, 1859-09-21
LINCOLN At CINCINNATI.
Ills Reception by tic Buckeyes
HE Pf.uADs FOR DOUGLAS.

sVetcH FT'uF " hue leaving u tne cars. oPoH
enching ihe depot he Was met By largc con-
.ourse Of persons who had assembled to greet |
be champion Of Freedom in the "SucEer Staie."
rhe reception must bare reminded him at his |
our through his own State, when, as here, the |
,unk Numbered welcome, music greeted. and |
3eoplc cheered at each place Of stopping.
Conducted by The Committee to the Burnet |
House. be thers,rccciyrd some few persons who
desired to abow lin by personal visit that re-.
,pect which bis honesty and talent has procured
for him ut home and wherever his namc ia
known. About eght o'clock he Was conreyed |
To the Fifth street market-space, where, from
The balcony of Mr. Kinsey's house, he delivered
half. Unlike the gentleman to whom be VAS
.nskiug reply, he did not repeat the worn.out
phrases which we're conned over for the people
Of Illinois twelve tnontfIa since nor did Le palm
OF upon the people speech studied for this
tour, and which We had reported yesterday but
be uttered q speech fresh and oEigioal, which
will be found interesting mud uaanawerable.
[Thc G1=<fef, from which We quote, reports
the speech verbatim. We hare room only for
ttat portiun in which the distinguished orator
sets forth the reasons why tie South should
nominate Douglns rs tueir candidate At Charles.
ion next year.-Eps PREzs AND TR1nrxE.l
Addressing himself to the kcntuckians III the
crowd, Ar. Lincoln said:
now proceed to try to show Jon that Doug
las is as sincerely for you and more wisely for
you than you are for yourselves.
DOUGLAS At TEE WORK or 7Bx SOUTH.
In the first place ne know that in Govern
ment like this, in Government OF the people,
where tue yo.ce Of all the men Of the country,
ministration ratber-oftha Government. in such
4 Government, whit lies at the bottom Of all Of
it, is public opinion. 1ay down the PROPOSE
tion, that Douglas is not only the man that pro-
misses you in advance hold upon the North and
support in the North, but that he constantly
noulds public opinion to your ends; that in ev-
cry possible way be eau, be constantly moulds
and Il there are 4 few things in which he sesms
to be asainst yon, and q few that he forbears to
say that you would like to bare him say-you
ought to remember that the SAYING Of the one
or llc forbearing to say Of the other, woaEl
loose lis bold upon tue North, and by consc-
quence lose bis capacity to serve you. 4 voice,
+'That is sou
Upon this subject of the moulding Of public
opinion. call your attention to the fact-for II
wetl.estahliahed fact it ;a-tbat the Judge uerer
says thnt your institution Of slavery ia WRONG;
be never says it is right, to be sure, but he nev
er says 1t is wrong. Laughter.) There is not
public man in The United States. believe,
WILL Tue G1CfTJtlu4 VI 3Eu0lOI 0uuE|a6s v III Hun
not, at some time or other in his life, declnrtd
his opluiou that the thug is either right OF
wrong; but Senator Douglas never declares it
is wrong; he leaves himselfut perfect liberty 10
take all the stand III your tavtr which he can
possibly do, or which he would be lindered from
doing ii he WAS to declare the thing to be wrong.
On the contrary, he takes all the chances that
be has for inyeisns tue sentiment Of the North,
opposed TO slavery, into your support by neTcr
saying It is right. tLaughter.) THIS you ought
to eet down to his credit: (Laughter) You
ought to give lin full credit for this much, lit
TIC though it be, in comparison to the whole
which be does for you.
Some other things will ask your attention
to. He said upon tue aoor Of the United States
Senate, and be has repeated, us understand, d
great many times, that be does not care whether
slavcry Is "roted up or voted dowu." T4i.
again, shows sou. or ought to show you, Il you
would reason upon 1t, that he does not believe
it to be wrong for mnn may say when he seer
nothing wrong in thing that be does not cart
| whether it be voted up or voted down, but nj
man eau logically say that be cares not wheth.l
| thing goes up or goes down which to him ap
| pears 10 be wrong. You therefore hare a de-
monstrauop 10 this. that to Douglas mind you'
| favorite institution, which you would spread ou
| and make perpetual, is no wrong.
