The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-07

"ho Win the coondent promise Of putin:
an end to slavery agitation; under the op
GRAFTON of that policy, that agitation ha.
only not ceased, but has constantly aug
mented. ~ Assoicc-ssThat's the very Ian
guage." ''l believe it will not cease unit
a crisis shall have been reached and passed
A house divided against itself cannot stand
believe this government cannot endur,
permanently half slave and half free.''-
Applause. 81 do not expect the Union t.
be dissolved,'-l am quoting from IN,
speech--''l do not expect the house to fall
but do expect it will cease to be divided
It will become all one thing or all the other
Either the opponents of slavery will arrcs
the spread of it, and place it where the pub
lie mind shall rest in the belief that it is il
the course of ultimate extinction, or its ad
vocates will push it forward until it shal
become alike lawful in all the States Nortl
as we'll as South.'' [Good, good .
That is the paragraph. In this paragraph
which have quoted in your hearing, and tt
which ask the attention of all, Juds,
Douglas thinks he discovers great politi
cal heresy. l want your attention par.icu
larly to what he has inferred from it. II,
says am in favor Of making all the States
of this Union uniform in all their intcrna
| regulations; that in all their domestic con
Germs l an in favor of making them cntirel,
uniform. lie draws this inference from tn
language have quoted to you. lie says that
am in favor of making war by the North up0I
the South for the extinction Of slavery; tha
| am also in favor of inviting, as he express
cs it, the South to a war upon the North fol
the purpose of nationalizing slavery. Now
it is singular enough, il you will carefully
read that passage over, that did not sa,
| that was in favor of ANYTHING in it. onl,
said what expected would take place.
made prediction only-it may have been
a foolish one perhaps. did not even 81,
! that desired that slavery should be put ir
course of ultimate extinction. | do say Sc
now however [great appIause] SO there meet
be no longer any difficulty about that.
may be written down in the next speech
Applause and laughter.]
Gentlemen, Judge Douglas Informed you
that this speech Of mine was probable care
fully prepared. ladmit that it was. an
not a master of language; have not fin,
education; am not capable of entering int,
q disqusiti0n upon dialectics, as beliey,
suage employed bears any such construc
ton as Judge Douglas puts upon it. But
don't care about Il quibble in regard t.
words. | know what meant, and viii
not leave this crowd in doubt, if can cx
plain it to them, what really meant in tn
use OF that paragraph.
| am not, IN the first place, unaware tina
this Government has endured eighty tw,
years, half slave and half free. know
that. am tolcrably well acquainted will
the history Of the country, and know tha
it has endured eghtv.two years, half slav,
and half free. beiiere-and that is wha
| meant to allude to thcre-I beIiere it ha
endured because, during all that time, unit
the introduction Of the Nebraska Bill, tn,
public mind did rest, all the time, in the belle
that slavery was in course of ultimate cx
tinction. [''Good - good!" and applause.
That was what gave us the rest that We ha.
through that period Of eighty-two ycars-a
least, so | believe. | have always hatet
slavery, think as much rs any Abolitionist
Applause.] have bccnan Old Line Whig
have always hated it but have ulwas becl
quiet about it until this new era of the in
PRODUCTION of the Nebraska Bill began.
always believed that everybody was asains
it, and that it was in the course of ultlmat
extinction. (Po,nting to Mr.. Browning
who stood near by, )-Browning thought SO
the great mass Of the nation have rested il
49, ""''-. A.: "'""ary wac in "aursa "f nls'
mate extinction. They had reason so to be
! licve.
The adoption of the Constitution and it
attendant history led the people to bclicv'
so; and that such was the belief of the fra
mcrs of the Constitution itself. Why die
those old men, about the time of the adop
ton of the Constitution, decree that SLAYER,
should not 90 into new Territory where i
had not already gone? Why declare tha
within twenty years the African Slave Trad
by which slaves are supplied, might be Gu
off by Congress? Why were all these acts
| might enumerate more Of such acts-bu
enough. What were thcv but clear indi
cation that the trainers of the Constitution
intended and expected the ultimate extinc
ton of that institution. Cheers. And
now, when say, as say in this speech
that Judge Douglas has quoted from, whcl
[ say that think the opponents Of SLAYER.
will resist the farther spread Of it, an,
place it where the public mind shall res
with the belief that it is in course of ult
mate extinction, only mean to say, tha
they will place it where the founders Of thi
government originally placed it.
have said il hundred times, and have
now no inclination to take it back, that
believe there is no right, and ought to be NJ
inclination, in the people of the free Statc'
to enter into the slave States, and interfer
with the question of slavery ut all. | hav
said that always. Judge Douglas has hear'
me say it-if not quite a hundred times, n
least as good as hundred times; and whcl
it is said that am in favor of interfering
with slavery where it exists, know it i
unwarrantei by anything have ever intend
ed, and, as believe, by anything hav
said, IL, bv any means, have ever uset
language which could fairly be SO construed
(as however, | believe never have,) l nov
correct it.
[IIere the shouts of the Seventh Ware
Delegation announced that they were comm!
in procession. They were received with en-
thusiastic cheers.
So much, then, for the inference tha
Judge Douglas draws, that am in favor o
setting the sections at war with one another
know that never meant any such thing
and believe that no fair mind can lnfe
anv such thing from anything l have eve
said. [.sGood,' "good.''] =
| Now, III relation TO MS lnIeEcnce tiiaS ! ~"
in favor of a general consolidation Of all TIN
local institutions of the various States. i
will attend to that for little while, and tr.
to inquire if can, how on earth it could bt
that any man could draw such IN Inference
from anything said. | have said, yer!
many times, IN Jsdge Douglas hearing
that no man believed more than in thu
principle of self government; that it lies a
The bottom of all my IDEAS of just govern
ment from beginningto end. have deniet
that his use Of that term applies properly
But for the thing itself l deny that any MAJ
has ever gone ahead Of me in his devotion
to the principle, whatever he may have done il
inei6ciency in advocating it. think that
have said it your hearing-that l believ'
that each individual is naturally entitled Il
do as he pleases with himself and the frui
Of his labor, SO far as it in no wise interfere
with any other mans rights, (applause] tina
each community, rs a State, has right Il
do exactly as it pleascs with all the concerns
| within that State that interfere with tn
rights of no other State, and that the genera
government, upon principle, has no right tt
interfere with any thing other than tha
general class Of things that does concerI