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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
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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.
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2,. Lines,.•
MILE TATTAIt,Ic:: Bkk.,, over ite.,4l
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'I Ream 0, Tyler,.
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William — H. Cooper & C 0... •
tT kNKTiRS, SIICC,...nrs ' to VAST. (. 1 )0PE.41. h
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- : ~• - H. Garrott, ~
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- 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 . •
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G. F. Fordhap., . . — -
a" .- ''' - fsT.Foll 112 tE r
-iff;;;INZ„E2 , iI4/4
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--„. ~ on one door below Ket; e r .I:qv:A:las. •,`l , - , •
,:, - .•;o. ' ,ldaran I. 1-5:9- I ' ; •
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• 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.
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• ' Reeler 4 Stoddard. '
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.-. 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 •
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- 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- - -,
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William 'B. Simpson, •
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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.
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~.• : 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,.
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• 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.
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3!,,,,,, Fa 4 May 3:6,
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Hayden Broilers,
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Cr/..
:,-I,...nrlPcdlr;_,::..virplied YurkJobiStig Prices.
William a William I Jessup,
AT Pm:llrn An Sanne
' . i.7ar'froll Warne, LuLerr:e
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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- -- • —. . •
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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.
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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..
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A; linEhriell,
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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.
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.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
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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.
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ec— ut the store. r'eee s nity occupied
loci. Montrose, Pa. ! :• • . •••••
k:r•.: y aI
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N ,WS OFFICE. *-- •
qty isiunk4TEu tiEna4rAk,El4V-Al3-
r Icac at the Mcyttrotir Book *MC • • -
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, 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.
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NON! kflifili-AM LINCOLN,'
AT COLUMBUS, QlllO.,
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THE
.COPYRIGHT.ESSAY EXPLODED. ..
-atter 1
§vereigiity Identical, with the
Slave Trade.
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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
• •.•.
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lONTRUSE, PA. Of
3ivo:sl 80.2.
.Fiutver danein tie'
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ytte2,.;
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...i7t4w,,..-..,..xit-,
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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4 The•COnhitutio— .
if o the United ' Statea forbids
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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
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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!._ : • ; •
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'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
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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.] .• : • . , .•.
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- 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.] - ..`- ' , '
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. 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 : , .
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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 ', ,'
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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. ..
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;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
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