The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-09-18

should object" fantastically called pop
ular sovereignty'- renewed yhter
and applause but never a man among
you in favor of Federal prohibition of
slavery in the Federal Territories, accor-
ding to the practice of our fathers who
framed the Government under which we
live. Not one of all your various plans
can show precedent or an advocate
in the century within which oar Gov
ernment originated. Consider, then,
whether your claim Of conservatism for
yourselves, and your charge of destruc-
tiveness against us, are based on the most
clear and stable foundations Again
you say we have made the slavery uues-
ton more prominent than it formerly was
We deny it. We admit that it is more
prominent, but we deny that we made it
so. 1t was not we, but you, who dis
carded the old policy Of the fathers.
We resisted, and still resist, your inno-
vation-your want of conservatism ; and
thence comes the greater prominence of
the question. Would you have that ques-
ton reduced to its former proportions
Go back to that old policy. What has
been will be again, under the same con
d:tions. If you would have the peace Of
the old times, re-adopt the precepts and
policy of the old times. Applause.
You charge that we stir up insurrec-
tions among your slaves. We deny it;
and what is your proof? Harper's Fer.
ry =. Great laughter. John Brown 4!
[ Renewed laughter. John Brown was
no Republican, and you have TO impi-
cate single Republican in his Harper's
Ferry enterprise. Loud applause. If
any member of our party is guilty in
that matter, you know it, or you do not
know it. Ifyou do know it, you are in
eXcusable to not designate the man and
prove the fact. Ifyou do not know it,
you are inexcusabe to assert it. and es-
pecially to persist in the assertion after
you have tried and failed to make the
proof. Great applause You need
not be told that persistng in a charge
which one does not know 10 be true, is
simply malicious SANDER. Applause
Some of you generously admit that no
Republican designedly aided or encour-
aged the Harper's Ferry affair, but still
insist that our doctrines and declarations
necessarily lead TO such results. We do
not believe il. We know we hold to no
doctrines and make no declarations which
were not held TO aud made by our fath.
ers who framed the Government under
which we live. Applause.
You never dealt fairly BY Us in rels-
ton to this affair When il occurred.
some important State elections were near
at hand, and You were in evident CLEO
with the belief that, by charging the
blame upon US, you could get an alvan-
tage Of us in those elections. The elec.
tons came, and your expectations were
not fulfilled. Laughter You did no!
sweep New York. ond New Jersey and
Wisconsin, and Minnesota, precisely like
fire sweeps over the prairie in high wind.
Laug hter. You are still drumming at
this idea. Go on with it. you think
you can, by slandering woman, make
her love You, or by yiIlfying man, make
him vote with YOU, 20 on and try it.
Boisterous laughter and prolonged APP
plause. Every Republican man knew
that, as to himself al least. your charge
was a slander, and he was not much IN.
clined by il 10 cast his vote in your "a.
NOr.
Republican doctrines and declarations
are accompanied with a continual pro,
test against any interference whatever
with your slaves, or with you about your
slaves Surely this does not encourage
them to revolt. True, We DO. in com
mon with our fathers who framed the
Government under which We live, da.
clare our belief that slavery is wrong
applause but the slaves do not hear
MS declare even this for anything we
say or do, the slaves would scarcely
know there is n Republican party. be
lleve they would not. in fact. generally
know il, but for your misrepresentation
of us in then hearing In your politi.
cal contests among yourselves. each fac.
ton charges the other with sympathy
with Black Rpublicanism and then, 10
give point 10 the charge. defines Black
Republicanlsm TO simply be insurrection.
blood, aud thunder. among The slaves.
Bolsterous laughter and applause
Slave instructions are no more common
now than they were before the Republic
can party WAS organized. What iudu-
eed the southampton insurrection, TWEEN
weight years ago, in which at least
three times as many lives were lost rs at
Harper's Ferry You can scarcely
stretch your very elastic aney TO th,
conclusion that Southampton was go, up
by Black Republicansm, Laughter
In the present state OF things IN he UNI
ted States. do not think general or
even very extensive slave insuuectiou
is possible. The indispensable concert
Of acton cannot b. atlainei, The sla.,s
have no means OF rapid communication
nor can incendiary free mon, bl, K or
white, supply t. The explosive mater
lals are every where in parcels. bu, there
neither are nor can be supplied the IN.
dispenssble connecting trsnns. Much /,
sand by Southern people aboul The aztec.
tion OF slaves for their mas ers and mis-.
tresses and part Of it, At least. is true
y plot Ior an uprising could scarcely be
devised aud communicated 10 twenty in
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