Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-12-29
lEWHOLE NO. I64.

ritory, except as TO the individual case,
than has your decision as to Drcd Scott,
, that he could not sue In the Federal Courts,
J established the fact that Congress could
not legislate to keep slavery out Of Ter
ritory-a decision which scarcely Jus
] tice of the peace in the State Of Illinois
! would hsye made. Why, sir. if an indi-
vidual had come before one of our justices
with claim exceeding the jurisdiction of
justice of the peace, and the instice had
/ examined 1t and seen that he had noiuris-
diction, and then had gone on and invcs-
htigated the case, and said how he would
have decided it if he had jurisdiction,
think the whole community would have
laughed at his folly. That Is exactly what
the Supreme Court of the United States
{ has done in the Dred Scott case The idea
that the Supreme Court of the United
Estates can establish political principles in
this country is new article I'm the creed
/ OF the Democratic party. 1t was not the
= former doctrine of the present Chief Mag
} istrate of the country. He regarded the
, Supreme Court as q corps of sappcrs and
} miners, digging under the Constitution,
4 who might in process Of time subyert and
destroy it, efarl as Ea 1e
Mr.. YULEE.-Now, then, would call
the Senator's attention to another ques stion
asked whether, under the first clause of
! this platform, the Senator construed slave
nv to be legally existing, or otherwise. in
the District of Columbia, and in the forts
and arsenals. and other places in which the
exclusive jurisdiction Of the United States
prevailed by the Constitution. These are
, the words
Mr.. TRUMBTLL.-I will answer the ques-
| ton without troubling the Senator to read
the platform. / conceive that in the Dis
irict of Columbia, the Constitution of the
United States has not er "a termfni, by its
terms abolished slavery, because it existed
here, by virtue of local law. when the Uni
ted States obtained jurisdiction over tho
District.
Now, sir. think have answered these
gentlemen so that they cannot at any rate
misapprchend my views, and i have done
it without concealment or holding back at
all; and, as | said, If have been the means
Of disabasing the mind of single Sen
ator, or of a single person in the South
who may ever take occasion to look over
the incoherent remarks l have made, |
shall rejoice at it..
Having endeavored to show what the
Republican platform is, having given my
understanding of it. wish to ask South
ern Senators why is there such persis-
tence in choosing to misunderstood u.s.
do not charge that upon any particular
Senator; bat why is it that in the Southern
/ States of this Union we are called A boli-
tionists? Would Senators induce their
constituents to think more harshly of us
than we ought to be thought of? What
is to be gained by it? Is the South to
gain anything by making its inhabitants
believe, and inducing, if you please. the
party is ready to put knives and pistols
into the hands of the slaves to murder
their masters? What will you have ac-
complished when you shall have induced
such belief among the white people of the
South? Will you be more secure? Will
there be any less likelihood of an insurrec-
ton, when, you have circulated through
ont 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 us
as brethren? Treat us fairly, take our
platform as 1t is. When we say that all
men are created equal, we do not mean
that every man in organized society has
the same rights. We do not tolerate that
in Illinois. know there is distinction
between these two races, because the AL
mighty has marked it u on their very ia
ces and, in my Judgment man cannot. by
legislation or otherwise, produce perfect
equality between these races, so that they
will live happily together. slaio0sa rss-
have always been q Democrat; and yet
now | am denounced as Black Repub-
lican. as an Abolitionist, for some of the
southern Governors, l believe, choose to
to call us all Abolitionists. have chang
ed no sentiment on the subject of slavery
since the time when | acted with the old
Democratic party, am no more adverse
to it now than was then. 1 have lived
amidst it and would be as far as any
Senator from interfering with. this do
mestic relation where it exists in the
States. + rfa..8o sai ir-7 - .sssao9
l inquired what gentlemen meant by
talking about inequality of rights between
the North and the South; and about aggres-
sions of tue North upon the South: and
when they were made and where they were
made. In reply, the Senator from South
Carolina, instead of taking our platform
as the exponent OF our principles, advertcd
to what single individual of the RepubT
lican party had said. Now, sir, does il
comport with the candor and the fairness
of that distinguished Senator, who is. T
believe, ordinarily, a very candid and fair
gentleman, to apply to great party in the
country, which has declared its principles
in convention assembled, what any one
individual member Of the party may say
are his own opinions? sslen .oa l.ir
!, Mrs. c. p. Brister, editress of Newark
co. Times, writes in her paper of January
90, 1858, as follows r... ,...
EE We know that DIR. Roback's Scan
} dinavian Remedies are all they clam to be-
rTbo Dr ,,,,ocou tod nc with q -four boff1o~ ~