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New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
occur during the lifetime of ourselves or our children? There is but one possible way in which slavery can be abolished, and that is by leaving a State, according to the principle of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, perfectly free to form and regulate its institutions in its own way. That was the principle upon which this Republic was founded, and it is under the operation of that principle that we have been able to preserve the Union thus far. Under its operations, slavery disappeared from New Hampshire, from Rhode Island, from Connecticut, from New York, from New Jersey, from Pennsylvania, from six of the twelve original slaveholding States ; and this gradual system of emancipation went on quietly, peacefully and steadily, so long as we in the free States minded our own business, and left our neighbors alone. But the moment the Abolition Societies were organized throughout the North, preaching a violent crusade against slavery in the Southern States, this combination necessarily cause
Springfield (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
hat end. And this brings me to the consideration of the two points at issue between Mr. Lincoln and myself. The Republican Convention, when it assembled at Springfield, did me and the country the honor of indicating the man who was to be their standard-bearer, and the embodiment of their principles in this State. I owe them min accordance with the genius of our free institutions, the peace and harmony of the Republic, than those which I advocate. He tells you, in his speech made at Springfield, before the Convention which gave him his unanimous nomination, that: A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this Government cannott speech with great care, and will do him the justice to say that it is marked by eminent ability and great success in concealing what he did mean to say in his Springfield speech. His answer to this point, which I have been arguing, is, that he never did mean, and that I ought to know that he never intended to convey the idea, th
Jamestown, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
he battles of their country, in what friend Lincoln considers an unjust and unholy war, and hear what they will tell you in regard to the amalgamation of races in that country. Amalgamation there, first political, then social, has led to demoralization and degradation, until it has reduced that people below the point of capacity for self-government. Our fathers knew what the effect of it would be, and from the time they planted foot on the American continent, not only those who landed at Jamestown, but at Plymouth Rock and all other points on the coast, they pursued the policy of confining civil and political rights to the white race, and excluding the negro in all cases. Still Mr. Lincoln conscientiously believes that it is his duty to advocate negro citizenship. He wants to give the negro the privilege of citizenship. He quotes Scripture again, and says: As your Father in Heaven is perfect, be ye also perfect. And he applies that Scriptural quotation to all classes ; not that
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
tion of, controversy has been the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Constitutiong to control the free action of the people of Kansas in any. respect whatever. It is no argument wor you, but it is a question for the people of Kansas. They have the right to make a Constitution io refer the Constitution back to the people of Kansas, thus conceding the correctness of the princip It provided, in effect, that if the people of Kansas would accept the Lecompton Constitution, that mplain, whatever the decision of the people of Kansas may be upon that point. But while I was no other hand, if at that election the people of Kansas shall reject the proposition, as it is now genr, that slavery was sustained and supported in Kansas by the laws of what they called a bogus Legislcans say, by a bogus Legislature, imposed upon Kansas by an invasion from Missouri. Why has not slaular sovereignty, slavery has been kept out of Kansas, notwithstanding the fact that for the first t[17 more...]
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
bunal on earth. To whom is Mr. Lincoln going to appeal? Why, he says he is going to appeal to Congress. Let us see how he will appeal to Congress. He tells us that on the 8th of March, 1820, Congress passed a law called the Missouri Compromise, prohibiting slavery forever in all the territory West. of the Mississippi and North of the Missouri line of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes, that Dred Scott, a slave in Missouri, was taken by his master to Fort Snelling in the present State of Minnesota situated on the West branch of the Mississippi river, and consequently in the Territory where slavery was prohibited by the Act of 1820, and that when Dred Scott appealed for his freedom in consequence of having been taken into a free Territory, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that Dred Scott did not become free by being taken into that Territory, but that having been carried back to Missouri, was yet a slave. Mr. Lincoln is going to appeal from that decision and revers
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 4
to make local laws and establish the domestic institutions and police regulations uniformly throughout the United States. Are you prepared for such a change in the institutions of your country? Whenever you shall have blotted out the State sovereignties, abolished the State Legislatures, and consolidated all the power in the Federal Government, you will have established a consolidated Empire as destructive to the liberties of the people and the rights of the citizen as that of Austria; or Russia, or any other despotism that rests upon the necks of the people. How is it possible for Mr. Lincoln to carry out his cherished principle of abolishing slavery everywhere or establishing it everywhere, except by the mode which I have pointed out-by an amendment to the Constitution to the effect that I have suggested? There is no other possible mode. Mr. Lincoln intends resorting to that, or else he means nothing by the great principle upon which he desires to he elected. My friends, I tru
Bloomington (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Speech of Senator Douglas: delivered at Bloomington, Ill., July 16th, 1858. （Mr. Lincoln was present.) Senator Douglas, said: Mr. Chairman, and Fellow Citizens of Mclean County: To say that I am profoundly touched by the hearty welcome you have extended me, and by the kind and complimentary sentiments you have expressed toward me, is but a feeble expression of the feelings of my heart. I appear before you this evening for the purpose of vindicating the course which I have felt it Their mode of making. war is not to enter into those States where slavery exists, and there interfere, and render themselves responsible for the consequences. Oh no! They stand on this side of the Ohio river and shoot across. They stand in Bloomington, and shake their fists at the people of Lexington ; they threaten South Carolina from Chicago. And they call that bravery! But they are very particular, as Mr. Lincoln says, not to enter into those States for the purpose of interfering with
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
fetime of ourselves or our children? There is but one possible way in which slavery can be abolished, and that is by leaving a State, according to the principle of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, perfectly free to form and regulate its institutions in its own way. That was the principle upon which this Republic was founded, and it is under the operation of that principle that we have been able to preserve the Union thus far. Under its operations, slavery disappeared from New Hampshire, from Rhode Island, from Connecticut, from New York, from New Jersey, from Pennsylvania, from six of the twelve original slaveholding States ; and this gradual system of emancipation went on quietly, peacefully and steadily, so long as we in the free States minded our own business, and left our neighbors alone. But the moment the Abolition Societies were organized throughout the North, preaching a violent crusade against slavery in the Southern States, this combination necessarily caused a counter-combinat
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
right to it, and it is not for the people of Illinois, or Missouri, or New York, or Kentucky, to come principle in the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Illinois stands proudly forward as a State which earlyended to the Territories. When the people of Illinois had an opportunity of passing judgment upon tepealed on the journals of the Legislature of Illinois. In obedience to it, and in exact conformityat they can mislead and deceive the people of Illinois, or the Democracy of Illinois, by that sort oat Mr. Lincoln will advance the interests of Illinois better than I can; that he will sustain her hproposition, a war of sections, a war between Illinois and Kentucky, a war between the free States ay the Southern States to establish slavery in Illinois? What man in Illinois would not lose the lasIllinois would not lose the last drop of his heart's blood before he would submit to the institution of slavery being forced upon uhe last drop of his heart's blood to prevent Illinois, or any other Northern State, from interferin[7 more...]
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
they came square up and indorsed the great principle of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, which declared that Kansas should be received into the Unionhaving advocated and carried out that same principle in the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Illinois stands proudly forward as a State which early tnd in exact conformity with the principle, I brought in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, requiring that the people should be left perfectly free in tat is by leaving a State, according to the principle of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, perfectly free to form and regulate its institutions in its been told by the Republican party that, from 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska bill passed, down to last winter, that slavery was sustained and smany at the end of that period as there were on the day the Kansas-Nebraska bill passed. There was quite a number of slaves in Kansas, taken der the Missouri Compromise, and in spite of it, before the Kansas-Nebraska bill passed, and now it is asserted that there are not as many the
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