, 1860-05-19

.nsnosrs Of the lsgsh tars, 70 nit f..
For4pRAHAh LIxooLS. ..las.a7s
For STEPHEN 4. DOUGLAS, 1aLloo.
ny reason, borrower, Of ths aagrant appor-
tionment Of the State in Legislative Districts.
By which majority Of the membere arc always
elected by minority Of the people, AIr. Doug
las YVES, as Is we'll known, returned to the
9cuate: te---=- ----------.-
1n private life he is literally unimpeachablo
Among all who know him his most acceptable
and et the same time appropriate sou1riQutt, Il
that by which he Is most widely known:
''' -: HONEST OLD ABE"
twill not bo inappropriate for us to add to
this hasty sktteh an extract from one Of Mr.
Lincoln's o1tempore speeches in tho campaign
orlsss. which WAS repub1ished in our columns
a few days since. aud ELECTED thu highest suco-
miums frcm delegates and visitors from oth.r
States The Declaration Of Independence has
rarely received = more thoughtful and at The
same tima a more glowing tribute:
"The Declaration Of Independence was form-
cd bF the representatives OF American liberty
from thrtee States of the Confederacy
ofwhicl, were slareholding communities. va
need not discuss the way or the reason Of their
becoming slaycho]ding Gommuait;ss. tits su{Ii-
cient for our purpose that all Of fhtns greatly
depiured the evil and that thsy placed proyi.
sion in the Constitution which they supposed
would gradually remove the dsease BY cutting
w." ~ ,-.Ss So nar.rni ,rss H.. cor .;o,,. 0S
H.. ,n,';c d.ter,ninutlun-,o ahol;xh thu a.;
can s]nye trudc. that tho provision wEich In,c
referred to rs bring placed in thu Constitution,
nr;,r N tha Faar -1Rt3. 4 conxtitnt;on,1
nroy;s;on va, 1sca,aary to nrev-nt ~, ,,.a'
i,te tLrn,,rh Compress. frnu uutt;u., . ato,,
tn liza truiTlc immediately At tin closa ~. tx,
var INV If stayrry hid laen n onol +1,;,.,
would 1Le Fathers Of tue Renublic Lsva tske,''
Il ,,e, calculated to diminish It's Leurfcsnt in.
1u.nccs. among tlemselycs. md .uatch tls
n"";,;ax i: ,ln;r renr.srntn,;ytx in III tna run
,,.ndencr J1.,i sa;d ID liz whoFa wnr]1 " n,so
xWs i,old th..s truth, to i. sclceYident al;st
.t1 nan nra rrea,c1 4nn.1. ,h,t tlsv ~. .~I .n
don ID h1 1l,eir Crrxtor viii. crrtu;u in,Icn.Ito
r;r.ts. hat sn,onr th,se SO lifs lih~rs, :nn'j
ill.,. nur.uit of huu1,i,Iets." This was ,Leir ,na.
;s.,lr iutenretaliou Of the economy of the III,
nnIsr.tauJinr uf ,ha iuaiica Of tbs Gres,"r to
iii. creaiurea [Apulsuse.l Yes. ventIeneu.
touI Ilin creaturcx. 10 the whole rreat f.uilv
Of man, In their enlightened belief, nothing
stzuped with tlr Divine image and likeness v a.
seut into the world to he troaden on, aud de.
graded, aud imbrutcd By its fellows. Th-Y
IRA sped not only the whole race Of man then
living, tut they reached forward aud seized
upun tue farthest poste,itY, They erected a
bt aeon to guide their children and their chit
drcu's children. aud ,he countless myriad. wlo
should inhabit ,he ear.h in other axss. Wise
statesmen a. thay we're, they knew tie tendency
Of prosperity to breed tyrauls, und so tLey rs.
tabiished these great self:eyideu. truths. that
when in the diatant future some man, some fac.
that none but rich men, o. none but white men,
or noue but Anglo Saxons were entitled to firo'
liberty and The pursui. of happiness. their nos.
tcrity might look up again TO- i1e Declaration Of
Independence aud take courage to renew The
h1ttl. which thrfr fathers begau-so that truth