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"I CAN'T LOVE YOU!"
'Tis in rain that you address me
With your vows of lore and truth ;
Such prefessioias but oppress me, .
. Since they come froin age to youth.
Surely sir, you must remember
I - am young and you are old; .
May should never. wed December. •
I can't love you! Keep your gold!
Though.you speak of rank and splendor,
Which you say I may possess,
Wealth alone can never render
' To the heart true happiness. s
I regret your poor selection,
Since to love my heart is cold:
What is wealth without affection?
- I can't lore you! Keep your-gold!
Love should be a mutual feeling,
Bas'd"on true affection's part,
Joy and bliss in truth revealing,
To each faithful loving heart.
Such is love, devoted ever,
" Neither to be bought nor sold,
Still the same till death shall sever—
I can't love you I Keep your gold! .
P. HANELT
1 60
The Republican Party If i ndica•
Demands ofthe -
• - South 'Explained.
SPEECH OF -
Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Delivered at - the COOPER INSTITUTE, N.
Y. City, Fein - tun - 1/ 27th, 1860.
(CONCLUDED.)
Now, and here, let we guard a little
against being misunderstood. I do not
tucan to say we arc bound to follow bu
plicity in whatever our fathers .did. To
do so would be to discard all the lights
of current experience, to reject all pro
gress, all imprOvenieut. What Ido say
is, that if we should. do so upon'evidence
so conclusive, an argutnent so deal-, that
even their great authority, fairly consid
ered and weighed, caroiot stand;; and
most surely not in case whereof we our- I
selves declare that they understood the;
question better than we. [Laughter.]--- '
Itany Man at this day, sincerely believes
that, a...proper :division ofional from .Fede7 .
ral authority, or any part of the Consti
tution, forbids . the Federal Territories, he
is right to say so, and to enforce his posi-,
Lion by all truthful evidence and fair ar
gument which he can. But he has no
right to mislead others, who have less ac
cess to history, and leisure to study it,{
into the false belief that "our fathers,'
who framed the Government under which I
we live," were of the same opinion—thus
substituting falsehood and deception for
1 truthfulevidence and fair argument.- 1
[Applause.] If any man at this day sin-1
icerely believes " our fathers, who framed'
the Government under which we live,"
used and applied principles,_ in other
•cases, which ought to have led theta -to
understand that a proper division of lo
cal from Federal authority or some part
of the Constitution, forbids the Federal
Government to'control as to slavery in
the Federal Territories, lie is right to say
so. But he should at the. same time
brave the responsibility of declaring, that,
in his opinion, he understands their priu
ciples better thtin they did themselves,
[great laughter,] and especially should he,
nut shirk that' responsibility by asserting]
that they " understood the question just
as well and even bett-r, than we do now."
[Applause.] - But enough. Let all who
believe that our " fathers who framed the
i Government under which we live, iinder
stood this question just as well, and even
better than we do now," sneak as they
spoke, and act as they acted, upon it.—
This is all . Republicans ask—all Repub
licans desire—in relation to slavery. As
those fathers marked it,•so let it be again
marked, as an evil not to be extended,
but_to be tolerated and protected only be
cause of, and so far as, its actual presence
among us makes that toleration and pro
teetion a necessity. [Loud applause.]
Let alj .. the guaranties those fathers gave
it be' not grudgingly but fol' and fairly,
maintained. For this Republicans con
tend, and with this,
so far as I know or
believe, they will be ' content. _ [Ap
plause.]
And now, if they would listen=-as I
suppose they will not—l would address a
few words to the Southern people.—
[Laughter.] I would say to them :
You consider yourselves a reasonable and
just people, and I consider that ini the
general qualities of reason and justide you
are not inferior to any other. people; still,
when you speak of us Republicans, - you
do so only to denounce us as-reptiles, or,
at the best, as'.no better than outlals.
