The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-03-19

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/ anctinn ~ II iDio their midst
Sad EAoci Upon Dough-.
+ The reply was morc than enough fol
Mr. Ilncolns purpose II cut Mr
/ pouFias Of from bis party and put
/ him IN a state q perfect aBisgonism
70 n He nrmly denied the power Of
congness 20 restrict slavery. aud IL nd.
mliied that under the bred Scott de.
cssi0n Aii territories were open 20 Us
entrance. But be held that the moment
the Shareholder passed the boundary
q territory be was 81 the mercy OF
the squattcr. a dozen or two Of
whom might get together 10 a leg.sla.
ture and rob him Of the property which
the constitution, the supreme court
aud Mr. Douglas himself said he had
an indefeaslble right 10 take there
Mr. Lincoln knew that the southern
people would feel Infinitely safer In
the hands Of congress than In the
hands Of the squatters II they regard
ed the Republican mode OF excluding
slavery as barefaced usurpatlon,
they would consider Mr.. Douglas sys-
tenn OF confscation by "unfriendly leg
lslation" mere plain stealing. The Re
pnbllcans said 10 them, I'VE win reg.
ulate the whole subject by general
laws, which you participate with us in
passing" but Mr.. Douglas offered them,
as sovereign judges and legislators, the
territorial settlers themselyes-squat-
tiers they might be-whom the aid 30
cieties rushed into the new territories
for the very purpose OF keeping slay-
cry away, The new doctrine was ad-
mirably calculated 10 alarm and in
cense the south, and following so close
" MFR. Douglas conduct IN the Le-
compton affair II was very natural
that be should now be universally re-
garded by his late followers as a dan
gerous hereto and falthless turncoat.
The result justified Mr. Lincoln's an
ticipations Mr. Douglas did not fully
develop his new theory nor personally
promulgate II as the fixed tenet OF his
faction until the next year. when be
embodied II In the famous article con
tributed by him TO IIarper's Magazine
But II did It's work effectually. and
when parties began 10 marshal for the
great struggle Of 1850 Mr.. Douglas
was found 10 be not precisely what he
had promised-a Republican. fighting
their battles"-but an independent can
dldnte, upon an independent platform.
dividing the opposition.
Mr.. Lincoln pointed out on the spot
the wide difference between Mr.. Doug
las present views and those he had
previously maintained with such dog
ged and dogmatlc persistence "rhe
new state Of the case" had induced
"the Judge 10 sheer away from his or
iginal ground" The new theory was
false In law and could have no prnc-
tIcal application. The history Of the
showed Il 10 be naked hum
bug. demagogues imposture. Slav-
cry was established In all this country
without focal police regulations" TO
protect it bred Scott himself was
held In territory not only without
local police regulations" to favor his
bondage. but In defiance OF general
law which prohibited It. man who
believed that the bred Scott decision
was the true Interpretation OF the con-
stitution could not refuse TO negro
slavery whatever protection It needed
In the territories without mourning the
guilt Of perjury. To say that slave
might be constltutionally con
hscatcd. destroyed or driven away
from a place where II was constitu-
Iionally protected was such an absurd
Ity as Mr.. Douglas alone In this evil
strait was equal to-tbe proposition
as he said on subsequent
occasion. mo less than that thing
may lawfully he driven away from a
place where II has lawful right TO
be"
"of that answer at Freeport," as
MFR. Herndon has II. Douglas instant
y died The red cleaning southern
flashed high and keen. |
Douglas was removed out OF IIncoln's |
way. The wind was taken out OF |
Stewards sails by the house divided
speech and Lincoln stood out promi-
nent."
The state election took place on the
n OF November. 1855. Mr.. Lincoln |
had more than 1000 majority OF the
votes cast. but this was not enough TO
give him majority in the legislature
An old and inequitable apportion-
nent law was stil In operation. and
OF the members chosen under
/ were. as II was intended by the law.
makers they should be. Democrats
IN the senate were fourteen Demo
rats 10 eleven Republicans. and ln the
lonse forty Democrats TO thirty five
Republicans. Mr.. Douglas was OF
curse reelected and Mr.. Lincoln BIT
erly disappointed. Some one asked
dr, Lincoln how he felt when the re-
urns came In. He replied "that he
cit ike the boy that stnmped bis toe
1T hurt too bad TO laugh. and he was
90 big 10 cry"
In this canvass Mr. Lincoln earned
reputation as popular dehater sec
nd 10 that OF no man IN America
ertainiy not second 10 that Of his IA
nous antagonist He kept his temper.
10 was not prone 10 personalities. he
IN few anecdotes. and those
4 n descent character. be was fair.
rank and manly. and " the contest
Isd shown nothing else IL would have
hown at least that ''Old Abe" could
chave Ike well bred gentleman IN.
er very trying circumstances. His
marked success IN these discussions
ras probably 90 surprise 10 the people
{ the Springfield district. who knew
I'm as well ss or better than they did
ir Douglas But IN tb. greater part
I the state and throughout the Union
he series u brilliant victories success
lively won by an obscure man over
n orator Of such vide experience and
enoWn was received with erclama-
Ions 81 establishment alike by listeners
nd readers Il
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