The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-22
soLD SERIES, W, 10, NO.
TERMS, s1.5O In Advance.

ii so hsrpens-and there presume, is the
foundation Of his mistake--that the Judgs
thinks thus; and II so happens that there is
vast portion of the American people that do
not look upon that matter % being this very
little thing. They look upon il - vast NOR
al evil; they can prove it is such by the writ
'tings Of those who gave US the blessings Of lib
erty which we enjoy, end that they 20 look
upon il and not as an evil merely confning it.
self to the States where it is situated and
while we agree that by the Constitution we
assent to, in the States where it sxistes we
have no right to interfere with it because it is
in the Constitution and we are by both duty
and inclination to stick by that Consultation in
oil its letter and spirit from beginning to end
(Great applause. s .sayss tsei
=, ru 4ai DRED SCOTT DECISION. - srfs
= A little, now on the other point-,he Dred
Scott Decision. Another one of the issues he
says that is to be made with me, is upon his
devotion to the Dred Scott Decision. and my
opposition to il. ,.rt .sst IL
have expressed heretofore, and / now re-
peat my opposition to the Dred Scott Decision,
but should be allowed to state the nature Of
that epposition, and ask your indulgence
while do 80. What IS fairly implied by the
term Dougla o has used 'sresistance to the De-
cision ?'' LIDO rot resist it, II / wanted to
take Dred Scott from his MASTER, would be
interfering with property, ard that terrible diff.
6culty that Jadse Douglas speaks Of, Of inter-
fering With property would arise. But am
do no such thing as that, but all that an do
ing is refusing to obey it as political rule.--
IL were in Congress, And q vote come up on
. question whether slavery should be prohibi.
ted in new territory, in spite Of that DreG
Scott Decision, I would vote that it should
{ lApplause 'good for you, 2 eve hope to see
it )" sstha.'s right" s.,st-. t.ts.-a..s4
]. Mr.. Lincoln-That is what would do.
[.You will have chance soon."1 Judge
Douglas said last night, that before the de-
cision he might advance his opinion, and it
might be contrary to the decision when it was
made; but after it was made be would abide
by it until it was reversed. Just 50! We let
this property abide by the decision, but we
will try to reverse that decision. fLoud ap-
plause-cries Of agood."1 We win try, anJ
put it where Judge Douglas would not object,
for he says he viii obey it until it is reversed.
Somebody has to reverse that deci sion, since it
is made, and we mean to reverse it, and we mean
to do it peaceably. - n. .f-f.lsf
What are the uses Of decisions Of, courts?
havo txuN vss1> ne -kvy
they have wo uses. First-they decide upon
the question before the court, They decide
in this case that Dred Scott is slave. No
body resists that. Not only that, but they say
to everybody else, that persons standing just
as Dred Scot. stands, is just as he is. That's,
they say that when question comes up upon
another person it will be so decided again, un-
less the court decides another way, Ccheers--
cries of good, j unless the court overrules its
decision. r Renewed applause Well, we
mean to do what we can to have the court de-
eide the other way. That is y.one thing we
mean to try to do. ,;,sas--
The sacredness that Judge Douglas throws
around this decision is a degree Of sacredness
that has never been before thrown around any
other decision, I have never heard Of such, q
thing. why, decisions apparently contrary
to that decision, or that good lawyers thought
were contrary to that decision, have been
made by the very court before. II is the first
Of its kind; ii is an .astonisher in legal history.
Laughter It's new wonder Of the world.
rLauehter and applause. ] II is based upon
fslsehood in the main as to the facts-allsga-
tions Of facts upon which it stands are not
facts a. all il, many Instances, and no decision
made on any question-the frst instance OF .
decision made under so many unfavorable eif-
lcumstances thus placed has ever been held BY
the profession as law, and It has always need
ed confrmatior before the lawyers regarded it
as settled law. But yudge Douglas will
have 1t that all hands mast take this extracr.
einary circumstance, and give their votes in
Congress in accordance with it, yield 70 it md
obey II in every possible sense. aCireumstan.
I ees alters eases. Do not gentlemen here re-
member the ease Of that same Supreme Court,
some twenty eve Or thirty years ago, decided
that National Bank Is constitntionalp I ask /,
IL anybody does not remember that National
Band was declared to be constitutfonal?- ?--
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