Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-10-25

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| names and predi sctiens we unite ourselves
together in defence OF the liberty and con-
stitu'ion OF the country. and will hereafter
cooperate as the Republican Party. pledged
to the accomplishment of the following
purposes:
To bring the administration OF the Gov
ernment back to the control of first princi-
pies;
To restore Nebraska and Kansas to the
position Of Free Territorles--That as che
Constitution of the United States vests in
the States, and not in Congress, the power
| to legislate for the extradition of fugi.ives
from labor;
To Repeal and entirely Abrogate the
Fugitive Slave Law;
To restrict Slavery to those States in
which it exists;
To Prohibit the admission of any more
Slave States into the Union;
To Abolish Slavery in the District Of
Columbia;
To exclude slavery from all the Territor.
les In which the General Government has
exclusive Jurisdiction;
"And to arrest the acquirement of sny
more Territory, unless the practice Of sIsv-
cry therein shall have been forever pro.
hibited." '9't dNat ~
These are Mr.. Lincoln's sentiments, here
10 his record, offered in his own words, by
himself at a Republican Convention 10 hi.
MOS.
Do you call him. holding these opinions
and piedging himse II to their enforcement,
a National Conservative man.
How interruptions must be the man who
would revive this base fraud and undertake
thus to mislead the honest mind who may
not have access TO the facts in the case
In order to set this matter entirely at
rest, ! make some extracts from the pub
lished debates Of Msssrs. Lincoln and Doug
las. My first extract is from Mr.. Linco ln's
reply to Judge Douglas at Galesourgh, Oct.
7th, 1858: :sFo!let, Foster g. Co., page ls2
Mr. Lincoln said:
$50 apparent had II become that the
resolutions which he read had not been
passed at Springfield at all, nor by a State
Convention In which ha taken part, that
seven days afterwsrd, at Freeport, Judge
Douglas declared that be had been mislsd
by Charles II Lanphier, editor of the State
Register. and Thomas L. Harris, mem Der
OF Congress in that district, and he Prom
ised in that speech that when he went to
Springfield he would investigate the matter.
Since then Judge Douglas has been to
Springfield, and presume has made the
investigation; but month has passed since
he has been there, and SO far as know, he
has made no report Of the result of his in
vestigation. have waited as think sufii.
cient time for the report Of that inyestjpa.
tion, and have some curiosity to see and
hear. A fraud--an absolute forgery was
committed, and the perpetration of Il was
traced to three-Lsmphier, Harris, and
Douglas. Whether it can be narrowed in
any way 90 as to exonerste any one of
them, is what Judge Douglas report would
probably show"
~, is true that the set of resolutions read
bv Judge Douglas were pub lished In the IL
libois Sthte Register on the 10th of Oct
1854 az being the resolutions oc an anti.
Nebrasks Convention, which had sat In
that same month of October. at Springfield
But II is also true that the publication in
the Reeiste, was forgery then, and the
question is still behind, which of the three
II not all Of them. committed that forgery?
The idea that il was done by mistake 10 ab.
surd. Tho article in the Ilinois State
Register contains part Of the real proceed.
ings OF that Springfield Convention, show.
ing that the writer Of the article had the
real proceedings before him, and purposely
threw out tho genuine resolutions passed
BY the Convention, and fraudulently sub.
'iltuted others. Lamphier then ss now, was
The editor of the Register, 90 that there
.eems to be but little room for his escape
But then u 10 to be::borne In mind that Lam.
'hier had less interest 10 the object of that
'orgery than either Of the other two. The
main object ofthat forgery at that time was
% beat Yates and elect Harris to Congress.
md thst object was known 10 be exceed.
ngly dear to Judge Dough-, at that time -
Harris and Douglas were both In Spring.
ield when the Convention was In session,
Ind although they both left before the fraud
'ppesred In the Register, subseq quert eyents
how that they have both had their ewes
'xed upon that Convention" h'e
"The fraud having been apparently sue.
essful upon the occasion, both Harris and
Douglas have more than once since then
'sen attempting to put It to new uses. As
he fshermans wife, whose drowned hus.
'and was brought homo with his body full
4 sels, said when she was asked. nwbat
'as to be done with him." "Taks tie sels
VI and set aim asain;" so Harris and Doug.
As have shown a disposition to take the
els out Of that stale fraud BY which they j
aimed Hsrriss election. and set the fraud :
gain more than once"
After this severe handling BY Mr.. Lin.
elm ofwhich the above i' but . mere sam.
"a. ssis aqaaa y y seigfa' eei.s l,