Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-01

I - 's-Y9i teeener IN the town Of Winchester,
ana ne nourishing grocery keeper In ne to,rn ~
Salem. Laughter He w. 1,s,. s,.... 80 =
MS aYoeation than ], and hence bssars. -, -
tunate IN this worlds goods AIr Ti-.-l- j; - -,
o. inoss peculiar men that has performed i,5 ~
mirable skill in every occupation tbaf h. -
, tempted 1 made Is good 4 school tsaobs. :. 81
could, and when cabinet maker I made ~ 49,
bedsteads and tables, but my old boss said T Sr-
eseded better in bureaus and secretaries tban apv
thing else Laughter. But believe that Mr.
Lincoln Was more successful in bis businsss than j
Ior ms business soon carried hi-a directly into he
MF Laneoin served vita ne, OF With him. In The
LesisiaiaEe Of 1886, when We parted. He subsided
:. su0@ersee Ior some years, and I lest sight OF
bin. IN lS46, when Wilmot raised a. IfiI5.of
ProVisO toTnados Lincoln again turned m A. a -,-
Der otaCo3gress from the SaRganon district Z
being in the Senate Of the United States Wa ,,Ts
to welcome him, then without friend or conapauio-,
He there distinguished himself By bic opposi,ou q
the Mexican war, taking sides With the oonmon
enemy, in tine Of var against his own countrT
lCheers and grosns When be returned horne
from that Congress, he found thar the fu6ir1affoa
Of the people followed him sveFyEhers 1ntiI ha
again retired TO private life, and was subuerqsd
I until he was forgotten again By his friends Hs
came up again in 1854. just in lime 70 make the
Abolition Black Republican platform. in company
with Lovejoy, Giddings, Chase, and Fred Do6elsss
/ for the Republican parry TO stand upon TrumbulL
/ too, was one Of our own oOteDp0raries He vas
Z
ast, be removed 10 Georgia, and there turned Null
! llher, when Notification vas popular
But, as soon as be had disposed Of his clocks and
wound up ins business, he smigraied to Illinois.
/ When he got here, having turned politician and
] lawyer, be made his appearance in Isf0-4F asa
! member Of the Legislature, and became uoted a.
the author o. scheme 20 repudiate large portion
Of the State debt Of illinois, and thus bring infv
and disgrace upon the fair esoutoheon at our ela.
rious State. The Odium attached 10 that measure
L a L - e.. ~ IL
the House Of Representatives and replied ta bis
reputation speeches until We carried resolutions
over his head denounci0g reputation, and assert
ing the moral and legal obligations OF Illinois 70
pay every dollar Of debt she 0Wed-evsry bond
bearing her sigBiture. TFumbulIs maliRnify To-
wards me arises out Of the fact that defeated bis
Infamous scheme TO repudiate the State debt and
State bonds Of Illinois.
NATIONAL AND SECTIONAL coxFLrcrs.
Lincoln now takes the stand and proelaims his
abolition doctrine. In his speeehto the ConvsptIoD
which nominated him fer the Senate in Springfield.
be says, '4n my opinion the slavery agitation viii
not cease Rnlil crisis shall have been reached and
passed A house divided against itself cannot
stand believe this government cannot endure
permanently half slave and half free. do not ex-
peot the Union 10 be dissolved. do not expeot
the house to fall, bat do expect that il viii cease
TO be divided Il viii become ell one thing or al
the other Either the opponents Of slavery viii
arrest the further spread Of IT, snd place il where
the public mind shall rest in the belief that Il is in
the course Of ultimate extinction, or lis advuesfes
will push it forward until il becomes alike lawful
in all the States old as well as new North a. vel
as South" Tremendous cheers Cries Of aGoodi
goodi') Yes, have no doubt it is, and an de-
lighted 10 hear you say good. (Go0di good LsuFh-
teri have no doubt that year dociriue expres-.
ses your sentiments, and yet 1 viii prove to YOU If
you will listen TO me, that doctrine is revolutious-
ry, and destructive Of the existenos Of govern
ment. Mr.. Lincoln here says that our sgovernment
cannot endure permanently in the same condition
in which It made BY its trainers. Il vas made
divided into free States and slave States.