/ EAE AAANA41 NA%AuAH4 a4ANks
Another thing he tells you. In speech mad
at Memphis, in Tennessee, shortly atter the can
yass in Illinois, last year, be there distinct,
told the people, that there was :. Il line drawl
br the Almighty across this continent. on TIL
one side of which the soil must always be culti
rated BY tlares;' that he did not pretend II
know exactly where that line vas, (laughte
and applause, but that there was such line.
want TO ask your attention to that proposition
1 ,of "a nf fFh Confi
uent where the Almighty has desigpated lha
the soil shall always be cultivated by Slaves
that its being cultivated by slnves at 1bnt p}ac
is right; TINT it has the direct sympathy m
authority Of the Almighty. Whenever you Gu
get these Northern audiences to adopt tt
The Ohio; whenever rou cau get them, in pursu
ance Of Douglas views, to adopt that seftl,nsn
they sy,il very readily make the other argument
which is perfectly logical. that that which
right on that side Of tie Ohio, cannot be wron
on this, uaugbter;) md that If you have thu
properly on That side Of the 0hio, under tn
seal aud stamp uf the Almighty, that when b
any means it escapes over hrre, il is wrong
have constitutions aud laws TO derE" 70
about it. s. Douglas is tnouding the publ
ppipion Of The Nor1h, first to say that the thin
is right in your State orer the ONO riscr, an
hence to say TINT that wisA IL right there is ut
wrong here, ut This moment tl,e cannon vi
fired, to the great injury OF smndry panes
lass in the vicinity and that all laws aud col
/ s,itutions here. recognizing il as being wroni
xre themselves wrong, sud ought. to be rcpcals
and abroGated. lie will tell you, men OF Obi
that if YOU choose here to Lave laws ngain
them, that it is in conformity to the idea th
your climate i, no = ted to it, that your e!lua
is not suited to stare labor, and therefore SC
hare constitutions and laws against it.
Let Us attend to that argument for lit
| while and see il il be sound, Ion do not raj!
sugar cane -{cxcept the new fashioned sug,
canc, aud you won't raise that lons) they {
| raise it in Louisiana. You don't raise it
! Ohio because .ou can't raise it proftably, b.
tue cannon interrupted. Its report was fa
lowed By another full Of window glass Ths
| do raise it in Louisiana because there it is pr
fitable. Now, Douglas will tell ron that is pr
cisely the slavery question. That they do ha'
slaves there because it is prohtable, and yt
don't have them here because it is not profit
bic. II that is 80, then it leads to dealing wi
! the one precisely rs with tie other. Is the
then anything in the Constitution Of laws
Ohio against raising sugar cane: Hare u
found Il uecessary to put any sush provision
your lawy Surely mott No man desires
raise sugar cane in Ohio; but, il any man d
: desire to do &c., ycu would say it was tJranr
t you shall agree with Douglas, whenever 20
! minds are brought to adopt his argument,
surely you will hare reached the cunclusio
that although stuverY is not profitable in OH
if any man wants it, it is wrong to him not
let himAsve it.
e In this matter Judge Douaasis preparirgs
= public mind for you Of Kentucky, to make p'
= petual TINT good tling In your estimation, abo
which you and differ.
TIE CHANCES IN FIVE IEARs.
In this connection let me ask your attenti
y to another thing. believe it Is safe to ass.
. that fve years aEo, no living man upon Il
subject had expressed the opinion that the
ern had no sh1a in the Declaration OF Int
nendence. Let me state that again; fire ye1
>f aco no iiging man had expressed the opini
- that the negro had no share in The Dec'arati
l. of Independence: il there is in this large
ever knew Of that opinion being put upon pal
as much aa five years ago. will be obliged
him now or Mt any subsequent time to show
IS If that be true wish you. then TO note
,s next fact; that within the space Of fve Sc,
II Senator Douglas. in the argument o. this gu
tion, has got his entire psHy, SO far Is kno
without exception, to join ia saying that
Is pcndeuce. If there be new in all these Uuil
N States, one Douglas man that does not say I'll
ID l haye been unable upon anT occasion to sc'
= him up-1f none Of you said that five years n
ID sod ST Of you say it now, that is a matter Il
V vou Eentuckiaus ought to note. That is = y
J. change in the Northern public sentiment up
1t that question.
8. Of xhat tendency is th.t chsnge. The t!
L. dencF Of that change is to bring the public nj
ut to tho conclusion that when white naen are s.
Is ken OF, the negro is not meant; that when
= | crces are spoken Of, brutcs alone are con,e
D. nlsted, That change in public sentiment
IL already depressed tie black mau in the estir