Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-08-18
Lincoln'S Record.
HIS RECORD


Lincoln's Record.
HIS RECORD
Proves that while the nominee of the Re.
publican party for President, Abraham
Lincoln, was a member of Congress, the
Wilmot Proviso controversy was in pro-
gress, and that he was active, in connec-
ton with William II. Seward, Joshua r.
Giddings, and other prominent abolition
members of Congress, in keeping up the
Slavery agitation. He voted for the Pro-
yiso FoRTY-Two TIMES.
HIS RECORD
Also proves that while member of Con-
gress he opposed the Mexican War, declar-
ing it unconstitutional and aerong,' and
voted against the bill granting one hundred
and Siaty acres Of iand to our brave and
gallant volunteers.
HIS RECORD
Also proves that during the Illinois Sena-
torial campaign, in speech at Chicago,
on the 10th of July, 1853, he said" l
have always hated slavery, l think, as
much as any ndolstiouis,. 1 have been
an old line Wing. have always hated
it, and I always believed it in course of
ultimate extinction. If I were in
Congress, and a vote should come up on a
question whether slavery should be pro-
hibtcd in new territory, in spite of the
bred Scott decision, / should vote that it
should"
HIS RECORD
Also proves that in speech at Galesburg,
ILL.,, Oct. 7, 1858, he said-"I believe that
the right of property in a slave is not dis.
tinctly and expressly affirmed in the Con-
stitution."
HIS RECORD
Also proves that in speech at Quincy,
ILL.,, 18th October, 1868, he said-"the
Republican party think it Slavery wrong
we think it is a moral, a social, and a
political wrong. We think it is a wrong
not confining itself merely to the persons
or the States where it exists, but that it is
a wrong in its tendency, to say the least,
that extends itself to the existence Of the
sohOie mutton. Because we think it wrong,
we propose course OF policy that shall
deal with it as a wrong. We deal with it
as with any other wrong, in so far as we
can prevent its growing any larger and
so deal with it that in the run of time there
may be some promise of an end of it."
| HIS RECORD
Also proves that in speech at Springfield
ILL.,, on the 18th of June, 1853, he declared
"A house divided against itself cannot
stand" believe this government, cannot
endure permanently half slave and half
free. 1t will become all one thing or all
the other. Either the opponents of slavery
will arrest the farther spread of it, and
pttce IL wte/s The public mint ShaH rest IN
Me b'fscf Ma' a is Ia the course of vh,m te
tat ion I, or its advocates will push it
forward till it shall become alike lawful in
all the States, old as well as new-North
as well as South And there are nu.
merous
WITNESSES IN THIS CITY,
Republicans as we'll as Democrats, who
heard him in speech delivered in front Of
the Court House in this city, admit and
defend the position assumed in the above
extract, claim to be the AUTHOR OF
THE"IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT'
DOCTRINE, and virtually charging Wm
II. Seward with appropriating it.
Brief as is his record, we imagine that
it will take much "whitewashing' by his
would be conservative followers, like Mr.
Corwin, to prove to the satisfaction of the
people that Abraham Lincoln, the Repub
lican nominee for President, is national
conservative man, and worthy to fill the
highest Office in the American Republic.
Dayton (O) Empire.
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