. The writings of Abraham Lincoln. at Springfield, Judge bavowed that Illinois came into the Union as a i . oState, and that slavery was weeded out by the opera-tion of his great, patent, everlasting principle ofpopular sovereignty. [Laughter.] Well, now, thatargument must be answered, for it has a littlegrain of truth at the bottom . I do not mean that itis true in essence, Milla^^^^i FiUm^M^V-e believe. It could not be eSSeiftM^ ^^^^^ engrayij^g 8y was valid. But, hdegraded beings a other French settler i-stitution was ado];^ ^^^deny it. Slaves wc ^arly a^ and were kept here the Ordinance of
. The writings of Abraham Lincoln. at Springfield, Judge bavowed that Illinois came into the Union as a i . oState, and that slavery was weeded out by the opera-tion of his great, patent, everlasting principle ofpopular sovereignty. [Laughter.] Well, now, thatargument must be answered, for it has a littlegrain of truth at the bottom . I do not mean that itis true in essence, Milla^^^^i FiUm^M^V-e believe. It could not be eSSeiftM^ ^^^^^ engrayij^g 8y was valid. But, hdegraded beings a other French settler i-stitution was ado];^ ^^^deny it. Slaves wc ^arly a^ and were kept here the Ordinance of 1787 against it. But slav not thrive here. On the contrary, imder ii uuence of the ordinancethe number decreased fifty-one from 1810 to 1820;while under the influence of squatter sovereignty,right across the river in Missouri, they increased seventhousand two hundred and eleven in the same time;and slavery finally faded out in Illinois, imder the* -nee of the law freedom, while it grewcr and stronger souri, under the law or. Abraham Lincoln 273 practice of popular sovereignty. In point of factthere were but one hundred and seventeen slaves inIllinois one year after its admission, or one to everyfour hundred and seventy of its population; or, tostate it in another way, if Illinois was a slave Statein 1820, so were New York and New Jersey muchgreater slave States from having had greater nimi-bers, slavery having been established there in veryearly times. But there is this vital difference be-tween all these States and the Judges Kansas experi-ment : that they sought to disestablish slavery whichhad been already established, while the Judge seeks,so far as he can, to disestablish freedom, which hadbeen established there by the Missouri Compromise.[Voices: Good!] The Union is imdergoing a fearful strain; but it isa stout old ship, and has weathered many a hardblow, and the stars in their courses, aye, an in-visible Power, greater than the pimy efforts of men,will fight for u
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