Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-02-15
mr.. Lincoln at lndianapoll.,.


thither was continual ovation. At Indian
apolis he was welcomed by Gov. Morton, in a
brief speech, and replied as follows:
'Goy. MORTON AND FELLowCIrlzENso OF THE
STATE OF INDIANA: Most heartily do thank
you for this magnificent reception; and, while
1 cannot take to myself any share of the
compliment thus paid, more than that which
pertains to mere instrument-an accidental
perhaps should say-of great
cause, l yet must look upon it as most
reception, and as such most
heartily do l thank you for it. You have
been pleased to address yourself to me chiefly
in behalf Of this glorious Union, IN which we
live; in all of which you have my sympathy,
and, as far as laay be in my power, will have
now and insepi rably my hearty consideration.
While do not expect upon this occasion, or
on any occasion till after get to Washington,
to attempt any lengthy speeches. will only
saw that to the salvation Of this Union there
needs be but one single thing-the hearts of
a people like yours. For, when they rise en-
masse in behalf of the Union and the liberties
of their country, truly may it be said, the
gates of hell shall not prevail against them
ain all the trying positions in which shall
be placed-and doubtless shall be placed in
many very trying ones-my reliance will be
upon YOU and the people of the United Stats,
and wish you to remember, now and forever,
that it is your business and not mine; that, if
the Union of these States and the liberties OF
this people should be lost, it is but little to
any one man 50 years Of age, but a great deal
to thirty millions of people that inherit these
United States, and to their posterity in all
coming time. 1t is your business to rise up
and preserve the Union and Liberty for your
sakes and not for NINE l desire they shall
be constitutionaly preserved. |, as already
ntimated, am but an accidental instrument,
temporary, and to serve but for limited time,
and appeal TO you again to constantly bear
in mind that with you and not with politicians,
not with Presidents, not with office seekers,
but with you is the question, shall the Union
and shall the Liberties of the country be
preserved to the latest generation ?"
Mr.. Lincoln, on concluding, was escorted
to the Bates House, in front of which an
immense concourse was assembled, whom he
addressed from the balcony, as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA:
am here to thank you much for this mag
nifcent welcome, and still more for the
generous support given by your State to that
political cause which think is the true and
lust cause of the whole country, and the
| whole world.
Solomon SAYS there is time to keep
silence; and when men wrangle by the
month with no certainty that they mean the
same thing, while using the same words, it
perhaps were as we'll that they should keep
silence. The words Coercion and invasion
are much used in these days, and often with
bad temper and hot blood. Let us make
sure, if we can, that we do not misunder-
stand the meaning of those who use them.
Let us get exact definitions of these words
not from dictionaries, but from the men
themselves, who certainly deprecate the
things they would represent by the use of
these words.
"What, then, is coercion ?-what is inva-
sion? Would the marching of an army into
South Carolina without the consent of her
people, and with hostile intent towards them,
be invasion? l certainly think it would /;
and it it would be coercion also, if the South
Carolinians were forced to submit; but if
the United States should merely hold and
retake its own forts and other property, and
collect the duties on foreign importations,
or even withhold the mails from places where
they are habitually violated, would any or
all of these things be invasion or coercion
DO our professed savers of the Union, but
who spitefully resolve that they will resist
coercion and invasion, understand that such
things as these on the part of the United
States would be coercion or invasion of a
State? If so, their idea of means to preserve
the object of their affections would seem tc
be exceedingly thin and airy. If sick, the
little pills of the homepathist would be
much too large for it to swallow. In theil
view, the Union, as family relation, would
seem to be no regular marriage, but rather
a sort of free-lovo arrangement, to be main
tanned only by passienal attraction: =.
"By- the.wav, in what consists the specia
sacredness of State speak not of the
position assigned to State in the Union by
the Constitution; for that, by the bond, we
all recognize; that position, however,
State cannot carry out of the Union with it
l speak of that assumed primary right of q
State to rule all which is less than itself
and to ruin all which is larger than ITSELF
If State and a county in given CASE
should be equal in extent of Territory anC
equal in number of inhabitants, in what
as matter of principle, il the State better
than the county? Would an exchange o
names be an exchange of right upon princi
Piles +? On what ightful princi pie may {
State, being not more than one-fftieth par
of the nation in soil and population, breal
up the nation and then coerece proportion
ably larger subdivision of itself in the mos
arbitrary way? What mysterious right tt
play tyrant is conferred on a district o.
country with its people, by merely calling il
q State Fellow citizens, l am not assert
ing anything, am merely asking questions
for you to consider (; and now allow meto bic
you farewell"
The Anderson Extradition Case
AS some Of our readers may not be posted
on all the particulars concerning the fugitive
Anderson, to which the telegraph frequently
refers, we subjoin brief history Of the case
Seven Or eight years ago, slave named Johr
Anderson escaped from his master, Moses
Burton, citizen of Missouri. In his figh
for the British frontier, he was encountered
By one Digges, who endeavored to arrest him
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