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

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# Tbsl Douglas wing of the Democratic part
:, has reached the epicurian height of sublim
y Indifference they dont't care swhetho
Q slavery is voted up or voted down, and thei
q cry is non-interyention. .gtIs.ap5 o11cn3go
o The Republican party are for positive in
g terventon. They propose, as our Fathers
8 did, to erect wall of intervention, of ,prohi
; bition, and station the angel of liberty a
] the gate in that wall, who shall keeps watcf
q and ward there day and night, and guarc
3 the Territories against the entrance o.
. OF slavery, as the chorubim of God kept sir
y ont of Eden. [Great iapplause,l We
are for Intervention. The Democracy say
: non, Intervention let it alone; let the
, people do as they please let them have
) slavery or not, as they please. Dolyou re,
, member that the she-wolf of historical no
, toriety, as connected with old But, was a
modern Democrat in her principles, strongly
in favor of non-intervention, and, judge, a
! squatter sovereign = for when old Put. went
to her den, and crawled down to her lair
with tambeau and musket, he found her
crouchlng, squatting on her fore legs, and
: showing her teeth--a true squatter sovereign,
and she desired to be left perfectly free to
regulate her own domestic institutions in
her own way, subject to the Constitution of
the United States. [Roars of laughter and
cheers r ~ E-Et5r.. ~ ssa 1915
1 Some of you, l reckon, will recollect hav-
ing read in the "Lights and Shadows of
Scottish Life, by Christopher North the
description Of a scene that occurred one
genial, soft and balmy afternoon, as the
Scottish matrons were, out on the green,
gathered In social intercourse, and one of the
mothers had laid hegu little infant, in its
clothes, on the green, when a vulture from
the neighboring height, swept down and
thrust its talons into the clothes Of the sleep
ing child, and sailed away to its eyrie. An
adventurous young man started to rescue the
child. He clambered up the mountain by
the help of clnging shrubs and nsheltering
rocks; he reached the vulture's eyrie, where
she set with the child. What then says the
vulture ''Hands off !! non Intervention -
desire to be left perfectly free to tear the
hesh Of this infant as please" [Great
laughter.] This is the modern Democratic
doctrine Renewed laughter. Now, Mr.
Douglas would say, "That is very good
illustration Of Lovejoys, the high priest of
Abolition -[laughter] these are very good
illustrations, if men are to be considered
wolves and vultures, but they are not" l
say they are good illustrations. You know
the rhetoricians say you must not make a
comparison crawl ON all fours. You only
want one point of comparison. have that
point My point of comparison is this -
That wolves have just as much right to steal
and gnaw at lambs, and yultures to tear the
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slaves of their fellow men. [Great and pro.
longed applause.] l ,r-sr
NON INTERVENTION
Non-ntervention Left perfectly free !
Free to do what =? There is more sophism
If you will excuse me the use Of such Ian.
guage-in this high priest of modern DEM
ocracy than was ever before crowded into
any living man, believe for he will state a |
position, not false in words, making a false
impression on his audience, and then shoot
off and argue point he has never stated,
and so blend and mingle the statement and
argument together as to allow the audience
to glide along without being aware they have
been cheated in the statement and argument
lie states popular sovereignty he says the
people may have slavery or not as they
please, and from what does he argue ? The
question Of self government Whoever de-
MED that? Whoever deniei the right Of the
people to govern themselves, since its Or
sanization No man that ever heard of,
out of bedlam? Laughter;] What does he
mean by squatter sovereignty? or popular
sovereignty if you please-for am willing
to give him all the benefit Of his own Ian
guage He means the right of the people by
a vote of the people to enslave men. That is
popular sovereignty. When you come to
the real gst and kernal of the thing-tear
off its coverings and disguises, and reach the
vital principle, it is that WHOM one class of
men get together, and vote another class of
men into slavery, it is all right. What do
you think about it, Judge? II don't care !"
Laughter. But do care; care whether
l am voted into Slavery or not. l deny the
right of this vast multitude-I deny the right
of TIE thirty millions of Americans-I deny
the right of all the teeming millions Of earth
to vote me into slavery. Loud applause.
Never! never can it be done Great en-
thusiasm l am my own man. So far as my
right to life and liberty is concerned, l did
not get it from Congress or Parliament; l
did not get it from the Democratic party |
did not get it from any evil spirits whose
names commence with the same initials as
as the Democrats. Loud laughter and
cheers. have my right to life and liberty
from the Eternal God who made me, and
every other man derived that right from the
same source. Applause.
What is Democracy? This Democracy
says that the popular vote can take right
away, and once taken away the act is sane
toned and upheld by laws human and di-
vine. deny it. I say it is wrong, however
it may be perpetrated. Why, mothers, what
do you care how You are robbed of your
babe? The question is not how it is done
the outrage is that it is done at all. No
matter whether it is done by an individual,
or by a conspiracy of many individuals in
community, agreeing and concerting accord
ing to the forms of law, if the poor babe is
torn from your heart, that is the unspeaka-
BILE wrong not the manner in which it is
perpetrated. [Great cheering And Doug
las don't care Uproarious laughter
My friends, when you hear of popular
sovereignty, remember it does not mean the
right of the people to govern themselves.
We do not propose to take away from the
man going over the ferry into Kansas the
right of selfgovernment We propose to
take away from him there, and everywhere
that the federal government has jurisdiction,
the right OF keeping another man against his
will. [Great applause.
And this, citizens, was the doctrine Of the
fathers-the prohibition of slavery in the
Territories of the United States. They
erected wall of freedom along the Southern
border of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ill this
vast territory west of US. Do you see the
strong barrier of free lom built by them across
the continent, and stetchlns away up the |
sides of the Rocky Mountains, until it rests
upon the summit of that lofty range-frce-
dom's wall built by our fathers! Who made
a breach in it? VINO broke down the wall ? |
Who opened the gates, and made it at least
possible for slavery to enter, and take posses
sion of that ground, the magnificent DOMAIN
that God had made for freemen? The Dem