Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-19
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Douglas at Iowa City.

~ Douglas at Iowa City.
Thsgproaraeted search which Roaglas b
lboeh making FOR his mother has at Ia
brought him to Iowa City, and the Ion
Democratic agony is now over, exceptin,
perhaps, the headaches that will dou btles
be experienced to-morro ". by some Of b
most ardent and enthusiastic admirers, j
consequence eff the frequent imbibings ,
'to-daays;haR 81 IaEEEffFHR Z II
At the appointed hour he appeared on tn
stand erected for the occasion in the Parl
which was pretty well filed with anxiou
SPECTATORS, not few of whom, as have goo
reason to know, were Republicans. After
pompous and elaborate introduction by lie
grand Byington, in which he spoke of hin
as the next President of the United States
etc Mr.. Dogluas rose and addressed tn
wondering crowd. ,saa-ts ~ El'eA
He began by abiding to our beautiful
country, our trade, and, fertile prairies, etc.
and Immediately recurred to the time wher
Iowa was Territory, stating, parentheti
cally, that he, as Chairman of the Committed
on Territories, had introduced the bill il
Congress which made it a State, as also
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon and Califor'
nia, and the Territories Of Kansas and Ne
braska. Then, after reminding US that we
were all immigrants from the older States, he
enquired whether we thought ourselves any
less capable of self-government after remov-
ing to the Territory of Iowa than we were
as citizens of the States, and immediately
branched off and gave US the old story about
Popular Sovereignty. When say old story,
| do not mean that he repeated the language
he used in the Senate last May, when he is
reported to. have said that his great princi-
pie of Nen.Intervention had given to the
South slave territory more than five times
the area of the State of New York, but that
older and more worn story, about the people
of Territory having the right to regulate
their domestic institutions in their own way,
leaving off the words Subject only to the
Constitution which, as you know, with
the bred Scott Interpretation and the Wick
life Resolution, makes very different thing
of that boasted right-and unwilling to say
about the Governor and the Judges
being appointees of the President and that
they are equivalent to eight.ninths Of the
power in Territory, defiel any one after
examination of his record, to say
that he had not been true to the great prin.
ciple of self.governmenta on all occasions,
and under all circumstances. .. -i-.r g.. ---
He said that the Republican party charged
him with never having been in favor OF
Homestead bill; but when they so charge,
they charge lie chow like Henry Clay
Dean y And lie now authorized his friends
to tell them so, if ever they hear the slander
repeated. when did Alb, aham Lincoln
ever do ANYTHING for the Homestead bill?"
He held out the idea that the.split in the
Baltimore Convention and the running of
by the Seceders was an under
stood arrangement between them and the
Had we never noticed the
wonderful good feeling that existed between
the Republican leaders and the Breckenridge
men? Hac we ever heard Repu blican say
aught against Breckiuridge, or a Breckin-
ridge man speak lily of Lincolna The fact
is, no man doubted but that he would have
beaten Lincoln in every State in the Union
save two bad he been the only nominee Of
the Democracy. The Southern Seceders
divided the party for the purpose of electing
Lincoln, who, if elected, will owe his elec-
ton to two men--James Buchanan and John
@. Breckenridge. And, in the face of all
these facts, the Breckinridge men down in
Virginia had the audacity to enquire of him
whether he would help them to dissolve the
Union in case they succeeded in electing
Lincoln. This contest is the Illinois fight
over again, and as he had come out of that
fight victorious, so he expected the will Of a
majority of the people would bring him out
of the present one.
He then excused himself from speaking
longer, on account of hoarseness, renarkine
that he had had occasion to speak ten times
the day pievious after which Brigadieg
General Augustus Cesar Dodge took the
stand, and your correspondent left, -
Iowa City, Oct. Q, lS6o.' s.s.,-
To You've MEN.-How are you going to
cast your first vote Will you surrender
principle to follow party that has been dis
solved to satisfy the longings Of tricky and
ambitious Office seeker? Will you identify
yourself with a party that proclaims that a
majority has the right to enslave the minor.
ity and keep them in perpetual bondage p
Will You vote for a party that believes the
strong, having much, may take all, while the
weak, having little, shall have nothing p
Will you vote with a party that tells you a
majority in the Territories have right to
legalze any crime, and 'no power on earth
can deprive them of that right p Will you
sustain party, which goes in for muzzling
the press, free speech, and the right to de.
bate all questions ola national character.
In short, do you intend to support a party
that in one breath proclaims "popular SOW
ereignty," and in the next moment says
that all good citizens must obey the decis>
ions of the Supreme Court which denies
the power of Congress or the people of
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