal IliSzat... tention•to these facts, that there w, s ibmothin,, ,, ' iii the nature of tharlthing, Slavery, se !what - durablefor mischief and discord.' [Laugh:all] 1 Theta tea anitlito,l,o44, I 4weit C. to utpie in regard to this mu t ter, before I leave. itFrom the adoption of the Constitution down to 1020 is .. he precise, pe riod of our history when ire hal couipamtive . peace . upon this iptestion—the prechk pen . cid of time .Ulten' we came nearer to baring Peine alaMt it that at any other time of that entire one hundred lint six ty.Years in which he says it began, or cif the iglit'y yeni,S of our own -Constitution. . Their P. woulcil be wohlti_Out while to stop tipd etahiiiie into the probable rehson of our corning nearer 'to intving peace !then, thin at any othevtittie. ,This Was the Oreelselperioil of Ono .1 ltrwl - ticii our fathera adopted, and duri ig which;they.. followed a policy restricting the 'spread of slavery; - and the whole . Union was acquie4cing in it. ';,frltc. - whole country - loosed forward to the **inlet° eaten- don of the institution. It was when !a policy 'ltail been adapted and tyas - prevailing, whiehled all just mid righb s ous-ininded men to suppose Piet this ttl . i.i gradeally'comingto an end, and. that iyill-right-riiind , ed men might he quietabout it, watching it arricjex pired. ' I think Judge Donglasmightlikve pemeived that, rim, and whether he did or not, irisworth,(the attention of fitir-minded men'here i and ' eltervbere; to consider whether that Is not the, titrth , clf the ease...— If he had looked nt these tive . faets, thal. this 'nuttier : has been an elentent of discord dot one htindred nail ;' 'sixty years :among this pecolft,. and tint else .cinii. comparative peace we:have and about •tft was when Mat inr}tny yirai, sashed 1,, chi, now wars upon, be might then; pet karat have haen. brought to a More just apprecitiiion of I what -I laid fificen months ago—that " a louse divided igmaisst itself cannotstand."l believe that tiledgovernment cannot endure.pertutmently half slao and half I ff i ee 4,... , I die trot. expect the. house -to fall. I' (11 not expect, the _Union to dissolve ; but. I expect it 14 - 111'CeaSel to be divided. It will tivreitie alione thiug or nil the other. Either the opponents of slavery Ind arrest. i lie further spread °fit, and place it where. the 'p'ul. 'tic mend will rest intthe belief that it. is In Time cotirsci -ofilltiinate extinctioit ' • or its advocatesiwill push!. it forvrard, Until it shalt become alike .lawfdl in' all Gie Sate=,-old as well as new, north as Well as ,sont-lbr That or:natty rentiment at- titattinieC In connection with it, r6id, " we are" now fitr into Cs e fifth tear disco a policy was inaugurated' with the , avowed Ufa, jeer rind confident promire'ofpuning an end to slai ery agitation. Under the operation, 'of the policy, •that agitation has not only not ceased, but base cps- I stank::: augmented." -I now say to you note that 'we ;ire Advanced still.fartlier into the sixti.year since that policy of Jo-hge Donglar—that Kolulat Sower eigiity of his,'fiu: quieeng the ..Lavery-to evades—trio the national-policy. 'Fitteen niontly - more have been added since. I tittered that seutinittot,jand 1.-eialt TriTherliiiititteen triontniallealts-maehilinaortTan tra"?..... ed niy- words. j" Good, good! 'that's ttr,a truth!"] • While I am !wee upon this subject, I je.rinnot but - expressairatitude that this wee view of this' element - of disecird antottat us—as I believe it i..+l---la attract ing mare and more attention. Ido not believe-Gov ornot Seward tittered that sentiment bebbuse I: had done so before, lint beeausele reflectrimpon this subject, and saw .the truth,Aolit it., be lieve because Gov. SeWard or I utter'ed it, 'that Mr. ' Hickman of Pennsylvania, in different languag,e, since that time, has declared hit belief in the utter antngonism•whicii exists between -the pidireiples of liheatrand shivery. Ton see we are nniiiiplying.— (ApPlause and laughter.) Now while 'I ain speakihg. of Hickman, let me say,. I. know but littletabout him, I have never teen him, rind know scat-eel/ anything about the luau; but I will . say this Much tit" hint—of - all the "anti-Lecompton Democracy's that have-'been biounlit to my notice, he alteke has their le, genuine ti&g. And`itow, without endorsing anytliing else he - hid: raid, I iviii‘ark this audience In give t ree cheers for lin:kin:oh [The audience responded ith three rousing cheers for Hickman.] ' - • Another point in ihkeopyright essay • I?) ,which I' would as your attention, is rather a feature to be extruet'ed from the whole thing,than Weil any ex press declaration of-it it any - poiat. It is ;a. general feiture of that document,.and, indeed, of all of.ltidge D nglas's discussions of this question , that the it erri :to ies of the Unitetigtates and the States bf this Un it) tare exactli'alike--'-that there is no difeerenee be - t eeil them at all,' that the Constituticimitipplies to th territories precisely as it does to tbel States,— ar‘d : , that the. United States- Governm bil ent, dell-the -COnstitutiotr, may hot doin a State what t may not do in a - tertitory, and what it must do in -State, it must do in a territory. - Gentlemen , •Ia abet a :. trim . view of the ease ?' Itis necessary- for this Squatter , . :lover eignty,lbut is it true? . • - -Let IN consider. What does it depend anon; It tliTentla altogether upon the propositiorf that the. St lea must, without the interferenee,of' tile general golvettiment, do ail those thinga that perttrin riv/m , rivals/ to themselves—that are - local in their'natine,_ that haverio connection with the geti I, : govern ; .tErnt. After Judge - Douglas. httr establ bed this proposition, which nobody dispute's or er :r has dia.' pined, he proceeds tn. assume, without Flroving it, that slavery is one of those little; uniroporthht t trivial matters,-whielt are- of just about f l .4 mlhh come.. quence as the question would be to me.: whether - my neighbor shoulttraisehorned cattle orphans tobaCco, (lattener); that Glare i t s no moral questionrabout it,- but that it is altogetherit Matter of dollarspnd gents; that when.a.new territory' is opened -for ittleinent, e. firstth man who g oes ;Into It May.. plan there 'a thing, which, like the panailit thistle, or Erne other ottrto r e pests of the soil, cannot be, dug o it. by the otillions'of men whtowill come themstfler;lthst 'it Is One of those little things that is no trivial • in ifs na tdre that it has nu ellect uportnnybodjaa+ the tear . rneia who first plant it - upon the. sail i' • that iit. is Pot a . thing which, in any' way affects:the family of connini : . obies eomposing.tbeseStatna nor- 'any *47_ entian :gers the general government. Judge Dpugliis ig. notes altogether the very-well known facti that we ,haverievee had'a serious menace to our tallitical ex istenee,: except iUrsprang from this thing ovhicli he 'chooses to regard as only upon a par with onions fultf rtaxpmes. [Laughter.] I ..'--- - -1., - Turn it, and cohtemplate it in another- vew... Ile says, that according to his Popular Sovereinty,:the general , :overnment may give to the territories, gov-, tenors, Judges, inarsluda, iteeretariel, and - they must lint touch upon this' , other, ;question. Why t- The question of who shall be governor of a territory for .a .year or two, And pass away, without his track being lett noon the-soil; or an..act which s he did, fdr good or for evil being left behind, is 'a question. till vast nit: tional magnitude.. It is so.inuel opposat.An ;its nu dire- ualocclity; that the nation itself input decide it t. whilethia othermatter of planting sky p.a.. upon'a eolf----a thing Which once- planted . cannot . .he eradl.' cased by ,the succeeding millions ilio here' as much right . there as the first cent:twat, if er4icated n t with eat Infiniti difficulty, - and ;a , long itniggl ' e iatje the power to'eradicate that, bit to Proldblt t;':ls one e t z of those little, Local, -trivial things that - - to nation ought'itot to say.a word - about ; that it Wee , nobody , save the few - meat who ire there.. . - 1 . - . Take these two tidings and considerthetii !together, { 3 .pr6etit the question of planting a 'State with - the In stitution of slavery by tbeadde of a questidn.of who shall be Governor- of /Unitas for's year or ',tiro,. and is there arnan here,—is there a 1?1 , a1i4/1:1 earth, 'who would cwt say, that time Goiernor question it{ the little one, and the slavery question is :ther'greaCone Y-- 1 atiy.ao7 bottestllentocrat r if the small, thical, and • the trivial and temporary question is not, *lid shall be Griveinciil: While the durable, the itupo'riant.,and the mischievous:one ilk Shall thitOttil - int , 04 11 teti With slavery.?,:- •- ~ -. i -- • : . - • I ~• - • . - Thia VI an:ides,. I suppose, which his' krises - in' judge Douglas' mind from Ids 'pet aliaistniktiiie..j ; suppose the Institution otslavery'ro.4ll' bolus-so Am him:., lie lase put xrp . by *Ulm that i WO upon Ms_ book would hurl ilm bAs a lash upon 4371 . 40 else'. back 400. 40i Mut iiimi. : Itiveitsq -./10 ) -04 : 0 • . . build, of the ni , e, end einisegifentY 'he leolis upon the nuttier of 8 avery in this. unlmPortentlight_ • en audnm'Don as 'ought, to•remettiber then he is an t deavormg to .ree this policy upon the American people that wh le.he is put, up in that • irsiy a„ good many other pc p)c.are - not., lie ought , to . qmembCr that there was .nce in -this. country, w map bj..the vume of Thom: Jefferson ; suppo.4edto be a Derma.: oat •13 t t i• , . .. iterat—a mair w tele principles -. and policy are ;tot very 'prevalent arno . t Dernocratito-day, it is true; - but. that man cilium' take - etuctliih is rvifiwfortt!o insi t itificance" of th eleineei of slavery - illicit* Our TriCtid . Judge Douglas oes. In contemplation of this thing, we all know he was led to cxelaini, "I tremble for My countrywh n I retie mbar that God hi just!" 