The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-07

oppression and tyranny unequalled IN thu
world. lie looks upon it as being an exceed
ingly little thing-only equal to the question
of the cranberry laws of lndiana-as some
thing on par with the question Of whether
a man shall pasture his land with cattle, ol
plant it with tobacco-so little and so small
thing, that he concludes il could desire
that anything should be done to bring about
the ultimate extinction Of that little thing,
must be in favor Of bringing about an anal.
gamation of all the other little things in the
Uu'on. Now, it SO happens-and there,
presume, is the foundation of this mistake
that the Judge thinks thus and it so hap
pens that there is vast portion of the
American people that do not look upon that
matter rs being this very little thing. They
look upon it as u vast moral evil they can
prove it is such by the writings of those
who gave us the blessings of liberty which
we enjoy, and that they SO looked upon il
and not as an evil merely confinins itself to
the States where it is situated: and while
We agree that, by the Constitution we as
scntcd to, in the States where it exists 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 Cunsti-
tuition IN all its letter and spirit from begin
ing to end. Great applause.l a-5v~rrr ~.
So much then rs to my disposition--my
wish-to have all the State legislatures
blotted out, and to have one general consol.
idated government, and Il uniformity of
domestic regulations in all the States, by
which suppose it is meant if we raise
corn here, we must make sugar can0 grow
here too, and we must make those things
which grow North, grow in the South. All
this suppose the Judge understands | am
in favor OF doing. Now,so much for all
this nonsense-for must call it so. The
Judge can have no issue with me on a aues-
ton of uniformity in the domestic regula-
tions Of the States.
DRED SCOTT DECISION.
n little now on the other po;nt-the Drcd
Scott Decision. Another one of the issues
he says that is to be made with me, is upop
his devotion to the Dred Scott Decision, and
my opposition to it.
have expressed heretofore, and now
repeat, my opposition to the Drcd Scott
Decision, but should be allowed to state
the nature Of that opposition, and ask your
indulgence while do so. What is fairly
implied by the term Judge Douslas has
used ''rcsstancc to the Decision 7" | do
not resistit. II wanted to take bred Scott
from his master, would be interfering with
property, and that terrible difficulty that
Judge Douglas speaks of, of interfering
with property, would arise. But l am
doing no such thing as that, but all that |
am doing is refusing to obey it rs polti.
cal rule. If | were in Congress, and a vote
should come up on question whether
slavery should be prohibited in q new terri
tory, in spite of that Dred Scott Decision.
| would vote that it should. [Applause !:
''good for you;' "wc hope to see it -
''that's right.]
Mr.. Lncoln-That is what would do.
l''You will have chance soon."l Judge
Douglas said last night, that before the
decision he might advance his opinion, and
1t might be contrary to the decision when it
was made; but after it was made he would
abide BY it until it was reversed. Just SO
We let this property abide by the decision,
but We will try to reverse that decision.-
loud applause-cries of ''good."] We
will try to put it where Judge douglas
would not object, for be says he will obey it
until it is reversed. Somebody has to re-
verse that decision, since it is made, and we
mean to reverse it, and we mean to do it
peaceaby.
/ What are the uses of decisions of courts :?
hss y hys hys two Seeds
upon the question before the court. They
decide in this ease that bred Scott is
slave. Nobody resists that. Not only
that, but they say to everybody else, that
persons standing just as Dred Scott stands,
is as he is. That is, they say that
when a question comes up upon another
person it will be so decided again, unless
the court besides another way, [cheers cries
of" good,"] unless the court overrulcs its
decision. Renewed applauSe].. Well, we
mean to do what we can to have the court
decide the other way. That is one thing we
mean to try to do.
around this decision, is degree of sacredness
| that has never been before thrown around
any other decision. have never heard Of
such thing. Why, decisions apparently
contrary to that decision, or that good law
yers thought were contrary to that decision,
have been made by that very court before.
! 1t is the first of its kind it is an dstonisIter
in legal history. Laughter]. 1t is new
wonder of the world. Laughter and APP
pausc] 1t is based upon falsehood in the
main as to the facts-allcgations of facts
upon which it stands are not facts at nll in
many instances, and no decision made on
any ouestion-the tisrt instance of n decision
made under so many unfavorable circum-
stances-thus placed has ever been held by
the profession as law, and it has always
needed confirmation before the lawyers
regarded it as a settled law. But Judge
Douglas will have it that all hands must
/ take this extraordinary decision, made under
these extraordinary circumstances, and give
their votes in Congress in accordance with
it, Weld to it and obey it in every possible
sense. Circumstances alter cases. Do not
gentlemen here remember the case of that
same Supreme Court, some twenty-five
or thirty years ago, deciding that National
Bank was constitutional? ask, if some
BODY does not remember that National
Bank was declared to be constitutional p
! I["Yes,""yes."] Such is the truth, whether
| the remembered OF not. The Bank charter
ran out, and q rc-chalter was granted by
Congress. That rc-chartcr was laid before
Gen. jackson. 1t was urged upon him,
when he denied the c0nstitutionality Of the
bank. that the Supreme Court had decided
that it was constitutional F.: and Gen. Jackson
then said that the Supreme Court had no
right to lay down arule to govern a CO. ordi-
nate branch Of the government, the members
of which had sworn to support the -ConSti-
tution-that each member had sworn to
support that Constitution as he understood
it. Twill venture here to say. that ! have
heard Judge Douglas say that he approved
of Gen. jackson for that act. What has
now become of all his TRADE about ''resis-
tance to the Supreme Court?' "Gone
up" Gone to the Theatrc."]
My fellow citizens, getting back little,
for Ipass from these points. When Judge
Douglas made his threat Of annihilation up
on the ssalliance,'' he is cautious to say
that that warfare of his is to fall upon the
leaders of the Republican party. Almost
every word he utters and every distinction
he makes, has its Significance. lie means
for the Republicans that do not count them
selves as leaders, to be his friends; he makes
no fuss over them: it is the leaders that he
is making war upon. lie wants it under
stood that the mass of the Republican par
ty are really Ills friends. 1t is only the lead
ers that are doing something, that are intol-
Grant and that requires determination at his
hands. As this is clearly and unquestiona-