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Had the law opposes it. j Applause.! The owner of a slave may go from Georgia into any State or toy Territory and carry his slave with* him, and hold Jiini, unless there is some law in such State or Territory against it. This is a principle familiar ! to all lawyers and all jurists. A marriage in Geor- I gia is good in Illinois, unlsss there is some law I in Illinois against it. .Laughter and applause.] A marriage in Massachusetts is good in Illinois | unless there is some law against it, and thank God, [ we have laws against certain marriages in Musa- I chusetts. [Cheers, “what is it.?*’] In Massachusetts it is lawful for a white man to marry a black woman, or for a white woman to marry a negro man, but if they come to Illinois they go to the I Penitentiary for it. [Cheers long continued.(A voice, “ Do you allow negro suffrage?”; Mr. ! Douglas—No, sir, we do not have any negro voting there. (Cheers. ) Since you hare introduced this subject of the rights of the negro, in Illinois, I have a word or two to sav upon that subject. Illinois was apart of the old North-west Territory, and ! consequently subject to'-'tbe ordinance of 1737 i about which the Abolitionists talk so much.History records the undeniable fact that the first i Legislature thut ever assembled ;n Illinois, afterof the TerriUM»el Government,passed » lftjr mtrodynpnyjWj.1 slaMr*-in defiance of the ordioaffceT - 0« people, Defers they became a Htate, told Congress to mind their own business, and let their domestic institutionsalone.nr ■ III? . ?.....f • * « - • a
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Augusta Weekly Constitutionalist
Augusta, Georgia, US
Wed, Nov 07, 1860
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