'We know how be ki ked upon it when.he thus cxprdssed himself._ ' met , ' wagalatiger to 'this conatrY--danger 1 1 i l l of the avenginn: - iisticeofGod in that little uninipor'7,l taunt Populaf SO - •ereignty - question.ofJudge Douglas,. Ile:supposed th .re was a question of sod's 'eternal . justice wraliped up iiithe (mid:Lying:of; any: race of men, or nay. um 1, and thattintse. who did so braved die arm of Joh vela—that when a nation thus dared the, lmighty c; Cry . friend of thatnatipn 'hail cause -to, dread Ilia iv th. Choose . ye. between Jefferson and. Douglas as o what is the true view Of- this clei, meat amongst u . [Applause:l - ' -- There is tined er little difficulty about .this. matter!! of treating the Territories and States alike in all' things, to which I ask Your attention, 'init.! shall, leave this hmne of the ease... If there •is no, differ;, ence bet Ween th in, - why not snake the TenitOrie.4 • States at Once? , - What is the reason that. Kainias . was not :fit too lie into the Union when ,it was or ganized idtett: T Tritory, in Judge Douglas's' view ct ; hCan any of you telt• tiny reason why . Tit, should not_ ave T ;Union onle nto to ion at:once ?.They are fit, as: he chinks, - - de ide upouthe slavery* . question—thel 13 largest' and mos important - with which, they could!' rlssibly„,:de I—i't ata could_ they do by .coming into; the Union that ey are notfit to do,- - according ' to', his view, by atalng oat of it? .Oh, they are not..fitl to sit in Concres amt decide upon, the rites of post-1, a ge,,ur gnostical. .of ad.valorem or specific! dudes on , foreigil goods, or lire oak - ,timber .contracts (laugh'; ter); theftwe no 'fit to decide these. vastly . import ant mottos,: whi here natipealle their Import,.birtil [lief are fit, "fro u the jutnp," hi decide this little' negro questio: But, gentleman, the ease .. is tool; platn; -I occupy too much - time e, A jithis head, ;acid .111 mini on.' • I' i '' • Near the close of the copy-essay, - ssay, the Judge,i, I think; comes - very near kicking his ownfat into the ' 4,...-,i. ; „s; " -ahe .... ....... these remarks, th t I would read front that - article, but I now Wier' that I'will: ' - ' ' • .- - - ," This expositi n of the history•of these measures,: w i t shoirs•conClnsivel ; that the authors of the CoMmo -mise 3leasures lafie, and of .the Kansas7Nebraslia act of I its 4, as wll as the mea,hers of ilia...Conti-. / Dental Congresse 1774, and the fontaleMef our sys.- t-ni of governue it subsequent to the Revolution, regarded the peo; le of the Territories and Colonies as political cozhati nitica which were entitled - to a free and exclusive pew er of legislation hetheir proviSional legislatinies, wher - 3 theinrepre.seneathin could alone be preserved, in all, cases of taxation null Internal „.... . ; polity. ;When . the Jade saw- that Meting in the, word "'slavery”- would Contradict his -own.. history; he put in whet- be new .. would 'Pass. as . ...synonytnous ' with it: . "intorno - polity." , Whenever" . we findi that ill pre of his.sp hes, the substitute is useilin, this manner; Mid I •.n tell you the. reason. It .would be cunt it too balffn cunt to say . Slavery, but. "in-_ ternal polity' is a, . - neral phrase, whit h would pass'. in -some quarters; ml which he hopes will pass with the s reading Comm nity for the same thing: ; - - . - "This right per ins to.tbe people'colleetirelv, as, the and peaceful community- - and: not in the isoiatenthan4 I uma.a•sh.. ~...;1•-•••••••"...;t...t0,4' P domain in, 'elation of the law, . It. can. only be exerelS - ed whet 'Caere are inhabitants sufficient to - constitute a gov roment,• and capable of perform ing iki various fun .tioitsnial dittic,,a fact to be ascer tained and demsni tied ,by",•-l- T 6 - Itc.r.! do yow i think ?- Judge Douglas sa, a, "by Congrei!..!" fLatighter.l - " Whether the towhee: Anil be fixed at ten,-..tif. • feem.or twenty th.usandirthabitturs does not :affect the.principle.•,-,'; • 4-... ~. • • ^ '_, ~ - Now•I have onl a few;dontmeitls to Make. 'Pop{ ular - Sovereiglity, ' his own arias, does not pertain to the few persons alai Wander upith the public do main in - riolatioa f law. We hive his words for that. When it do spe:rtain to them, is when they are sufficient to he formed into an , -ganized political community, aqd h fixes the niinimum; :for that - at 10,000, and the tit innint it 20,000: :-.Now . I would .like to knew •what is to be done with the' 9,000? Are they - all to b treated, yarn:4ll , 3y are large enough to be orgii iced Into a: political. community, as wanderers upon t c public Lind it.f.violviticmpf lawl , And if so treated d'ilriven out, at, what 'point _of time, would • there ever' be ten thousand?. (Great laughter.) 'lf they; ere not driven out;lit - r entained there as tresnassersmpon - the putilie land in violation of the law, can they establish slavery theref. :No,' -1* the Judge says popular sovereignty don't pertain to then. Can tai:i exclude-it then? No, pope-, by sovereignty- douN pertain to. them then. -I would like to-know, itithell case covered by the'EsSay • what -condition the'people of the- Territory are in- before they reach thenundier of ten thousand'? ' - ' Milt the main point I wish to ask , attention to is, that the.quo,ition as, to when 1.11.:y shall have reached a.Sufficient number.to be formed into a regular or- ' J..ranized counnunity,js to be decided " by Congress." udge Dpuglas Says so. Well, gentlemen,- that is aboutall we want. • [here some one in than crcrwd• made it:remark