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

over again, and repeat them here as my sen
tmeutS.
SLAVERY INTERFERENCE AND THE CRANBERR
LAWS OF INDIANA.
How is it, then, that Judge Douglas infers
because | hope t. See slavery put where TIT
public mind shall rest in the belief that it il
in the course of ultimate extinction, that
am in favor of Illinois going over and inter
fering with the cranberry laws of Indiana
What can authorize him to draw any sucl
inference | suppose there might be one
thing that at least enabled him to draw such
an inference that would not be true with me
or many otherS-that is, because he LOOKS
upon all;thiS matter of Taray as an exceed
ingly little thing-this matter OF keeping one
sixth of the population OF the whoie hauot
in a state OF oppression ana tyranny unequal
led in the world lie looks upon 1t as being
an exceedingly H.t's hing-only equal to the
question of the cranberry laws OF Indiana
as something having no moral question i'll il
AS something on Il par with the question
of whether a man shall pasture his land witt
cattle. or plant it with tobacco-so little and
SO small thing that he concludes if couG
desire that anything should be done to bring
about the ultimate extinction of that little
thing, must be il favor OF bringing about
an amalgamation of all the other things in the
Union.
Now, it so happenS-and there, l presume
is the foundation of this miStaae-that the
Judge thinks thus and it SO happens that
there is a vast portion of the American peo-
pie who do not look upon that matter as
being this very little thing. They look upon
it as a raSt n'oral ell 3; they can prove it is
such by the writings of those Who gave us
the blessings of liberty which we enjoy, and
that they So looked upon it, ana no, as an
evil merely confirming itself to the States
where it is situated and while We agree that
by the Constitution We asSented 10, IN the
States where it exists we have no night 10 IN
tertere with it, because it is III the tonstltu'
ton We are by both duty and inclination dis
posed to stick ~ that Constitution in all Its
letter and spirit from beginning to end
Great applause)
So much then as to NY disposition-my
wish-to have all the State Legislature blot
ted out, and to have one general consolidated
government; and uniformity OF domestic
regulations in all the States by which | sup
pose 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. 50 much for this nonsense-for | must
vail it so. The Judge can have no issue with
me on 4 question Of establishing uniformity
il tie domestic regulations of the States.
THE DRIED SCOTT DECISION.
\ little now on the other point-the bred
Scott Decision. Another one of the issues
hot "a IL t>h no do u;f
his devotion to the Died Scott decision, and
my opposition to it.
have expressed heretofore, and now re-
peat, my opposition to the bred Scott decs-
ion but should be allowed to state the ma
ture of that opposition, aud ask your in
diligence while do so. What is fairly mpli-
ed by the term Judge Douglas has used, ore
sistance to the decision - | do not resist it.
II | wanted to take bred Scott from his mas
ter, l would be interfering with property, and
speaks of, of interfering with property, would
arise. Bnt | am doing no such thing as that.
but all that | am doing is refusing to obey it
as Il political rule. If | were in Congress,
and vote should come up on question
whether slavery should be prohibited in a
new territory, i'll spite of the bred Scott de-
cision, | would vote that it should. (Ap.
plause good for You - 'we hope to see you
do it;' 'that's right;''
Mr.. Lincon-that's what / would do
('You will have a chance soonD Judge
Douglas said last night, that before the decis-
ion he might advance his opinion and it might
be contrary to the decision when it was m ,de;
but after it was made he would abide by it
until it was reversed. just so! We let this
property abide by the decision, but we will
try to reverse that decision. Loud applause
cries Of good) We will try to put it
where Judge Douglas would not object, for
he says he will obey it until it is reversed
Somebody has to reverse that decision since
it is made, and we mean to reverse it, and we
mean to do it peaceably.
What are the uses OF decisions Of courts
They have two uses. AS rules of propriety
they have two uses First-they decide up
on the question before the c. urt They de-
eide in this case that bred Scott is slave
Nobody resists that. Not only that, but they
say to everybody else, that persons standing
just as bred Scott stands, is as he is. That
is, they say that when question comes up
upon another person it will be so decided
again, unless the court decides another way,
(cheers-cries of 'good,') unless the court
overrues its decision. (Renewed applause.
Well. we mean to do what we can to have
the court decide the other way. That is one
thing we mean t. try to do.
THE DECISION OF COURTS NOT SACRED.
The sacredness that Judge Douglas throws
around this decision, is a degree of sacred
ness that has never been before thrown a.
round any other decision. have never heard
Of such thing Why, decisions, apparent
" contrary to that decision, or that good
lawyers thought were contrary to that de.
cision, have been made by that very court be-
fore. 1t is the first of its kind it is an u.s.
tonisher in legal history. (Laughter.) 1t is
new wonder of the world. daughter and
appause.) 1t is based upon Gasehood in the
imam as TO the facts-allegations o.
acts upon which it stands are not facts al
all in many instances, and no. decision made
on any questionable first instance of de
csion made under so many untavOrable cir
cumstances-thus placed has ever been hello
by the profession as law, and it has Away:
needed confirmation before lawyers, regard
ed it as settled law. But Judge Douglas
will have it that all hands must take this eX
traordnary decision, made under these ex
traOrdinary circumstances, and give thci
votes in Congress in accordance with it
yield to it and obey it in every possible
sense.
Circumstances alter cases. Do not gentle
men here remember the case of that same
Supreme Court, some twenty-five or thirty
years ago, deciding that q national bank aca
constitutional? | ask, if somebody does no
remember that national bank was declared
to be constitutional eyes," Eyes J.
Such is the truth, whether it be remembered
or not The bank charter ran out, and re
charter was granted by Congress. That re
charter was laid before Gen. Jackson 1t wa:
urged upon him, when he denied the consti
tutionality of the bank, that the Supreme
Court had decided that it was constitutional
and Gen. Jackson then said that the Supreme
Court had no right to lay down rule t.
govern a coordinate branch of the Govern