Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-16
The Garbling of the Gazette.


The Garbling of the Gazette.
TIE Gazette, with it's characteristic
nnfairness, presented, on Wednesday, "a
leader u its readers, under the caption,
Work for Tie Republican party," in
which the editor 50 garblcs speech
made by SENATOR CHESTNUT on the 9Th
INST, as to make it appear that the pres
ervation of the Union must hereafter be
a result OF the protecting care Of the
Republican party, and that the Senator
from South Carolina admitted the exist
cnce of this necessity. The Gazette
says:
Mr. Chestnut, OF South Carolina, in a
late speech in the u. s. Senate, express
" stated that the preservation OF the
Union depends wholly upon the North.
Addressing the Northern Senators, he
said" Ii you value the Union as you
say you do, it is for you to preserve it.
The South cannot preserve the Union,
Ii becomes your interest and your con-
Germ in the future" Upon this a CO.
temporary well remarks, if the South
cannot preserve the Union, then certain
" the South has no claim to be intr,Ist-
ed with the machinery and control Of the
Federal Government.
We have read Mr.. Chcstnut's speech,
aspublsbed in the Congressional Globe,
and discover that the whole tenor of his
remarks went to show, that the danger
which threatens the Union proceeds
from the IMPRESSIONS of the Republican
party upon the constitutional rights of
the Southern States, and he very elo-
aucntly remarks, that if the Union is to
be preserved, "Me thing mast stop"
So says every patriot in the land. So
said the Northern masses at the great
meetings in Philadelphia and at Boston.
SO will say the coming assemblage Of
the friends of the Union in the great
Commercial Emporium.
Bat as the Gazette has predicated its
article upon a garblcd extract from Mr..
Chestnuts speech, we will give the con
text, that our readers may see the I'M
fairness of the Castles conclusions
Mr.. Chestnut said:
But. Mr.. President, the Senator
from Wisconsin, who spoke ably and
with deep interest, and w,'o always
speaks with degree of deep earnest
ness which attracts our attention, has
asked what has produced all this tioub-
lie 3? and he wants to know what the pco-
pie of the South mean. think | can
show him what has produced all this
trouble. He seems to think that it is a
conflict OF arms in a distant Territory.
No, sir no; it is tho miserable, informed
ding, nefarious spirit of many of the
people OF our associate States with mat
ter which concerns them not. They
grant to liz, they say, the full right of
the enjoyment of the peculiar institu-
tons which we sec fit to adopt and up
hold; but day and night, year after year,
we are assailcd everywhere, aud by all
the means which human ingenuity can
adopt. They give us no rest. We are
entitled, at least, to an exemption from
these eternal disquictudcs from our as
sociate States. Because, in a common
territory belonging to US all alike and in
common, we choose to consider that we
have a right to hold our property, and
they there denounce and meet US with
the bayonet, forsooth, because We assert
onr rights, and nothing more than our
rights, under the Constitution, we arc
held as trespassers we are held as agi-
tators. Why, sir, it would be almost
ludicroas if the subject were not SO Sc
rious, to look at the manner in which
We are treated. They throw firebrands
among us; they constantly and without
remission taunt, abuse, irritate, disturb
the people of the Southern States; and
when we tu.n round with the simplicity
OF impatience only, and say to them,
gentlemen, hands off, it is not your
business, it is ours,'' they say that We
throw iirebrands among them. Now,
sir, | challenge the instance-when has
a slaveholding State, or a member there
Of even, sought to injurc any portion Of
the people of the northern States in
their own affairs! When did We ever
undertake to subvert any Of your insti.
tutionss Where do you find US crusad.
ing against you and villifying with a vi
tuperstion which is becoming the very
billingsgate and the source Of billings-