Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26

repudiate it. tramp!e il beneath my fest,
even As they do the holy Declaration OF indie
pendencs. I 60 back to the bottom OF it.
That Is what they call my radicalism, because
l 70 back to the root Of the thing. They
call me very hard names. They say I have
horns. Perhaps it is because I gore them so.
Laughter.]
Know very we'll that the African race as
Q race is not equal to ours know very
we'll % . matter of fact, that in regard
to the great overwhelming majority, this
government may be considered in Q
certain sense o government of white men,
but say that the theory of our government,
contrary to the old theory of despotism, that
kings rule by divine right, is that all men
are entitled to those natural rights which the
common God and Father gave them by an
inalienable title. And when these Democrats
come chattering their miserable nonsense
about negro equality, l am not going to b.
driven from these everlasting foundations of
human freedom. Twill not give mp the glo.
rious Declaration of Independence, which
comes to u. bsptised in the blood of the
purest patriots that ever lived, because there
is q miserable prejudice against the colored
man. l will not do it. call up here the
shades of the mighty dead-Jefferson, Wash.
ington, Franklin and Jay. l array them
against these modern Democrats. hold the
doctrines they held. defend the principles
they advocated and struggled for, not with
ballots alone, but in fiercer strife, with bay
onet end bullet, fighting, bleeding and
dying in the sacred cause OF universal liberty
and the equality of men. Applause.
AVoIoE-What about the fugitive slave law?
Mr.. LovEJoY.-Well, will come to that
soon. You remind me of it when get to it.
[Laughter] lwaat to bring back the men
and women of this country to the spirit of
the olden time, and indoctrinate them with
the principles of our fathers-that liberty
is the universal privilege of men. l want
to re>assert and vindicate, as far as l can,
those everlasting principles-that Magma
Charta, not of British rights, but Of human
rights. want to see those. principles car
ried all over the world-to triumph, in their
power, their grandeur, and in their living
force. Let them 60 back to the old world
and unshackle the oppressed people of beau
tiful Italy let them smile on Hungary, and
disenthrall its millions let them penetrate
Russia, and iberate its millions Of serfs let
them encircle the globe with glorious Re.
publics modelled after ours and when the
| temple of universal freedom shall have been
finished, and its top stone shall be brought
in amid the shouting of the liberated people
of all lands, when the American Republic
stands first amid the nations of the earth
this Declaration of Independence-this Mag
ma Charta of all men-will be written higt
pillars of the temple of liberty. [Grsat ap-
plause. But the doors will be forever bar.
red and bolted against these miserable Dem
ocrats, who scout the rights of men, and
talk about My Gur>reat Pur-in ciple. Pro
longsd applause.
Now. my friends, some one asked wha
about the Fugitive Slave Law. If thought
l were not trespassing too much upor
your time-[loud cries of go on, 90 on, J
I have nothing to say about men, l an
talking about everlasting principles, in the
presence of which individual men sink into
nothing. BY the way have spoken to you
about negro equality; now l want to talk
about NEGRO stealing" and that will bring
me plump to the Fugitive Slave Law. Twill
not dodge anything l never mean to hole
my tongue. fyou, American citizens wan
to crawl and cringe, and skulk and dodge
around and over American soil, under thu
stars and stripes, beneath the Constitution
and hold your tongues to secure your per
sonal liberty, you may do i'll never will
Immense applause.
Negro stealing! You know Douglas say
that Abe Lincoln undertook to Abolitioniz
the old Wing party and Lyman TRANQUIL
undertook to Abo'itionize the old Democratic
party, and then they were to lead them int
the Abolition camp to be baptised by tina
Abolition high priest Lovejoy, daughter,
and Lovejoy was negro stealer. What did
that meana That just shows how these mel
have forced their nomenclature upon us
When they say NEGRO stealers" we SAY
NEGRO stealers." The shareholders say
negro equality" then all the Democrat
echo negro equality" and you take it up
"negro equality" lave you any manhood
If you have not will appeal to the woman
hood of this country. Cheers and laughter
You may remember when Franklin wa
asked by British minister, if so man,
British troops, red coats-and the Democrat
have adopted the red coats because there i
no party so like the old Tories as the mod
ern Democrats-he asked can so many rec
coats march through the colonies Franklil
replied: eff they behave themselves ant
pay for everything they purchase, they car
march unmolested, but let them take
single chicken without paying for it, and i
the men are all gone, the women will turn
out with their brooms and sweep them int
the Atlantic. Laughter Now, ladies', i
these men will not vote slavery down, if you
| let them 60 and vote with the De:nocrats
we will make you hold your tongues [Nlucf
merriment. A lady shakes her head. You
think it can't be done. Prolonged laughter.
But if the men do not vote it down and clear
out of sight this sham Democracy that i,
| doing all it can to unmoor the government
and convert into an old despotism, l ask
the women to sweep them into the Atlantic
or into Lake Michigan, if it is deep enough
to bury them and their sins. Laug hter
Negro stealing What has Loveioy
done and what do the Republicans do, tina,
they should be charged tn negro stealing?
| will tell you, ladies' A poor white girl, Of
remote African descent, but without one
particle OF that descent visible in color or
feature, comes flying to my house, like a
dove pursued by hawk What is her
story That she was betrothed to a man
Of her race, though not of her color that
e was sold by her master, then in want OF
money, to libertine down South, whose
greedy eye had seen and fancied her; that,
hearing of it, she had escaped and fled
What then did Lovejoy do ? He pointed to
the North star, shining afar off, and to a
country where her virtue would be in her
own keeping and not at the canrica of har
master-where she might rest from her pur-
suers. That is what Lovejoy did, and lie is
. negro stealer [Great applause The
Democrats cry out negro stealing and
poor thin skinned conservatism, ..resigning
all title to manhood, except what it receives
from its tailor or mil!iner, stammers out, II
am not . negro stealcr: | didn't help the flu.
gitive slave.' Well, did. I told them
yes, as you may remember Il told them in
Congress, when they wanted to know whether
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