St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-08-30
politital.
CARL SCHURZ'S SPEECH.

The following is the concluding
portion of the great speech delivered
by Carl Schurz, in St. Louis, on the
lst inst:
The slave States harbor a danger
GUS enemy within their own bounda.
ries, and that is slavery itself. Imag.
me they are at war with an anti
slavery people, whom they have ex-
aspcrated by their own hostility
What will be the effect upon tho
slaves The question is not whether
the North will instigate sieve rebel
lion, for suppose they will not the
question is, whether they can prevent
it, and | think they cannot But the
mere anticipation of negro insur-
rection (and the heated Imagination
of the STAKEHOLDER will discover symp-
toms of rebellious spirit in every
trtle) will paralize the whole South.
Do you remember the effect of John
Browns attempt? ? The sevcrest blow
he struck at the slave power was not
that he disturbed a town and killed
several citizens, but that he revealed
the weakness Of the whole South.
Let Governor Wise Of Virginia, carry
out his threatened invasion of the free
States, not with %, but with 23OO
followers ut his heels-what will be
the result? As long as they behave
themselves we shall let them alone
but as soon as they create any dis
turbance they will be put into tho
station house and the next day we
shall read in the newspapers of some
northern city, among the reports of
the police court Henry A. Wise and
others, for dsorderly conduct, fined
So; loud laughter and applause, or,
If he has made an attempt on any
mans life, or against our institutions,
he will most certainly find a northern
jury proud enough to acquit him on
the ground of incorrigible mental de-
rangement. Continued laughter and
applause. Our pictorial prints will
have material for caricatures for two
issues, and burst of laughter will
ring to the skies from Maine to Cali
fornia. And there is the end of it.
But behold John Brown with % men
raising row at Harper's Ferry the
whole South frantic with terror the
whole State of Virginia in arms
troops marching and counter march
ing as if the battle of Austcritz was
to be fought over again innocent
cows shot at as bloodthirsty invaders,
and even the evening song of tho
peaceful whippoorwills mistaken for
the battle cry of rebellion [inces.
SAINT laughter, and those arc the men
who will expose themselves to the
chances Of war with an anti-slavery
people? Will they not look upon
every captive as John Brown, and
every sergeant and private as a Cop
pic or Stevens? They will not have
men enongh TO quiet their fears at
home what will they have to oppose
to the enemy? Every township will
want its home regiment, every planta-
ton its garrison, and what will be
left for the field army? No sooner
will movement of concentration be
attempted than the mercst panic will
undo and Illustrate it forever. The
mistocles might say that Greece was
on his ships a French General might
say that the Republic was in his
camp but slavery will be neither on
the ships nor in the camp; it will be
spread defenceless over the thousands
Of square miles. This will be their
situation either they concentrate
their forces and slavery will be ex-
posed everywhere or they do not
concentrate them and their strength
will be nowhere. They want war
Let them try it +. They will try it but
once. And thus it turns out, that the
very same thing that would be the
cause of the war, would at the same
time disable them to carry on war.
The same institution that wants pro.
lection, will at the same time disarm
its protectors. Yes, slavery which
can no longer be defended with argu.