Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-02-04
Douglas Last Great Speech--I1i
Bill to put down the Agitation.


The remedy he proposed was TO pass
slave code for the free Stales--a new aliet
land sedition law, under the provisions q
which, any man entertaining o. expressing
Isentimenis in opposition to the rightfulness
Of slavery would be liable TO indictment
arrest Or imprisonment IN lie peniientiary
He sad there would be no peace between
the North and South until such law was
epacted. Those who held free soil notions
ID the North must be dealt with rs they
were il the South--put down by force. =
He hsa no hope cF seeing peace or fra
ternity, or good feeling restored except By
bring 10 bear the power Of The Federal
Government; he desired 70 carry out the
lpower vigorously
Sid Mr.. Douglas:
Sir, give Us such law as the Consti-
.ion coatempIates and authorizes. and !
will show the Senator from New York
that there IS constitutional mode ofsup,
pressing the irrepressble cooh'ct"
will open the prison doors to allow eonspi
rators against the peace Of the Republic
and tie domestic tranquility of our States
10 select their cells wherein to drag ont a
miserable life as punishment for their
crimes against the peace Of society
Mr. President, the mode Of preserving
peace is plain. This system Of sectional
warfare must cease. The Constitution has
given the power, and all We ASK Of Congress
is TO give the means. and We, by indict-
ments and convictions in The federal courts
of our several States, viii make such ex-
amples Of tie leaders of these coLspiracies
as will strike terror into the hearts of 9th
ers, aud there will be an end e, this cru
SADIE. The great principle that underliesI
the organization Of the R 81
publican party is violent, irreconcilable,
eternal warfare upon the Institution Of A.
merican slavery, with the view Of its ulti-l
mate extinction throughout the land Sir
| confess the object Of the legislation con
template Is to put down this outside inter-
ference; it is TO rePfeSs this " irrcpressible
conflict"
Such is the exact language Of Mr.. Doug
las, Vclaimed at The North as a medium
man on the slavery question, and at the
South as altogether too antislavery In
the name Of Heaven, what then must be
Southern Democracy Failing in ability
10 meet the arguments of Republicans by I
he advises resort to force and
he party courts 10 put them down. Tbel
army and the Judiciary must be invoked !
MIR. Douglas wants it to be mad 9 feis
INV to assert that slavery is wrong, and al
offence for man TO be Re-
publican. This is Douglas new panacea
to restore fraternity and good feeling be-
tween slave breeders aud the free laborers
Lmpsison and hang the leaders Of the Re
publican party, and their followers will
Iaietiy sarrend eF their convictions that
lavery il an evil, and believe as they may
,e ord cred By til cir Southern masters thai
t is blessing and divine institu ter
The proposition Of Douglas is to pass d
Congress ional slave code for the free
States, putting down free speech, free
presses, free thought, and pl aclng the opin-|
ions of the people ofthe free States under
.ho lsgllcensorshipfoslavo breeders nd
their Northern spies AID informers. Doug
las seemed to have forgotten that his Bor-
der Ruflian friend of Missouri passed ex-
actly such a lsw when they had
possession Of the legislature Of Kansas, and
under ii many of the g Black Republican
Leaders " were arrested, and large hum
Der murdered; but in measure failed to
give peace to Kansas, or TO reduce thel
rank and Gle Of the Republicans into sub
Or to stop the "irTepressible con
tlict /" in orout Of Congress. But Douglass
t links, that if the Black Laws the Border
Rufiiaus made for Kansas could be applied
to all the free States a peace could bel
conquered, the North crushed out, the
millennium would be ushered in, and
every knee would bow to the Baal Of sla
very.
A FURTHER DIG AT UsURY.--We learn
thara Is a sirono disnosition in the Ilenisla.