Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-07-24

TO where you, as the Republican party, would
he placed if you sustained Judge Douglas in
his present position by n reelection ? do
not claim, gentlemen, to be unseltish, dc
not pretend that l would not like to 60 to
the United States Senate. CLaughter.)
make no such hypocritical pretence but dc
say to you that in this mighty issue, it is no
thing to you-nothing to the mass OF the
people of the nation whether or not Judge
Douglas or myself shall ever be heard OF after
this night. 1t may be triile to either OF US,
but in connection with this mighty question:
upon which ha the destinies of the nat'oh'
perhaps, it is absolutely nothing but wheie
will you be placed if you re-endorSe Judge
Douglas? Don't you know how apt ne Is
how exceedingly anxious he Is at al Times ~
seize upon anything and everything 10 per-
suade YOU that something he has done' go"
did yourselves. Why, he tiled to persuade
YOU last night that our Illinois Legislature
instructed me to introduce the Neoiasha OIL.
There was nobody in that Legislature ever
THOUGHT of such thing; and when he hrSt
introduced the bill, he never thought Of 1t /;
but still he fichts furously for the proposition,
and that lie did it because there was stand
| in, destruction TO our Senators to be always
introducing Nebraska bills. daughter ana
applause .,
form: he tells you he is for the bred Scott
decision. He tells you, not in his speech last
night. but subsequently in a former speech.
that he cares not If slaUery is roted up mp or
dora-he tells you the struggle on Lecomp-
ton is passcd-it may come up again or not,
and If it does, he stands where he stood when
| in spite Of him and his opposition you built
up the Republican party. If you indorse
him, you tell him yOu do not Gaze whether
slavery be voted up or down, and he will
close, or try to close your mouths, with his
defamation repeated by the day, the week,
the month and the year. Is that what you
mean? (Cres of mo-" one voice "Yes.O
Yes, have no doubt you have always been
for him if you mean that. No doubt of that.
"A voice, " Hit him again.") Scberly have
said, and | repeat it, | think, in the position
in which Judge Douglas stood in opposing
the Lecompton Constitution he was right
He does not know that it will return, but if
it does not, we may know where to look for
him, and that is on the Cincinnati platform
Now, would ask the Republican party, after
all the hard names that Judge Douglas has
called them by-all his repeated charges of
their inclination to marry with and buy me-
groes-all his declarations of Black Repub.
licanism by the way, we are improving, the
black has got rubbed oil-but with all that
if he is Endorsed by Republican votes, where
do you stand? Plainly you stand ready, sad
died, bridled and harnessed, and waiting to
to be driven over into the slavery extension
camp of the nation; a voice" we will hang
ourselves frst,") just ready to be driven over,
tied together in q Lotto be driven over
every man with rope around his neck, that
halter being held by Judge Douglas. That
is the question.
HAVE REPUBLICANS BEEN IN EARNEST.
II Republican men have been in earnest in
what they have done, think they had better
not do it. But think the Republican party
is made up ofthose who far as they can peace
ably, will oppose the extension of slavery,
and who will hope for its extinction. If they
believe it is wrong in grasping up the new
lands of the continent. and keeping them from
settlement by free white laborers who want
the land to bring up their families upon; il
they are in earnest, although they may make
mistake, they will grow restless, and the
time will arrive when they will come back
again and recognize, ifnot by the same NAME
at least upon the same principles as their
party now has. 1t is better, then, to save
the work while it is begun. You have done
the labor; maintain t-keep it. If nlea
ciOrse 10 serre you, go arM them but as you
have made up your organization upon princi-
pie, stand by it !; for, as surely as God reigns
over you, and has inspired your minds. and
given Won sense OF Tropriety, and continues
to give You hope, SO surely you will cling to
these ideas, and you will at last come back
again after your wand, rings, merely to do your
toork oper again. Cloud applause.)
We were oftcn-more than once at least
in the course of Judge Douglas speech last
night, reminded that this government was
made for white men Well, that is putting
it in q shape in which no one wants to deny
it but the Judge then goes into his passion
for drawing differences that are not warranted
| protest, now and forever, against that coun-
erteit logic which presumes that because
no not want "a negro woman for a slave, do
necessarily want her for wife. daughter
and cheers.) My understanding is, 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 mar
~ all the black women, and in Gods name
let them be so married. The Judge regales
us with the terrible enOrinitics that take place
| by the mixture of races that the inferior
race bears the superior down. Why, Judge,
IT we will not let them get together in the Ter
ritories they won't mix there Immense
applause.)
a voice. Three cheers for Lincoln"
Crhe cheers were given with a hearty good
will)
Mr.. Lincoln-I should say at least that
that is sclfevident truth
Now it happens that we meet together
once every yeaf, sometimes about the 4th of
July, for some reason other. These 4th of
July gatherings | suppose have their uses
If you will indulge me | will state what |
suppose to be some Of them.
WHAT WE ARE, AND WHAT OUR FATHERS WERE
We are now mighty nation; we are
thrty-or about thirty. millions of people,
and we own and inhabit about one-f(teenth
part of the dry land of the whole ca. th We
run our memory back over the pages of
history for about eightytwo years, and we
discover that we were then a very small PEG
pie i'll point of numbers, vastly inferior to
what We are now, and a vastly less extent OF
country, with vastly less of everything we
deem desirable among men we look upon
the change as exceedingly advantageous to
us and to our posterity, and we fix upon
something that happened away back, AS in
some way or other being connected with this
rise of prosperity. We find race of men
living in that day whom We claim as our
father and grandfather they were iron men
they fought for the principle that they were
contending for; and we understand that by
what they then did, it has followed that the
degree of prosperity We now enjoy has come
to us. We hold this annual celebration 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