The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-20

suppose, in regard to the question, whether
l am opposed TO the acquisition ofany more
territory unless slavery is FIRST prohibited
therein my answer is such that could add
nothing by way of illustration, or making
myself better understood, than the answer
which have placed in writing.
"Now in all this, the Judge has me, and
he has on the record. suppose he had fiat
tered himself that was really entertaining
one set of opinions for one place and anoth-
er set for another place-that was afraid to
say at one place what uttured at another.
! What I am saying here suppose say TO a
vast audience as strongly tending to Adolf
tionism as any audience in the State OF Hi
nois, and believe am saying that which.
| if it would be offensive to any persons, and
render them enemies to myself would be
| offensive to persons in this audience
| lincoln and Douglas Debates pages SO, 80.
| AS Republican Mr.. Lincoln thus fur
Their speaks the sentiments of the party IN
regard to the slavery question -
They look upon it as vast moral evil
| they can prove it as such by the writings OF
those who gave US the blessings of liberty
| which we enjoy, and that they so looked
upon it, and as an evil merely conhning
| itself to the States where it is situated; and
| while we agree that, by the Constitution we
assented to, in the States where it exists we
/ have no right to interfere with it, because
| it is in the Constitution; and We are by both
| duty and inclination to stick by that Con-
1 stitution, in all its letter and spirit, from
! beginning to end. j The
| Republican party is made up OF those who,
as far as they. can peaceably, will oppose
1 the extension of slaveay, and who will hope
for its ultimate extinction. Lincoln and
! Douglas Debates, page 10.
! No, Mr.. Chairman, one word as to the
! bred Scott decision, and Mr.. Lincoln's po-
sition in regard to it. He says:
! 81 have expressed heretofore, and now
repeat, my opposition to the bred Scott de-
! cision, but should be allowed to state the
| nature of that opposition; an6 ask your
| indulgence while do SOW hat is fairly
| implied by the term Judge Douglas has used
! resistance to the decision /? / do not resist
/ it. If wanted to take bred Scott from his
master, l would be interfering with proper
/ ty, and that terrible difficulty, that Judge
Douglas speaks of, of interfering with pro-
perty would arise. But am doing no such
| thing as that but all that | am doing is
refusing TO obey it as political rule. If
were in Congress, and a vote should come
up On the question whether slavery should
be prohibited in new Territory, in spite of
| the bred Scott decision, would vote that
it should That is what / would do. Judge
Douglas said last night, that before the de-
! cision he might advance his opinion, ana it
might be contrary to the decision when it
4 was made but after it was made, he would
abide by it until it was reversed Just so.
We let this property abide by the decision,
but we will try to reverse that decision
We will try to put it where Judge Douglas
would not object, for be says he will obey
it until it is reversed. Somebody has to re-
verse that decisian. since it 10 made, and we
mean to reverse 1t, aud We mean to do it
peaceably.
What are the uses of decisions of courts?
| They have two uses. AS rules of property,
they have two uses. First, they decide up
on the question before the court. They de-
eide in this case that bred Scott is a slave.
| Nobody resists that. Not only that, but
j.. they say to everybody else, that persons
standing just as bred Scott stands, are as
he is. That is, they say that when ques-
ton comes up upon an another person, it
will be SO decided again, unless the court
decides in another way, unless the court
/ overrules its decision. Well, we mean to do
what we can to have the court decide the
other way. That is one thing we mean to
try to do.'--Lincotn and Douglas Debates
page 20.
/ In regard to what would be the course OF
the Republican party towards our Southern
brethren in the event Of its accession TO
power, Mr.. Lincoln, addressing himself to
kentuckians, said in his Cincinnati speech .
4 ave mean to treat you, as near as we
possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson, and
Madison, treated you. We mean to leave
you alone, and in no way to interfere with
your institution; to abide by all and every
compromise of the Constitution and in "A
word, coming back to the original PROPOSE
ton, to treat you so far as degenerated men
4 (if we have degenerated) may, according 10
the examples of those noble fathers ash
ington, Jefferson, and Madison. We mean
to remember that you are as good as we;
that there is no difference between u.s. other
than the difference of circumstances. We
mean to recognize and bear in mind always
} that you have as good hearts in your bosoms
as other people, or we claim to have and
treat you accordingly. '-LincoLH and Doug
ias Debates, page 263.
In his speech at Ottawa, Mr. Lincoln
further says:
/" will say here, while upon this subject
that I have no purpose, directly or indirect
ly, to interfere with the institution of slav-
} cry in the States where it exists l believe
E 1 have no lawful right to do so, and / have
70 inclination to do so. | have no purpose
: to introduce political and social equality be.
b. tween the white and the black races. There
: is a physical difference between the two
: which, in my Judgment, will probably for.
ever forbid their living together upon the
) footing of perfect equality and inasmuct
as it becomes necessity that there must be
/ a difference, |, as well as Judge Douglas
f am in favor of the race to which | belong
having the superior position. 1 have never
i said anything to the contrary, but hold
1 that, notwithstanding all this, there is nc
reason in the world why the negro is moi
= entitled to all the natural rights enumerated
: in the Declaration of Independence-the
, right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap,
piness." Lincoln and Douglas Debates
page IS.
The result of that contest is known. The
Republican State ticket was triumphantly
t elected. Mr.. Lincoln triumphed by the pop
ular voice The candidates for the Lepisla-