Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-12
DOUGLAS IN CHICAGO.

Senator Douglas was received this morning with
great display. At l O'Clock q committee OF four
hundred from Chicago and the adjoining counties
prCceeded TO Michigan City, and there met Judge
Douglas and escorted him TO this city The arri-
val Of The train vas greeted by the firing Of cannon
and cheers OF the people.
A u occssion was formed and be was conducted
TO the fremont House. He was here welcomed in
a brief speech in behalf Of the Board Of Trade.
Mr. Douglas, after returning tanks for his mag
niRcent reception, reviewed action Of the last
Congress on the Kansas Bill. He ext0lled the Crit
tenden Bill as being honest, the very best PROPOSE
ton, aud o practical illustration OF popular sove-
reignty He claims that his struggle with Leeomp-
tonism for the integrity OF this principle T1at
struggle was triumphant. LecomtOn was virtually
abandoned by its friends, and il had been defeated
forever. he had opposed the Eaglish Bh although
IL uracticaily sent back the Constitution 10 be ac-
eepted or rejected by the people, because IN manner
as well as .Orm that submission was az variance
with every jnst aud popular government twas a
submission Of the constitution 10 the Peope with
the threat that If they did not accept the slave
constitution with 95, ,OOO inhabitants, iney should
not come in as free State until they had 90. .OC0.
He could never comtenance such discrimination
between free and slave States. The best energies
of his mind had been for several years devoted TO
the great principle Of the rights Of the people Of
Territories TO frame their own Fundamental laws.
and be intended TO devote all his future e to the
same doctrine
lie cOute1QeG tl4l lne compromise AueAsufc5 OF
so were founded on that principle and carried out
in the Kansas Nebraska bill II was affirmed In
the Cincinnati PlatfoTm-re- affirmed in the lnau-
gural Address Of President Buchanan He regret
ted, however, 10 see powerful political party OF
this country determined not 20 acquiesee in this
line Of policy.
The Republican CONVENTION which recently as
sembled at Springfield and nominated Mr. Lincoln
as his successor in the Senate reprdiated the doc
trine Of Popular Sovereignty, and proclaimed that
Congress, and not the people Of the Territories,
should establish the domestic institutions OF the
Territories.
Lincoln not only endorsed this doctrine, bat
proclaimed q line Of policy which was incompatible
with the existence OF the Union He declared that
the Union ,tdiviyed iutO an equal number Of free
and slave states, cannot endure.
Mr.. Douglas showed the dangerous tendency OF
this doctrine That it proclaimed a war Of exter-
mination OF one section against another.
He regarded il as subVersiYe Of the funda-
mental principles upon W1ich our complex system
Of government rests, denied that impunitY Of local
policy and domestic Institutions IN the dinerept
States was either desirable or possible On the con
trary our political systems rested upon the the
ory and practice OF dissimilarity in the local
policy and domestic institutions Of the different
States
Our forefsihers elsslly perceived that the do
mestic institutions which suite New Hampshire
were totally unfit for the rice plantations Of Caro-
linz, and hence they adopted constitution which
provides that each State shall be sovereign and su-
preme in its own limits, on the supposfiOn that
they would be as diversified as the states were nu-
IaerOus
Thus it would seem that diversity and dissimi-
lsrity Of domestic institutions in the sovereign
States, were cardinal principles, underlying our
whole system Of government
Its strength harmony aud adaptation 70 the wants
and interests Of the people, all depended upon the
right of each State 10 form and regulate It's inter-
Nhafr
lhose Of other states.
He repeated that uniformity was neither desirs-
bic nor possible II possible how was ii to be attain
ed There was bat one process through which
II could be eecomplished-ihatb being 10 abolish the
State Legislature, and convert the government in
to one consolidated empire, investing Congress
Nth saIl power TO adopt police regulations, regu
late the internal pol cy and adopt domestic nstita
tons for all the States. Let this be done and there
would be uniformity. Then the States would be all
free or slave Then negroes would vote every
where ornowhere Then our glorious confedera-
ZION cf % sovereign States would be made into one
consolidated empire. Then uniformity Of despotism
would reign throughout the land.
Mr. Douglas proces ded 10 answer Mr.. Lineoln's
crusade aqainst the Supreme Court, and his ae-
count Of the Dred Scott decision. he could sane
ton no crusade against the highest judicial trbu-
nal Of the land. He was prepared 70 yield obedi-
ence to the Law as e4pounded by the Court. He
did not agree with Lincoln that it was = great
wrong to deprive the negro Of the rights Of eiti-
Eenship He did not believe they were ever intend
ed 70 be citizens Of our Government which was
formed on a white basis, created by white men, to
benefit white men. True, humanity required that
negroes and inferior races should be permitted to
enjoy such rights and privileges as they were eaPa
bic Of exercising, consistently with the good Of
society.
He adverted TO the necessity Of maintaining the
organization Of the Democratic party, while there
might be differences Of opinion with respect to the
true construction Of particular articles Of the creed
Party tolerstiln must be INDUCED. There should
/ be no prescriptions OF sound Democrats for such
differences.
| He said the oaice-holders and Republicans were
working in unison for the purpose Of defeating the
regular nominations,-that they would, like the
Russians ct sebastopo, keep firing, they didn't
care whether they hit French or English
Lincoln was present and heard Douglas Fire
works were discharging in different parts Of the
/ town.
The number Of persons in attendance Is variousy
estimated at from Is, 600 to 900.