You will grant a hearing to pirates or
murderers, but nothing like it to Black
Republicans. [Laughter.] In all your
contentions with one another, each of.
you. deems an unconditional eondemoa
don of ." Black Republicanism" as the.
firSt thing to - be attended to. [Laugh
ter.] Indeed, such condemnation of us
seems to be an indispensable prerequisite
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eboteD to tbe, Trif}eipic,s of i'tt 4qo Dis,seiphititioq• of iffoNlity g.itertlttitie RIO Veins.
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OP ILLINOIS,
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 11.860.
—license, so to speak—among you,.to.be
admitted or permitted - to speak at all.
Now, can you or not be prevailed upon
to pause and to consider whether this is
quite just to , us, or even 'to yourselves ?
Bring forward vont. charges and specifi
cation; and then be patient long enough
to hear us deny or justify. You say we
are sectional. 'We deny it. [Loud ap
plause.] That makes an issue, and the
burden of proof is upon you. [Laughter
and applause.] You produce your proof;
and what is it 7 Why, . that our party
has no existence in your section ! --gets no
votes in your secticn. -The. fact .is-sub
stantially true; but does it prove 'the is
sue ?• If it does, then, in case see should,
without change of principle, begin to get
votes in your section, we should thereby
cease to be sectional. "Great merri
ment.] You cannot•• escape this conclu
sion; and yet, arc -you willing to abide
by it ? If you are, you. will' probably
soon find that we have ceased to be sec
tional, for'we shall get votes in your sec
tion this very year. [Loud clieers.]-- - -
You will then begin to discover, as the
truth plainly is, that your proof dues not
- touch the issue. The fact that we get
no votes in your ections is a fact of your
making, and -not of ours. And if there
_I be fault in that fact, that fault is primar
ily yours, and remains so until you show
that we repel you by some wrong princi
ple or practice. If we do repel you by
any wrong principle or practice, the fault
is ours; but this brings you to where you
ought to have .started—to discussion of
the right or wrong of. our principle.—
[Loud applause.] If our principle, put
in practice, would wrong your section for
the benclit'of ours, or fur any other ob
ject, then our principle, and we with .it,
are sectional; and are justly opposed and
denounced as-such. Meet us, then, on
the question of whether, our principle,
put in practice, would wrong your sec
tion ; and so meet it as if it were possible
that something may be said on our side
[Laughter.] Do you accept the chal
lenge ? No. Then you really believe
that the principle which our fathers who
framed the Government under which we
live thought so clearly right as to adopt
land endorse it again and 'again, upon the
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official oaths, is, m fact, so clearly wrong
.as_to Actimmi..your_contiem v.:atm!! _witikont,!
a momcui's cunSideration. [Applause.]
Some of you delight-to flaunt in our faces'
the warning against sectional parties given'
by Washington iu his Farewell Address.
Less than eight years before Washington
gave that. warning, he had, as President
! of the United States, approved and signed
Jan Oct of Congress, euforcing the prohi-.
I bition of slavery 'in the Northwestern
Territorv,which act embodied the policy
of the Government upon that subject, up
,to and at the very moment - - he penned
I that warning; and about one year after
he penned, it, he wrote Lavfayette that he
!considered that prohibition a wise mea
-1 sure, expressing in the same connection 1
Iris hope that we should some time have,
a Confederacy of free States. [Ap
plause.] Bearing this In mind, and see
ing that sectionalism has since arisen
upon this same subject, is that warning
a weapon in your hands against us, or itt
our hand against you ? Conid Washing
ington himself speak, would he c - ast the I
blame of that sectionalism upon us who
sustain his policy, or upon you who re-1
O
pudiate• it? [Applause.]
. We tepeat :
, at warning -of Washington, and we
I commend it to you, together with his ex-1
!ample pointing to the right application
lof it. t Applause.)
1 But you say you are conservative—em- i
rincntly conservative—while we are revo- I
1 lutiunary, destructive, or something ofi
1 the sort. What is conservatism ? Is it - I
i not adherence to the old and tried, against
I the new and untried ? We stick to, con-
tend for, the identical old poiut in centre
versy
which was adopted lay our fathers,
who framed the Government under which I
we live, While you with one accord reject
and scout and spit upon that old' policy,
and msist - upon substituting something
new. Then you disagree among Your
selves as to what that substitute shall be..
