St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-07-12

were erected to prevent the further
extension Of slavery, have all been
swept away by the action Of the Dem
ocratic party, and while thus insidi-
ousIy extending the area of human
bondage, they cry tc us, "Oh don't
agitate this question |" They agitat-
ed in favor Of slavery till its polluted
step has darkencd the virgin soil of
our Territories, but when we would
advocate the claims of that freedom
which our Fathers established, they
lift up their hands in holy horror !!
TO forward Southern sentiment, Doug
las introduced the Kansas Bill claim
ing to leave it to the people of a Ter
rltory whether or not they would
have slavery, and soon, Mr.. President,
we found that this leaving it to the
people, only meant to leave it to them
provided they voted to hare slavery,
but if they voted not to have it, then
the whole enginery of Government,
Executive, Legislative and Judicial,
was to be employed to force it upon
them. The Democratic party is thus
ignoring morality and integrity, and
barc-faccdly cheating the people ont
of their rights, have ceased to deserve
the support Of an intelligent people.
Any party which thus disregards mo,
raIlty as connected with politics, is
digging its own grave, and sooner or
later must sleep that last sleep from
which no resurrection trump shall Ger
awake it.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Crosby's
speech, Mr.. Huntley sang a song, the
audience joining in the chorus, after
which the convention adjourned, to
meet again in the evening at Cheney
IL Brackets Hall.
The convention met pursuant to ad.
journment, Judge Porter in the Chair
After being called to order, and mu
sic by the band, VIM. B. Fairfield
Esq, of Floyd county, and assistant
Presidential Elcctor of this Congress
sional District, was called to the stand
and proceeded to address the convcn
ton:
Mr.. Fairfield said:
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens
should he happy to speak to Won
this evening if it were not for the
fact that even the best Of us tire in well
doing--at least, | am tired and | ap.
prchcnd that you are but as my
name appears on the bills feel oblig.
ed to say enough to save the printer
from the charge of false printing.
We live in new country, one
whose virgin soil lately yielded to the
press of the wild decr's Loof as he
bounded over the prairie where the
buffalo rovcd unmolcstcd, save by the
red mans arrow, and flower and sun.
beam kissed each other in sweet un.
consciousness of the change that was
soon to come "o'cr the spirit Of THEN
dream" We are the Young America
Of the nation, pressing on under that
star of empire" which has wcnded
its way westward ever since Creation
dawncd, till like the "star Of the East
which stayed it's course above the
manger cradle of the infant king of
the Jews" it hangs suspended over
the great Mississippi's vallcy-,l!e
cradle Of the future empire of the
world
We arc Of the West. Our farmers
and mechanics partake of the freedom
that still fingers in the footstcp of the
red man. East of us are those who
stand by the anvil, the loom and the
desk, busy with the many and war;
cd avocations Of a long settled coun-
try: bnt from them all comes up the
same shout that is now making these
prairics resonant with music ::
it is The song If FIRE. Labor And its
chorus swclIs loud and high as it bears
aIoit the name of ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
the Presidential candidate of the Free
Labor Party of the United States
Bnt, Mr.. President, it is not ncccs.
sary to call the righteous, but sin
ncrs, to repentance" lwish to say a
few words of and to Democrats. The
State Senator from Fayette county, a
lew evenings since, in speech he
made at the Democratic Club Rooms
in this place, told his little audience
Of fifteen, that they all knew what
was--that its embodi.
ncnt in this part of the country was
one Bill Fairfield, who then stood over
the way. there, beating an old snare
irum, to gather the faithful into coun-
ill.
Mr.. President, when the British
marched into Lexington and Concord,
10 seize the American stores there
hey heard the tattoo of an old snare
irum which sounded in their ears
throughout that seven years war and
tell this Fayette county Democratic
senator that the tattoo of that snare
irum, beaten here the other evening.
though not by me- will haunt him
ike nightmare, and ring in his cars
night and day, till he departs from
he error of his ways and makes
,tonement to the people for the wrongs
md injuries he is seeking to fastcn
lpon them, and upon his knees, in full
confessional, Graves pardon for ever
being so low and degraded as to be
ieard advocating modern democracy.
Great applause.)
Mr.. Prcsidcnt-You recollect the
story of Saul's conversion as told in
he book OF the Acts of the Apostles.
Well, Saul, in his early days, was
pretty much what Democrats are now.
fou know that, as he was journcying
o Damascus, a great light appeared |
rom Heaven and struck him with
and he was told that to be
;uIcd OF that blindness he must go to
| certain place and become respectable. |
Now, Mr.. President, if Democrats
will go down to Springfield, ILL.,, and
ook upon the face of Father Abra-
lam," and become respectable, the scales
Will fall from their eyes, and the Egyp-
ian darkness in which they have |