Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-06-26

SrEEcn FROM SENATOR DoUGLAs.-Stephen
A. Douglas made a political speech at
Springfield, the Capital Of Illinois, on the
evening OF the 10Th inst. The subjects
touched upon in his address were the pres
ent condition and prospects of Kansas, the
bred Scott decision, and the condition Of
things in Utah, and the remedy to be APP
piled. On Kansas affairs he said
But let the late difficulties in that territory be
adjusted as they may, they will satisfy the people
Of the United States, because the inhabitants Of
:he Territory, who alone have the right to decide
upon their own domestic concerns, will mark out
their course for the future. This adjustment will
likewise reduce the slavery agitation to the mar
row limits covered by the decision Of the Supreme
Court in the bred Scott case"
Mr. Douglas discussed the bred Scott de-
cision at greater length. After passing an
eulogium upon Chief Justice fancy and
his associates, and saying that if any con-
siderable portion of the people should re-
slst the decision, political parties must di-
vide into the friends and enemies OF the
Constitution, and in that case he had no
doubt that nine tenths of the people would
be found rallying to maintain the Constitu-
ton and the laws, he proceeded to discuss
the two points affirmed by the decision, viz ;
"lst. That under the Constitution Of the Unit.
not and cannot be . citizen of the United States.
I'd. That the Missouri Compromise was uncon-
stitutional and void before the Kansas Nebraska
Bill repeating it was passed.
On the latter proposition, he would only
FAY that the people had decided the question
OF constitutionality by electing MIR. Blu
chanan and the Supreme Court had re-af-
firmed their decision. This view of the case
is not peculiarly calculated to inspire re-
spect for the decision, inasmuch as clear
majority of the people voted against Mr..
Buchanan and the doctrine he is said to
have represented.
On the first proposition he argued at con-
siderable length, and in the usual
style of the worst class of Demo
cratic politicians. The drift of his observa-
tons was, thati the negro was to be ad-
mitted to equality, the Constitution of Hi
nois and of other States must be reversed,
and the South must emancipate all its
slaves. The negro must be allowed to come
to the polls, the jury box must be opened
to him, and he must be allowed to marry
white women. On this last point he seemed
particularly eloquent. lie said -
" lie did not believe that negro was a brother
OF his, or OF any white man, and he doubted tho
right of the white man to corrupt his blood by
making kin Of the inferior race"
lie disposed of the doctrine of the Decla-
ration of Independence by saying
" That instrument was the work of representa-.
tiNes Of the slave States, who must be chargeable
with gross hypocrisy, if it be true that they in
tended to include the negro, for they did not
enancipate their slaves, nor did their slaves
abolish the system within their borders"
On Utah matters he said
" If the state ofthat Territory be as it is rep
resented, then Utah stands out alien enemy
and outlawed, seeking admission for the sole pur
pose of subyerting the authority Of the United
States, If such is the case he would favor the
repeal Of the organic law Of the Territory, enact
it district under the sole and exclusive jurisdc.
ton of the United States, and then bring in the
criminals under the criminal code of 1890, try
them and punish the guilty, completely blotting
from the earth the existence of the Territory
Other accounts say that in discussing this
topic he took this ground, viz -
"Once he was in favor of nominal popular SOW
ereignty, but Hoc he had become convinced that me
thug wds wach'lHy rrOng-that the Mormons
were traitors aliens, enemies, outlaws, lecherous
scoundrels, &c, that the territorial act should be
instantly and percmptorily repealed-that Young
was murderer, outlaw, rebel against the Union.
lie said 'he reversed his old opinions on this
grsund-had swung around, and had taken an
impartial view ! that when a people inca
pable of selt-government, it was the right, it was
the duty of other people, other governments, to
lay hold of and seize that other foolish people,
aud to govern them noi,as roisnS--willing or un.
willing