The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-08
speech of Ex-eovernor Dixon.

man, Ex-Gov. Dixon of Kentucky address
ed the audience His speech was mainly
intended to show the impossibility of pre-
venting the spread of slavery. He an
nounced the startling fact that slave labor
could not he prevented from competing eve
rywhere with free labor; that slavery could
not be confined; it was bound TO expand, and
you might as we'll attempt to stay the cur
rent of the Mississippi river as to keep slave
ry within any specified bounds. He went
on to state that the slave population of the
South already numbered about 100000,
and was increasing with wonderful rapid
ity. The South was even now cramp-
ed for room and must have an outlet
Whilst the slaves now numbered 4,0O0, 900,
but few years would elapse before they
would reach 100000 if they continued
4 to increase in the same ratio.
Now here is a practical question for our
laboring men and mechanics. If 100000
of slaves are already crowded for room in
Is slave States, containing as large an area
of square miles as the entire free States
which sustain a population of 100000
where is the ground TO come from to sup
port Sontherners when their slaves number
2O,O0o,oOO? Gov. Dixon leaves US to infer
from his speech that slavery in the end is to
overrun every foot of this continent Here
we have man telling our people in one
breath that slavery is bound to expand;
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in competition with free labor; and, in the
next, that he is in favor of the people of
Territory de ciding for themselves whether
their Territory shall come in slave or a
free State. If the laws of slave expansion
are irresistible, how can the people of
Territory keep ii away from them? +? 1t is
very evident Gov. Dixon thinks they cannot
do so, and lie goes for Mr.. Douglas be-
cause-as that gentleman stated in his last
speech in the Senate-his doctrine of popu-
lar sovereignty has made slave territory
sufficient for the formation of five slave
States of the size Of New York.
Tie Elk Governor then proceeded to draw
a frightful picture of the civil war that
would he sure to ensue in case Lincoln was
elected. This harp of Il thousand strings
is a very convenient one with which to
frighten the tinid and the Elk Governor
played on it with consummate skill before
that audience of women, children, and men
with sensitive pocket-nerves. Says the
! Ex-Governor, in an impressive peroration,
=" If this Black Republican party succeeds,
civil war will come. Dissolution will en-
sue. Brother will be turned against brother,
and father against son. This beautiful city,
4 situated near the border, will bear the brunt
| of the disasters that will follow. Your
/ houses will be burned over your heads;
your wives and children will be murdered; +;
/ your men will be shot down in the streets ;;
your property will be despoiled,n and the
Old Harry was going to be to pay gener-
ally. We really thought Elk x-Governor
Dixon above these little theatrical tricks
enacted for the purpose of creating sensa-
1 ton, but were mistaken in the man.
! The Ex-GoverCors party have been
claiming to be Union men, and have been
charging disunion on the Breckenridge
men But now it seems that, on the au-
thority of this originator of squatter sove-
reignty and leader of the party in this part
of the country, the Douglasites intend to
dissolve the Union if Lincoln and Harln
are elected according to the Constitution.
The Enquirer seems to endorse his speech,
Does it so understand the designs of its
party We want the people to know ii, if
the Douglas party also IS Disunion party.
Mechanics and farmers: how do you like
the prospect presented for your considera-
tion by Ex-Gov. Dixon ?-the unlimited
expansion of slavery, and dissolution Of the
Union and civil war in case of the tri-
umph of party which says to slavery,
Thus far shaltat thou go, and no further,
and here shall thy foul waves be stayed =
Will you support the party which Ex-Gov
Dixon represents; or will you sustain the
Republican party in its determination to
restore the country to the policy of the
Fathers of the Republic, and to preserve
the Territories for the use of free white
men? ei
Slavery can and must be confined to its
present locality, or white men must con.
sent, ultimately, to leave this country alto
gether, or be overruu by negroes. Gov
Dixon and his party seek to spread the in
stitution Of slavery over the whole conti-
neut-to force it into the free States as wei
as into the free Territories Yet they pro
fess to be in favor of letting the people &c
as they please in regard to it! What ar
rant political hypocrites and impostors.