inaudible totfie reporter; whereupon. Mr. L. continued ? ];.No, that is .all the' Southerners want. That. is what all 'those' ivIM .ire for slaverY want. ; ; .Tlitly.domot want Congress to prohibit Slav ery front miniiag itit'e 'new territoties,- and they -do not want Popular Soverelgray to hinder It; "nod; at Congresses to say ikon theyare ready to, be organ ized, all-that; the Southlnts, to do is•to 'get - - COugt - ,' vas , 1 4 • 1. to _Mild off. • - ~, - - . ..... Let Congress hold of until they are ready to-head pitted as a State, luid,,the Sod - 0i has all it Wants. in asking shivery into tusirplantinglt in all the territti • ries that wc.now hare; or - .hereafter may. have. In • a woid, the whole thing,--at a dash of the pen, is at • brat put in the power of Congresa-; for if they do not have this popular sovereignty until Corigr:3,sa organ izes them, Insk if at last it does not Como - from Con gress.? If,-at last, it _amoebas to anything - at all, ;your reflection it to ,hein.' 1 submit this;.mther; for your reflection than for continent. After all that- is, said,-at last by a dash of the pen cierything that hair - gone before is •totelatie s and ho puts the ' , whole` quell.' thin under the dintred of Congress. .After -fighting more than three hours, if you undertake,to read it, he at last places thelw . lible matter under he-control :of that power widelt, he had been contending against,' and arrives'itt A - result directly*contrarY - to what lie' had - been , laboring ':'to do.. Ile at last fdaves the. . whole Matter le trio - Control of Congress. .' - There are,twe main objects, as I understand it,: Of this Barper's Magazine molly.' One was to. show, 7 11 * possible, that the men of our .revolutionary times were in fscot of hisPoricd* sovereignty ; • and the other-.was to !Mow tlet-,tuo Dred Ikiott decision had net-entirely scpiefehe eatthis popular sovereignty,. , . . . . .. 1 dO tint propose, fu e,gard to this argument : drawn from Oe history of ruler times,;toenter Into a de- i r tailed examination . o the historical - statements , hes has Made.- I barl a c impressicie that they arc hum-- curate in a . great instances, 'Sometimes in pos. Rive statements; bUt.-iery Much more inaccurate by the-suppression of otittements' that really belong 'to tit e librtory.,: But I Ale net propos . a toeferm that this .isso to any very peat exteat ; or to enter : ,into-a very minute mediating Of les: .historicul statements. I avoid doings° oboe thleptinciple=tbat If it 'ware linportant for me le pass out.-of this loth, the -least period of time pots: , and imuno to that fence Mad - saw by Mealcalatise f my. known strength and, agil-; icy that I could char: tat it bivund, it would:be folly for me to snap ani. c' rudder - whither' I would not crawl through ash' (Laughter.) -t3o I Ivey of the s ' y whole libtot'Yy.Claltalital le-hie .csellY,-Where he ap: deavoredto link,the *, ere of the rovolmion 10.4),(4)47- lar sovereignty. -- I.tct ly 'requires ;art - ePit to leap out of W'-a futgle.Go rid to-he entirely-euemewfid.l - you read itpver ye vilified tiret be•tpiotea here:. and there from d • tilstftbe revOlu,ilooarytitualk, . tending tMshow Oust. he pecipliot.the, colonies Were desirous of - regulaiiu ' their" own:: concerns In -their Own way, that their tishGovernmeht - should skit in , terfere; theta" mt. ~ &v . ...struggled .'frith' the British .Government ire permilted to, eschackt* the- African sfave trade;, pot directly,, to be., permitteak to extludelt, hatilr.ee hi! taiitionatilliCient to' la; courage and Ovetroy t. hem these:vend - many esingi 'of We - oO;Kjudge , glis argues tit hey_were in fievorof the people -par ownterritailes ext r i aideviryJP they Wan * ,tt, doing Just as,ill .plumed Rion the time they uporhtOrharr. ' Now, i bovinv bk - bitory aillhoiffir of AID' . , . F. • IMEI SEEM MIEN iilM ~, . ~~{ r.,,difi Q0 1- a 9 1 9 R 1859. , •-: , • h• • . . . I . . . . ~. ... argumeet. there natty be that Isimend and ace rate ; or unaormd and inaccurate, if. we eon find out /what .these men didthetirSelves do noon' this very qu4stion .6f-el:leery In I the. tOritoricy%*doel it not mil the wttole thing? .If, after all this labor and effort go. show :ill/1!•, the men of the revolution were in talor of his popular sdvereigitty:aud his mode of detaini With slavery in tifelterriteriel, we can "show that, inese very men took ktild:of that subjeci;:and dealt !with ' it, we can decide for !ourselves.: It is not romat-' ter of argument or infeience,. but vii know whethhey thought about it: •, -, ' - :• - '. •d 4 . ' It-is precisely upon' that part of the. history. of the 'country,-that. one iniportant omission, is- mrsl4 by :Judge Douglas.. 'Me selects part. of the hiSto • of 'the United States . uptin,lhe subject .of shivery, fend treats it as the whole ;'omitting hem his historical sketch &Ito. legislation:of Congress; in regard tot the adMission Of - Missouri, by which the llissouri Com promise was established, and.slevery excluded from 13. country half as laige . as the present United' States.' AN this is left,ont of-hid hititory,itnil, : in no wise; _al luded•tmhy:hisn, so far as I remember, save once,. .wheithe makes it remark, that upon his prinelphithe. Supreme Caint Were Matiottzed 'to pronomice alde. 