The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-07-29
NO. XII

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indication that the trainers of the Constitution
Intended aud expected the ultimate extinction of
lhot instltution. Cheers. And now when say.
as say IN this speech, that Judge Douglas has
quoted from, when say that think the oppo.
nents OF slavery will resist the farther snread of
u, ana place II where the public m nd shall rest
win the belief that IL is in course of ultimate
extinction, only mean to say, that they will
place II where the founders of this government
originally placed it.
have said hundred times. and have now
no inclination to take il back, tha; belieys
there ia no right, and ought TO b, no inclination,
IN tue people OF the free States to enter into the
slave States, and interfere with the question at
all. have said that always Judge Douclas
has heard ma say tiff not quite hundred
times at least as good a hundred times and
when II is said that am in favor of interfering
! with slavery where it exists. | know il is un-
warranted by anything have ever intended.
and as believe, by anything have ever said
IL, by any means, have ever ussd language
whlch could fairly be so construed (as, however,
believe never havc,) now correct it,
| Here the shouts of the Seventh Ward delees-
ton announced that they were coming in pro-
| cesslon. They were received with enthusiastic
cheers.
So much, then, for the inference 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 iair mind can lnler any such thing from any
thing have ever said. L"Good good."l
Now in relation TO his inference that am in
favor OF general consolidation OF all the local
institutions OF the various States twill attend
TO mat Tor little while, and try to inquire if
can, how on earth it could be that any man
could draw such al interence from ANYTHING [
sand. have said, very many times in Judge
Douglas hearing, that no man believed more
| / N In mr. .,rt,, ,.,T,
IL lies at the bottom of all my ideas of Just gov
eminent from beginning to end. have denied
that ms use OF that term applies properly. Bus
Tor The thing itself, dsuy that any man has evcv
gone ahead OF me in his devotion TO the prince
pls, whatever he may have done in efficiency in
advocating il. think have said it in your
hoanng-that believe each individual is natu-
raliy entl'led TO do as he plcases with himself
aud tho frut OF his labor 80 far as il in nowise in
'etlefes with any other mans rights lapplausel
that each community, as State, has right to
do exactly as 1t pleases with all the concerns
within that State that interfere with the rights
oil no other State and that the general govern
men, upon principle has no right to Interfere
with anything other chan that general class oE
ihlnBs that docs not concern the whole. | have
said that ut all times. have said, as illustra-
tion that do not believe in the right of llli-
nols to interfere in the cranberry laws of IN
diana, the oyster laws Of Virginia, or the liquor
laws OF Maine. ! have said these things over
and over again, aud repeat them here as my
sentiments.
How is it, them that Judge Douglas infers. be-
cause l hope to see slavery put where ths nnb-
llc mlnd shall rest in the belief that il is in the
course of ultimate extinction, that am in ia
yor OF Illinois going over and interfering with
the cranberry laws OF Indiana? What can au-
thorze him to draw such inference? | suppose
there might be one thing that at least enabled
am TO draw such an inference that would not
DO true with me or with many othsrs--that is,
because he looks upon all this matter of slavery
as an exceedingly little thing-this matter Of
keeping one-sixth of the population of the whos
nation IN a state OF oppression and tyranny un-
squalled in the world. He looks upon it as be-
ing an exceedingly little thing--ouly equu to
the question OF the cranberry laws OF Indiana
as something having no moral question in it,
as some thing on par with the question OF
whether man shall pasture his land with cattle,
or plant 1t with tobacco-so little and so small
thing that he concludes ii | could desire uny-
thing should b. done to bring about the ulti-
mate extinction of that little thing, mus. be-
IN favor OF bringing about az anagamation of
all the other little things in the Union. Now,
It SO happens-and there | presume, is the fouu-
dation OF this mistdke-that the Judge thinks
mus and 1t so happens that there is vast
portion OF the American people who do not look
upon ths matter as being this very little thing.
They look upon it as vast moral evil they
can prove il is such by the writings OF those
who gave us the blessing of liberty which we
enjoy and that they so looked upon it, and not
as an evil merely conhning itself to the States
where II is situated AMI while we agree that,
by the constitution we assened to il, isl the
States where it exists we have no right to inter-
ere with it because it is i'll the constitution, and
we are both by duty aud inclination bound to
stick by the constitution in all its letter and
spirit from beginning to end Great applauset
So much then as To my dspostion--my wish
to have all the State legislatures blottrd out,
and to have one general consolidated govern,
ment aud a uniformity of domestic regulations
in all the States. by which supposi it is meant
II we rdlse corn here, We must make sugar.cane
grow here too, and we must make those things
which grow in the North grow in the South. =
All this suppose the Judge understands am
IN favor OF doing. Now, so much for all this
nonsense--ior must call it so. The Judge can
have no issue with me on question of estab-
Ilshing uniformity in the domestic regulations
OF the States. .r