The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-09-15

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plAce On Monday NJ From cersain remarks
which tAay 0aAa, - lnfM Dot ~ Rno e Asgu-
Mens a boeh eaaalsu,sns omevhak diaersd from
What 4 had bsen q former occasions. Judge
Olark sea.ssly tcs.hed upon tAoss topics which
yanA 1n1eo6l y did nneseem . be congenial TO
~ fsslinQ - Be- defendinx or explainipg the
numefous terKivsrsations Of the ..Little Giant
and - % the lnslisution Of slavery, 10 aimitsed
80 y Wasan evil and cufee, and frankly sta
- eaas y sho1ld receive no dessses ftom him.
STU be valued the Constitution and its compro-
mises, and believed in upholding It, (who does
not IN this community , h having coss % much
\ The Jsdee declared that he would mot catch
nor help catch fugitive slave, and presumed his
friend Col Warren would not. He did, however,
make one statement which seemed 70 please the
eso-slayery portion Of his audience miehtily Col.
Warren had drawn comparison between the
institution Of slavery and the smallpox, to Illus
trate the absurdity Of claiming all the Terrific
ries for slavery. Notwithstanding some physi.
clan may hare found doctoring the smallpox to
be profitable, and notwithstanding in Q certain
exigeacy it was agreed that it might remain,
would il be policy or obligatory that the disease
should be propsgated and spread just for the ben
EFT Of the doctors who had found il profitable to
thens To this Judge Clark answered, III you
have agreed to permit the smallpox among you,
shouldn't you he held to your bargain :" This
'point" Of the Judge's brought out enthusiastic
applause from the litele knot Of Democrats who
had collected in the rear of the hall--in fact it
vas the only hearty cheering they gave during
he discussion. Such arguments they were ac-
customed to, and were TO their liking They
could understand and appreciate them But to
all the Judges free soil talk, in which he spoke
OF the evils Of slavery, and his illusions 10 the
tree and happy homes here on soil which our
our fathers in taeir wisdom had consecrateA to
free labor; to this kind of talk our good Demo-
cratic friends looked glum enough.
For Ourself, We liked much of the Judges
speech. Some passages in it were beautiful in
their conception and utterance, and marked both
the gentleman aud the scholar. II the Democ.
racy have any more such canvassers as Judge
Clark, we hope they will send them along.
Col Warren showed himself to be logical
and sound reasoner, and altogether too much in
argument for his opponent. He showed the fall
lacy Of Judge Douglas principles, and the utter
absurdity OF the ''squatter sovereignty doctrine
He showed how in no instance has the doctrine
been carried out in practice, although Democrats
have ruled; and how utterly impossible it is that
it should be carried out under and by virtue oil
the Constitution. If my great principle (which
belongs not to Douglas, but to Gen. Cass,) is to
be setup, it must be outside of, and in violation
| Ut the Constitution. m
Reviewing the history Of bred Scott Col.
Warren showed how it was the policy Of the Cal
houn junta to extend, perpetuate and nationalize
slavery. If bred Scott could be held two years
i by his master in the free State Of Illinois, and
two other years in the free Territory of Wiscon-
sin, and afterward be sold and held as . slave
for life, how long would it be before this fair
and fruitful Northwest would be blackened with
slaves, and their unpaid labor be put in competi-
ton with the labor of the free white settlers p
Men Of Iowa is this the heritage to which you
have come, and TO which your children are born!
The talk about sectiOnalism, and Judge Clark
assertion that he was q national man-that his
affections extended over the whole Union-were
happily answered by Col Warren, who showed
that NJ. Lincoln was nominated by egt.teen more
sotes than Mr. Douglas received, while Herschell
i V. johnson was so unsOund as to be kicked out
fthe Baltimore Convention, although kicked in
three days afterwards by committee!
1 But we have not time to pursue the argument
Of Col. Warren further. Suffice it to say that
his speech was able, eloquent and convincing,
and the frequent cheers and loud applause Of the
audience showed conclusiyely that his hearers
were nearly all with him in heart and sentiment.