Mr.. lincoln says il has existed for nearly eighty
years thus divided: bat he tells you that il oannot
endure permanently on the same principles and In
the same condition relatively in which your fathers
made it. Why can't it endure divided permanently
into free and slave States? Washington, a. The
President Of The Convention Franklin, and Madison
and Hamilton, aud Jay and tie Pstriots o. thatdav
made this government divided into free States and
slave States, leaving each Stale perfectly free 70 do
as Il pleased on that subject Of slavery Why canr
exist upon the same principles p0n which our faih
ers made It Our fathers knew when they made this
that in country as wide and broad as this-Eith
such variety Of climates, Of interests Of produc-
tons as this-ihat the people necessarily required
dIeTent local laws sud local institutions in certain
localities from those in Other localities They knew
that the laws and regulations tDat would suit the
granite hills Of New Hampshire would be unsuited
TO the rice plantations Of South Carolina
Hence they provided that each State should re-
tain Its Legislature aud It's own sovereignty.
with the full and complete power do as IL pleased
within its OEnli limits in s that was local not nation
a. One Of the reserved rights Of the States was
that Of regulating the relation between master snd
slave, or the slavery question AT that time-that
is when the constitution was made-there we're thir-
teen States in the Union, twelve of which were
slave States, and one was free State. Suppose
this doctrine Of unifOrmity-all TO be one or an 10
be the ogher-nOW preached by Mr. Lincoln, had
prevailed then, what would have been the result
Of the twelve slave States would have over
ruled the one free State, snd slavery would have
been fastened By constitutional provision eve
~ inch Of the American continent instead Of being
left fathers wisely left il for each State TO de-
eide for itself therefore say that uniformly in
the local laws and loesl institutions Of the dsreut
States was neither possible nor desirable If any
uniformity mad been adopted, it must inevitably
have been the uniformity Of slavery everywhere.
LIECoLs AN AMALGAHAr1os1sr.
We are told by Lincoln that be is utterly opposed
to the Deed Scott decision, and viii submit 70 H.
for the reaon he says that it deprives the negro
Of the rights and privileges Of being ciuEeus
For one, am opposed 70 negro citiEeuship in any
form. ] believe that this government was made on
the white basis. believe IL vas made by the white
man fer the benefit Of white men and their poster~
terity forever, and ] am in favor Of confuiuk the
citizenship to the white men-men Of European
birth and European descent instead of eonferriog
But Mr. Lincoln, following the lead Of the abolition
orators that came here and laetured in the base
ment Of your churches and sehOol houses reads the
Declaration Of Independence that al men are free
and equal and then ssys; chow yeu deprive
the negro Of the equality which God and the Decla
tion of Independence awards to himi" He andthey
uainisiu that negro equality is guaranteed BY ths
laws Of God and reasserted in the Declaration Of
Independence. II they think So they ought thusto
vote.
DOUGLAS OF LIE UNITY OF THE RAcEs.
do not question Mr.. Lincoln's conscientious be-
lief that the negro was made his equal, and hence
is his brother. But for ny own psrt lido regard
the negro as my equal, and positively deny hat
he is ny brother, or any kin TO me whatever, do
not hold that merely because the negro belongs %
an inferior race therefore be ought to be a slave
By no means can such conclusion be drawn. On
the contrary do hold that humanity and Chrstiani-
ty both require that the negro should have aud en-
Joy every right every privilege and every immunity
consistent with the saety Of the society in which
be lives On that point presume there can be no
diversity Of opinion You and are bound 70
extend to every inferior dependent being every
right and privilege, and every facility and in
munity consistent with the public good.
Nov, my friends, il We viii only act rigidly and
eOnscientiously upon this great principle Of popular
sovereignty which guarantees 70 each Stale and
Territory The right 70 do il plea8es, instead Of
Congress interfering, We VIII be az peace one With
another. Why should Illinois be at var With Mis-
souri, or Eenfuckr3 Then. my
friends Why can We not adhere to the principle Of
self-government upon which our Institutions we're