Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-09-28
Ths Cheating Democracy.

Thu Cheating Democracy.
EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF GEN. NrE, MADE
IN DUBUQUE, SEPT. 2lsT, 1860.
Mem and Women of Io,ca Il am remind
ed of the rapid fight of time, when remem-
Der that four years ago this very month, in q
town in the Southern part of the State,
| stood, till my locks were with the dews
of the night, begging of men of all parties to
vote for Fremont and freedom. remember,
too, with grateful emotions, how quickly you
responded to the call, and how swiftly you
echoed back the sound when the November
election came. You voted then as you will
vote now, and as you will always vote when
a question is presented to you in simple form
between the beauties of freedom and the hor-
rors of slavery. You come from the noun
tains and valleys of old New England; you
come from New York, for see my own
county represented right here before me in
shining face that has loved freedom from the
day he who wears it drew his first breath,
and who will love it with his last You come
from regions Of country where your education
tends to make you prefer freedom; you come
from that portion of the land where the heart
is educated as well as the head, and where
humanity in all its phases, commands large
amount of attention.
have particularly to talk with men that
are afflicted. The sound in health need no
physician; but you have class of men among
you that are sick, and to them I have come
to minister. have come to talk with men
whe were in the bonds of iniquity, and in the
gall of bitterness of the Democratic heart
| RI o,rhfor bnnvu ,.ho< oil va, have
been there myself Laughter I know how
tons. II know what honeyed sweetness there
is in the word Democracy. know another
thing, so do youth your Utmost soul, that
there is frightful difference between the
shadow and the substance of Democracy
Let go Of that shadow, my fellow Democrats
Come, feed little while on the substance Of
the thing. know what the Democrats Of
Iowa have done; for have kept my finger
on the Democratic pulse, on this great ques-
ton, ever since it began to beat unnaturally.
Applause have seen all New England
Il speak now Of Democrats have seen
New Hampshire take the lead in resolutions
drawn by Franklin Pierce himself, declaring
that, as Democrats, they were unalterably
opposed to the extension of slavery into the
Territories that were free. have seen New
York do it, with Edwin Croswell, in Con-
vention. have seen your own resolutions,
declaring, as the Democratic sentiment Of
this State, that you are opposed to the extern
sion of slavery into free Territories.
Were you honest then? Did you mean
what you said exactly? Or, did you mean to
cheat? If you were honest then, are you
honest now? Or, do you mean to cheat now?
Laughter A summersaulting, turning
heels over head, a changing faces so quick
you have brought down upon you what you
most read,-public scrutiny.
When was here in 1856, the cry was
" Hurrah for Buchanan But yesterday his
word would have stood and did stand against
the world Now lies he there Pointing
downward None so poor as to do him rev.
erence. What ais you? Laughter. Why
don't you Hurrah for Buchanan! and the
glory of the Democratic administration Be
cause its odor is not sweet in the nostrils of
an enlightened and intelligent nation. And
therefore, you must hurrah for some other
chief And now hear d" Hurrah for Doug
las, not very loud. Il
We heard, too, in 1856, in Pennsylvania,
and saw handbills posted, Buchanan and
free Kansas" | said to friend Of mine
from Ohio, 1--WE may as well 60 home; this
region of the world is all right, for Buchanan
is a man who has not had circulation of red
blood to his extremeties since 1916. Laugh
ter. But the trouble was, my fellow citizens
it was cheat. You knew better, and so
did T. You held up Buchanan and free
Kansas" because you knew that the the great
beating heart Of this nation was in favor of
Free Kansas. You meant to cheat when you
held out that false token, and you did cheat.
am not going to choose honeyed words.
You did cheat and your sins have found you
out Therefore there must be some change
of tactics. Kansas is free; but not because
Buchanan and his cohorts have not done eve
rything in Gods world to make it slave
State. Kansas is free; no thanks to any of
you. You have stood back with a palpita-
ting heart and your ears bent forward for the
intelligence to come upon the wings Of the
lightning, that Kansas, with her constitution
was admitted, and then the glory of this adj
ministration would have been achieved; then
from your nights, and in the center of your
State, you would have heard the beauties of
the administration extollcd; and then Doug
las would not have been heard Of, and Bu-
chanan would have been President as long as
his pulse beat at his wrists [Laughter.l
A new cheat is attempted under the guise
of Squatter Sovereignty. Good Democrats,
won't you tell ne what it means? Won't
some good man that hurrahs for Douglas
(when his family don't hear him) tell me
what Squatter Sovereignty means? guess
not You don't know what it means-nor
either-nor Mr.. Douglas-and that is worse
yet He don't know what it means, except
one thing. He knows full well it means
cheat. He knows he has got to move in dark
and mysterious ways, or the people will find
him out and he has thrown over him this
gauzy vail OF Squatter Sovereignty, and he
struts about with it as proud as the peacock
with its tail. [Laughter.]
Squatter Sovereignty It cures every i'll of
life. If you have govt in the stomach, take
Squatter Sovereignty. you have pulmonary
affection, take Squatter Sovereignty. What
ever i'll may betide you, carry with you this
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