Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-07-22

moi only laid down their platform, but NOM
mated candidate for the United States
Senate as my successor. Kisses. l take
grea, pleasure in saying that | have known,
personally and intimately, for about quar-
Ter of century. the worthy gentleman
who HIS been nominated in my place a
voice, The will never get it," and cheers =,
and will say that regard him us kind.
nmiable and intelligent gentleman, a good
citizen and an honorable opponent; and
whatever issue may have with him will
be Of principle, and not involving personal
tiles. TCheers.1 Mr.. Lincoln made q
speech before that Convention which unanl-
mousIy nominated him for The Senate-a
speech evidently well prepared and careful
" wriiten-in which he states the basis up
on which he proposes 10 carry on the cam
paien during the summer. In 1T he lays
down two distinct propositions which | shall
notice, and upon which | shall take direct
and bold issue with him. Cries Of good,
good" and great applause.
His first and main proposition l Will give
in his own language, scripture quotation and
all. TLaushter.1 / give his exact Ian
puape: IA house divided against itself
cannot stand" | believe this government
cannot endure, permanently, half slave and
half free. / do hot expect the Union TO be
dissolved. do not expect the house TO fall;
but do expect il 10 cease to be divided. Ii
will become all one thing OF all the other"
In other words, Mr.. Lincoln asserts as
the fundamental principle of this govern
ment, that there must be uniformity in local
laws and domestic institutions Of each and
all the States Of the Union and he there
fore invites all the non slaveholding States
10 band together, organize as one body,
and make war upon slavery in Kentucky,
upon slavery in Virginia, upon slavery in
the Carolinas, upon slavery in all OF the
slaveholdlng States in this Union, and TO
persevere in that war until.it.. shall bei ex-
terminated. He then notifies the slave
holding States TO stand together as unit
and make an aggressive war upon the free
States Of this Union with o view Of estab-
fishing slavery in them all; Of forcing it
upon Illinois, or forcing it upon New York,
upon New England, and upon every other
Tree State, and that they shall keep up the
warfare until it has been formally estab-
lished in them all. In other words, Mr..
Lincoln advocates boldly and clearly war
of sections, a war of the North against the
South, of the free States against the slave
States-a war of extermination-to be con-
tinued relentlessly until the one or the 9TH
or shall be subdued and all the States shall
either become free or become slave.
r.. 4. II Is L,
ly, that I take bold, unqualified issue with
him upon that principle. assert that it is
neither desirable nor possible that there
should be uniformity in the local institutions
and domestic regulations of The different
States OF the Union. The trainers Of our
governmental concerns, the fathers of the
Revolution, and The sages who made the
Constitution well understood that the laws
and domestic institutions which would suit
The granite hills of New Hampshire would
be totally unfit for the rice plantations Of
South Carolina; (chesrs) they well under
stood that the laws which would suit the
agricultural districts of Pennsylvania and
New York would be totally unfit for the
large mining regions Of the Pacific, or the
lumber regions of Maine. (bravo.) They
well understood that the great varieties Of
soil. of production and Of interests in re-
public as large as this, required different
local end domestic regulations in each local.
i'y, adapted to the wants and interests Of
each separate State, ferries of 'bravo" and
good" and for that reason it was provi-
ded in the Federal Constitution that the
thirteen original States should remain sove-
reign and supreme within their own limits
in regard to all that was local, and internal,
and domestic, while the federal government
should have certain specified powers which
were general and national, and could be ex-
cised only by the federal authority
[Cheers.
The trainers Of the Constitution well un-
derstood that each locality, having separate
and distinct interests, required separate
and distinct laws, domestic institutions, and
police regulations adapted 10 its own wants
and own condition; and they acted on the
presumption, also, that these laws and in.
s,itutions would be as diversified and as
dissinilar as the States would be numerous,
and that no two would be precisely alike,
because the interests Of no two would be
precisely the same. Hence, | assert, that
the great fundamental principle which un-
derlies our complex system Of State and
federal governments, contemplated diver
sity and dissimilarity in the local institu-
tions and domestic affairs Of each and every
State then in the Union, or thereafter 10 be
admitted into the confederacy. there
fore conceive that my friend, Mr.. Lincoln,
has totally Inexperienced the great prinei-
Piles upon which our government rests
Uniformity in local and domestic affairs
would he destructive of State Rights, State
Sovereignty, of Personal Liberty and Per.
sonsl Freedom. Uniformity is the parent
Of despotism. the world over, not only in
politics, but in religion. Wherever the
doctrine of uniformity is proclaimed, that
all the States must be free or all slave, that
nll labor must be white or all black, that all
the citizens of the different States must
have the same privileges or be governed by
the same regulations, You have destroyed
the grestest safe. guard which our institu-