The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-12-13
WHO Is REsPONsIBBLE.


room for any comments this week.
WHO Is REsPONslBBLE.
The question ss to who is responsible
for the present trouble 10 the Southern
States, is one that naturally arises in the
mind of every man. Our whilom Demo,
cratic friends tell US that it is all in con-
sequence of the election Of Mr.. Lincoln
to the Presidency Of these United States.
Suppose it is SO. is there any just reason
for complaint? DO the Republicans
propose to interfere with the rights Of
the people at the South! Not at all
1t is true that the President says in his
message that The long continued aud
incorporate interference Of the North
cru people with the question Of slavery
in the Southern States" has caused all the
discomfort. But then everybody knows
that what the President says is not true.
There is not a respectable minority Of
"Nor,hsrn people" who wish, in any
manner, to "interfere with slavery in
the Southern States" Judge Dough-
IN recent speech in Lyuchburg, Va,
said he "believed that the continued
existence Of the Republican party, and
the inauguration of its policy, were in
compatible with the existence Of our Ma
tional Union" To show that the state.
ments as above made are false, We have
but to refer to the Republican National
and State platforms, and to the speeches
, Of all Republican statesmen. While the
statements Of Buchanan and Douglas are,
at the North, knorn to be false, at the
| South they are believed to be true. We
D have no doubt that large portion OF the
people at the South believe that Mr.. Lin
e coin, as soon u, he comes into power, vii
. march into the slave States with an arm,
d to free all the slaves, that MIR. Hamlin
IS our Vice President elect, is free negro
J. and thousand things equally rs prspos
e ferrous. Now who is to blame for thl
g state of things? Not the Republicans
1t surely, for they have every where denie,
if them. But of what avail are these deui
t. ais when papers containing them are ~
h allowed to circulate in the South, an
n when men who would tell them differ
>. emily ars hung or driven out from thei
j. midst, while papers containing such false
" hoods as those above referred to, can an
c. do circulate at the South, and MIR. Dou!
pit where We contend therefore, that it
ly such Democrats as the Q. p. F., and s
lie A d., aud the papers in their confidcnc
A. aud that contain their stories, and thos
Of like unto them, that are responsible =
ct They have induced the Southern peop]
"a to believe all these stories as true aud ar
Or the cause of all the trouble.
e. We believe that tina, there is class
ID politicians At the South who, kno ing /.
N these things to be false, are anxious =,
III break up this union. They think tina,
r Southern Confederacy with I" free trade
D. in slaves as in everything else, will Gu,
- all their ills. This is true Of a sua
r class, and they make use of the rrescr
re opportunity to excite the masses to trea
1t enable acts. The election of NJ. Lin
10 coin is not the cause Of the excitemen,
Of but it is'the opportunity seized upon b
'r the Southern re-eaters, aud the dough
G. faces Ct the North have aided them i
n every possible way. Had the Prcsidsu
70 or Mr.. Douglas been the statesman thei
& friends claim them to be, instead of tn,
1t dcmagogues that they are, they would, 0,
l. all proper occasions, have told the Sou.l
d just what the principles aud objects o
e the Republicans are. If the Souther.
e people knew these, they would not be al
d armed but joyous at our success. Ths
!, they do not know our prit cipIes is no
J. our fault but the fault of those who hav.
, mlsreprcsented US. Upon them should
and will rest the responsibility
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