The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-06-21
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HONESTY AMONG TIE THIEVES IGNORED

HONESTY AMONG TIE THIEVES IGNORED!
The speech of Mr.. Benjamin recently de-
Erercd in the Senate of the United States,
makes some startling disclosures. 1t will now
be seen that the surmisings of Abraham Lin.
coin in his celebrated Springfield speech are
not to be traced to fervid imagination but
TO a far-sighted Judgment. By the treaehery
OF Douglas the tie of friendship that bound
him to his Southern associates discovered
and the wicked schemes planned and per-
fected BY them in secret caucus, are exposed.
In 1853, speaking of the Compromise of
1850, the Kansas and Nebraska act, the re.
peal Of the Missouri Compromise, and the
bred Scott decision, Abraham Lincoln SAYS
I'VE cannot absolutely know that all these
exact adaptations are the result of precon
cert. But when we see lot of framed tim
.srs, different portions of which we know
have been gotten out at different times and
places and by different workmen-Stephens
Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance
and when we see these tnnbers Joined to-
gether and see they exactly make the frame
1T a house or mill, all the lemons and NOR
utes exactly fitting and all the lengths and
proportions of the different pieces exactly
adopted to their respective places and not a
piece too many or too few--not emitting
even scaffolding-o or if a single piece be
lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly
fitted and prepared yet to bridg such piece
in--ln such case we find il impossible not
to believe that Stephens, Franklin Roger and
James all understood one another from the
beginning, and all worked upon common
plan or draft drawn up before the first blow
was struck. .....
In 1860 Mr. Benjamin says: "Why is it.,
shat Senator who has been treated with
favor should now be separated from his for
mer associates? That he (Douglas) passed
over in his speech and will supply the de-
ficiency. When the Kansas bill was before
the Senate, the Senator from Illinois called a
caucus of deneocratic Senators every morn
ing to decide on their action for the day.
AT that time the Democrats being unable to
agree as to the power Of the people of the
Territories, it was agreed to refer the sub
iect to the courts and to abide by the deci
saon' The Senator from Illinois admits that
he made this bargain, and yet he has been
engaged since, 1857 in trying to explain a
way in conjunction with Republicans the
ynr, nf thn Al
was preconcerted plan entered into and
well nigh perfected by Douglas and his asso-
ciates, the object Of which was to establish
slavery in the territories and to place slave
property on the same basis with other pro
rerty.
Douglas admits, Mr.. Benjamin says, that
he made this bargain, though now he vir-
tuaay denies it by explaining away the de-
cision of the court. Nothing is more obvi-
Gus than that the bred Scott decision de-
cides that the Constitution ,torbids the pro-
hibition of slavery in the Territories by Con.
gress; and as Territorial government derives
all its powers from Congress the territorial
legislature cannot do more than Congress. -
This then is the decision of the court. Doug.
las now occupies the anomalous position of
pretending to submit to the decision of the
court, while at the same time he says it de-
cides different thing from what it does.
Why do we find Douglas occupying this
ridiculous positions We wait for the editor
Of the Union TO say In case the Union
makes no response We shall answer this in
terrogatOry ourselves. ....