'cision that the net called the Missouri ComprOmise was unconstitutional. 'All that history bas-been !left out. - Rut' this part of thohistory of the country 'was jot-made by the men of the Revolution. i . ' There ,Was another' part -'of our - political history shade by, eery men who: were the actors liEthe Ilevolution, uhicti has taken tlie haute of the -Ordi -nance of 'B7. ' Let me bring :thathisiory to-youriat. tendert., In 1784,4 believe, this'serneltr....lefferrim • drew up am ordinance : for the i goyernruent of the 'century noon which - we now shied ;or rather a frignie ..or draft of nn ;ordinance for the gOvCrnment of this . country ; .here ire Ohio; Our neighborsin Indiana;, wa who live in Illinois ; our neighboqlKlV6consie 4n'd Michigan. 'lnthat ordinanceidrawn up not onlytfor the governmont of - that territory,' but for the terrltm 'ries south of the Ohictßiver. Mr..fefferson expr433-. -Iv provided fOr the - Prohibition of ;slavery, Judge - Douglas say.s, and perhaps in right, that that - protis. - iiin was lost front that ordinance, -• I !believe that; is tine; When the vote was 'taken upOu. it, E n Insjo*ty of all present in the Ciangr2.:,3 Of the' , Confederetlen Voted for it butthere - were sotto:eV absentees that thiase voting forit did tot make thej clear majority necessary, and it wa3 faet. Bet three rears after that the Congress of4he ICenfederationi were together again, and they. acloptc;cl a hew .ordinance for the gov ; 'enanient of this . noithfresttcrritirry, not contehiplatl h ~.......I.usres'ouslll us - s.rni - m - E9r; ,or me :States. own='' tug thatterritory. had hitherto refrained trout , giving it to the,getteml Governtrainit t hence they made 'the ordinance to. apply'. only Ito. went' die Governmcnt • Owned. - In'that,lthe , provision, exciddidg slavery crs inverted and pasxerl *en Imo tt4/..y. or at unyrate: it P Passed and became part of tile tan - f of the iand.!--- Under that Ordinance , we - live.' First here •ini Ohio you were a tenitory, then' nat.enablinlrfct was massed autlioriziug ydu to form a .',Amstitution and State grtv-' elm:eta, provided it was .republican and not in cob ilictivith the ordinance of 'B7y When you frarntd yonr Constitutiorr and pr3sented it fur adinission,ii, , , think if you willfind the legislation upon the subjeCt; it will show that, " whet:ens sou haiflormed a. , Cicat- Stittition that was reptd.lican and notin mintlitt'ilib the ordinance of '87," therefore you !weke,damittod upon equal'feoting with the original Stifles. The same.process in - a fewryears Was gone,tbrough wish in Indiana, and so with-Illinois„ and/thd same sitt stantially with Michigan : and WhiOansitt.' "...-k- 1 1cot only did that ordinance; prevail, but it was cuo shindy looked'to winenever a Step was taken- byia new territory to become a State. Congress alwai•s turned their rittention•toit„and- in all ' their move nients upon this subject, tpey traced their course IV. dust ordinance 01.-%31.. When they admitted n4v.• :Stades theiradyertiaad.ti.s....e- thi. emii,unea .aa,-. par; of the tegistation'of the country. - They did eb because they' had traceatiteordirmnee of 'B7 through outtheljtistonc of this country. Begiirwitltithe men of OM / revolution, and go 'down for sixty entire yeav, .and untilthe 'last scrap of that territory. comes into the Uniowin the form of the Smte 'of Wisconsini—. everything'was made to Conform witlithe ordinanee of ' B 7 eXclud: IR.mbserr from' that -1 - ast - catgut if country. , - I.oinitted mention In-the right pi-dee they the ,Constitution of the United Suttee was iti protes t 4ir `being framtd , when that ordinance was first made by.. the'Cengress of the,Cou federation ; and our of the - first acts of Congress ittielf mule:the. new Clausal+ ,tion itself was to give fa rce to tiiat okdinence . by put-,:. ting power to carry it out in the handl of the new of- flceis under the Constitution, in place of the old odei3: l iiilici'liad been legislated' out .of existence by .44 change in the government from tile Confederation! t",O ' the Constitution. Rot only so, brit I' believe indult* once or twice, if not Ohio, petitioned the-'.geneiral-: ktivkriftnent for the_privilege of :sia spending that pro,-; vision Mid alldwing them to have :slaves. A 'repor Made 17 Mr, Randolph of Virginia,. himself a slayei holder,.Waaalirectly against it, arid the- action. Willi to refuse - then' the privilege of violatid : g‘ the ordicaumal iit '57. ''• , i' : -. , This perioll s ef history which L hats a run over brief= iv; is, I presume, as familiar to inost Of this assembly is any other part of the.hfstory ; of our codetry. ; 4uppose that few of . iny,hearers. are, tot as familiar • with that part of history as I eau, and I only mended . it to recall tourottention to 'at' this time:. And, :kende t ask'liow extraordinar y a 'thing , it is that as man a9lo has occupied a peal don upon the floor ,or the ,Senate of the United Sia. tea, whels- now in' his' third term, and 'whit looks tt ame the. government this' whole enuntry full into his own