The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-10-20

Union, -t
How extensive this prescription for the
sake and the namo OF union, has been and 10
to this day, you will see at once when
tell you that there is not in this whole Re-
public, from one end OF IL to the other,
man who maintains that Slavery shall not
be extended, who can secure at the hands OF
his country, any part in the administration
OF its government, from tide-wait in the
Custom House, or q postmaster in a rural
district, to a Secretary OF State, Minister
IN foreign court, or President of the
United States. How coald you expect that
people, every one OF whom is horn with q
possible chance and fair expectation OF
being something perhaps President OF the
United States--.would resist the demoraliza-
ton prosecuted by such means? And when it
becomes heresy, for which q man ia de-
prived OF position in an ecclesiastical sect
to which he belongs, how could you expect
that the members Of the Christian Churches
would be bold enough to provoke the GEN.
sure 0f the Christian world? Above all,
4 our constitution, designed to give US our
frame Of government, as we have always sup
posed, was so established that it did
give us a judiciary which cannot err, which
must be infallible, and must not be disputed.
! And ahen the judicial authority, which has
ton Of the Executive power, to execute its
Judgments and DEGREES, pronounccs that
every appeal made for freedom 10 sedi-
1 tious, that every syllable in defence Of liber.
ty is treason, and the natural sympathy we
\ feel fer the oppressed is q crime-whiie that
body is unwilling, or at least unable 10 bring
4 10 puriS hment one single ouprit ont of the
thousands Of pirates who bring away slaves
from Africa to sell in foreign lands--how
could you expect a simple agricultural peo-
pie such as we are, to be so much wiser and
better than our Presidents and Vice Presi-
dents, Senators and Representative in Con-
/ gress, and even our Judges.
| have brought you down, fellow citizens,
TO the time when this decentralization was al
most complete. How assured its ultimate
SUCCESS seemed. after the compromise of
. 1850, you will learn from fact which have
never before mentioned, but which / will
, now: Horace Mann, one of the noblest
chaml lone of freedom on this continent,
confessed to me, after the passage of the
Slavery laws Of that year, that be despaired
OF the cause of humanity. ln 1854, after
J the repeal OF the Missouri Compromise,
> without producing 80 much alarm as con
g siderable thunder storm would do in the na-
ton, there was only one man left, who
( hoped against the prevailing decentralization
and " no eheered and sustained me through
it and that man, In bis zeal TO max Q his pre-
I diction just, was afterward betrayed so
far by bic zeal that he became ultimately a
0 mono.naniac and suffered on the gallows.--
r That was John Brown. [Sensation.l The
T first md only time ever saw him was when
J, he led upon me after the tbrogation OF
!, the Missouri Compromise, and asked me
d What thought Of the future. said / was
Al ana faA L
q we're, but il was against hope. lie said !:
Q 'Cheer up, Governor the people Of Kansas
= will not accept Slavery; Kansas will never
@ be a slave State" [ireat applause.
b took, then, deliberate survey of the
n broad field considered all; examined and
v considered all the political forces which were
e revealed TO my observation. l saw that
= freedom in the future States OF this conti-
: nent, was the necessity of this age, and OF
Q this country. | saw that the establishment.
j. of this as "a Republic, conservative of the
% rights OF human nature, was the cause OF
II the whole world and saw that the time
It had come when men and women and child
rem were departing from their homes in the
/. ! Eastern States, and were followed or attend
/. ed by men, women and children from Eu-
Il ropean nations,-all Of them crowded ou,
n by the press OF population upon subsistence
a king their way up the Hudson river, through
| the Erie canal, along the railroads, by wav Of
.e the lakes, spreading themselves 10 mighty
q flood over Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Hi.
IA nois, and even TO the banks of the Mjssis
e sippi. knew that those smigr ants who were
d planting u town every day, and State every
- three ears ,!heedless and unconee ned as they
j. were, thinking only OF provision for their
r immediate wants, of shelter and lands TO till
W In the West--i knew tho interest which they
Il would have when they should get there, and
n that was that they should own the land
/. themselves; [cries OF "good, good" and
|e spplause;1 that slaves should not come into
q competition with them here. (Renewed ap.
- plause.
al So, as they passed by me, steamboat loaC
"a after steamboat load, railroad train aftel
70 railroad train, Though they were the hum
10 blest and perhaps the least educated ant
= least trained portion of the communisie,
,e from which they had come, knew that they
II. bad the instinct of interest, and below ami
- deeper than that, the better instinct of jus
m tiee. lApplause.l And | said, | will trus
"a them, will trust these exiles; my faith an,
w reliance henceforth are ON the poor, not OF
ce the rich on the humble not on the great
- [Applause.1 Aye, and sad IL was 70 con
~ Tess, bat it was SO. said, henceforth pu
o. nv trust not 10 my native countrymsn
b. but put il in the exile from foreign lands
,io ..as al, a.taaoI s.,ae ( ~, ani
v been accustomed TO Slavery by habit. Her
as he will stay and retain these Territories free
ais Applause.
be was even painfully disappointed at frs
Dr.. in seeing that the emigrants TO the West ha
ot' no more consciousness of their interest i
ou this question, when they arrived here, tna
he they had in their native countries. In
Irishman who had struggled against oppres
ID sion in his own country, failed me; the Ter
a. man seemed dull, stupid and unconscious 9
to the duty that devolved upon him. This
- .~no bnt rovartheleaa said that the intPl