The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-02-21
PkOERLsss OF ri.E IR.sIDLNr

ELECT. Q nr
We gave, last week, an account II Mr..
Lincolos departure from Springfield sri
his rcmarks on taking leave Of his old
friends and neiyhborr. lie arrived in
indianapolis the same day. We find the
following report of his remarks IL that
place.
On reaching the Bates House the pro
cession halted, aud Mr.. Lincoln as es-
corted to the balcony, when he said: He
came here to thank them for the support
given by Indiana to true and just cause.
Coercion and invasion are terms much
used now with temper aud hot blood -
Let us not misunderstood their meaning
nor the meaning of tt ose who use them
Let us get their meaning from men who
deprecate the things which they would
would represent by their use. What is
the meaning Of these words? Would
marchin: an army into South Carolina
with hostile intent be an invasion? |
think it would, and it would be coercion
also ii South CaroIn,ans were forced to
submit Blu, if the United States should
merely hold and retake it's o, forts, col.
lee, duties, or withhold the mails where
they were habitua'Iy violated, would any
or all of these things be invasion or co
crcion? Do professional Union.lovcrs,
resolved to siSt coercion, understand
such things there on the part of the
United States to be coercion or INVASION?
If they 90, their idea Of prcserv ton is
exceedingly THU and airy. In their
view. the unien, as family relation,
would seem to be no regu,?r marriage.
but sort of free love arrangement, TO
be maintained by personal attraction In
what consists The special sacredness Of
State: speak not of the position as
signed % State in the Union by the
Constitution, for that by the bond We al
recognize That position however,
State cannot carry out. If State, and
county possess an equal amount of terri
tory, and inhabitants, in what. as a mat
ter of principle, is the State better than
the county? Would an exchange of
names be an exchange of rights upon
principle? BY what rightful pr,nci pie
may State, being not more than one.
t'tieth part of the nation in soil and pop
uativn, break up the nation aud then
cocrce lager division of itself? What
mySt rions right to play the tyrant is
conferred on the district If country, with
its people, by merely calling it State?
Mr. Lincoln, 10 conclusion, said he
was not asserting anything, but asking
questions for them to consider and de.
eide in their own minds what was light
and what wrong.
Mrs Lincoln met the Presidential
p"rty at indianapolis, aud will continue
with it to Washington. The cute wa
through Cincinnati, Columbus, Pitts
bu-h and Cleveland to BuRslo, whore the
party remained over Sunday. On Mon
day Of this week it proceeded to Albany,
thence to New York, Trenton, y J
Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Washing.
ton, vi ere they expect to arrive on Sat
lrday the sd inst,
The people aIou= the route, turned
mt in treat numbers, without respect to
party, to receive and welcome the man
who is the choice OF the pc pie. Mr.. /
Llrcoln had requested that there b. as
little parade and that it should take as .
little time as possible, The hearty vel =.
come he has received everywhere must /
give him better hope Of leading US out
Of our present difficulties