St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-08-11

for the present condition of public af-
fairs? Having aided in the election
of Franklin Pierce, did they not be-
come leaders of the party during his
administration Did they not initiate
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
and defend the Kansas usurpations
and outrages, on the floors of Con-
gress and on the stump to the close of
his official term of office? Did they
not abandon old party issues and af-
filate with Wings and Americans in
the defence of the one plank platform
-" the constitutional right of slave
holders to carry their slaves into all
the territories of the Nation ?" Have
they not denounced the self-cvident
truths "of the Declaration of indie
pendence as " self-evident falsehoods ="
as glittering generalities," and
those who cherish the principles OF
Thomas jefferson, as abolitionlsts !!
Do they not denounce those who, like
Presidents Washington, Adams, jeff
erson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson and
Polk, and contemporaneous Congress.
cs, would protect every mans right to
enjoy life, liberty and property in the
territories by fundamental laws, as
traitors to the Constitution and the
Union ?" Have they not endorsed
the bred Scott Decision as finality,
binding the conscience Of the nation
to acquiesce in the spread of slavery
to the limits of our dominions ? Have
they not acquiesced in the surrender
of the machinery of the Federal Gov
eminent into the hands of the South
ern Democracy, and aided by their Of
fetal acts in imposing, enormous and
unequal burthens on the northern peo-
pie ? Have they not DANGEROUSLY UNI
ted with their slavc-holding brethren
to read every Democrat out of the
party, who, like Trumbull, Doolittle,
Cameron, King, Hamlin, Broderic,
Thos. H. Benton, NJ. L. Morris, and 5.
j. kirkwood, dared to oppose the
kansas Nebraska Bill z"
Did they not labor for the election
of James Buchanan to the Presidency?
Have they not endorsed his Utah, Gu
ban, Mexican and Central American
policy Did they not vote in both
branches of Congress to place armies
and navies of the nation at the abso-
lutte control of the President, to be
used at discretion in foreign countries!
Did they not speak, and vote, and
brow-beat the republicans of the Sen
ate in persistent struggle to secure
the passage Of bill giving to the
President the unrestrained disposal OF
$50, 100000, "to facilitate the acguisi-
ton of Cuba 2" Did they not oppose
the Homestead Bill" whenever its
consideration conficted with the sue.
cess of this monster? On Mr.. Doc.
Titles motion to postpone the thirty
million Bill, and take up the Home
stead Bill, the yeas" were
Messrs. Broderick, Cameron, Chandler
Clark, Collamer, Doolittle, Fessendcn, Foot
Foster, Hale, Hamin, Harlan, Johnson OF
Tennessee, King. Seward, Simmons, Trum'
bull, Wade and Wilson-l9
NAYs-Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Benjamin,
Bigler, Brown Chestnut, Clay, Clingman,
Douglas. Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin,
Hunter Iverson, Johnson of Arkansas. Lane,
Mallory, Mason, Polk. Pugh, Reid Rice, Sc
bastian, Shields. Slidell, Toombs, Ward and
Wright-29 Gong. Globe, p. 1876, part 2, End
section 35th Cong.
But one Democrat, Mr.. johnson, of
Tennessee, voted with the Republi-
cans in the affirmative. Every north
ern Democrat voted against postpon-
ing the Cuba Bill, to take up the Home.
stead Bill which had passed the House
of Representatives and was awaiting
the action of the Senate. Even Mr..
Douglas abandoned the interests OF
the laboring man of the North, for the
purpose of extending the area of slave
ry. That | may do him no injustice,
| quote from his Baltimore speech of
last January
Permit me here to remark that the slave
nv question rests upon laws higher than those
| of legislative cnactments 1t depends upon
| the laws of eli mate, of production, and OF
selfinterest. Wherever cotton, and sugar,
and rice and indigo are the staples, and the
climate is such as to exclude white labor the
negro must take the place Of the white man
on the plantation. When you get into thost
hot climates, it is not a struggle between the
negro and the white man, but struggle be.
tween the negro and the crocodile which shall
occupy the Delta line. In those Delta lands
slavery must exist, negro labor must be en-
Moved, otherwise their cultivation must be
abandoned while in those high northern latl-
tudes where the earth is covered with deep
| SHOWS and where there is severe climate,
illy adapted to the constitution of the negro
and better suited to the white man, slavery
can never exist, because it Is not the interest
OF the people to have it.
Here is the Southern reason for tho
acquisition of Cuba, and Mexican ant
, Central American States in thes'
delta lands slavery must exist ;" the.
are down south under a burning sun
they produce sugar and cotton" "in
digo and rice :" from a necessity o
, dimate, according to Mr.. Douglas, thei
, acquisition must add Slave States t.
:, the Confederacy. The establishment
: of Homcsteads for the millions of thu
, landless would build up the North
/. west,-it would fill up Iowa and til,
,, new States with an Industrious ant
independent yeomanry; it would Civ,
> stability to civil society, remove wan
and beggary from our doors, and Civ
= resistless strength to the nation il
6 times of foreign danger. But its cor
\ sideration comes in direct conflict wit
> a Bill to facilitate the acquisition 9
! slave territory, and the Douglas Dc
mocracy, true to their southern il
= stincts, vote with the south. Nj
Douglas has laid up treasure for hi
! children in the south, in slaves an
"delta lands" and where his treas
ure is, there is his heart also" MI
!, Douglas has never joined issue wit
, the south on any measure vital to thei
. interests. He inaugurated the Kan
sas policy by his own act, and in it
!, defence, he has stood firmly with tn
: South, denouncing every effort of tn
! people Of the territory to shake off tn
incubus Of slavery, as reroiutionar,
and every attempt of the freemen Q
!, the North to aid them by voluntar,
: contributions or Congressional legis