Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-09

there0t, escaping into another, shall, in consequence
Of any law or regulation therein. be discharged
from such service or labor, out shall be delivered
up on claim Of the party to whom such service or
labor may be DUE is powerless without any legis-
lation to enforce It. Now, on what ground would
a member Of Congress who is opposed to slavery
in the abstract, vote for q Fugitive law as | would
deem it my duty to do Because there is a consti-
tu6oual right which Ueeds legislation to enforce il.
And although it is iistasteful to me, l have sworn
to support the Constitution, and having 60 sworn,
| cannot conceive that | do support it if withhold
from that right any necessary legislation to make
it practical"
Again, at Alton, October Is, 1858, MIR. Lincoln
said
1 suppose mos of US. Il know it.of myself be-
liese that the people of the Southern States are
entitled to a Congressional Fugitive Slave Law
that is a right fixed ia the Con stitution But il
cannot be made available TO them without Congress
sional Legislation. In the Judges language, il is
a barren right which needs legislation before it
can become efficient and valuable to the persons to
whom it is guaranteed. And as the right is Con-
stitutional, l agree that the legislation shall be
granted to it-and that not that we like the insthtu-
HNA ~ 'N'NAJ " Nv WV Nhhh w nav Nv SooNS
for running and catching niggers-at least l pro.
fess no taste for that job at all. Why then do l
yield supper. to q fugitive Slave LawH Because
| do not understand that the Consultation, which
guarantees that right, can be supported without
it,
ADMISSION or NEW SLAVE STATES.
In the Freeport debate, August 9th, 1858, Mr..
Douglas said Il desire Mr.. Lincoln to answer
whether he stands pledged to-day, as be did in
1854, against the admission Of any more slave
States into the Union, even if the people want
them 2 To which Mr.. Lincoln replied
4 DO not now,or ever did, stand pledged against
the admission Of any more slave States into the
Union
Again,on the same occasion. in further e12lana-
ton Of his views upon this point, he said
In regard to the question, Of whether l am
pie lged to the admission Of any more slave States
into the Union | state to you very frankly
that | would be exceedingly sorry ev err to be pnt
in a position Of having to pass upon that
question. l should be exceedingly glad to know
that there would never be another slave State ad.
mitted into the Union bus l must add that, if
slavery shall be kept out of the Territories during
NN OAioeChOO v i hu1 u RlNth 10lilLO-
ry, and then the people shall, having a fair chance
and a clear field, when they ONE to adopt the
Constitution, do such an extraordinary thing as
to adopt a slave Constitution, uninfuenced by the
actual presence of the institution among them, l
see no alternative, if we own the country but to
admit them into the Union.'
SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
At Freeport, August %, 1858, Mr.. Douglas
said I want to know whether Mr.. Lincoln
stands to-day pledged to the abolition of slavery
in the District Of Columbia p To which Mr.. Lin.
coin responded
1 do not stand to-day pledged to the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia
In further calculation Of his views, on the same
occasion. he said
IN regard to the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia, l have my mind very dis
tinctly made up. 1 should be exceedingly glad to
see slavery abolished in the District of Columbia.
| believe that Congress possesses the Constitution
al power to abolish it. Yet as q member of Con-
gress, | should not, with my present views, be in
favor of endeavoring to abolish slavery in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, unless it would be upon these
conditions: First, that the abolition should be
gradual second, that it should be on a vote of the
majority of qualified voters in the District and
third, that compensation should be made to unwil-
ling owners. With these three conditions, l con-
fees would be exceedingly glad to see Congress
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and,
in the language of Henry Clay, sweep from our
Capital that foul blot upon our nation.''
THE SLAVE TRADE BETWEEN THE STATES
In the FreepOrt debate. August 9th. 1858, Mr..
Douglas said 4 desire Mr.. Lincoln to answer
whether he stands pledged to the prohibition of
the slave trade between the different States Q To
which Mr.. Lincoln responded
I do not stand pledged to the prohibition of the
slave trade between the different states
, In further calculation of his news on this point,
Mr.. Lincoln said, on the same occasion
Il must say here that, as to the question Of the
abolition Of the slave trade between the different
States, l can truly answer, as | have, that l am
pledged to nothing about it. 1t is a subject to
which ! have not given that mature consideration
that would make me feel authorized to state q po-
sition 80 as to hold myself entirely bound by it.
In other words, that question has never been
prominen tly enough before me to induce
me to investigate whether we really have
the constitutional power TO do it. / could inyesti-
/, gate it, if l had sufficient time to bring myself to
a conclusion upon that subject but 1 have not
done 80, and | say so frankly to you here, aud to
Judge Douglas. | must say, however, that if /
. should be Of opinion that Congress does possess
the constitutional power to abolish the slave trade
D among the several States, | should still not be in
favor of the exercise of that power, unless upon
E some conservative principle. as l conceive il, akin
. to what | have said in relation to the abolition o.
E slavery in the District of Columbia
EMANCIPATION AT THE SOUTH.
= In the debate with Mr.. Douglas at Ottawa, III.
August 81, 1858, Mr., Lincoln cites several para.
> graphs from a speech made by himself at Peoria
in 1854. OR whereabouts. One Of tn Use paragraphs
Q we copy, to show that Mr.. Lincoln is opposed to