New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-01-13


itse'f. Tn his ju lgement there was a
distinction between the white and black
races made by Omnin,scncc. lie d,
not beliece these tw, races coull live
happily AMI pleasantly together, enjoy
ing equal rights, without one domineer-
ing over the other. Therefore he advo-
Gates. the policy Of separating these ra-
ces, 10y adopting system t, ril the
country Of the black race as it becomes
free. lie would say he should MT be
prepared, under the existing state of
things, to admit as a soveri 81 State in
to this Union community Of negroes
nor Indians.
Mr.. Johnson-I thank the Senator
for the admission nude, but | wish to
press tho thing little further. Sup
pose the four millions Of slaves all email
cirated, and that they 50 t. one Of these
Territories and apply tor admission.
l think the Senator's answer woullap-
ply to that the same as to the ques;i' m
put. In his last remarks he has al
mitted what SIT out to prove, which
was the opposite Of his argument laid
down few days since. The Senator
begins by saying that the Creator him.
self has made difference between the
whites and the blacks it begins
with the very origin of man. If Deity
himself has made a difference in the
race, how can they be created precisely
with the same rights and privileges!-
The Senator in his last explanation has
conceded his whole ground, and all
this clamor and claptrap falls to the
ground, and the en- truction put upon
t. Declaration Of Indepe. d nee rest.
upon it clear and unobs :urel. Mr..
johnson then referred to the fact that
the platform of Mr.. Trumbull puts sla-
very and po1igamy as twin relies of
harbarism, and that Mr. Trumbull had
said that under some circumstances
polygamy would not be crime. He
held that thing could not be crime
according to circumstances, or not a
Grille according to circumstances. The
Senator thought polygamy right III
Turkey, but upon what circumstances!
If it was wrong, It violated a great NOR
al truth. and no state Of circumstances
could make it right. Professor Hoff-
man, in 1898. laid down the doctrine
that truth was susceptible of division
into two parts, and all that was true in
philosophy, was false in theology, and
all that was true in theology was false
in philosophy. That was SORT Of par
adox, but Hoffman founded Il sect and
incalculated the doctrine he taught, and
that kind Of ethics, it seemed to him.
would suit the doctrines recently incul.
Gated by the Senator from Illinois.
That was to say, under circumstances
in turkey polygamy was precisely right
and under circumstances in the United
State it was precisely wrong; and un-
der circumstances in tie Unitel State.
polygamy was perfectly right, aid un
der circumstances in Turkey polygamy
was precisely wrong, and it SCENE
t hat parties were coming to that point
VIXEN all that was right in Republi.
cauism was wrong in Democracy, an
all that was right in democracy was
wrong in repu3licanism- he meant mod
ern republicanism. lie then reviewed
the pos,ti IN Of jefferson, John Quincy
Adams and others, in reference to the
question Of slavery, AMI proceelel t.
denounce the ''irrepressible conflict"
doctrine of Mr.. Seward, conrending tina,
there was not an irrepressible conflict
between free labor and s lave labor, blu,
that there was ac,nflict always 6 ing
on between capital and labor. Instead
Of slave labor working to the preju lice
of free labor, it was its best friend, fol
whenever cotton and the other great
staples went up in price the Southern
man was enabled to ply high price
fnr articles of consumntion There