The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-01-08
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J. Hiess mani. rhtindciphia speech.
Mr.. President and Gentiemtn Of the Poo
PILES r arfy Of Philadelphia: thank you
/ fur the OF portnnity you have afforded mo for
giving expression to my devotion to the Con-
stitution and the Union. love the lnnati-
tuition. becau use il secures the Union, aud
love the Union because it gives TO US security
and prosperity. Without them we should
fall into unarchy; and worse, without them
brother would be arrayed against brother,
and blood would run down the streets OF
your beautiful city.
1t 10 not necessary for me to declare to
you, who are arprised OF Transporting cvente,
that they are both in danger, and that neith-
!. err of them will be preserved BY paper re-
solves. The time has rather arrived for 40.
ton than EXPRESSION. No man can maintain
the integrity Of this Union by popular assem-
blies declaring devotion to the Constitution.
| The time has come when every man has got
to define his position in the great struggle
which is about TO come off between rival in
! terests No greater truth WINS ever pro.
claim ID in the hearing Of the American peo-
ple than that there is an antag onism between
| freedom and slavery. 1Applause. And let
no man console himself with the reflection
that this antagonism is to be Quoted BY the
palliatives Of compromise. A voro-"Or
| bv public meetings."1 You cannot form
| truccs between them v hich will last. 1t is
az impossible as to do N up mighty rivers,
and to say that from such point the dry
| land shall appear. As long a. the free sem
timent Of the North shall Invade the territory
OF the South, 80 long the South will have
complaints; and you have now to make up
your minds whom you will serve-whether
YOU will serve God or Belial. Applause.1
This is not the fret time in our history
that these difficulties have come upon u, and
when the safety OF shs country has been i'm
rerilled. In 1920 We compromised; IN 1882
We COMPROMISED; in 1850 We compromised
for the purpose Of making peace between
these rival and conflicting interests, and in
every instance in which compromises have
been entered into, these compromises have
been followed by increased difficulties and
dangers. And now il IL proposed to us, with
all the experience Of tho past, that we shall
again endeavor to make lasting truce be-
tween freedom and slavery. | have said ut
another time, and in another place, that mir
lines NAV divide States, but they can rsvcr
bound conflicting sentiments. The lights Of
the press, he waves Of proficient craft, the
mechanical tendencies Of highly productive
art-thess will always make an impression
upon the weak and the impotent. My fell
low citizens, | put it to you, sober, staih,
sensible mon, to.g,yc TO mc, If you can, the
lines OF compromise which shall give to Us
| res,. Will you restore the Missouri Compro-
mise line--[a voice, "No0]-enacted IN 1920
at the demand Of the South, and repealed in
1854 at TITO same demand? Will You re
enact it ugain2 A voice, 'sNot BY any
means."l Not by any means. No, would
rather suffer my right arm to be severed from
the shoulder [cheerr1 than place upon mysef
| any such mark OF humiliation and disgt ace.
/ Renewed cheers.1 Are you willing that this
game of bat.ledore AMI shustlecock shall
| longer be played between the South and the
North2 III you arc, an not, and the line
| il drawn between us as distinctly a. it 10
| drawn between the North and the South. A
voice, Hes exactly right" and cheers. As
| for myself, | say il Lere, and say il dis
tinctly, desiring not to be misunderstood BY
any man-and you will find | will carry it
/ on, through my life-no more compromise.
/ [cries OF good" and sociferous and long
continued npplause.l My love for the Con.
stitution aud the Union is equal to that of
any other man, [cheers,] but will not buy
them from any nun who does not exclusively
owlsAtem. IssGood.' aud cheers. If the
Constitution and the Laws will not secure the
fealty Of every right min led citizen, is it TO
| DO expected that fimey compromise, patched
up by members OF Congress-, is going to do
what they cannot effect? Ny motto is,
"Mlliions for defense, not one cent for trib-
ute.v [Cheers
1t ia proper, my felio citizens, that we
should look at the realities OF the times
South Carolina declares ,hat she has already
seeded FRI m the Union; that the bonds have
| I
contend that il South Carolina is out Of the
Union there il no State in IL, cheers for
there ia not vitality or power IN the bonds
which We supposed hell us. But give i,
: as my opinion, as my conviction. that she il
not vet out Of the Union, and | also give il
! as my conviction that, with the blessing oil
Almighty God, she never will be out Of the
. Union. Tremendous applause and wild en-
, tansiasm.l If you feel lis do, know she
/, will never DC ". Of the Union lcheers Il and
t repeat TO night what | have said on a for
mer occasion, that the eighteen millions OF
the North, the toiling millions who monopo.
lizo oil the art, Industry and Intelligence oil
the country, are not 10 be overcome, par.
: alyxed and moulded into shape BY eight mil.
lions without these auxlliaries.
But, my friends, We have fallen upon evil
: times. would not magnify our danger, no,
: would l 10 any way diminish the aspect which
J itpresenss. Wehave already srraycd against
the Uuion asovereign State. We have the
: sympathics Of five or six other States 90 fal
extending 10 South Carolina that, 10 my judg
: ment, they are ready TO join her at any "a
vantageous moment; an mn by no mean,
certain that all tho bordi States will not b,
found 10 utilization. We have, in addition
to this, traitor President = loud cheerrl-
o corrupt and rotten Cabinet cheers and
) for aught know, we my have the regular
: army against the Union, inasmuch 40 th
4 President is the commander TO- chief Of tn
army, but declare to you my solemn con
viction, to night, that with all these fftee,
: Statos, this Federal Administration, and th