Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-08-23

Dlogfhpncf, was 10 cntef PhOTktI on tnc
Journals Of the Honse under date Of March 3,
1887, along With one Dan Stone, against GER
tain resolutions passed by the Wings and
Democrats Of the Legislature united, denoun-
cling Abolitionism. See Barretts life Of Lin.
coin, page 81 Douglas woo member at the
same session and voted for the resolutions
WANTS TO ABOLISH SLAVERY IN
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
In ls4s Lincoln was member Of Congress
for one term, and in 1919 introdaceda a bill to
provide for the abolitionof slavery in the Dis.
tdct Of Columbia, and during his term, ac-
eording to one Of his biographers, Doted forty
t'oo times for TIE Wiinot Proriso. Among
other things in his bill, he proposed to make
the President Of the United States, the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, and the Secretary ofthe
Interior, Board Of Valuation TO set a price
upon every negro brought before them, owned
by man in the District OF Columbia Then,
after they had set their price on the negro,
the President Of the United States, and the
Secretaries Of the Treasury aud Interior were
to issue to the owner their order upon the
Treasury TO pay for the negro
.DENOUNcES THE MEXICAN WAR.
On the 18th Of January, lsis, he voted for
Ashmun's amendment denouncing the War
with Mexico
PRoCLAIMs THE "IRREPRESSIBLE
CONFLICT" " IN 1858
On the l7th Of June, 1858 Lincoln was
nominated by the Republican State Conyen-
ton Of Illinois, for the United States Senate,
against Stephen A. Douglas. In accepting
the nomination, in what he admits was a
carefully prepared speech, he, first of all
men, announced the odious, unconstitutional,
disunion doctrine of the Irepressble Con-
act between the Slave and the Free States
lin these words
ga house that is divided against itself can
not stand ] believe this Government CAN
NOT ENDURE permanently, hdlf free and
hdJ STARE. ! do not expect the house to fall
but do expect It win cease to be divided
II will become all one thing, or all the other.
Either the opponents Of stdreiy ,cW arrest
the further spread Of II, and place IL phere
is in the course Of ultimate extinction or its
advocates will push it forward till it shall be.
come alike lawful in all the States-old as well
as new, North as well as South. ~ Debate be-
t,reen Lincoln and Douglas pages ls, 60
and 244.
SEWARD SUPPORTS LINCOLN-HIS
RECORD.
Immediately after the nomination VIM. II.
Seward wrote letter giving in his support to
Lincoln and adding
g find the resolutions of the Convention
at Chicago platform az satisfactory 10 NE
as il IL had been framed icith my oton hands,
and in the candidates adopted BY it. eminent
and able Republicans, with whom have cor
daily co-operated in maintaining the princi.
pies embodied in that excellent creed - Wm.
H. Seiodrfs Letter TO ~ J. Republican
Committee, Nay |, 1860
On October ls4s, at Cleveland Ohio, Sew
ard spoke as follows
" The party of freedom seeks complete and
universal emancipation"
Slavery is the sin Of not some of the
States only, but of them all of not one ma
ton only but of all nations Itperverted and
corrupted the moral sense of mankind deeply
and universally, and this corruption became a
universal habit Habits of thought become
fixed principles No American State has vet
delivered itself entirely from these habits.
We, in New York, are guilty of slavery still
by withholding the right of suffrage from the
race we have emancipated You, in Ohio, are
guilty in the same way by system Of black
laws still more aristocratc and >odious 1t is
written in the Constitution of the United
States that five slaves shall count equal to
three freemen as basis of representation 4;
and II is written also, IN UiOidti0m of DiUiae
Ldn, that we shall surrender the fugitive slave
who takes refuge at our freside from his re-
lentless pursurer You blush not Mt these
things because they have become as familiar
as household words and your pretended Free
Soil allies claim peculiar merit for maintain
ing these miscdiied guarantees of slavery
which they find in the national COMPACT
Slavery can be limited to its present bounds
1t can be ameorated. II can and must be
abolished and you and can and must do it.
The task is simple and easy Constitutions
and laws can no more rise above the virtue of
the people than the limpid stream can climb
above its native spring. Inculcate the love of
freedom and the equal rights of man under
the paternal roof; see to it that they are taught
in the schools and in the churches; reform
your own CODE extend cordial welcome TO
the fugitive who lays his weary limbs at your
door, and defend him as you would your pa
ternal gods; correct your own error that
slavery has any constitutional guarantee
which may not be released, and ought not to
be relnquished"
On the llth of FEBRUARY, 1850, Seward
voted to receive and refer the petition below
referred to, praying the immediate and peace
ful dissolution of the Union" because of the
existence of slavery Congressional Globe
ls49-jO, page 1893,
On the 25th of October, 1853, at Rochester,
N. Y, four months after Lincons speech at
Springfield, ILL.,, Seward adopted and repeated
the sentiment of the "Irrepressible ConGict,"
laying down his "bloody and brutal pro-
gramme" as follows;
at (the collision" between North and
South) is an irrepressible conflict between OPP
posing and enduring forces, and it means that
the United States must and will, sooner or
later, become either entirely a savehoding
nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. Either
the cotton and rice fields Of South Carolina
and the sugar plantations of Louisiana will
ultimately be titled by free labor, and Charles
ton and New Orleans become marts for legiti-
mate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields
and xyhaat GaIdo of o,J