Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1860-09-26

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/ This expression, ased by Judge DOUG
I las hAs been torn from its surrounding
and utterly prevented. The Repablical
pRsssx wifh thes ipbexz lsvsDf pssyersiol
AID hHwspreSte16 ID, siiek character
ixes 90 many III them, Is smassulated III,
record 80 10 make this expression indiess,
that Judge Doagiss had m opikioa upsa
the subject of slavery, and was perfectly
Indifferent az 10 whether he should voss
fex slavery or agaiass 1t.
The men who quote this remark mnsi
know that Judge Douglas meant no such
thing. TIE expression occurs Ia Mr.. Bou.
glass speech on the presidens's message
OF the Lseompton bill, Az Ia knnyn, NJ.
IDouglas had plaiged hmsslf 8n epesy
form TO allow the people OF Kansas 20
come into the Union, with or without
slavery" ~ they might detarmina. Ii Ia
known, also, thai base fraud was per-
Pssrated ON the people Of Kassass where
by they had been dspFivsd ora haar vote
on the Lecompson Constitution. In the
speech rferrsd 10, MIR. Douslas was attack
ing that fraud upon, the rights III TIE peo-
pie, and the infamous esasfna of she Kan
sas and Nebraska bill. yas urged to
suspend bis action until the yote Of the
2lst of December was heard from, upon
sha grnszad shak he slaygy slanss might be
voted down. In reply to this, Mr.. Doug
las showed that his ground Of attack was
not that slavery would or would not be
established, but thai the people had a
right to > fair vote on that question, and
that ha visa determined ID wfrnheass that
right, whether slavery was voted down or
voted up. That the public may Judge
whether this construction is right or
wrong, we extract from the speech sufiei-
ant npon which 10 fegga "a a@inien of
Mr.. Donglass true meaning. He SAYS:
ssBut am hessechsd TO wait till hear
from the election on the 2lss Of Desamber.
l am told that perhaps that Will pat IL all
right, and will solve the whole aifSculty.
How can is2 Perhaps there nay bea large
vote retained. Laughter Bat deny
that Ii 10 possible to HAYES fair vote on
the Slavery CLAUSE; and say that it ia
not possible 10 have any vote on the Con-
ssitation- Why wait for the moekerv of
an election, whsn it ia provided, unaltar-
AOls NAAf SAG S1ARlo CAAHoA F0kST~-NuEu
the majority are disfranchisedfis-A
But | am told On all sides, sob, Just
wait the Pro- Slavery clause will be vo-
ted down." That does not 0hxiate any of
my objections Il does not ainfnish any
Of them. You hare no more right to force
s Free-State Constitution on Kansas than
a Slave-Sssta Constitution. IL Kansas
wants a Siaye.State EonssikntSor abe has
a right 10 it; If she wants Free State
Constitution, she has 8 right 10 il. II is
none Of my business which way the ala
very clause IL decided. ears not tcheth-
sT Il Is poaaa dosess Or ssp. \ DO ycu sup
pose, after pledges of my honor, that /
woaki go faF thar psinuipFs, and leave the
people to vote as they choose, THAI / would
now degrade myself by voting one way if
the g. very clause be voted down, and an
other way if it be voted upP care not
hog that vote may ssaAd.0 sAks II fdr
granted that 1t will be veted out. | think
have seen enough in the last three days
to make it certain that it will be turned
out, no matter bow the vote may stand.
(LaughsaF,J ~
Sir, | am opposed to that oonesrn, be-
cause it looks to me like system Of trick
cry and jugglery to defeat the fair express
sion of the will of the people. There is
no necessity for crowding this measure, so
unfair, Sc unjust, as it is in all Ia as
poets, upon u.s." s.. -,
Can any sane nam fan to precesxs sAs
meaning of Judge Douglas in these re-
marks ? He says there, what be says BOW,
that Kansas has a right 10 tenn her own
Institutions In her own way; and 81 shall
defend her rights, let her form them as
she may-whether they please me or not"
This is the meaning, and saae whale neaas
ing, of Judge Douglas remarks, and any
attempt to give them different signif-
canoe, BY gsrbllng the irenozd, is 8 mean
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