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

country, and protection and eXtens ion
to free labor, as opposed to slave la
Dor. In contrast to this is tue Demo-
cratic party whose great idea is love
of Stephen A. Douglas, and hatred of
Fred Douglas who ignore every be-
inefficient measure, in their mad desire
for the extension of slavery.
Mr.. President and fellow citizens,
in what | have said, if | have seem
ingly been severe, or have imputed
unworthy or bad motives to my polit-
ical opponents, wish it to be under
stood as applying to the leaders and
not to the masses Of the Democratic
party. The masses are honest, but
they have been led astray by unscru-
lous and aspiring men, whose only
motives of conduct are lust OF Office
aud greed of gain.
Mr.. l.. l.. Huntley was called for, and
sang q campaign song" to the tune
of "Bcnnie Ravens, O,"-the audience
joining in the chorus.
The President then introduced Hon.
G. a. Newcomb, of Fayctte county.
Judge Newcomb said :
If | can have your attention few
minutes, ladies and gentlemen, | will
say few words, and | promise to be
short, as several are to succeed me
1t inspires my heart with pleasure to
see so many assembled upon this oc.
casion to swell the ranks of Republic
canism. Some of my Democratic
friends that came along with me, said
they were coming up to see how many
lies we Republicans would tell, but
they will be disappointed, for we don't
intend to tell any. But we do intend
to tell some pretty plain truths, and
the first truth intend to tell my Dem
ocratic friends is that Abraham Lin
coin, Of Illinois, will be our next Pres
idcmt. They may not believe this
now, but they will after next Novcm
Der. The issues as now made up be
tween the two parties are worthy the
interest and labor of every American
citizen. The enthusiasm which pre-
vailed at Chicago is meeting with g
response from the hearts of the Amer
lean people all over the country. Blu,
they ask, who is this Abraham Lin
coin, presented for the peoples SUI
tragcs He is the man around whom
cluster all the hopes of this nation
and Il man who concentrates in him
self more Of the peculiar character
istics Of the American people than any
one presented for the consideration OF
the National Republican Convention
The Albany Atlas and Argus has an
swcrcd this question by saying that
Abe Lincoln was never heard Of till
Stephen \. Douglas chased him
through Illinois. Well, fellow citi
zcns, have heard of one other Just
such chase as that. An lrishman had
4 horse he Dragged on considerably,
and as a race on the four mile course
in his ncighborhood was to come off
he entered him for the stakes, some
what expecting, as his horse Felix
was very good one, that he would
beat ; before the race was half over
however, the lrishman's horse was
a good ways behind the rest, when he
elatcd with the swiitncss Of his flight
exclaimed, My God see how Felix
chascs them !" Well, gentlemen
this is just about the way in which
Douglas chased Abe Lincoln through
the State Of Illinois in fact, Douglas
legs are too short to chase Abe Lin
coin in any other way. Again we
ASK who is this Abraham Lincoln
that was 50 - chased" through Illinois
by the Little Giant? He is "a man
that by his untiring energy and per-
severance has earned for himself a
name and fame that will be undying
while the world shall roll. Were Il
great wave Of oblivion to rise and blot
all the rest Of his record, his discus.
sion with Douglas in 1858 would ere
ate for him an lmpcriShable fame, as
it marked him the first of politicians
and debaters in America. The Rcpub-
licans have incorporated into their
platform those grand principles of the
Declaration Of Independence, upon
which no people have a right to in.
fringe these principles are the right
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness, and it is our opinion the peo-
pie of no territory have a right to
vote OF otherwise to say that a portion
of the inhabitants Of that Territory
shall be slaves. But, gentlemen,
Democrats who never come to hear
Republicans speak, say we talk moth,
ing but niger well, the representa-
tivcs of the Democratic party had
Convention at Charleston lately, and
it opened with niger, quarrclIed
about niger, split on niger, and
closed with niger and now they
think they see bigger niger in the
fence than ever, and guess they see
correctly.
They label us "Nigger Party"
" WoolIy Heads" Black Republ-
cans" &c; but, gentlemen, | ask you
to look at the Territories and say who
are the niger party
Inc RepubllcalS are cndcaVOrlng
to preserve these Territories for the
free white laborer; to lcgislate so that
white labor shall not be brought into
with slave labor and there
by forced out of the Territories but
this Democratic party has been labor
ing for the last five years to force
slave labor into the Territories in spite
Of white men, and then they arrogatc
to themselves the title Of the qchite
mans party.
Mr. President, I have another count
to add to this indictment of the Dem
ocratic Party, and | would advise
them to plead guilty and throw them
selves upon the mercy of the court.
The expenses of the two last Demo.
cratic Administrations exceeded the
whole cost of the administration off
government between the years 1890
and lS25-actually cost more than
80 years Of government in the early
days Of the Republic, the second war
with Great Britain included. But,