The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-04-21
Union Meeting.

LtF Ii was most encouraging to eve
ry loyal heart within the limits Of the
walls OF The Court House. last Saturday
night, 10 witness the good feeling, the
enthusiasm, IN the great crowd there as
sembled. The house was crowded to lis
utmost capacity, The aisles being filled,
and many going away who could not get
even standing room. We have scarce
" ever seen SO large an audience in the
building, and certainly never saw one in
which there was more genuine good ieel
ing manifested The Gee Club and the
band eulivened the scene with their str.
ring patriotic strains, willie the speakers
held the audience in wrapt attention
Esquire HART presided, aud introduced
Judge BURr as the first speaker. The
Judges speech was one OF those calm
but earnest, logical and able discussions
of ab.tracl principles which are charac-
teristic OF him Ii was reple,e with
Ithought. and illustrated the relative du-
ties OF citizens and government clearly
and iorciby. The effort greatly enhan.
ced the favorable opinion which the
Judge has made upon our people.
The next speaker was + BlssELL, Esq
who, though conlessedly one OF The vely
! ablest lawyers in the State. has been but
liule known as "a public speaker, and we
believe the effort of Saturday evening
was among his first attempts before "A
popular audience. How unjust his reti
cence in this regard ha been TO himself
and to his neighbors and friends, the
universal testimony of the audience on
Saturday night will prove. They uni.
versally testify that they never heard a
better speech of lis length. He com.
menced with a glance ut The origin Of. and
tho necessity for. government paused
rapidly in review the relation OF The gov.
ernment and the governed /; showed ;he
true force of the term individual liberty,
and the necessity for ihe curtailment 81
i that liberty in order to secure the good
OF society and to prevent anarchy. the
worst form OF tyranny /; showed that the
very idea Of government involved the re
slriciion OF individual freedom, and how
essential il was that government should
have the power To protect itself traced
the difference which must, in the very
nature of things. exist in the relation o
the government and the citizen. in time:
Ioi peace and in times OF disturbance
lie made the argument rs plain AS ii was
forcble, and applied it to the presen
state OF things among US; showed tina
a.
was exercising only just aud essential
I powers. which in times OF good orde
were suspended He discussed the sus
pension of the writ of hd5eas corpus, auC
con,ended that the Constitution intended
the suspension 10 be an executive act
lie discussed. TOO. the state of the peopl,
South. aud. like Ben Burner. contendel
that this rebellion was n rebellion of tn,
arislocracy, and was made possibly only
through the ignorance of the Southern
masses. He reviewed the objection
against the measures OF the administra
ton. and showed the unreasonable ma
ture Of these objections. and The legili
macy and efficacy of these measures a
acts OF defense agains. attempts 10 over
throw tho government. He reyiewe,
Mr. D a. MAHosY and that species o
Copperlpaas. and sco,ched them thor
oughly. Mr.. B spoke for abou, hal a
hour, aaeu:ly sod finely. leaving moth