The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-24
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Ata called Democratic County Meeting, held
In the town Of Upton, Cedar County, Iowa,
Saturday afternoon, January 10th, Judge Z. b.
Thayer, late Democratic nominee for Congress
in the Cd Congressional District, made . speech,
Of which We and the following report in the
Upton Advertiser. We give he report 10 full.
because Judge Thayer occupies position which
enables him 70 speak By authority. The speech
Is 10 harmony with the glimpse W have had Of
the Intentions Of Van Buren,, vallandighau
and other leaders, the only difference being the
fuller development which We get from Thayer :
Judge E. H. Thsyer was then fntroduced.-
The Democrats, be said, must be in earnest now
or never. He could not submit and remain al.
silent while his rights we're being invaded. no,
by the rebels, but by the Administration. For
twenty months the Government has by force OF
arms been endeavoring to put down the rebel
lion. Why, he asked, is it that several of the
States are yet in arms? (The speaker asked. the
question but left it unanswered.) Nothing can
restore the government to the original Status but
fraternsl affection. The government founded was
on compromise, and nothing can restore it, OF
bind it together after it is restored, but COM
romise.
The people. he thought, had no right to incul-
cate the doctrine that slavery is wrong. Minis
tiers Of the Gospel have no right to teach it, and
whenever they bring il into their pulpits they
desecrate the sanctuary and blaspheme against
God.
This government 10 founded upon slavery-it
Is it's chief corner stone. II you remove il the
whole fabric must fall.
The government embraces three independent
coordinate branches, each one Of which 10 ito
action is independent of the ethers-esch hsv.
ing its own department The bred Scott deci-
sion emauated from one Of these departments
1t was eminently just and right, it is the su-
preme law Of the land, and as such is Just q
binding as the Consultation or any act of Con-
gress. For the people to reverse the decision of
Court lie revolution; and for them to hold the
Judges of the Supre me Court and their dsci-
sions in contempt, 10 % much rebellion % it
would be to drive them from the bench BY force
of arms The citizens have an sndoubted Com
etitutional right to call the officers of the Legis.
their actions. Every citizen should defend this
right even by extreme measures.
The speaker here introduced quite disauis-
ton upon cotton. He endeavored to show that
the civilization of the world depended upon the
cotton raised in the slave States Cotton can
not be raised on the Gambia and the Senegal.
although the soil and climate are In every way
suited to its culture, simply because there is no
slavery there Were It not for slavery the
world would rot be blessed with cotton. Any
alteration or amendment Of the Constitution
tending TO interfere with the cotton growing, or
any other interest, would justly alarm and arouse
the planterA Their interest, their life, a. sec.
ton of the country, depends upon the inviola-
bility of the sacred institution. Upon the ad-
vent Of the campaign Of 1860, the Union exist
ed part as free and part % slave territory. A
party, with avowed intention of liberating the
slaves, elected Nj. Lincoln to the Presidential
chair. Would he not, therefore, carry out the
avowed principles of his party? Would he not
make use Of the power conferred upon him BY
his high Office, to make the country free-to in.
cite the slaves to bloody servile instruction
The cotton States Thought that this was the poll.
cy OF the dominant party, and asked, as right,
that their interests should not be molested or
their institutions destroyed. The Abolitiouists
refused to grant this request, trembling, at the
same time, lest that they should not force the
slave States to withdraw.
The speaker then quoted portion of one Of
Senator Douglas speeches. the purport of
which was, that the only difficulty in the way of
amicabie adjustment between the several states.
was that the Republican party had declared that
they would make oil the states free All that the
South asked was that Mt. Lincoln would not
blot out slavery.
he thonuht that tho South ohoull
ed, until Federal interference With their Con.
stitutional rights, compelled them to withdraw.
The Government Is constituted by NJ. Lincoln
vas very bad one. All Offices il the bestov val
of the Administration, we're given to bic aboli-
ton friends.
The plan. according to correspondent Of the
New York World. to free the negroes was ma
tured q; Springfield, ILL.,, mouth before Mr..
Lincoln was inaugnrated. The war was, at the
outset, commenced to sustain the Constitution.
The North rose up 40 one man to defend the gov.
eminent. Armies we're raised and eouippea,-
The Treasury vas repienished. The people re-
sponded nobly. This Union. they said, must be
preserved. Soon new light broke in upon them.
They saw that the government vas determined
to make THE an abolition war. Encsosohments
we're made by Congress. The government e.
tablisbed military deepotisln, more arbitrary
Sueu suot VI OuStt1. Au0 VIII On H00e0S CORPUS
was suspended aud martial law proclaimed
throughout the land. under which arrests we're
made, without due process Of Law, 10 palpaoie
violation of tae Constitution. The Cor sttutiou
lis the great charter of our liberties, and its in
tegrity must be maintained. II the President
can violate one clause, 40 be can another, and
another, till it, every provision is wholly disre.
garded. IL would be 90 better than q rope of
sand -,
The President swore to uphold the Constisu.
ton. While he did this che people sustained
him. To the people the Constitution is every
thing. In it is wrapped up all the honor and
glory Of the nation, anda blow at it causes the
public heart to bleed. When the President
suspended the writ Of ha6ees CORPUS the people
cried out against it They knew that If one man
could do this liberty was ct an end. Liberty
loving men lsmented this, and cried out against
it. But their voices we're not needed. There ID
power in the ballot box. When it speaks and
the rulers do not heed its voice, the people will
find other means Of resisting their encroach .
ments. They are justified ia making use of all
the means that God and nature have out into
their hands, for the purpose Of maintaining