The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-22
! ioTTUMWA.IoWA, THURSDAY, JULY %, 1858

ago, which bold in my hand now, that no
fair chance was to be given the people. Read
il J" s'read it."1 l shall not waste your time
trying to read it. E"Resd it,'' }"read it."1-
Gentlemen, reading from speeches is very
tedious business, particularly for an old man
that has TO put on spectacles, and more so IL
the man be 80 tall that he has to bend over the
light. [Laughter.1 s1ssBaH
A little more, now, as to this matter Of pop
ular sovereignty and the Lecompton Constitu-
tion. Tho @Lecompton Constitutions -as the
Judge tells us, was defeated. The defeat Of II
was good thing or il was not. He thinks the
defeat Of ii was good thing and so do 1, and
we agree in that. Who defeated it7 .t5gb
az A yoiee-Judge Douglas. sg,p u8ls tsg
ia Mr.. Lncoln--Yes, he furnished himself,
and if you suppose he controlled the other
democrats that went with him, he furnished
three votes, while the Republicans furnished
twenty. (Applause. sa Ea
That is what he did to defeat it. In the
House Of Representatives he and his friends
furnished some twenty votes and the RepubIi-
cans ninety odd.s cloud applause.) Now,
who was ii that did the work zsf
A voice-Douglas. oFMB - sgse
Mr.. Lincoln--Why, yes, Douglas did il! To
be sure he did. aas sgds ,4aa5 n
i Let us, however, put that proposition apoth-
er way. The Republicans could not have done
!: without Judge Dongias.- Could he have
done It without themp CApplause1 Which
would have come the nearest to doing it with.
out the other9 [Renewed applause. "fhat's
It, that's it, good, good" il "A {as{ y,
A voice--Who killed the bill?
Another voice-Douglas.
Mr.. Lincoln Ground was taken against it
by the Republicans long before Douglas did it,
The proportion Of the opposition to that meas
ure is about FIVE to one. s,...,,....- s,...
Now, who in all this country has ever found
any Of our friends Of Judge Douglas way Of
thinking. and who have acted upon this main
question, that have thought of uttering word
in behalf Of Judge Trambali? / defy you to
show me 1 printed resolution PASSED in DEM
ocrafic meeting g-Itske It Upon myself to defy
any man to show a printed resolution Of d
democratic meeting, large Or small, in favor Of
Judge Trombull, or any Of the five to one Re-
publicans who beat that bill. Everything
mast be for the Democrats. They did every
thing, and the five to one that really did the
thing they snub over and do tot seem 10 re-
member TO have an existence upon the face Of
the earth. { Applause. arisa 81 17t3h s'oa
So much thep as to my dis positinn-my wish
Ito have all the State legislatures blotted out,
and ia. have one general consolidated govern
ment, and uniformity of domestic regulations
in all the States, by which I suppose it is
meant if we raise corn here, we must make
those things which grow North, grow inthe
South. All this | suppose the Judge UNDER
stands am in favor of doing. Now, so
much fer all OF this nonsense--for must
call it so. The Judge can have no issue
with me on question Of establishing uni
formity in the domestic regulations Of the
States.di 81 sqal a sfgaH 3ae5 }s7i}
|. q LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS. ae4ffa.aaf
Gentlemen I'll fear that 4 shall become to-
dious (Go on, go on.) leave this branch Of
the subject to take hold Of another. Itake up
that part OF Jucge Douglas speech in which
he respectfully attendeato me. Laughter. ]
Judge Douglas makes two points upon my re-
cent speech at Springfield. He says they arr
to be the issues Of this campaign. The first one
Of these points he bases upon the language in
a speech which I delivered at Springfield
| which believe can quote correctly from
memory. said there that 1--WE are now faI
into the fifth year since policy was institu-
ted for the avowed object and with the conf.
Ident promise Of putting an end to slavery agi-
tation; under the operation of that policy, that
agitation has not only not ceased, but has con
stantly augmented" "a voice)-"That's the
very language.os 81 believe !. will not cease
funtil crisis shall have been reached and pass.
ed. A shouss divided against itself cannot
stand 1 b~lless This government cannot en.
dure permanently half slave and half free.'
[Appiause. q ST do not expect the Union tc
be dissolved, -" am quoting frsm my speech
1sI do not expect the house to fAll, hut I Dc
expect it willcease to be divided. 1t will be-
come all one thing os all the ether. Either
the opponents Of slavery will arrest the spread
Of il, and place il where the public mind shall
rest In the belief that it Is id ths course of ulti
mate extinction, o' its advoestes will push q
forward until it shall become alike iawfal i
all the States North as well As South" GOOD
good" ktktl
That Is the paragraph. 10 this paragraph
which have quoted in your hearing, and t.
which ask the attention Of ali, Judge Dou'
las thinks he discovers great political heresy
I want Your attention particularly to what he
has inferred from it. He says am in favor
tof making ell the States in this Union Uniform
in al their internal regulations; that in all
| theh domestic concerns am inf favor Of making
them entirely uniform. He draws this inferenc,
from the language | have quoted to you. n,
says that am in favor OF making war by the
North upon the South for the extinction o.
slavery that am also inviting, as he express
ses it, the South 70 war upon the North fol
| the purpose Of pationalizing slavery. Now
It Is singular enough, il you win carefully rea,
the passage over, mat did not say tn at I wa
in favor of any thing In it. only said 3 VIA
expected would taks p ace, i made q pre-
diction onlv-it NAV have bean n fo.ish on