Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-07-15

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received by his friends and admirers Will
great pomp and ceremony. The crowG
in the neighborhood of the fremont House
where he was received, WIS very large, va
riously estimated at from Is. 600 to 80 900
three ffths of which, the Press and Tri
6ane estimate, were Republicans, attractet
thither by curiosity and a desire to lear
what position he would take toward til,
Administration. The crowd though larg,
was not enthusiastic, but Mr. Douglas
vanity, weprcsume, was hattercd sufficient
ly by the largeness of the crowd, the alb
sence of enthusiasm being attributed to tn,
encrvating influence of the warm weather
His speech on the occasion, though evi
IDENTIFY prepared with great care, Is not We
ry creditable to him. Its verbiage i:
smooth, and in point of ability, it is about
on par with all his efforts; but it abounds
with egotism and misrepresentation Of
Judge LrScoLS's Springfield speech. w,
will here give an extract from Mr.. Lin
coins speech, and another from Mr. d. S,
commenting on it, to show the unfairness
of the latter:
Mr.. Lincoln's position as Mr.. Lincoln sta
tel Il:
eve are now far into the fifth year since
policy was inflated with the avowed OBJ
ject and confident promise of putting an
end to slavery agitation. Under the ope-
ration of that policy that agitation has not
only not ceased, but has constantly aug
mented. In my opinion it will not cease
until crisis shall have been reached and
passed. "a house divided against itself
cannot stand" believe that this Gov
ernment cannot endure permanently, half
Stare and half Free. / do not expect the
Union to be dissolved--I do not expect
the house to fall-Ju 1 do erpect Il tcal
cease to be dirided 1t will become all one
thing or all the other. Either the oppo-
nents of Slavery riH arrest the further
spread Of IL, and place it where the public
mind shall rest in the belief, that IL is IN
tie course of ultimate extinction; or its adj
vocates mU push 1t jorrard til 1t shall be-
come alike lawfM in all tie .Stotes-old as
we'll as new, North as well as South"
Mr. Lincoln's position as Mr.. Douglas sta
ted i:.
"In the first place he Mr.. Lincoln sets
out In his speech to say, quoting from
Scripture, that ga house divided against
itself cannot stand;" that the American
Government divided into an equal num-
Der of Free and Slave States, cannot stand
That they should all be the one or all the
other. In other words, he asserts as fun
damental principle of this Government. that
there must be uniformity in the laws-local
laws and domestic institutions of each and
all the States of this Union. He therefore
iacites all the non-slaveholding States Il
band together, oryanize as one body, ana
make war upon slarsry in Kentucky upon
slavery in Virginia, upon slavery in the
Carolinas, upon slavery in all the slave
holding States Of the Union, and to perse-
rere an that ,car until IL shall be ertermino-
ted. He then invites the slavc-holdiDg
CtateS 10 Udhu together al d Hiiil, anu
make aggressive war upon the Free States
of this Union. with view to establish
slavery in Illinois. New York, and New
Ensland-in every Free State of the Uni
on-and keep up that warfare until it shall
be firmly established in their limits. III
adrocofes toldiy and clearly scar If sec
tions-a war of the North against tin
South--of the Free States against tn
Slave States-a war Of determination L
be continued relentlessly until the one o
the other shall he universal, and all th
States shall either become free or becom
slave"
The intelligent. honest reader canno
fail to see the unfairness of which Nh
ID. is guilty. 1t would have been discred
liable to crossroads politician.
Mr.. Lincoln replied to Mr.. Douglas o
the following evening in Chicago, and Ut
terly demolished his sophisms, pointin
out his misrepresentation and unfairnes
i'm argument, in a manner wlEich must has
been any thing than else pleasant to the lii
tie gentleman.