You have considerable variety of new
propositions and plans, but you are unan
imous in rejecting and denouncing the
I f
old - policy of the fathers. Seine of you
are for reviving the foreign slave trade ; •
some for a Congressional slave code .fur
the Territories; some for Congress forbid
ding the; Territories to prohibit slavery
within their limits; some fur maintaining
slavery in the-Territories through the-ju
diciary; some for the , !gur-reat pur-rin
ciple" [laughter] that "if one man would
enslave another, no third man'sho - uld ob
ject," fantastically called " popular sove
reignty" —.[renewed . laughter and ap:
plause]--but never a man among you in
favor of Federal prohibition - of Slavery in
the Federal Territories, according to the
practice of our fathers who framed the
Goiernment under whielt we live. Not
one ofall your various . plats, can show a
preeedent or an advocate in the century
within which our Government originated.
Consider; then, whether your - claitu• of
conservatism for yourselves, :and . your'
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°heroes of destructiveness fominSt us. are
based onthe_ most, clear and' stable Amu-)
dations. : Aga ! in t youisay we hav4 made
the. slavery question more prouiinent thanl
it formerly was. - - We deny it. We ad,-
mit that it is more proMinent, but we ,de-1
ny that we made it so. It Was not we,l
but you, who discarded the old policy of
the fathers. .We'resisted, and still resist,.
your innovation—your want.of conserve -1
.tistn; and thence comes the greater prom-1
inonce of the question.; 'Would you have
that .question reduced! to its former pre!,
portions ? Go back 6 the old policy
What lies been will be again, under! the
seine Clindit io . uS. If sou Would have the
peace of the old. times; re adopt the pre!,
cept and, policy, of the, old times. [Ap/
plauSe.] -
You charge that we stir up insurreei
dons among your slaves. We deny it
and what is your proof? linruer's Fey,
! - [G reat laualter,] tToli f n Brown
ry .
[Renewed laughter.] 1 John' Brown wag
no Republican, and you have to implicate!
a single Republican iri his Harper's Rai
•ry enterprise. I.Loudnpplause.3 If any
member of.our party! is guilty in tloll
matter, yoti know it, or you dO not know
it. If you do know .it, you are inescusa .
blo not to designate the man land prove
the fact. If you do not know) it, you are,
inexcusable to-assert it, and especially tj'
persist in thn assertion after yciu have tit
ed and failed, to make! the proof. [Great
applause.] You need not be told thl!,t,
Persisting in a charge which' one does net:
know to be tine, is sitpply malicious slaU
der. [Applause.] Some of!'iou gener
°ugly admit that no RepubliOn • design
edly aided or encouraged the Harper's
Ferry affair, but still iusist that our doc
trines and declaration!' necessatily lead to
such results. We do 'not believe it. Wi l e
know we hold Loon doctrines land Make
no declarations which Were not iheld to aud
made by your fathers who framed the GoV
eminent under which we liYe. [Apt
plause.] ! .
. You never dealt fairly by u. 4 in relatiop
to this affair. When it occarred i . some
important State elections were near at
hand, and you were in evident glee with
the belief that, by Oharging the blanie
upon us, you could get an 4dvanta g o.(?f
us in these elections. !The elections came,
aMl ! yeur.upectationO,werepet_quite fill s
filled: Thaughier".] Von . did net sweep'
New York, and New Jersey, and- Wisco
sin, and Minnesota,! precisely like fire
sweeps over the prairie in high wind.
[Laughter.] You are still-drututning et
this idea. Go on with it. if you think
you can, by slandering a Woman, make
her love you, or by villitying a wan, make
him vote with you,; go owl and try it.
[Boisterous laughter; and piolonged ap
plause.] livery Republican. man knew
that, as to himself at least, your charge
was a slander, and he was not much in•
dined by it to cast his Vote in your laver.
Republican doctrines, and declarations
arc accompanied with acontinual prote,4,t
against any interference whatever with
your slaves, or with you about your slaves.
