Year: 1859

MANY times, tHdl hC uVSo NV N"i'
whether Slavery is voted mp or voted
down. This again shows you, ol
orght to show You, if you would rea-
son upon it, that he does not believe II
10 be wrong, for man may say wher
he sees nothing wrong In thing that
he does not care whether it be voted NJ
or vc,ed down, but no man can logic
allv say that he cares not whether 8
thing goes up or goes down which tc
him appears to be wrong. Iou there
1 fore have demonstration in this, tina
to Douglass mind yonr iavorite IN
stitution which you would have spread
out and made perpetual is no wrong


Another thing he tells you. III
speech made at Memphis in Tennes-
see, shortly after the canyass in Hi
nois, last year; he there distinctly told
the people, that there was "a line
drawn by the Almighty across this
continent, on the one side of which the
soil must always be cultivated by
slaves He did not pretend to know
exactly where that line was, but that
there was such line. | want to ask
your attention to that proposition
again; that there is one portion of this
continent where the Almighty has
designated that the soil shall always
be cultivated by slaves; that its being
cultivated by slaves at that place is
right; that 1t has the direct sympathy
of the Almighty. Whenever you can
get these Northern audiences to adopt
the opinion that Slavery is right on
the other side of the Ohio; whenever
you can get them, in pursuance OF
Douglass views, to adopt that senti-
ment, they will very readily make the
other argument, which is perfectly
logical, that that which is right on
that side of the Ohio, can not wrong
on this, and that if You have that prop
erty on that side of the Ohio, under the
seal and stamp of the Almighty, that
when by any means it comes over here,
it is wrong to have constitutions and
laws 'to devil yon about it. SO Dong
las is moulding the public opinion of
the North, first to say that the thing
is right in your State over the Ohio
river, and hence to say that that which
is right there is not wrong here, and
that all laws and constitutions here,
recognizing it as being wrong. are
themselves wrong, and ought to be re-
pealcd and abrogated. He will tell
you, men of Ohio, that if you choose
to have laws against Slavery, that it
is in conformity to the idea that your
climate is not suited to it, that your
climate is not suited to slave labor, and
therefore you have constitutions and
laws against it.


Let us attend to that argument for q
little while and see if it be sound. \ on
do not raise sugar cane except the
new fashioned sugar cane, and you
won't raise that long, they do raise 1t
in Louisiana. You don't Iaise 1T in
Ohio because you can't raise it profit
ably, because the climate don't suit it
They do raise it in Louisiana because
there it is profitable. Now, Douglas
will tell you that is precisely the
Slavery question. That they do have
slaves there because it is profitable,
and YOU don't have them here because
it is not profitable. If that is so,then
it leads to dealing with the one pre-
cisely as with the other Is there then
any thing in the Constitution or laws
of Ohio against raising sugar cane?-
Have you found it necessary to put any
such provision in your law? Surely
not No man desires to raise sugar
cane in Ohio; but, if any man did de-
sire to do so, you would say it was a
tyrannical law that forbid his doing so
and whenever you shall agree with
Douglas, whenever your minds arc
brought to adopt his argument, as
surely YOU will have reached the con-
clusion. that although Slavery is not
profitable in Ohio, yet if any man
wants it, it Is wrong TO him not to LET
him have it.


In this matter Judge Douglas j.
preparing the public mind for you o
Kentucky, to make perpetual thai
good thing in your estimation, abou
which you and differ.


In this connection let me ask youl
attention to another thing. l believe
it is safe to assert that five years ago
no living man upon this continent haC
expressed the opinion that the negro
had no share in the Declaration of In
dependence. Let me state that again
five years ago no living man had ex.
pressed the opinion that the negro hao
no share in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. If there is in this large au
dicnce Tin my estimation at least any
man who ever knew of that opinion
being put upon paper as much as fiv,
years ago. | will be obliged to him
now or at subsequent time to show
it. If that be true | wish you then t,
note the next fact; that within the
space of five years Senator Douglas, il
the argument of this question, has go'
his entire party, SO far as | know
without exception, to join in saying
that the negro has no share in the Dec
laration of Independence. If there be
now in all these L. S.. one Dougla,
man that does not say that, hav,
been unable upon any occasion to scare
him up-if none of you said that fiv,
years ago, and all of you say it now
that is matter that you kcntuckian,
ought to note. That is vast chang,
in the Northern public sentiment upor
that question.


OF what tendency is that changer
The tendency of that change is to brin:
the public mind to the conclusion tina
when MEN are spoken of, the negro i