The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-09-18

speech OF Richard Busted.
Richard Busted. Esq, the well known
Democratic politician and Corporation AT.
torney Of New York, made glorious
speech At the late war meeting in thai
city, few days since, from which the
following is an extract:
We meet to infame zeal, to inspire
loyalty, and to declare to our President
and his Cabinet that the people of New
York-the great commercial metropolis
Of the country-favors the suppression OF
this most wicked rebellion, BY The prompt,
free. fearless use oil every and any means
necessary to crush it out at once and ios
ever. Great cheering.l What these
means are, the executive is charged with
the responsibility Of deciding !; but, as he
has recently, in a well-considered letter,
declared his readiness to hear suggestions,
and give to them al proper consideration,
] claim the right and embrace this occa,
sion to say that it is my deliberate con-
viction that the cause Of the rebellion is
slavery, and that the cause and the effect
n,ua perish or surriue in force together.
["Good, good And ! deny that this
government, struck at and attempted to
be destroyed by the slave power, should
do ANYTHING to preserve slavery as stock
IN trade for a future rcJeifton. God has
decreed that their sin shall perish With
them. This is freedoms grand oppor-
tunity, and no man, himself at heart ty-
rannic, dishonest and cruel, but will re-
joice that the republic OF America is ere
long to be disenthralled by the genius of
universal emancipation. All hail the day.
[Great cheering.
In this connection, have . word To
say to men who, like myself, of Irish
birth; have sought and found home in
the United States of America. 1t issup.
posed by some of my countrymen, and
they have been taught to think SO by bad
designing men of the class known a. the
politicians, that, if the emancipation of
the black race should be one Of the results
forced upon US by the Southern slave
holders, an exodus that race to the North
ern States would Immediately follow, and
new and distasteful element of rivalry
in labor be produced here, to the dsad-
vantage of the white working man. Now,
this is simply absurd. No such conse-
quence would or could follow from the
freedom Of the blacks. Residence is not
matter of mere choice. 1t is controlled
by great natural and philosophical laws,
to the Acceptance of which all men are held
by an lmperious necessity. Which of us
could, for example, live in the heart Of
Ethiopia, although our revenue should be
million times what it is in the State ofNew
York So, the swarthy child Of the torrid
zones cannot live amid the SHOWS OF
Northern attitudes. He never can enter
their fields Of labor as competitor. The
country 10 in imminent peril. Traitors in
arms menace and assault the people and
their rulers; citizens are being ruthless
ly slain homes and hearts are made Desc
late constitutional obligations and
compacts are whistled down the winds,
and the sacred name Of revolution per-
verted to the aboninable usos Of treason
and rebellion. This is not the time to
discuss how far the government will be
justified by the Constitution, or previous
ly existing laws in using this, that or the
other, as . means of re-establishing the
national authority and maintaining the
national power. Sales Popui ssprema
est tee. Self preservatirn is the FIRST law
of nature. Nor il this the time to regard
the condition Of tho country from any
political standpoint. In this hour party
must be forgotten. There il great light
on hand between democracy and aristo-
crazy, l"That's true. y between the privi-
leges Of i the few and the right. Of the
between caste and republican
equality. and he is the genuine Democrat
who loves liberty more than slavery. The
democracy that will not endure this test
is spurious. Ny own position is easily
declared. / aoasa Democrat. / am
loyal lover Of my country, whose free in
stitutions do not care to outlive. aotll
be what her Necessities. the convictions