New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-13
dressed much Of what said to the Kentuckian.'.

that they could postpone that result longer BY
nominating Senator Douglas for the Presidency
than they could in any other way. They did
| not. in any true sense of the word, nominate
| Mr. Douglas, and the result has come
certainly as soon as ever l expected.
also told them how l expected they
would be treated after they should have
been beaten; and now wish to cab their at
tentiOn to what l then said upon that subject. i
then said "When we do as we say, beat
you, you perhaps want to know what we
will do with you. l will tell you as far as ! am
authorized to speak for the Opposition, what
we mean to do with you. We mean to treat
you, as near as we possibly can, as Wash.
ington, Jefferson, and Madison treated You. We
mean to leave you alone and in no way to
interfere with your Institutions; to abide by all
and every compromise of the Constitution, and, in
n word, coming back to the original proposition,
to treat you so far as degenerate men, if We
have degenerated, may according to the example
Of those noble fathers, Washington, Jefferson,
aud Madison.
owe mean to remember that you are as good
as we; that there is no difference between us
other than the difference of circumstances We
mean to recognize and bear in mind always that
you have as good hearts in your bosOms as other
people, or as we claim to have, and treat you ac
cOrdingy."
Fellow citizens Of Kentucky Friends and
Brethren may call you in my new pOsition-I
see no occasion and feel 10 inclination to retract
a word eff this. If it shall not be made good, he
assured the fault shall not be mine.
The remarks were received with great enthu-
siasm. Tn passing to his room those that could,
rushed at him, throwing their arms around him,
patting him on the back, and almost wrenchiDg
his arms off, Politicians were thick among
them George n. Sanders and others.
This evening in the grand hall Of the Burnett
House, which has been decorated for the Occa-
sion, Mr. Lincoln will receive the people gene
rally He looks well and is in good spirits. The
whole arrangements thus far, which have been
under the charge of w. S. Wood have been ad-
mirable. Nothing has occurred to mar the plees-
ure of the journey
THE SPEECH AT INDIANAPOLIS.
The following is full report of Mr.. Lincoln's
speech at Indianapolis, of which we gave tele-
graphic summary yesterday morning:
FELLow-CITIzESs or THE STATE OF IsDIAsA: l
am here TO thank you much for this magnificent well
come, and still more for the very generous support
given by your State to that political cause which
think is the true and just Of the whole country
aud the whole world. Solomon says " There is a
time TO keep silence" and when men wrsnge by the
month with no certainty that they mean the same
thing while using the same word it perhaps were as
well if they would keep silence. The words "co-
ercion' and invasion much used IN these days,
and often with come temper and hot blood. Let us
make sure il we can that do not nisunderstandthe
meaning of those who use them. Let get the exact
definitions of these words not from Dictionaries but
from the men themselves, who certainly deprecae
the things they would represent by the use Of the
words What them is e" coercion ?" What is " inva-
sion 2" Would the marching Of army into South
Carolina, without the Of her people, and with
hostile intent toward them be inyasionl certainly
think il would be coercion" also the South Carroll
mans were forced TO submit. But j The United States
should merely hold and retale as forts and other
property and collect me duties foreign importaoHs,
or even telhOld The maas from plaoes plere they rere
haJiiHGRy riolaicd, rorid any all these things be
iarasOn or coereioa2" DO our professed lovers
Of the Union but who sptefuly resolve that they will
resist coercion and invasion, understand that such
things as these the part Of the United States would
he coercion or invasion of State If co. their idea Of
means to preserve the object Of their great affection
would seem to be exceedingly thin and airy. If sick,
the little pills Of the homepathst would be much too
large for il TO swallow In their view, the Union, as
family relation would seem TO be regular marriage,
but rather sort of freelove arrangement to be main
- D.
in what consists the special sacredness of State
/ speak not Of the position assigned to State in the
Union by the Constitution for that by the bond we all
recognize. That position, however, State cannot
carry out of the Union with it. ] speak of that as
sumed primary right of State to rule all which is less
than Itself and to ruin all which is larger than itself.
If State and county in given case, should be equal
in extent of territory and equal in number Of inhab
itants, in what, matter of principle, is the State
better than the county Would exchange of names
be an exchange of rightsl Upon principle, on what
rghtfu principle, may State, being more than one
ieh part of the nation in soil and population, break
up the nation and then proporonably larger
subdivision of itself in the most arbitrary way What
mysterious right play yrant is conferred on District
of country with its people by merely calling it State
Fellow-cizens am not asserting anything. l am
merely asking questions for you to consider And now
allow me to bid you farewell.
F3-eL
The Tennessee Election.