Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1858-08-05

casion n allude to the position Of thos'
who have chosen TO arrsign my conduc
on this same subject. / have observet
from the public prints that but few day
ago the Republican party Of the State 0
Illinois assembled in Convention at Spring
field, and not only laid down their plat
form, but nominated candidate for th,
United States Senate as my successor
Kisses. take great pleasure in sayins
that ! have known, personally and init
mately, for about . quarter Of century
the worthy gentleman whohas been nom
mated for my place, . rpicc. "He vii
never get it." and cheers and will say
that regard him as . kind, amiable, snt
intelligent gentleman, . good citizen and
an honorable opponent and whatever is
sue / may have with him will be of prin
ciple, and rot involving personalities
Cheers. Mr.. Lincoln made . speech
before that Republican Convention which
unanimously nominated him for the Sen
ate-a speech evidently well prepared and
carefully written-in which he states hs
basis upon which he proposes to carry o.
the campaign during this summer. In il
he lays down two distinct proposition.
which shall notice, and upon which
shall take direct and bold issue with him
Cries of "good," good" and great ap
plausc. .
His FIRST and main proposition will
give in bis own language, scripture quota
ton and ell. llaughterl. give his exac
language-"A house divided against itsel
cannot stand" l believe this government
cannot endure, permanently, half star'
snd half free. do not expect the Urior
to be dissolped. dc not expect the house
to fall, but do expect it to cease to bs
divided. 1t will become all one thing O,
all the other.
In other words, Mr. Lincoln asserts as q
fundamental principle of this governmen,
that there must be uniformity III the locaI
laws end domestic institutions Of each and
all the States Of the Union and be there
tore invites all the non-slaveholdng States
to band together, organize as one body,
and make war upon slavery in Kentucky,
upon slavery in Virginia, upon slavery in
the Carolinas, upon slavery in all Of the
slaveholding States in this Union. and to
perseyere in that war until it shall be ex.
terminated. He then notifies the slave
holding States to stand together as a unit
and make an aggressive war upon the free
States Of this Union with q view of estab-
fishing slavery in them all, of forcing !,
upon Illinois, of forcing it upcn New II ork,
upon New England, and upon every other
free State, and that they shall keep up the
warfare until it has been formally estab.
lished in them all. In other words, Mr..
Lincoln advocates boldly and clearly war
Of sections, war Of the North agains,
the South, Of the free States against the
slave States--a war of extermination--to
be continued relentlessly until the one or
the other shall be subdued, and all the
States shall either become free or become
slave.
Now, my friends, l must say to YOU
frankly, that take bold, unqualified issue
with him upon that principle. l assert
that it is neither desirable or possible that
there should be uniformity in the local in
stitutons and domestic regulations of.the
different States of this Union. The fra
mers OF our government never contempla
ted uniformity i'll its internal concerns. -
The fathers Of the Revolution, and the
sages who made the Constitution well un.
derstood that the laws and domestic insti
tntions which would suit the granite hills
of New Hampshire would be totally unti,
for the rice plantations of South Carolina ::
[cheers, they well understood that the
laws which would suit the agricultural dis.
tricts Of Pennsylvania and New York
would be totally unfit for the large mining
regions Of the Pacific, or the lumber re.
gions Of Maine. [Bravo.l They well
understood that the great varieties of soil,
Of production and Of interests, in repub-
lie as large as this, required different local
and domestic regulations in each locality,
adapted to the wants and interests of each
separate State, cries of "bravo,"l and
for that reason it was provided in the Fed.
eral Constitution that the thirteen original
States should remain sovereign and su,
prame within their own limits in regard to
all tiaat was local, and internal, and DO.
mestic, while the federal government
should have certain specified powers which
were general and national, and could be
exercised only by the federal authority.
AhS h0n0io VI tic CONSTITUTION well
understood that each locality, having sep,
arats and distinct interests. required sep
arate and distinct laws, domestic institu.
tions, and police regulations adapted to its
own wants and ito own condition and
they acted on the presumption, also. that
these laws and institutions would be as
diversified and ~ dissimilar as the States
would be numerous, aud that no two would
be precisely alike, because the interests Of
no two would be precisely the same
Hence, / assert, that the great fundamental
principle which underliey our complex
system Of State and federal governments,
contemplated diversity and dissimilarity
in the local institutions and domestic sf.
airs Of each and every State in the Union,