Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-09-28
Questions to be Decided.
speech OF carl schurz I'm New York.

Az the late very large and enthusiastic
gathering Of Republicans ct the Cooper In
stitute, New York, the Hon James o.
Ptnam, one Of the Republican electors at
large for thc State, closed brief but pow
erfuI speech with the following graceful
compliment to that eloquent and fearless
champion of Freedom, Carl Schurz, of Wis
consin;
N'But am keeping you too long from
banquet compared with which mine is but
as husks contrasted with the suppers of the
gods. My eloquent friend, who lighted the
torch of his genius at the fires of a freedom
which in Europe, in 184S, famed to the
heavens, which now is not smoth-
cred, but slumber in the great deeps Of
Gods providence until the hour and the
man shall come, has learned on these
shores which have welcomed him that lib
erty brings her richest offerings to the
shrine of genius, which, in turn, pays to
liberty its homage and its worship
ICheers.l 94l'Ei E/t Efit
The appearance Of Mr. Schurz upon tho
stand was the signal far an outburst of ap.
plause that was almost terrific in its vehe-
mence, and it was somo time before the Or
ator was allowed to begin bis address,
which fills nearly ten solid columns in the
Tribune. 1t is the most telling speech of
tho campaign, and has been issued as po-
litcal tract for circulation among the people.
We present such extracts as give some Of
the points and pith of the scaLhing dis
course:
DOUGLAS AND THE COMPROMISE.
In 1920 the Missouri Compromise was
framed as sacred compact between the
two sections of the Union. BY virtue Of
that compromise Missouri was admitted as
a slave State, and Arkansas as q Slave
State; and thus the free North, as one
party to the compact, paid down its price
for the slavery prohibition north of 36 deg
80 min. Was Mr.. Douglas ever heard 10
express any doubt as to tho constitutional.
ity of the Missouri Compromise so long as
it served to augment the number of slave
states 1t was to him as it was to all 9th.
ers, "sacred and inviolable compact, as
sacred and inviolable as the constitution
itself; and he cursed the "ruthless hand
that would dare to break it down. When
after the Mexican war, the territories ac
quired for this Union were to be organized
he was among the first and foremost who
advocated the extension Of the Missouri line
across the whole continent. What would
have been the result of that measured II
the territories acquired from Mexico slavery
was abolished and prohibited by local legis
lation, but the extension Of the Missour
line was calculated to admit slavery int
all that part of it which lies south Of 81
deg. 80 min. Mark we'll: So long as The
Missouri compromise served TO introduc,
slave states he did not dream of its uucon
sttutionalty. When, by the extension o
the Missouri line, free territory could b.
converted into slave territory, he found j
so eminently convenient-so excellent nj
arrangement, that he not only proposed II
preserve il in its original extent, but to ruT
it across the whole continent, to the shore
of the Pacific ocean.
But now the time arrives when free States
are to grow up under the guarantees Of th
same Missouri compromise. A new ligh
dawns upon Judge Douglas. He rises il
the Senate chamber and asserts that th
territory north of the Missouri line can n
longer be exempted from slavery, becaus
the exclusion of slavery from 1.-THE YER
condition on which Missouri was .admilte,
as slayc State--was at war with the fun
damental principles of the Constitution
The same man who had cursed as ruthles
the hand that would violate the Missoul
compromise, as long as that compact wa
beneficial to slavery, tore it down with hi
own hands as soon rs it was to serve the il
terests Of free labor. And he is tho trues
champion of freedom" How wonderful
a changel AT the time when he propose
the extension of the Missouri line TO th
Pacific Ocean he was either convinced {
the unconstitutionaity Of that compromis,
or he was not. If he was, how could
conscientiously propose the extension an
peFpetuation Of measure which he conSc
cred crime against the Constitution2 o
if be was not, how did it come to pass th'
he became so suddenly convinced of thu
unconsttutionality the very moment th'
the preservation and execution of that con
promise would have advanced the interes
of free laborl How did it happen thi
his convictions, with all their prompt an
wonderful transformations, always coincide
so admirably with the interests of slavery
This is indeed most astonishing coinC
dence, and leave it to your sagacity
draw your conclusions
DOUGLAS LEooMPToN DODGE.
After reviewing the history of the Ka
sss iniquities the orator continued =
It so happened that just about the tin
when the Lecompton question was befo
Congress, Douglas time as a United Stat
Senator was about to expire. He kne
we'll that his popularity at home resLc
upon the popular belief that he really d
work for the Ccanse' of free labor. Ho
stupid must the man have been not to s.
that, saddled with the Lecompton constit
ton, it would have been impossible for hi
to keep up that delusionl So he assume
the mask Of an advocate of the popul
rights; coquetted with the Republicans,
order TO disarm their opposition, and we