The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-10-24

70 the trlumpn OF action, united to put
down Northern Abolitionism and Southern
Secession. A voice, "we'll do it again ~
and applause. So effectually were these
men crushed out, North and South in 1851
that the next year when the Whig party
assembled at Baltimore in National Conven-
ton to nominate candidate for the Presi.
dency they passed resolution approving
OF the principle of non-intervention as af-
firmed in the compromise measures Of 1859
! and the Democratic party the same year in
National Convention adopted the same prin-
ciple as part of the Democratic faith
Thus you find that only eight years ago
every Whig and every Democrat in Amer-
ca stood pledged by the platform of his par
ty to carry out in good faith the principle
that Congress was not to interfere with the
question of slavery but that the people were
to decide it for themselves Applause I
Now let me ask you my fellow citizens. why
cannot every man in Iowa who was a Whic
eight years ago remain faithful to the prin-
ciple Of his party as thin declared. "a voice
I am an old Whig and 'T still stand nv
then.') Why cannot every Democrat who
then stood by that principle remain faithful
to it? My friend before me says he was
Wing then and that he now stands bv the
old Wing platform on this question, he is a
consistent man. 1t is true that YOU Whies
and we Democrats used to quarrel about the
Bank, the Tariff distribution, the specie cir
cular and the sub-treasury. but we never
quarreled on the principle of non-interven.
ton by Congress with slavery in the Ter
ritories That was plank which was COM
mon to the Whig platform and the Demo
cratic platform we stood together on that
plank and fought about other ouestions.-
All those questions on which we differed
have passed away; the country has out.
grown them; they have been consigned to
history; let the historian write the story,
and let posterity judge which was right.
Cheers would no longer enter into a
discussion of those old issues between the
Wings and Democrats now than I would
enter into discussion about Jetferson's S
embargo laws or his gun-boat system. -
Laughter and applause. I choose to deal
with the living and not with the dead Let
the dead bury the dead. [Cries Of "Good"
and applause. | come here to discuss liv-
ing issues, questions vital to you peace,
prosperity and to your safety. The ques-
ton is, how shall we Union men, Constitu-
litlonism and Southern Disunion, and thus
save the country. Remember that the
Father of his country, in his farewell ad-
dress, told his countrymen that sectional
parties were the greatest evils that could
beiall this land. Are we not exposed to the
very dangers against which he warned us !?
We now find two sectional parties in this
country, the one Northern and the other
Southern, the one appealing to Northern
passions and Northern prejudces against
the Southern people and their institutions,
| and the other appealing to Southern pas
sions and Southern prejudice against the
Northern people and our institutions; the
Northern Republican party demands that
Congress shall prohibit slavery wherever
| the people desire to have it; the Southern
| secession party demand that Congress- shall
/ Interfere ana protect slavery wherever the
people do not want it. Laughter and ap-
plause.] The Republicans tell you that they
do not care about prohibiting slavery where
| the people are against it, for the reason that
they will prohibit it themselves wherever
they are opposed to it. Renewed laughter
and applause. On the other hand, the
secesSionists under the lead of Mr.. Breck-
'nridse, tell Us they do not want to inter
terlere with slavery except when necessary.
When is it necessary in their estimation for
Congress to interfere to maintain slavery ?
Not where the people are in favor Of it, for
wherever the people want slavery, they will
protect it themselves through their local
| laws. ''That's So" and applause Hence
these breckenridge men only desire Con-
greSs to interfere with slavery where the
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| (Great laughter and cheers)
How long can the peace Of the country
be preserved under either of these section
| al parties? They are attempting to divide
the American people by geographical line,
and to rally all men north of that line under
| one banner and all the men south of that
line under another banner and to array them
in deadly conflict against each other
There is wonderful sympathy between the
Lincoln men and the Breckenridge men
between the Northern Republicans and the
Southern Disunionists founded on princi-
| ciple. In fact they agree in principle; they
agree first that Congress shall control the
slavery question; they agree, second, that
when Congress does decide it, that decision
shall always be against the wishes of the
people interested in it; they agree, third
in renouncing and repudiating the old non.
Intervention and popular sovereignty tc
which the Democrats and Wings stand
pledged, agreeing thus far they differ only
as to which way Congress shall decide the
question. The one wishes to have Con.
gress decide it against the South and in ia.
yor Of the North, and the other desires to
have Congress decide against the North and
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mined to always keep the question in Con
gress.
The Democratic party is pledged to the
non-intervention of Congress on the sub
ject of slavery either in the States or Ter
ritories. A voice, "That is what will give
us peace" and cheers. All conservativ,
men are pledged to the doctrine of non-in
tervention, while on the contrary Northern
abolitionists and Southern secessionists art
both interventiOnists, hence we see that al
over the country the Republican leaders
and newspapers prefer Breckenridge te
Douglas. On the other hand all the disu
nion papers Of the South prefer Lincoln te
Douglas. Laughter The sympathy be-
tween Lincoln and Breckinridge, and thu
aboltionists and the disunionlsts is more
than theoretical, it was practical in Main.
when the whole power of the administra
ton was brought to bear to elect rcpubli
can Governor. Cheers. 1t was practica
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana when al
the Breckenridge men under the admins
tration, voted the republican ticket. Crie.
of shame on them. Our republican
friends are jubilant over the victories &C
quired by the Breckenridge men and them
selves in those States. Let them shout, fo
the time Of their rejoicing is short. Laugh
ter and applause. Remember that at tn
State elections in Maine. Pennsylvania
Ohio and Indiana, there was no Breckin
ridge ticket; and hence their whole fore
could be given directly to the republicans
Remember, also, that in those very State