Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-07-20

the Republican party. We make the follow
ing extracts from the speech:
BY the lao Of slacery, man created in the
image of God, fearfully and wonderfully
made, with scnsibilities Of pleasure and pain,
with sentiments of love- with aspirations for
improvement, With sense OF propTiety, and
with a soul like ourselves, is Invested of his
| human character, and declared to be mere
chattel" to ill intents and purposes whatso-
ever" 4 do hot stop to give at length all its
odious words; you are doubtless familiar
with them. But in this simple definition is
contained the whole incalculablc wrong OF
Slavery for out Of it, as from an inexhausti-
bic fountain, are derived all the unrightcous
prerogatives Of the master. These are five in
number and / know not which is most re-
voting. - n'Af as <5'aAs
First, there is the pretcnsion that man can
hold property In man, forgetful that, by law
older than all human law, foremost stands the
indefeasible right Of every man to himself.
Secondly, the absolute Modification Of the
relation. Of husband and pifs, SO that all who
are called slave are delivered over to concu-
binage or prostitution, may be with each 9TH
er, or it may be with their masters, but with
whomesoever it may be, it is the same, for
with slaves marriage is impossible, as they
are always I. coupled" never married.
Thirdly: The absolute nall iJfcation of the
relation Of parent and child; for the infant
legally belongs, not to the mother who bore
it, but to the master who bought it.
FoMrthly: The absolute denial of instruc-
ton; for the master may always, at his own
rude discretion, prevent his victim from learn
ing to read, and thus shut upon him those
gates of knowledge which open such yistas
in earth and in heaven And
Filthy: The absolute robbery of tile labor
Of another, and OF all its fruits; forgetful that,
man has title to himself, he has also title
itself to a sacred property, which no person,
however called, whether despot or master,
can righteously appropriate.
The actual number of shareholders was for
a long time unknown, and on this account
was naturally exaggerated. twas often rep
resented to be very great. On one occasion
a distinguished representative from Massa-
chusetts, whose name will ever be cherished
for his devotion to human rights mean the
late Horace Mann rudely interrupted on
the floor Of Congress by member from Ala
bama, who averred that the number of slave
holders was as many as 100000. At that
that time there was no official document by
which this extravaganza could be corrected
But at last we have it. The late census, ia
ken in 1850, shows that the whole number of
this peculiar class-embracing men, women
and children, all told, who are so unfortunate
as to hold slaves, was only $4,000; and of
this number, the large part arc small slave
holders, leaving only $1,000 persons as the
owners Of the great mass Of slaves, and the
substantial representatives of this class. And
yet this small Oligarchy, odions in origin,
without any foundation in that justice which
is the essential basis of every civilized associ-
alton, stuck together only by confcderacy in
all the fire henoed wrong of Slavery, and con-
shutting in itself a Kagaum Latrocinium, has,
by the confession Of one of its own leaders,
for sixty years governed the Republic. To
this end two things have concurred. First,
its associated wealth, being the asserted value
of its human flesh, constituting a flagitious
capital of two thousand millions of dollars !;
and secondly, its peculiar representation in
the House of Representatives, where, under
the three-fifths rule of the Constitution, nine
ty-nine members actually hold their seats by
virtue, in part, of this fiagitious capital Thus
are the slave-masters an enormous corpora
ton, OF joint stock company, by the side of
which the United States Bank, with its petty
thirty millions of capital, and without any pc
culiar representation, is dwarfed into insig-
nifcance,
feel humbled when dwell on the amaz-
ing disproportion of Offices, usurped by this
Oligarchy. From the beginning, all the great
offices Of the Republic--the Presidency, the
Vice Presidency, seats in the Cabinet, seats
in the Supreme Court-seem to have been al
most perpetually in their hands. At this mo-
ment, the Free States, with double the popu-
lation of the Slave States, have only four out
Of the nine Judges of the Supreme Court !;
and Of these four, it must be said, three are
Northern men with Southern principles; and
in the humber places at the Departments, the
same extraordinary disproportion prevails
Out of the whole number there employed, 81
are from the Free States, but mostly with
Southern principles, and SOC from the Slave
States. These instances are typical. There
is nothing in the National Government which
the Oligarchy does not appropriate. Down
to this moment, it has held the keys of every
Office, from the President to the humblest
Postmaster, compelling all to do its bidding.
1t organizes Cabinets, It organizes Courts.
It directs the Army and Navy. It manages
every department Of public business. Itp pre-
sides over the censns. 1t controls the Smith
sonian Institution, founded by the generous
charity Of a foreigner, to promote the inter
ests Of mankind. And it subsidies the ma
tional press, alike in the national capital and
in the remotest villages Of the North.
In maintaining its power, the Slave Oil
gharchy has applied a test for office very diff.
erent from that Of jefferson: SIS ne honest?
Is he capable? Is he faithful to the Consti-
tution9'' These things arc all forgotten now
in the single question, which signalizes the
great change which has taken place. Is
he faithful to Slayery?' With arrogant os-
tracism, it excludes from every national office
all who cannot respond to this test. So COM
plete and irrational has this tyranny become
that at this moment while I now speak, could
Washington, OF Jefferson, or Franklin, or
John Jay, once more descend from their
spheres above, to mingle in our affairs, and
bless us with their wisdom, not one of them,
with his recorded, unretracted Of opinions on
Slavery could receive a nomination for the
Presidency from either branch Of the Diyi-
ded Democratic party, or from that other
political combination known as the Union
nsrfv. nor STRANGER still cn,Id either nf