The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-10-24
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did not break it down; (great applause and
laughter. they did their best to accom-
plish it. Tappeal then directly to the peo.
pie, not to their passions; not to their pre-
iudices, hut to their intelligence. their pat.
riotism. their virtue, 10 rally around the
Constitution and the Union. We will save
it. T"cood good y and applause and
now appeal TO the people of every portion
Of this glorious Union to put down these
two sectional parties. make tho appeal in
every portion Of the American Union. 7
have done it in New England. Virginia.
Carolina and the West; am going to do it
soon in the cotton States of the South
been to see your mother ri hear a Rep
ublican out there talking about going tn see
my motherl You could not 60 on better
errandwl wish to remind him T went
where his candidate dare not go-to see his
mother. (Shonts Of applanse.) went
down to Old Kentucky where Lincoln was
horn. and there addressed thirty thousand
freeman in the same strains have address
ID you TODAY They charged me to saw
to Lincoln. that Kentucky. his mother. felt
gri"ved at the r"creancv Of her SON. (Great
applause. and voice "three cheers for Lin
coins motherw which were given.) Ken
lucky saws it wounds her pride, wounds
her sensibilitins. wounds her very heart, to
have one Of her native SONS become the
STANDARD bearer Of a party that threatens to
desolate her with fire and sword. Gross
lawful ~ and applause.)
Our Republican friends may not know
the danger Of their own doctrines. They
must shrink, and doubt not they do, from
the horrors Of murder and robbery, and
civil war tell them that their principles
are leading directly to those direful results.
"A voice, THAT'S sor' Another, "John
Brown proves itr'1 recently made
speeches in the valley Of old Virginia, in
sight Of John Browns gallows, in sight Of
the theatre of his treason at Harper's Ferry
and I ask you whether his acts were not
the necessary, the inevitable results of the
teachings of the Republican leaders. IA
voice, Senator Wilson saws so''] There
are many men in the Republican party who
would shrink with horror at the idea that
they were stimulating such deeds, yet they
must remember that when they excite fana-
ticism and passion, and arouse into frenzy
and directed it against another section of
this Union. they become responsible for the
consequences Of the conflagration when
they apply the match. fear that this
Union cannot last unless this sectional strife
is brought to an end ! will do no man
present the injustice to believe that he de-
sires dissolution Of this Union--yet there
are men who are pursuing a course which
leads inevitably to this result, while pro.
Tossing to love the Constitution and the
Union. There is but one mode in which this
Union can be maintained and that is by pre-
serving inviolate every provision Of the Con-
sttution.
Our Republican friends tell us they are
willing to obey every provision Of the
Constitution with one or two exceptions
They say there are one or two provisions of
the Constitution so wicked and monstrous
that their consciences will not permit them
to obev them. For instance, their conscien-
ces will not allow them to carry into effect
that provision which requires fugitive
slave to be returned to his master. They
think that provision contrary to the law of
God-they think that George Washington
signed league with hell when he put his
name to the Constitution. They hold that
God will not smile upon and bless people
living under Constitution so wicked and
monstrOus. Did Divine Providence ever
bless any people on earth so profusely as he
has the American people since we have
lived under this Constitution? 1Cheers. I
Yet the Republicans cannot find in their
consciences to obey the Constitution as our
Fathers made it. 1t is true that no man can
hold office under the Federal or State Gov
erninent unless he takes an oath to support
the Constitution in all its parts. Did you
ever know Republican so conscientious
he would not hold office? Laughter and ap-
plause.l Did you ever know : Republican
so conscientious that he would not take an
oath to support the Constitution, in order to
get office? Laughter. And is it possible
that our Republican friends are willing to
have MS believe that they would take an oath
to support the Constitution, merely for the
sake of getting Office, with the intent after
they got possession of it, to violate both
the Constitution and their oath TCries OF
that's it, and applause. Honest men do
not take an oath with mental reservation
to violat" it. want no man to represent
me in any tribunal on earth, who does pot
consider himself bound by his oath Of fl
deity to the Constitution. [Crics of ''good,"
and applause. Any man whose conscience
will not permit him to obey the Constitution
IN all its provisions, is bound. as an honest
man, to refuse to be protected by it, When
ever my conscience will not permit me to
De faithful to my oath Of fidelity to the
Constitution, will quit the country, and
90 where | am not compelled to perjure
myself, according to my conscience. [Cheers]
| ask our Republican fricnds-not the lead.
ers, but the intelligent rejecting masses
to consider the question. The Constitution,
as our Fathers made it, and under which
was born, is good enough for me, am pre-.
pared to maintain invielate every provision
of it. am prepared to perform every du.
ty and every obligation imposed by it.
What other mode is there by which we
can preserve our liberties? How can we
call upon other men to be faithful when we
prove recreant and faithless? Yet the Re.
publican party insist that the provision ol
the Constitution in reference to slavery SC
monstrous and wicked that their conscien.
cies will not permit them to obey it. Mr.
Seward in his Chicago speech tells us that
the Republican party must accomplish Ger
tain results before it's mission is ended
What are those results He says: at must
secure equal rights in every State, cqua
representation and universal suffrage"
What does he mean by these words
white men now have equal rights-white
men now have equal representation, and
white men now have universal suffrage
And yet Mr. Seward tells us that the mis-
sion Of the Republican party is to change
the system so as to secure equal rights
that is, equality between the white mar
and the negro ROSS again: "awful!"); equa
representation-that is, equal representa-
ton between the white man and the negro
universal suffrage-that is, the right Of thu
negro to vote on equal footing with thu
white man. CA voice: ale ought to b.
lynched.") No. my friend. Seward is thu
able champion, the embodiment, the bes
! Of all the exnonents Of Rennhlican ,,xinci