The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-25

been cheated in the statement and argument.
lie states popular sovereignty he says the
people NAV have slavery or not, ms they
please, and from that what docs he argue p
he question OF self government. Whoever
denied that2 Whoever doubted she right
Of the people to govern themselves, since its
organization? No man that ever heard OF,
out OF bedlam? lLaughter.l What does be
mean by squatttr sovereignty? or popular
sovereignty If yol piease,--for am willing
to give him oil the benefit OF bis own lam
guage He means the right of the people by
q vote OF the people TO enslave men. That
ia popular sovereignty. When you come to
the real giss and kernel OF the thing tear IF
it's coverings ard DISCUSSES and reach the
vital principle. il 10 that when one GLASS of
men get together, and vote another class OF
men into slavery, 1t is all right. What do
you think about it, Judge2 81 don't eare?o
ILaughier.l But | do caro-: care whether
| am voted into slavery or not. deny the
right OF this vast multitnde--I deny the right
of the thirty millons Of Americans deny
the right of all :, e teeming millions Of earth
to vote me into slavery. loud applause. -
Never never can il be dome! Great enthu
siasm.1 am my own man. So far as my
right to life and liberty is concerned, did
not get il from Congress or Parliament;
did not get II from the Democratic party;
did not get il from any evil spirits whose
nam Ga commence with the same initials as
the Democrats. Loud laughter and cheers.
have my right to life and liberty from the
eternal God who made me, and every other
man derived that right from the same source.
Applause.l What 10 Democracy This
Dem ooracy says that tho popular vote can
take right away, and once taken away the
act is sanctioned and upheld by all laws hu-
man and divine. | deny it; say it is
wrong however it may be perpetrated. Why,
mothers, what do You care how you are
robbed OF your babe? The question 10 not
how 1t is done the outrage 10 that it is done
at all. No matter whether il is done by an
individual, or by a conspiracy Of many indi
viduals in community agreeing and con-
certng according to the forms OF law, il the
poor babe 10 torn from your heart, that is the
unspeakable wrong-not the manner 10 which
it il perpetrated. [5reat checring.l And
Dou sas don't care! [Uproarious laughter. !
NV friends, when you bear Of popular SOW
eroignty remember it does not mean the right
| OF the people to govern themselves. We do
not propose TO take away from the man 60
| Jog over the ferry into Kansas the right Of
self government. We propose to take away
| from bin there, and everywhere that the
| federal government has jurisdiction, the right
/ of keeping another man against his will
(Great applause.
And this, citizens, was the doctrine OF the
fathsrs-the prohibition of slavery n the
Territories Of the United States. They erect.
Cd a wall of freed IN along the southern bor-
der OF Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and oil this
vast territory west of us. DO you see the
strong barrier Of freedom built by them
across the continent, and stretching away up
the sides OF the Rocky Mountains until il
rests upon the summit of that lofty range
freedoms wall built by our fathers! Who
mada breach in it? Who broke down the
wall? Who opened the gates, and made /,
Mt least possible for slavery TO enter, and
take possession OF that ground, the msgnif
! cent domain that God bad made for freemeni
The Democratic party under the leadership
~ Judge Douglas. What did you do it for
!, Judge? You ha, heard him give the reasol
thousand times, have you not Always
10 every speech, hear he makes the sam
quotation from The Nebraska bill, giving III,
: reason why no repealed the Missouri Com
promise alt being the true intent and m "a II
ing of this bill not to legislate slavery int
any State or Territory, or exclude it there
J from, but TO leave the people thereof per
fectly free TO egllate their domestic insti
!, tasions in their own way, subject to the Con
stitution of the United States" The inim
liable mimiery Of Judge Douglass name
: with which the speaker recited this passag
. provoked shouts { [ laughter from the aud
I. euce
y Perfectly free! Yes, vote it in, or vote
o out. But that is delusion--that 10 ohea
q which has been exposed so often that a,
}. almost ashamed to expose it again. Indeed
u feel il is sort Of dsrepect to the dead,
+ talk about this Democratic party any NOR
! Great laughter Leave the people Their,
y Of perfectly free.' say that IL not true
y If there are eighty thousand people in liar
J, sas, and they oil vote to keep slavery on
10 then what2 IL IL vslid2 Judge Dougla
v you know, says: "Suhiect to the Constit,
q, ton" What Constitution, Judge2 II
IN Constitution that our fathers gave US? n
70 d bit of il. The Constitution which JudJ
he fancy has given 10 in the bred Scott dec
re sion? fAppaust Now What! The &c
er ritoria law IL enacted prohibiting slavery.
u A Shareholder comes and takes possession
d portion OF the territory. The slave su
~ for his freedom, saying: I'll claim my fro
o. dom, by virtue OF being brought into to
ritory where there 10 no law TO make In
" slave, but positive enactment declariI
IT. that shall not b. a slave" What follow,
e. Judge fancy drives him away from the ha
II, of Justice, kicks linn out, saying "You ha
SD no right to appear here. You are not q
in ixen Of tho United States in any such sen
re as to entitle you to be party to a suit
on the courts Of the United States.o IL not th
'r- correct? IL not that the bred Scott de-
ms ssiop? [Cres Of Eyes," "yes."1 How .
nd be appear, then? lie 10 met at the VI
us Threshold of that court Of justice in Il
He Christian and civilized land, and from I
OF shrvelled lips OF that superannuatcd
he mummy OF a Judge, he 10 told that he ca
'at sue at oil. (Applaase.l You say these I
al hard words. know they are--l cannot b.
! it. My soul 10 moved within me, that