The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-21

disturb the institution Of slavery. Judg
Douglas said, at Bloomington, that | use
language most able and ingenious for con
ceallng what really meant; and that Will
| had protested against entering into III
slave States, nevertheless did mean to g
on the banks of Ohio and throw missile
into Kentucky to disturb them in their do
nestle institutions.
said, in that speech, and | meant NJ
more, that the institution Of slavery ough
to be placed in the very attitude where TIL
trainers of this Government placed it. ant
leftit | do not understand that the fra
mers of our Constitution left the people o
the free States in the attitude of tirin.
bombs or shells into the slave States
was not using that passage for the purpos
for which he infers did use it, | said
'.We are now far advanced in the fifth yea
since policy was created for the avowet
object and with the confident promise o
putting an end to slavery agitation. Unde
the operation of that policy that agitation
has not only not ceased, but has augmented
In my opinion it will not cease until crisis
shall have been reached and passed. g
house divided against itself cannot stand.
believe that this Government cannot en-
dure permanently half slave and half free
1t will become all one thing or all the other
Either the opponents of slavery will arrcs
the further spread of it, and place it wher,
the public mind shall rest in the belief thai
it is in the course uf ultimate extinction, ol
its adrocates will pusl. it forward till it shal
become alike lawful in all the States. old a.
we'll rs new. North as well rs South"
Now you all see, from that quotation.
did not express my irish on anything, 1t
that passage Indicated no wish or purp0s,
of my own; simply expressed my erpecta
tion. Cannot the Judge perceive the dis.
tlnction between purpose and an erpecfa.
ton? have often expressed an expecta.
tion to die, bat have never expressed {
,rid to die. said at Chicago. and now
repeat, that am quite aware this govern.
ment has endured, half slave and half free
for elghty-two years. | understand thai
little bit of history. | expressed the opin.
ion did, because ! perceiycd-or though
| p"rceived-a new set Of causes introduced
dId say at Chicago, in my speech there
that did wish to see the spread of slavery
arrested, and to see it placed where The
public mind shall rest in the belief that it i
in course of ultimate extinction. | sale
that because ! supposed, when the public
mind shall rest in that belief, we shall have
peace on the slavery question. have be.
licved now believe-thc public mint
did rest on that belief up to the introduc.
ton Of the Nebraska bill.
Although have ever been opposed tc
slavery, so far rested in the hope and be.
lief that it was in the course of ultimate cz.
tinction. Fer that reason it had been l.;
minor question with me. might have beer
mistaken; but had believed, and now be.
! !ove, that the whole public mind, that is
the mind of the great ma orltv, had restcc
in that belief up to the repeal of the Missou
ri Compromise. But upon that event,
became convinced, that either had becl
resting in il delusion, or the institution wa.
being placed on new basis--a basis fol
making it perpetual, national and univcr
sal. Subsequent events have greatly con
| irmcd me IN that belief. believe that bill
to be the beginning Of conspiracy for tha
purpose. SO believing, have since then
considered that question n paramount one
So believing, thought the public mnc
will never rest till the power Of Congress Il
restrict the spread of it shall again l." ac
knowlcdged and exercised on the one hand
Or on the other. all resistance be entirely
crushed out. | have expressed that opin
ION. and entertain it tonight. |, is de
MED that there is any tendency to the ma
tiOnalization of slavery in these States
Mr.. Brooks, of South Carolina, in one
Of his speeches, when they were prescntin.
him with canes, silver plate, gold pitcher:
and the like. for assat,Itin,r Spnator Sum
ner, distinctly affirmed his opinion tha
when this Constitution was formed, it wa,
the belief of no man that slavery would las
to the present dav.
lie said. what / think, that the Trainer,
Of our Constitution placed the institution ol
slavery where the nublic mind rested in tho
hone that it was in course Of ultimate cx.
tinctjon. Bnt he went on to say that III,
men of the present age. bv their expcrienco
have become wiser than the trainers Of tho
Constitution: and the invention Of the cot.
ton Gin had made the rerpctuity Of slavery
Il necessity in this country.
As another piece of evidence tending tc
the same point:-Quite recently in Virginia
n man-the owner of slaves made a vii
providing that after his death certain of hi,
slaves should have their freedom. if the,
should so choose. and go to Liberia. rathc.!
than to remain in slavery. They chose I,
be liberated. But the person to whom
they would descend as property. cIailnc
hem as slaves. A suit was instituted
Which finally came to the Suprcmc Court oi
yirrinia. and was therein decided aoains,
the Slaves. upon the ground that IA uerrt
cannot maken cho;cc-that they had no IT,.
ral mower to choosc-could not perform
the condition unon which their Freedom de.
nended.
I do not mention this with any purpos,
Of criticisins it, but to connect it With tn,
arguments as afl1rdirc additional cyidenc,
of the change of sentiment upon this cues
t;on Of slavery in the direction Of MAKING i
ncrnetual and national, | arrue now. rs
did before. that there is such tendency
and I nm backed not merely by the facts
hnt hv the opon confession in the Slav,
states.
And now rs to the Judre's Inference. thai
because wish to sec slavery placed in th,
course of ultimate extinction -nlaced whcr,
our fathers originally placed i'll wish +,
annil,;late the State Larislatures-to fore,
cotton to GROW upon the TONS Of the Gree,
NIountains,-to freeze ice in Florida-to cu
lumber on the broad Illinois prairies-thar
am in favor Of al these ridiculous ant
imnossibIc things,
# seems to me il is comblcte answer to
al ~. a.. 81, :e --,o,, Co,,uross IA Lor,