Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1857 — Mr. Lincoln on a Republican Clergyman. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Lincoln on a Republican Clergyman.

i Lincoln, the Republican ar- 1 1 pirant to Senatorial honors, in a re[cent speech at Springlicld, in this State, speaking of Republican sympathy for the slaves used • this re- , markable language : Dred Scott, his wife and two 1 daughters, were ail involved in,the : suit. We desired the court to have > held that they were citizens so far at i least as to entrtle them to a Irearing, ! as to whether they were free or not ; 1 1 ami then , Mso-, -that they were in fact ’ 1 and in law really free. Could we I | have had our way, the chances of 1 these black girls ever mixing their i blood with that of white people : would have been diminished at least j ito the extent that it could not be I I without their consent. But Judge i 1 Douglass is delighted to have them/ I decided to be slaves, and not human j enough to have a hearing, even if they were free, and thus left subject Ito the forced concubinage of their 1 masters and liable to become the mothers of mulattocs in spite of ; themselves— the very state of the i case that produces nine-tenths of all the muluttoes—all the mixing of blood in the nation. When it is remembered that the master of the Dred Scott family was the Rev. Dr. Oaffee, a Republican member of Congress from Massachusetts, it must be confessed that Mr. Lincoln has paid but a sorry compliment to the New England clergy of the Republican stripe. It appears, therefore, that the whole eilbrt of the Republican party to make Dred Scott a free man was to protect his daughters from the forced concubinage es their master, —the Rev. Dr. Chaffee, of .Massachusetts’ It was to prevent these two “ black I girls ” from becoming mothers of ! mulattoes, in spite of themselves, ! and of course the Rev. Dr. Chaffee : from becoming the father of mulat- ■ toes. Mr. Lincoln thinks that such . decisions as the Dred Sgott case—the delivery over to such masters as the Rev. DT. Chaffee, a Republican I member of Congress from Massachusetts; pro luce ‘nin -tenths of the mulattoes, —all the mixing of blood in the nation.” Lincoln was in Congress once, and he knows what kind of men the Massachusetts members are.— Chicago Times. Confusing a Witness.—A lawyer with an immense beard was badgering a witness in one of the •’•dtreottfte':“Now, my good man, have the goodness to iook. me full in the face and explain what Las caused the confusion under which you confess edly labor. As a general rule, people are not apt to be so much put about when telling the simple veracitute. that you have too good cause for humming and hawing after this preposterous fashion.” “ Well, sir,” responded the witness, who, we may state, was a native of North Britain, “ if you must have the truth, you will have it. The thing that sac sairly confuses me and puts me about is that buck’s tail hanging frac your lower lip !” Mighty, adds the Toronto Globe, wiis the sbbut of laughter .winch the retort evoked.

jT/Tllarper’s weekly thus pronounces I judgement upon the New York Tribune : That is the office of the Rostrum, the, great philanthropical journal of America, which, like the Baron Spolasco, or any other gentleman of his kidney, earns a living by being eccentric. Every thing is determinedly turned topsy-turvy by theemployces of that paper. They want to make men of women, wonjen of men. Their trowsers are always too short, and their hair too long. Thpy employ Russians to write their English, and musicians to instruct the public on politics. They keep a parson who reviews their profane literature, and a layman who writes sermons on popped com. They attack everybody, and bellow like the Bulls of Bashan if they are attacked in turn. They profess to be intensely Democratic, and their building- is a sort of carayansera for foreign noblemen who I bkouac among the desks and .exchanges. They have their fine eyes, like Mrs. Jellyby, always fixed on Africa, and. do not see thej’dvm sores that fester.at their very feet. sEptt, their eccentricities and “isms” are as wide as the brims of their hats,rfmd> like them, shut them off from the light of heaven. — O’Peachey will be abundant in Southern Illinois. A man near’ Jonesborough ha? a young orchard ; of seven thousand trees, which he, hopes wi 11 y ield a bushel each ---