bands, pretend-`, log to-give a trutlifill and a. ceuratthistoryrof the tdavi ery question in this country, should, so entirely is wore the whole of' that po rtiou of out :history—the nmattimportant of tdl. ,'ls it not a most ' extraoriliu d4 spectacle that a man • should stand up and auk for. any confidence in his And ernents;-irtm sets out as he dots with portions of his tory ealthig upon the p6s pie to believe-that it. hi a. true - and fair representation 'When the leading.part, feature'of the Whole history, is carefulay suppressed 2 • • But .t.tt mere leaving out iv not the most remark able featart of tfik neat remarkable essay. , Ills propositicai is to estahlit lt that theleadiug mat of the rerolatidn-were fez his great pihseiple of pOn-itt lerverition by the eo , :erliment in thq question 'of slavery in the territortt.t .I„hire history shows that they decided in the testi, actually„ Wrought-. before them, in exactly. the contrary:a:4, and knoirs it. N'ot they so decide at that dine, Ana they -stuck-to it during aixty years, thrAgh thick and thin s att long as' there was. one of the revolutionary heroes Piton the stage of political action. Ttinstigh . their whole course,:frein firt to last, they clang to free/ dein.- 'And now he asks the tointnuttity .to btlierti that the ilMn 'of the revolution.were in fairer of his great principle 4 when we have the naked history that they thetuselres dealt withritis very subject: matter °rids principle!, end utterly repudiated Ws principle,' atdugtmon atrteisely contrary ground. It is us impudent and , tibiitird at if, a : . provecuting attoreey, should eked up . beforro a jury, and ask them to con. .viet A. as tine murderer of B, while D. WAS walking 211116 before them.. (Cheers and laughter.) l ; • say. ti,iatit, - it .. t ind6 Douglas asserts that the Mew: of,the revolution'ticted upon 'principles, by which, to be consistent:with themstives, ,they onght/to haVd adoptedhis .popular sovereignry, then,,ropott a cons sideration of his own ariptatent, he had, a right to. mike you'belieio that they.understood the principles of government, hut misapplied them; that he has arisen*, enUghteirthoWerld ai to ihe' just 'applies> thin or this priucip,le, bas a right to try to, per suade you that he understands their prinqiplea better thin they did; and therefore he will apply them now,. udt.slt they did, Va s es they ought to have done. He', Ras a right to go & before the contatunity.,_and- Irv= ta. /1066104) thUM 143i1111 but he. Imams right to ate teinplAo iniptiett open anyone the belief that theist; - men themselves approved of his = great principle ,The tkire two waysof establishing a proposition.-:-. Oita is by trying to, deinenattatolt upon reason; aid thoother ' sheirlitat great men lie. former times baits thought Mandl°, and thus to pits lt,' by the weight of pure initheritY. -Non if !edge' Douglas will dermastratestimehow 'that' ' this .popular..sover- : eigutt—the right of one.nutn totanke.a gave. of Atli other, Without any right; in that other, Anaglypta, sire, to c oyest=-:-desnottstrate. It - as. Euclid - deitionetnlActl ptopoSitioni=theri fa oo •objectino: :Rut' when -Itti comes Airward, tr eking to min* , 'et:principle by bring. leg men who themselves utter lA that Iprindple, I ask that !itt shall not be permitted to doij d . Cambium.). ' I see,, the J gq'd apet.chhet,„ . safest sentence 'in'tbese Inedi; Our 'Ottbeisorbest the formed this wite: element under which -We A,Z, 'thithisttiod this 'question just Mt eiell;' end , oriel • better 'than' we .do now:' -That is tine: LiticktO'ibit.' • (Great 'chews,. dad 4 thEhler4 tWillatand,bysJattge Dwglas ththat. ta i the.bitter (Itennied Itaishter.l And aim, Inthre Dolqoll, Mine and Mind by me, imuk 104(4 how4low Actsd, niulrhadhl h Whir CM woide:" 'All Panic of. you;Judge - Dotiglas;ls tO'Fflcit to the nropte:ition that, the..tuen .of Ate Revolution understand -this subject' better thati do - now t , witlr•stpit,' beltei • Meg acted ilnin yogi Wee'lo- -art !nom. (ApplaiSsis and • ' ' - • . • , rwiFlnto•SaY soricilthigneir In_regard•toilie Died Sc(itt decisienom'dealt with-by judge,•,lloughis: •In that ”iniymorable,debate." between. 4tulge ,Dtruglas - and 'niysif Let ptar, theVtitige'tliought3V: to; man... inetiews. process of .int'reltising rile, and at Treepert to veered his taestkins, add- ipropontakd! Stade him.'..-:.Arnong_ others propounded was , 'one thet.l ha ve itemnow....The spbetence, as I;4.m:tient her it; is.'" Can the people' of,Ey Voited terra_ ,tort', under tho'beeil Seca , de - dike, In' any lairfpl _siay, - against the wish of :My citizen' of the Untied States, exelatie alaviarrfrom its 'priori:to the formation or. kiftqte Constitution)" -, - Ile answered that they could. - lawfully exclude, slavery-from the • 'United States'territeries; notwithstanding the; 'Bred Scott decision. • Them - was something abotit that air swerthat has.probabry:been a trouble toT t h e Judge ~ ever since: (Laughter.) ' , • The Dred ScottdeeNett expressly glies every eit• ism' of 'the United States a right to carry hin now into the United States territories. And noir • there • was some inconsistency la wiring thin