Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-07-29

Grafton of that policy, that agitation had
not only not ceased but has constantly aug
mented. believe it will not cease until a
crisis shall have been reached and passed.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
| believe this government cannot endure
permanently half slave and half free. L
do not expect the Union to be dissolved"
am quoting from my speecll-"1 do not
expect the house to fall, but l do expect
it will cease to be divided. Il will become
all one thing or all the other. Either the
opponents OF slavery will arrest the spread
of it, and place it where the public mind
shall rest in the belief that it is in the course
of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will
push it forward until it shall become alike
lawful in all the States, north as well as
south" fa
What is the paragraph. In this para
graph which | have quoted in your hearing,
and to which | ask the attention of all,
Judge Dougles thinks he discovers great
political heresy. want your attention
particularly to what he has Inferred from
it. He says am in favor of making all
the States Of this Union in form in all their
international regulations; that in all their
domestic concerns ] am in favor Of making
them entirely uniform. He draws this
inference from the language | have qnoted
to you. He says that | am in favor of max
ing war by the north upon the south for
the extinction of slavery; that | am also
in favor of inviting, as he expresses 1t, the
south 10 war upon the north for the pur-
pose of nationalizing slavery. Now, it is
singular enough, if you will carefully read
that passag. over, that l did moi say that
| was in favor of ANYTHING in it. only
said what expected would take place. l
made prediction only-it may have been
foolish one perhaps. | did not say even
that desired that slavery should be put
in course of ultimate extinction. | do not
say SO now however, so there need be no
longer any difficulty about that. 1t may
be written down in the next speech.
How is it, then, that Judge Douglas i'll
ters, because l hope to see slavery put
where the public mind shall rest in the be-
lief that it is in the course of ultimate ex-
tinction, that am in favor Of Illinois go
ing over and interfering in the cranberry
laws of Indianag What can authorize him
to draw any such inferenceg suppose
there might be one thing that at least ea-
abled him to draw such an Inference that
would not be true with me or with many
others-that Is, because he looks upon all
this matter of slavery as an exceedingly ht-
tie thing-tliis matter of keeping one sixth
of the population of the whole nation in a
state of oppression and tyranny unequalled
in the worI'l He looks upon it as being
ON exceedingly little thing-only equal to
the question Of the cranberry laws of lndi-
ana-as something having no moral ques-
ton in it-as something OH a par with the
question of whether man shall pasture his
land with cattle, or plant it with tobacco
so little and SO small thing, that he
concludes if could desire that anything
should he done to bring about the ultimate
extinction of that little thing l must be IN
favor bringing about anamalgamatlon ofali
the other little things in the Union. Now,
it so happens there, | presume, Is the
foundation of this nlistake-that the Judge
thinkas thus; and it Sc happens that there
is vast portion of the American people
that do not look upon that matter as beng
this very little thing. They look upon 1t
as vast moral evil; they can prove 1t is
such by the writings of those who gave us
the blessings of liberty which we enjoy,
and they looked so upon it, and not as an
evil merely confining Itself to the States
where it is situated; and while we agree
to that, by the Constitution we assented 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 Constitu-
ton in all its letter and spirit from begin
ming to end. Great applause.
So much then as to my disposition
my wish-to have all the State Legisla-
lures blotted out, and to have one general
consolidated Government, and unlforml-
ty of domestic regulations in all the States,
by which suppose it is meant, if we raise
corn here, we must make sugar-cane 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 1T so.
The Judge can have no issue with me on
a question of establishing uniformity in the
domestic regulations Of the States,
DRED SCOTT.
What is fairly implied by the term Judge
Douglas has used resistance to the Decl-
sion :" do not resist it. If l wanted to
take Dred Scott from his master, l would
be interfering with property, and that ter
rible difficulty that Judge Douglas speaks
of interfering with property, would arise
But am doing no such thing as that, but
all that am doing is refusing to obey it
as a political rule. If were in Congress;
and vote should come up on a question
whether slavery should be prohibited in a
new territory, in spite of that Dred Scott
decision, l would vote that it should. (Ap-
plause; sgood for you" 1--WE hope to see
it," "lhat's right z GAG
Mr.. Lincoln-that is what l would do.
"You will have chance soon. Judge
Douglas said last night, that before the
decision he might advance his opinion, and
it might be contrary to the decision when
it was made; but after it was made ne
would abide by ii until it was reversed
just so! We let this property ABIDE by
the decision, but we will try to reverse
that decision. We willtry to putt where
Judge Douglas would not object, for he