there he finds the Maine liquor law in force, and what can he do with his property after he gets it there? He cannot sell it, he cannot use it; it is subject to the local law, and that law is against him, and the best thing he can do with it is to bring it back into Missouri or Illinois and sell it. If you take negroes to Kansas, as Colonel Jefferson Davis said in his Bangor speech, from which I have quoted to-day, you must take them there subject to the local law. If the people want the institution of slavery, they will protect and encourage it; but if they do not want it, they will withhold that protection, and the absence of local legislation protecting slavery excludes it as completely as a positive prohibition. You slaveholders of Missouri might as well understand, what you know practically, that you cannot carry slavery where the people do not want it. All you have a right to ask is that the people shall do as they please: if they want slavery, let them have it; if they do not want it, allow them to refuse to encourage it.
My friends, if, as I have said before, we will only live up to this great fundamental principle, there will be peace between the North and the South. Mr. Lincoln admits that, under the Constitution, on all domestic questions, except slavery, we ought not to interfere with the people of each State. What right have we to interfere with slavery any more than we have to interfere with any other question? He says that this slavery question is now the bone of contention. Why? Simply because agitators have combined in all the free States to make war upon it.
Suppose the agitators in the States should combine in one half of the Union to make war upon the railroad system of the other half? They would thus be driven to the same sectional strife. Suppose one section makes war upon any other peculiar institution of the opposite section, and the same strife is produced. The only remedy and safety is that we shall stand by the Constitution as our fathers made it, obey the laws as they are passed, while they stand the proper test, and sustain the decisions of the Supreme Court and the constituted authorities.
Abolition Republican party, i.,
Abolition, Society, i., 97; orators,
i., 198; platform, i., 190-195;
ii., 43; doctrines, i., 240, 273-
294; ii., 220; camp, i., 309-317;
ii., 50, 273; ticket, ii., 46, 273;
Legislature, ii., 50; counties,
ii., 140; member of Congress,
ii., 175; constitution, ii., 225;
President, ii., 225; administra-
tion, ii., 225; candidates, ii., 228
Abolitionists, referred to by Lin-
coln, i., 50; ii., 155-160, 273;
referred to by Douglas, i., 84,
119, 188-200, 224, 335, 367-
369; ii., 27, 36-56, 101, 140,
147, 175-181, 219-235, 274-
288; of Springfield, i., 273; and
Dred Scott case, ii., 37; and
Democracy, ii., 40; Northern, ii.,
41; and State offices, ii., 46; Free
Soil, ii., 52; and Trumbull, ii.,
82, 83; of Chicago, ii., 186; and
U. S. Constitution, ii., 219; in
1850, ii., 231
Adams, John, ii., 30
Adams, John Quincy, ii., 30
Adams Co., ii., 179
Africa, i., 11, 208
African slave trade, revival of, i.,
208; and Constitution of U. S.,
ii., 253, 254; and Territories,
195
Alabama, i. 371
Alleghany Mountains, i., 202
Allen, Nathan, i., 346
Alton, i., 180, 184; ii., 4, 5, 12,
25, 32, 34, 88, 90; Trumbull's
speech at, ii., 70; joint debate
at, ii., 215
American Tract Society, ii., 260
Americans, the (see Know-Noth-
ing party)
Anti-Lecompton men, i., 75; ii.,
Anti-Nebraska men, i., 311; ï.,
228
Arizona, i., 366
Ashland, ii., 40, 277
Ashmun, Geo., ii., 63, 274
Atlanta, i., 180
Atlantic Ocean, i., 159
Augusta, i., 361
Aurora, ii., 144, 172, 173
Austria, i., 85
Baker, Jehu, ii., 105, 114
Baker, John, i., 313; ii., 52
Baltimore, i., 185, 279, 308; ii.,
Bangor, ii., 234, 285
Bank, National, i., 56
Bank charter, i., 56
Banks, N. P., i., 368; ii., 51
Beardstown, ii., 70
Belleville district, i., 310; ii., 44
Bement, i., 183
Bigler, Senator, quoted by Trum-
bull, ii., 5, 16, 17, 65, 67, 73, 80;
and Douglas, ii., 26
Bissell, Governor, i., 318
Black Republican, platform, i.,
189-196, 236, 241, 271, 275-
286; convention, i., 273, 313,
364; ii., 49; house, i., 293; can-
didates, i., 316; doctrine, i., 370
Black Republican party, referred
to by Lincoln, i., 59; referred to
by Douglas, i., 189-197, 236-
241, 268-305, 313-318; ii., 30,
45-52
Blair, Frank, ii., 170, 183, 266
Bloomington, Douglas's speech
at, i., 67, 84, 164, 169, 180-183;
organization of Republican
party at, i., 243; Congressional
district of, i., 264; ii., 53; State
convention at, ii., 152, 164,
172-173
Boston, i., 119
Bowen, S. W., i., 347
Breese, Sidney, i., 312, 368; ii.,
46-51
British Government, ii., 282
British Parliament, ii., 281
Brooks, P. S., i., 166, 332; ii., 201,
269, 280
Bross, Deacon, i., 274
Brown, Gratz, ii., 170, 183, 266
Brown, James, ii., 61
Browning, Mr., i., 50, 195, 318;
Buchanan, James, elected Presi-
dent, i., 4; ii., 193; and the Le-
compton constitution, i., 155;
ii., 124, 229; charge of conspir-
acy, i., 238-240, 291-301; ii.,
36, 37, 174, 213; and the Minne-
sota case, i., 328; nomination,
ii., 197-199, 232-235, 239; let-
ter of acceptance, ii., 282
Buchanan Democrat, ii., 183
Buchanan men, i., 41
Buffalo, i., 106, 127
Calhoun, John, i., 44; ii., 245
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Canada, i., 328
Carlin, W. H., ii., 204, 205
Carlisle, Ill., i., 328
Carolinas, the, i., 25, 129
Casey, i., 362
Cass, L., and Compromise Meas-
ures of 1850, i., 186, 279, 307;
ii., 39-42, 193, 198, 231; and
Chase's amendment, i., 240,
256, 265; and Fred Douglass, i.,
312; ii., 44
Central America, i., 34, 98, 146
Chaffee, Rev. Dr., ii., 37, 175
Charleston, Ill., i., 180, 184, 313;
joint debate at, ii., 1, 103, 274;
Lincoln's speech at, ii., 70, 80,
81, 101, 117, 141-144, 155–164,
179-182, 208-210
Chase, S. P., and Nebraska Bill,
i., 9, 220; referred to by Doug-
las, i., 188, 194; amendment,
i., 239, 254-258, 264; ii., 161,
241; and Abolition camp, i.,
278, 279; ii., 51, 277
Chicago, Douglas's speech at, i.,
14-37, 118, 162, 169, 216, 370;
ii., 35, 71, 164, 216; Lincoln's
speech at, i., 38, 84, 120, 125,
132, 142, 165; ii., 81, 101, 106,
115, 155, 164, 179-187, 209,
210, 216, 242; Lincoln's letters
from, i., 178-180, 312, 314;
Congressional district of, i., 364,
370; ii., 53; Trumbull's speech
at, ii., 3, 13, 25, 31, 79, 82, 88;
Chicago Continued
opposed to Douglas, ii., 41-43;
and Fred Douglass, ii., 44, 51;
Abolitionists of, ii., 103, 117;
people of, referred to by Doug-
las, ii., 141; letter to Times, ii.,
245
Chicago Press, the, i., 206
Chicago Times, the, i., 181, 206,
244; ii., 31, 63, 245
Chicago Tribune, the, i., 206
Chinese, i., 33, 102, 144
Cincinnati, Democratic conven-
tion at, i., 172; ii., 197
Cincinnati platform, indorsed by
Douglas, i., 34, 78, 374; ii., 197;
referred to by Lincoln, i., 58,
59, 172; ii., 132; and National
Bank, ii., 132; defined by
Buchanan, ii., 197-199
Clay, Henry, and Crittenden, i.,
73, 120; and Compromise of
1850, i., 18, 28, 72, 108, 117,
186, 187, 279, 280, 307-309,
335-338, 369; ii., 39-43, 92, 93,
108, 119-121, 178, 193-199,
223, 230-232, 259, 281; i., 108;
and slavery, i., 173, 231, 248;
ii., 246–250, 266; and popular
sovereignty, i., 174, 175; ii., 30;
and Lincoln, ii., 101, 241; and
colonization society, ii., 134;
and Declaration of Indepen-
dence, ii., 159, 209; Whig, ii.,
276, 277; and Douglas, ii., 278
Clinton, Ill., i., 218, 222
Codding, i., 233, 273; ii., 216
Cody, H. H., i., 347
Coles Co., Ill., ii., 103, 141, 179
Colonization Society, ii., 134, 135
Committee on Territories, ii., 17,
27-34, 72, 75, 90, 194, 195
Compromise Measures of 1850
(see Clay, Henry)
Congressional Globe, the, referred
to by Douglas, i., 257; ii., 33,
90; referred to by Lincoln, i.,
353; ii., 65, 66, 127; referred to
by Trumbull, ii., 16, 18, 20, 73-78
Connecticut, i., 86, 193; ii., 220
Constitution of the United States,
and negro citizenship, i., 6; ii.,
54-57, 215, 216, 240, 241; and
State sovereignty, i., 9, 10, 19–
30, 128, 141-147, 220-228, 254,
289, 301, 307, 308, 314, 330;
ii., 34, 147, 161, 186, 198–201,
227, 285; and slavery, i., 50, 51,
64, 65, 166, 187, 265, 291, 344,
356; ii., 131, 195, 242, 243, 253-
256, 269, 270; and the National
Bank, i., 173; and Supreme
Court, i., 264-268, 323, 352,
377; ii., 133, 149-151, 189; oath
of support of the, i., 356; ii.,
207, 270; and new Territories,
ii., 41, 87, 92, 93, 224; and the
people of Chicago, ii., 41; and
Constitutional Convention, ii.,
III, 219; sixth article of, ii.,
129; and Russia, ii., 143; and
District of Columbia, ii., 167
Constitutional Convention, i.,
321; ii., 276
Cook, Isaac, i., 347
Cook Co., Ill., i., 347
Coolies, i., 102
Corwin, Thomas, ii., 275
Cotton-gin, ii., 204, 269
Court of St. James, i., 291; ii., 37,
176
Cox, S. H.,
Cranberry laws, i., 52, 53;ii., 257,
258, 278
Crittenden, John J., i., 17, 73,
120; ii., 251
Crittenden-Montgomery bill, i.,
17, 18, 74, 120, 121, 277.
Cuba, i., 328
Curtis, B. R., i., 9; ii., 161
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