Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1854-04-26

e. erve you for the conflict,
say Ltling for primo pie which
ough9 70 every American heart.-
Practid question is one Of little impor-
lance - b except q bigotcd and incendi
airy sbOlj6 l supposes that either Of the con-
tcmplated Territories will come into the Union
as 4 slave State. II the abolitionists were sim
cere, they would favor the bill in its present
shape, because its effect will be to lead to the
ultimate freedom of several hundred family
servants who would be taken from Missouri
and Arkansas to the Territories in questit ~
These servants will otherwise remain servants
for their ertire lives. But the principle invol-
we'd IN the bill-the right of American citizens
to ELECT fn themselves whether they will or
will mol have slavery, or any other domestic
institution which to them may seem conducive
to their happiness and weIfare-is one worthy
TO be struggled for by the descendants Of our
Revolutionary sires. They fought and bled for
seven long Years, from Bunker Hill to York
town, for lille else than the sacred principles
which the ELL spirit of abolitionism aud free
soilsm is ,eeking to disregard and trample
under foot From the snow capped mountains
Of the Norh to the savannas Of the South, the
blood whith flowed from the veins OF our rev.
olutionary fathers, aud was lost by their bare
aud sacred feet on the hills and valleys of the
then thirteen colonies was all offerod as vol.
untary sacrifice on the altar Of non-interven-
tion-the parliament OF Great Britain then &C.
cupying iowards them the precise attitude
which the Congress of the United States now
does tow aids the citizens who may inhabit the
territories Of our republic. That war common
menccd aStut q twOpenny tax upon tea-the
odious pribciple being that the Parliament had
the right to 'Iegislate for the colonies in all
cases whichever"
II may net be inappropriate here for me to
mention h Incident which have very fire..
quently herd from highly intelligent and well
read GeorlSans. 1t is this: That anterior to
the revolution of l776 there had probably nev.
er been bx oftea imported into the colony
Of Georgia that colony which, in support Of
the PRINCIPLES for which you are contending,
conributedmoro taxes aud human life than
would have been her propoi ton il the revolu-
ton had MOI been achieved, and the British tax
had been cgntinued down to the present day
a asss sa shs then 50 little !" use among
Look too ind reflect, my countrymcn of the
North, at the spectacle presented in the Senate
a brief time since. 1t was when war with the
most powerful nation on the globe was likely to
visit, with fse and sword the domicils of Ame
lean fishermen in the extreme northwestern
portion Of our extended country. Then. and
at that time, Mr. Sumner Of Massachusetts, was
vehement'y urging upon the Senate the expe-
diency OF repeating the law-one Of the COM
promise measures of I650-providing in strict
pursuance Of the letter and spirit of IT, con-
stitntion, for the return to the states whence
they might have escaped of persons from whom
service 4 labor we're lawfully due. He was met
aud answered BY one Of Georsias senators, (the
patriotic but now departed Charltou,l who ap.
pealed to bis tSumner's) native sense of justice
and magnanimity to desist from those acts of
aggression. and wrong upon the people of the
South, assuring him and all the men Of the
North, in the language of a true American that
If the war with which our nation was menaced
shou Id come. Georgia the Empire State Of the
South would be with sas she has been with
our fathers unto death. Vain implorationi
Like every other appeal made to the proscrip
tive unheeded, awakening no sympathetic res.
ponse.
But what else could be expected frem those
who struck Daniel Webster for seeking to save
the UDion-gho denied him the fslon's privil.
eye Of pleading guilty" or mot guilty"
10 Fanueil Hall, by closing it's doors in his
face; or by those who, guided by the spirit and
genius of abolitionism, refused the rites of
burial 10 anoth Of Massachusetts distinguish
ed sons. tCpt. Lincoln,) who lost his life in
foreign ladi while doing battle in war de-
clarcd by Congress, aud under the stars and
stripes Of his country.
From thsif course, both in peace and in war
have ne~< doubted that the aboiitionists aud
their allies, gthe ireesoilers, had any other than
the one seIled purpose, which is, the overthrow
Of our c,ns$tulion ard form OF governmental
and absolutt equality between the white and
black rnc3 who now inhabit the different
Very d ny and truly. your friend in
the boaS ocracy.
A.C. DODGE
Messu dy. James II Steers. Thorn.
Al Sc l. Pnney, and Robert
y y Republican General
"a On Ukion shows by Mr.
Webs rds TO that effect. that ht
and nd Ii, was the author of the
celebrate Han letter. These words a.
explicita a Il can be, are found in speech
delivered 6y the Godlike" at the Kossutl
Banquet in Washington City Jan. 7. 1852 =
They are these:
"May be SO egotistical As to say that hav'
nothing now to say upon the subject OF Hun
gary. Geplerpen, in the autumn of year be
fore last, out or health, and retired to my pa
ternal home among the mountains Of Of New
| Hampshire, was, by reason of my phvsica
condition, confined TO my house; but l wa
| among the mountains, whose native AIR l wa
bound 20 inspire Nothing saluted my senses
nothing saiSted my mind or my sentiments
but freedom, full and entire, (applause] an
here gentlemen, near the home Of my ancestors,
crote letter. scAieh most Of you haze seen. ad
dressed 10 the Austrian charged affairs. ca
say nothing Of the ability displayed in tina
letter, but as to its principles, while the SUI
and moon endure stand by them.
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