Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-07-24

defy any man to show printed resolution OF
a Democratic meeting, large or snail, in favor
of Judge Trumbull, or any Of the five to one
Republicans who beat that bill. Everything
must be for the Democrats They did every
thing and the five to one that really did the
thing, they snub over, and do not seem to
remember that they have an existence upon
the face of the earth. (Applause.)
Gentlemen fear that have become te-
dious. ("Go on, 60 on.") leave this branch
of the subject to take hold of another. l
take up that part Of Judge Douglas speech
in which he respectfully attended to me-
Laughter.)
THE ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN-sLAvERY OR NO
SLAVERY.
Judge Douglas makes two points upon my
recent speech at Springfield. He says they
are to be the issues of this campaign. The
first one of these points he bases upon the
language in a speech which l delivered at
Springfield, which believe can quote cor
rectly from memory. | said there that I" we
are now far into the fifth year since policy
was instituted for the avowed object and with
the confident promise Of putting an end to the
slavery agitation under the operation Of that
policy, that agitltion had only not ceased,
but has constantly augmented" A voice
That's the very language p') 81 believe
1t will not cease until crisis shall have been
reached and passed. A house divided against
| itself cannot stand. betieos this government
cannot endure permanently, half slave and half
free" (Applause.) Il do not expect the
Union to be dissolved,'-I am quoting from
my spcech-1 do not expect the House to
lall but do expect IL TO cease to Je dicided.-
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest
the spread of it, and place it where the pub.
lie mind shall rest in the belief that it is in
the course If ultimate extinction, or its advo-
Gates will push it forward until it shall become
alike lawful in all the States, North as we'll
South" ("Good, good.")
| That is the paragraph. In this paragraph
which quoted in your hearing and to which
ask the attention Of all, Judge Douglas
thinks he discovers great political heresv.-
want your attention in particular to what he
has inferred from. lie says l am in favor of
making all the States of this Union uniform
| in all their internal relation that IN all their
domestic concerns | am in favor of making
them entirely uniform. He draws his inter-
ence from the language I have quoted
to you. He says that | am in favor
of making war by the North upon the South
for the extinction of slavery that am also in
favor of inviting, as he expresses it, the South
to war upon the North for the purpose of
Matchmaking slavery. Now, it is singular
enough. if you will carefully read that pas
sage over, that did not say that | was in ia
vor of anything in it. | only said what ex-
pected would take place, | made prediction
only-it may have been foolish one perhaps.
[ did not even say that desired that slavery
should be put in course of ultimate extinction
[ do say so now, however (great applause)
so there need be no longer any difficulty about
that 1t may be written down in the next
speech. (Appause and laughter.
| Gentlemen, Judge Douglas informed you
that this speech of mine was probably care
fully prepared. I admit that it was am
not master of language; 1 have not fine
education / am not capable of entering into
a disquisition upon deicacies, as I believe
you call it !; but l do not believe that Ian
guage employed bears any such construction
as Judge Douglas puts upon it. But I don't
care about bubble in regard to words 1
know what l meant, and will not leave this
crowd in d ,ubt, if l can explain it to them,
what really meant in the use of that para
graph.
WHY THE GOVERNMENT HAS so LONG ENDURED
HALF SLAVE, HALF FREE.
I am not, in the first place, unaware that
this government has enlured eighty-two
years, half slave and half free. I know that
| am tolerably we'll acquainted with the his
tory of the country, and I know that it has
endured eighty-two years, half slave and half
free. beliem-and that is what / meant to
allude to there-I hliere it has endured be-
cause, during all that time, until the intro
duc:ion of the Nebraska Bill, the public mind
did rest. all the time, in the belief that slavery
was in a course of ultimate extinction.
e. Good y "good - and applause.) That
was what gave us the rest that we had
through that period of eighty-two years at
least, so | believe. | have always hated
slavery, think as much as any Abolitionist.
(Applause.) have been an Old Line Whg.
[ have always hated it, but l have always
been quiet about it until this new era of the
introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
always believed that everybody was against
it, and that it was in course of ultimate eTtinc-
tion. pointing to Mr.. Browning, who stood
near by,)-Browning thought so the great
mass of the nation having rested in the belief
that slavery was in course Of ultimate ex-
tinction. They had reason so to believe.
| The adoption of the Constitution and it's
attendant history led the people to believe so;
and that such was the belief of the fiamers
of the Constitution itself Why did those
| old men, about the time of the adoption of
the Constitution, decree that Slavery should
| not go into the new Territory where it had
not already gone Why declared that with
in twenty years the African Slave Trade, by
which slaves are supplied, night be cut off by
Congress -? Why were all these acts?
might enumerate more OF such acts
but enough. What were they but clear in
dication that the trainers of the Constitution
intended and expected the ultimate extinction
of that institution. (Cheers.) And now
when say as say in this speech that Judge
| Douglas has quoted from, when say that
think the opponents of slavery will resist the
farther spread of it, and place it where the
public mind shall rest with the belief that it
is in course Of ultimate extinction, only
mean to:say that they will place it where
the founder OF this government originally pla-
ced it.
have said hundred times, and have
now no inclination to take it back, that be-
lievc there is no right, and ought to be no in
clnation to the people Of the free States to
enter into the slave States, and interfere with
the question of slavery at all. l have said
that always. Judge Douglas has heard me
say it-f rot quite a hundred times, at least
| as good as hundred times ana when 1t IS
said that am in favor Ofinterfering with sla-
very where 1t exists, know it is unwarrant-
cd by anything have ever intended, and as I
believe, by anything have ever said. If, by
any means. have ever used language which
could fairly be so construed, las, however,
| believe never have now correct it.
UNIFORMITY OF DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS IN TIE
So much, then, for the interference that
Judge Douglas draws, that / am in favor Of
setting the sections at war with one another.
| know that never meant any such thing,
and believe that no fair mind can infer any