Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26


1uires q Fugitive Slave Law. "What is
thatT you exclaiml Do pray be patient,
now. mo person held to service or labor
into another shall in consequence of such
law or regulation therein, be discharged
from such service or labor, but shall be de-
ivered up on claim of the party to whom
such service or labor may be due" There is
he clause of the Constitution. care you in
favor of it p am asked, Yes, am. l
,ay here-I mean to DO nest-a!though
he language does not describe a slave, l
suppose thsy did mean to include those per-
sons who, in the States, are regarded as
slaves but to learn that, you have to 60
70 contemporary history and tradition, for q
slave is not mentioned, but person owing
service or labor. cannot now 80 into a
orotracted argument But what will say
Is this That clause Of the Constitution,
to Mr. Webster and Mr.. johnson,
the States Attorney Of Pennsylvania, who
made an argument in the case of Prigg Us,
State of Pennsylvania, and proved the po-
sition think, was to be executed by the
States, and not by the Federal Government.
[ am in favor of law in Illinois, if they
pleaseto pass it, to return persons who owe
service or labor in one State, and escape into
another State, after the fact has been proven.
If they owe the service, and a jury decides
that to be q fact, let them be delivered up ;
but say do not deliver up that which is
dearer than life without fair and impartial
trial before twelve men.
Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx, Of Indiana-With
the right to appeal, besides.
Mr.. LovEJoY-Yes, they ought to have the
right to appeal. My friends, am not dis
organizer. l am not for revolution. AL
want is to get the country back to the position,
to the administrative policy, of the fathers.
l want the Constitution that my fathers gave
me, baptized in their blood, and not the Con-
stitution Of Judge fancy. "But how are you
going to help it," says one. "Judge fancy
has decided it. Are you going to appeal to
the mob or attempt revolutions" Judge
Douglas says he will not appeal from the
Supreme Court to town meeting. He will
not appeal to the people. Well, do. As
the woman said: II appeal from Philip drunk
to Philip sober;" so I appeal from this
decision of Taney-from this tribunal drunk
with the Crcean cup of despotism the
thirty millions of the men and women of this
Courts, and Presidents, and Senators. Cit.
zens of America, know you not that around
the brow of every one of you gltters the
diadem of power invisible? Know you not
in every hand is the sceptre of dominion?
appeal to you to reorganize this Court and
give US judges what kind of judges? like
Lovejoy? ultra and fanatical? NJ. Judges
like Marshall, and Jay, and Story, who will
interpret this Constitution as it was inter-
preted by the early judges. That is all l ask.
Applause GLOW are you going to reach it?''
I am going to elect "Old Abe" Terrific
applause. Or, | propose that the people
shall elect him. "What are you going to do
then-Old Abe is not judge?" No, be is
not. But, after We elect "Old Abe on the
sixth day of November next, shall importune
heaven day and night to prolong tee unproft-
able lives Of these judges until the fourth of
March next. Laughter.
A VoICE-Three times day.
Mr.. LovRJoY-Yes, that was as often as
Daniel prayed, and the fervent, effectual
prayer Of the righteous man avaleth much.
[Laughter.] Ard that l am such all the
Democrats will testify laughter lover the
left. Renewed laughter. After we have
elected Lincoln, and the fourth Of March
comes. and he ls inaugurated, as he will be,
| shall continue to pray; but then shall feel
as the Scotch minister in Glasgow felt when
required to pray for Prince Charles, who had
come in arms from France to displace the
reigning house of Brunswick, and regain the
throne Of his ancestors. His army had sur
rounded the city, ard his commander in. CHIEF
sent word that they mu st pray for the Prince.
The ministers were loyal to the reigning king,
but they must pray for Charles. So one old
Scotch minister, when Sunday came, prayed
in this wise: snow, Oh Laird, as fo- this
Prince, who has come hther seeking an
earthly crown, we pray Thee, Laird, that
Thou wilt speedily give him a heavenly one. "
Roars Of laughter. So, after Lincoln's
Inauguration, if it please God to give some
heavenly commission to fancy and his asso-
ciates, shall submit to the dispensatlen OF
Providence. [Great laughter and cheering
If we cannot DO it in four years, We will do it
in eight years, or twelve, or sixteen, or twenty.
| Applause. DO not suppose any body expects
that the forbearance of a long suffering God
will endure these Judges longer than that
Laughter More than that, we will add to
the Court; we will add to tie number OF
uuhSSs LIZ claw SbotCS l0FC uOW AtC
Judges, and the free States have four. Judge
Mclean, single one of the free State Judges,
has more business in mis- circuit than all the
Judges in the slave States have together.
[ Applause. We will add to their number.
We will look this inf -rnsl power of slavery in
the eye, without quailirg or blanching; and,
while we violate no claim of the Constitution,
and do nothing that's illegal, violent or rev.
| do insist, in the name Of the
sovereign people, that there is no wrong in
the administration of government which we
cannot remedy in constitutional modes by our
votes. Tremendous cheering]
We will elect our man; we will inaugu, ate
him, and if there is any attempt at disunion,
which nobody save towards threaten, and
which no one breads except the same class
applause If Wise fuses and busters and
gallops around as he did when he threatened
to march upo1 TIE Federal Capital, companies
of Wide Awakes will rise up in his own State,
as well as in the North, and organize them
selves in defense of the Constitution and the
Union; and, my word for it, before an army
of these young patriots, t. e disunionists will
scatter like chatf before the wind. They will
run to their hiding places. Already, their
fears have pictured these Wide Awakes with
pixies ON the end of their lamp poles. We
will elect our man, and, when we elect him,
tell you we will inaugurate him, and he shall
the government. He will replace
the Judges as they die; and we will add to
their number, if they won't die. Laughter. !
We will bring back this government to such
an administration as our fathers had. We
do not want to injure one plank, not one
pulley, not one shroud, nor spar, nor streamer,
On that old Ironsides, the Constitution-the
Ship of State, that our fathers built. We
want to drive out the pirate crew that have
possession of it; we want to wash off the
blood from its decks, and throw overheard the
nanacles and letters; tear down the pirate
lag of slave-Democracy which now floats
black and portentous, and run up the stars
md stripes of freedom. We will put "Old
Abe' at the helm to guide her, and as soon
IS his hand touches the wheel she will sweep
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