The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-30

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AS has been shown, and as every
lawyer knows, these dogmas thus vol
unteered by fancy as pro-slave &C.
compartments of his decision, are NO
part Of the decision, and have no more
binding force than they would have had
if that INSCRIPTIONS pander of the
Slave Power, had uttered them in a
stump speech.
If the the resolutions Of Douglas
late Baltimore platform quoted and
referred to in previous numbers of this
essay, left any doubt of the full adop-
ton of all these dogmas by him and his
faction, he has precluded all possibility
of doubt of his own fulladoption ofall of
them in his speeches noticed below,
and particularly in the following ex-
tracts
81, in common with the Democracy
of Illinois, accept the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
in the bred Scott case, as an authora-
tsUe opposition Of the Constitution.
Slaves are regarded as property
and placed on an equal footing with all
their property. Hence the owner of a
slave, the same as the owner of any 9TH
err property, has a right to remove to
any territory and carry has pr operty
eith him. Speech of Douglas in New
Orleans, Dec. 1853.
This New Orleans speech was made
by Douglas whilst on his way from Chi
cago to Washington to take his seat
in the Senate, after his canvass with
MIR. Lincoln, in the summer and fall of
1858.
The bred Scott "decision" was rem
dered in the spring of 1857. Douglas
in common with all the other cohorts
of the Slave Power, at once assented
to and endorsed it's claim that the dog
mas in question were legally parts and
parcel of the decision and, therefore,
binding as established Constitutional
law upon all the departments of Gov
ternment, Federal, Territorial and State,
and upon the people of every State and
territory. He accordingly improved
an early opportunity after his return to
Illinois to announce and advocate this
preposterous claim. This was done in
a speech by him at democratic"
mass meeting at Springfield in that
State, June ~, 1857, on an invitation
instigated doubtless for the very pur-
pose, By the "democratic'' Grand Jury
IN attendance upon the Federal Court
at that place and time. We say the
democratic" Grand Jury, because as
is well known, all juries, grand and
petit, in the Federal Courts, have,
during the last and present administra-
tons, been corruptly packed and made
up of pro-slavery Locofocos, with
scarcely ever in any of the Free States,
a single Republican upon panel. 3
That Springfield speech is reported
in full in the "Political Text Book for
1860" at page 154. BY reference to
that or any other copy of the speech,
it will be seen that Douglas adopted
and urged the jeff Davis, Breckenridge
and Herschel 2. johnson version of the
bred Scott Decision in its fullest ex-
tent, with a positive assertion that the
"points decided by the Court in the
bred Scott case, were clearly within
its jurisdiction as defined by the Con-
stitution."
But in his canvass with Mr.. Lincoln,
he I" fought shy" of the question as to
whether those dogmas were or were
not legitimate parts of the decision.
He was making his speech in the
presence of the ablest lawyer of the
North West, and before audiences
made up in large proportion, of Republi-
cans, and, therefore, in that proportion,
intelligent; and he did not dare in
contest with such an antagonist and
before such an audience, to set up the
bold pretence that the labored pro-
slavery pettyfogging of Roger B.
fancy, was any part of decision which
did not and could no go any farther
than to adjudge that the Court had no
jurisdiction Of the case before it, and
could not, therefore, render any judg
ment upon its merits.
But as Douglas whole course of
augmentation during the discussion
with Lincoln, was in favor of "Squatter
Sovereignty" it implied direct denial
of Taney's bred Scott dogmas, and
was SO far calculated to damage him in
the Slave States. To avert such dam
age, he traversed the Slave States on his
way to Washington, and in his speeches
at New Orleans and other places along
tho line &C HE ,,;Ior;nnaoo rarowo1