The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-04


decisions
"This man sticks to 4 decision which
forbids the people Of Il Territory from eX-
gliding slavery, and he does so not because
he saws il is right in itself-he does not give
any opinion on that--but because it has
been decided 6y the court and being de-
cided by the court, he is, and you are bound
to take it in your political action as Lalo-
not that he judges at all of its merits, but
because decision of the court is to him Il
Titus Saith the Lord" lie places it on that
ground alone, and you viii bear in mind
that, thus committing himself uurcservedly
to this decision, commits lin TO tie merit ono
Just as firmly as to this. lie did not COM
NIT himself on account of the merit o: de-
merit of the decision, but it is a Thus saith
the Lord. The next decision, as much as
this, will be a THUS saith the Lord. There
is nothing that can divert or turn him away
from this decision. 1t is nothing that |
point out to him that his great prototype,
Gen. jackson, did not believe in the bind
ing force of decisions. 1t is nothing to him
that Jefferson did not so believe"
What shall zee do about IL 30 The Judge
INDUCED himself doubtless to-day, with the
question as to what am going to do with
or about the bred Scott decision. Well,
Judge, will you please to tell me what you
did about the U. 5. bank decision? Will
you not graciously allow US to do with the
bred Scott decision precisely as you did
with the bank decision? You succeeded
in breaking down the moral effect of that
decision did you find it necessary to amend
the Constitution or to set up a court of
negroes in order to do it =?
What tie Democracy are DOing.-Now,
having spoken of the bred Scott decision,
one more word and l am dol, Henry
CLAY, my beau ideal of a statesman, the
man for whom I fought all my humble life
Henry Clay once said of a class of men
who would rep:ess all tendencies to liberty
and ultimate emancipation, that they I1ust,
if they would do this, go back to the era of
our Independence, and muZzle the cannon
which thunders its annual Joyous return
they must blow out the moral lights around
US; they must penetrate the human soul,
and eradicate there the love of liberty ; and
then, and not till then, could they perpetu-
! ate slavery in this country Judge Doug
! las is going back to the era OF our Revolu-
! ton, and to the extent Of his ability, mlz-
! cling the cannon which thunderS its annual
| Joyous return. When be invites any peo-
! pie, willing to have slavery, to establish it,
! he IS blowing ont the moral light around
.
slavery is voted down or voted up that
it is a sacred right of self-government
| he is, in my judgment, penetrating
the human soul and eradcating the light of
reason and the love of liberty in this Ameri-
can people. And now will only say that
! when, by all these means and appliances,
| Judge Douglas shall succeed in bringing
public sentiment to an exact accordance
with his own views-when these vast as
/ semblages shall echo back all these senti-
ments-w hen thev shall come to repeat his
views and to AVON his principles, and to
say all that he says OH these mighty ques-
tions-then il needs only the formality of
| the second bred Scout decision, which he
indorses in advance, to make slavery alike
lawful in all the States-old as we'll as new,
North IS well as South.
He CAN SUIT EN- ALL-We stated re-
Gently that Judge Law would have opposi-
ton in his Congressional aspirations. On
second thought, we don't see the need Of
having any other candidate than Judge
Law. Why? Because he has been on all
sides in politics, and, sure, can't he satisfy
all the people? Suppose he goes into the
old Wing neighborhoods, he can point tC
his record while a member of that party
If he goes into Warrck, Dubois, or Other
dyed-in-the- wool Democratic counties, h'
Gun plead his former abuse OF Henry Clay
to prove his Democratic orthodoxy, and Il
clinch the nail, he can tell them that h,
was both for and against Judge Hovey il
1858, and for and against the Administra
ton on the LecomptOn issue This ough
to satisfy both Lecompton and anti-Lecomp
tonitcs Should he go up into {" Black Re
publican localities-oh, Moses how he
will roll out that quotation!-he can poin
= members of the Democratic Legislature il
1913, rs an evidence that he viii do to ii
to ON the niger question.
On the whole, we think any one VIII
concludes to run against the Judge ha,
better be prepared to show more rariego
ted record than he possesses, or he canine
f please all sides like Judge Law can.
The dish the Judge ought now to feed OF
f to qualify himself for carrying on the can
| vass, is olla podrida. For the benefit {
5 those who have no dictionary handy, W
, quote Webster's definition OF this dish, t
show its appropriateness:
! e" ola Podrida-A favorite Spanish dish
consisting of mixture of all kinds of mea
: chopped fine and stewed with vegetables
2 Hence, the term is used metaphorically, 70
t any homogeneous melange.
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