Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-09-13

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order 70 get rid Of slssssy. bet list u BIZ
spiaios The slsvsry agitation o. ID ses sssse
ustil . ssisis shall ksve bsea Sesshsd snd
passed. "A hose divided aesiose itsslf eassot
stand do no, believe this GoveypoeDs go
permanently sxist half slave and half isss
~ - sov. and It may be written down In The
great spsssh."
Well may We inquire in his Own laogusee,
"Whithrr are We tendingf' when . man
holding these views - bis only sscomnenda-
siss ~ sGss b bsssgAs Sssth - ssle svss .
people whose institutions he tells 10 cannot
endure: vLo tslls % that they shsll ~ eo1ass
o the fathers founded thsmi that thas Ccossi.
tuition usdss which ~ hase gsova y great
nsss u 70 b disrsgssdsd and IL eompasts
shs fscs Of 81 the globe can yeu find . Cosssi.
tsees 70 man! Search through the history Of
The human raee, and where do you end psr.
slIslf But a. yssrs Of sgs y have increased
from three 10 thirty millions Of people. With .
navy second to only one, with railroads aud
.sleg, aphs more than oil others combined,
with ous-6f.h Of the entire dry earth Of this
world, honored and rsspsstsd whs,svse the
starr and stripes feat to the breeze We seem
to be vsri6cstion Of the prophecy that No.
ton shall be born In day. And YET oil this
greatness which We have achieved under The
Constitution 10 10 bs swept away BY the hsnd
Of sparshy. Why cannot THE 6ovssnnsnt.
- IL vas formed BY our fathsrs. hall
slave and half free. still esdurs With slave
States! This 10 the tsaehipgs Of the great
head and front Of the Republican psrty Of
tbis day 1t is the teaching Of Lincoln bin.
ssf. write it down In the great speech" j,
10 his deliberate conviction. Why not! Tel
ne Why not IL 10 % account Of this negro
question that the Government cannot EXIT
half slave aud half free. Monstsous doetsins
Modern discovery Republican diseever.
Lincoln int,o ducsd one bill into Cone,ess
during bic two years. and that vas for the aboli.
ton OF slavery 10 the District Of Columbia. he
proposed to submit It TO the popular vote. and
when the question had been determined, hs
proposed that the President, 3 crstary Of the
Treasury and the Secretary Of State should be
board Of apL raieers 10 appraiss the value Of
those slaves whom Their masters would mt
~
poets to get rid Of slavery in the Statss by The
same means. he would incur 40 Indebtedness Ol
four hundred thousand millions OF dollsrs
am not In favor OF mortgsging the white man
for the benefit Of the negro But this 10 not
the way be nov proposes TO get rid Of slavery.
lincoln has taken another step since that time,
and the "irrspressibls conflict" looks 10 open
war upon the institutions Of the Slave States.
Mr.. Samuels read from the Upton Adse rt;se,
40 article stating that Coppic. one Of John
Browns party. had. With other white men, Or.
rived In that vicinity. With fifteen negroes sto-
len from Missouri, an instaucsd this % the ls-
climate fruits Of the tesehinss Of Lincoln and
Seward And thus In the prActisal carrying
out Of that doctrine he could zee future DE-.
msnd for hemp.
Farther. to show NJ. Lincoln's position. We
will look ct the record which Wm. II Seward
has made for him: Seward made . speech .,
Boston on the 26th Of Aug. in which be held
the following language;
"Whst . commentary upon the wisdom Of
man 10 given 10 this single fact thst fifteen
years only after the dssth Of John Quincy Ad
hurled him from power and place. are calling
to the head Of the nation, to the very ssat from
which be IVES expelled. Abram Lincoln, whose
claim to that seat is that he confessSs the obi.
cation Of that higher law which the sa,e Of
Quincy proclaimed. and that he do0ms himself
Tor veal or woe. for life .r death. soldier on
the eide Of freedom in the irrepressibls confiic,
beswe cen freedom and slavery"
Voices-GOod, good.
Mr.. s. Good Good. 10 it. This 10 nothing
more nor lees shan the do :trine that N individ
usl Vas the right to set up bis individual
will in contravsntion TO the Laws OF the land
nothing more nor less than endorsement Of thl
raid Of John Brown.
Mr.. 8. closed h,s remarks with bssutifu
perorstion to the Union. after having success
fully shown the inevitably and deplorabls col
sequences Of practically carrying cot the "irrs
pressible conflict" doctrine. but, under the cir
cumstances. We have entirely unable 70 do full
justice to this great speech, which vas prs-sm
insntly On argumeLtative one, and In direct r.
plv TO b . opponent