the decision. was. light; and saying too, • that the people .of the' tenitory. could laa fully drive slnveir, out Wine— . all thearash, the words, the collateral matter - Was cleirreclawayloint it. all. the cludf , ktown out of it, it ir.as a hare abstirdity—no less than Mal a Ming may be laulidly .drirew"own'y from where it hai a laisfol!right to be,. (Cheers and laughter.) - Clear it of all' the verbiage .and that ,'ls the-naked truth Of his proposition—that a thing :may be law. fully driven hour the place where it has &lawful right to stay. Well, it was been - we the - .ludge . -Couldn't help, saying so, that he lists had a great deal of trout' ; le with it ; and what - I Want to ask yoneespeeial at ` tention to, just non; s to rentind you, if yoti "have . not- noticed the fact, that-the Judge does net any • - longersay that the people can exclude - slavery. He ' does not sal+ so in the copyright essay ; he did not - say-so it, die speech that he made'bere, and so far •• as I know, since his re-election to the Senate; he has never saidds he did at FriepOrt, that the people of' - - the territories min exclude slavery. .11e,desires that you who wish the territories to remain rice should . • believe that he-stands brthirt position, but he; docit - not say ic'himself, and I want to hold hint to it. lie - escapes to'some extent' the absurd position I 'have stated brchanginglis language entirely..., ..What'. he soya' now-is something different in•language,,,and we will consider whether, it is not diderentlin senile .too. - It is now that the Dred Scott decision; or rather:the Constitution under-that ileciston•• does not carry alai ery into thetertitoties heyondthe power of the Ilfo. ple of. the-territories'-to cordret it - menthes ping!erty.' -lie does not now say- the people can , drive it out, but they can control it'as other property: The language is difftweni c cousiderwhether the sense* different. Driving a horse outof this lot, istoe plain &Prot - kel t tion to bernismken•about ; it is putting hint on the other side of the fence: (Laughter.) , .- - Or • it: might be a sort ef 'exclusion of him from thelotif yqu were to kill him and let the Worms - devour him; but- nei. titer of -these things is the same as " controlidg hint - as other property . "' - That :meld be to feed him, to - pamper him; to ride him;'to use him and abase dzo, ' to make the most money out of him as tt other ProP -erty ;")but, please you, what do .themen who c are iii' - favor, of slavery want more than this ?. (Laughter 1' and applause.) :What- do they ;really want,- other than that slavery, beingin. the, territories, shall. bo controied as_otlier,property i(Renetred applause.) i • -I.f they want anything , else,. I,do not 'comprehend.. It. I ssk your tittention to this, full for the purpose' ' -of pointing out the change-of ground the Judge has made ; and; in the second pldee, the importance':of the change—thai - that change is not Mich as to • give • , you gentlemen ivlio wash his poptilar sovereignty the' power 05 exehide the institution or thivelt out at all. ' I know the Judge spmetietes squints at-the argument • thein.co.itiaiing it us other property by unfriendly legislation they ;May central it to death, as you might in the.case of a" horse, perhaps,,feed him so - and ride him so much that he wound die. .' (Cheers and laughter.)-But when .you come to legislative - Control, there fa Something . ..more to be attended to. I have no crouht,! myself; that If the people. of- the " territories should undertake to control dare proper. ty /13 . other pr operty — that ies,.control it In- such a way that, it w ould be the' Most valuable' as, property. .t ? and makeit bear its just preportioe in the . way of burdens siproperty—really deal with it as. property`, —the Supreme Court of the United States will say, "Cod speett you and anien.l . -' But I undertake to • give the ' opinion , at least, -.that if the Territories 'at- . tempt by dimetlegislation to drive the man with' „ his lave.'...out Of the territory, Or to decide that his - slave is fiee.because Of his, being taken in there,. or to. tax him, to such an extent-that he cannot keep him • there, tho-Au0....... all such leg/sLatfon deconstleutionat. 'es long as # bat - Supreme Court is constructed as the Dred SeettlSti: preme Court is.. The first tiro things they h ave al ready decided, -exCept - that there is n littlw-ortibble among ih s e lawyers between the ,wordsaicja ane-e„,, They have already decided a - negro'ctumor be Made free by territorial legislation. - - , What is that Dred Scott ifecision-? -.fudge Doug, , labors to show that it. is one thing,' while I think, it 'altogether different. •Itis a long opinion,' tint" ' t is ill embodied. in this short atatement . 