New-York tribune., 1909-02-13

Constitution; TO interfere with slavery is to vio
late solemn compact and TO rend asunder
hands.
EIoouently did Mr Lincoln sum up the condi-
field year before his nomination to the United
States Senate:
IN A HOPELESS CONDITION.
"Au the powers of the earth teem rapidly
combining against him Mammon is after nm
ambition follows. PHILOSOPHY follows ana % tne
have him in his prison house; they nave
searched his person and left no prylng instru-
ment with him One after another they nave
closed the heavy iron doors upon him. ana nov
they have him. as it were, bolted in with a lock
OF hundred keys, which can never De unlocked
without the concurrence of every key-the KEYS
in the hands OF q hundred different men, and
they scattered to a hundred different and dlstaht
places, and they stand muSing as 70 WIat IN
vention. in all the dominions Of mind and mat
ter can be produced to make the lmposslolilty
of his escaps more complete than II IS.
In the confused and vehement connlct OF pas
sons and opinions which only the pen OF
Carlyle would be adequate to portray mere
emerged two parties. both of whom 1ustlned the
abolition Of the Missouri compromise ana tne
opening of Northern territory to the lhcursloA
of slavery. -, e.,
Stephen A Douglas invented the doctrine Whicn
his friends called popular sovereignty ano ms ms
enemies squatter sovereignty the doctrine @ that
the people of any state might determine Whetner
II should be a free or slave state Wneh theS
framed its constitution. To botn these +iao1
righteousness. His answer to the Dreu 0co''
decision . ,,s
TT is singular that the courts would holo
that a man never lost his right TO his properly
that had been stolen from him but that ne IN
stantly lost the right to himself II ne was
stolen" His answer to popular sovereignty was
equally terse and equally unansWeraple-
DOCTRINE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT-
THE doctrine of self government is right an
solutely and eternaiy right but
when the white governs himself, tnaI Is
self government but when he governs hmseL
and also governs another man, that is more tlan
self f-government-that is despotlsm .-
And his answer TO all the defences OF slaVeiS'
economic, philosophic humanitarian and rells-
ious, summed up in an appeal TO CONSCIOUS
that might have been derived from Lar
wins Emotions In Animals and Man II tndI
book had then been written. He says; 4 ne
ant who has toed and dragged crumb TO MS
nest will fiercely defend the fruit of his labor
against whatever robber assails him. so plain
that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever
toiled for a master does know that ne mas oeeh
wronged. So plain that one. high or low, ever
does mistake it except in a plainly selnsh way
for, although volume upon volume IS written 10
prove slavery very good thing, we never near
Of the who writes 10 tell the Boou oI II
being a slave himself"
And yet Mr.. Lincoln was not an aoohtiohlst-
Not because he less just. but because ne
was more Just: because he recognized rlgnts
which the abolitionists did recognize, and IN
sisted upon duties which they ignored never
did Mr. Lincoln utter a word Of bitterness or
hate against the slave owner. Il have he
They are just what would be in their situa-
ton IF slavery did not now exist among them
they would not introduce It. If il did now exist
among Us should not instantly give ii up