The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-31

.ne NoItn ltsel1. Hear, hear. First they
pegan 10 declare, after the days of Mr.. CAL
noun, that they accepted slavery no more
as misfortune, but as q divine blessing
Mr. Calnoun advanced the doctrine which
IS now the marrow of Secession, that it was
me DUTY OF Government not merely to pro-
Iect States from interference, but that it
was the duty Of the General Government
10 70 make Slavery equal with Liberty
ltCheers.I These monstrous doctrines be-
gan to be the development of future ambi-
tons. The South having the control of
government, knew from the inherent
weakness OF their system that if it were
conIined II was as a huge flock of herds
pasturlng on small pastures, that soon
gnaws the grass to the roots. and must have
other pasture or it dies. [Cheers,1 Slavery
is OF such q nature that if you do not give
1t continual change of feeding ground il
must die. Renewed cheering.j And then
came one after another the assertions of the
South Of rights never dreamed of. From
them came the Mexican war for territory. !.
from them came Texas and its entrance as
a slave State; from them came that organ
lied rowdyism in Congress, that brow beat
every Northern man who had not sworn
fealty to Slavery; that filled all the courts
OF Europe with ministers holding slave
doctrines; that gave the majority of the
seats on the Bench to slave-owning judges,
and. that gave, in fact, all our chief offices
of trust to either slave owners, or to men
who licked the feet of slaveholding men,
Loud cheers. Then came that ever mem
orable period, when, for the very purpose
OF hunlbling the North, and making her
drink the bitter cup of humiliation, and
making them understand that the North
was inferior and the South their natural
lords, was passed the Fugitive Slaye Law
Loud hisses.l There was no need of that.
There was already existing Just as good an
instrument for soinfernal purpose as any
fiend could have wished. Against the in
fanny my soul revolted, and these lips pro-
tested, and defied to its face the Govern
ment and told them, 'I will have none of
your unrighteous laws; send to me that
tugitive'who is fleeing from his master, and
! will step between him and his pursuer.''
I loud and prolonged cheers Not once,
nor twice, have my doors shut between OPP
preston andthe oppressed; and the church
i Itself over which l minister has been the
[Cheers.l But whom the Devil promises
he cheats. [Laughter.] That peace, that
was the thirty pieces OF silver paid for the
Christ OF man, turned into fire and burnt
the hands that took it.
For how long was it after this promised
peace that the Missouri Compromise was
abolished in an infamous disregard of holy
compromise. Loud cheers.l 1t never
ought to have been made, but, having been
made, it ought hever to have been broken
!, by the South. tCheers.l And with no
other pretense than the robbers pretense
that might makes right, they did destroy
it, that they might carry Slavery far north.
That was what was needed to arouse the
long reluctant patriotism Of the North.
[Cheers. By the abolition of this Compro-
mise, another Slave State was Immediately
to thave been brought into the Union to
balance the ever growing Free Territories
OF the North West. Then it was that there
arose majesty that had no record thus far,
!. and has had no parallel, aud, instead OF
merely protesting, young men and maid
! ems, laboring men, farmers and mechanics.
all of them sped with sacred desire to
! rescue free territory from the tolls of Sla-
very, and emigrated in hundreds and in
thousands, that when this territory should
come in to vote, it should vote as Free
State. loud cheers.l A more infamous
J and atrocious system of cheating never was
practiced than by which the South sought,
by perjury, by intimidation, by the prosti-
tuted use of the United States Army, to
force vile system upon these unwilling
men who had voted almost unanimously
for liberty and against Slavery in that
State. Hear. But at last the day of utter
darkness had passed, and the gray twilight
was on the morning of the horizon. AT
last, for the first time, l believe, in the
whole conflict between the South and the
Il North, the victory went to the North, and
Kansas became free State. Cheers.
Kansas became an impulse that was given
to popular feeling, and in 1856 Mr.. Fremont
was nominated for the Presidency. He
F came SO near to being elected that, but for
an enormous cheating in the polls in Penn
sylvania he would have been elected; but,
instead of Mr.. Fremont, Mr.. Buchanan was
returned. fHisses.] We aimed at an eagle
and hit a buzzard. [Laughter.] ns
Now call you to witness that, in peri
cd of twenty-five or thirty years of con-
slant conflicts with the South, at every sim
gle step they gained the advantage, with
the single exception of Kansas. What was
the conduct of the North? Did they threat
en- Secession? mol Did they threaten
II violence? MOL So sure were they of the
ultimate triumph of that which was right,
provided free speech was left to combat err
ror and wrong, that they patiently bided
their time. By this time the North was
cured of its love of, or Indifference to Sla-
very. By this time new conscience had
been formed in the North, and vast ma
iority of all the Northern men at this time
stood fair and square on the doctrine OF
Anti-Savery. [Cheers.] 1t went through
all the quicksands Of that infamous demon
stration of four years, in which Senators,
sworn by the Constitution, were plotting
Vaccinations to destroy the Government,
in which the members of the Cabinet who
drew their pay month by month, used their
time and their official position to steal arms,
to prepare Notifications, to make ready,
: and in which the most astounding specta-
Gle that the world ever saw was witnessed
our great people paying men to sit in the
places of power and office to betray them.
Hear, hear.l During all those four years
what did we? We protested and waited
} and said: "God shall give us the victory,
for it is Gods truth that we WELD, and God s
truth we promote, and with God. in his own
time, shall be the giving Of the victory
[Great cheering.l In all this time we never
made an inroad>on the rights of the South
| [Cheers.l We never asked for retaliatory
law. We never taxed their commerce, OF
touched it with our little finger. We envi-
ed them none of their manufactures; but
| sought to promote them. We did not at
tempt to abate, by one ounce, their materi-
al prosperity; we longed for their prosper
ity. [Cheers.l Slavery we always hated;
the Southern men never. [Cheers.l They
| were wrong. And in our conflicts with
them we have felt as all men in conflict
feel. We were jealous, and so were they.
: We were in the right cause; they IN the
, wrong. [Cheers.l We never envied them
their territory; and it was in the heart, ana
II WAS tbp faith Of Tho whole North, that, IN