4 The•COnhitutio— . if o the United ' Statea forbids II ill EMU Ell Congress to deprive a Inathof his property, without due process of law ;_ the right of property in slaves is distinctly and expressly, tan - tined in that ConStifu tioo ; therefore; ~ j'f Congress shall undertake to say . that auto's slave is no longer 'his slave, when ho drosses a, certain . line into fl.territory, that is depri 'ring hint-of his property, without due process of law, and is unnonstitutknal." Tszre.is-the whole Dred Scott decision. y add , that as emigress.rattnot do so. itself, Congresstannot confer any power to do so, and hence any.effort by 'the territorial legiAaturo todo.either - of,theselbings; is absolutely daddeAl against. It is "a foregone conclu. slob .by thatsouft. • Now as to.this indirect mode by "unfriendly leg ... . - islatisa " all lawyers here will readily understand ~. i t z ha ten t t s , u b k ed a au .p se re a po je si gi ti s oLi t c u . tu re i:l c , t an t b ri et i; :,? . l , e di rat e e c l iy for do atti tha o- t.:r . which ,it Cannot accomplish -dirintlk. ....ht . tn I ser ' any legislation to control. thisproperty, as property, for its benefit.; as property, would be hailed by.thls . _ Dred Scott•Sepreme Court, and fully sustained ; but any legislation- driving slave property gut, or d'estrby. fog it as property, directly, or, indirectly, will most - asstiredly, by that same Court, tio held "unconatint- . done!._ : • ; • .' 'Judge Detir , his - Fars: if the Constitution carries - slavery into territories , beyond the , power of the - people of the tt. ories to control it na other proper ty, .' then it foil s logicallythat every one who Swears to support the ' 'nstitution of the Veiled States, must rit give that'suppOrt to that property which - it-needs.— -. 'And it the.constitution-carries sla - very intotheterrf; tories beyond the pMver of the people to control it aft other property,; thus, it 'Also , carries, it into the .- States, because thci constitution lithe supreme law • • et the land.- Now; gentlemen, if it were not for Jay . - ex , essive modesty,: 1 : wonld say that I told that rent thing to Judge Douglas quite a year ago. This sr- •.. mtinent is here - ,11l print, and if it were not -for my modesty, as 1-Mid,' I might call your attention to it. If you read it kou will Anti that I not tud# made that: argument, but made it. trotter 'than be has trade' it Since. [Laughter.] .• : • . , .•. ~ • - There is; however, this 'difference. • , I say' now,- and said then, theta is no sort of - queation that thei'.' Supreme Court /tits decided that it is th'e right of the • 1 slarcholder to take his shire and hold hint in the terl - - rittaik, and saying this, Judge Douglas `.himself ad..: • ' mits rho conclusion. .He says If thatis so, thiicon. ' ' e q uen " ar- 1 — ould follow ; hisitygument i. 4, the dor-idea ;minuet; thereforebd that way—". that would spoil-my' ;popular, sovereignty, - and it cannot be possible that `this great Principle him been squelched out-In this - ' :extraordinary way.; It might be; if it .were_notfor ' the extmitirdinary consequence of spoiling, my hum- bug." [Cheers and laughter.] - ..`- ' , ' . ~_ . Another feature of the Judge's argument about the Died Scott case Lt . .att effort to show that the decision Idealsoltogether - in _declarations of. negatives ; that' • _ .. 4the cOustitution does nirtitinint anything as expound- led by the Dil-Seriti decision, but it only _declares a 'want of power- - --a total ab'stinencecif power, iirrefer- * •enee to the territories. 'lt 'seems to be his -purpose. , .• ' to make the whole of that decision to result in a mere— itegaihre declaration of a went of .power in Congress,: I to, do - anything in' relation AO this matter in the terri- , tories,- I know the opinion of the Judges states that • there ISA totatabsenee of power ; but that is, mains - ' innately, not rot it:states; for the Judges idd that': ' .the right of_ nerty.lnt aellyej.s_dhitinetitimufga,...-_ _ , pre'salyrifflitue lu the Constitution. Irides not atop : , . I qt sating that the right of propertyln aslavit is-rdcr' Oa - nixed in the constitution, Is declared, to exist some • '-. *here in the constitution,- but says It b-affirmid in:- • Alio constitution.' Iht4anguaive is equivalent to laying \ • that it is, embodiedOad so woven into that inatru- - • '' ,merit that it cannot be detiChed wiihoutbreaking the eonatitutien itself.' In- a word, it - Is part ortlie Cola , ' . stituticit. • - • I . 1 - , .-, . ' • ~ i .: . Doug l as is singulbrlluu .fortnnate la - his effort to .make out. Opt: decision to 'bealtogether'neptiire,. ' :When the epreas hirigulige at.' the vital part Ls-that Iflils is distinctly affirmed in do constitution , i think , , ':myself, And I repeatl it here,' that this decision does ', ,' ..- 4tot merely carry tet7 Into the ter-diaries; but ffy ; • its logical ctmclusio it carries it into the States in': i ',which we-live. On pirtsion of that ceiltutlore 4 • : ~ ;that it shall be the, supreme law of theland-,I do • , "not quote the- language—any eonatitudon, or. law' 'of .... . !any State- to the contrary mitwithatanding.',.., This!: - ;Died Scott decisionlairi that the right of la. .. .: ;it slave is hi that. eaustitution.whieh Is Abe , : :supreme saw of the land; any State'constitittkati... o4 '.' I . Law to' the contrary netwithstandjar -- Theo I MT.. ;that lit' deik thingoy.i arldeb : lar' di - atineq klo diot 7%... • . . tcplinitniV . 9ls nom OffLY":" _- . %.4t- . 02:2 il El
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