Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-02
NO. 81.
Douglas Aphorisns.
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Selected verbatim from his Speeches

10 condifi0p Rfay introdsee, exclude abolish
1? regulate slavery just as they please Specs
at Clifton Springs, n. Y, Aug, 1860.
q 1t is judicial question. If the Const
tuition carries slavery there, Unto the territ
IS ries) let it go, and no power on earth ca
). take it away.-[Speech in Senate, July
y 1856.
l. 9. Each State, as member Of the Confe,
: eracy Las a right to voice in forming th
d rules and regulations for n government of tn
J. territories. Il is no violation Of Souther
d rights to prohibit siavery.-fSpeecb 10 Senat
$ Masch 10, 1850.
A. l a ccept the bred Scott decision of tn
Il Supreme Court of the United States, in til
{ Dred Scott case, an authoritative exposition
, of the Constitution. Whatever limitation
the Constitution, as cNtoulnicd by the Courts
imposes on the authority of Territorial Leg
stature, we cheesfully recognize and respeci
!, in conformity with that decision. Slaves arr
recognized as property, and placed on an equal
footing with all other property. Hence, the
: owner Of slaves-ths same as ilIc owner of any
: other species of property--las a right to re-
) move to Territory and carry his properly
with him [Spceeh at New OrlcaIIs, Dec 6,
1858.
s. "Sone species of property are excluded
by law in most Of the States as well as Terri
tories, as being inwise, immoral or contrary
to the principles of sound public policy. Ar
| dent spirits, whisky, brandy, and all intoxi-
! eating drinks, recognized aud considered
as property i'll most of the States, if MT all of
them; but no Citizen whether from the North
or South can take this species of properly
with him, and hold sell or use at his pleasure.
| in ali the Territories. because it is prohibited
! by the local l;rw-in Oregon by the statutes of
! the Territory, and lit the Indian cuuntry by
| the acts of Congress Nor can man go
there and take and hold his slave, for the
same reason.-ESpeesh in Senate, March l3
1859.
6. Il do NOT pat Slavery on different foot
ing from other property. | recognize it as
property under wIrt is understood to be the
decision of the Supreme Court. argtte that
the owner of slaves has the same right to rt-
move to the territories and carry his Slave
property with him as the owner Of any other
species of property. There is just as much
obligation the part Of The Territorial Legis- |
latlre to protect slaves as every other species /
of property, as there is te protect horses cat
tie, dry groods, liquors, &c.--iSEcceh in Sem !
ate, Feb. %, 1889.
7. Il undertake to say tlsst there is not one |
of these 5tates that would have tolerated the |
institvtion of slavery IN its limits, even if it /
had been permptorily required TO do SO by act
of Congress. | will never blacken the
character Ct my OWE State by such an |
admission Speech in Senate March Is,
1850.
s. 4 don't care whether slsVert ia Voted /
down, or voted up.---[Speech at Centralia,
September, 1858.
8. NO matter what the decision OF the Su- |
preme Court may be, still the right OF the !
people to make slave Territory or free
Territory is perfect and complete under the
NebrtsEss Bih.-[Speeeit st Freeportj Aug
%, 1883.
TO- The Territories arc sIihj7ct TO The iur-
is;liction and control Of Congress during their
iniancy-their minority; but when they attain
their Maj rrity and ot#eiR admission into the
union, they are free ftiuH dll restraints and re-
strictious, except such as the Constitution of
the Gi1ited States has imposed. - Speech in
House, feb. 20, 1845. :.
II. Il answer emphaticalle. as Mr. lincoln
has heard me answer hundred times from
every stump in Illinois, that in my opiriion the
people Of Territory can, by lawfnl Iarans,
exclude slEvery from their limits prior to the
formation of a State Constellation Speech
at Freeport, Aug. %, 1853.
l2. ''Phe Sovereignty of territory remains
in abcya1rre, suspended in the United, stsetes
in trast for The people, until they shall be ad-
mitte( into The uDioa as a stste. . Douglasf
Report on kanses aiElirs. March u, 1856.
l3. The people of ii Territory like those #
a Stale. should be Ieit perl ely fee 10 form
and regulate their dOncstic institutions in
their own way, arN ia lnrifstion should be
placed on that right IN any form. = [Speech
at Chicago, July 9, 1858.
ii Il hare never ssti,i o. tho,tglft that our
Territories were sovereign pocical commune
ties, or even limited sovereigntlts like the
States of this Union. Reply tS Judge
Black, Oct 1859.
Is. On the 23d of October, lS49. Mr. Doug
las made speech at Springfield. Illinois, which
Was published in 6he State Register, of No
vcmber 6th, i'll which he used the following
language:
"1'he Missouri Compromise has an origin
akin to that OF the Cousti' ution Of the United
States, conceived in the same spirit of fratern-
al affection, and calculated to remove forever
the danger which seems to threaten, ut souat
distant day, to sever the sorial bond Of union.
All the evidences Of public opinion at that
dav. seemed to Indicate that this Compromise
had become cannnzel in the hearts of the
American people q sacred thing, which no
ruthless hand would ever be reckless enough
to disturb"
10 On the 23iF dry of January. 1885, Mr. ,
Douglas brought in bill repeating the Misou- l
ri Compromise. in' the following terms:
"rhat the Constitution, and all the laws of
the United States which are not locally inap-
plicabe, shall have the same force and effect {
within the said Territory of Nebraska (and {
Kansa4) rs elswlIere within the United States. /
except the eighth section of the act preparato- '
ry to the admission of Missouri into the Union, c
approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and {
twenty. which bring inconsistent with the
principle of nou-interventon by Congress I
with Slavery III the States and Tcrrit rie +, q
as recognized by the legislation of 1850, g
commonly called the Compromise Measure, I
is hereby declared imperative aud void
III hold that the people of Territory,
like those of state, have the right to decide
for themselves whether slavery shall or shall
not exist within their limits. Speech at Al
ton, Oct. Is, 1858.
l8. "I bold that no such thing as sovereign I
power attaches to Territory while Ter. 1
ritory."-[ Speech in Senate, February %,
1859. il