Worcester daily spy., 1858-07-19
Gbr 9nlp Spp,
MONDAY. JULY 10. 1888.
Abra., uIncoIn's Reply TO Senator DOnS-
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A0FAnA
Having given extracts from Senator Douglas
speech at Chicago, July 8, defining his position
in reference to the Administration and the Re
uubican party, in the pending canvass in Illinois
/, NAV be interesting to notice the manner in
which il was answered, and the untenabie posi-
tions in it shown up. logically and ably, BY Hon
Abram Lincoln in speech the next day, at the
same place. These gentlemen. although poltl-
cal opponents of long standing, dating from Pc
riod nearly quarter of century lack appear
to be on the best terms Of personal relationship
with each other, and both speeches are models
fot courtesy, in the manner in which each alludes
to the position Of the other.
Mr.. Lincoln alluded to that portion of the
. speech of his opponent, in which Mr.. D. charged
him (Mr. IL with having, in a former speech at
Springfield, gone in for slavery agitation, and sd
yocated his belief that either slavery must even.
tually be abolished in this country, or all the
Etates become daveholding ones that slavery
and freedom could not well Co exist under the
Constitution. Mr.. Lincoln then quoted from his
former speech the words to this effect, eendors-
ed the sentiment, and then proceeded as follows
II nave always nateQ slavery, L tnlnks as much
as any abolitonist (Applause.) have been an
old line Whig, | have always hated it, but l
have always been quiet about it until this new
era Of the Introduction OF the Nebraska bill be.
gan / always believed that everybody was
against it, aud that it was in course of ultimate
extinction. The great mass of the people have
rested in the belief that slavery in course of
ultimate extinction They had reason SO to be
lieve. The adoption of the Constitution and its
attendant history led the people to believe so,
aud such was the belief OF the framers of the
Constitution itself Why did those old men,
about the time of the adoption Of the Constitu
tion, decree that slavery should not go into the
new territory where j. had not already gone
Why declare that within twenty years the Afri-
can slave trade, by which slaves are supplied
might be cut off by Congress Why were all
these acts l might enumerate more of these
acts. But enough. What were they but clear
indication that the trainers Of the Constitution
intended and expected the ultimate extinction Of
that institution! (Cheers) And now, when |
say. as said in my speech that Judge Douglas
has quoted from-when say that think the op-
ponents Of slavery will resist the further spread
Of it and place it where the public mind shall
rest with the belief that it is in course of uti
mate extinction, only mean to say that they
will place it where the founders of this Govern.
ment originally placed it."
Mr. Lincoln concluded his spsech by the fol.
lowing dissection and able reiutation of that por-
tion Of Mr. Douglass speech in which the Dred
Scott decision endorsed. with the dogma
that black or red men shave no rights which
white men are bound to respect;
"We were often-more than once, at least-in
the course OF Judge Douglass speech, last night,
reminded that this government was made for
white msn-that he believed it was made for
white men. Well, that is putting it into shape
IN which no one ants to deny it but the Judge
then goes into his passion for drawing inTereDcet
that are not wanted. protest, now and forever
against that counterfeit logic which presume,
that because did not want negro woman for /
slave l do necessarily want her for wife
daughter and cheers.) My understanding i,
that need not have her for either /; but as God
made us separate, we can leave one another
alone, and do one another much good thereby
There are white men enough to marry all the
white women, and enough black men to marry
all the black women ; and, in Gods name, let
them be SO married. The Judge regales us with
the terrible enormties that take place BY the
mixture OF races-that the inferior race bears the
superior down. Why, Judge, if we do not let
hem get together IN the territories they won't
mix there. Immense applause
should say at least that that is a self-eyident
truth. Now, it happens that we meet together
once every year, some time about the 4th of July
or some reason other. These 4th of July
gatherings, suppose, have their uses. II you
will indulge me will state what suppose to be
some OF them. We are now mighty nation
we are thirty, or about thirty millions Of people
land we own and inhabit about one.ffteenth
part of the dry land of the whole earth We run
our memory back over the pages of history fol
about eightytwo years. and we discover that We
were then avery small people in point of mum.
berss vastly inferior to what we are now, with a
vastly less extent Of country-with vastly less OF
everything we deem desirable among men-we
look upon the change as exceedingly advanta-
geous to us and our p0sterity, and we fix upou
something that happened away back as in some
way or other being connected with this race OF
posterity. We f0d a race of men living in that
day whom we claim as our fathers aud grand
fathers they we're iron men, they fought for the
principle that they we're cohtending for, and we
understood that by what they then did, it has fol-
lowed that the degree or prosperity that we now
enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual eel
ebration to remind ourselves Of all the good done
in this process Of time, Of how it was done and
who did it, and how we are historically connected
with it (; and we go from these meetings IN better
humor with ourselves-we feel more attached this
one to the other, and more firmly bound to the
country we inhabit. In every way we are better
men in the age, and race, and country in which
we live,foE these celebrations But, after we have
done all this, we have not reached the whole
There Is something else connected with it. We
have besides these men-descended BY blood
from our ancestors-among us perhaps half our
people who are not descendants at all oI
. these men they are men who have come from
Enrope-German, Irish, French, and Scancinav
ian-men that have come from Europe them.
selves. or whose ancestors have come hither and
settled here, finding themselves our EQUALS in ali
things. II they look back through this history
to trace their connection with those days BY
blood, they find they have none--they cannot
carry themselves back into that glorious epoch
and make themselves feel that they are part ei
us--but when they look through that old lie.
claFati0n Of Independence they find chat those
old men say that We hold these truths to b,
aelf evident, that all men are created equal /;
and then they feel that that moral sentiment
taught in that day, evidences their relation tr
those 'men-that it is the father of all mora
principle in them, and that they have a right tC
claim it as though they were blood of the blood
and flesh Of the flesh. of the men who wrote
that DeclAration-(l loud and long continued ap.
plause )-and SO they are That is the electric
cord in that Declaration that links the hearts Of
patriotic and liberty loving men together, that
will link those patriotic hearts long as the love
Of freedom exists in the minds OF men through.
out the world (Applause.) Now, sirs, for the
purpose Of sQuaEing things with this idea of
'dontcare II slavery is voted up or voted down,
for sustaining the Dred Scott decision--(A voice
Hit him again )-for holding that the Declar-
alton Of Independence did. NOT mean anything
at all, we have Judge Douglas giving his ex.
position Of what the Declaration of lndepend
ence means. and we have him saying that the
people Of America are equal to the people Of
England. According to his construction, you,
Germans, are not connected with It. Nov, / ask
you IN al sooerness,if all these things--if ndug
60 IN, u ratified, II confirmed and endorsed. il
tangnt 70 our children and repeated to them--do
ne. tend TO rub ont the sentiment Of liberty in
the coantFys ana 70 transform this government
INTO government Of some other form Those
arguments that are made. that the inferior race
are 70 be treated with az much alio,ancs - the~
are capable Of enjoying, thst az ,noS - =, ~
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