The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-10-05
AGcrmnn speech.

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other evening, in favor Of the Republican
cause.
We do not know that We can occupy our
SPACE in any way more benefciaily and satis-
factorily to our readers, than in giving them
such extracts az indicate the sentiments OF
the Germans, who have ever distinguished
themselves by devotion to freedom.
In the slaveholding States all political life
is shaped by the ruling interest. While the
people of the South profess the principle OF
equality, one class Of citizens is accustomed |
to rule and another to obey, (mark, ! am
speaking OF the whites, not OF the slaves,)
| and the whole machinery Of government even
| to the smallest functions, is in the hands or
under the control Of the slaveholding arts.
tocracy. While they profess the principle of
| political liberty, YOU dare neither speak nor
write aword against the peculiar institution.
While they claim to be freemen they have
fettered the hands of the people with the
most odious police regulations, dictated by
the instructive fear common to all tyrants.-
/ While they claim to be an enlightened peo-
| pie, they do not suffer the great leading ideas
| Of the age to be taught in their schools and
colleges, for fear they might engender a
thought against slavery. While they claim
10 be religious and moral people, they ad
dress their prayers to no other God, than the
black god OF slavery. While they pretendto
be a patriotic people, they have sacrificed to
slavery the liberties of speech and OF the
press; sacrificed even the liberty OF conscience;
sacr feed the welfare Of the non-slavehold
ing whites sacrificed the prosperity and pros
poets Of their own States sacrificed the peace
OF this Republic. [Applause.l And they
o mt n hnA
that they stand ready to sacrifice to the pres
eryat,on Of slavery, the Union of these States
and the last remnant of their liberties and
Republican institutions. lCheers.l Nobody
can deny it, in the South slavery ovcrrules
everything else; slavery rules it all.
And what about the Narth2 Look at the
, party in power IL considered the Missouri
Compromise sacred compact, as long as it
served to augment the number Of slave States.
1t advocated the extension OF the Missouri
line to the Pacific Ocean, when by that ex-
tension large territory might be acquired
for slavery. 1t became suddenly convinced
of the unconstitutionality Of the Missouri
Compromise, and repealedit, when that com
pact was to augment the number OF the Tree
States. 1t transmogrifed the fate OF Popu-
2 lar Sovereignty ten times according TO the
! pleasure Of the Shareholders. 1t considered
the population Of Kansas numerically sufh-
2 cient to form a slave State, but sadly INSULT
4 ,ient to form a free State. 1t lavished with
unheard of profigacy the money of the peo.
PIE for the benefit of the slaveholding inter-
Q est, and treats the commercial interests OF
the free North with contempt. 1t applauded
? the most fragrant violations Of the ballot -box
: the most daring usurpations OF power, when
: they served the interests of slavery. lCheers.
j And how are all these amazing things effect
edt Look MT the interior organization OF
3 that party. No kingdom, no hierarchy il
2 ruled by more absolute despotism than thai
party is ruled by its leaders. As | have
shown, their principles are shaped and re
nodded according to the arbitrary pleasure
> of the South, apd the masses have but Il
! obey, and they DO obey. They are watched
: and logged like flock Of sheep, turned ou
Is to pasture to-day in order to be heeced to-
he morrow. Look at the executor Of John Gal
to houn's last will in the White House, who
like an Oriental despot, hurls his anashema'
% and political death-warrants where he canno
'e debauch the conscience Of a man with bride
All his power and patronage he has trans
formed into a vast machine OF corruption il
the service of slavery. Cast your eye wher
ever you will, nothing but party despotism
nothing but the 6efcest oppression Of mora
! independence, nothing but corruption organ
lied into o system, and all this in the serylc
80 OF slavery. Will you deny it? Even in tn
u North slavery struggles to rule it all. Grea
IF applause.
n Where are we driftingf | will not dwell
on our perverted commercial policy, nor o.
the question Of internal improvements an
10 the like. | will point out to you the antag
onism in which our political development
30 entangled.
have often been told that the slavehold
ers are right in restricting tho liberties 9
or speech and Of the press, etc., on the aub|ec
D. OF slavery for those liberties unres,rainec
lit would be real danger to them. No donf
: they would be q danger, but there is no NOR
crushing argument against slavery than this
~ NJ more conclusive proof Of its entire incon
On pat,bili.y with true Democracy, when an in
IN stitu,ion in society cannot stand before .h
10 tribunal OF free speech and free press. III
y question arises, shall we sacrifice our libel
% to that institution, or that institution
it. our liberties? (Cheers.l hold that no il
IT. terest which is incompatible with a free e,
preston of public opinion, can have right
exist in Democratic organization OF sociei
~ Aud if it does exist, it will be like chroD
disease, or like an ulcer lying undernea'
the skin, which will leave no peace or con
fort to the body polite, until it is finally e,
tirpated and extinct. [Cheers.] IL is
m. vain to palliate the disease by artificial mean
II, Ii will break forth again and again with il
=. creased fury, and will urge on and on to
w final crisis. Aye, sir, your standard bear
all is right, in spite Of Douglass sophistries.-
las house that 10 divided against itself cam
stand. Loud cheers. II cannot stand
), must fall unless It cease to be divided. Zoo
.ue tinucd applause By the memorable, uncor
.'ne promising logic Of things, We must go eth
'ns one way or the other; not as Mr.. Dongl
IN tries to make you believe, make all Stat
slave or free by force Of arms, but we mu
~ either abandon the principle Of equal right
up even among white men, adapt the whole d
~ velopcment Of our political organization
nue the paramount interests Of privileged ola
a un Of shareholders, put the liberties Of spec
-" ~ and PRESS at the mercy OF the ruling po~e
~ and sacrifce our democratic system OF go
-, eminent to the aristocratic aud despotic te
l1u denotes of the slaveholding system throug
p'o out, or we must break the political power
ms 10 slavery in our national concerns, and retu
' an. to the original principles on which this +
Wy public was founded. Ii one word, We MI
US formally recognize slavery as the ruling
- Il.