The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-02-05

err DO you propose any concession to the
| Northp Any security TO liberty and life OF
the Northern man in the slave States; oil
! property in books; OF freedom OF speech and
the press rs already secured by the Con
stitu.ion2 You say that you concede to
Freedom the territory north OF 80 dog s. min.
We have y double title to that already first
| by purchase, and then BY conquest. We
bought il when we took Missouri into the
Union rs a Slave State, and then we con-
quered il 10 tho strife OF civil war. All
our future acquisitions must be in the direo.
tfUn of the tropics, and you demand it's I'M
conditional surrender to Slavery You want
Us to surrender to men who themselves are
compromise breakers! You have been tell.
ing us for years that all geographical lines
were sectional and dangerous! In 1920 you
established the Missouri line to save the
Union; in 1854 you destroyed il TO save tho
| Union; and now you can see the salvation
Of the Republic only through ito re- essab-
lishment and porpetuity, with the new and
startling condition annexed, that Slavery
must be forever protected in all our future
acquisitions. Believe not in reconstruction;
| the compromise Of tho present Constitution,
once lost, you can never regain. Think you
! that another Senate can reformed wherein
Florida and Delaware can equal New York
and Pennsylvania You are opposed to the
army ard navy because you boldly assert
that an enforcement Of tho laws means CO.
ercon, but you were willing to send troops
/ 1000 miles over prairie and desert to coerce
our brethren in Utah; you sent the army
into Kansas. You have used Federal troops
to enforcs the Fugitive Slave law, and to
rescue tho Arsenal at Harper's Ferry from
John Brown. The camp had no terrors for
you then; but now you oppose coercion, yet
by force or armed men you seize the Forts
and Navy Yards, and srample the Stars and
| Stripes iD the dust. We do not mean to be
driven from the Union by force. Do you de-
oil the States would possibly bid you depart
purchasing the slaves of Border States and
| furnishing them home in Central America,
and spoke Of the folly Of destroying the last
home of the oppressed, the last hope Of free
men, because some men believed in universal
| Liberty, and that til. time OF returning rea-
| son or avengng Justice would come. You
may destroy the Union, but the hoiest asso
Citations OF ages to GENE will gather around
and garnish its ruins.
You may break you may shatter the vase, If you will
Peter taltered in the path Of duty, and fell.
Christ refused to compromise, and estab-
ished his dignity. Like Peter, we are err
ring. II anything could seduce Us from the
| integrity Of our faith, it would be to strike
hands over the altar Of our common liberties
With noble patriots at the South and on this
floor, WHO, feeling that they have q country
TO save, and God to serve, have rebuked
disunion and branded treason. That when
the finger OF tho Almighty was moving on
tho troubled waters, men and nations will do
but little in warning against his DEGREES, and
in compromising his judgments. That when
the Catalinas OF the nation were conspiring
in the Capitol, while treason has been faunt-
ing in the departments OF the Adminlstra-
ton, and our proud ensign has been insult
ed and defed, you ask US to treat with rebels
with cannoas pointed at us, stolen from Ma
tional Arsenals2 That some OF the stars
OH our glitteriag fold may dart off into a
comets wandering, or a meteor's fight, Blu,
they will shine not % brightly in any other
constellation. In the madness OF the hour
you discard the Star Spangled Banner and
Hail Columbia, but beware, while you sing
the more ncendiary Marseillase to your
slaves, they may learn to act its poetry
IHhb tuc ttmo WUuiu again come Wnen al
could gather under tbs same starry folds and
all say:
Be justice the war shout and bastard is he
Who would Pile to die meath the flag Of the free
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