The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-08-21

DELIVERED fS CHICAGO.

DELIvEkED IS CHICAGO.
Upon bsisg istroduccd b. The Hon
Nosmsn b. Judd, Mr.. Tru.bsll -
greeted With three hearty cheers. Silcoc,
having been restored, be ssid:
FrLLoS CrrrsExs: l en- srssi6ed !,
hare IN opportunity cf hying before ..
many citizens - see here assembled, N,
own views in regard 70 the politicsl sses
tions which have sgitased the publ,
mind since / became connected With pub
lie affairs. When entered Congress ..
one Of the representatives Of this State
the great and aII-sbsorbiag question that
occupied the public mind vss the SLAYER,
question. Parties we're then Organised
upon that question, and they have con.
tinucd 70 up to this time; and il il In re.
gard to that question that shah chiefly
address you to night, though not slsocetk.
er; for in discussing thst question, / de.
sire to bring before you the fact which
exists, that oil the great powers Of this
government are subordinate to this aues.
tin. ! wish to show yoa how the ex-
penditures of this government are made
how its patronage Is used, ard how its
power is exe.ted for the purpose Of en-.
couraging the spread Of slavery and the
domination of the slave power. Zap
plause. In doing this, my fellow citi.
lens, shall resort to no clap-trsp express
sions. wish no person in this audience,
or in this State, to act or vote with that
party with which / have the honor to
act, unless he believes it to be right. l
have no false colors to hang out TO de-
ceive you, bu; l wish TO lay before you
the plain, honest truth, snd II that does
not commend the party with which | act
to your judgments, then | say to you it is
your duty to &C. <..:h some other party:
but if in the course Of the observations
have to make, l can show you that par
'y sailing under false color., pretending
one thing and acting another, is rsislead-
ing the public mind, and changing the
policy Of the protesting
sconomy, 10 guilty Of proAigscy-profcs-
sing to love the Constitution, il tranpling
it uader foo,-and protesting tn be Dem
ocratic, Is the old black cockade Federal
party in disguise--if / can show this to
you then trus, you will abandon such .
party as that.
1t viii be necessary to devote few
noment.--and | shall be very brief on
that point--so history Of, the slavery
question. This Is necessary, because par
ties dispute As to what each processes.
Each Of the great parties of the country
pEofsssts devotion to the constitution,
aud each charges upon the other the en-
ter.aining of views which il denies.-
When such il the csse we must look O.
the facts, and, a. entcIligent men, jud re
for yourselves who - ri~ht.
When the govern merit ras formed, We
all know that slavery existed in many Of
the sta,cs, and the government was firm
ed upon the principle of letting the slare-
~ question alone, to be managed by the
States in which il existed But 20 far
as the Federal government was concern
ed, 1t took eegnixancs Of this question
in the Territories belonging 10 the Uni
ted States. This is q matser Of history.
Before the adoption of the constitution,
the Territories which had been ceedcd
TO the United States, a. Trey existed IN.
der the articles Of the confederation.
were governed BY wha, was known as the
ordinance of 1851, and that ordinance.
as You well know, excluded slavery from
MI the territory which then belonged 70
the Ubited States. When the eons..tu-
tion was formed, or shortly afterward,
this subject was left in the same condi-
tion in which the convention found it.
And now wish you to bear in mind
TIE distinction between State and Ter
ritory-for great dea! of confusion and
difficulty which has arisen in the country
in regard to this question, is by eonfoun-
ding States with Territories. The whole
question which now divides parties, re-
lates TO the government of the Terrific
ries--not States st all. And they who
seek to confound the two together must
have some object to confuse tue public
mind.
This policy continued to exclude slave
ry from NIL the territories of the United
States, for many years. When North
Carolina and Georgia cedcd the Western
Territory belonging to these States to the
United States, il was so well understood
that the federal government would abol-
ish slavery in the territories which they
ceded, unless there was provision against
it, that such clause was inserted in the
deed Of cession.
In 1904, when we acquired Louisiana,
slavery existed there. Il remained and
Louisiana was admitted "A . slave State.
And when Missouri came to be admitted
in 1890, il was admitted on conditioa
that the balance Of the Territory lying
north Of 3Go 3y north latitude, should
always remain free. That was Terrific
ry. There has been a great deal Of confu-
sion in the public mind in regard to tbs
Of the Missouri Compromise.
That Compromise, or that clause of it in
read something like this
"That in all that territory north Of 36o
sV, north latitude, slavery and involun-
tsry scrvitude, except AZ a penalty for
criino, shall be and ia hereby forever pro-
hibited" Much stress has been laid by
those who seek to mislead the public
mind upon the word "foreycr." This
word s'forever" makes the sentence lit.
tie more emphatic, but it gives to it no
other meaning, in legal point Of view,
than it would have had il this word had
been omitted. The Missouri Compro-
mise related to that Territory 80 long - it
remained Territory, but not moment
afterwards. 1t had no application - the
country when admitted - State, nor
does any law Congress may pass for the
government Of . Territory have operation
one moment after that Territory ID "a.