Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-21
you'd get but one man-his colleague.
Dan Stone-t to sign with him.

against the passage of the same.
Ihey believe that the institution Of
slavery is founded on both injustice and
bad policy, but that the PRONUNCIATION of
abolition doctrines tends rather to in
crease than abate its evils.
T Ihey believe that the congress Of the
United States has no power under the
constitution to interfere with the insti-
tuition of slavery in the different states.
They believe that the congress Of the
United States has the power under the
constitution to abolish slavery in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, but that the power
ought not to be exercised unless at the
request of the people of the District
The difference between these opinions
and those contained in the said resolu-
tons is their reason for entering this pro-
test.
(signeO DAN STONE,
A. LINCOLN,
Representatives from the County of San
canon.
Mr.. Lincoln says nothing here about
slavery in the territories. The Mis-
souri, compromise being in full force
and regarded as sacred by all parties,
it was one of it's chief effects that both
sections were deprived of any pretext
for the agitation Of that question, from
which every statesman, Federalist or
Republican, Wing or Democratic, ap-
pretended certain disaster to the I'm
ion. Neither would Mr.. Lincoln suffer
himself to be classed with the few de-
spised Quakers, Covenanters and Puri-
tans who were so frequently disturb
ing the peace of the country by aboli-
ton memorials to congress and other
public bodies. Slavery, says the pro-
test, is wrong in principle, besides be-
ing bad in economy, but "the promul-
cation of abolition doctrines" is still
worse. In the states which choose to
have it it enjoys constitutional immu-
nifty beyond the reach Of any "higher
law" and congress must not touch it
otherwise than to shield and protect it.
Even in the District of Columbia Mr..
Lincoln and Dan Stone would leave it
entirely to the will Of the people. In
fact, the whole paper, plain and SIM
pie as it is, seems to have been drawn
with no object but to avoid the impu-
tation Of extreme views on either side
And from that day to the day of his
Inauguration Mr.. Lincoln never saw
the time when he would have altered
word of it. He never sided with the
Lovejoys. In his eyes their work
tended rather to increase than to
abate" the evils Of slavery and was
therefore unjust as we'll as futile
Years afterward he was the steady
though quiet opponent of Owen Love-
JOY and declared that Lovetoy's nomi-
nation for congress over Leonard
SWEET "almost turned him blind"
When, in 1850, the Democrats called
Mr.. Lincoln an abolitionist and cited
the protest OF 1887 to support the
charge friends pointed to the exact
language Of the document as his COM
plete and overwhelming refutation.
The suspension Of specie payments
in 1887 and the general financial panic
were felt heavily in Illinois. For the
next two sessions Of the legislature
the chief problem was the saving Of
the states credit by the payment Of
the interest on it's debt, which had be-
come very large because Of the general
desire for internal improvements and
the liberal appropriations made there
for. Mr.. Lincoln as legislator took
an active part in the efforts toward
this end. Two special sessions Of the
legislature were called to devise plans
for meeting the emergency.
Mr.. Lincoln was his party's candi-
date for speaker in 1888, but was de-
feated. He retained his old place on
the finance committee and, being the
leader of his party, submitted bill
which he intended as an expedient for
paying the interest Oh the state debt
1t failed of passage, being considered
very poor expedient, though appar-
entity the best that could be offered at
the moment to avoid the unpopular re-
sort to direct taxation.
Temporary expedients were finally
adopted, and the state managed to get
along without repudiating it's obliga-
lions. course which was boldly advo-
Gated by considerable number.
Upon one occasion during the session
Of 1904 Mr.. Lincoln and two col
leagues jumped from window Of the
church in which the legislature was
sitting In order to reduce the attend
ance below quorum and defeat pet
measure of the Democrats. Mr.. Giles
pie, fellow member, states that "Mr.
Lincoln always regretted that he en-
tered into that arrangement, as he
deprecated everything that savored of
the revolutionary"
Mr.. Lincoln, was elected in 1910 to
serve, of course, until the next election
in August, 1912, but for reasons Of a
private nature, to be explained here
after, he did not appear during the
session Of 1841-42.
Lincoln Never Drank.
In concluding this chapter, taking
leave Of New Salem, vandalia and the
legislature, we cannot forbear another
quotation from Mr.. Wilson, Lincoln's
colleague from Sangamon:
I'm 1888 many of the Long Mines
were candidates for reelection to the
legislature. A question Of the division
of the county was one Of the local Is
sues. Mr.. Lincoln and myself, among