Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — Abram Lincoln on Senator Douglas. [ARTICLE]

Abram Lincoln on Senator Douglas.

In his speech before the Republican Illinois Convention, Hon. Abram Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the place in the Senate now occupied by Senator Douglas, said of that Senator: “Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a, man may rightfully be wiser to-day than he was yesterday—that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But, can we, for that reason,litii ahead and infer that he will make any parttbular change of which he, himself, has given i t> intimation! Can we safely base our action upon any .such vague inference ! Now,' as ever, I wish not to misrepresent Judge Douglas’ position, question his motives, or do aught that can personally offend him. Whenever, if ever, he and we can come together on principle,, so that our cause may have assistance from his great ability, I hope to have interposed no adventitious obstacle. Bui, clearly, he is not now with us—he does not pretend to be—he does not promise ever to be.” Heavy Ver-6ict in a Seduction . Case.— At the late term of the Federal Court at Pontotoc, Mississippi, the father of Nancy Williams of Virginia, a young lady about 16 years old, obtained a judgment ol $40,000 damages against Robert Wilson of the 'former State, who was and is a married man, for decoying his daughter away from her home and seducing her. It is said that the : defendant has transferred his property’ so i that nothing can be made—out of him, although at the time he committed th* deed | h* w«* a wealthy man.