The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-05-18
The Great Emanpator Openly Charged With Usurpaton of
Power, Conspiracy and Treason Against
the People.
"I.et Us
to the nd, Dare

we see these timbers joined together,
and see they exactly make the frame
Of house or mill, all the lemons
and mortices exactly adapted, and all
the lengths and proportions of the diff
ferent pieces exactly adapted to their
respective places, and not a piece too
many or two few-not omitting even
scaffolding-or If a single piece be
lacking we see the place in the frame
exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring
such piece in-in such case we find
it impossible not to believe that
Stephen and Franklin and Roger and
James all understood one another from
the beginning, and all worked upon a
common draft drawn up before the first
blow was struck"
After exposing another labyrinth of
deception, he says:
Put this and that together and we
have another nice little niche, which
we may, ere long, see filled with an
other supreme court decision declar-
ing that the constitution of the Uni
ted States does not permit a state to
exclude slavery from it's limits.
. Such decision is all that
slavery lacks of being alike pow
erful in all the states. Welcome or
unwelcome, such decision is prob
ably coming, and will soon be upon us,
unless"-(Mark these words, so full
of meaning at this moment )-"unless the
shall be met and overthrown. We shall
lie down pleasantly dreaming that the
people of Missouri are on the very verge
of making their state free, and we shall
awake in the reality instead that the
supreme court has made Illinois slave
state
Another scourging for the conspira-
tors follows here, and then he closes,
with the following fervent words,
which must have burned like Christ's
lash upon the backs of the money
changers:
"Our cause, then, must be entrusted
to and conducted by its own un-
doubted friends-those whose hands
are free, whose hearts are in the work
who do care for the result
OF strange, discordant, and even hos
tile elements, we gathered from the
four winds and formed and fought the
battle through, under the constant hot
fire of disciplined, proud and pam
pered enemy. Did we brave all then
to falter now?-now, when the same
enemy is wavering, discovered and bel
ligerent? The result is not doubtful
We shall not fail-if we stand firm
We shall not fail. Wise councils may
accelerate or mistakes delay it, but
sooner or later, the victory is sure to
come"
July 10. 1858. in a speech in Chicago.
he gave the following courageous opin-
ion of the supreme court and some of
the characters who reasonably connived
with it to thwart the will of the people:
IF l were in congress and a vote
should come up on a question whether
slavery should be prohibited in a new
territory, in spite of the Dred Scott
decision, 1 would vote that it should.
THE sacredness that Judge Douglass
throws around this decision is a de-
gree Of sacredness that has never be-
fore been thrown around any other de-
cision. I have never heard of such
thing Why, decisions apparently
contrary to that decision have been
made by that very court before It is
the first of it's kind. 1t is new wonder
of the world. 1t is based on falsehood
In the main as to facts; allegations OF
facts upon which it stands are not
facts at all in many instances
But Judge Douglass would have it that
all hands must take this extraordinary
decision, made under these extraor-
binary circumstances, and give their
vote in congress in accordance with 1t,
yield to it and obey it in every possible
sense. Do not gentlemen
here remember the case of that su-
preme court. 25 or 30 years ago, de-
Gliding that national bank was consti-
tutional? + ask if somebody does not
remember that national bank was de-
clared constitutional Such is the truth,
whether it be remembered or not. The
bank charter ran out, and re-charter
was granted that re-charter was laid
before Gen. Jackson. It was urged
upon him, when he denied the consti-
tutionality of the bank. that the su-
preme court had decided that it was
constitutional; and Gen. Jackson then
| said that the supreme court had no right