Gazette and sentinel., 1860-06-09

-~JIL NeElStOu LS Il Gt, Sld'Cis cAISIS -
the Territory, then it also exists in d
State-it exists in Pennsylvania as well
- in Kansas. The contest ended, and
oE the popular vote the Senator from
Illinois was beaten, nut according to tic
division Of Senators and Representa-
uves e the State he was reelected 10
the Senate. The popular vote vas one
hundred and twentv-Dnc thousand III his
favor 10 one hundred and twenty-five
thousand III favor Of the Republican
candidate, and five thousand for what he
calls the "Dauites" Bat the Senator
from Illinois came back here in triumph
last spring. was obliged to leave my
country from all oPthalmia, which re-
quircd attention abroad, and could nei-
thcr write nor read for eight months. |
came back just before the opening Of
this Congress, and found that during my
absence the Senator from Illinois had
been engaged in . controversy IN tho
magazines Of the country in relation To-
the principles that govern the Territories
of the United States, and that he had IN
serted into these articles the very argu-
ments which his Republican friends in
Illinois had used against him, and now
he was using them against the Demo
cratic party; and that it may not be said
that | originated this ~charge-that these
magazine articles were printed after his
opponent had taxed him with these argu-
ments-I will tell you what Mr.. Lincoln
says in his Columbus speech. Mr.
Benjamin here read all extract from the
speech referred to, and continued. Yet
the Senator from Illinois, after thus
violating the agreement which he made
with his brother Democrats, and after
declaring that no matter how many de-
cisiOns may be made, he could always get
them, because ne had So fixed it IL that
bill that the people Of the Territory could
always, in spite Of any decision, make
free Territories. He the proceeded in
this canvass for the Presidency to ad-
dress himself to the people Of the United
States in a magazine article. But the
next trick-I do not speak of dishonor
or snOnesty-but the next fantastic
trick was to dress up a magazine article,
with the answer Of his Republican OPP
ponent in Illinois, brought forward now
as discoveries by himself, was claimed
as expositions by himself, and then put
ting forth to the astonished gaze Of the
American people his new theory of the
word States, as employed in the Consti-
tuition of the United States, that it often.
means Territories. Mr.. BENJAMIN read
from the Harper's Magazine article Mr..
npurrlaS'S arrpnnnf Ihnnt tho Word
States. That is a constitutional argu-
ment, literally propounded, to what the
Senator from Georgia said yesterday
was the nonsense of the people," and
is not observable, and does not every
body see, that the Senator was driven
into this very nonsense when he assumed
that the pywer of the people of the
Territory exercised what he termed
popular or squatter sovereignty. Mr.
Benjamin then referred to the fact that
Judge Douglas had taken the arguments
of his Republican opponent and put them
before the people of the country as his
own ~opinion-his arguments against the
Democratic party, who did not agree
with him. Mr.. BENJAMIN here read an
extract from MIR. Lincoln's speech at
Jonesboro', on the 18th of September,
1858. Let it be said ] am reading Re-
publican doctrine, for these very passa-
ges of the speech of Mr.. Lincoln were
introduced by the Senator from Illinois
in his magazine article as Democratic
doctrine. Mr.. b. then referred to Mr..
Douglass rejoinder to Judge Black,
when he said if slavery existed in the
Territories by virtue of the Constitution,
it was the imperative duty of Congress
to pass laws to protect it, and that the
South could not avoid pressing the mat
ter, according to their oaths. They must
ask for a slave code. He then continu-
ed as follows But now the Senator
stands here and attacks us for doing
just what he says our oaths made it q
imperative duty to do, and what we can
not avoid doing. The Senator from Hi
nois says that his exposition Of the doc
trine, that if slavery exists in Kansas
by virtue of the Constitution, it must
also in Pennsylvania. carried cOnsterna-
ton and dismay in the ranks of his as
sailants, when it is just copied from Mr..
Lincoln's argument. He next took up
Mr., Douglass statement, that the Ten
nessee resolutions offered at Charleston,
were liable to two ~contructions unfriend-
~ to the South. He read the resolutions,
and contended that they were suscepti-
bic Of but one fair construction, and that
was a full recognition of the right of all
citizens TO take property into the Terri
tory. He further said the South now de-
. mnnda a clear and nrnlicit dnclaration Of