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

throughout had he been elrcted III
1856, surrounded by the southern IN
nuences that overwhelm the Demo
cratic party, he would have done sub
stantiaIly as Mr. Buchanan has done !;
and were it possible-and | praise
God that it is MOTTO elect HIM III
1860, the contamination of the policy
of the administration would become
unavoidable the enactment of slave
code for the territories, the repeal OF
the laws prohibiting the African Slave
Trade, the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Re
public of Mexico, and the purchase of
slave territory with northern gold, for
the creation of other slave States to
secure the continuance of slavery IN
the Republic forever, and the contln-
ued increase of the expenses OF the
government, millions on millions per
annum, would follow, as legitimate
and inevitable consequences.
The Douglas doctrine that the great
fundamental principles of civil liberty
and natural right, shall be controlled
by pccuniary interest, or even by the
arbitrary power of majorities, is as
dangerous to the perpetuity of the
Republic, as it is disreputable to an
American statesman This has been
the doctrine of absolute despotisms,
time out of mind. With them the
possession of power to accomplish
their purposes has been their standard
of right. But not SO with constitu-
tional governments they have ever
Disseminated between the natural
rights of man. and the exercise of suf-
ficient power to secure Il just and sta
bic government. All of your Amcri-
can Constitutions are framed for the
avowed purpose of restraining Leg
islaturcs, Executives and Courts from
the violation of the natural rights OF
the people. Your revolutionary ia
theirs declared that it is for the protec.
ton of these rights that just govern
ments are instituted among men. The
great English Commentator says, "Nc
human Legislature has power to abol
ish or destroy mans natural rights
such as life and liberty neither dc
they recover any additional strength
when declared by the municipal laws
to be inviolablc." | Blackstone, 81
| And You will find it written among
the legal axioms of the oldest Roman
code, that Although civil policy may
distinguish civil rights, yet over nat
ural rights it has no such power As
it concerns natural rights, all mel
are equal" Dig. Lib. / Title II, p
32) Living under an Italian sky, Oh
the Delta lands s" of the Mediterran
can, leading the civilization of the age
to an elevation never since surpassed
they had not discovered that natur,
had enacted a slave code for thcil
beautiful country. There were slaves
at Rome, it is true, but not a SLAYER,
founded in color or climate, but in VIC
lence for their lawgivers explain
"Beiin etenimOrta stunt ct caPtirttate
segutG scrritutes, CUR sum matnratt JarJ
contrari1 jure enim naturnii omnes honi
mes, ab initio HJeri nascedantur." Dust
Lib. /. Title 3, S. 2.
"For wars arose and captivities
and slavery followed, both of which
are contrary to the law Of nature
for by natural law, all men from the
first were born free"
|. Republicans of Iowa, you are called
on to defend these great truths your
party is in it's infancy, it is true, but
your principles are neither new moi
ephemcral: they arc older than the
Philadelphia platform-older than tho
Declaration of Independence-oldel
than the foundations of the Roman
Republc-they are as old as civiiza
tion-their author is the God of ma
ture, and they are as eternal as truth
To your Party has been confided 9
great trust God has raised it up, as
| verify believe, TO drive from the TEN
pies of liberty the money-changers
, and the dealers in the bodies and soul
of men, who have defiled its affairs
to restore to the government the prin
ciples which controlled it's admins
tration by our fathers, to secure the
perpctuity of civil liberty to coming
generations, and to control the vas
energies of this great Republic, which
is acquiring with gigantic strides thu
power and influence among the ma
,, tons, once maintained by the Rcpub
t lie of Rome, personified by the an
cient seer, as beast that came VI
, out of the sea "dreadful and terrible
! and strong exceeding" that hat
. great iron teeth" which "devour an,
y stamped the residue with the feet o
-. il :" and to see to it that this colossa
= power shall have the eyes of MAJ
f given to it, to guide the civilization o
+ the race,--garments as white as snow
D representing the purity of its pun
{ poscs,-and the hair of the head a
6 white as wool, indicating the wisdom
l. of its councils,-that when its mout
G begins to speak great things--castin.
down thrones and principalities an
G powers, it shall use the language G
t the Republic under the Consuls, an
e not of the Empire under the heroes.
n You have another great battle t
l. fight for freedom, in Iowa, on next Ok
h tober the Buchanan Democracy am
# the Douglas Democracy are attempt
= ing to unite their forces-the first a
l. leaders, asking for oilice--the latte
+. as the rank and file, to perform tn
S labor. You must be prepared to r,
d sist their united strength. And shoul
s. they be led on by Mr.. Douglas in pc
:. son, as is now promised, your victor
h will be none the less certain. Ill
r party is without prestige it has ne
T. carried single State in the Union a
S the polls the popular vote Of his ow
e State was against him.
e When he and his party sally fort
e in Iowa, like old Diogenes with hi
!, lamp, Meynl0meter in hand, to ascertai
# the boundaries Of freedom and slave
y ry tell them that you know of n
s. country too warm for the existence {
e civil liberty and the predominancc ,
d your principles, except the one de
d cribed by the Saviour of the worl'
G where there is said to be weepin
e and waiting and crashing of teeth