The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-18

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twelve wears all DEBATE on the subject O
Slaxarv4 or The PRESENTATION of the suhiee
hy the people, even in the form OF petition
! was repressed and trampled under foot, AMI
remained there till John Quincy Adams
last rallied q party around him strons
enough to restore freedom OF debate In th
House OF Representatives. What wonder i
il that within the last year, in the very fac
Of the organic ton and the onward march
of the Republican party, the Administration
Of the Federal Government has actually, b,
its officers, appointed in compliance with thu
dictat ton of the Shareholders, abandoned tht
Federal mails to the inspection and sur.
veilance of the magistrates Of the slav,
States so that they may abstract and DOM
NIT TO the flames every word that any mar
may speak, however eloquent, able, truthful
or moderate, in the halls of Congress agains,
| Slavery and in favor of freedom.
! This, fellow cisizens, is your government.
This lie the condition in which we are placed.
| | am sorry to say but like to be truthful
that have no especial compliments for
you Of illinois, on this subject; for in this
long catalogue OF extraordinary concessions
to Slavery. under the influence of fear,
think the very hrst protest that ever came
from the State Of Illinois vas as late as the
year 1855; after nearly all these atrocious
concessions had been made, and we were
brought to the neoes sity Of going back and
undoing the mischief that had been DONE
You sent two Senators to Congress you in-
sisted on extending the Wilmot Proviso over
the Territory acquired from Spain. How
did they do it? They voted for the Wilmot
Proviso under your instructions, and then
voted against ID without instructions when il
came TO the practical test. | think you made
no protest until MIR. Douglas demanded one
single and last concession "for the purpose
ga he said, sol excluding the whole subject
from Congress-" That was the abrogation
of the Missouri Compromise, containing the
restriction for the protection Of freedom in
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska -
Then you sent a noble representative to the
Senate in the person Of Judge Trumbul.
loud and prolonged applause. A voice
"We'll send him again."l Yes, send him
again. 1--WE will; we will."l | marveled
when rose here before you to day and saw
this immense Assem- blage-which no edifoe
but only the streets of Chicago could hold
[cheers and laughter, and wondered how
IL would have been had come here in 1850,
or even down to any later day before the alb.
rogaton q the Missouri Compromise.
But, fellow citizens, let by-gones be by.
cones. have seen the time when | had as
little courage and rs little resolution on this
subject as ost of you. | was born into the
demora ation-I was born a Shareholder.
and have some excuse, which you have not.
All these things were done, not because YOU
loved Slavery, but because you loved the
Union.
When Slavery became identical in the pub
liz nd with ha IT HON al
even for patriotic men, to approve of, or to
at least excuse and tolerate Slavery How
odious did it become for men to be Freesoil.
ers and be regarded as Abotionists, when
to be an Abolitiopis was. in the estimation
of mankind, to be d traitor to one. country?
low natural Was il then to believe that
Slavery, after all, night not be so very bad I;
and ~ believe that il might BIO necessary nd
might be right at some tune, or on some
occasion, which times and occasions were al +.
WAYS a good way off from themselves. Els.
pecially, bow natural was it, when the whole
Christian Church, with all its scots, bent
itsef to the support OF the Union, mistaking
the claim Of Slavery for the cause Of the
Union.
How extensive this prescription for the
sake and the name Of union, has been aud is
w tAlH days YOU MlAi see AT OHGN @Heu 4
tell you that there is not in this whole Re-
public, from one end OF it to the o her, a
man who maintains that Slavery shall not
be extended, who c,n secure at the hands of
his country, any part In the administration
Of it's government, from tide.w waiter in tn
Custom House, or "a postmaster in "a rural
district, TO Secretary OF State, Minister
IN foreign court, or a President of the
{trsfAl Ha.U aanii yn ,b, +.
"a people, every one Of whom is born with n
possible chance and fair expectation of
being something perhaps President " the
United States would resist The demoralza.
ton prosecuted hv such means? And when it
becomes heresy, FOR which man 10 de-
prlvea o. position 10 an ecolesiastical sect
to which he belongs, how could Jou expect
that the members OF the Christian Chur hes
would be bold enough to provoke the oen-
sure OF the Christian world Above all
our constitution designed to give us our
frame Of government, as we have always sup
posed, was so established that ii did
give Us Judiciary which cannot err, which
must be infailible, and must not be disputed
And whom the Judicial authority, which has
the army and tho navy, through the direc.
ton or the Executive power, to execute its
Judgments and DEGREES, pronounces that
every appea! male for freedom is sedi.
tloas, that every yllable 10 defence Of iiber
" Is treason, aud the natural sympathy We
feel for the oppressed is crime while tina
/ body Is unwilling, or at least unable TO bring
TO punishment one single oulprit out of tn,
thousands Of pirates who bring away slaves
/ from Africa to sell in foreign lands-hoa
could you expect a simple agricultural PEG
/ pie such as We are, TO be so much wiser ant
better than our Presidents and Woe presi
dents, Senators and Representatives in Con
gress, and even our Judges.
have brought you down, fellow citizens
TO the time when thls demon alization was al.
most complete. low assured its ultimat,
success seemed. alter the eomnrom;sc :
1850, you will learn from fact wh oh hav
never before mentioned, but which | vii