Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-17
SALEM, OHIO, NOVEMBER II, 1860.
SOME OPINIONS OF mr.. LINCOLN"

The above is the caption Of an article which ap.
Commercial Of November 9th, the day of the Pres
idental election. The time of its publication is
significant, and the article withal so explicit, that
we copy it in sections without change of its en-
pbatic italics, or yet more emphatic small caps;
and %omp it with such running commenta-
ries as suggest themselves to our mind. Informa-
ton IS given in the commencement, that the arti'
ele is composed Of extracts Selected verbatim
from his speeches."
SECTION IL say that WE MUST NOT INTER.
FERE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY IN THE
STATES WHERE 1T EXISTS, because the Constitution
forbids it, and the general welfare does not require
US TO do so. We must not withhold an efficient Flu
gitive Slaue Law, because the Constitution requires
US, as | understand it, not TO withhold such a law.
But WE MUST PREVENT THE oUTsPREADING OF THE
INsTITUTIoN, because neither the Constitution nor
the general welfare requires US to extend it. We
must prevent the revival Of the African Slave
Trade, and the enacting by Congress of a Terri
torial Slave Code. WE must PREVENT EACH OF
THESE THINGS BEING DONE BY EITnER CONGRESS- OR
Courts. THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED
STATES ARE TUE RIGHTFUL MASTERS
OF BOTH CONGRESSES AND COURTS-not
to overthrow the Constitution, but to orerthrolO the
men ,oho pervert The Constitution .-lSpeech at Gin.
cinnati, Sept. II, 1859
And yet, in the face of this testimony, many Of
his supporters are determined to believe that Lin
coin is opposed to the rendition of fugitive slaves,
and feel that a wrong was done him when Wen
dell Phillips branded him as the CONSTITUTIONS
Hound" which his own language abundantly con.
firms. Had Lihcoln been President when the Oh.
erlin-W ellington rescue took place, his deputies
instead of Buchanan's would have acted under
advice from head quarters, and attempted To en-
force the fugitive slave law. Ashtabula we'll de-
served the name of "benighted" when having de-
CARED her opposition to the rendition of fugitive
slaves, she cast her vote for q man who favors "an
efficient fugitive Stare law."
SECTION al hold myself under constitution
al obligations TO dLoio the people in all the States
t0itAoH Interference, direct or indirect, 10 do erdcHy
as they please; and / deny that l have any inclina
ton to interfere with them, even if there were nc
such constitutional obligation. l can only say
again that 1 am placed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i'm.
properly, in spite of all l con sGy-when it is in
sisted that I entertain any other views or purposes
in regard to that matter" (slavery. )-Speech a.
JOnesborO', Ill, Sept. l6. 1853
What more need any STAKEHOLDER in the South
ern States ask? Four millions of human souls are
in bondage in this land to-day, and even if Mr.
Lincoln had the constitutional right to interfere
for their deliverance, he declares he would have
no inclination so to do; and be brands as falsi6ers
those who say he has any intention to interfere
either directly or indirectly.
SECTION 3.-"While it slavery drives on in
its state of progress as it is now driving, and as il
has driven for the last five years, l have ~ventured
the opinion, and l say to-day, that we will have nc
end to the slavery agitation until it takes one
or the other. l do not mean that when it takes q
turn toward ultimate extinction it will be in q
day, nor in a year, nor in two years. l do moi
Suppose that in the most peaceful aoay ultimate en-
~tiRction Mould occur in less than a hundred years
al least; but that il WiU occur in the best aCdy .Ey
both races, an Gods Own time, Ihare no dou5t."-
lSpeech at Charleston, H., Sept. Is, 1851
Mr.. Lincoln can contemplate with equanimity
the continuance of slavery for another century,
can look upon the curse being entailed upon three
yet unborn generations, and feels no desire to in
terfere for its overthrow in the States in which it
exists. He shields his indifference under the de-
claration that the work will be effected "in God
oOn good time" wholly forgetting that GOD
nop commandeth all men every where to repen,l''
SECTION 4.-"Mr. Douglass Popular Sever
eighty, as a principle, is simply this If one man
chooses TO make u stare of another, neither that man
nor dnybOdy else has a right to o6ject"-lSpeech
at Cincinnati, Sept. II, 1851
Perhaps Mr.. Douglas might prefer stating his
own position, but even il it be as stated BY Mr..
Lincoln, it strikes US it very much resembles the
doctrine he enunciated himself in Section 2nd.
where he declared Il hold myself under c~onstitu-
tional obligations, to allow the people in all the
States, without interference, direct or indirect, to
do exactly as they please"
SECTION 81 have intimated that I Thought
the agitation (of slavery would not cease until a
crisis should be reached and passed. / have sta
ted in what way | thought it would be reached
and passed. We might by arres.ing the further
spread of it. and placing it where the fathers orig
inally placed it, put il where the public mind
should rest in the belief that it was in the course
of ultimate extinction. Thus the agitation may
cease. 1t may be pushed forward until il shall
become alike lawful ia all the States, old as we'll
as new, North as we'll as South. / entertain the
opinion, upon evidence sufficient to my mind, that
the fathers Of this Government placed that ipsti.