Year: 1860

field, Illinois, Senator TRUMBULL. of that State


made speech which it is said was understood


to reflect the sentiments of the President elect


and to be an authoritative exposition of his


views as they will be officially expressed in bis
inaugural. In this view of the case the speech
possesses peculiar interest, and we give it il
full, as telegraphed to the New York Tri


bGne


FELLOW CITIZENS 1T is meet that Repub-


licans should make merry and be glad, for the
spirit of liberty, which, with our rulers, was


dead, is alive again. and the Constitution, Or


daincd to secure its blessings, which was lost


sight of, is found. In view of the political


triumpbs, Illinois Republicans have especial


reasons for congratuation. In common with
| their political brethren throughout the Union,


they rejoice in the general result, which secures


to the country Republican President, who,


we trust and believe, is TO bring back the Gov
ernment to the policy of the fathers, and there
| by restore the fraternal feeling which existed


between the different sections of the country


in the Purer and better days of the Republic.


In addition, they have the satisfaction of hav-
ing secured Republican Legislature, and
/ thereby Republican United States Senator,


and the power to enact the necessary laws to
prevent illegal voting, and to give TO every
part of the State, according to the population,
it's prepoStioDate share in the legislation of
the State. And more than this, we Illinois


ians have especial reason to rejoice in the fact
that the standard bearer in this great political


contest, who has led the Republican hosts to


victory, is our own fellow citizen, the pure, in


corruptible, patFiotie and talented Lincoln,


than whom the Constitution in all its parts


has not a more faithful supporter, nor the I'm


ion an ADLER defender. But while we rejoice


over victory SO complete, let it not be in


way of triumph over political opponents, for


we are all, by whatever nanfe called, brethren


of comman country, and interested alike in


guiding the ship OF State through the bois-


ferrous waves of these tempestuous times, as to


bring it to a haven of peace and safety


Rather let us rejoice over the success of the
principles we advocate, the maintenance of


which we believe essential to the preservation
of our free institutions and the perpetuity of
constitutional liberty Mr. Lincoln-allhough
the candidate of the Republican party, as


Chief Magistrate-will neither belong to that


OF any other party. When irssugBFated he


will be the President of the country and TIE
whole country, and doubt not will be as
ready to defend and protect the State in which
he did not receive a solitary vote against any
encroachment upon its constitutional rights as
the one in which be received the largest ma
jority; while they, by whose votes he has been
designated as Chief Magistrate of the Repub-
lie, will expect him to maintain and carry for
ward the principles on which he was elected;
they know that in doing so no encroachment
will be made on the reserved rights of any OF
the States; they know that the Federal Gov
ernment is one of delegated powers that it
can do nothing except the authority for the
act can be found in the instrument which ere
atcd it. and that all powers not conferred are
reserved to the States. or the people Of the
States. Hence when their political opponents
have charged them with Abolitfonism, or at
tribute,l to tlfem desire to Interfere with
Slavery in the States, Or some fanatic has in |
sisted they etglrt 10 do so, the reply has inva-
riably been that the people who made the Fed /
eral Government did not think proper to con- |
fer on it such authority, and it has, therefore. /
no more right to meddlc with Slavery i'll a !
State than it has to Interfere with serflom in /
Russia Nor are the people of the non-slave-
holding States in any way responsible for !
Slavery in the States which tolerate it, be- /
cause, as to that question they are as foreign |
to each other as independent Governments [ !
have labored in and for the Republican organ
ization with entire confidence that whenever it I
should be in power, each and all of the States !
would be left in as complete control of their !
own affairs respectively, and at as perfect lib t
erty to choose and employ their own ErSeans Of +
protecting property, and preserving peace and |
order within their limits. as they have been
under any Administrations, Those who have
voted for Mr.. Lincoln have expected, and still
expect this, and they would not have voted for
him had they expected otherwise. l regard it |
as extremely fortunate for the peace of the
whole country that this point upon which the
Republicans have been so long and SO perss
tently misrepresented, is now to be brought to
a practical test, and placed beyond the posi-
bility of doubt 1t should be matter of
rejoicing to all true Republicans that they
ting to their political adversaries, and to the !
world that they are not for interfering with |
the domestic institutions of any of the States,
nor the advocates of negro equality, or ANAL
gamaton, with which political demagogues
have so often charged them When this is
shown, reaction will assuredly take place in
favor of Republicanism- The rnind, even, will |
be satisfied the rights of Northern men will
be respected; and the fraternal feeling exist
ing in olden times: when men from all parts of
the country went forth together to battle for
a common cause against a common enemy, will
be restored. Disunionists. per Sc, of whom,
there have been a few in the
country for many years, understand this, and
are now in hot haste to get out Of the Union
precisely because they perceive they cannot |
much longer maintain an apprehension among |
the Southern people that their homes and |
fire-sides and lives are to be endangered |
by the action of the Federal Government
With such, now or never is the maxim
Hence they seek to inaame the public mind
by n.isTepresenting the objects and purposes
of the Republican party, with the hope of pre-
cipitating some of the SoutherB States into a
position from which they cannot, without dis |
honor, afterwards reeeeae, we'll kn0wing if they
delay till after the new Administration is i'll
augurated and tested, it will furnish no cause
for their complaints Secession is an imprac-
ticabilty or rather, an impossibility. The
Constitution provides no way by which a
State may Withdraw from the Union-no way
for the dissolution of the Government it ere
ates. The General Government interferes but
little with the individual rights of the citizen,


except for protection. 1t is chiefly felt in its


benefits and its blessings-not iD its exactions


If every Federal officer in South Carolina


were to resign, their Offices remain vacant,


and its Legislature declare the State out of


the Union it would all amount 10 little except


to inconvenience the citizens of that State so


long as the State did not interfere with the