The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-20
atty; patience % becomes the strong in con-
tention With the weak. Applause.


tention with the weak. IApplaase.
ID leaves the subject OF Slavery in th
slave States te the care and responsibility Q
the slave States alone loud cheers --abid
ing BY the constitution OF the country, whic
makas the slave States on this subject cove
reign; and, trusting that the end cannot b
wrong. provided that il shall confne itsel
within ito legitimate line OF duty, thereb
making freedom paramount in the Fedora
Government, and making it the interest o
every American citiaen to sustain it a. such
know that the Republican party will sue
ceed in this, because IL 10 a positive and a.
active party /, lie the only party In tn,
country that 10 or can be positive in its 40
ton. You have THREE other parties or forml
Of psrtiss, but each of them without th.
characteristics OF party You are Il
choose. THE citizen ia to choose between th,
Republican party and one of these.
Try them now by their candidates. Mr.
Lincoln represents the Republican party
Hearty spplsuse.l He represents q party
which has determined that not one NOR.
slave shall be imported from Africa, or
transferred from any slave State, domestic
or foreign, and placed upon the common soil
of the United States. lCheers. IL you
elect him, YOU know, and the world knows
what you have got. Take the case Of MIR.
John Bell, an honorable man, . kind man
and very learned man, a very patriotic
man; = man whom | respect, and in social
intercourse quite as much AZ anywhere else,
as hero where my word may be regarded as
simply complimentary; but what does Mr..
John Bell, and bis constitutional Union
what 10 the name Of bis partys Constitu.
tionat- Union, is it not? Laughter. -
hf oil nd 10 4
Union party propose on this question: lie
proposes to ignore it altogether; not to know
that there IL such question. " we can
suppose such thing possible as Mr.. Belps
election by the people, what then? lie ig-
nored the question until the day Of election
came, but il will not stay ignored. Kansas
comes and asks or demands 10 be admitted
into the Union. The Indian Territory, al so,
south OF Kansas, must be vacated by the
Indians, and here at once the Shareholders
present the question as they will also do in
the case Of New Mexico. Ii will not stay
ignored; " will not rest Ii cannot rest. You
hare postponed tho decision for four years,
and that is all. Postponing does not settle it.
When defending lawsuits, have seen times
when thought won great advantage by
getting an adjournment, laughter but !
always found, nevertheless, that it was
great deal better to be beaten in the frat in
stance, and try il again, than to hang nv
hopes upon an adjournment. Rencwed
laughter and applause
Take the other: Mr. Breckenridge repre-
senss party that proposes a policy the very
opposite OF oars. They propose to extend
slavery and to use the Federal Government
TO do IL. Let us suppose him elected. viii
that satisfy the American people [cries of
"Eo, no ~ Will that settle the question
l"No, no !nl That is only what Mr.. Buchanan
has already done. And ii | should put
vote to this audience, ! am sure should get
no vote of confidence in Mr.. Buchanan. No,
no, no!l That 10 OF course. But If were
TO go into Bell and Everett National Union
party meeting, as vast ms this, and ask for a
vose OF confidence 10 James Buchanan, they
wouldtsay No, just az emphatieally rs you
do. In the demonstration for Mr.. Douglas,
whichris to be made hero day after 70. NOR
row shall not be here, aud would not have
the right 10 appear il | were--but any Of you
have the right BY their leave, and you osgbt
not TO do it without, to offer and put TO vote
resolution OF confidence in James Buohan-
an, and you would get precisely the same
negative response that you get here, only
little louder [Applause and laughter. I
.
Breckinridge, because be proposes to follow
10 the footsteps Of MIR. Buchanan, who is re-
Jected. Grant, however, that owing to some
strange Misrepresentation, or some strange
combinations, they may ootain all they hope,
and indirectly, II not directly, make Mr..
Breckinridgc President. Suppose that Mr.
Breckinridge Is elected. Docs that settle
the question in favor Of slavery Then you
Will have the combination, not only of the
Republicans, and the Constitutional Union
party, and the Douglas party, TO drive him
out again, Laughter but you have only post.
poned the question for four years more; and
far more serious, possibly fatal.
You have now disposed of them all except
the Douglas party. Mr.. Douglas party 10
not positive party. 1t proposes just what
the Bell party proposc--to ignore the cues
tion 10 Cangress. That ia Just wha, We tind
the people will not do, and will not be con
tent to do under John Bell. Why should
they like il better under Mr.. Douglas? Mr.
Douglas and his party say there 10 q bette,
way. They don't want il ignored, but .ha,
II belongs TO tho Territories, and they car
settle IT better and more wisely than We can
What can they do? Have they settled ii in
their Territories in favor OF slavery? Are
you, the people OF the free States, going Ia
consent to that IL they were, why did they
not consent TO the proposition Of the Presi.
dent, that the people OF Kansas should b.
subjected TO slavery under the Leoomp,or
ConstisuslonS Then, they said, that wa,
Tho act of the people. But il the peopls o,
Territory shoald decide In favor OF Free.
dom, are the slave States going to acqaiesce;
no, because they have their candidate in the
person OF MIR. Breckenridge TO continue tb,
war until they shall regain the lost battle.
but Mr. Douglas proposition may resui
10 different way. lie says, il ! understand
him rightly, that ii is immaterial to him. Al
least be has no right and does not propos,
TO decide upon the question, whether tho,
vote slavery up or down. daughter Their
they will vote slavery up 10 some Territories
AND vote II down in some other Territories
That. fhIlnX nitlYnna ILL L.