The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-07

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persuade you that something he has dom
you did yourselves? Why, he tried to per
suade you last night, that our Illinois Legis
lature instructed him to introduce the Ne
braska bill. There was nobody in tina
Legislature ever thought Of such thing
and when he first introduced the bill he new
or thought of it; but still fights furiousiy
for the proposition, and that he did it be-
cause there WIS standing instruction to ou'
Senators to be always introducing Nebrask;
bills. Laughter and applausc.] lie tcll'
you he is for the Cincinnati platform, h.
tells YOU that he is for the Dred Scott decis.
ion. He tells you, not in his speech last
night, but substantially in former speech
that he cares not if slavery is voted up 0,
down-he tells you the struggle on Lecomp-
ton is passed-it may come up again or not
and if it does, he stands where he stool
when in spite of him and his opposition you
built up the Republican party. If you ell
dorse him, you tell him you do not care
whether slavery be voted up or down, and
he will close, or try to close your mouths
with his declaration repeated by the day,
the week, the month and the year. Is that
what YOU mean? (Crics Of '.No;" one voice
"Ycs.") Yes, have no doubt you who
have always been for him if you mean that
No doubt of that (a voice "hit him again'')
sobery have s;id, and repeat it, think
in the position in which Judge Douglas
stood in opposing the Lccompton Constitu-
ton he was right, he does not know that i,
will return, but if it does, we may know
where to find him, and if it does not, We
may know where to look for him, and that
is on the Cincinnati Platform. Now,
could ask the Republican party after all the
hard names that Judge Douglas has called
them by-all his repeated charges Of their
inclination to marry with and hug the ne
groes, all his declarations Of Black Repub-
licanism--by the way we arc improving, the
black has got rubbed oif-but with ali that,
if he be endorsed by Republican votes,
where do you stand? Plainly You stand
ready saddied, bridled and harnessed, and
waiting to be driven over into the slavery
extension camp Of the nation IL voice-''we
will hang ourselves first" Just ready to be
driven over tied together in Lotto be
driven over, every man with rope around
his neck, that halter being held by Judge
Douglas. This is the question. If Repub-
iican men have been in earnest in what they
have done, think they had better not do it,
but think that the Republican party is
made up Of those who, as far as they can
pcaceahly, will oppose the extension of
slavery, and who will hope for its ultimate
cxtinction-who will believe, if it ceases to
spread, that it is in course of ultimate ex-
tinction. If they believe it is wrong in
graspiDg up the new lands of the continent,
and keeping them from the settlement of
free white laborcrs, who want the land to
hr,pr, 3n,r g., IF hoy in
earnest, although they may make a mistake,
they will grow restless, and the time will
come, when they will come back again and
re- organize, if not by the same name, at
least upon the same principles as their par
ty now has. 1t is better then, to save the
work while it is begun. You have done the
labor; maintain t-kecp it. If men choose
to serve you, 90 with them; but as you have
made up your organization upon principle,
stand by it; for, as surely as God reisns over
you, and has inspired your mind, and given
you sense Of propriety, and continues to
give you hope, so surely you will still cling
to these ideas, and You will at last como
back again after your wanderings, merely
to do your work over again. Loud ap-
plause.
We were oftcn-morc than once, at least,
in the course of Judge Douglas speech last
night, reminded that this government was
%ade %ads fSF oFF Wits wWes %ss9S-tRett s9S h. bafYst
it in a shape in which no one wants to deny
it, but the Judge then goes into his passion
for drawing differences that are not war
rantcd. protest, now and fvrey cr, against
that counterfeit logic which presumes that
because do not want a negro woman for a
slave, do necessarily want her for a wife.
daughter and chccrs.) My understanding
is, that need not have her for either, but
as God made us separate, we can leave one
another alone and do one another much
good thereby. There are white men enough
to marry all the white women, and enough
black men to marry all the black women.
and in Gods name let them be so married.
The Judge regalcs us with the terrible enor-
mites that take place by the mixture of
races; that the inferior race bears the
superior down. Why, Judge, if we will not
let them get together in the Territories,
they won't mix there. Immense applause.
4 voice-"rhree cheers for Lincoln."-
[Threc cheers were given with hearty good
WILL =.
Mr.. Lincoln should say at least that
that is ii sellevidcnt truth.
Now, it happens that we meet together
once every year, sometime about the 4th Of
July, for some reason or other. These 4th
of July gatherings, suppose, have their
uses. If you will indulge me, will state
what suppose to be some of them.
We are now n mighty nation, We are thir-
ty-or about thirty millions of people, and
we own and inhabit about one fifteenth part
of the dry land of the whole earth. Werun
our memory back over the pages of history
for about eighty-two years, and We discov-
cr that we were then very small people in
point of numbers, vastly inferior to what
we are now, with vastly less extent of
country-with vastly less of everything we
deem desirable among men--we look upon
the change as exceedingly advantageous to
us and to our postcrity, and we fix upon
something that happened away back, rs in
some way or other being connected with this
rise of prosperity. We find a race Of men
living in that day, who we claim as our
fathers and grandfathers; they were iron
men; they fought for the principle that they
were contending for; and We understand,
that by what they then did, it has followed
that the degree of prosperity that we now
enjoy, has come to us. We hold this annu-
nj celebration to remind ourselves of all the
good done in this process of time, of how it
was done, and who did it and how We are his
torically connected with it, and we 90 from
these meetings in better humor with cur
sclves--we feel more attached to one anoth-
cr, and more firmly bound to the country
we inhabit. In every way we are better
men in the age, and race, and country in
which we live for these celebrations. But
after We have done all this we have not
vet reached the whole. There is something
else connected with it. We have besides
these mcn--descended by blood from our
anccstors-among US perhaps half of our
people who are not descendants at all of
these men, they are men who have come from
Europe--Gcrman, Irish, French and Scan
dinavian-men that have come from Europe
themselves or whose ancestors have come
and settled here, finding themselves our
equals in all things. II they look back
through this history to trace their conncc-
ton with those days by blood, they End
they have none, they cannot carry them
selves back into that glorious epoch and make
themselves feel that they. are a part of US,
but when they look through that old Dec
laration Of Independence they find that those