Surely this dues nut encourage them to
revolt. True, wedo, in connon - ii with our
fathers who framed the Government an
der which we live, declare our belief flint
slavery is wrong—[applause]—but - the
(laves do not hear us declare even this;
for - anything we say or da,; the slaves
would scarcely know, there isl a Republi
can party. I believe they would not, in
fact, generally know it, but for your tnis
xpresemations of us in their nearing. In
your political contest's among!' yourselves.,
each faction charged !the other with sym
pathy •with Black Republidauisin ' • and
then, to give point to the charge, defines
Black Republica - nista to simply be insur
rection, blood. and thunder, among the
slaves: (Boisterous laughter and ap
plause.) . Slave insurrections are - no more
common now than they were before the
Republican party was organized._ Whet
induced the Southampton insurrection,
twenty-eight years ago, in which at least
nice times as many 'lives were lost as 'at
Harper's Ferry? !You can scarcely
stretch your very elastic fancy to the con
clusion that Southauipton was got up by
Black Republicanisui. (Laughter.) In
'the present state of things in the United
States, I do not think a general or even
very extensive slave: insurrection is pas
sible. The indispensahle concert of ac
tion cannot be attained. The slaves hare
no means of rapid communication; nor
can incendiary free men, black or white,
supply it. The explosive niiterials are
everywhemin parcels, but there.tteither
are nor.- can be supplied the indispensable
connecting train's. , Much is said -by
Southern people about- the affection of
slaves.for their masters and `mistresses;
and apart of it, at least, is•true. A: plot
for an uprising could scarcely be devised
and coutmunicated to twenty individuals,
before some of-them; to .save the.life of a
favorite master or mistress, would divulge
it. This is tl,o rule; and the slave rev:
olution in Hayti was not an : exception to
it, but a case occUrring. under peciiiiar
circumstances. •. '• j . -
Tha gunpowder plot of British bisto i ry
though -not connected witli:Elave.g, w i de
more in point,. In thatease, only. aboui
twenty were 'admitted to the secret;, and
yet one of thein, in his anxiety to save a
friend ; betrayed the plot to that. friend,
and, by . consequence,averted the calamity.
Occasionally ;poisonings frOui the kitchen,
'and open Or stealthy assassinations in . the
field, and local revolts extending to a score
Or so, will continue to occur, as the natu
ral results of slavery; but: no general in
surrection of slaves, as I think, tilt hap
pen in this: . country for a- long time.
Whoever .much fears or touch Copes for
such an-event, will be alike - disappointed.
In the language of Mr. Jefferson, tittered
.Many years ago, "it is still in out power
to direct tha proceSS of - emancipation and
deportation Peaceably, and -in such slow
- degrees-as that the evil Will wear off in
sensibly; and their places be pari passu,
filled up by 'free white laborers. (Loud
applause.) llf on the contrary, it is left
to force itself on, .human nature murgt
shudder at the prospect held up.'' Mr.
Jefferson did not mean to say, nOr do I,
that the power of emancipation isin the
Federal Government. lie spoke of. Vir
ginia; and, as to the power of emancipa
tion, I speak of the slaveholding States
only. The 'Federal Government, howev
er,,as we insist, has the pOwer of restrain
ing the extension of the insiitutionthe
power to insure that a slave insurrection
shall never ; occur on any American soil
which. is now free from slavery. (Ap
plause.) John Brown's 'effort wai-peeu.
liar. It was not a slave insurrection. It
was an attempt by white: l Men to get up a
revolt -among slaves, iu which the slaves
refused' to participate. In fact, - it was so
absurd that the slaves; With all-their ig
uorance, saw plainly enough it could not
succeed. That affair, in its philosophy,
corresponds, with the many attempts, re
lated in history, at the assassination of
Kings and Emperors. An enthusiast
broods over the oppression of a people',. ,till
he fancies himself commissioned by Heav
en to liberate them. Ile. ventures the
attempt which ends in little else than iu
his own execution. Orsini's attempt on
Louis Napoleon, and John Brown's at
tempt at; Harper's Ferry, were, in 'their
philosophy„' precisely the same. , The ea
-o:sruess to cast blame on old England in
'the one case, and on Nevi Eoglanti in the
other, docs,notdisprove the tsatuene6s,of
the two things. (Appiniise.)
