The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-22
Reply Of Hon. ABRAHAH LINCOLN
Saturday Epening, July 10Th, ,5S. '''ls

Reply Of Hon. ABRAHAn LINCOLN,
Saturday Evening, Jaly 10Th, '5S. '''s
NY Fs'loso Citiss~s:-On yesterday evening
upon the occasion of the reception given Il
Senator Douglas. Twas furnished with ssai
very convsnisnt for hearing him, and was 9th.
wise very courteo,isly treated by him and BY
his friends, and for which I thank him and
them. During the course Of his remarks my
naae was mentioned in such wsy, a. Ishould
make some sort Of reply to him. I shall moi
attempt to follow him in the precise order In
which be addressed the assembled multitude
on that occasion, though I shall do 20 in the
A QUESTION OF vERAcIrY--THBy ALLIANCE.
There, vas one question: to which be asked
the attention Of the crowd, which / deem ,of
somewhat less importance--at least Of propri-
ETY. sor me to dwell upon-than the others,
which he brought in near the close OF his
speech, and which ! think it would not be en-
tirely proper for me to omit attending to alto
gether; and Jet il were not to give some at
tention to it now, should probably forget it
altogether. GApplause.l While am upon
this subject, allow me to say thatI do not in
tendto indulge in that inconvenient mode
sometimes adopted in public speaking, Of read
ing from documents; but ahsll depart from
that rule % Far as to read little scrap from
his speech which notices this first topic OF
which shan sp"ak-that Is. provided can
find II IN the paper. (Examines the Press
and Tribune Of this morning.) A voice
"Get out your specs" fa'2 s3inls'e =
81 have made up my mind to appeal to the
people against the combination that has been
made against me!-the Republican leaders
having Formed an alliance, an unholy and un-
natural alliance, with portion Of unscrupu-
lous federal cifice holders, intend to fight
that allied army wherever meet them.
know they deny the alliance, but yet these
men who are trying to divide the Democratic
party for the purpose Of electing . Republi-
can in my place, are just as much the agents
and tools a the supporters OF Mr.. Lincoln.
Hence, ] shall deal with this allied army just
as the Russians did with the allies at lSebasto-
is, the Russians did not stop to in
quire, when they fired broadside, whether it
hit an .Englishman, Frsnchman, or . Turk.
Norlwill I stop to inquire. NOR shall 4 hesitate
whether my blows shall hit these Republican
leaders or their allies who are holding the fed
eral Offices and yet acting in concert with
them.0 e,
Well now. gentlemen. is not that very alar-
ming9 Laughter Just to think OF it fright
at the outset OF this canvass, Ia poor, kind,
amiable, intelligent flanghter] gentleman,
daughter snd renewed cheersl I am to be
slain in this way. Why, my friend, the Judge,
il not only, as it tnr,s nut, not dead lion, nor
even living one-he is the rugged Russian
Besrl Roars of laughter and loud applause
J But il they will have it---for he says that we
deny it--that there is any such alliance, as he
says there Island don't propose hanging
very much upon this question Of fveracity--but
II he will have II that there is such an alliance
that the administration men and we are alli-
ed, and we stand in the attitude Of English,
French and Turks, and be occupies the posi-
tion OF the Russian, in that case, beg that he
will indulge US while we barely suggest to him,
that these allies took Sebastopol. [Long and
tremendous applause.
Gentlemen, only few more words as to
this alliance. For my part, I have to say, that
whether there be such an alliance, depends, so
FAR ~ know, upon what may be right def
inition cf the the term alliasce. II for the
Republican party 70 see the other great party
to which they are opposed divided amcng
themselves, and not try 10 stop the division
.nd rather be glad Of tiff that is an alliance
i, confess ! am in; but il it meant to be said
that the Republicans had formed an alliance
going beyond that, BY whiIh there is contri-
button Of money or sacrifice Of principle on
the one side or the other, 90 fsr - the Rspub-
licas party il concerned, fthere BE- any such
thing, protest that I neither know Of II nor
do believe II. will however say----as
think this branch Of the arrangement i lug
ged in-T would, before leave il, state, for
the benefit Of those Soncerpsd, thai one Of
those same Buchanan men did oncetell me Of
an argument that he made Tor, bis opposition
70 Judge Douglas. He said that > friend Of
our Senator Douglas had been talking to him,
and among other things had said to him, Why,
you don'r want to beat Douglssi' "Yes,''
said be, 81 do want TO beat him, and I win
tell you why. Ibelisve his original Nebras-
ka Bill WAS right in the abstract, but it was
wrong in the time that it. was. brought for
ward. II was wrong II, the application to :
Territory in regard to which the question had
been settled; it was brought forward At time
when nobody asked him; il was rendered to
the South when the South had not asked for X,
but whsn they could not well refuse Il and
for this Same reason BE- forced that question
upon our party; II has sunk our best men al
Over the nation. syssy whste3 ssnde ,nsw when
sss Presidsat, a-usgliag with the difkeulties
eefhis man's getting up, has rsachsd The vsry
hardest point 70 turn in the case. he deserts
him, and an for putting hin swhsrs hs will
trouble us no npes.n CApplauss. se1gaL
les WHAT 10 srofLuAA sovxAEIGNrY?n
Now, gentleman, that i not my srgunent
that is not my argument at all. I have, only
been stating to you Az aFsumest of . Buchan-
an man. You will judge if thera i any farce
in il [Applauss.l Popular ,sovsreign.yley-
eelasting Popular Sovereignty CLaughter. ]
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