The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-08-16

Q Law abiding citizen, but his record proves {
him to be an Abolitionist of the "irrepressi- {
BILE conflict" order. The following resolu
ton was unanimously adopted at the frs'
Republicau State Convention held in Hi
nois. ard met 1t Springfield. Oct 9th. 1854. I
and of which Mr.. Lincoln was chairman OF
the Committee en- Resolutions:
"Resolved, That the times imperativelyl
demand the re-organization Of parties, and
repudisting all r.evlous party attachments,
names, an1 predictions, we unite urselves
toy~sfer in defence OF the liberty and Con-
s,itution of the country. and will hereafter
cooperate as the Republican party, pledged
TO the accomplishment Of the following pur-
poses: To bring the Administration Of gov
eminent back to the control of first princi-
pies: to restore Kansas and Nebraska to the |
position of Free Territories; that as the |
Constitution of the United States vests in
the States. and not in Congress, the power
to legislate for the ex,radition eff Fug itives,
from labor; TO REPEAL AND ENTIRELY AFRO
GATE THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW;
to restrict slavery to those States in which
it exists; TO PROHIBIT THE ADMIS-
SION OF ANY MORE SLAVE STATES
INTO THE UNION; to abolish siarery in
the District of Columbia; to exclude slavery
from all the Zevritoraes ,oAich the general
government has ezcl1sire Jurisdiction; and
to arrest tie acquisition Of any more Terri
tories unless the practice Of slaUeyy therein
forerer shall hare been pyoEibited''
Mr.. Lincoln not having since declared q
change of opinion upon this subject We have
good right to believe that he still entertains
them. A very conservative" President he
would make, truly. being committed in ad
vance to "RepeaL and entirely a5r9gate the
fngittUe slGcs faw'' and "to prohibit tie cd
mtssion Of any more sIaue States" Do our
Republican ueighbors of the Pallddixm
and Are endorse these sentiments of their
candidate? Let US hear from you.
We clip the above from the editorial col
umns Of the JeffersoRian. We were not a
little surprised to see so stale SANDER, and
one which has been SO often refutec, brou ght
forward by An editor claiming tn. intelli-
gence our neighbor claims. We submit the
following reply. Ito this cid charge.) made
by Mr.. Lincoln himself:
when a man hears himself some what
misrepresented, it proxokes him--at least,
find it SO with myself: but when misrepre-
sentation becomes very gross and palpable.
it Is more apt to amuse him. The 6rst thing
Douglas alleges, after running through the
history of the old Democratic and old Wing
parties, that Judge Trumbull and myself
made an arrangement in 1854. by which l
was to have the place of Gen. Shields in
tho United States Senate, and Judge Trum-
bull was to have the place Of Judge Doug.
las. Now. all l have to say upon that sub
Ject Is. that thiuk no mAn-not even Judge
Douglas-can prove it. because It Is not
true. have no doubt he is ''conscien.ious'
IN saying it. AS to those resolutions that
he took such length of time to read, as
being the platform Of the Republican party
in 1854, say l never had anything to do
with them, and l think TrumbuIl never had
Judge Douglas cannot show that either of US
ever did have anything to do with them
l believe Mss Is true about those resolutions:
There was call for a Convention to form
Republican party at Springfield, and
think that my friend. Mr.. Lovejoy. whc is
here upon this stand, had a hand in it, /
think this is true, and think if he " i'll re-
member accurately. he will be able tosecol
lect that he tried to get me into it, and ]
would hot 60. l believe it is also true tina,
l went away from Springfield when the
Convention was in session to attend court
in Tazewell county. 1t is true they did
place my name, though without authority
upon the committee, and afterwards wrote
TO me to attend the meeting of the commit
tee, but l refused to do so, and l never had
anything to do with that organization. This
Is the plain truth about all that matter OF
the resolutions
II the editor of the Jeffersonian has M
other record" to prove that Mr.. Lincoln il
is in favor Of the '.irrepressihle conflict,
he may as we'll give up the chase. Blu
what il he were to say that slave labor wax
incompatible with free labor that one O,
the other must go down. by the universe
spread of the other, hew much more woul,
he say than has been said by thousands o
others, members Of the Democratic party, ant
BY far better men. But we simply .advis,
our neighbor to be more cautious in his at
tempts to charge the ''irrepressible conflict
upon Mr. Lincoln. Aud if party duties re
quire that he shall misrepresent the "rec
ord" of Mr.. Lincoln. that he get up some
thing that has not been refuted SO often
and as often proven to be lie so unequivo
cally.
1The fusion project liz the Pennsylva
I MIA Democratic State Committee, as last de