And how much .would!it avail you, if
you could, by the use of John Brown,
Helper's book, and the like, break up the
&publican organization!? Human ac
tion can be modified to some extent, but
human nature cannot :be chauged.—!
The.e is a judgment and! feeling against/
slavery in this nation, - which cast atleast
a million and a half ofvotes. You can.i
notidestruy that judgmettt and feeling—l
that seutitnent—by breaking up the po. /
litical organization which rallies around!
it, you can scarcely scatter and disptsse!
an army which has been !formed into Gr.!
der in the face of your heaviest fire; ba,tl
if you could, how much would you gain!
by forcing the sentiment which created!
It, out of the peaceful channel of the bah!
lot-box, into some other channel ? What!
would that other clia'Unel probably be?
Would the, number of John Biorins he!
iessened otj, enlarged by! the, -operation ? j
But you will break up the - Union rather
than submit to a denial - Of your constitu
tional rights. That, has a soinewhatreck
less sound; but it would be paliated, if
not fully justified, were We proposing, by
the mere force of unniners,!to deprivP.you
of some right plainly written.down in the
Constitution. But we are proposing no .
such thing; When you (make dick' dec-
larations,.you have a st4citic and well:,
understood! allusion to an assumed consti
tutional right of yours, to take slaves in
to the Federal Territories, and' to hold!
them there as property.] But no such
right is specifically' written in this Con-
I ltitution. !That instruatent is literally
!ilent about any Such right. We on the
contrary, deny that suelna right has' any
existence . in the Constitution, even by
(Applause. ! )
Your prirpose, then plainly stated is
that you Will destroy the iioveroment fl
unless you! be alloived to,construe and-en
force the Constitution as:you please, on
, all points in dispute bet Ween you and us.
You will raid or rule in all events. This
plainly stated, is your language to us.—
Perhaps -you will - say. dna the Supreme
Court has decided-the disputed constitu
tional queXtion in your favor. Not-quite
so. But, Waiving the lawyer's - distinction
between dictum and decision, the court
have decided the question for you . in a
sort of wag. The court liassub - stariiiiilly
strid,.it is! your constitutional right to
take slave into the Federal Teriitorjes,l,
and to hold them there! - as property—.
When I say the decision, was made- in a
sort of way, I mean it was made -in a di
vided court by a .!bare Majority of the
judges, and they not quite agreeing with
One another in the reasons for making it ;
that it - is so made as- that its avowed sup!.
porters disagree with one another - about
its meaning; and that it was mainly based
upon a-mistaken 'statement of facti.-:4he
statement in the opinion that the Tight
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of' property 'iti slaytt. is distinctly' f ault
expressli affirmed in the- Constittitiou.'
An insppetion of the Constitittiott t •
shod that the right Of propetty is a slave,
is not distinctly and expressly affirmed
it. (4plailse ), tear in"mind, the
judges de not pled . gb their judicial opinion
that sued light is impliedly affirmed in: ,
the Constitution, but, they pledge limit'
Veracityithat•it, is distinctly and ell:desalt
affirtneili*. there.-"distinctly ."— that
not mingled with anything else; express•
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ly--that is,in words meaning • just that;
withoutithe aid of any inference, and.sus ,
ceptiblejof_ no other - meaning:
bad only pledged their judicial *opinion
that such right •is affirmed in the' instrii
ment,bylimplication, it would be open- to
others to stliew that neither .the word
" slavetnorTiwslatety " is. to be found in
the Co4tiAition, nor the wOrd property;
even, id •any
,eonnection langlingd
alltidind i to the things slave or slavery
(applause)—and that wherever in -that
instrument the slave is alluded. to, he-id
balled " person ;" and whereever hie
master'fl: legal tight in relation to him is
alluded ito, it is spoken of as " setvice 'or
labor tine," as d " debt" payable . in sera
vice or labor.. •
Also, it would be open to she*, 'by con
tempora:neous history,. that this mode. Of
alluding to slaves and slavery, instead of
speaking of them, was employed on pura
pose to exclude from the Constitution the
idea tha l t, there could by property in man;
To show- all this is easy :and Certain..- -
When this obvious mistake of the judges
; •
:shall ha, brought to their notice, is it . not
Teaseled& to expect that they Will with'.
