Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-10-30


candidate for president or placed in
the platform of the DemOcratic party
Now il our So called Republican
friends will refer lo the speech deliv-
cred by President Lincoln, in Indian
apolis, on the evening OF Fo5mry II,
1851, they will then find what he con
sidered to be coercion and invasion OF
state. Iquote the following:
"What then is coercion? What is
invasion? Would the marching Of an
army into South Carolina, without
the consent Of her people, aud with
hostile intent toward them, BE- inVa-
sion9 ! certainly think II would and
II would be coercion also If the South
Cafolinans were forced to submit.
But If tic United States should
merely hold and retake its own forts
and other property, and collect the
duties on foreign iniportations or
even withhold the mails from places
where they were habitually violated,
would any or all of these things be in
yasion or coercion?"
Now let us turn to Mr.. Lincoln's
Inaugural address and see what is
there, here u sample of it,
81 do not consider 1t necessary, at
present, for me to discuss those mat
lers of administration about which
there is no special anxiety or excite
ment. Apprehension, seems TO exist
among the people, of the Southern
states, that, 10y the accessnu OF IA Rcs
publican administration, their prop
erty aud their peace and personal Sc
curity are to be endangered. There
has never been any reasonable cause
for such apprehension. Indeed the
most ample evidence to the contrary
has all the while existed, aud been
open to their inspection, it is friend
in nearly all the published speeches of
him who now addresses you. 1 do
but quote from one of those speeches,
when l declare that l have no pur
pose, directly or indirectly, to inter-
fere with the institution of slavery
in the states where it exists. l be-
leive / have no lawful right to do so;
and 1 have no inclination to do so.
Those who nominated and elected me,
did so with the full knowledge that 1
had made this, and many simalar dec
larations, and had never recanted
them. And, more than this, they
placed in the platform for my accep-
tance, and as a law to themselves and
to me, the clear and emphatic resolu'
tions, which 1 now read.
"Resolved, That the maintenance
inviolate of the rights of the states
and especially of the right of each
state to order and control its own do
mestic institutions according to its
own judgment exc lusively, lsessentia
to that balance of powers on which the
perfection and endurance of our poll
tical fabric depends; and we denounc'
the lawless invision by armed force
of the soil of auy state or territory
no matter under what pretext a
amongst the gravest crimes"
l now reiterate these sentiments
and in doing so l only press upon TIN
public attention the most conclusive
evidence of which the case is suscepti
BILE, that the property, peace and secu
rity of no section are to be in any wis,
| endangered by the now incoming ad
ministration add, too, that all TIN
protection which, consistently will
the constitution and the laws, can b
given, will be cheerfully given to al
the states when lawfully, demanded
for whatever cause, as cheerfully t
one section as to another"
Mr.. Hermann and his so-called Re
publican friends would do well to rea,
the ,life and speeches of that grea
man whom they all acknowledged a
the father of the real Republica
party, and then they might have re
spect enough for the grand principle
he advocated to at least not cry "ar
archy" at them, but then perhaps tn
so-called Republicans really thin
Abraham Lincoln was the chief of al
anarchists, at least the talk one hears
upon the streets, and the speeches @
the Hon. Binger Hermann and his Sc
n