The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-07-31
ExTRACTs FROM THE SPEECH OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Delivered In reply to Judge Douglas In Chi
oago, on the Might sf the 10th Instant:
Concluded from last week.

| ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
osso. on Is. Nigh. sss iosn iss.aas:
| Concluded from last week.
| l have expressed heretofore, and | now
repeat my opposition to the Dred Scott
decision, hut l should be allowed to state
the nature of that opposition, and ask
your indulgence while do 50. What is
fairly implied by the term Judge Doug
las has used, "resistence to the decis.
ion?" | do not resist it. If l wanted
to take Dred Scott from his master, |
would be interfering with property, and
tha. terrible difficulty that Judge Doug
las speaks of, of interfering with proper
ty, would arise But l am doing no such
thing as that, but all that / am doing is
refusing to obey it as political ruse. II
| were in Congress, and vote should
come up on question whether slavery
should be prohibited in new territory,
in spite of that Dred Scott decision,
would vote that it should. (Applause.)
Mr.. Lincoln-That is what | would
do. ("You will have chance soon. y
Judge Douglas said last night, that be-
fore the decision he might advance his
opinion, and it might be contrary to the
decision when it was made; 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. cloud
applause) 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 the 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 property they have two uses. First
they decide upon the question before
the court. They decide in this case that
Dred Scott is a slave. Nobody resists
that. Not only that, but they say to
everybody else, that persons standing just
as Dred Scott stands, is as he is. That
is, they say that when question comes
up upon another person it will be so de-
cided again, unless the court decides
another way--unless the court overrules
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 to try to do. The sacred
ness that Judge Douglas throws around
this decision, is degree of sacredncss
that has never been thrown around any
other decision before it. l have never
heard of such thing. Decisions appa.
rently contrary to that decision, or what
good lawyers thought were contrary to
that decision, have been made by that
very court before. 1t is the first of its
kind; it is an astonisher in legal history
Laughter.) 1t is new wonder of the
world daughter and applause 1t is
based upon falsehood in the main as to
the facts-allegations of facts upon which
it stands are not facts at all in many in.
stances, and no decision made on any
question-the first instance of decs.
ion made under SO many unfayorable cir
cumstances-thus placed under 90 many
unfavorable circumstauces-thus placed
has ever been held by the profession as
law, and it has always needed confrma
tion before the lawyers regarded it as ,
settled law. But Judge Douglas viii
have it that all hands must take this ex
traordinary decision, made under these
extraordinary circumstances, and Civ.
their votes in Congress in accordance
with it, yield to it and obey it in every
possible sense. Circumstances alter ca
ses. DO not gentlemen here remember
the case of that same Supreme Court
some twenty-five or thirty years ago, de
ciding that national bank was constitu
tional? ! ask if somebody does not re
member that national bank was declared
to be constitutional? Such is the truth
whether it be remembered or not TIL,
bank charter ran out, and e-charter wa
granted by Congress. That re-charte
was laid before jackson. 1t was urget
upon him, when he denied the constitu
tionality Of the bank that the Suprem,
Court had decided it was constitutional
Gen. jackson then said that the Suprem
Court had no right to lay down rule T.
govern coordinate branch of the gov
ernment, the members Of which hat
sworn to support the constitution---tha
each member had sworn to support tn,
constitution as he understood it. | vii
venture here to say, that | have heart
Judge Douglas say that be approved o
Gen. Jackson for that act. What nov
has become Of all this TRADE about are
sistence to the Supreme Court
! My fellow citizens, getting back lit
tie, for | pass from these points, whel
Judge Douglas makes his threat of ami
hilation upon the salliance," he is eau
tious to say that that warfare of his is t,
fall upon the leaders Of the Republican
party Almost every word he utters, an,
and every distinction he makes, has it
significance. He means for the Republi
cans who do not count themselves as lead
ers. to be his friends; he makes no fus,
over them; 1t is the leaders he is making
war upon. He wants it understood tha,
the mass Of the Republican party ar,
really his friends. Ii is only the leader.
that are doing something that is intoler,
ant and that requires extermination q,
his hands. Now, | could ask the Re.
publican party, after all the hard names
that Judge Douglas has called them by
all his repeated charges of their inclina
tion to marry with and buy negroes, al
his declarations of black Republicanisu II
| by the way we are improving, th,
black has got rubbed off-but with al
that, if he be endorsed by Republican
votes, where do you stand! Plainly yor
stand ready saddled, bridled and harness
ed, and waiting to be driven over int,
the slavery extension camp of the natio,
"a voice-t'we will hang ourselves frs"
TO be driven over, every man with
rope around his neck, that halter bein,