History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time with biographies of its founders and supporters also a chronological statement of (14581008870)

Identifier: historyofillinoi00raum (find matches)
Title: History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Raum, Green B. (Green Berry), 1829-1909
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S.)
Publisher: Chicago, Rollins Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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y made this Government divided into free States and slaveStates and left each State perfectly free to do as it pleased on the subject ofslavery. Why can it not exist on the same principles on which our fathers madeit? He said: I believe that this new doctrine preached by Lincoln and hisparty will dissolve the L^nion. if it succeeds. They are trying to array all theNorthern States, in one body, against the South: to excite a sectional warbetween the free States and the slave States, in order that the one or the othermay be driven to the wall. Mr. Lincoln referred to the alleged senatorial deal between himself and Mr.Trumbull; he declared it was a gross and palpable misrepresentation and nottrue. In regard to the resolutions read by Mr. Douglas as the Republicanplatform of 1854. he stated: I never had anything to do with them, and I thinkthat Trumbull never had. Judge Douglas cannot show that either of us everdid have anything to do with them. As to himself, he had refused to go into 44
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