, 1860-10-16

turoeo one morning oy scaeahs ~ WAC A".
from which his room o2eued. The c1erS o'
tho ho:cl was kicking aud cuaing m lnnfm
negro woman who h neglected to polish tl's
boots. Tho Northcrner, obeying an impulse
conn,on 10 all men ro! fallca below the level
Of manhood, promptly Knocked the brutal
savage down. For this lie was set upon "
the popula as IN intermeddlius Abo|iienist'
and compelled to setk safely in fight WAS
this mar nect ssariIy IN advocate Of the d so-
Lutte a. universal equality Of oil men Is !"
not proof Of extreme iguorance or o: f1ifeme
duplicily, to insist that, whoever asserts Inc
equality Of mankind in some things, mus,
therefore, assert Their equality, in all th'ngs7
1t is ,peis.ing that part includes the .'rhote'
And such is The logic Of Nj. Douglas ana h'S
hackers.
"These truths" eaid our fathers in their
immortal Dec arat:op, "tbc*e truths We hold
"to be selfcpidett-That all men are c5eated
"equal ard endowed by thei; Creator with
"csrlaiu inalieoable rights, among which ara
"1ilc, liberty, and the pursuit OF hsppiiness-"
Judge Douglas, in his late speech i, this city,
asserts that Lincoln, Seward, and The white
Republican party, make these words put
negroes on au equn1 tootieg With white m D.
~ den3 the propositioo," he continues. Ute
"Declara.ion cf Independence had no refer
"ence to negroes when it spike Of all men be-
ting created equal" Nov, the truth ls' no
authoritative txpanent Of Republican prtncl-
pies ever asserted any such thing: And WY
Mr.. Douglas uttered this deliberate ana sp'
parent falsehood, We arc wholly nrasAe !"
comprehend, unless it were to ke'p his manu-
IN. It is quite certain that all sohlts men, al
the period Of the Declaration, were not Oh al
equal footing; that all Europeans "tre n0s'
that i'll British subjects were ros
tbat all c-lonists we're not. All the "n''e
men in this country are net oa an equal 1oo'r
ing today, and they never were. onr timer
ant impostor tells ue, in his owa peculiarly
elegant and lucid style, that tbs Declaration
"was speaking Of the American colonlsts III
"respes to their comparative rights with 'be
"Britisb subjects in England" 1fby this We
are to understand that our fathers, either AZ
that time or previously, were ION an equsl
footing with the AZ British sutj jets in Eoglano'
it is simply absurd-au assertion without a
meauing-a mere Dougsasism. Fur The Amer
leans, eren then, proposed to adopt written
constitution, and they utterly secuted the doc
trne Of governing by divine right, Of heredl-
tary chief ruler and a hereditary arlstocracy !
but previously, the mother country had chosen
magistrates and governors for the clonists'
Had the colonists ever exercised that power
over the mot er country? Where, then, was
the "equal footing?'r IT. en- the other hand
ne are to understand By it that the Deity cre-
ated for our ancestors the political or focial
rights which they enjoyed under British rule,
or under their own rule, tho abturdity be-
comes still greater. God created mai; but
man created bis own form Of society. In what
labyrinth Of nonsense does such reasones
as Douglas involve himself, when be attempts
to support falsehood by argumentl
the Declaration meant just what it said~-
"That all men ere created equal" Aud what
is this Icing created cqual7 We certa'tlY do
not Understand it to mean physically, men"
tally, morally, socially. Republicans do not
so understand it In all tour OF these eoadl:
tions there are notable distinctions in 'nd'V'd'
ual families. It does not mean IN Strength
size, eauty, form, complexion, Or courage. IL
means simply thss--that all men have, IN CON.
mon, certain well.dtfiaed natural nghts- 1t
is the possession Of these rights tha: makes
US men. They are part Of ourselves, To
not have them is either to he something te-
low or something atore manhood; IN other
words. to belong 10 different order Of beinge.
So far, then, ali men ara equal Now, as all
men are created with those f'ehfa' we mu'
all. IN .hose respects, be crea'e2 eqaA "ho
ever herd OF q man eoFn Win na'ura'
right which was not also the properly OF
every other man? No ne, VIC presume, Will
/ deny that negroes arc men. The rerkst
blo2khead in Virginia could, on this point
slence the most learned cav1ller. Every mu-
1atlo in the whole world is an nnsns"eFable
proof Of it. This, thep, Is the equality, the
negro equalitv-to possess certain rights with
which all men arc aliso endowed There can
BE- no other possible meaning attached to the
j {rp n
tauce, the men who ara not negroes arc by &c
means equal, eistsr BY nature or by human
Laws and usages. Mr.. Douglas, III order t
make good his assertion, must prove that ne
groes are 10. men. An attempt to do 80
however hungl;ng, would increase our respec
for his candos, without diminishing ou1 Fespec
for bis abilities
We believe that Lie, Liberty, and the pur
Eult tof Happiness, are among mans rtbrshte
We believe that they belong to all men, n
matter under what government born. no mat
ter what complexion The sun may have burr
ed upon them. Do not NIL men inherit lii
from their creatoF7 From Him they not al
inherit liberty? "No," answers Mr, Doug
las; "negroes do not" Why not? "Be
CAUSE they are s1ares-" But, Hi. Douglas,
negroes are not slaves; only poEti:n Of then
sre, or ever were. We hare in this countr
half a m llion who are not, Do some negroe
inherit liberty from their Creator, and SON
slavey7 But 1esroes have hid Thousand
Of white men IN slaver5-not psl,ng boys an
girls, but bearded men-so dIeFs. Sailors, ster
| werriors- For every negro slave. theFe tav
been fifty white slaves Does God endo E som
1 xrhita men with slavery and DtlerR with liz