Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-09-26
RED WING GooDHUE COUNTY MIMI WEDNESDAY 49,

COUNTY, MIMI, WEI
ty to the constitution. (Cheers.) Hence,
he who is not willing to carry ont in
good faith every clause, every word,
every letter Of the constutlon is trai.
tor in his heart to his country. loud
cheers. Cries OF Good boy.'
a. =
A voicc-How about the Union?
Another lna;vidual--.-Stop your
mouth with some of that OK, and don't
uaughter.}
Mr.. Douglas---I should regret the
election Of Abrah ham Lincoln as great
national calamity: / know him well
(Cries of "That's so," and "you have
a rightly Yes, l have good reason
to know him, and he has still better
reasons to remember me. (Cheers
and laughter.)
A Voice.---He will have more rea-
son yet. Naughter.)
Mr.. Douglas-I have no word of
mkindness or personal disrespect to
utter concerning HIN: but I do believe
that ho holds positions which, if car
ried out, would be subversive of all
the principles ofthe American consti-
tuition. (Cries of ''That's eo,'' and
cheers.) And if it be true, as his ad-
vocates claim, that he is honest in
these convictions, that very sincerity
in revolutionary, destructive prin-
ciples make his election the more
dangerous to the country. Loud
applause.) Hence I am prepared to
act with all men that are loyal to the
Constitution and the Union, and op.
posed to the Abolition or Republican
party, which I believe to be the ene-
my Of this couutry.) Cries of"That's
proper s'Thats the talk" and ap.
plausc.) / was also asked, at Nor
folk, Virginia, and other places, Iwheth-
er, in the event any of the Southern
States should secede from this Union
when Lincoln was elected, I would go
for the enforcement of the laws of the
Union? tell you, as I told them,
that whoever is President is bound by
his oath to carry the laws into faithful
execution. (Cries Of "good for Dug!'
and cheers.) I also tell yon that it is
the duty Of every law abiding man, I
care not what may be his politics, to
aid and assist in the execution of the
laws. Hence, if Lincoln should be
elected, which God in his mercy for
bid, "a voice ''amen," and langhter,)
he must be inaugurated according to
the constitution and the laws Of his
country. And /, as his firmest,
and strongest, irrcconcilable opponent,
will sustain him in the exercise of
every constitutional function. cloud
cheers.) But if, after that shall be
done, he shall attempt to subvert the
constitution, or violate it's provisions,
or make war upon the rights and in
terests Of any section Of this confed.
eracy, will aid to the full extent Of
my power, according to constitutional
laws, in hanging him higher than Vir-
ginia hung John Brown. (Vociferous
cheering, and cries of "Bravo.''
We live under the government and
laws. Our rights, our liberties, our
property, cur lives are dependent up.
on the laws of tho land for protection.
(Cheers.) I have children whom I
love as tendcrly as any mar, on earth
loves his offspring, and yet I have no
wish to see them survive the Union of
these States. When we shall perform
faithfully all our duties, according
to the constitution and according to
the laws, then we have the right to
aemand that every other man shall
obey the same laws and the same con-
,stitution. I had supposed that there
was no loyal citizen, no friend Of his
country, who could find fault with
these sentiments; but I discover, in the
newspapers of the day, q protest
against my Norfolk speech signed by
Mr.. Keitt, of South Carolina, and thir.
|ty. forty or fifty disunionists, declar.
ling that those sentiments must be re-
PEELED and resisted, and calling upon
the American people to repudiate me
in order to repudiate those sentiments
(Cries of "They never shall--neyer.''
I feel no disrcspect for the gentlemen
who have signed that protest but ]
have as much right to protest ag't their
treason as they have to protest again.'
my loyalty and devotion to the consti
tuition. (Cries of "Bravo!'' stgood fo1
| you,'' and applarse.) They assert il
their protest that I treat this Union al
perpetual bond TO be acquiesced il
and obeyed in all future time by tn
weaker sections toward the stronger
They misapprehended totally my posi-
ton. My position is that this Unio1
Ills perpetual bond, demanding an
requiring implicit obedience to tn
|constitution and laws by every GOO
|citizen-(cheers)--not by the wcake
isection toward the stronger, but ODE
t1iencc from every honest man to tn
government under which he was bor
!. and which he has sworn to suppor
loud cbccrs.) But they assert j
, this protest their rightsto secede fror
this government. tell you, as Ge,
!, Jackson told the nullitiers in 1885,, tina
> lsecession is but another name for rel
olution. (lienewed cheers.) 1 hol
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