. Personal recollections of John M. Palmer; the story of an earnest life . o against me. You will fix the imputationof abolitionism upon me, and by that means beat medown : we have fought the Whigs together, you nowpromise yourself that they will take my place, and helpelect Shields. I will fight you until you are defeated,and have learned to value your friends. I kept myword, and I think Judge Douglas had no more active orearnest political enemy than I was from that time untilI met him in Washington in February, 18G1, as I willhereafter relate. In 1854, Major Burke obtained a dispensation for
. Personal recollections of John M. Palmer; the story of an earnest life . o against me. You will fix the imputationof abolitionism upon me, and by that means beat medown : we have fought the Whigs together, you nowpromise yourself that they will take my place, and helpelect Shields. I will fight you until you are defeated,and have learned to value your friends. I kept myword, and I think Judge Douglas had no more active orearnest political enemy than I was from that time untilI met him in Washington in February, 18G1, as I willhereafter relate. In 1854, Major Burke obtained a dispensation forthe establishment of Mt. Nebo Lodge, No. 76, and Fisher, of this city and Dr. Z. T. Cabinis, whose 70 THE STORY OF AN EARNEST LIFE. home was afterwards Petersburg, Menard county, atwhich place lie died, came to Carlinville and opened thelodge. I was initiated, passed and raised by the samedispensation to the degree of Master Mason. The dis-pensation was issued by William Lavely, the GrandMaster Mason at that time. I have been a member ofthat lodge ever ORGANIZATION OF REPUBLICAN PARTY. 71 CHAPTER VIII. The Blooinington Convention—Organization of the Republican party—Platform of the Convention—Delegate to the Philadelphia Conven-tion—Freemont and Dayton—Platform adopted—Affair with MajorHarris. As I have before stated, the Kansas-Nebraska bill,which passed congress in May, 1854, declared the Mis-souri Compromise of 1850, by which slavery was re-stricted on the north of the line of 36° 30 inoperativeand void, by reason of its alleged inconsistency with thecompromise measures of 1850, and established insteadthe principle of popular sovereignty ; that is, that con-gress should not legislate slavery into any territory orstate, or exclude it therefrom, but leave the peoplethereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domesticinstitutions in their own way, subject only to the consti-tution of the United States. This came upon the country like a clap
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