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

will not accept Slavery; Kansas will never
be slave State" Great applause.
took, then, a deliberate survey of the
broad field /; | considered all; examined and
considered all the political forces which were
revealed to my observation. l sau that
freedom in the future States of this cont
nent was the necessity of this age, and OF
this country, saw that the establishment
| of this as Repabic, conservative of the
! rights OF human nature, was the cause of
| the whole world and saw that the timo
/ had come when men and women and child
rem were departing from their homes in the
Eastern States, and were followed or attend
| ed BY men, women and children from Eu-
ropean nations,-all of them crowded out
| by the press of population upon subsistence
/ in the older parts OF the world, and all ma =
| king their way up the Hudson river, through
the Erie canal, along the railroads, by way Of
the lakes, spreading themselves in a mighty
! food over Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and ILL
nois, and even to the banks of the Missis.
sippi. knew that these omigrants who were
planting a town every day, and State @, cry
three years, needless and uncovered 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 there, and
that was that they should own the land
themselves; [cries of ''good, good" and
applanse;l that slaves should not come into
competition With them here. Renewed APP
plause.
So, as they passed by me, steamboat load
after steamboat load, railroad train after
railroad train, though they were the hum
blest and perhaps the least educated and
least trained portion of the communities
from which they had come, | knew that they
had the instinct of interest, and below ana
deeper than that, the better instinct of JUS
tice. [Applause.l And said, will trust
them, will trust those exiles; my faith and
reliance hencsforth are on the poor, not on
the rich on the humble not on the great
[Applause.l Aye, and sad it was to con-
fess, but il was so. | said, hencef forth put
my trust not ia nv native countrvmen,
but put it in the exile from foreign lands.
He has an adherence for, and be has never
been accustomed to Slavery by habit. flere
he will stay and retain these Territories free.
Applause.
was even painfully disappointed as first
IN seeing that the emgrants 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
trishman who had struggled against oppres-
sion 10 his own country, failed me; the Ger
man seemed dull, stupid and unconscious of
the duty that deyolved upon him. This is
true but nevertheless, said that the inter-
est and instincts Of these people would ulti-
mntely 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 MS slave States, but as
free States. [Applause.l looked enc step
farther. ! saw how we could redeem all
that had been lost and redeem IT, too, by
appealing to the very passions and interests
that had lost all. uear, hesr.l
TO BIS CONTINUED