Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-10-12

States by saying they will give their tiauc
and traffic, buy their silks aud their linens,
and other trumpery, provided they can buy
their principles in the sale and the bargain
must be struck, | said, there shall be, ir,
those new free States i'm the North west, men
who will say, we will buy your silks and lin
ems, and your trumpery of every sort, we
will even buy more, and pay you quite as
well, provided you do not bctray your prin-
ciples. Applause.
All this was simply restoring the balance
of the Republican system, bringing in q coun-
ter force in favor Of freedom to counteract
the established political agencies Of slavery.
You have heard that have said that the last
Democrat is born in this nation. Laughter
and applausc say SO, however, with the
qualification before used, that by Democrat
mean one who will maintain the Deaocratic
principles which constitute the present creed
of the Democratic party Hear, hear; we
understand it" and for the reason, a very
simple one, that slavery cannot pay any lon
ger, and the Democrat does not work for
anybody who does not pay. Great applause. |
! propose to pay all kinds of patriots, here
after, just as they come propose to pay
them fair considerations if they will only be
true to freedom. propose to crafty all Their
aspirations for wealth, rs much as the slave
States can.
But, fellow citizens, we had no party for
this principle. There was the trouble De
mocracy 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 onc---n the limited sense of
the term. Cries Of" Good" "Good, and ap-
p,la, ,,f <l,n A
can party, If not equally an ally of the Slave
party in the South, was at least, treacher-
Gus and unreliable party for the interests of
freedom. That's SOL Only one thing was
wanting, that was, to dislodgc from the DEM
ocratic party, the Wing party, and the Ma
tive American party, men enough to consti-
tuse Republican party-the party Of Free
dom. IApplause.l
And for that we are indebted to the kind
ness, unintentional, no doubt, of your distin-
gushed Senator, now candidate for the
Presidency, Mr.. Douglas [laughterl--who,
in procuring the abrogation of the Missouri
Compromise, so shattered the columns Of
these parties, as to disintcgratc them, and in
stantly there was the material, the preparation,
for the onslaught.
Still there was wartcd an occasion and
that occasion was given, when, in an hour Of
madness, the Democratic party and Admin
istration, with the sympathy, or at least the
acguicsence, Of the Old Line Wings and the
Native Americans, refused to allow the State
of Kansas to exercise the perfect freedom in
choosing between liberty and slavery, which
they had promised to her, except she should
exercise it in favor cf slavery. Then came
the iiour. We had then, fellow-citizcns, the
material Tor a party; we had the occasion for
q party and the Republican party sprang
into existence at once, full armed Twill
never knowingly do evil that good may come
fit; | will never even wish that others may
do evil that good may come Of it; and for the
simple reason that know evil to be certain,
and the good only possible or problematical.
But no man ever rejoiced more heartily over
the birth OF his first born. than did when |
saw the folly and madness Of the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise, and the rejection OF
Kansas. fApplausc.l These acts, / said to
myself, are the doings of Presidents, of Sem
ators, of Judges, of Priests and Of Dcacons
and when the Republican party organized it.
SELF, Il said now is the work complete Good
Good II -
How much have been chccred in this long
contest, by seeing that only stolen, surrcpti-
tious advantages were gained by slavery, in
the form Of rescripts and ediets and laws on
the statuts-book while the cause Of freedom
brought in first California; next, New Mexi.
co, with her constitution claiming freedom
next Kansas; pext. n inneieta: and next Or