The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-04-07
coRwIN on CALEB CUSHING AND MAYOR
WOOD.

WOOD.
In speech at Waterbury, Conn.,, last
week, Tom Corwin, who is stumping Con.
necticut in the track Of Fernando Wood and
Caleb Gushing, got Of the following
He dare say that Mayor Wood would try
and prove that Thomas Jefferson didn't be-
lieve what he wrote on the subject of
Slavery. [Laughter.l Possibly there might
be Mayor Of New York who didn't know
any better. 1t was decided in 1910 that
whatever State Government could do for
q State, Congress could do for Territory.
Such was the decision of the men who made
the Constitution. Did they know what they
meant by the instrument2 Was John
Marshall and the Supreme Court in 1910
ignorant Of the scope of the Constitution?
He should like the Lord Mayor of New York
90 into the Cabinet Of Monroe, and find the
answer to the question, 'Ilas Congress
power to prohibit Slavery in the Terrific
RES" james Monroe, q slav eholder, a
Virginian, said Congress did possess the
power. DR.. Fernando Wood, who came up
here to teach Connecticut, thank God, knew
move than the founders Of the Constitution,
and could reveal the truth. Laughter
Nose of these men were Lord Mayor of
the City of New York. Renewed laughter
and cheering.l II John Quincy Adams were
to give his answer now as to whether Con.
gress has power in the Territories, DR..
Wood would say, Who 10 this Yankee /?
Was he ever Mayor Boston? Oh! be couldn't
have known much" Laughter.
No, we were asked now to throw aside
the teachings of the Constitution, to tram
ple on its precepts, and bow down to the
dictates Of the demagogues. Applause.1
What did they hear from Caleb Gushing
why, that Moses favored Slavery. Moses
was an Abolitloniss, because Moses killed
an Egyptian white man because he found
him killing Hebrew nigger. Laughter
Maine Liquor Law in force, 90 he laid down
after drinking too much, and had very
remarkable nautical adventure-ands 80 Ham
became slave. (Roars OF laughter.] What
did the Bible say9 He would rely on it
until he got some better revolution from
Caleb Gushing or the Lord Mayor of New
York. [Laughter.] He would suggest to
Caleb that, although it was better for the
negro to be slave, it was not better for
the white man. He would ask Caleb and
the Lord Mayor OF New York, Are you
the sons Of Japhet ?" eyes" "Was
Japhet brother of Ham?'' YES" Is
the negro a son of Ham ?'' ssYes." "::Then
the negro isyour cousin" Laughter, long
prolonged.] And he would ask Caleb and
tho Lord Mayor, do you think it is treating
your cousin like gentleman by sending
bis wife to Alabama and his children to New
Orleans ?n (Laughter.l He would remind
them that the army Of United States Mar
shals that pursued the fugitive to the prom
ised land were swalled up in the Red Sea,
and that the Fugitive Slave Bill was 70.
pealsd. Tremendous applause.] There
were arguments to be found in the Bible
for both sides. As the bubblins groan Of
the doomed pursuers rose up, the song Of
Miriam--the ssaail Columbisn of that day
was borne away ON the wind. He should
have been glad If the Lord Mayor and Caleb
Gushing could have been at the scene.-
Laughter and applause.