Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-19
SDeech of MIR. Cole.

Speech of Mr.. Cole.
/ G.. G. Cole, one of the Democratic nominee
for Supreme Judge, delivered a speech OF
Second street, last Saturday evening. Hi
audience, Notwithstanding the seductive influ
ence of two bands of music, was UNUSUAL.
small for street gathering. Mr.. Cole is I
tolerably good speaker, and apparently very
candid man. He introduced his remarks by
a laudation of his position as a candidate fol
the Supreme Bench, and before the effective
fires of his eloquence on this point the office
of Governor, and the great Augustus Caesar
Dodge himself, paled into utter insignifcance
According to his egotistic harangue, the Office
of Supreme Judge requires the greatest talent
learning and discrimination to be found in tho
land--all of which the modest Cole would
have his hearers believe he possesses.
Mr.. Cole succeeded in sugar coating the
Dred Scott decision, and other bitter pills OF
his party, so that most Of his Democratic
hearers swallowed them at one gulp, without
nauseating. lie declared that Popular sover-
eighty was a tenet Of the party both North
and South-that it always had been and
always would be. While showing that the
Wing and Democratic parties in 1852 both
accepted the compromise measures as tinality
in settling the question of slavery in the Ter
ritories, he neglected to acknowledge that the
Democratic party did not occupy the same
ground at the present day, and that Stephen
A. Douglas was the first man to raise his
ruthless hand' to wipe away these compro-
mise measures. He neglected, also, to acknowl-
edge that nine. tenths of the Democratic party
at the South (where all the strength of the
party lies) utterly deny, execrate and spit
upon the Popular Sovereignty dogma, and
vociferousy demand slave code for the Ter
ritoriss, and the repeal of all laws against the
slave trade. His own arguments, however,
were intended to pave the way for this demand
Of the slave power. He contended that man
had the same right to take his slaves into
Territory, and hold them there, as he had to
take his sons and require them to labor for
him till they were 81 years of age. In the
absence of any law to secure to him this right,
he argued that slave code should be enacted.
So much for Mr.. Coles candor on National
politics.
In speaking of State affairs, he was Tess
candid, and, among a number of Munchausen
stories, he stated that the last General Assem-
bly, appointed two corruption committees" to
watch the present Republican State officers, at
cost to the State Of $ls per day, or about
$4,000 per year. The school law came in for
large share Of denunciation, and we imagine
that if that great light of Iowa Democracy,
Maturin L. Fisher, who framed the law, had
been present, he would have felt very bad
under the inAiction his bantling suffered. We
must confess that there are some imperfections
in the school law, which will doubtless be
amended at the next session of the Board of
Education. All new systems are found more
or less imperfect when put in operation.
We freely acknowledge that we like Mr.
Coles speech. Being Southern man and
once Shareholder, he does not mincc the
subject of slavery like the majority of Demo-
cratic orators at the North. They usually
contend with brazen effrontery that the DEM
ocratic party is opposed to slavery, and is the
friend of the black man; but Mr.. Cole told us
plainly that it was not an anti-slavery organ
ization, though he failed to sustain his denial
that it was pro-slavery. He tried in vain to
place it in halfway, "betwxt ana between
position, while the fact that it is used as tool
by the Southern slavery propagandists stuck
out all the while, like the ears of the donkey
under the lions skin. Mr.. Coles stumping
tour is calculated to have good effect. 1t
will open the eyes of the people to the ulterior
aims and base purposes of the Democratic
party, and will swell the majority for the
Republican ticket by thousands in October.
His speech fell like wet blanket on 'the
faithful at this place, and dampened all their
enthusiasm. A very faint applause at the
close, by few office holders and office seekers,
was the only demonstration made by the
audience during the entire speech.
SECRET CIRcuLARs.-We call the attention
of our readers to the secret Democratic circu-
lar published in to-day's paper. 1t reveals
scheme of fraud and venality scarcely equalled
in the history of that corrupt party. Musca-
tine is one of the doubtful counties" in which
Democratic gold is to be freely disbursed to
defeat the will of the people. twill be seen
that the American vote is relied on by the
slavery prepagandists. By STRENGTHENING
the outposts" is undoubtedly ly meant colonlzing
illegal voters at such places as they will be
required in order to give Democratic MAORI
ties 1t behooves our Republican friends
in this county to be vigilant and active, in
order to defeat this scheme of Executive vii
lainy. A desperate effort will be made by our
opponents to elect their entire ticket, but
especially the candidates for the Legislature.
JUDICIAL AcUMEN OF G. G. C.-Mr. Cole
endeavored, in his speech at this place, to
Justify the Dred Scott decision by referring to
the refusal of the people of this State to admit
the negro to the right Of suffrage. How can
we blame the Supreme Court, said G. G. c.,
for declaring that the negro is not citizen,
when the Republican party refused to give
him the privilege of voting in Iowa on the
question of striking the word white out of
&ho RI theory
all persons ineligible to vote are not citizens
Females come under this class, and shave no
rights which white man is bound to respect J"
Sharp man, this c. c. c.! The Judgeship