Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-09-08

Chiesgo speech
Senator Dougla, was received this evening
with greai display, Al one o'clock commit
tee OF four hundred. from Chicago aud the adj
Joining counties, proceeded 10 Michigan City,
aud there met Judge Douglas aud escorted
him 10 the city. The arrival Of the train was
greeted by the fling Of cannon aud the
cheers Of the people A procession WAS io'm'
ed and conducted him 10 the fremont House,
where he was welcomed in hnei speech N
behalf Of the citizens. by Charles Walker,
President Of the Board OF Trade,
Mr.. pouglus aileT returning his thanks for
the magnificent reception, reviewed the action
OF the las, Congress on the Kansas bill, He
extolled the cfiIienden bill as honest, aud as
the very best proposition for The practical IL
lustraiion OF popular sovereignty. lie clalm'
cd that the struggle with ii.eeompionlsm was
for the integrity Of principle. The struggle
was iriumphaI, and Leeomponism was vlrIn'
ally abandoned by lis friends, and had been
defeated forever He had opposed the Eng
.lish oil although practically sent back tue
Constitution TO be aeecptedrof rejected by The
people, because the manner as well as the form.
OF that submission was AT variance with every
Just principle Of popular government. IL was
n submission OF the Constitution 10 the peo.
pie. with the ihrea, that il they did not accept
Slave Constitution, its $4,000 should not
come in as Free Stute until il had $4,000,
lie could never countenance such dlscrlm'
ination between Free aud Slave Suites. The
best energies OF his mind had been several
years devoted TO tho great principle Of the
rights OF the people OF the Territories TO frame
their own fundamental laws, and he intended
TO devote all his future life 10 the same doc.
trine. lie commended that the Compromise
measures OF 1850 were founded on this princi.
pie, and were carried out IN the Kansas NebrnS-
braska bill He affirmed the Cincinnati plat.
form, re.afiirmed President Buchanan's inaug-
ural. He regretted TO see, however, a politi-
cal party OF this country determined not 10 &C.
quiesec in this line Of policy.
The Republican Convention, recently ne.
sembled at Springfield, nominated Mr.. Lin
coin as his (Douglas0 successor TO the Senate,
to repudiate the doctrine of popular sovereign.
~. He (Lincoln) proclaimed that Congress,
and not the people of the Territories, had the
right to establish the domestic institutions OF
the Territories. Lincoln endorsed not only
the doctrine, but proclaimed a line Of policy
which was Incompatible with the existence OF
the Union, iof he declared that the Union, di.
vlded into an equal number of free and slave
States, cannot endure. Mr.. Douglas showed
'he dangerous tendency of this doctrine, and
said that it invited and proclaimed war Of
extcrmnatlon-on section against the other
lie regarded it as subversive of the fundamen-
tal principles upon which our complex system
OF government rested.
He denied that uniformity of local policy
and OF domestic institutions in the different
States was either desirable, or even possible
or the contrary, he held that our political sys-
TEN rested upon the theory and the practice Of
dissmilarity of local policy and of domes-
tic institutions in the different States. Our
foreiathers clearly perceived that the kind Of
domestic institutions which suit New Hamp-
shire would be totally unfit for the rice planta-
sions Of Carolina. Hence they adopted con.
stitution which provides that each State should
be sovereign and supreme within its own lin.
its. nm the superstition that they would be as
diversified as States were numerous
Thus it would seem, the diversity and dis
similarity of the domestic institutions of the
sovereign States are the cardinal principles
underlying the whole system ofrour govern
ment. Its strength, harmony, and adaptation
TO the wants and interests of the people all
depend upon the right of each State to form
and regulate its own internal policy without
reference to its similarity or dissmilarity to
the States. Repeated uniformity is neither
desirable nor possible. If possible, how can it
be obtained7 There is but one process through
sshlch 1t can be accomplished, and that would
DO TO abolish the State Legislatures, convert
the government into one consolidated empire,
investing Congress with full power TO adopt
police regulation. regulate internal policy, |
and adopt domestic institutions for all the
States
Let this be done, and there would be uni
formity. Then the States would either be
free or slave States. Then lie negroes could
vote everywhere or nowhere Then our glo.
rious confederation of thirty.two sovereign
States would be merged into one consolidated
empire, and the uniformity of despotism would
reign triumphant throughout the land. Mr.
Douglas proceeded to answer Mr.. Lincoln's
crusade against the Supreme Court, on &C.
count OF the bred Scott decision He could
sanction no crusade, he said, against the high
est judicial tribunal in the land.-
He did not agree with Mr.. Lincoln, that 1t
was great wrong 10 deprive negro of the
rights of citizenship. He did not believe .hey
were ever intended TO be citizens. Our gov
eminent was founded on white basis, and |
was created by white men. True humanity
required that negroes and other inferior races
should be permitted to enjoy only such rights
and privileges as they were capable Of exer.
cising consistent with the good of society
MIR. Douglas adverted TO the necessity of
maintaining the organization of the Democrat
ic party. While there might be differences of
opinion with respect to the true construction
of particular articles of the creed, party toler-
atoms, he said, must be INDUCED. There
should be no prescription Of sound democrats,