Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-02-21

sve Speech land he makes one not only at every consld
cradle citv and town. but even every way station and
woodnel he rises in his demands aud he fully
deveopes his position such position is found opposed
all the hopes and conrmatory of all the fears of those
who have so far trusted something to the moderation and
patriotism of that party Of which he is the head and we
may say, the official exponent. His speech at Indiana
polls was specimen of such consolidation doctrine as
few men would have dared to utter, and none of any
party at the South can possibly sustain. At Clncln-
natl he INDUCED 10 certain fne-soundng patitudes. At
Pttsburg he comes out more fully than at any time be-
fore. We quote only a paragraph or two from that
remarkable utterance made there on Friday the 18th
instant. He says
when speak hope shall nothing to djsappopt
the people generally Not outstanding The troubles the
South there STe0ly no crisis except an GTtcG. one
There IS nothing justify then course There IS no CRISIS
excepting such could be got up al any tlne 6y nT
buIeit people, aided by designing politicians"
Now. the plain English of all this is, that Mr. Lin
coin thinks there is no necessity for any compromise
That be recognizes tue existence of danger and
cedes no right of complaint and ground Of action to
the South He regards all the dissatisfaction in this
section as having nothing to justify it.
Farther on, abiding to the Tariff, he says
1.-THE Chicago platform contained that plank, and he
thought it should be regarded law by the incoming ad
miDsration 81 fact" said Mr. Lincoln, the platform
that and all other subjects should not be carried from
their U0teS."
If these declarations taken together anything at
all they this that Mr.. Lincoln totally ignores
the existence of any crisis at the South and certainly
afrms with reference to the uprising of the people OF
the South that there is nothing justify their course"
He sees nothing in the present position of our national
affairs differing from their position in May of last year.
and as President elect of the United States his way
to Washington, be says that the Chicago platform
should not be varied. How far this is compatible with
any desire for Cancellation adjustment on the part OF
Mr. Lincoln, will perhaps, be best understood by quo
ting from that Chicago platform which Is not to be
varied FROM aud then referring, for the sake OF compar
son. to the Kentucky propositions as submitted by Mr.
Guthrie of that State and said to have been agreed
upon by the business committee of the Peace Conference
at Washington. The 7th and 9Th sections of the Chi
cago platform read thus
81 That the new dogma that the Constitution of its own
force, carries slavery into any or an me Ieroes OF tne
with the explicit provisions Of that instrument ITSELF with
the contempOraneous exposition, and with legislative and
judicial precedent is revolutionary in it's tendencies, and
subversye OF the peace and harmony of the country
United States is that Of freedom That republican
fathers when they abolished slavery in oil our naonal
territory ordained that should he deprived Of life
liberty property without due process OF law becomes
duty by legislation whenever such legislation is nece8
s&ry to maintain this provision OF the Constitution against
all attempts to violate it. And we deny le authority Of
legislature, individual,
g ss isE'l existence 10 slavery any territory The 0"
The Guthrie plan reads thus, We quote here the 1st
and Sd articles =
Article That all territory Of the United States shall be
divided Icy line from east to west, the parallel Of 81
degrees 80 minutes north latitude and in all territory north
of that line involuntary serVtude except In punishment 81
crime, is prohibited whilst it shall beong to the United
States be under territorial government; and IN all
territory said line involuntary servtude Tecog
nzed it exists in the southern States OF the Union, whilst
territory shall belong the United States be under
territorial government; and neither Congress nor the
territorial government shall have power hinder pre-
vent emigans said territory from taking with them per-
laws and usages of the State from which persons may
be taken impair the right ariBrg Of said rela
States courts of said territory shall have jurisdiction there
Of and those rights shall be protected by the courts and all
the departments of the territorial government under
cordng to the laws Of the State from which the person
bound such service have been ken and when any
territory north south Of said line, within such boundary
Congress may prescribe, shall contain population re-
federal ratio OF representation of the people of tie United
States may if its form of government be republican, be
admitted into the Union equal footing with the orgi
nal States with without involuntary servtude or labor,
the constitution of such new State may provide
Art 3. That the constitution and amendment thereof,
shall be construed Civ Congress power to regulate, abo
h CONTROL within any State Territory OF the United
States the relation established or recognized oy me laws
thereof touching persons bound TO labor or Involuntary
service therein interfere with abolish involuntary
service in the District OF Columbia without the consent OF
Maryland and Virginia and the owners OF without making
the owners who do not consent, previously full compen
saon the power Interfere with abolish inv0un-
tary in places under the exclusive jurisdiction of
the is established recognzed the power to
prohibit the removal transportation of persons held to
United States other Territory thereof where
it Is established recognized to authorize specific
tax higher persons bound to labor
than on land proportion to value to authorize
of the African their descendants to become czens
to exercise The right OF suffrage i'll the choice OF federal
officers
is unnecessary to point out the discrepancy between
these two platforms. They directly opposed to each
other certain points. Ga point not embraced in
the short extract from the Chicago platform, Mr.. Lin
coin is ciametrcay opposed to any plan of adjustment
that has yet been offered could possibly be offered
with any hope of acceptance by the least exactng
of the border slave States to say nothing of its anag
onism to the views Of the supreme court We allude
to negro citizenship The Guthrie plan-the border
State plan-the supreme court-alke oppose and deny
the right of any power authority, State Federal,
to make persons of the African race citizens allow
them to exercise the right of suffrage in the choice of
Federal officers. MIR. Lincoln distinctly contends for
the right Of any State confer upon negroes citizen
ship and the right to vote for Federal officers.
1t has been contended here and elsewhere that Mr.
Lincoln could not speak out without indelcacy until
the electoral votes had been counted out and he had
been officially declared elected. Well the votes hare
been counted out the required official declaration has
been made MIR. Lincoln hos spoken out, and how p
His own words answer that question. The weight at
tached to these words by his political partzans will soon
be shown by the total failure Of any and every attempt
to obtain guarantees, concessions compromses-even
OF the most nominal kind. We shall be very much sur
prised indeed the telegraph to-day does not bring
the news OF the rejection of the Guthrie plan-the Crit
tenden pan-the Border State pIan-the Virginia plan
and ali other plans, by the Republican majority Of the
Washington Conference. Now that Lincoln has snokpn