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

,p to. But do not wish to; for all the Repu
at licans in the nation opposed it, witho,
it Judge Douglas aid, rs with it. They ha
ID all taken ground against it long before /
y did. Why, the reason that he urges again
,r that Constitution, | urge against him yea
lie before. ! hare the printed speech il m
a. hand. The argument that he makes, VIII
1t that Constitution should not be adopted tha
t. the people were not fairly represented no
h allowed to vote, pointed out in speech
; year ago, which | hold in my hand now, tina
g no fair chance was to be given the people
n Read it. tread it," | shall not vast
Q your time trying to read it ["Read it,
!. 'read it. Gentlemen, reading from speech
$ es is a very tedious business, particular,
r for an old man that has to put on spectacles
/ and the more so if the man be SO tall tha
] he has to bend over the light. Laughter.
little more, now, as TO this matter OF popn
t lar sovereignty and the Leeompton Constitution
B The Lecompton Constitution, as the Judge tell
Us, was defeated. The defeat OF il WAS good
thing or it was not. He thinks the defeat Of 4
was good thing and SO do |, and we agree in
that. Who defeated it,
voice-Judge Douglas.
Mr. s.incon-Yes, he furnished himself and
II you suppose he controlled the other demo
Gratis that went with him, he furnished three
votes, while the republicans furnished twenty.
(Applause.)
That il what he did to defeat it. In the House
OF Representatives he and his friends furnished
some wenty votes and the Republicans ninety
odd loud applause.) Now who was it that
did the work?
voice-Douglas.
Mr.. LiLcoln-Why yes, Douglas did ii. To
be sure he did
Let US, however, put that proposition another
way. Tue Republicans could not have doae it
without Judge Douglas. Could be have done it
without them? [Applause) Which would have
come the nearest to doing it without the other.
Renewed applause. "Tbat's it, that's it,"
good" good"
A voce-Who killed the bil.s
Another voice-Dougas.
Mr.. Lncoln-Ground was taken against ii by
the Republicans long before Douglas did il. The
proportion of the opposition to that measure is
| about five to one.
| Now, who in all this country has ever found
any OF our friends. of Judge Douglas way of
| thinking, and who have acted upon this main
| question, that have thought of utte4ing a word
| IN behalf of Judge Trambulls / dely you TO
| show printed resolution passed in mo-
cratic meeting-I take it upon myself to defy
any man TO show printed resolution Of DEM
ocratlc meeting, large or small, iii favor OF Judge
who beat that bill. Every thing must b. fer
the Democrats! They did every thing, ant the
i've to one that really did the thing they snub
over and do not seem TO remember have all ex-
istence upon the face of the earth. (Applausel
30 much then as TO my disposition-mY wish
to have all the State legislatures biotted out.
and to have one general onsolidated govern.
ment aud uniformity OF domestic regulations
IN ALI the States, by which suppose it u meant
1 wa oSgn ho~.
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
--tor must call it so. The Judge can have no
issue with me on question OF establishing uni
iormity IN the domestic regulations vi the
States
LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS.
Gentlemen Il fear that shall become te-
dious, (Go on, go on.l / leave this branch of
the subject to take hold of another take up
that part OF Judge Douglas speech in which he
respectfully attended to me. Laughter)
Judge Douglas makes two points upon NV
recent speech at Springfield. lie says they are
to be the issues of this campaign. The first one 1
Oh these points he bases upon The language in |
speech which delivered at Springfield, which |
| beiieVe can quote correctly from memory /
l said there that I'VE are now far into the 9Th |
year since policy was instituted for the avow- |
ed object and with the confident promise OF put |
ting an end to slavery agitation; under the |
operation OF that policy, that agitation has not
only not ceased, but has constantly augmented |
"A voice y" That's the very language 81 |
believe it will not cease until crisis shall have
been reached and passed. house divided |
against isseit cannot stand | believe this gov
ernment cannot endure permanently halt slave
and half free" (Applause.) II do not expect
the Union to be dissolved, =" am quoting IRON
my speech-"I do not expect The house 10 fall
but do expect it will cease to be divided Il
will become all one thing or all the other Eth
er the opponents OF slavery will arrest the
spread OF it, and place 1t where the public mind
shall rest in the belief that it il in the course
OF ultimate extinction, or lis Gvocates will push
il forward until it shal become alike lawful in
all the States North al well as >outA.n fGood,
good
That is the paragraph. In this paragraph
whlch have quoted III your hearing, and to
which ask the attention OF nil, Judge Douglas
thinks he discovers great poll .ical heresy. /
want your attention particularly to what lie has
inferred from it. lie says ! am in favor of
making all the States of this Union uniform in
all their internal regulations; that in ali Their
domestic concerns au III favor of making them
entirely uniiotn. lie draws ibis inference frem
the language have quoted to you. lie SAYS
that am in favor Of making war by tile North
upon the South for the extinction of slavery
that am also inviting, as he expresses it, tue |
South to war upon the North for The purpose
Of natonalizing slavery. Now, it Is singular
enough, it you will carefully read that passage
over that did not say that was in fayor Of
anything i'll it. | only said what | expected
would take place. | made prediction only-
u may nave been foolish Que perhaps. | did
nnt ny hat a. IL. "A
De put IN course of ultimate extinction do /,
say so now however lgreat applause 80 there
need be no longer any difficulty about that II
may be written down in the next speech [Ap-
plause and laughter
Gentlemen, Judge Douglas Informed you that
his speech OF m.ne was probably carefully pre-
pared. | admit that il was. | all. not master
1f language have no. a tiue education am
lot capable of entering into disquisition upon
iialeeties, as believe you call it; but do not
believe the language employed bears any such
construction as Judge Douglas put upon il But i
don care about quibbie in regard to words /
know what meant, aud will not leave this
;rowd in doubt, ii can explain it to taeni, us 10
that really meant In the use OF that para I
,raph. !,
| am not, in the first place, unaware that this I
Government has endured eighty-two years, I
laif slave and half fee. know thar. am I
olerably well acquainted With the history OF the 7
country, and know that it has endured eighty. {
wo years, half slave and half free. | 5stiese- /
md that is what meant TO allude to therc--I '
eiiese it has endured because, during all that :
ime, until the introduction Of the Nebraska Q
Bill. the public mind did not rest, all the time. t
n the belief that slavery was in course OF ul- r
innate extinction. I''Goodtn Good! I. and ap- g
'lause That was what gave Us the rest that ?
Fe had through that period ol eighty two years. .
at least, so | believe | have always hated $
lavery, think as much an Abolitionist- h
Applause. have been an Old Line Wing. {
have always hated it, but have always been G
aet about il until this new Of the introiuc- S
ion OF the Nebraska Bill began. always be-
evod that everybody was against ii, and that
| was in course OF ultimate extinction. Point n
ag to Mr.. Browning, ho stood near by, - n
irownlng thought SO the great mass Of tile A
ation have rested in tile belief that slavery !
Sas in course of ultimate extinction. They had | Ii
eason SO to believe. a
The adoption of the Constitution and its at Il
l&Ss.t - -. IL.