The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-08-11

olable." (1 Blackstone, 81 And you
will find it written among the legal ax
IONS Of the oldest Roman code, that
Although civil policy may extinsuish
civil rights yet over natural it has no
such power. AS it concerns natural
rights, all men are equal" dig. Lib.
|. Title II, p. 80. Living under an Ital-
ian sky, on the "Delta lands" of the
Mediterranean, leading the civilization of
the age to an elevation never since sur.
passed, they had not discovered that ma
ture had enacted slave. code for their
beautiful country. There were slaves at
Rome, it is true. but not slavery found
ed on color or climate, but in violence
for their lawgivers explain" bella eten-
'msuM et cupttratus sequtte ct servitutes.
qao sunt ndtaraii juri contrarie: ;ure en;n
natural omnes hon,ines oJ initio Aberi mas
ce6antur." Just. Lib. L. Title 3. S. e.
F" There were wars, and captiyes anL
slaves followed, which are contrary Ia
the law of nature: for by the law OF ma
ture all men are born free
Republicans of Iowa, you are called on
to defend these great truths your party
is in its infancy, it is true, but your prin-
ciples are neither new nor ephemeral
they are older than the Philadelphia plat
form-older than the Declaration of In
dependence-older than the foundations
Of the Roman Republic-they are as old
as Clvillzation-their author is the God
of nature, and they are as eternal as
truth ! 4 aa aaq .fat ,ta0al
10 your Party has been confded
great trust; God has raised it up, as |
verify believe, TO drive from the temples
of liberty the money changers, and the
dealers in the bodies and souls of men,
who have defled its affairs, to restore to
the government the principles which
controlled its administration by on, faith
ers, to secure the perpetuity of civil lib
erty to coming generations, and to con
troll the vast energies of this great Re
public, which is acquiring with gigantic
strides the power and influence among
the nations once maintained by the Re
public Of Rome. personi6ed by the an
cient seer, as beast that came up out Of
the sea dreadful and terrible, and strons
exceeding" that had great iron teeth
which "devour and brake in pieces and
stamped the residue with the feet of it,
and to see that this colossal power shall
have the eyes of man given to ii, to
guide the civilization of the race-rar
ments as white as snow, representing the
purity OF Its purpose-and the hair. of
the head as white as wool. indicating the
wisdom of its councils-that when lis
mouth begins to speak great things-4
casting down thrones and principalities
and powers, it shall use the language of
the Republic under the Consuls, and not
of the Empire under the heroes.
You have another great battle TO firht
for freedom, in Iowa. on next October;
the Buchanan Democracy and the Doug.
las democracy are attempting TO unite
their forces-the first as leaders, asking
Tor otfice-the latter as the rank and file.
to perform the labor. You must be pre-
pared to resist their united strength.
And should they be led on by Mr.. Doug
las in person, as is now promised, your
victory will be none the less certain.
His party is without prestige it has not
carried single State in the Union at the
polls: the popular vote of his own party
is against him.
When he and his party sally forth in
Iowa, like old Diogenes with his lamp.
thermometer in hand, to ascertain the
boundaries of freedom and slavery tell
them that you know of no country too
warm tor the existence of civil liberty
and the predominance of your principles.
except the one described by the Saviour
of the world, where there is said to be
weeping and waiIing and gnashing at
teeth !" When they tell you 9. that the
slavery question rests on laws higher than
those Of Legislative enactment, remind
them that you know of no law hiqAe,
than the laws of nature and of natures
God, by which slavery has been con
demned from the earliest ages Of civili-
zation. When they tell you that il is a
question which " self-interest" must con
troll, inform them that your " eliintel-
est as taxpayers demands the excl
sion of slavery from free territories and
the admission of free states into the con
iederacy; that your " self interest re
quires the control Of the national leris
lature by a majority of the white people
of the country-the construction Of the
judicial circuits SO as to secure fair
representation of northern sentiment on
the Supreme Bench-the organization OF
the Executive Departments so as TO Sc
cure TO the people of the north just re-
presentation in the disbursement OF the
public treasure and the distribution of
official patronage. in proportion to their
numbers and the payment of revenues
into the national treasury. and the dimi-
mutton of the public expenditures 10 an
economical standard and that your
" elfrespect' among the civilized and
Christian nations. as well as your . self
interest, > require the prompt removal of
the Democratic party from power, and
the restoration OF the government to the
principles which controlled its admins
tratlon by its founders For the accom-
plishment OF this result every Repnbh-
Il