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Ogle (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
u violate your pledge in voting for Mr. Lincoln, or did he commit himself to your platform before you cast your vote for him? I could go through the whole list of names here and show you that all the Black Republicans in the Legislature, who voted for Mr. Lincoln, had voted on the day previous for these resolutions. For instance, here are the names of Sargent and Little of Jo Daviess and Carroll, Thomas J. Turner of Stephenson, Lawrence of Boone and McHenry, Swan of Lake, Pinckney of Ogle county, and Lyman of Winnebago. Thus you see every member from your Congressional District voted for Mr. Lincoln, and they were pledged not to vote for him unless he was committed to the doctrine of no more slave States, the prohibition of slavery in the Territories, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law. Mr. Lincoln tells you to-day that he is not pledged to any such doctrine. Either Mr. Lincoln was then committed to those propositions, or Mr. Turner violated his pledges to you when he vot
Europe (search for this): chapter 9
believes it he is bound to do it. Show me that it is my duty in order to save the Union to do a particular act, and I will do it if the Constitution does not prohibit it. I am not for the dissolution of the Union under any circumstances. I will pursue no course of conduct that will give just cause for the dissolution of the Union. The hope of the friends of freedom throughout the world rests upon the perpetuity of this Union. The down-trodden and oppressed people who are suffering under European despotism all look with hope and anxiety to the American Union as the only resting place and permanent home of freedom and self-government, Mr. Lincoln says that he believes that this Union cannot continue to endure with slave States in it, and yet he will not tell you distinctly whether he will vote for or against the admission of any more slave States, but says he would not like to be put to the test. I do not think he will be put to the test. I do not think that the people of Illinois
Ottawa, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ht within the range of his half-hour speech at Ottawa. Of course there was brought within the scopetories which Judge Douglas propounded to me at Ottawa, he read a set of resolutions which he said Ju of this charge. I recurred to this charge at Ottawa. I shall not now have time to dwell upon it aa piece of evidence which I brought forward at Ottawa on Saturday, showing that he had made substantl questions to which I called his attention at Ottawa. He there showed no disposition, no inclinatid that amendment out of Mr. Lincoln's brain at Ottawa; but it seems that still haunts his imaginatio the interrogatories contained in my speech at Ottawa, and which he has pretended to reply to here the cannot answer the questions I put to him at Ottawa because the resolutions I read were not adopteday when I concluded to use the resolutions at Ottawa, I wrote to Charles H. Lanphier, editor of theradicted. When I quoted the resolutions at Ottawa and questioned Mr. Lincoln in relation to them[1 more...]
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
bued with the spirit of these principles, declared freedom to be the inalienable birthright of all men ; and whereas, the preamble to the Constitution of the United States avers that that instrument was ordained to establish justice, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity; and whereas, in furtherance of the above principles, slavery was forever prohibited in the old North-west Territory, and more recently in all that Territory lying west and north of the Slate of Missouri, by the act of the Federal Government ; and whereas, the repeal of the prohibition last referred to, was contrary to the wishes of the people of Illinois, a violation of an implied compact, long deemed sacred by the citizens of the United States, and a wide departure from the uniform action of the General Government in relation to the extension of slavery ; therefore Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 9
inistration, and so bound to it, that he must jump to the rescue and defend it from every attack that I may make against it? I understand the whole thing. The Washington Union, under that most corrupt of all men, Cornelius Wendell, is advocating Mr. Lincoln's claim to the Senate. Wendell was the printer of the last Black Republhave secret purposes or pledges that I dare not speak out. Cannot the Judge be satisfied? If he fears, in the unfortunate case of my election, that my going to Washington will enable me to advocate sentiments contrary to those which I expressed when you voted for and elected me, I assure him that his fears are wholly needless andre that he was shirking and dodging around the form in which he put it, but I can make it manifest that he leveled his fatal blow against more persons than this Washington editor. Will he dodge it now by alleging that I am trying to defend Mr. Buchanan against the charge? Not at all. Am I not making the same charge myself? I am
