The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-09-23

uuhe elafe teIHtOIy VI Tree teTTllOTy Is
perfect and complete under the Nebraska
bill. | hope Mr.. Lincoln deems my answer
satisfactory on that point.
The third question which Mr.. Lincoln pre-
sented is, If the Supreme Court of the Uni.
ted States shall decide that State of this
Union cannot exclude slavery from its own
limits will / submit to it! l am amazed that
Lincoln should ask such question. T"A
school boy knows better."l Yes, school
boy does know better. Mr.. Lincoln's OBJ
ject is to cast an imputation upon the Su-
preme Court. He knows that there never
was but one man in America claiming any
degree OF Intelligence or decency, who ever
for moment pretended such a thing. 1t is
true that the Washington Union, in an arti-
Gle pub lished on the l7th of last December,
did put forth that doctrine, and denounced
the article on the floor OF the Senate, in O
speech which Mr.. Lincoln now pretends
was against the President, The Union had
claimed that slavery had right to go into
the free States, and that any provision in
the Constitution or laws of the free States
to the contrary were nall and void. | de.
nouhced it in the Senate, as said before
and | was the first man who did. LincoIn's
| friends, Trumbul, and Seward, and Hale
and Wilson, and the whole Black Republi-
can side of the Senate were silent. They
left II to me TO dehoInce it. [Cteers. +
And what was the reply made to me on that
occasion! Mr. Toombs, of Georgiu, got up
and undertook to lecture me on the ground
that ough not to have deemed the article
worthy of notice, and ought not to have re.
piled to it; that there was not one man, wo-
man or child south of the Potomac, in. any
slave State, who did notrepudiate any aucE
pretention. Mr.. Lincoln knows thut that
reply was made on the spot, and yet now he
asks me, suppose Mr.. Lincoln should steaI
horse would sanction it; laughter and
it would be as genteel in me to ask him, in
the event he stole horse, what ought to BE-
done with him. He casts an imputation up.
on the Supreme Court of tho United States
by supposing that they would violate the
Constitution of the United States. tell
him that such thing is not possible
Cheers. Itwould be an act of moral trea-
son that no man on the bench could ever de.
scend to. Mr.. Lincoln himself would never
In his partizan feelings SO far forget what
was right as TO be guilty of such an act
["Good, good."]
The fourth question Of Mr.. Lincoln is, arc
you in favor of acquiring additional territory
in disregard as to how such Acquisition may
effect the Union on the slavery question
This question is very ingcnionsly and Gun
ningly put.
deacon Bross here spoke, soto ooice,--
the reporter understanding him to say "NcN
we've got him."l t.t,
The Black Republican creed lays it dowr
expressly, that under no circumstances shall
we acquire any more territory unless slave
ry is first prohibited in the country. l ask
Mr.. Lincoln whether he is in fuvor of that
proposition. Are you addressing Mr.. Lin.
coln) opposed to the acquisition of any
more territory, under any circumstances
unless slavery is prohibited in it That HI
does not like to answer. When ask hin
whether he stands up to that article in tn,
platform of his porty, he turns, yankee. fash
ion, and without answering it, asks me whe
ther am in favor Of acquiring territory
without regard to how it may affect the
Union on the slavery question. (Good.)
answer that whenever it becomes necessary
in our growth and progress to acquire more
territory, that am in favor of it, without
reference to the question of slavery, anC
when we have acquired it, will leave the
people free to do as they please, either made
it slave or free territory, as they Prefer
Here Deacon Bross spoke. The reporte
believes that he said, "That's bold" l
was said solemnly.] 1t is idle to tell me O.
you that we have territory enough. Our ia
theirs supposed that we had enough wheI
our territory extended to the Mississippi ri
YER, but few years growth and expansion
satisfied them that we needed more, and thl
Louisiana territory, from the West brancI
of the Mississippi, to the British POSSESSIONS
was acquired. Then we acquired Oregon
then California and New Mexico. We have
enough now for the preeent, but this is
young and growing nation. 1t swarms al
often as hive of bees, and as new swarm
are turned out each year, there must be hives
in which they can gather and make thei
honey. Good, In less than fifteen years
if the same progress that has distinguished
this country for the last fifteen years con
tinues, every foot of vacant land between
this and the Pacific ocean, owned by the
United States, will be occupied. Will yor
not continue to increase at the end of fifteer
years as we'll as now! tell you, increase
and multiply, and expand, is the law Of this
nations existence. Good
BuIWer on the Destruction of Jc
TUSalcln.