The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-06-01

.s,s,s 40 fresh in the recollection OF oil
o.,dsr.. farther than to subjoin the resun Oh
,ss vote on members Of the Legislature, VIZ
For ABRAHAM LING S.G; } 10, ;o6
For STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS iai'iso
a, ,s..o, however, Of the fragrant appor-
r. ,hs State in Legislative Districts,
kD.h;.h a majority OF the members are al
~ - .lsc,sd by minority Of the people, Mr..
n'.y.,as wa,. a, Is well known, returned 10
'"Y =. nr;rs,s lif. he Is literally unimPeaeha-
P,.oo, all who know him his most NC
s.u,.hls and at the same time Appropriate
.sp Is that by which he is most wide
ly known:
.HoNEST OLD ABE"
twill no. be inappropriate for US to add
10 this hasty sketch, an extract from one OF
Mr.. Lincoln's estempOre speeches in the
campaign Of 1858, which was republished in
our columns few days since, and elected
the highest cncomiums from delegates and
visitors from other States. The Declaration
Of Independence has rarely received q more
thoughtful and at the same time more
glowing tribute:
.The Declaration Of Independence was
formed by the representatives Of American
liberty from thirteen States Of the Conteder-
acy-twelye Of which were slayeholding COM
munities. We need not discuss the way or
the reason OF their becoming slareholding
communities. Ii is sufficient for our pur-
pose that all Of them greatly deplored the
evil, and that they placed q provision In the
Constitution which they supposed would
gradually remove the disease by cuttingof Its
source. This was the abolition Of the slave
trade, SO general was the conyiction-.tho
public d.termination-to abolish the Arr
can slave trade, that the provision which
have referred to as being placed in the CCn-
stitution, declared that itshould not be abol-
ished prior 10 the year 1908. a constitu-
tional provision was necessary to prevent the
psople. through Congress, from putting
stop 10 the traffic Immediately at the close OF
the war. Now, If slavery had been good
thing. would the Fathers Of the Republic
have taken step calculated to diminish its
bcpe6cient Influences among themselves, and
snatch the boon wholly FROM their posterity
T'bs,s communities, by their representatives
in old Independence Hall, said to the whole
world of men: ave hold these truths To be
s,lf-eyidcnt: that all men are created equal
tia, thew are endowed by their Creator with
certain inlli,nabls right; that among these
are life, liberty and the pursuit OF happi-
MSS" This WIS their majestic interpreta-
ton Of the economy Of the Universe. This
vas their lofty, and wise, and noble under
standing Of the Justice OF the Creator 10 His
creatures. [ApPlause.l Yes. gentlemen. to
oil His creatures, to the whole great family
Of man. In their enlightened belief, moth
10, stamped with the Divine image and like
ness was sen into the world TO be trodden
on, and degraded, and imbruted by its TEL
lows.s They grasped not only the whole
race Of man then living, but they reached
forward and seized upon the farthest posteri
Nv. They erected beacon to guide their
c ildren and their childrens children, and
the countless myriads who should inhabit the
earth in other ages. Wise statesmen as they
were, they knew the tendency of prosperity
70 breed tyrants, and 50 they established
tn sc great sslC.eyident truths, that when in
the distant future, some man, some faction,
sDme interest, should set up the doctrine that
n1ne but rich men, or none but white men,
or none but Anglo Saxons, were entitled to
life, liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness,
their pOsterity might look up again to the
Declaration Of Independence, and take cour-
age to renew the battle which their fathers
begln-so that truth. and justice, and mer-
CIV, and all the humane and Christian virtues
might not be extinguished from the land IL
=, that no man hereafter would dare to limit
and circumscribe the great principles on
which the temple Of liberty was being built.
loud cheers.)
Now, my countrymcn, II you have been
tau hit doctrines conflicting with the great
landmarks Of the Declaration Of lndepend-
cnc,: IL YOU have listened to suggestions
which would take away from il its grandeur,
and mutilate the symmetry Of its proper
tons; IL you have been inclined to believe
tia. all men are not created equal in those
inalienable rights enumerated by our chart
uf liberty, let me entreat you 10 come back.
Return 10 the fountain whose waters spring
clos, by the blood Of the Revolution. Think
nothing OF me-take no thought for the po-
liticil htc Of any man whomsoeyer-but
come back to the truths that are in the Dec
lar ton of Independence. You may do any
thing with me YOU chose, IL you will but
heel these sacred principles. You may not
only defeat me for the Senate, but you may
take me and put me to death. While pre-
tending no indifference 10 earthly honors, l
DO clam 20 be actnated IN this contest by
something higher than an anxiety 70. Office.
charge you to drop every paltry and insig-
niecart thought for any mans success. Ii
j. nothing. am nothing, Judge Douglas is
nothing. But do not destroy that immortal
a MI tha If
American Independence"
wBiI NAY WE LOOK TOR AFTER THE MKT pRED
SCOTT DECISION?
MY friends, have cndeavored 10 show
yJu the logical consequences Of the bred
Ssutt decision. which holds that the people
Of q territory cannot prevent the establish
m,nt Of slavery in their midst. l have stat
cd what cannot be gainsayed, that the
grounds upon which this decision is made
arc equally applicable tn the Free States as
to the free Territories, and that the peculiar
reasons put forth by Judge Douglas Tor in
doning this decision, commit him in advance
10 the next decision, and to all other deci-
sions emanatins from the samo source. And
when, by all these means you have succeeded
in dehumanizin; the negro; when You have
put him down, and made il impossible for
him TO be but rs the beasts OF the field -
when you have extinguished hissoul, and
placed him where the nay Of hope is blown |
out in the darkness that broods over the
rpirits Of the damned, are you quite sure the
d,mon YOU have reused will not turn and
rpnd YOU? What constitutes the bulwark OF
our liberty and independence? II is not our
frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts,