The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-08-02
The Slavery Question 10 be put on; of Pol.
ties. and How.
From the New Yer. Evening Post!

corruption of the people on whom he op-
crates, which can be para!eled in 10 9th
cr country. Of American demagogues
the most distinguished of his class in
these particulars, the man who is most
indifferent about what he says if he can
make it serve his Immediate purposes,
and the man who presumes most upon
the Ignorance aud thouchtlessness OF the
great mass ofsociety,is Stephen A. Doug
las, at this present speaking sturping
New Eng gland fer the Presidency.
We may add, further, that one Of the
most remarkable displays Of his supcrla-
tive assurance aud presumption may be
found in the speech he delivered iu Bos-
ton on Tuesday night in the course of
| which he said:
" For years the slavery question has
excluded ether matters of national impor-
tanco from Congress If you ask your
representatives why measures were not
taken to increase the revenue, instead of
authorizing loan, the response is that
there was no time to do it--Do time to
pay your honest debts. If you ask why
there is no Pacific Railroad, why there
is no overland mail route, and no mail
steamers, you are told that there was no
time to attend to these matters. The
slavery question occupied all of the time.
Thus the commercial shipping, agricul,
tural and manufacturing interest are neg
lectcd for want Of time, because of the
slavery question. There never will be
time, unless you Danish the slavery qucs-
tion from the halls of Congress, and refer
it back to the people according to the
platform Of the Democratic party"
vi course the speaker must have as
sumed that lis hearers and readers had
forgotten that he had been for ten years
and more the most active miuister to
slavery agitation in Congress that he
contrived and negotiated the plan for the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and
that he was one of the very first to take
what he deemed the short cut u the
Presidency, showing that in devotion and
servility to the slavery interest he stood,
like Saul in Israel, a head and shoulders
above ai his countrymcn. He must
have assumed that this was all forgotten,
or never known. or if known and remcm.
bered, that very few of the New England
people really felt rs they profcssed to feel
in regard to it. and that it waq merely an
accident that Massachusetts, sent a man
of Charles Summers political cpl ions to
the United States Senate, instc.I Of one
who would stand quietly by aud see an.
other senator like Charles Sumner ben,cn
over the head and nearly killed by ruff,
an, while discharging his Official duty.
But though it is the psychological pc.
eullarity OF dcmegoeues to suppose every
body as indifferent in matters Of pviuci.
pie as they are themselves, aud great
deal less intelligent, their actions arc rot
on that account less worthy Of being
watched, nor their utteranccs Of lcin.
studied. Their instincts for the detec.
tlon Of change in the currents of public
opinion arc wonderfully acute, and in that
point Of view this speech of Douglas is
significant
lie has discovered that the negro
strain which he and his partisans have
been playing SO long is no longer "dul. |
Get melody at least in the Northern
States, and that the slavery question
must be put out Of politics. In this he
Is undoubtedly correct. And SO it will
be, but not by him OF such as he SO
long as the holding interest can
make or mar the fortunes ola politician
SO long as its alliance is deemed essential
to every man who a&pires to polite:
career, so long the slavery agitation will
be the most prominent feature of Amcri,
can politics, Every aspiront for fedcra!
honors will do ~ as Pierce, Douglas
ana buchanan did, contrive some scheme
by which to prove, each, that his deyo-
tlon to slavery surpasses that ,f his com
competitors. All the slavery agitation
in the country, since the annexation of
Texas, has had just this origin and 40
other. But for the struggles Of men like
Pierce, Douglas aud Buchanan, and such
as they, to do something to concentrate
upon themselves the support Of the pro
slavery power in the countr, which las
always moved as a unit, ard by its unity
held the balance Of power in the nation,
meme Of the slavery issues which have !
maui 6o AuSh paa oiOOu III luC CDuutTy, |
during the past ten years, could have BE- !
come primary questions. They would !
have dragged along like the Pacific !
Railroad OF the tariff question, and finally .
have received such disposition as would
have satisfied the country without any
excitement in any quarter.
1t is obvious, therefore, that until this +
charm, which is supposed to invest slav-
cry in America, is broken until Presi.
dent is once chosen in defiance of it; un-
I'll politicians see that they can reach .
high ho1ors by deserving them, and with
out joining the servilc crew who believe
tina. friends of freedom can never recover
power in this country, because their eff.
orts have been SO frequently and uni
iormly baifled until the federal govern
ment receives northern exposure, and
its patronage is one of recognized rewards
OF devotion to the cause Of freedom as it
has been hitherto for devotion to the in
terests Of slavery, it will be impossible to
accomplish what Mr.. Douglas profcsses
TO have SO much at heart, buc which he
has done more than anybody else to
thwart, expel the siavery question from
politics 1t is only by eIccting Repub
licen President and dissipating the faith
which is still felt in the extreme south.
ern federal policy, that the motive for
forcing slavery issues can be removed, .
and with the motive the nuisance itself.
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