Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-05
GO As Much Supposed to Slavery as Any-
ko6ys"

Four ont of FIVE Democrats who may be
found in the streets in the Northern cities will
declare themselves q as much opposed to slsSe-
ry as anybody" They only differ from their
Republican neighbors in their method of oppo-
sing it. A large msjority of them signify
their hostility to it by voting for Douglas. 1t
is this class of Democrats whose attention We
wish to call to q portion of Mr.. Uouglas Se-
dition Law speech delivered in the Senate on
the 23d of January, 1860 1t is as follows:
:. Sir, hold the Doctrine that wise states
man will adapt his laws to the wants condi-
tions aud intesests of the people to be govern
ed by them. Slavery may be very esseitia! i'll
one climate and tosts.is Useless IN another. IF
icere citizen of Louisiana / arould uote for
retaining and maintaining slavery, becnuse 1
beliere the good of that people troeld require it. !"
Congressional Globe, Is5s-G0; +; page 55s.
In one of the joint debates between Mr..
Lincoln and Mt. b6nglas, III 1858, the former
said that his competitor was the only promi-
nent man in public life in Che Unites sfates,
who had n,ver decls+ed his opinion on the
question of slavery in the abstract-the only
man who hss never said whether he regarded
it fight thing or a wrong thing-the only
man who HIS never said he was for it or sgafsst
it. Mr.. Lincoln was Correct at the time he
made his statement. But Mr.. Douglas has
made Important progress since then. He now
saws fatty that if ht Vas citizen of Louisiana
he wotf9 sote for retaining atsa nsint ainihg,
slavery"
There is but one other ntteranee in oiF re-
collection from the mouth of a Northern man,
more inrpious ths1f this ; and that is also a
quotation fromthe public speeches of Stephen
A. Douglas. In his speech rt Memphis, or
the 2eth of November, as reported III The Ava
lauche, Of that CITY be said :ss s
"The Almighty has drawn the line OH fhfs
continent on one side Of a5tfeh the soil mttsf be
cultivated 5y slate labor The lite ddid rot run
on thirty-six degrees anN thffty minutes, but
runs over mountains and through vafi9ys.-
But this slave lire ts-ea1tlefa id the sugar fields
and plantations of the South.-tthe rer.ainder
of the sentence was lost by the confusion
around the reporter. And the people living
in the different localities, and in the Terrific
ries, must determine for themselves whether
their middle bed is best adapted for free or
slave labor" ss IS ss ss sss Ese
If this be not plain straight forward state
ment that the Almighty requires the existence
and perpetuation of slavery. we do not read
it Alright. Blaspher.oas as the thought is, no
other constfnetiion can be given to it.
After pernsing these passages from MORE 10.
cent utterance Of Mr.. Douglas; hardly any one
viii preteha 70 sxy that he is as much oppo-
sed to slavery as anybody" On the Contrary,
he is as much in favor Of slavery ds anybody,
inr neither CsAhouh' nor JEFF. Davis ever de-
feared in much more direct terms their, belief
| cl the righteousness of the institution. Nei-
ther OF Them ever asserted more roundly their
belief of the agency Of Almighty Ged IN ma
king merchandise Of His childen' l-=tGhicago
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