The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-15
Douglas, Retention at Chicago.

met with a grand reception. He ar
rived at u o'clock, in the special train
sent out to meet him, and was received
by large concourse of people, com
prising men of all sects, classes and
opinions. A procession was formed,
and the Senator was conducted to the
fremont House, where he delivered
himself of quiteia lengthy speech, re-
viewing his past political course, and
promulgating! his platform upon
which he intends to stand and act
during the campaign in the State Of
Illinois this fall.
He vowed that he was good Dem.
ocrat still, that he supported the Gin
cinnati platform, and that he differed
with the Administration only upon the
Lecompton question. He admitted the
discrimination made between free and
slave States in the English bill, and
the fact of bride of 100000 acres oil
land being offered to Kansas to come
in as a slave State. The Republicans
have contended all along that this was
the case, for which they have been viii
fed and denounced by the locofoco
press. Speaking of the English swim
l. Il
eve did resist it, and resisted il
successfully, until the attempt was
abandoned. We forced them to refer
that Constitution back to the people OF
Kansas, to be accepted or rejected as
they should decide at an election which
is fixed for the first Monday in August
1t is true that the mode of reference,
and the form of submission, were not
such as | could sanction with my vote
for the reason that it Disseminated be-
tween Free States and Slave States
providing that if they came in with the
Lecompton Constitution they could
be received with $4,000, but if they
choose to demand another Constitution
more consistent with their sentiments
and their feelings, they should not be
received into the Union until they had
1920 inhabitants.
1t would seem that although he adj
mits that the question submitted to the
people of Kansas is nothing more mol
less than whether they will or will not
accept this bride offered them, he an
nounces his acquiescence to the meas
ure, and contends that great victory
has been achieved over the Admins.
tration.
Mr.. Douglas stated that the doctrine
of "popular sovereignty gave the peo-
pie of a Territory the right to vote
upon the Constitution under which they
might ask admission into the Union as
a State; but he fully concurred with
the President that the Constitution Of
the United States carries human
slavery into all the Territories, and that
the people of the Territories, while in
their eapaciityy,, csrnrrot rettec;
it, and that Congress has no contro
over the Territories in this respect
though it has in every other. Beauti
full idea that, and fully sustains the an
nouncement of the President, thai
Kansas to-day is as much of slave
State as Georgia or South Carolina.
He fully endorsed the bred Sect
decision, saying: 81 Eaxse no warfal
to make on thee supreme Court of tt
Upitted States, either on account
that or any other decision which the
have pronounced from that bench
He thus announced his adhesion to tn;
decision, and his concurrence in I'll
f doctrine that the negro has no RICH
which the white man is bound to +
, spect.
We apprehend that Mr.. Douglas wi
find that he is engaged in an uphi
business in canvassing the State of Ill
nois endeavoring to crowd these ide;
upon the minds of the intelligent poop
of that State. The Republicans al
wide awake there, and are making
, desperate effort to carry the State. M
Douglas can make up his mind
vacate his seat in the Senate, and retil
to private life, after the 4th of Marc
next. He is politically dead.
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