, 1860-07-12
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.


The Illinois State Registtv-the central organ
Of the party which pretends to believe that
Slavery may be legally expelled from Terri
toEy in which it has legal right to remain
in reply to certain Of our comments on the
relative position Of the Douglas and Breckin-
ridge parties, asta tho following Yuestiuns:
III Hop are the States t. be all made free,
by the General Government? lo.) LoU are ne
groes to be made white mems equals: {3.) Does
The Chicago TRInCSE claim that slavery, as it
exists under the la~s Of Kentucky, is not cou-
stltutiona], and thA: the General Government
has q right to aIalisA the holding Of one man
b. another, in slavery, recognized BY State
lawsf
Let US have no more "beating about The
ton of the States. a. Does Back Repubil
cau,sn claim that it i. IN the power Of the Cen
esal Government TO aIolish it there. and, by thi.
process, make all the States free:
We repeat. that We hope the Tribune will be
more explicit, and state, 10 plain terms, whether
it and Its party claim the right, bY the General
it assufnes. by indircction, that it has no cun
<titutiunai existence an. where in the Union.
We answer these questions seriasim:
I. The States are not to be made free "by
the General Government" in any way what
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authority Of State sovereignty. The fourth
ssetion Of the Coicaeo Platform declares, "that
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4. Questions 4 and are answered a9oEe,
IN reply to and 3 and we need not repeat
The Republican theory is this: Slavery il
an evil Of terrible magnitude and disastrous
consequences alike to white men and black
there is no warrant or authority IN the Con
stitu:lon FOR it's extension and justice human
II and eelf'lnteress demand 'ts restriction
tho Federal Constitution asserts no such thlni
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