draw ili;e mistaken statement-, and recoil=
shier the conclusion based upon it? And
thee it - I.e to be remembered that 41 out
t fathers who framed the.Govertnnent • not+
Ider which we live ".--the men Who made
the Corlititution--decided this same con.
stitutional question in our fat:or king ago j
deeidedl it without division. among selves about the meaning of it after :it
was made, and, so far as any . evidence id
left witimut basing it, upon any mistaken
;statement of facts. Under all these cir
leumstances, do volt realty feel ycureevles
!justified to break up this Government,
' unless ,luch. a court
,decision as yours is
shall bd at once submitted tn. as a con.
ehisivend. fiunl rule of politieal action ?
But yoti ivill not abide - the 'eleition - of it
Republican President. In thattsupposed
event, jiou say you will destroy ibe Union,
cud tile, you say, the "great crime,of
j having destrojed it will be' upod .
(Laugh . ter.) That is cool. . (Great
laughter.) A highwayman holds a pistol
! to my elut, and mutters through his Teeth,.
" Standi and deliver, or I shall kill ,yon,
and died you will be a murderer !"--=
(Con tin!ued laughter.) To be sure, What
the rebber demanded of me- r :my money
l'was illy own, and I. had a clear right to
I keep it I. but it was no more my own than
my vote is my own ; (" That's so,'!* and
a pplausb ;)' and the - threat of death tome,
I to extort my money, and the threat of
destrudion to the Union, to .extort. my
vote, c'4n scarcely be distinguished in
principPe.
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j A few words now to Republicans, , It
is exceedingly desirable that"-all parts cif
j this gite!at Confederacy shall' be at
.peacti
and in !lemony one with another. ! Let us
Republicans 'do our part to 'have it sq.
(" We will,"
.and applause) Even
t hough 'punch provoked, let us do nothing
:through passion and ill temper. Even
ttliolig,hithe Southern people will not so
much as listen to us, let us calmly - coma
, eider tfieifdemands, and yield to thecni
if, in Or deliberate view of oar duty, we
possibly can. Judging by all they say'
and do/ and by the•subjdet and nature of
their Ontroveitsy with us, let is - deter.
mine, if we can, what will satisfy them,
Will tliey be satisfied if. tfieTerritories
be unconditionally surrendered to them ?
We knpw . they will not: r
In all . their'
present complaints against is, the Terri=
toties.ire scarcely mentioned. - Invasions;
and insurrections are the rage pow. ;Will
it satisfy them, if, in the future; ve have
nothing to do with. invasions and- instil:-
recant ? 'We know -it will not. We so
know because we knew we . : never- had
anything* totdo with invasions and insur.
rectioniS , and yet this total abstaining
does u4t exempt - Us .from the-charge and
the dedunciatiou.
The question recurs, What will Sethi?
them ?I Simply this: We-must not only'
let thefu alone, but. we ,must, somehott i
convince them that we do let them.
alone. I This, we. know by ex,perience ! .
no easy{ task., We have been trying to su
convince them from the very beginning
of our organization, but with . no - nticeass:
In all Our . platforms and 'speeches, we
have constantly protested our purpose
let then) alone; but this has bad no to.:
deney f o convince them. Alike um:
vailingito convince them is . the tact time
they bave..never detected a man of
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any at4mpt to disturb them. These ni
Ind and apparent adequate means tdi itti
ing, what will. convince- thou?. TM,
and.thi6 only. cease:to call slavery ititifij i.
and join them ib calling it -right,. • IALJ.
this mast be done theronlily— , ..iktitt- in-