Political speeches and debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen ADouglas, 1854-1861 . y them. Yet he argues that I am bound bytheir decisions, and he is not. He says that their decisions arebinding on Democrats, but not on Republicans. Are not Republi-cans bound by the laws of the land as well as Democrats? Andwhen the court has fixed the construction of the Constitution on thevalidity of a given law, is not their decision binding upon Republicansas well as upon Democrats? Is it possible that you Republicans havethe right to raise your mobs and oppose the laws of the land and theconstituted auth
Political speeches and debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen ADouglas, 1854-1861 . y them. Yet he argues that I am bound bytheir decisions, and he is not. He says that their decisions arebinding on Democrats, but not on Republicans. Are not Republi-cans bound by the laws of the land as well as Democrats? Andwhen the court has fixed the construction of the Constitution on thevalidity of a given law, is not their decision binding upon Republicansas well as upon Democrats? Is it possible that you Republicans havethe right to raise your mobs and oppose the laws of the land and theconstituted authorities, and yet hold us Democrats bound to obeythem? My time is within half a minute of expiring, and all I have tosay is, that I stand by the laws of the land. I stand by the Con-stitution as our fathers made it, by the laws as they are enacted,and by the decisions of the courts, upon all points within their juris-diction as they are pronounced by the highest tribunal on earth;and any man who resists these must resort to law and violenceto overturn the government of BRON2E GROUPS UPON LINCOLN MONUMENT. SIXTH JOINT DEBATE, AT QUINCY. October 13, LINCOLNS SPEECH. Ladies and Gentlemen : I have had no immediate conferencewith Judge Douglas, but I will venture to say that he and I willperfectly agree that your entire silence, both when I speak andwhen he speaks, will be most agreeable to us. In the month of May, 1856, the elements in the State of Illinois,which have since been consolidated into the Republican party,assembled together in a State Convention at Bloomington. Theyadopted at that time what, in political language, is called a plat-form. In June of the same year the elements of the Republicanparty in the nation assembled together in a National Convention atPhiladelphia. They adopted what is called the National June, 1858, — the present year,— the Republicans of Illinoisreassembled at Springfield, in State Convention, and adopted againt
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