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0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59) a a - . ) Tolson wo ~ A Belmont DeLoach McGuire —_____ Mohr Parsons Rosen x Tamm Trotter w.c . Su Holloman Gandy he I j ham Lincoln was againat . decision apd how he- overturning of precedent in a ruling was not ‘settled law.’-It was just 100 years ago when Abraham Lincoln was debating with Stephen months ego the Library of Congress pub- lished a book containing facsimiles of the printers’ copy of the stenographie record of ‘Lawrence at Chicago: eision, have been made by that very court before, It is the first of its Kind; it is an astonisher in legal history—it is a new wonder of the world.” In «peaking further of the Tred Scott decision, Mr. Lincoln said at Quincy, Dlinois, on Oct. 13, 1838: “ «. bat wevnevertheless do oppose that decision as a politi- cal rule which shall be binding on the voter to vote for nobody who thinks it wrong, which shall be binding on the mem- bers of Congress or the Presi- dent to favor no measure that does not actually concur with the principles of that decision. We do not pronose to be bound by it as o political rule in that way... . We propose so resist- ing it as to have if reversed If we can, and a new judicial rue! established upon this subject."; Jefferson Quoted In another speech ddfivered in Chicago on July 17, 1858, Mr. Lincoln quoted with ap- proval a letter from Thomas Jefferson, written in 1820, which declared that*if the judges of the Supreme Court are to be considered as “the ultimate arbiters of afl Consti- tutional questions,” this could be a “very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would Pica —iip ynder the ,despotigm | oF an oligarchy,” . | Lincoln-Douglas debates ‘‘as edited and pre- pared for the press vy Abraham Lincoln.” “Legal Astonisher” . Following Linooln's speech delivered on July 19, 1658, ; “The sacredness that Judge Dougl ' ¢hrows around this decision (ef the Supretne Court of ¢ United States) is a degree of sacredness that has never bee) before thrown around any other decision. I have never heard such & thing. Why, decisions apparently contrary to that d elsion, or that good lawyers thought were contrary to that de- is a quotation from Mr. ™ ® speech delivered at ttawa, TL, on Aug. 21, 1858, . Lincoln took up the rare uestion, He denounced slave ut then added: - . “I have no purpose to intjb- duce political and sccla] equal- ity, between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which in my judgment will: prebably forever forbid thelr living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inas- much as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, ‘am in favor of the race to which I belong having the su- perior position. I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the Negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Dec- Jatation.of Indepe he Tight to life, Uberty and the cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals, . « .” . ~ With further reference to the equality or inequality’ of the races, Mr, Lincoln said, on Sept. 18, 1858, at Charieston I.: . “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of pringing about in any way the social and political equality of he white and black races—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to In- termarry with white people; nd I will say in addition to this that there is a physical dif- ference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races liy- ing together on terms of social and political equality. And inas- much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of jsuperior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am In Position assigned to the white race. . . » I will add to this that I have never seen to my) mowledge a man, woman or and political, be\ween Negroes and white men.” ‘ OTIS9; WY. Herald Tribunetnc, pork Ce nNOoT REGOREED Hi? MAR 6 1958 es nit ing whether well o¢ i0-founded, , child who was in favor of pro-' ducing a perfect equality, social’ - The Washington Post and Times Horaid The Washington Daily News — The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune [¢ New York Journal-American — New York Mitror New York Daily News New York Post - . The New York Times The Worker The New Leoder The Wall Street Journal —_—_- ip ( Vy,