Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-04

States and Slave States.
| LINCOLN or AMAGGAMATioNIsT.
We are toldb by Lincoln that he is utterly oppos
cd TO the bred Scott decision and will not submi
TO II Tor the reason, as be says, that it dcprivc
the.0cgroes of the rights and privileges of citizens
FOR one, AN opposed to negro citizenship il
any form. l believe that this Government wa
MADE on the white basis. / believe it was mad
! by white men for The benefit Of white men ant
their postcrity forever, and am in favor of conin
iqg ihe citizenship to white men--men of Europe
an descent instead Of comforting it on NegrOe
and Indians, and other inferior races. But Mr.
Lincoln, following the lead Of the Abolition ora
tors that came here and lcctured in the basemen
! of your churches and school houses, read
the Declaration of Independence that al
men are created free and equal, and ther
says "llow you deprive the negro
| OF that equality which God and the Declar
alton OF Independence awards to him ?" lie and
| they MAINTAIN that negro equality is guaranteed
by the laws of God, and re.asserted in the declara
tian of Independence If they think SO, they
ought thus to vote.
| DOUGLAS on THE UNITY OF THE RACES.
| do not question Mr.. .Lincolns conscientious be
lief that the negro was made his equal, and hence
IS hs brother. But for my own part, / do not re.
gard the negro as my equal, and positively deny
| that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever
do thold that merely because the negro belongs
to an inferior race, therefor he out to be slave
By no means can such conclusion be drawn. On
tho contrary, do hold that humanity and Christi
anity both require that the negro should have and
enjoy every right every privilege and every immu.
nifty, consistent with the safety of the society in
which he lives. On that point / presume there
can be no diversity of opinion. You and | are
bound to extend 10 every inferior dependent beii o
every right every privilege and every facility and
immunity, consistent with the public good
Now, my friends, if we only act rigidly and con-
scientiousy upon this great principle of popular
sovereignty which guarantees to each State and
each Territory the right to do it peases. instead
of Congress interfering, We will be at peace one
with another. Why should Illinois be at war
with Missouri or Kentucky?
Then, my friends, why can VIC not adhere to that
great principle of self government upon which
our Institutions were originally made? believe that
this new doctrine preached byMr. Lincoln and this
abolition party would dissolve the Union. They
against the South, inviting a sectional war of the
free States against slave States-Northern States
against Southern States to last ultil one or the
other shall be driven to the wall.
LINooLN's REPLY.
My Fellow Citizens: When man hears him
self somewhat misrepresonted it provokes him, a
least find it so myself but when thea misrepre
sentatou becomes very gross and palpable, 1t II
more apt to amuse him. (Laughter. -
As to those resolutions that he took such lengt
of time to read as being the platform of the Re
publican party in 1854, the resolutions moi
those of the Republicans, hut Of an irresponsible
Abolition Convent on-ED. CIN. GAz | say | never
had had anything to do with them, and | think
-Trumbull had. Renewed laughter. Judge douglas
canno. show that either one of us ever did have
anything to do with them. believe Ills is true
about .hose resolutions: There was call for a
convention to form Republican party at Spring,
field, and think that my friend Mr.. Lovejoy who
is here upon this stand had hand in it. | think
this is true. and | think if he will remember &C.
curately he will be able to recOlect that he tried to
get me into it and | would not go in. Cheers
and laughter. | believe it is also true, that l
went away from Springfield when the Convention
was in session, to attend court in Tazewell county.
II is true they did place my namo, though without
authority, upon the Committee, and afterwards
wrote to me to attend u meeting Of the Committee
but refused to do so, and never had anything
to do with that organization. This is the plain
truth about all that matter Of the resolutions
THE srEAKER NOT sECTIoNALIsT.
When l made my speech at Springfield, of
which the Judge complains, and from which he
quotes, really was not thinking of the things
which he ascribes to me at all. | had no thought
in the world that was doing anything to bring
about war between the free and slave States.
had no thought in the world that was doing any
thing to bring about political and social equality
of the black and vito races. 1t never occurred to
me that was doing anything or favoring anything
to reduce to a dead uniformity all the
local institutions of the various States
Bot III must say, in all fairness to him, if
he thinks | am doing something which leads to
these bad results it is none TIE better that / did
not mean it, 1t is just as fatal to the country, if
/ have any influence in producing it, whether in
tend it or not. But can it be true that placing
this institution upon the original basis-the basis
upon which our fathers placed it-can have any
tendecy to set the Northern and Southern States at
war with one another, that it can have any ten
dency to make the people of Vermont raise sugar
cane, because, they raise it in Louisiana, or that it
can compel the people of Illinois to cut pine logs
on the Grand Prarie, where they will not grow, be-
cause they cut pine logs in Maine, where they do
grow. Laughter. The Judge says this is new
principle started in regard to this question. Does
the Judge claim that he is wording on the plan ot
the founders of the government? think he says in
some of his speeches-indeed have one here now
that he saw evidence Of policy to allow slavery
to be South Of certain line. while North Of itst
should be excluded and he saw an indisposltion on
the part of the country 10 stand upon that policy,
and therefore he set about studying the subject
upon original principles and upon original princi.
pies he got up the Nebraska tbili am fighting
it upon these "original principles fighting II in
the Jeffersonan, Washingtonan and Madisonian
fashion. Laughter and applause.
INTERPRETATIONS OF DOUGLAS EXPOSED.
Gentlemen, hate to waste my time on such
things, but in regard to that geLeral abolition tilt
that Judge Douglas makes, when he says that
was engaged at that time in selling out and abo'
litionize the old Whig party--l hope you will per
nit me to read part Of printed speech that
made then Mt Peoris, which will show altogether a
different view of the position took in the contest
Of 1854.
Voiee--Put on your specs.
Mr.. Lincoln-Yes sir AN obliged to do so.
am no longer young man. Laughter
X
"When Southern people tell US they are no more
responsible for slavery than we are, acknowledge
the the fact. Wlen they say that it is an existinl
institution, and there is no way to get rid of it,
assure them shall not blame them for not know
ing what to do. If all earthly power were giveI
10 me, | would no, know what to DO with it. NJ!
first impulse would be to free them all, and sem
dom TO Liberia, their own native land, but mo
a.ca reflection would convince me that whateve
Of nope there might be in this its execution
would bc impossible. | reflect that if they wer