The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-06-18
JACK BaoUGM AT MARIETTA

No Ohio man needs information as to
Who Jack Brough is. aud every Demo.
crat should heed his wcrds as those OF an
oracle. w. publish scme Iibe,al extracts
from recent speech made by him at Ma
rict,a, Ohio, bis native town:
/ need not tell this vast audience, as
sembled in this my naive count y, that,
fn.m tie days Of my BE-, hood ap to this
hour. ! have been rapAed with The polit.
ieal Eariy known a. the Democratic and
! believe the time has never BEEN known,
from my entrance into It's ranks till now
that have ever wavered or been false to
it. ! osthA 10 aL things sppertaining TO
the Vensraf policy Of the country. Dem
ocraI to-day, and ever hope to II main one,
without mitigation. without change, iu
all those great principles on which polt-
zeal parties divide. But when or sis of
this kind arises, il is prlno,pls of my
Democracy and | shall not attempt to
interpret other gentlemen's Democracy
Tor them that the first great duty every
man ewes 10 to his country, tha, this is
where the principles of bis party ought to
lead him. ------
Although there is President in ofiicc
that did not help to put there, and al
though in oil human probability would
not cast vote for him TO morrow, yet iu
the great contest seknowlsdge him
MT the head of . party. but ~ the bead OF
the Government, as the Executive officer
OF the na.ion. Chesrs. Aud, like a
soldier fighting in the ranks, / hold it to
be my duty to ebey him, my esmm nd.
ing officer. in oil things without qu st o..
ing his policy 10 this ersa, coa,ss,. BY
and By l may have something, ~ citi.
sss, 70 ny on the subj jeot; but At the
present tune my duty lies in asothsr ii.
rcssioa. Il d uue shst | have differed
with Ar Lincoln on many questions, bu,
they arc minor ones, and this is no time
to cavil II 10 not whesl,er this or that
nan's rights hsvs bsen infringed upoa,
or whether soms cannon wheel has been
,un over corper Of the Ccnstitutloa; but
the question now 10, what i The duly of
every ns6 ~ M 6ovsrnmeut III this i Con
tesif lot " Rrst sessls with these ysb-
els, snd " hen We have done that, ws can
bpgih % taks luet~yS at hoalp jn fhaSd.
Ind have no doubt We will Be fully equal
to them.
Ia discussing this question shall nec-
essariiy r1cur 10 = TOPIC on which public
speakers profess to have grest dslicaoy in
treating, bas on which hsvs usne at all
have % more dsiieacy ia spppoachine
the topic Of slavery than any other: bui
in doing isl will first asy thst with slave.
~ - = donessio insti.ution, both Is u
master and slave. | have no.hing whatsv
Or 70 do. have no care in regard t. il
Whatever may Be my opinion in regard
to the relation OF master and slave ia tLs
South, is entirely immaterial in this di.
cussion il has nothiug.tu do with thi
con est. ] have been alsays willing i,
leave them free in the e.joy ynent Of ,hei
slaves and IL it be their. curNe, 1 hay,
no neiH 70 complain that they hug i, i
their bosoms. And asbctw ween the mas
ter snd his slaves, hrvc slways bee,
q mpeiied 10 believe that the servant h.,
tue best OF it. | have been content tha
1 the Southern people should have .li III,
laws they desired Tor the recovery of tl.si
slaves whom they escaped from their bond
1 age, and | would be willing to 1t nov.
don't wish u disturb the relation exjstin,
between them, il they will keep their 70
lasions 70 themselves and away from a.
people OF the free States, hsve no dispu
sl.'on to meddie With it. Il has cast .
blight and = nildes over their Who'll
couatry. but Il has cast none hero, nor d
We desire that il should Is
But there is another character Of m
institution Of slavery, and against !, / d
fight. II i the political chsrsoter whicl
has bern given il for the last Eve ..
twenty years and that is the charac.e
whirh oor people afs looking TO today