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cluds it; and the decision Of case would no
more establieh alavety in t Territory, excspt -
to the iudiridual case, than has your decision
Federal Courts, established the f.c! that Con:
greas could not 1egsiate 10 keep slavery ous OF
Terriiory-n decision which scarcely Justice
qf tho peace in the State Of Illinois would
hare made: Wh7. sar, II N individual had
como he!ore one Of our justices with a claim
exceeding The Jurisdiction Of justice tf
aad had seen that he had no jurisdiction, and
then had gone on and Investigated the case, add
said how he would have decided it if be bad
iurisdictiou, I think the whole community
would hare laughed 4. bis folly. That j. ex::
aetlJ what the supreme Court Of this United
States has done in the Dred Scott case. Tbs
idea that the Supreme Court Of the United
States can eatablilh political principles in this
country Is new article in the creed Of the
Democratic patty. It wes tot the former doc
trine Of the present Chief Magistrate II the
county. He regarded the Sapteme Court as
corps Of sappers and miners. digging under the
Constitution, who might in process Of time sub
vert and destroy it.
Mr: YuLKx.-Now, then; I would call tho Sens.
tors attention to another question. | asked
whether, under the first clsuse OF this platform,
the Senator construed slavery to be legally ex;
listing, Or otherwise, in the District Of Colum-
bia, and ia the forts ard azsenals, aud other
IL "ulCA h44H G2sluS1fE u tAV
Uaited States prevailed by tie Constitution:
These are the words =
Mr. TIuNBU1L--1w will answer the question
without troubling the Senator to read the plat
| form. ! conceive that in the District Of Coum~
bin, tbs Constitution Of the United States has
not, G Vi sermini, BY its terms abolished slavery,
| because it existed here, BY virtue Of local laW,
when the United States obtained Jurisdiction
| over the District.
Now, sir, I think have answered these gen.
temen 30 that they cannot at any rats mlsap-
preheud my views, and hare done it without
concealment or holding back at al: and, as I
said, il hare been The means Of disabusing
| the mind Of single Senator, or Of = single
Psrsou in the South rho .naJ ever take occa-
sion to look over the incoherant remarks I hare
made. I shall rejoice At it.
| Having endeavored to show what the Repub-
!ican platform is, hasing giren my understand
ing Of it, / wish to ask Southern Senator's Why
| understand us1 do not charge that upon any
particular Senator: but Why is it that in the
Sontrern States of this Union We are called
| Abolitionists: Would Senators induce their
| constituents to think more harshly Of as than
| re ought to be thought Of: What is to be gain
making its inhabitants betieTe, and inducing, If
you please, the slaves to believe that the
great Republican party Is ready to put
Knives md pistols into the hands
| Of the Slaves to murder their masters
What will you hare accomplished wben
you shall hare induced such II belief
among the white people Of the South, or among
the slaves Of the South! VIII you be more Sc
cure7 Will there be any less likelihood Of IN
insurrection, When you hare circulated through
| out the whole slave population the idea that the
| great mass Of the people Of the North are ready
to arm them to slaughter their masters! Why
not, then, ask, treat IA Is bsethren9 TEeatus
&ht- $nt~A .1n$f SA WHmF xFA1
| that all men are created equal, We do not mean
that eyery man in organized society has the
same rights. We do not tolerate TINT in Illinois.
i know that there Is q distinction between these
two races, because the Almighty himself has
marked it upon their very faces aud, in my
Judgment, man cannot. by legislation or other
wise, produce perfect equality between these
races, 50 that they will lire happily together.
l have always been Democrat; and Jet,
now an denounced as Black Republican, Is
an Abolitionist, for some Of the southern Cor
ernors. believe, choose to call US all Aboll-
tionists. hare changed no sentiment on the
subject of slavery since the time when / acted
| aTerse to it now than Was then. have iEed
amidst it. and would be as far as any Senator
| from interfering with this domestic relation
where it exists ID the States.
Inquired what gentleman meant by talking
about IN inequality Of rig hts between the NoF'h =
North upon tho South; and when they we're
made and where they were. 1n reply, the Sen
ator from South Carolins, instead Of taking OUT
platform rs tie exponent Of our principles, i'd
serted to what single individual ofthe Repub-
lican party had said. Nov, air. does it com:
port with the candor and the fairness OF
that distinguished Senator, who is, I believe,
ordinarily, very candid and fair gentleman, to
attribute to great party in the country, which
has declared its principles in convention Assem-
b!ed, what any one individual member Of the
party may say are his own opinions: