The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-07-11
From the Chicago Timcs.1
Late Speech Of Senator Douglas.

trrom the Chicago Times
Late Speech Of Senator Douglas.
On the first day Of May last, Mr..
Douglas, arriving in this city from Wash.
ington, was welcomed by an immense
meeting at National Hall, and after be-
ing addressed in brief speech by the
chairman Of the meeting, 7. B. Bryant,
Esq, replied in the following terms. His
death invests these, his last words, with
far more than ordinary interest ard i'm
pressiveness .. ......... - +...........
MR, CHAIRMAN / thank you for the
kind terms in which you have been pleas.
ed to welcome me. I thank the Commit
tee and citizens of Chicago for this grand
and imposing reception. I beg you to
believe l will not do you nor myself the
injustice to believe this magnificent ova.
tion is personal homage to myself. re.
joicc to know that it expresses your devo.
ton TO the Constitution, the Union, and
the Tag Of our country. n. -,
l will not conceal qualification at the
uncontrovertable test this vast audience
presents-that whatever political differ.
ences or party questions may have diyid-
ed US, you all had a conviction that when
the country should be in danger, my 10y
atty could be relied on. That the pres
ent danger is imminent, no man can con.
ccal. If war must come-if the bayonet
must be used to maintain the Constitu-
tion-I say before God my conscience is
clear. I have struggled long for peace
full solution Of the difficulty. I have not
only rendered those States what was
theirs of right, but I have gone to the
very extreme of maguanimity.
The return we receive is war, armies
marched upon the Capitol, obstructions
aud dangers to our navigation, letters of
marque to invite pirates to preJ upon otr
commerce, a concentrated movement to
blot out the United States of America
from the map of the globe. TIE question
is, are we to maintain the country Of our
fathers, or allow it to be stricken down
by those who, when they can no longer
govern, threaten to destroy. ... -
What cause, what excuse do Disunlon.
lists give US for breaking up the best gov.
ernment on which the sun Of heaven ev.
er shed its rays? They are dissatisfied
"ith the result Of Presidential election.
Did they never get beaten before? Are
We to resort to the sword when we get
defeated at the ballot box !? l unders tand
it that the voice of the people expressed
in the mode appointed by the Constitu-
'tion must command the obedience of ev-
cry citizen. They assume on the election
of particular candidate their rights are
not safe in the Union What evidence
do they present of this ? defy any man
to show any act on which it is based
What act has been done? / appeal to
these assembled thousands that so far as
the constitutional rights of the Southern
States Il will say the constitutional
rights of shareholders -are concerned,
nothing has been done, aud nothing has
been omitted, Of which they can com.
There has never been time from the
day that Washington was inauguratcd
frst President of these United States,
when the rights of Southern States stood
6rmer under the laws of the land, than
they do now there never was time
when they had not as good cause for
Disuuion as they have to day. What
good cause have the Southern States now
that has not existed under every Admin
istratiou Z ..........,t, .n.' ''..1....
If they say the Territorial question:
now, for the first time, there is no act Of
Congress prohibiting slavery anywhere.
If it be the non-enforcement of the laws,
the only complaints l have heard have
been Of the too vigorous and faithful ful.
flments of the Fugitive Slave law. Then
what reason have they?
The Slavery question is mere excuse
The election Of Lincoln mere pretext.
The present secession movement is the
result of an enormous conspiracy formed
more than year since, formed by leaders
in the Southern Confederacy more than
a year ago.
They use the slavery question as
means to aid the accomplishment of their
ends. They desired the election of
Northern candidate, by sectional vote,
Ill OlACA w ouOW Ludt lHC lNO SCCLOuS
cannot live together. When the history
of the two years from the Lecompton
charter down to the Presidential election
shall be written, it will be shown that the
scheme was deliberately made to break up
this Union.
They desired Northern Republican
to be elected by purely Northern vote,
and then assign this fact as reason why
the secessionists may no longer live to.
gether. If the Disunion candidate Of
the lato Presidential contest had carried
the United South, their scheme was, the
Northern candidate successful, to seize
the Capitol last spring, aud by United
South and divided North hold it. That
scheme was defeated by the defeat Of the
Disunion candidate in several Of the Sou.
thern States. ...... ..- .-...
But this is no time for detail of eau.
scs. The conspiracy is now known
Armies have been raised, war is levied to
accomplish it. There are only two sides
to the question. Every man must be for
the United States or against it. There
can be no neutrals in this war-only pa
triots or traitors.
Thank God, Illinois is not divided on
this question. know they expect to
present united South against divided