Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-03-01

Mr.. Douglas: Sir, you may abuse Us as
much as yeo please bat have tbe goodness
10 spare us with Fin1ic2tions Of Gar chaEac-
ter and motiTes' Great laughter and ap-
plsuss.
Il Is a common thing that men Of coarse
cast of mind 70 lose themselves IN the mean
pursuit Of selfsh ends. a. % become insensi-
Biz 70 the grand an3 sublime. Measuring
eye-y character and eEery event II history b
the low standard Of their own insalESdaailEles,
applying - everything the uarrlw Eula 0t
iheir own motiTes, incapable OF graspIng
broad and gener0Gs ideas, they slll bellttle
e.eTy great thing they cannot deny, and drag
dazH every struggle OF principles 10 tie =oE-
did arena q 2spiFsEg sesa-sGsA<. CT ot s-.ail
competing interests Eighteen hv2dred years
ago, there we're men who saE nothing N n
eipisnt christianity but = E3ere vrangse be
tween Iewisa sheo2ogians. got up By car
ren,ez'g 10y, and carried on by fe. crazy
fisherman Three kEzdrel years ago there
were men who szw n the great reformAtory
Eoveuep. cf the six:espta century, not the
emancipation Ut the individual conscience,
but mere fuss kicked up by German
monk, who wanted 10 get married. Two hun
dred years ago there wsre men who saw IN
iIampdeu's refusal 10 pay the ship money,
-. 2 bold yindlcatl0D II constitutional E5er-
y, bu- -be cr2zy antics Of man who was
mean eHg41L g quarrel about few shlilngs.
Aud nor, there are men who see in the Dec
Iaration IF Independence and the American
Revelation, noE the re organization Of human
society upon the basis Of Liberty aud Equal
its, but dodge Of some English coionists
who were unwilling 70 pay their taxes. Con
Iinusd applause.
-. L II, 4
The glory of great events find their vindica-
tion in the c0nsciences of the people
TCheers.l Il is vain for demagoguism to
raise It's short arms against the truth Of histo-
~ The Declaration Of Independence stands
there. NJ candid man ever read K without
seeing and fael,3g that eTery word Of t was
+ dictated by deep and earnest thought, and
that every sentence Of II bears the stamp Of
/ r,hilosophic generality. 1t is the summing
/ az f the results of the philosophical devcl-
+ 0pnent Of the age It is the pracuca! embod
iment Of the progressive IDEAS, which, yer5
far from being confined 10 the narrow limits
If the English calonies, peryaded the very at
m0sphere Of all civilized countries. That
code of human rights has grown on the very
summit Of civilization, not in the miFy soil Of
a South Carolina cott0n-feld. lie must have
dull mind or a disordered brain, who misun-
derstands It's principles bat he must have
the heart Of villain, who knowingly misrep-
resents them. Loud cheers.
That true Jeffersonian plan rested, indeed
on the principle Of popular sovereignty, but
/ it will be conceded, that Mr. Jefferson's great
+ principle was as widely different from that OF
/ Mr.. Douglas as the ordinance of It's! Is from
the Nebraska bill. While Mr.. Jefferson no
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idea that man has certain inaienable rights
which the majority shall not encroach upon
Mr.. Douglas doctrine rests ppop the idea
that the highest Development Of liberty con
sists in the right of one class of men to hold
another class of men as Slaves if they see ft
10 IL 50. Applause. While Mr.. Jefferson
excluded slavery from the Territories, IN or
der 10 Htale roam FIR true popular sovereignty
Mr.. Douglas inyents his false popular sove
reignty, in order to make room for slavery
The ordinance Of 1881, the tfae 'Jeffers0niar
plan,' was indeed no mere accident no mere
! occasional act OF eg.slatlJn. 1t sprang from
the ldeG, as Madison expressed it, that re
publican institutions would become fallacy
where slavery existed and in order to guar
antee republican institutions to the Terrific
ries, they excluded slavery. Cheers.
The ordinance of 1887 was the logical off
spring of the principles upon which your in
dependence and your Constitution are founded
it is the practical application Of the Dcclara
ton Of Independence to the government o.
the Territories. It's very existence sets com
/ pletely at naught Mr.. Douglas doctrine and
historical construction, and the dwarfsh hand
of the demagogue tries in vain to tear this
bright page out Of your annals Cheers.
| The ordinance of 1881 stands written on the
very gate posts Of the Northwestern States
written on every grain. field that waves in the
breeze; on every factory that dots the co4rst
Of their rushing waters; on every cottage tha
harbors thrifty freemen written in every
heart that enjoys the blessing of liberty
| Long continued applause. There it stande
in pbaracters of light. Only a blind mar
cannot see it; only fool can misunderstood
1T only knaVe can misintegpret it. Re
peated cheers.