The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-07-20

the slave Stssea, and interfere With the questlb
Of slavery at an. have said that alwuy1.k
Judge Douglas has heard mo Say it---if nt
quite hundred times, as least o. good q
hundred times; and when IT il said that d
In favor OF interfering with slavery where IL d
lists, KNOW y unwarranted by anything hsv
ever irteadsd, and, - believe, BY anything
have ever said II, BY any means, have eve
used language which could fairly be 20 con
strued, "a, however, believe never have y
now correct II.
SO much, then, for the Inference that JUDI
Douglas draws, that / am in favor 6f settinl
/ The sections at war with one another Iknny
that never meant any such thing, and bs
lieve that no fair mind can infer any such thin
from anything / have ever said "Good,
"good."1
Now in relation to his inference that I am Il
favor. of a general consolidation of all the loca
institutions Of the various States. will attend
10 that for little while, and try to inquire II
can how on earth il could be that man could
draw such an inference from anything I said I
have said, very many times, 10 Judge Donglas
hearing, that no man believed more than In
the principle Of self.goyernment that ii lies %
the bottom Of all my ideas of just government
from beginning to end. have denied that his
use Oh that term applies properly. But for the
| thing itself deny that any man has ever gono
ahead Of me in his devotion to the priucnle.
whatever he may have done in efficiency in "A.
vocating IL. think that have said /, In your
| hearlng-that believe each individual il natr.
| rally entitled to do as he pleases with himself
and the fruit Of his labor so far ~ it in no wise
| interferes with aEy other mans rights, Tap-
piausej that each community, as q State, has n
right TO do exactly as 1t pleases with all the
concerns within that State that interfere with
The rights OF no other State, and that the GEN
erai government, upon principle, has no right
TO interfere with anything other than that GEN
erai class of things that does concern the whole.
! have said thatiat all times. I have said, a
Illustrations. that / do not believe in the right
ei Limos to interfere with the cranberry laws
OF Indiana, the oyster laws Of Virginia, or the
Liquor Laws OF Maine. ! have said these things
over and over again and repeat them here q
my sentiments.
How Is it, then, that Judge Douglas infsrs.
because hope to see slavery put where the
public mind shall rest in the belief that IL Is in
the course OF ultimate extinction, that am in
iavor OF Illinois going over and interfering with
the cranberry laws OF Indiana? What can au.
thorize him to draw any such inference SUP.
pose there might be one thing that at least en-
abiedham TO draw such an inference that would
not De true with me or with many others-thas
IS, because he looks upon all this matter of sla.
very as an exceedingly little thng-this matter
OF keeping ons-sixth of the population OF the
whoie nation in state Of oppression and tyran.
ny unequaled in the world He looks upon IL
as being an exceedingly little thing-only equal
10 the question OF the cranberry laws Of In.
aiaha-as something having no moral question
IN it-as something on par with the question
OF whether man shall pasture his land with
cattle, or plent it with tobacco-so little and 70
small thing, that he concludes il could de-
sire that anything should be done to bring about
1he ultimate extinction of that little thing,
must be IN favor of bringing about an amalga-
nation of all the other little things in the Union.
Now, it SO happens-and there, presume, is
me foundation of this mistake-that the Judge
links thus; and it so happens that there is
sasl portion OF the American people that do
tot look upon that matter as being this very
ttie thing. They look upon it as a vast moral
svii; they can prove it is such by the writings
81 those who gave Us the blessings Of liberty :.
shieh we enjoy, and that they so looked upon
ana not as an evil merely confning itself to
ne states where it is situated; and while we
lgfee tnat, by the Constitution we assented to,
n the States where It exists we have no right to
interfere with it because it il in the Constitution
ma we are BY both duty and inclination to
tch by that Constitution in all its letter and
pint from beginning to end. FGreat applause
DRED SCOTT DECISION
a iittie now on the other pont-the Dred
scott Decision. Another one ofthe issues he
ays that IL to be made with me, is upon his
'evotion to the Dred Scott Decision, and my
opposition to it.
have expressed heretofore, and now repeat
ny opposition to the Dred Scott Decision, butI
hould be allowed to state the nature Of that
ppostics, and | ask your indulgence while I
o so. What is fairly implied by the term
'ouSlas has used resistance to the Decisons"
do not resist it. II | wanted to take Dred
eott from his master, | would be interfering
ith property, and that terrible difficulty that
ndge Douglas speaks of of interfering with
roperty, would arise. But am doing no such
hing as that, but all that am doing il refus-
lg TO OBEY 1t as political rule. III were in
ongress, and vote should come up on ques-
on whether slavery should be prohibited in
ew territory, in spite of that Dred Scott de-
sion, | would vote that it should TApplause:
good for you," 1--WE hope to see il :" "that's
ght.
Mr.. Lincoln-That is what would do T"You
Ill have chance SOON Judge Douglas said
st night. that before the decision he might ad.
ance his opinion, and it might be contrary to
he decision when ii was made but after is
as made he would abide by it until it was re-
arsed. just so! We let this property abide
the deeislon, out we will try to reverse that
-N'7'DA' nppiauSe-CTIpS OF %ZOOu. /
'e will try and put is where Judge Douglas
ould not object for he says he will obey it un.
II - reversed. Somebody has to reverse that
aclsion, since it ID made, and we mean to re-
srse 1t, end We mean to do it peaceaby
" hat are the uses Of decisions OF courts?
hey have two uses. As rules of property they
ave two uses. First--they decide upon the
lestion before the court. They decide in this
'se that pred Scott Is slave Nobody ressts
at. Not only that, bu. they say to every body
Sc, that persons standing just as Dred Scott
ands, j. just as he is. That is, they saw that
ben question comes up upon another person
will be 50 decided again, unless the court de-
des another way, cheers-cries OF good, lun-
s. the court overrules its decision [Renew-
applause. Well, we mean TO do what we
n to nave the court decide the other way
lat Is one thing we mean to try to do.
The sacredness that Judge Douglas throws
ound this decision ISL degree OF sacrednsss
at has never been before thrown around any
her decision. have never heard Of such q
ing. Why, decisions apparently contrary to
at decision, or that good lawyers thought were
ntrary to that decision, have been made by
9 very court before. II is the first of its kind:
is an ''astonisher" in legal history. (Laught-
j ltisa new wonder OF the world. Laughts
ana applause 1t 10 based upon falsehood in
9 main as to the facts-aegations of facts
'on which 1t stands not facts at all in
any instances, and no decision made on any
estion-the first instance of q decision made
der so many uniayorable circumstances--ihus
aced has ever been held by the profession a.
", and it has always needed confirmation be-
re the lawyers regarded it as settled law
IT Judge Douglas will have ID that all hands
ast take this extraordinary circumstance, and
se their votes in Congress in accordance with
yield to 1t and obey it in every possible
nse. Circumstances alter cases DO not
Ltleman here remember the case of that
me Supreme Court, some twenty-five or thir-
years ago, deciding that a National Bank 10
Institutional? l ask, il somebody does not
member that National Bank was declared
be constitutionals I"Yes, yes"l Such 10
> truth. whether it be remembered or not
g Bank charter ran out, and re-charter was
inted BY Congress. That re-charter was laid
fore Gen. Jackson. 1t was urged upon him
zen he denied the constituinality OF the bank.
It the Supreme Court had decided that il was
Institutional; and Gen. Jackson then said that
StIpreme Court Eaa ma rirht l. J1wn