Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-06-29
Speech Of Gov. Chase.

Speech Of Gov. Chase.
The following effective speech was deliver
cd by Gov. CHASE ct the dedication Of the
Wigwam Of the Columbus (Ohio) Wide
Awakes," on Monday, the nth inst:
eve have gathered together under the
auspices Of the Young Mems Wide Awake
Association to dedicate the Wigwam Of the
Republicans; we have taken an old name
that of the red men of the forest--free as air
I'VE have gathered together to dedicate this
Republican Wigwam Of freedom and truth /;
and although we intend to take no scalps, we
do intend to achieve victory-we must con-
quer, for our cause is just and our trust in
God. We are engaged in the same struggle
that warmed the hearts and nerved the arms
of our fOrefathers in the cause of American
freedom; their contest was for the right Of
the people to govern themselves-their rights
were not in parchments but in the will Of the
Creator. No man is so humble, no child but
is surrounded with an armor of his rights
impenetrable without wrong There is in
every human soul an aspiration for the per.
lection of himself and the government, and
we must do at all times what we can for At
taining that perfection. 1t was supposed by
the fathers Of the country that the insti.u-
ton of Slavery would disappear from the
country; but instead, Slavery has been for
titled, and seeks to extend its control over all
the Territories, and control the Government
itself. Under our Republican institutions,
neither Congress, Legislatures, no association
of men have right to introduce Slavery in
to the Territories. That is the fundamental
principle Of the Republican party. The Con-
stitution says no person shall be deprived of
liberty except by due process of law. The
Constitution means to say that no person
shall be deprived of liberty except on fair
trial and just accusation. The principles Of
the Constitution and Declaration of Indepen-
dence are the religion of every human heart.
We don't want our free laborers, men and
women, to come into competition with slave
labor. We don't mean to interfere with
Slavery where it is, but mean to stay it there.
We mean to respect their rights and man.
tain our own Democrats don't pretend to
deny these principles. A few years ago they
inscribed on their banners equal rights and
justice to all men, The abandonment OF
these principles has got them into trouble,
destined them to certain defeat They have
gone to Egypt for help, and Egypt wants to
subject them and make them slaves. They
have hewn out cistcrns for themselves, yea
cisterns that hold no water They are deny
ing the Declaration of Independence, and the
honest convictions of their own hearts. We
believe in the sovereignty of the people, but
Democratic Popular Sovereignty never in
tended to give the people of the Territories
the right to exclude Slavery. The Supreme
Court gives Shareholders constitutional right
to take slaves into the Territories and hold
them there. This is the issue we make-wc
say the Supreme Court has no right to decide
that question. If Court-any Court-de-
cldcs any great political question, the people
have right to reverse that decicison if they
rulers, and, thank God, arc above all Presi-
penis. The Democratic party are like the
conductor who ran into the hind car of his
own train, on crooked road, because he had
one car to many. The Democracy are one
to many-the bred Scot dccision-and pop
ular sovereignty locomotive run into it, and
all is smashed to pieces. The Republicans
ask for homsteads for the citizens in the free
territorics-for Pacific Railroads. Protect
i've Tariff, and privileges to Naturalized citi-
zens, treating them as brothers. Lincoln is a
man that will carry out these things. His
life is one Of the best lessons of the charac-
ter of our Republican institutions born to
no inheritance but poverty clear head, a
good heart, and protecting providence, under
Republican institutions, he has been able to
achieve for himself the highest station in the
world, the nomination Of the Republican
Party for President Of the United States"