The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-09-30

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and for the human race He mentioned
as among the acts passed favorably affect
ing the interests of Iowa, the Homestead
bll-the Pacific Railroad, granting
special privileges TO the State, inasmuch
as two Of its branches leave our western
border, one at Sioux City and one at
Council Bluffs or Omaha--The Agricul
tural College bill, by which the State
receives $40, 900 acres of land-the set
Element of the Des Moines River grant,
by which GOO, 200 acres were secured to
the State-the 5 section grant-the es-
adjustment of an Arsenal and Armory
at Rock Island, beneftting Davenport
locally, and giving the State the facility
for readily arming in case Of need-the
great measure Of the establishment of
freedom throughout our Territorial pos
sessons-the suppression Of the African
Slave Trade by the passage of measures
rendering its further continuance entire
ly improbable--the abolition of slavery
in the District Of Columbia-and last
though not least, the Confscation and
Emancipation bill. With such record
of legislation Iowa had right 10 be sat-
isfed-with such record he should al
ways be proud that he was a member of
that Congress.
Senator GRIMES then passed to a re-
view of the rebellion and its causes.
Showed Slavery TO be the cause.-the
strife to be the old struggle which almost
every ration Of Europe has had TO meet,
that of free labor against enforced labor.
He traced the efforts of the consprators
briefly from the struggle in 1920 detail
ed conversation which Senator DoUG-
LAS had with him in his seat in the SEN
ate, just before the Illinois Senator left
Washington for the last time. Senator
DOUGLAS then told him that men who
had pledged themselves to go for him in
the Charleston Convention had come to
him before that Convention and begged
TO be released from the obligation, be-
cause of the conspiracy among the
southern leaders to break up the govern
ment. Itwas because of this conspiracy,
| fully concocted, as he knew, that lie
(Senator DoUGLAs) took the stump in
the canvass, and went South, in the en-
deavor TO build up party to counterfeit
the schemes of the secessionists. 1t was
because Of this, and to lend whatever
moral power his name and influence
could bring TO the new administration,
that Senator DOUGLAS stood on the port.
co of the Capitol during the Inauguration
services of Mr.. LINCOLN, holding Mr..
LTNcoLN's hat, and giving him his earn
est attention and countenance. Mr..
DOUGLAS knew that these men had de-
termined TO overthrow the government,
and he did his best to bring his follow
ers out from under their influence, and
cordially unite them to the support of
Mr.. LINCOLN. Mr.. DOUGLAS knew that
his own election would have been hailed
with the same hostility as was Mr.. LIN
coins, and would have been equallysas
readily seized upon by the slave holding
consplrators as pretext for carrying out
their long cherished intention of estab
fishing slave holding Republic.
The Senator then went on with an ex-
haustive and most able review of the
consequences Of division, but we cannot
attempt 10 follow him. Suffice it to say
that every man of the audience was free
10 confess that it was the finest effort
ever made in the County, and worthy Of
the man acknowledged on all hands to
be leader in the American Senate.
In the evening, another large audience
assembled, and were addressed by Hons
II. A. WILTsE, S. p. ADAMS, and JAMES
BURT, of Dubuque. Mr.. WILrsE point
edly and effectively reviewed the course
and position OF Judge WILSON, and show
ed up his utilization and sympathy with
Mahonyism. Mr.. ADAMS made one of
his earnest and effective efforts. He
read some dozen extracts from the Her
aid, different from those read by Mr..
ALLISON, and all tinctured with the most
virulent animosity TO the government,
and sympathy with the rebels. He
showed up Mr.. MAHoNY's constitutional
pretentions. Mr.. MAHoNY divorced the
Constitution from the government, and
acknowledged allegiance only to the
Constitution. He then puts his own
construction upon the Constitution, and
unless the government acknowledges and
acts upon that construction, he consid-
ers himself absolved from all allegiance
to the government. Thus on September