Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-05-29

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| tory in any lawful way, against the wishes
of my citizen of the United States ex-
clude slavery from their limits prior to
the formation of State constitution? l
answer emphatically, as Mr.. Lincoln has
heard me answer 4 hundred times from
every stump in Illinois, that in my opin.
ion. the people of Territory can by law
| full means, exclude slavery from their linn
its prior to the formation of Stute con
s,itution. Mr. Lincoln knew that had
answered that question over and over
again. He heard me argue the Nebraska
bill on that principle all over the State in
! 1854, in 1855 and in 1856, and he has no
excuse for pretending to be in doubt as to
my position on that question. II matters
not what way the Supreme Court may
hereafter decide as to the abstract ques-
! tion, whether slavery may or may not go
| into Territory under the constitution.
the people have the lawful means to in
! troduce it or exclude it as they please, for
the reason that slavery cannot exist day
or an hour anywhere unlessit is supported
| by local police regulations. Those police
regulations can only be established by the
| Legislature, and if the people are OPP
posed to slavery they will elect represeu-
tativcs to that body who will by unfricnd-
| ly legislation effectually prevent the intro
duction of it into their midst; if, on the
contrary they arc for it their legislation
will favor its extension. Hence no mat
ter what the decision of the Supreme
Court may be on that abstract question,
still the right of the people to make a
slave Territory or a free Territory is per-
feet and complete under the Nebraska bill.
hone Mr.. Lincoln deems my answer sat
isfactory on that point"
He told us two days ago that he had
agreed that that very question should be
submitted for decision to the Court. He
| told us that we submitted the judicial
question to the courts, and when that
question was decided the Democratic party
should be unit; but 1rhen he goes home
and is pressed in a local contest, and secs the
prize he cOvCts Slipping from his grasp, ne
| t'rrns his back upon his promise, and TGpW9f-
dtcs his trOrds. He tells his people, as lie
says he has spoken hundred times be-
fore, that even if the Court decides against
him he has got it so fixed in the Kansas
and Nebraska act that the North had
perfect right, under that bill, to make free
Territory OF every Territory in the Union,
Notwithstanding the decision of the Court,
and yet the Senator from Illinois stands up
here and arraigns his Democratic brethren
and accuses them of Il breach of faith, and
talks of turning them out of the party, and
triumphantly appeals to his record in
1910; and since then, to SHOW that he is
consistent; and now, when We tell him we
will not stand these promises any more
for once deceived a wise man may be; but
twice deceived in the same way and by the
same means, he is Il 0upe and fool. He
tells us he can LeGve out the courts, for ii is
no matter 7Vhat the decision is. He tells his
people, have fixed it in the Kansas and
Nebraska bill, have got the South so that
r I'll
slaves out ALWAYS. Mr. Lincoln was shocked
mt this. and told Mr.. Douglas that lie was
telling the people that the legislators,
when they swOre to sunpOrt the coustitu-
tiOn. could violate that constitutional pro-
vision. Mr.. Lincoln held I'M his hands in
horror thourh he was bold in the asser-
finn of his own princinIes. He told the
Senator from Illinois that what he was
saving was gross outrage upon propricty,
and was breaking the bargain which he
had made. Again, sir, he told the Senator
from Illinois he did not believe in the
Drcd scott decision. because if the Dred
scott decision be true. slavery exists in
liz Tarri,erv then II also exists in n State
III cvists in PENNSYLVANIA as well MS in
Kansas The contest ended ondon tbs non
,,Jr ,,oIs ,bc Senator from, Uy;po;S ,ro, bcdien
6,,I occoro,;n1 tn me Gypisjou of .Seu0tors and
.snro.cntot;Ses of The .St0te Ec 7yos elected 10
| ,bc .Ssn0ie. The populnr vote was one
Lrpdrnl and twentv.one tnousond in his
favor to one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
tbonsond in favor of the Republican cam
diGatn md fivc thousand for what he calls
the "Danitcs." But the Senator from Illi-
noics NO" came back here in triumph last
snrino I was Obliged 10 leave nv country
from an oDtboImia which reonired attcn-
tion abroad. and could neither read nor
write for eight months. came buck Just
before the oneninp of this Congress, and
found that during my absence the Senator
from Illinois had been engaged in n con.
troycrsy in the magazines Of the country in
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