Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-09-28

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l- opinion for what they are worth. [Lauphte,
presume | am generally known, at least /
you farmers who read the papers, as farme
2, to be in favor of thoroug Inbred stock all IL
% time. Laughter. I am in favor of whit
man marrying white woman, and, in ord,
that you Democratic editors may not go ava
and say did not deny that was for a whit
woman marrying black man, will add tn
! other side of the proposition :: 1 am in fave
4 OF the white woman marrying the white mar
1 Applause. More than that am in fave
j OF the red man marrying the red woman an
: the red woman marrying the red man; al
= IN favor OF the black man marrying the blac
! woman, and the black woman marrying tn
black man. But am opposed = utterl
+ opposed-to the white man owning his owl
! wife and tho black mans wife also. [Lou:
Q applause and laughter. Much as | love tn
. women, and no man loves them more, I an
. opposed to all that. Leave everybody free t,
E love whom they please but, when they max,
choice, pin them down by the marriage tie
: 10 not 60 Oft into Mormonism-that abomin
> alton which you, my Democratic friends, have
l all sanctioned, allowing it to stand there
Q through long term of years. True, vol
, once did march an army out there to put il
, down; but, when you approached, Brigham
. Young came out with some Of his army O.
saints, and perhaps some of his wives, to NEE
| you, and the result was that you made ;
peace and turned back. Laughter. There
is man in Ohio-a Mr. Campbell-who has
joined the Union party because we did not
put protest against polygamy in our
platform. Most pious Lewis D. Campbell!
But are you Democrats not ashamed OF
yourselves Look at the reports of the
census of 1850 two hundred and sixty
thousand mulattoes, or thereabouts, south of
Mason and Dixon's line, and not single
Black Republican reported from there in all
that census. Laug ghter] There are none
there so far as l know, unless it is myself
Renewed laughter. ..
THE REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE AND AIM.
Let us take the whole proposition at once.
We are opposed to the existence of slavery,
and we sum up our reason for it in word,
not my words or the words of my party, but
the words of our fathers-that slavery is
wrong to the slave and curse to the white
race wherever it exists. [Applause.1 Has
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And we say there should be national wall
erected to prevent the extension of slavery;
while we, the people of the slave States, will
take the question into our own hands, and,
under and by our constitutions and laws, we
will throw it overheard, just as soon as we
can get the consent of the majorities. APP
plause. "Thats the doctrine."] Are you
Democrats in favor of that?. ["Yes, every
time" If you are not, you are for sitting
the popular voice, for an oficious intermed-
ding with our institutions, trying to compel
US to keep slavery when we do not want it.
Yes, and that is what you have been doing all
the time-interfering on the side of the slave
holders to keep US, WHO do not want it, and
the slaves, in common bondage.
HOW SLAVERY AFFECTS WHITE MEN.
Much as l am opposed to slavery on its
own account, as being what Wesley terms
=" the sum of all villainies," still more am
opposed to it because it will not allow my
liberty, nor the liberty of eight millions of
Southern white men, women and children, so
long as it and they exist together. 1t is one
of the eternal laws of God that injustice can
not be perpetrated with lmpunity by indiEid
uals Or nations. We see that slavery is
utterly wrong, and we cannot but see the
other fact, that the same chain which is fast. |
ened to the enslaved limbs of the African is |
attached at the other end to the limbs of the !
white man, dragging him down into the
common ruin. What is the basis of popular
liberty? The profoundest philosophers and
statesmen say that virtue is the only sure
foundation for all republics. When people |
have ceased to be just, they can no longer be |
free. Why? Because the outrage and rapine
which they will perpetrate upon each other
will soon call for strong and despotic govern
ment. Now, what can sooner eat out the
vitality Of the State, or more speedily destroy |
all respect for justice in the breasts of the !
people, than the existence, the legalized |
presence, of such wrong as slavery among |
them? Where a mans wife is owned by |
another man; where he is not allowed to
teach his own children, or enjoy the fruits of
his own labor or the right of intellectual and |
moral cultivation; where everything that he
is, or has, or hopes to be, is subject to the
will of another-if justice is in any way
consistent with such a system, there is no
such thing as right or wrong upon eirth ;
there is no other power under heaven save
that of force, and might makes right. Yet
that is the system and these are the laws of
slave empires and slave republics.
SLAVERY PREVENTS EDUCATION.
The education of the people is necessary to
selfgovernment. The Democratic party holds
out with nine lives, like dying cat, simply |
because ignorance lies at the very bottom of
it, and you cannot get the truth before the
people and make them see and understand it.
In the free States, the people are so much
better educated than IN the slave States, that
the best educated slave State is inferior in
this respect to the worst educated free State.
This is aided, in the first place, where slavery
exists, by the strong competition of unpaid
slave labor with the Tree white laborer. Then,
the shareholders will not permit their children
to 60 along g-side of fnon-slaveholders, for they
work, and work is disgraceful in every slave
State, because there the slave works, and the
man who will work by the side of the despised
slave, who tolls for another without hope OF
reward or elevation, becomes himself the
object of contempt. Labor despised in the
black slave is despised in the white man. The
shareholders separate their children from
those of laborers, sending them abroad or into
seminaries and colleges-not as you, who
have your common school fund, do, to the
common school, where the children of the rich
and poor sit upon the same bend and learn
from the same book. The result is, as l
stated, that it is far more difficult to educate
children in the slave States than in the North.
Then, too, the Shareholders do not design
that the people shall be educated. Why,
three times in the history of my State has
there been provided common school fund;
and three times has the oligarchy of the
shareholders appropriated it to other purposes;
and now, although, by long discussion, we
have compelled them to restore it, they yet
embarrass it all the time, and make it Of
comparatively no effect. So, too, in Virginia
that poor old benighted State-look at the
immense proportion of grown men and women
who cannot read or write And the slave
holders ae proud of that. Your Democratic
| Governor of Virginia. Henry A. Wise. boasted