Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-16
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his position to be, not only IN oh'"eN y
nstional Administration, as far as It's enaorst
,n.n, Of the Lecompton fraud was concerned, bu
,I.o IN sp,agouism to the platform aRd candidate
of the Republicans. with whom severe contes
;,to be wased by him and his friends at the ap
preaching State election.
Mr.. Douglass speech was reported ana puO
lished in full in the Chicago Press and If'o~"e
After vndicating at length his former poi'ica
eonrse. in favoring the passage oil the famous
:. oomn,orDise measures in 1850, and engineer
inc through the Kanzas Nebraska act IN 1904
uwh;.h se,;ss Of acts he claimed as endorse
usuts If the doctrine Of popular sovereignty
he referred to his course at the late session oil
Congress, in opposing the Lscompton fraud as
hat acting in consistency with his previous POSI-
Nion and apeage" as he calls it, taken in all his
speeches in 1854. He says;
al then gave the pledge that |. SO far as the
uover should be in my hands, would Ylnoicate
tbat principle. the right of the people TO iorm
their own institutions, to estaosh nee otaees OF
slave States, as they chose, and mat tnat primer
ME should never be violated, either by fraud or
r;ols+cs or by circumvention, or BY any other
means. il it was in my power to prevent It. l
now submit to YOU. my fellow citizens, the CUES"
ton for YOUR decision, whether ! have not re
deemed that pledge in good faith 1es. my
friends. have redeemed it in good faith. and It
is matter of heartfelt qualification to me to ma
these assembled thousahds-thls muitltuoe OF
nersons assembled this night. bearing their testi
mons to the fidelity with which have vlholcateo
that principle and performed my pledges.
NV object was to secure the right OF the people
of each State and Of. each Territory, NORTH and
South, to decide for themselves, and 10 nave
slavery or not lust as they should choose. am
equally frank to say to you, that my opposiuoh
to the Lecompton Constitution was not pIeolca'-
ed upou the ground that il was spro-slayery cop
stiiution, nor would my action have been Gilei'
ent if it had been Free Soil Constitution.
This is Senator Douglass position, freely ana
frankly taken, and it is not strange that, consid
erng it, the Republicans Of Illinois should choose
to stand by their own organization, and go for
their own candidates, without regard to what
may be the differences between the administra-
tiun and Mr.. Douglas on the Lecompton swindle,
which MIR. D. nov deems to be dead and Obso-
lelsf or will be so when the people of Kanzss
shall have rejected the profered constitution, as
he thinks they assuredly will do at the election on
the I'd day of August.
Mr.. Douglas mentions, by way Of contrast,
the fact, that while he had the whole South with
him in 1854, againsvalmost the entire North, on
the Nebraska bill, in supporting the claimed
principle Of popular sovereignty" for the terri
tories, he had ''the almost united South" against
him, in 1858, in indicating. as he claims, the
same doctrine, in opposition to the Lecompton
swindle. Such have been the advancing strides
made BY the slave power, of late, that principle
or measure it has beenlclamorous for at one time
as the ultimstum Of its demands, falls so far short
Of what is necessary for its support in fOurgears,
that its advocates turn round and Tepudiate their
own doctrine, and threaten to repudiate all
who adhere thereto, although, in all other
respects the latter may go the full figure for let
ting the slave power have its own way un.
checked.
Mr. Douglas devoted great portion Of his
speech to attempted retutation of the positions
taken in the recent speech of ''his friend,' Hon.
Abfam Lincoln, who is the unanimous choice o
the Republicans Of Illinois for United States sen
ator to succeed Mr.. D. Mr.. Douglas is gentle
manly and courteous in HIS personal illusions
but be takes strong and decided gpund agains
the Republican doctrine, maintainst 5y Mr. Lin
coin, ofihe exclusion of slavery from the terrific
ries By Congressional action, and he also endors
ed fully the bred Scott decision to the REPUTATION
Of which Mr.. L. devoted a large portion of hi
speech Mr.. Douglas also stated an importan
issue with Mr. Lincoln, as both candidates TO
Unitee States senator, to be. on the doctrine ad
vanced by the latter, that freedom and slavery
could not much longer co-exist in this republic
but that soon slavery must be extinguished al
the South, or slaveholdiug become ere long uni
versal in all the States-that the much longer ex
istence Of slave States with free States under GU
cOnfederacy, was an anomaly. M Douglas OF
the other hand, maintained that the UnioI
could exist on no other condition, than in the di
versity Of institutions, presented by the co-exist
ence, under the United States Constitution, o
an equal number Of free and slave States, to bal
ance each other. OF course the Republicans O
Illinois will go enthusiastically with and for Mr.
Lincoln, on snch an issue, boldly taken by Mr.
Douglas himself
The issue with Mr.. Lincoln on the bred Scot
decision, is stated BY Mr.. Douglas as follows:
.'Mr. Lincoln goes for warfare upon the Su
preme Court Of the United States because Of thei
judicial decision. yield obedience to, and &C
quiesce ia, the final determination of the highes
Judicial tribunal Of the nation upon our constitu
tion. He objects to the bred Scott decision be
cause il does not put the negro ia possession 0
the rights Of citizenship on an equality with tn
white man. am utterly opposed to negro equal
ity with white men. repeat, that this nation
a nation of white people, a people composed
Tn~ hat has
lished this government for themselves and the
posterity, aad l am in favors of preserving M
only the purity Of their blood, but 4he purity
the government, from all mixed races or amalg,
nations. We hare seen the effects of these mil
ed rices OF superior and inferior races, this mi,
ture Of white men, and Indians, and negroes W
have seen it in Mexico, in Central America, an
in South America, and in all the Spanish Amer
can States. Its result has been deterioration, d.
mobilization, and degradation below the capacit
for self government ] am opposed 10 taking an
step that recognizes the negro or Indian as Ii
equal Of the white man. TO have voice in the e.
eeution and administration Ofthe government.
would extend to the negro and the Indian, an
all dependent races, every right, every pIivileg
and every immunity consistent with the safety
the white race, but equality he never shoul
have, either political or.social, or in any 9TH
respect whatever"
No Republican can countenante such aFist'
cratic and exclusive sentiments as these.
Mr.. Douglas concludes his speech, as follow
recapitulating the platform he stands upon;
'Then, my friends. you see the issue is vel
distinctly drawn, / stand BY the same platfor
that ! have 80 often proclaimed to you and TO th
people OF Illinois heretofore. stand by the Den
ocratic organization, yield obedience TO. its usl
geh, and support lie regular nominees ] endors
and approve the Cincinnau platform. / adheI
70, and intend to carry out, as part Of that pai
form, the great principle Of self-goyernmen
which recognizes the right Of the people Of eac
State and territory to decide for themeelves ,,no
their domestic institutions. In other words.
the Lecompton issue shall arise again, Won hav
only 20 turn back and see where you have toon