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ffect the Union on the slavery question. I answer that whenever it becomes necessary, in our growth and progress, to acquire more territory, that I am in favor of it, without reference to the question of slavery, and when we have acquired it, I will leave the people free to do as they please, either to make it slave or free territory, as they prefer. It is idle to tell me or you that we have territory enough. Our fathers supposed that we had enough when our territory extended to the Mississippi river, but a few years' growth and expansion satisfied them that we needed more, and the Louisiana territory, from the West branch of the Mississippi to the British possessions, was acquired. Then we acquired Oregon, then California and New Mexico. We have enough now for the present, but this is a young and a growing nation. It swarms as often as a hive of bees, and as new swarms are turned out each year, there must be hives in which they can gather and make their honey. In less than fi
Galena (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
the object expressed in the above resolutions to unite with us in carrying them into effect. Well, you think that is a very good platform, do you not? If you do, if you approve it now, and think it is all right, you will not, join with those men who say that I libel you by calling these your principles, will you? Now, Mr. Lincoln complains; Mr. Lincoln charges that I did you and him injustice by saying that this was the platform of your party. I am told that Washburne made a speech in Galena last night, in which he abused me awfully for bringing to light this platform, on which be was elected to Congress. He thought that you had forgotten it, as he and Mr. Lincoln desires to. He did not deny but that you had adopted it, and that be had subscribed to and was pledged by it, but he did not think it was fair to call it up and remind the people that it was their platform. But I am glad to find that you are more honest in your abolitionism than your leaders, by avowing that it is
Washbume (search for this): chapter 9
lack Republican party at that time. I would be willing to call Denio as a witness, or any other honest man belonging to that party. I will now read the resolutions adopted at the Rockford Convention on the 30th of August, 1854, which nominated Washbume for Congress. You elected him on the following platform: Resolved, That the continued and increasing aggressions of slavery in our country are destructive of the best rights of a free people, and that such aggressions cannot he successfullyrth, and other Abolition leaders. Trumbull undertook to dissolve the Democratic party by taking old Democrats into the Abolition camp. Mr. Lincoln was aided in his efforts by many leading Whigs throughout the State. Your member of Congress, Mr. Washbume, being one of the most active. Trumbull was aided by many renegades from the Democratic party, among whom were John Wentworth, Tom Turner, and others, with whom you are familiar. [Mr.. Turner, who was one of the moderators, here interposed a
John P. Hale (search for this): chapter 9
hed on the 17th of last December, did put forth that doctrine, and I denounced the article on the floor of the Senate, in a speech which Mr. Lincoln now pretends was against the President. The Union had claimed that slavery had a right to go into the free States, and that any provision in the Constitution or laws of the free States to the contrary were null and void. I denounced it in the Senate, as I said before, and I was the first man who did. Lincoln's friends, Trumbull, and Seward, and Hale, and Wilson, and the whole Black Republican side of the Senate, were silent. They left it to me to denounce it. And what was the reply made to me on that occasion? Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, got up and undertook to lecture me on the ground that I ought not to have deemed the article worthy of notice, and ought not to have replied to it; that there was not one man, woman or child south of the Potomac, in any slave State, who did not repudiate any such pretension. Mr. Lincoln knows that that re
James Buchanan (search for this): chapter 9
udges of the Supreme Court, President Pierce, President Buchanan and myself by that bill, and the decision of that charge is historically false as against President Buchanan? He knows that Mr. Buchanan was at that timeMr. Buchanan was at that time in England, representing this country with distinguished ability at the Court of St. James, that he was thereat fact proves his charge to be false as against Mr. Buchanan. Then again, I wish to call his attention to th Union, Mr. Lincoln says it was a charge against Mr. Buchanan. Suppose it was ; is Mr. Lincoln the peculiar defender of Mr. Buchanan? Is he so interested in the Federal Administration, and so bound to it, that he must at principle, and fighting whoever fights it. If Mr. Buchanan stands, as I doubt not he will, by the recommendge it now by alleging that I am trying to defend Mr. Buchanan against the charge? Not at all. Am I not makings, are: a witness on my side. I am not defending Buchanan, and I will will Judge Douglas that in my opinion,
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