Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-04
DEBATE BETWEEN DOUGLAS AND LIN
COLIN.

On Saturday the 2lst ult. Messrs, Douglas anc
Lincoln, candidates for the United States Senate
in Illinois,m met in debate at Ottawa. From the dis
cusson we select some of the more important
J points.
Il DOUGLASS REMARKS.
THEY PROCLAIM AN ABOLITION PLATFORM, AND CALI
1T REPUBLICAN.
In pursuance of that arrangement, the parties
met at Springfield liz october 1854 and proclaimed
their new platform. Mr.. Lincoln was to bring in
to the Abolition camp the old line Wings, and
transfer them to Gddings and CHASE, Fred
| Douglass, Lovejoy and Farnsworth, who were then
ready to receive and christen them into Abolition
lists. They laid down on that occasion platform
for this new Republican party, which was to be
constructed out of the old Whig party and the old
Democratic party, by abolitonizing both, and
transferring them to abolitionism. / havethe res.
olutions of that Convention, which the first
Mass State Convention ever held in Illinois by the
Republican party. now hold them in my hand,
and will read part of the resolutions and cause
the others to be printed. Here is Of the
lutons and the most material one of this Abolition
! platform, under the new name of Republicanism
! 2. Resolved, That the times imperativey de.
mand the reorganization Of parties, and repudiat
ing oil previous party attachments names and pre-
dilectons VIC unite ourselves together in defence
ot the liberty and constitution OF the country, and
will hereafter cooperate the Republican party,
pledged to the accomplishment of the following
purposes To bring the administration of the gov.
ernmcnt back to the control of first principle to
restore Nebraska and Kansas to the position Of
rec territies that, the Constitution of the Unit.
ed States vests in the States, and not in Congress-
the power to egisa.e for the extradition of fugi-
tives from labor, to repeal and entirely abrogate
the fugitive slave law to restrict slavery those
States in which it exists; TO prohibit tho adnis-
sion of any more slave States into the Union to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia /;
to exclude slavery from all the Territories over
which the government has exclusive jurisdiction ;
and to resist the requirement of any more terri
| tory unless the practice of slavery therein shall
have been forever prohibited.
DOUGLAS PUTS LINCOLN TO THE QUESTION, AND
ASSERTS HIS OWN NATIONALITY.
Now, gentlemen, you have cheored-you Republic
have cheered every of these propositions re-
newed cheers) and yet venture to say you cannot
get Mr.. Lincoln, your candidate, to come out and
say that he is now for each one Of them. That
these propositions do one and all constitute the
! platform Of the Black Republican party this day,
| have no doubt, and when you were not aware for
! what purpose was reading these resolutions, you
! chcered them as good Black Republican doctrine
(cheers) and ye. my object in reading them is to
put the question TO Abraham Lincoln, this day,
whether he now stands and will stand by each ar
ticle of that creed, and carry them all out. de.
sire to know whether Mr., Lincoln to-day stands
pledged as he did in 1854 in favor Of the uncondi.
| tional repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. | desire
him to answer whether he stands pledged to-day
as he did in '54, against the admission Of any
more slave States even if the people want them.
| want to knew if he stards pledged to vote against
the admission of new State into the Union with
such constitution the people of that state may
see fit to make. desire to know whether be stands
pledged to the abolition Of slavery in the District
| of Columbia.
l desire to know whether he stands pledged
TO abolish and prohibit the slave trade between the
different States. | desire to know whether he
stands pledged to prohibit slavery il all the Ter
ritores of the United States, North as well as
South of the Missouri Compromise line. desire
him to answer whether he is opposed to the acqui'
sion Of any more territory, unless slavery is first
prohibited therein want his answer. Your af
| frmative cheers in favor of this Abolition plat
form are not satisfactory but / want Abraham
Lincoln to answer these questions in order that
when trot him down into Lower Egypt, may
compel him to repeat the same,
My principles are the same everywhere. can
proclaim them alike N the North and in the South,
in the East and in the West. My principles will
apply wherever the Constitution prevails, and the
American flag waves ever the American territory.
! desire to know whether Mr.. Li1cOn's principles
will bear to be trans planted from Ottawa to Jones'
boro. put these questions to him to-day, and ask
an answer. have right to an answer uRn
these, for quote them from the platform made by
himself and others at the time the Republican party
was first formed and the bargain was made to dis
solve and kill off and destroy the old Wing and
Democratic parties, and transfer each of their
members bound hand an foot into the Abolition
party, under the directions of Giddings and Chase.
NATIONAL AND SECTIONAL CONFLICT.
Lincoln now takes the stand and prOclams his
abolition doctrine. In his speech to the conven
ton which nominated him for the Senate, in
Springfield. he says "In my opinion the slavery
agitation will not cease until a crisis shall have
been reached and passel. a house divided
against itself cannot stand. l believe this gov
ment cannot endure permanently half slave and
half free. do not expect the Union to be dissolv
ed. / do not expect the house to fall,
: but | do expect that it will cease to be
divided Ii will become all one thing or all the
other. Either the opponents of slavery viii arrest
the further spread of it, and place it where the
, public mind shall rest in the belief that
it is in the course Of ultimate extinction.
or lis advoes will push it forward, until it shall
become alike lawful in all the States, old as well
, as new, North as well as South. Tremendous
| cheers Cries of Good good" "'l Yes. have
no doubt it is, and am delighted TO hear you say
I good. Good good Laughter. have no
doubt that that doctrine xIresses your sentments
and yet will prove to you, if you will stCn to me,
that this doctrine is revolutionary, and destructive
Of the existencc of our government Mr. Lincoln