The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30

MR.. LINCOLN DON'T MAKE sPEECH-sEN.
ATOR TRUMBULL DOES.

ATOR TRUMBULL DOES.
On the Goth inst, the Republicans of
Springfield, ILL.,, held grand jubilee in hon
or of L1NCoLN's election. Mr.. LINCOLN
made brief speech, which was merely a
sterotyped acknowledgment: of the honor
done him by his friends, &c, &c. 1t con-
tained no sentence calculated to throw light
on his administrative acts. But LYMAN
TUUMBULL was present and made short
yet carefully prepared speech, In which,
doubtless, he indicated the views of MIR.
LINCOLN. We extract the following from
Mr.. TRUMBULLs speech, which derives its
sole Importance from this cause:
Mr.. Lincoln, although the candidate of
the Republican party, as Chief Magistrate,
will neither belong to that or az other par
ty. When inaugurated, he will be the
President of the country and the whole
country, and doubt not. will be as ready
to defend and protect the State in which he
did not receive solitary vote, against any
encroachment upon its constitutional rights,
as the one in waich he received the largest
majority.
While they, by whose votes he has been
designated as Chief Magistrate of the Re.
public will expect him to maintain and
carry forward The principles on which he
was elected, t.ey know that in doing so, no
encroachments will be made on the reserved
rights of any Vi the States. They know
that the Federal Government is one of dele
gated powers, that it can do nothing except
the authority for the act can be found in
the instrument which created it, and that all
powers not conferred are reserved to the
States or the people of the States. Hence,
when their political opponents have charged
them with abolitionism, or attributed to
them desire to interfere with slavery in
the States, or some fanatic has insisted they
ought to do so, the reply has invariably
been, that the people who made the Federal
Government did not think proper to confer
on it such authority /; and it has therefore,
no more right to meddle with slavery in a
State, than it has to interfere with serfdom
in Russia, nor are the people of the non-
slaveholding States in any way responsible
for slavery in the States which tolerate it,
because, as to that question, they ars as for
eign to each other as independent Govern.
ments.
have labored in and for the Republican
organization with entire confidence that
whenever it should be in power, each and
all of the States would be left in as COM
plete control Of their own affairs respective
ly, and at as perfect liberty to choose and
employ their own means of protecting pro-
perty, and preserving peace and order within
their respective limits, as they have ever
been under any Administration. Those
who have voted for Mr.. Lincoln have ex
pected and still expect this, and they would
not have voted for him had they expected
otherwise. regard it as extremely fortu-
nate for the peace of the whole country that
this point, upon which the Republicans have
been so long and so persistently mlsrepre-
sented, is now to be brought to practical
test and placed beyond the possibility of
doubt. It should be matter of rejoicing
to all true Republicans, that they will now
have an opportunity of demonstrating to
their political adversaries and to the world,
that they are not for interfering with the
domestic Institutions of any of the States,
nor the advocates of negro equality or ANAL
gamation, with which political demagogues
have so often charged them. When this is
shown, a reaction will assurediy take place
in favor OF Republicanism the Southern
mind even will be satisfied, the rights of
Northern men will be respected, and the
fraternal feeling existing 10 olden times when
men from all parts of the country went forth
together to battle for common cause,
against common enemy, will be restored.
Disunionists, per Sc, OF whom, unfortun-
ately, there have been few 10 the country
for some years, understand this, and are now
in hot haste to get out OF the Union, pre-
cisely because they perceive they cannot
much longer maintain an apprehension
among the Southern people that their homes
and 6resides and lives are to be endangered
by the action of the Federal Government.
With such, "Now or never" is the maxim.
Hence, they seek to inAame the public mind
by msrepresentirg the objects and purposes
OF the Republican party, with the hope of
precipitating some Of the Southern States
into q position from which they cannot,
without dishonor, afterwards recede, we'll
knowing, if they delay till after the new
Administration is inaugurated and tested,
it will furnish no cause for their complaints.
Secession is an impracticability, or rather
an impossibility. The Constitution pro
vides no way by which State might with
draw from the Union-no way for the
dissolution of the government it creates.
The general government interferes but little
with the invidual rights of the citizens,
except for protection. 1t is chiefly felt in
its benefits and its blessings, not 10 its ex-
actions. If every Federal officer 10 South
Carolina were to resign, their Offices remain
vacant, and its Legislature declare the State