The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-07-04
D~6gtas Answered.

Hon. A. kS6oIx has been replying T.
Judge DOUGLAS late speech at Springfield
We copy the following notice Of this even
from the Chicago Tribune of the Goth:
SPRISGFIELD, Ill.,, June 81.
Ems. TRIBUNE The Hon. Alb. Lincoln
opened his great speech hare few minutes
otter O'Clock P. NJ, in the hall of the House
Of Representatives. His speech was an an.
swer to Senator Douglas The hall was filed
comfortably full and the intense interest with
which Republicans, the Bogus Democracy
and Others listened to every scntence-every
word-testifes to the abiding interest felt in
the subject, and to the power Of logical truths
truths welded together by the powers of
logic. There was no rant--no fustian, no
bombast, but there was something in it OF
more force and power than these the heart
felt, and he gave utterance to the heart n
SEPARATIONS, clothed in the eternal maxims of
the purest reason. Mr.. Lincoln divided his
subject into three heads.
]. He addressed the people for about hall
All hour on the affairs of Kansas. stating that
nothing bnt bold wicked despotism ruled or
regned there since since it was organized
into Territory. "Well might Mr. DOUG, 81
slip slyly over this part of his case, as If be
heard nothing OF Kansas. Let him but look
over into the western horizon and see the
heavens lit up by the glories of Squatter
Sovereignty, which Douglas had 50 backed
down from. Look, Douglas, and see yonder
people fleeing-see the foil columns of brave
men stopped-see the press and the type
fiving into the rver-and tell me what does
this? Is it your Squatter Sovereignty, and
you have how backed down from the princi
pie. The people there cannot vote, and you
ought to know it, if you do not"
2. He then took up Mormon Utah and
dwelt about as long on this head as lie did
an Dansas, stating as reason, that as Dou-
glas had not made these the heads of his
speech he would not. Lincoln said Douglas
had alleged that the Murmons were in rebel
lion against the Government and the law
"The Morrnons ought to obey the law as all
good citizens do and shoould. They burned
up the records of Utah. but let me ask Dou-
gas one question: The Mormons desired to
live without law-w,thout recOrds-without
Courts, andI thought the sacred right of
Squatter Sovereignty secured to every pco
pie the right of the people to live as they
pleased. Now, why deprive them of this
right ?-that is the question:
w NY your present backing down? This
thing OF Squatter Sovereignty was never any
thing but hnmbug, generated in the marsh
es and pools of South Carolina, and used as
a pretext to run and pour slaves out over
all the land as hot lava is belched from the
crater of the fire mountain 1t stinks of
fraud"
3. Mr.. Lincoln then took up the bred
Scott case, and handled it as only Limo In
can. Douglas had said that the glorious, i'm
mortal Fathers of l776, could not be defan- |
ded from the charge of asses and liars, when |
they said in the declaration of American In !
dependence; that all men are created equal, |
unless it should be limited to Englishmen in
terms and not generally to all men. Mr. |
Lincoln analysed. it--lissected Douglas idea |
and held up TO the gaze of tie crowd the |
skeleton Douglas would have. He made that !
by Douglas, grin and menace tyr
amy, despotism, divine right of kings, aris-
tociacy; and us, whipped and chained slaves |
" What" said Mr.. Lincoln, q would become |
of that noble band of liberty-loving, philo-
sophical, patient and patriotic Germans,
what of the energetic law and order Eng |
liShmen. the genuine country-loving Scotch |!
men, the Frenchnen-the world, fMr. DOUG !
las idea were to prevail thac the paolara-
ton is not true? Amy away away! with |
the cursed thought ; 1t dimnishes, it cheats |
and leads downwards, dragging the nation in
chains after itr''
do not pretend to give his exact words. |
but give You the substancc--the essence, |
and cannot in a letter do more. Mr., Lin,
coin then from this noble desanse and vindi-
catioH Of tha Fathers OF IT7G, of Washington. !
Henry, Franklin. Jefferson, and others-came
to Douglas pet idea of amalgamat. on. He |
is better posted in facts than Douglas is he |
showed that some fifty thousand colored free
men lived in the North, but they were made
up before they came North, and no also
show'd that some three oT fouc hundred
thousand E,,.latsnea lived In the South where
Ihoy are manufactured to Order-tbnt is,
where the owners and fathers copulate with
slave women, stealing the virtue God gave
every woman as jewel Of innocence and
purity This is done against the will of the
woman, or degradation sprineing out of
slavery has taught them vice. Keep the free
white race and the negro a,ays separate and
apart liz the l,ew Territories and no amalga-
nation can take place. but let them run over
he whole land as slaves with the horrors
If Slavery, and then amalgamation will
prove rank, and God will sweep US from the
Earth.