The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-25


stead bill. como to the interminable negro
question: And here at tho outset, as the
matter was alluded to by the gentleman who
introduced me, | will remark, il 10 frequent
iy said 81 do net blame Mr.. Lovejoy for be.
ing ultra for saying hard things against
Slavery. He has reason to do 1T | will
forgive him IL he uses severe and terrific lam
gnage, vehement and denunciatory." And
why? sob, he had brother killed, and IL
had had n brother killed, | would say hard
things against Slavery, too" Ladies and
gentlemen, do not ask any indulgence on
that ground. have no right to indulge
in a spirit of retaliation or revenge. | do
not denounee Slavery because a brothers
blood mingles with the Mississippi as il
flows down to the land of Slavery. do not
denounea Slavery because saw him there,
n the bloom of manhood, shot down like
a very beast, while the mob cheered over his
preslrate lifeless body. lSensation.l Ii is
not for that, it in because Slavery is wrong.
Great applause. IL is because Slavery is
curse. If there 10 not enough in Slavery 10
move any human heart to the use of ndig-
nant language, then have no business TO
use suoh language,
Now, at the outset, wish to call the at.
tention OF this audience, whom | thank for
their kindness in meeting me here in such
large numbers and remaining SO quiet, to a
TACT which | have sometimes alluded 10,
both within and without the halls of Con
gress. | alude TO the sfirrepressible CON-
1ict,o only section of which we Witness
This, conflict has swept on from the com
menoement, and will continue on down to
the time when freedom and righteousness
shall triumph over oil tho earth. We only
/ -. . 20 urn n,af.
the conflict in the American Republic is NOT
betw cen the North and South. Tho North
has nothing against the South the South
| has nothing against the North. What and
where il the contest? The contest 10 be-
tween Freedom and Slavery--Liber and
Despotism. Loud appladssl. That should
be remembered. The South deprecatingly
SAYS: "Don't invade the right of the SOUTH
| am told that Mr.. Yanc.y says he don't
want TO live In a country tibet holds Sumner
and Loveioy. Well, If be don't, there are
plenty Of railroads leading out OF tho coun-
try, Tlaughterl and when he gets to the ocean
there are plenty Of vessels to take him any
| where be pleases to go. But the conflict is
not between the North and South. Wemake
no aggression upon the South. No man
ever heard me utter word against the
South. | never did ii. Ii is not against the
rights Of the South, but against the unspeak-
able wrongs of Slavery that we fight. There
is the conflict. Loud applause wish
that could be borne in mind. They gain
very much by poting upon us their names,
by in6ltrating into Us their ideas and their
Interpretation Of the constitutional rights OF
the South. Nobody wants TO invade them.
Nobody wants TO take away one iota from
tho constitutional rights Of the South; never.
Bot when you talk Of Slavery aud its extern
sion, that 10 another question.
Here, my friends, | come to the living,
practical iss ue of the day Shall Slavery be
allowed to extend to the Territories OF the
United States mo! no j That is th.
great question. There are three parties in
tho couotry ought to say four
but there are three with which we have to do
The Breckenridge party says Slavery has
right to go into the Territories. The Doug
las party SAYS Slavery bias the right to gS
into the Territories. They differ in regar.
/ to the amount Of protection that should b.
given ID Slavery. MIR Davis and Mr. Breck
nrdge want il protected, IL necessary Sir
: Douglas says, GLANDS of; non-ipterventiop
: dop't propose to meddle with the question
1t is none of nv business; | don't care."-
v The Douglas wing of the Democratic par,
/ have reached the eIicurean height of subim
Q Indifference; they don't care whether Slave
/. ry ia voted up or voted down, and their or
t, Is non intervention.
:, The Republican party are for positive ia
: tervention. They propose, as our father
did, TO erect wall of intervention of prt
b hibition, and station an angel Of liberty
o the gates in that wall, who shall keep waite
u and ward there day and night, and qua,
l the Territories against the entrance Of sav
J. ~, as the cherubim Of God kept sin out
IL Eden. Great spplause.1 We are for nte
&c veDtion. The Democracy say, non. nters q
0, ton; let it alone let the people do as th
g. please; let them have slavery or not, as th
10 please. Do you rememberthat the she v Of
DO OF historical notoriety, as connected with o
er Put, was modern Democrat in her prime
is pies, strongly in favor Of non .interventio
as and, judge, sqaatter sovereign for wh
Old Put went TO her den, and crawled do,
o. to her lair with hambeau and musket,
found her crouching, sQuattng on her fl
,. legs, and shosing her teeth--a true squat,
sovereign, and ste desired to be left perfe,
- ly free to regulate her own domestic instit
- tons in her own way, subject to the Cons
y, tuition OF the United States. [Roars Of laug
= tor and cheers
ed Some OF You, reckon, will recolleot ho
nv ing read in the Lights and shadows Of So
tish Life" by Christopher North, the
,is scription Of a scene that occurred one gsni
n. soft and balmy afternoon, as the Scotti
in matrons we're out on the green, gathered
on social intercourse, and one Of the moth,
ms had laid her little infant, in its clothes,
mt the green, when n vulture from neighb,
| ing height swept down and thrust It's talo
his into the clothes Of the sleeping child, a
we sailed away to its eyrie. An adventure
nir young man started to rescue the child.
ciambered up the mountain by the help
ciinging shrubs and shelterng rocks
reacted the snlture's eyrie, where she
the with the child. What then, says the v
tee tuFsi Hhnas on Non-intervention