The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-10-11

whole world and | saw that the time had
come when men and women and children
were departing from their homes in the east
ern States, and were followed or attended by
men, women and children from the European
nations,--all of them crowded out by the
press Of population upon subsistence in the
older parts Of the world and all making
their way up the Hudson River, through the
Erie Canal, along the Railroads. by the way
Of the Lakes, themselves in mighty foo |.
over Michigan. Iowa. Indiana. and Illinois.
and even TO the banks of the Mississippi. |
knew that these conluestS were plant
iny town every day, and State every three
years. needless and unconcerned as they
were, thinking only Of provision for their
immediate wants. of shelter and lands to till
in the Vest knew the interest which they
would have when they should get them, and
and that was. that thsy should own the land
themselves TCries of "good, good" and ap.
plauScl- that slaves should not come into
competition with them here. Renewed
applause. ....
So. as they passed by me, steamboat load
after steamboat load. and railroad train after
railroad train. though they were the hum
blest and perhaps the least educlted and
least trained portions Of the communities
from which they had come, knew that they
had the instinct Of interest, and below and
deeper than that. the better in tinct of JUS
ticp. Applause. And said. will trust
them, | will trust these exiles; nv faith md
reliance henceforthis is on the poor, not on the
rich; on the humble, not on the great
T Applause. Aye, and sad it was to confess,
H., ,t I r
trust not in my native countrymen, but |
put it in the exile from foreign lands. He
has an adherence for, and he has never been
accustomed to, slavery by habit. Here he
will stay and retain these Territories free.
+ [Applause.
was even painfully disappointed at first.
in seeing that the emigrants to the West, had
no more consciousness of their interest in
this question, when they arrived here, than
they had in their native countries. The
Iristman, who had struggled against op-
preston in his own country. failed me: the
German seemed dull, stupid and unconscious
Of the duty that devolved upon him. This
is true but nevertheless. said that the in
tereSt and instincts Of these people would
ultimately bring them out. and when the
States which they plant and rear and fortify
shall apply for admission into the Federal
Union, they will come not as slave States but
as free States. Applause. 7 looked one
step farther. | saw how we could redeem
all that had been lost; and redeem it. too, by
appeqling to the very passions and interest
that had lost all Hear, Hear.
The process was easy. The slave States
Of the South had demoraIized the free States
Of the North by giving them pre>ilencies.
scc"e aryshipS, foreign missions, AMI post
offices. And now, here in the Northwest,
we will build up more free States than there
are slave States. Those free States having
a common interest in favor of freedom. equal
to that of the Southern Slave States in favor
Of slavery, Will offer to Pennsylvania, New
York Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New
Jersey objects worthy their ambition. [Ap-
plause And today, see the very realiza-
ton Of it all. can give you advocates for
freedom in the Northern states, as bold, as
out-Spoken, as brave, and as rnfident of the
durability Of the Union, as you can find for
slavery in the Southern States. Ave, and
when the Southern States demoraizo the free
States by saying they will give their trade
and traffic, buy their silks and their linens,
and other trumpery, provided they can buy
their principles in the sale and the bargain
must be struck, | said, there shall be, in
those new free States in the North west, men
who will say, we will buy your silks and
linens, and your trumpery of every sort, we
will even buy more, and pay You quite as
well, provided you do not betIay your prin-
cipIes. [Appiausc.
All this was simply restoring the balance
of the Republican system, bringing in a
counter force, in favor Of freedom to coun-
teract the established political agencies of
slavery. You have heard that have said
that tue last Democrat is born in this nation.
Laughter and applause, say so, however
with the qualification before used, that by
Democrat mean one who will maintain the
Democratic principles which constitute the
present creed of the Democratic party
/" Hear, hear; we understand it," and for
the reason, very simple one, that slavery
cannot pay any longer, AMI tie Democrat
does not work foranybody who does not pay.
Great applause. propose to pay all kinds
of patriots, hereafter, just as they come.
propose to pay them fair consideration if
they will only be true to freedom. | pro-
pose to crafty all their aspirations for wealth
as much as the slave States can.
But, fellow eitizeas, we had no party for
this principle There was the trouble Dem
ocracy was the natural ally of slavery in the
South. We were either Wings, or if YOU
please, Americans, some of us, and thank
God never was one--in the limited sense of
the term. Cries of Good Good" and
applause But the Wing party, or the
Amer lean party, ii not equally an ally of the
Slave party in the South, was, az least, a
treacherous and unreliable party for the in
terests Of freedom. That's so. Only one
thing was wanting that was, to diSlodge
from the Democratic party, the Whig party,
and the Native American party, men enough
to constitute Republican party-the party
of freedom. Applause.
And for that we are indebted 10 the kind
ness, unintentional, no doubt, of your dis
tinguished Senator, now a candidate for the
Presidency, Mr.. Douglas laughter who,
in procuring the abrogation of the Missouri
Compromise, so shattered the columns OF
these parties, as to disintegrate them, and
instantly there was the material, the prepar-
alton, for the onslaught
Still there was wanted an occasion,
and that occasion was given, when.
in an hour of madness, the Domo,
cratic party and Administration, with the
sympathy, or at least the acquiesence, Of
the Old Line Wings and the native Ameri.
cans, refused to allow the State of Kansas to
exercise the perfect freedom in choosing be-
tween Liberty and slavery, which they had
promised to her, except she should exercise
it in favor of slavery. Then came the hour.
We had then fellow citizens, the material
for party we had the occasion for a party;
and the Republican party Sprang into exist
ence at once, full armed. viii never know
inely do evil lint good NAV cnme nf Il. l