The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-21

+ why Is IL tnat twenty shall be entitled tC
all the credit Of doing that work, and tht
hundred nonei of it? Why, if, as Judge
Douglas says, the honor is to be divided and
due credit is to be given to other parties
why is just so much given as is consonant
with the wishes, the interests and advance
ment OF the twenty? My understanding is,
when common job is done, or a common
enterprise prosecuted, if put in five dollars
to your one, have right to take out five
dollars to your one. But he does not so
understand it. He declares the dividend of
credit for defeating Lecompton upon basis
which seems unprecedented and incompre-
hensible.
Let US see. Lecompton in the raw was
defeated. It afterwards took sort of
cooked up shape, and was passed in the
English bill. 1t is said by the Judge that
the defeat was a good and proper thing. If
it was good thing, why is he entitled to
more credit than others, for the performance
OF that good act, unless there was some
thing in the antccedents of the Republicans
that might induce every one to expect them
to join in that good work, and at the same
time, something leading them to doubt that
he would? Does he place his superior
claim to credit, on the ground that he per-
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OF him9 He says | have a proneness for
quoting scripture. If should do so now,
it occurs that perhaps he places himself
somewhat upon the ground of the parable
of the lost sheep which went astray upon
the mountains and when the owner of the
hundred sheep found the one that was lost,
and threw it upon his shoulders, and came
home re- loclng, it was SAID that there WAS
more rejoicing over the one sheep that was
lost and had been found. than over the
ninety mine in the fold. Great cheering.
renewed cheering The application is made
by the Savior in this parable, thus, ''Verlv,
| say unto you, there is more rejoicing IN
heaven over one sinner that rcpenteth, than
over ninety and nine just persons that need
ne repentance" [Cheering."l
And now, if the Judge claims the benefit
of this parable, let him repent. [Vocifer-
Gus applause.l Let him not come up here
and say: | am the only just person; and you
are the ninety-nine sinners Repentance
before forgiveness is provision of the
Christian system, and on that condition
alone will the Republicans grant his forgive
ness. Laughter and cheers
! How will he prove that we have ever oc-
cupied different position in regard to the
Lecompton Constitution or any principle in
it? He says he did not make his opposition
on the ground as to whether it was free or
slave constitution, and he would have you
understand that the Republicans made their
opposition because it ultimately became a
slave constitution. To make proof in favor
Of himself on this point, he reminds us that
he opposed Lecompton before the vote was
taken declaring whether the State was to be
free or slave. But he forgets to say that
our Republican Senator, TrumbulI, made a
speech against Lecompton, even before he
did.
Why did he oppose it? Partly, as he de.
cIares, because the members of the convcn-
ton who framed it We're not fairly elected
by the people; that the people were MOI
allowed to vote unless they had been regis
,ered: and that the people Of whole counties
in some instances, Were not registered. Fol
these reasons he declares the constitution
was not an cmanaton, in any true sense
from the people. lie also has an additiona
objection as to the mode of submitting the
constitution back to the people. But bear.
ing on the question of whether the delegate:
were fairly elected Il speech of his, made
something more than twelve months ago
from this stand, becomes important. 1t wa:
made II little while before the election of tn,
delegates who made Lecompton. In thai
speech he declared there was every reason
to hopc.and believe the election would be
fair: and If any one failed to vote, it woulC
be his own GU pahle fault.
|, Il few days after made a sort of answer
to that speech. In that answer, | made
SubstantIaliy. the very argument with which
he combatteu his Lecompton adversaries in
the Senate last winter. | pointed to the
facts that the people could not vote without
being registered. and that the time for reg
istcrng had gone by. | commented on il
as wonderful that Judge Douglas could be
ignorant of these facts, which ever one else
in the nation 50 we'll knew.
now pass from popular sovereignty and
Lecompton. | may have occasion to refer
to one or both.
When he WAS preparing lis plan Of cam
paign, Napolcon-lkc, in New York, as ap-
pears by two speeches | have heard hlm
deliver since. his arrival n Illinois, he gave
special attention o speech 0fmine delivered
here on the 10Th of June last. lie says tha;
he carefully read that speech. lie told US
that at Chicago Il week ago last night, and
he repeated it at Bloomington last uight.-
Doubtless he repeated it again to-day,
though did not hear him. In the first two
places Chicago ana Bloomington-l heard
him: to-day did not. \ voicc-Ics; he
said the same thing He said he had care
fully examined that speech; uhcn, he did
not say; but there is no reasonable doubt it
was when he was in New York prepariI-
his plan Of campaign. lam glad he did read
it carefully. lie says it was evidently pre-
pared with great care. | freely admit it was
prepared with care. | claim not to be more
free from errors than others perhaps
scarcely so much; but was very careful
not to put anything in that speech rs a mat
ter of fact, or make any differences which
did not appear to me to be true, and fully
warrantable. If had made any mistake, |
was willing to be corrected; if had drawn
any inference in regard to Judge Doug las,
or any one else. which was not warranted, |
was fully prepared to modify it as soon as
discovered. [ planted myself upon the
truth, and the truth only, so far as knew
it, or could be brought TO know it.
Having made that speech with the most
kindly feelings towards Judge Doug las, as
manifested therein, was gratied when
found that he had carefully examined it,
and had detected no error of fact nor any
inference against him, nor any mlsrepreson-
tations, of which he thought fit to complain.
In neither of the two speeches have mem
toned, did he make any such complaint.
will thank any one who will inform me that
he, in his speech to-day, pointed out any
thing stated, respecting him, as being
erroneous. | presume there is no such
thing. | have reason to be gratified that
the care ana caution used in that speech,
left it so that he, most of all others inter-
ested in discovering error, has not been able
to point out one thing against him which
, he could say was wrong. He selzes upon
the doctrines he supposes to be included in
| that speech, and declares that upon them
will turn the issues of this campaign. lie
| then quotes, or attempts to quote, from my
| speech. will not say that he wiifully mis-
quotes. but he does fail to quote accurately.
His attempt at quoting is from passage
which believe can quote accurately from
memory. shall make the quotation now,
with some comments upon it, as have al
ready said, in order that the Judge shall be
! left entirely without excuse for misrepre-
sentng me. do so now, as hope for
| the last time. | do this, in great caution,
/ in order that If he repeats bis msrepresen-