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0sweep from our Capital that foulblot upon our

sweep from our Capital that foul blot upon our
nation Loud applause.
In regard to the 9Th interrogatory, must
say, here, that as the question of the abolition
Of the Slave Trade between the different States,
1 can truly answer, as I have, that am pIedged
to nothing about it. Its a subject to which I
have not given that mature consideration That
would make me feel authorized to state a.posI-
ton SO as tol1old myself entirely bound by it.
In other words, that question has never been
prominently enough before me to inducetme to,
investigate whether we really have the constitu-
tional power to do it. Icould investigate itifI
had sufficient time to bring myself to. a c0ntlu-
sion upon that subject, but Ebave not done so,S
and say SO frankly to, you here, and to Judge.
| Douglas. must say, however, that if / should
be of opinion that Congress does possess the
constitutional power to abolish slavery among.
the different States should still notbe in favor
of the exercise of that power less upon some
conservative principles as conceive it, akin to
what l haze said in relation to the abolition of
| slavery in the District of Columbia. a 90 !
My answer as to whether ] desire that slavery
should be prohibited in all the Territories Of the
l United States is full and explicit within ITSELF
and cannot be made clearer by any comments of
mine. So suppose in regard to the question
/ whether am opposed to the acquisition of any
more territory unless slavery is first prohibited
| therein, my answer is snch that could add
nothing by way of Illustration, or making myself
understood, than the answer hich have placed
! in writing.
Now in all this, the Judge has me and he has
me on the record. suppose he had Aattered
himself that was really entertaining one set of
opinions for one place and another set for anoth-
| err place-thatI was afraid to say at one place
what uttered at another. What am saying
here suppose | say to a vast audience as
! strongly tending to Abolitonism as any aud
diencein the State of Illinois, and I believe
am sayinging that which, ifitwould be affirmed
to any persons and render them enemies to my
self would be offensive to persons in this au-
dience.
TIE Hon. Bill LAwENcE DRoppED OUT OF
the LIsTs.-We announced yesterday morning
the fact that Mr. sprgg, of Noble county, o.,
had been nominated for Congress by the Demo
cratic Convention held at GAINESVILLE, last Tues
day. Our distinguished, but now extinguished
friend Bill Lawrence, was before the Conven-
tion-but in spite of his own and all efforts of
his friends, he went under Bill has made very
great efforts to sustain himself They say he's
worked like Turk over there, ever since his
return from Washington. AsBrigham Young's
book of Mormon says, he has "blowed his own
horn"-blowed it long and strong but like the
refrain in that poem we published the other
morning, tho only echoes were "dying-dying
dying" That Convention did a wise thing
when they dropped our friend Bill. He would
have been bigger load on the backs of the
Democrats over there, than ever the bundle of
sin was on the back Of old Christian-or even
than the world itself on the shoulders of old
father Atlas. The people were bound to ex-
tinguish Bill. That grand and lofty summer
sault Of his, from Anti-Lccompton to Pro Eng
lish-bill, was more than even the capacious
stomachs of his partsans could digest. So
they quietly and wisely came the Jonah game
on him, and gulped him up on high and dry
place, where, in all likelihood, William will re.
main until the trumpet blows.