St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-07-12


with a large delegation, carrying diff
ferent flags and banners, on one of
which we noticed the words, Lin
coin and Hamlin, Union and Temper
ance." An excellent motto.
After dinner, the marshals formed
a procession of gentlemen on foot,
who, with their numerous flags and
banners, and proceeded by the band,
marched to the grove III the suburbs
of the town, where was held the
Fourth of July Celebration, and where
the Convention were now to assemble.
Alb. F. Hildreth, in behalf of the
District Republican Central Commit
tee, called the Convention to order,
and proposed the following gentle
men as officers of the Convention
FOR PRESIDENT,
HoN. JOHN PORTER, of Hardin Co.
FOR VICE PRESIDENTS,
Floyd Connty-Humphrey Hogan.
Mitchell Co... +. English.
Hoacard Goa. NJ. Cowan.
Chickosam Coz. A. Haskell.
WorM CO.. Keller.
Cerro Gordo Co.--C. II. Huntlcy.
Winnebogo Cob. +. Denslow.
Hancock Coo. Pritcherd.
Virgin Con-. S. Hull.
FOR SECRETARIES,
A. B. F. HiIdreth, of the St. Charles
Intelligenccr.
II. &. Snow, Of the Usage Iowan.
w. L. Beach, Of the New Hampton
Courier.
G. NJ. Reynolds, Of the Bradford
News.
j. NJ. Brainard, of the Clear Lake
Independent
Francis Belfoy, of the New Oregon
Republican.
II. Tompkins, of the McGregor Press
The gentlemen above named were
elected, when Judge Porter, on tax
ing the chair, came forward upon the
the platform and addressed the Con.
vcntion in neat and appropriate
speech. Rev j. G. Witted, by invi-
tation, then implored the Divine blcs-
sing. The Band played an cnivening
air, after which the President intro
duced the Hon. Reuben Noble of Clay
ton county, who would address the
Convention upon the political issues
of the day.
Mr.. Noble said:
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens
! am glad to see SO many people as
sembled here to forward the cause of
Republicanism. We have to contend
against a party styling itself Ma
tional party" styling itself Demo
cratic party" and which is yet re.
plete with disunion and notification
Sir, in the late Congress, assembled
at our national capitol, there were
made more than fifty speeches openly
and boldly advocating a dissolution
of the Union and, sir, | defy any
man to put his finger upon a single
Democrat in the National Legislature,
from the leader of the northern De-
mocracy, Stephen A. Douglas, to John
A. Logan, of Egypt" one Of their
lowest, who in his place in the halls
CT Legislation denounced secession
and disunion. They are ready enough
when at home among free constitu-
rncy to dcnounce Southern secession
lists and tire-eatcrs, but when confront
ed by these men, they are dumb before
their masters.
Sir, we have lately had a Democrat
ic nominating convention at Baltimore.
which, being unable to agree upon
men and measures, split in twain and
two sets of Presidential
Stephen A. Douglas, in his speech
accepting the nomination of the
: rump" convention, announce that
unless he, Stephen A. Douglas, was
elected President, the Union would
go to smash-that he stood between
the factionists of the North and South
who were each seeking to rive asun-
der the American Union, and in this
hour Of peril he was its only saliva
ton. These were not his words, sir.
but | give the purport Of his speech,
as any one may know who will take
the trouble to read it.
Now, sir, let us examine this Doug
las Democracy and sec how much it
liffers from Southern, or Slave Code
Democracy.
John Randolph of Roanoke, once an
nounced, in the House Of Representa-
tives, that he had discovered the Phi
losopher's Stonc-it was, Pay as
you go;" and it is good maxim to
govern both domestic and political
economy but in political ethics, the
true Philosophers Stone is, aluavs 10
do right, let the consequences be what
they may. Now, sir, let US take this
maxim and apply it to Douglas and
his friends, for it is with them princi-
pally that we have to deal in this
State. Here they loudly profess to
be opposed to extreme Southern meas
ures /; not because these measure are
wrong, but because they are impoli-
tic for the party-ln fact, will not
AIRY with northern constituency.
OF all the Douglas delegates in the
Charleston Convention, you cannot
point out a single one who denounced
slave code, or any extreme Southern
measure, because 1t was wrong of it.
self. No one in that Convention ever
heard them express such au idea,