The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-28

graphs WHICH VIII SNOW the nature ant
scope of the address.
TEE EFFECT OF THE WAR
i honestly believe that whatever thi
CONFUSION does, or fails to do, one thin.
no man, no party can prevent its doing
and that is shaking off the Chains of ev
cry negro on the continent. Applause.
10 not mean that any man intends it
for don't care what man intends Wher
a person gets into the rapids of Niagara, il
doesn't matter much what he or she In
tends, they will go over. That's SO, In
my view the system of bondage in these
States has received it's death-blow in the
house of Its friends. do not believe that
| slavery can survive the effects of this con-
vulsiou. As an Abolitionist simply, !
| feel Just as much at ease in looking ut this
war as one of you do when looking at Ra-
rev with Crusader in his hand No mat
ter for the red eyes and painting sides Of
the brute, he will go down. So / know
all the brutes south of US will go down to
destruction. and l base my opinion on
two or three very patent facts.
pETHRoNEMENT OF KING COTTON.
In the first place, for the last ten years
the plea that has been thrown in our teeth
all the time is that "Cotton is King. -
The oyerseer made his whip much longer
than to extend ever the Senate of the
United States. He added an additional
snapper. and applied it to the Lower
L
House Of Congress, and that was, Cotton
is King" He supposed he could bring
starving Lancashire with one hand and
tumultuous Lyons with the other. to his
footstool He has tried it. What has
been the result? The Board of Trade
reports to Great Britain that after the alb
dication of King Cotton for eleven months
Great Britain has more cotton than she
had at this time last year. (Applause. J
| Sc much for one part of the system--the
| financial
DEFEAT CT THE SLAVE POWER.
Well, then, the other was the political
1t was the North ut the feet of the South
have no wonder the South despised her.
She never met in yonder Capitol man
from the North who had backbone un-
til within few years. She had cause TO
despise us.
But she tried al experiment in NINA
tire. Missouri pledged herself against
Kansas. The South threw down the
gauntlet of single State, and the North
responded with a single State. She sent
her peasants, her farmers, west Of the
Mississippi. They went as peasants and
as farmers. The civilization of the North,
which means plowshares and school-hous-
es, took the field in the Territory against
bowie knives and bludgeons, which repre-
sent the South. They were fairly matched,
John Brown, the most influential Ameri-
can in aiding our civilization, applause, ]
man who has done more in the Provi-
dence OF God to shape the fate Of this gen.
Grafton than any other man save one.
whom | am proud to name it at his feet,
William Lloyd Garrison. applause, with
one or two Kisses. John Brown went to
Kansas, farmer, with the best stock,
and owner of the best orchard west of the
Mississippi. He carried as pledges of a
good citizen the prizes he had won in the
Agricultural fairs OF Ohio; he didn't ever
own a gun, nor fowling piece. He
planted his trees, advertised his stock, and
it was not until Missourians came acros,
the border and destroyed his orchard and
stole his cattle. that the old man went ou
and bought a. musket. The history Of
Kansas since is written too patent for me
to repeat it. She has crushed Missouri
under her feet, and las taken her seat in
the Senate of the United States, q repre-.
sentative Of free thought and free labo,
in the United States. Applause) What
Missouri did to Kansas, the South does *
the North to-day. Napoleon said of Rus,
STA, 81 taught her to fight and so has
Missouri taught us what the slave Power
means, and what this contest means-con
science behind rife. Laughter
| TIE MEANING or THE CRISIS.
4 Every cannon fred to-day Is better
Anti-Slavery lecture than q thousand
haeH-hke myself or my brother Or
Pierpont) could make. Every cannon
that Halleck has fired, or Mcclellan ha,
heard (for he never fred one, J [prolongee
laughter and applause, is better A nti
Slavery speech than was ever made II
yonder Senate, or Faneuil Hall, for il
teaches the Northern people the mean
ing of the crisis, and takes them up /.
the responsibility Of the hour. My sec
ond hope Of the death Of Slavery is
therefore, as | have shown, based upo,
the education this war gives.
THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT.
The third is based on other oonsidera
tons. For the first time the gates Of tn.
Holy OF Holes have opened aud we have
! heard voice from the sanctuary Of God
From the cabinet, before which in i'm
pressiye and utter confidence the nine
teen millions OF the North point to-day
we have heard a voice. 1t is the mes
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