The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-09-24
NO. 81.

no man has any higher motive to action
than the aggrandizement of SELF The
South said . Cotton Is King p They
said IT war were inaugurated, the pockets
OF the North would suffer. They said
you would loose your markets for manu-
featured and agricultural products, that
your factories would be closed in the
East, that the grain in your store houses
would rot in the West, and thai on would
! thus be brought to terms. All this show
ed what they believed to be the govern
ing principle in the North. How has
this been met How have the people
of the North met this question when it
was forced upon them When Your trade
was brought low. your marts closed, and
your shipping lying idle in the harbors,
how was this question met? How did
you respond to the call of the President
to rally around the National Flag. The
world has never seen spectacle such as
has been exhibit d by the People of the
North IN the support of this Government
since the commencement of this War
ltls shown 10 be untrue that Cotton
is King. New York might as well claim
that Commerce is King. The great
Northwest might equally assume that
Corn is King. But all these claims are
untrue, and brings us back again to the
Bible truth, that there is but one King,
the Ever Living God, and him only
should we serve I! Applause. We have
faith IN Him /; and it is around this faith
that our Right, Justice and Truth will
forever cluster Before that faith South
ern Chvalry will go down. There is
something in the North higher than ma
terlallsm. No opposition here or else
where can put it down. Those who have
taken up arms against Federal authority
VIII not and cannot succeed in putting it
down. And tell you my friends, no
Convention can be gotten up which can
smother that principle, aud then men
who seek TO crush it out will be ground
to powder before it Uproarious and
long continued applause
ou may call conventions for the pur.
pose OF obsIructing the path of this Gov
ernment, but they will fail, let them
marshal their forces under the name of
Democracy or what they will. know
the force oil that organization. | know
as well rs any other man the power of
the Democratic party, but | tell those
men who attempt to array the masses of
the people against the Administration,
State or National, which is endeavo,inp
10 prosecute the war, that they cannot
succeed. l don't care whether they at
temp. TO do SO by the publication of in
siduous lalsehoodS in incendaIy sheets,
by political conventions, by seeking TO
dlscredit the bonds OF the State by the
cry that they are unconstitutional. or
otherwise Cheers and cries of " good
Now, my friends, | told you when |
commenced that had made no prerara-
tion for an elaborate speech. have had
no order IN what | have said +; but have
tried TO bring before you these few ideas.
In the first place, that although the Re-
publican administration which came into
power on the fourth of March last. sur
rounded by unusual difficulties. found
all the officers OF the Government filled
by members of The opposition party, it
has shown degree Of liberalty towards
lis opponents which could hardly have
been looked for. II is true that i mrht
have been well had no purely parizan
ticket been nominated at this time. 1t
might have been we'll had all political
organizations, for The time being. been
forgotten; but our Union friends show
cd studied desire 10 TO avoid atiiliation
with the dominant party. At the same
time our Democratic friends have shown
studied desire TO ignore, and have
nothing 10 DO with the Republican party.
The gentlemen who control the Union
movement have never llaced them sci, cs
en- rapport as The Mesmerisers call il.
bellere) with the Republican party but
have shown settled, deliberate. Niliul
/ purpose 10 cooperate rather with the
/ Democratic party Of the State They
never selected the day for holding thcir
convention hear TO the day the Republi-
cans had fixed for holding theirs. They
have not coquetted with US in any way.
Ii may not have been their bounden duty
to do so. | don't kuow-it NAV be so.
But this know, that they have asked no
less of the Republican party than 10
abandon their organization and know
Ing the purposes of political human ma
ture, | know they did not expect Us TO
do il when they asked it, When the
Republicans met in convention. they
careful IL excluded from their platform
everything that could offend Douglas
Democrat. Union man, or even a
Mahony Democrat and when We "A. ked
the Union men 10 come with Us. we
being organized and having strength.
they SAID no" They asked Us to
abandon our organization. in which is
strength, and 50 over 10 them who Eayo
no organization. and trust 10 Providence
and The chapter of accidents for tho
result. Laughter
There Is. am sorry to say il. there il
an organized party that does not look
tins question OF rebellion fairly in tho
face. Their conduct, not SO intended
perhaps. IS doing more TO strengthen
jeff. Davis and his forces than il the
same number of men comprising this
party should 20 down aud join rheir
army with arms in their hands. There
IS an organization in this Stue to-day
which Will no 10 the DOlls ON the Bah n,