The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1861-02-14

would be time, even after the expiration
of the ninctv DAYS, for the restoration
Of all that has been lost, and for the re-
| establishment OF all that was IN dan
GER.
4 great many and very various IN
~terests and clements were brought into
conflict by this sudden crisis. There
were "A GREAT many personal ambitions
and a great many sectional interests:
and it would be strange IL they would
all be accommodated, arranged and
! made harmonious, SO rs 70 admit ani
give full elect to one OF the profound
est, strongest and most enduring scnti-
| meats or passions for the United states
that Of devotion 70 the Union.
These whether you cali them secession
or revolution on the one side, or coer-
eion or ,leiiance Oh the other, are AL -
| suhside and pass away before the
Union is to become the grand ohsorb-
ing hicct ot interest. affection AMI an
tv upon the part Of The citizens 81 the
United states.
a Great many partisan Interests are
10 hc suppressed, such rs tic partisan
interests expressed by the Charleston
Platform. THE Baltimore Platform and
the Chicago Platform. II the Union is
/ III danger anl is to he saved, these IN
~tcrests. an,l these platforms, and every
body standing IN them, or connected
with them. gre 10 pass away before the
inion can ~ saved. But il will require
a very short time, if this Union is III
E .% x. 7 y,np ,a,,,,rr a., I44 NaNn.l
for all these interests, and all these plat
forms. and these men 70 disappear. You
and everybody who shall oppose, resist,
OF stand III the way Of the preservation
af this Union, will appear rs moths en-
asumner oye, when the whirlwind u
popular Indignation arises that shall be
excited ii the full discovery that the
Union is endangered.
! have hope and confidence that this
is 10 come around just rs | have sand,
and quite soon enough, because per-
eeiyc that although we nay shut u
eves 10 the truc nature OF this crisis
There has been a question OF Slavery III
the Territories OF Il real, y vital nature,
in this country for twelve years. 1t
MAS the strongest in its development in
1880, wien AL the Pacific coast, and all
the territory Intervening between it and
the Louisiana Purchase, was thrown
upon our hands AL of IA sudden, for the
purpose Of organizing it into . free and
~indepenlent republican Governments,as
a bass Of future States.
1t has been IN earnest, and | regret
to say, IN angry controversy, but the
admission Of Kansas into the mon
yesterday, settled at last all that was
vital or important III the question, icav-
ing behind nothing but the passions
which the contest had engendercd.-
hans"s is in the Union, California and
oregon arc ii tie tnie,', and now the
same contest divides and distlacts THIS
Union iar lreelom :i.l slavery il tfe
Territories .. tie lai,ri states ltst as
before.
What is the extent st the Iorrittsii"S
Which rcmalli alter t.e admission OF
Minnesota, Oregon, California and Kan
sas: One million siNiy-threc thousand
j and .ite hundred square miies-m area
twcaiy four times tilat Of New York,
Tho largest Of the Old and fully develop
81 States. Twenty four such states as
lat ofNcw York arc yet t. he ORGAN
ed WITHIN iaa remaining 'efrisof'es 81
the A{ei states. So", uaaef wat
= accepted ~ 'ae -Adsn'a's.i.''s"h az !
,ludieiai decree uPi'ei, ~ u aaa Pi''
~ lf'ciir.ti OPERATION DS - every '''e''
VI '.,t esf!taf' - save ief4iSof:.
peak Of that decision, not as | ae-
repti, but - u is accepte! and enI"rc
ed b. the existing Administration. Es-
cry foot Oft y slave ieiiltoi,y as much
q, Svnt3- Carolina. Over a ronsl.iera
be portion oft = slave code has been
y made hx a .oyerettnacnt ereatea y,
the Congress efthe United states, AID
is enforced, 70 that according 10 the
claims II chose who Insist upon then
right in the Territory Of the United
States for slavery, the whole of,lis one
million, sixty three thousand miles i
/ gla3..4 1'3rrItn.v Have. many SIatnS .l.e