The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-28
SnoU4AsA1me en-. A. lincoln At Spring
fAo1o. MS, July nth.

sDeO1A Aalasn. A. f.incoln ~ sprsns
eAesA. niis., July 17th.
CONTINUED.
Al to the Letompton Constitution, hav
already said that on the question Of fact 4
70 whether it was fair emanation Of th
people or not, judge Douglas with the Re
pubiicans and some Americans had greatl
the argument against the Administration
and while repeat this, Nth to know wha
there is in the opposition Of Judge Dough-
to the Lecompton Constitution that entitle
him to be considered the only opponent Of i
--as being par srcelience the very guinte:
cence of that opposition. ! agree to tn
rightfulness Of his opposition. lie in tn
Senate and his class Of men there formed th
number THREE and no more. In the Hous
OF Representative his class of men--anti
Lccompton nemocrats--formed number O.
about twenty. II took one hundred ans
twenty to defeat the measure against on,
hundred and twelve. OF the votes of tha
one hundred and twenty, Judge Douglas
friends furnished twenty, to add to which
there were elk Americans and ninety. fou,
Republicans. do not say that ! am pre-.
cisely accurate in their numbers, but
am sufficiently so for any use am making oil
/ it.
Why is it that twenty shall be entitled to
all the credit for doing that work, and the
hundred none Of it? Why, il, as Douglas
says, the honor is to be divided and due
credit is to be given to other parties, why il
just so much given as is oonsonant with the
wishes, tho interests and advancement Of the
twentyp My understanding is, that when a
common job is done, or a common enterprise
prosecuted, that if put in FIVE dollars to
your one, have right to take out five dol
lars to your one. But he does no SO under
stand it. He declares the dividend of credit
for defeating Lecompton Constitution on a
basis which seems unprecedented and incom
prehensible.
Let us see, Lecompton, in tae run was de-
feated. II afterwards took a sort of cooked
up shape, and was passed in the English bill.
1t is said by the Judge, that tho defeat was a
good and proper thing. II it was good
thing, why is he entitled to more credit than
| others, for the performance Of a good act,
unless there was something in the antece-
dents Of the Republicans that might induce
| every one to expect that they would join in
| that good work, and at the same time, some
| thing leading them to doubt that he would
the ground that be performed a good act,
which was never expected of him? He
says have proneness for quoting scrip.
ture. If shou j do so now, then IT occurs
that perhaps be places himself somewhat on
the ground Of the parable of the lost sheep,
which went astray upon the mountains, and
when the owner Of the hundred theep found
that ono was lost, and threw it upon his
shoulder. and came home rejoicing, it was
said there was more rejoicing over the one
sheep that was lost and had been found, than
over the ninety and nine in the fold. Great
checriIg.l the moral 10 applied by the Sa-
vior in this parable thus-"s erily, | say unto
you, there is more rejoicing in Heaven, over
one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety
and nine just persons that need no repent
ance." lCheering.l And now,i the Judge
claims the benefit Of this parable, LET hin
REPENT. Vociferous applause. Ler him
not come up here and say: am the only
just person; and you arc the ninety-nine
sinners REPENTANCE before FORGIVENESS lie
provision OF the Christian system, and
on that condition alone will the Republic
ans grant his forgiveness. Laughter and
cheers.l
low will he prove that we have ever occu-
pied different position in regard to this Lee
compton Constitution or any principle in
it? lie says he did not make his opposition
on he ground as TO whether il was free or
slave constitution, and he would have you
understand that Republicans made their OPP
position because il ultimately became a slave
constitution. To make proof in favor of
himself on tbs point, he reminds US that he
opposed Lccomp,on before the vote was Ia.
ken declaring whether tn. State was to be
free or slave. But he forgets to say that our
Republican Senator, Trumbull, made speech
against Lecompton, even before be did.
Why did he oppose ftp. Partly, us he de-
clnres, because the members OF the Conven-
ton who framed i. were not fairly elected by
the people that the people were not allowed
TO vote unicss they had been registered; and
that the people whole counties, in some
instances, were not registered. For these
| reasons he declares the constitution was not
an emanatiop, in any true sense, from the
people. lie also has an additional objection
as to the mode Of submitting the conssitu-
| ton back TO the people. But bearing on the
question Of whether the delegates were fair
/ " elected, speech Of his, made something
more than twelve months ago, from the stand,
becomes important. II WAS made little
while before the election Of the delegates
who made Leeompton, La that speech he
declared there was every reason to hope and
believe the election would bc fair, aud il any
enc failed to vote it would be his own culpa-
bic fault
/. a few days after, made short answer
TO that speech. Ia that answer, made, sub
stnnsially, the very argument with which he
combatted ms Lecompton adversares in the
Senate last winter. pointed to the facts
that the people could not vote without being
registered, and that tho time for registering
had gone BY. commented on IL ~ wonder
~ul that Judge Douglas could BIO ignorant Of
these facts, which every one else in the ma
ton so well knew.
now pass from popular sovereignty and
Lecompton. may have occasion 70 refer to
one or both.
When he was preparing bis plan OF cam
paign, Napoleon like, in New York, as APP
pears by two speeches have heard him de-
liver since his arrival in Illinois, he gave
special attention to speech Of nine, deiv-
cred here on the 10th Of June last. He
says tina, he carefully read that speech. lie
told us that Of Chicago aweck ago last night,
and he repeated it Mt Bloomington LIST night.
Doubtless lie repeater il, again to-day though
l did not hear him. Ia the two Grst places
Chicago aud Bloomingtan--l heard him !;
TO day did not. A yoice-sYes, be said
tet .l.s 1 IL. a e. l. n .