Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1860-10-31
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nay friends, hare oeganied nearly nj
n Fhe time which nay voice viii allow ii tfi
- yandteation against d vile charge. wfl
say, howsves, fsw words on the genera
y topics With which I commenced nav "a
a marks, lCries Of ego onl''l repea
fnat fhe Democratic party stand pledges
y 90 tine dostrine that khe slavery auw.fioy
4. % to be bsniahed from the halls of Con,
Fsss, and referred to the peoule Ia tb,
: satess and also In the Territories to dc
u Jass as they please, limited only by ths
Constitution. lOhears.I Why can We mo-
aAawcshs people Of tha farritoriss to set.
! 80 thss qasasions Tha Rapahlicans ssy
i that they are willing that the people ii
STATES shall have slavery or not, that they
. NAY yote IL up or vote 1t down, lust a.
! thsy please Aus they cannot extend thai
Iprfyliege 10 the people os the Territories.
y Aad sanes have used the expression Of
/ voting slavery up or votsng il down, 4 be-
feES viii expose another instance of un-
2 fafr1ess and Misrepresentation. In mv
: flsst speech against the Lecompton Con-
stftation, | denounced 1t, because il was
: not the set and deed Of the people Of Kan.
: sAs. - - =
| isaid that If the peopla of Kaasas want
cd TO have slave Stats they had right
. 70 have IT, and II they wanted free State
4 they had right to have IL; that 1t was a
question for them 10 decide themselves,
and no power on earth had right TO in
teFfere with that decision. | then refer
red 10 the fact that was urged to wait
until the elections took place on the sIav-
cry clause, three Weaks afterwards. and 1
Went On to show that that vote could not
have the slightest effect upon nv action.
4 Tor the reason that was against the con-
/ stitution, whether that clause was voted
up or voted down. In that connection
sasa cared net whether the slavery clause
vas voted up Or voted dawn. for the rea-
son that was against it, either way
lCheers. Now, would YOU have suppos.
90 taaas W. H.. Seward, Senator from
New YORK, who was present and listened |
TO my speech, would dared to have chang |
ed it and perverted II SO IS to represent |
me as saying that did not care whether
slavery vas voted mo or voted down
Cheers.l Would yon have supposed that
Abraham Lincoln would have been guilty /
OF the trackery Of thus changing nv mean |
ing2 A voice, ssthsy did not know bet
aez." Yes, hey,did know better They
knew that the idea expressed in that
declarations WAS, that whether the slavery
clause was voted up Or voted down. made
no difference as to my opposition to Le-
compton. ls'That's it, we understand
you," ke-l ] expressed 20 opinion about
ne merits Of slavery. On that question,
hold that every people on earth have q
right TO decide for themselves, whether
they viii haye slavery or not. fCheers. !
Who are the people of the Territories,
that they are not capable of seIf-govern-
mentK Are they Ros your brethren and
oar kindred e. We're thev not ca
rabas - rsvrufife ifesss sup5ag sl.zy ivPs
sssu ola ktasaa . Did they loose all the !
sense, all the virtue, and all the capacity :
they ever had when on their way to the I
Western woridE [FtEot bit of it.''I Ii Z
Is but few short years since you, people |
OF Wisconsin, lived under q territorial /
government. | knew you well when you I
we're territory. Ii Is not many years I
since wrote the bill with nay own hands :
that admitted you into the Union. PRO 4
louged applause. I
thought you about as intelligent. +
about as honest, about as capable of maxi
ing your own Laws and establishing your 4
own institutions then, as now. [Cries of c
''taat's 50, and applause.l lean pyrdon Il
he iguorence Of che people of the old d
States for their waak Of intelligence la re- O
gard 70 our Western people; but | can
have no patience with the Republicans in /,
Wisconsin, who were 20 recently claiming ;
zndeE q territorial government, rights r
Ehieh they now deny 10 their brethren in |,
he territories. Is il true that man loos- h
- all the sense he ever bad when he leaves I,
lis old State and goes to territory. clears Il
he wilderness, lsys ous his own farm, 6
1uiids bis own house, plants his own or a
:hardss makes his own fences and splits :
ais own rails Z Great lgughter and an. n
,Ianse,1 Is it true that after the people n
lave left the old States and got into .,
erTitory, they are any the less capable of !,
elf government thaa when they started ID
rom home2 ['FNot q bit"1 Mr.. Sew 8,
nd tells you ii bis recent speeches that
he people of the States possess all the n
lights of self government that he desires: 8
nd he then goes on to explain what those ID
tights are. He says, you have the right 4,
Iot onLy to make laws fer your own gov a
rnment at home, but through your neun- "
'ers OF Congress, to govern the territories n,
ut side. Thas is what MIR. Seward calls Il
Lss US inquire what our v
athers Of the Revolution called il. The -
ories of Great Britain not only claimed
be right 70 make laws for their own gov ~
rnment at home, but through their mem .,
'ers OF Parliaments to govern the Ameri.
an colonies without giving ns repre- a,
Our fathers called that tory a,
sm. Laughter,l They denied the right
4 the British people to make laws govern n
ng the domestic concerns of these colo =,
lies, without giving Us representation. ii
The tories of lT76 insisted upon the a
light, and the revolutionary war was the al
esults. Following she example of the to- n
les, the Republicans Of this day, urderI 5,
be Lead Of Mr.. Seward, adopt the same ~
Ezioiple and alsim that the people Of the Il
satas haye 3 right khroagh their mean II
ers Of Congress, ID govern the terrific Il
les without gfving them any representa- v
I've in Oougress. The Democratic partv | n
enfed that right, and they deny the JUS il
lee OF its exercise, If the right exfat. Wei ai
Lain that the people OF the territories n
hoald BE- allnwed 10 naake their own Laws y
ssablish their own Institutions, and man "a
&c their own affairs In their own way, II
nbjees 20 no other Limitation than ths il
Constitution, which applias alike 10 aheI
tatss ~ 10 the territories. [Ghsers. l--
eonclasicn lot ma ask, why not drive i,
nls slavery question out Of Congress p Il
Vhaa gaod has its agisssion done 7 Haa =