The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-12-04
MANIFESTO OF LINcoLN'S LIEUTEN.
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The Republican "jubilee," at Springfield, III !,
on the night of the 18th, has been noticed. The
speech of Mr. Lincoln in renly to serenade, con-
tains nothing more than was published, but the
speech of Senator Trumbull was promised before
the jubilee to be the reflex of Mr. Lincoln's views,
and is therefore, of more or less interest at the
South. The following is an extract:
Upon national topics Senator Trumbul II discoun-
tenanced the idea of trumphing over political op-
ponents, accepting all, by whatever name calico,
as brethren ofa common country. He said Mr.
Lincoln although the candidate of the Republican
party, as Chief Magistrate will neither belong to
that any other party when inaugurated. He
will be the President of the country, aud of the
whole country; and doubt not will be Is ready to
defend and protect the State in which he has not
received solitary vote against any encroachment
upon Its constitutional rights, the one in which
he received the largest majority. While they By
whose votes he has been designated as Chief Mag
istrate of the people, will expect him to maintain
and carry forward the principles on which he was
elected, they know that in doing so no encroach-
ments will be made on the reserved right of any
States. They know that the Federal Government
is one of delegated powers; that it can do nothing
except the authority for the act be found in the
instrument which created it; that all powers not
of the States.
Hence, when their political opponents have
charged them with abotionsm, or attributed to
them desire to interfere with slavery in theStates
or some fanatic has insisted they ought to do so
the reply has invaribly been that the people, who
made the federal government, did not think prop
er confer on it such authority, and has there
fore, no more right to meddle with slavery in a
State than it has to interfere with serfdom in Rus
sia Nor are the people in the non-slaveholding
States in any way responsible for slavery in the
States which tolerate it, because to that ques-
tion they foreign to each o:her as indepen-
dent governments. have labored in and for the
republican organization with entire confidence that,
whenever it should be in power, each and all of
the States would be left in complete control Of
their own affairs, and at as perfect liberty to
chose and employ their own means of protecting
property and preserving peace and order within
their respective limits, as they have been un-
der any administrator. Those who have voted
for Mr. Lincoln have expected and still expect this
They would not have voted for him had they ex-
pected otherwise.
l regard it as extremely fortunate for the peace
of the whole country that this point, upon which
the Republicans have been so long and SO persis-
tently misrepresented, is now to be brought to
test and placed beyond the possibility of doubt.
1t should be matter of rejoicing to all true Re-
publcans that they will now have opportunity
OF demonstrating to their political adversaries and
to the world that they not for interfering with
the domestic institutions of any of the States, nor
the advocates of negro equality of amag ,mation
with which political demagogues have SO often
charged them When this is shown, a reaction
will assuredy take place in favor of Republiclnism
The Southern mind even will be satisfied; the
rights of southern will be respected. and the
fraterna feeling existing in oden times, when the
men from all parts of the country went forth togeth-
er to battle for common cause against common
enemy, will be restored.
The above is the substance of Mr. Trumbull's
remarks