The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-19
supported by bare majority in the freq
section OF the Union. [Applause.]

NOW, my 1rlenQS, marksWhat am EOlDHj
to say 70 you. ! want to do justice to al
parties in this contest. While / condemn
the resort to arms in the South. I must do
them justice in pointing out the cause which
excltedithem to do it. The Northern peo&
pie and the Southern people-the Norther4
States and the Southern States-had all
equal rights by the Constitution That
equality OF rights was not only acknowls
edged in the general body of that instrn9
ment, but it was recognized in its sovereign
embodiment in two clauses of the Consti-4
tuition. The first was that clause which,
gives to each State one vote in the Presi-s
dental election when it goes into the Housel
of Representatives. Delaware, about as big
as this county, has one vote, and New York.
nearly twice the size Of this State, has but.
one vote. In theSenate of the United States
this State sovereignty is again recognized.
Delaware, the smallest State in the Union,
sends two Senator's to that body. Ohio,
New York and Pennsylvania send but two
members each to that body. These provis-
ions in the. Constitution We're put there to
enable the States to defend their sovereign
ty against the preponderance of members
in the House of Representatives. Now,
mark you, here were provisions intended
to guard minorities against what might be
the ambition or cupidity of majorities. Il
HARD LYING AND MORE OF 1T.
Now look at the case. I have told you
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from slave State. His Chicago; Platfrom
had frightened the people of the South, and
made them seek to defend themselves thro'
the heinstrumentality of the ballot-box. Well,
now, mark you, told yousthe States had a
kind of security afforded in two clauses Of
the Constitution to their sovereign rights.
They were in a minority. The South was
in a minority, both as regarded the num-
ber the States and the number of the peo-
pie in those States. 1t had been predicted
by Mr.. Calhoun, who looked to slavery agi-
tation as a source of danger, that the time
would come when the agitation of the sla-
very question would array the whole North
against the whole South. 1t had been said
that the North will, some day, take the en-
tire Government into their hands ,and make
laws without regarding the interests of the
Southern States. All this was treated as a
mere humbug. Yet we see that three years
ago this very consummation happened.-
Here was President elected by section,
by a line which separates the free from the
slave States. Here was House of Repre-
sentatives and a aSenate-amaj jority of them
elected by the free States, entirely. All
that they had to do was to say we will it
| that the South shall have no rights. We
| will it that the South shall &c back and bear
| to us the same relation which we bore to
the British crown before the revolution
We will reduce the South to bare colonies
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we have now all the power, and we will be-
gin the abolition of slavery. What could
| the South do? The North had shown that
it not only had the power of seizing on the
4 whole Government, butt had actually done
the thing. And the South barely stood by
to know what they might expect from the
| hands of their masters. What could the
South do? If Mr.. Lincoln and his gang
choose to pass laws abolishing slavery, Of
what use would it be for the South to say
to him, there is Constitution? Mr.. Lin
coin would have said don't construe the
Constitution in that way Having been
elected by the Northern States l have q
States. Applause What could the South
do? Who under heaven ever heard Of a
man willing to hold his rights and interests
subject to the caprice and good pleasure Of
another man L? I put the question to you
| with regard to your own private affairs. p
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM DECLARATION
OF wAR.-oUR SOUTHERN BRETHREN
WERE COMPELLED TO FIGHT: la aa y.
How could our Southern people act when
they saw not only that the North had
shown that they were determined to take
the entire Government into their hands,
| They had shown it not barely in the plat
form and the election, but by calling to
Washington as Cabinet the very men
who, OF all others, were most strongly op-
| PoSCN w 1ue lHtcTcSLS VI bno 5Out0. buL
more than that, their very platform was
declaration OF war. It was declaration
that the Southern States shall from this
day forward be expelled from the Union
The Chicago Platform expelled the South
ern States from the Union so far as it could
expel them. If Mr.. Douglas had been
elected, would this war have happened?-
Would this Union have been dissolved? If
any one of the other candidates before the
people had been elected, would any such
result have been brought about? What,
then, was the cause Of the war? It was the
intermeddling of this party with slavery in
the form Of the Chicago Platform. 1t was
the carrying out of the Chicago Platform in
/ the organization of the Cabinet, and in the
refusal of the President to hear the voice of
fifteen States to restore the country to
peace and Union. ..t ~ ?
| LINCOLN A FOOL. i
| Lincoln now takes refuge under the plea
that he did not anticipate all that. What
did he set himself up for President of this
great people for, if he has not sense enough
to anticipate dangers which the Democra-
tic party have anticipated for years?
THE CILMAx-BLooD! -. L.ia ,-
Lincoln has shed enough blood to float
the Great Eastern, and how much nearer
the end are we now? fCries of sNone. u -
His cry is still for blood. The Administra-
tion stands on tip-toe, every day, with it's
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for more blood and more money. ZAP
plause.] And our preachers-thoseC Chicago
! priests that went to Detroit to get Lincoln
to bite the forbidden fruit, by the publica-
ton of an act emancipating the slaves
these priests, l would not like to meet one
of them; they went down, canting and
whining, their mouths all the way water
ing for the blood of the people, Every one
of them thought that God Ihad made it his
I special business to 90 and make Lincoln
commence the business of numbering the
American people. When we have civil war
the first year the Abolitionists came into
power, how happens it that under Federal
Administrations, Wing Administrations,
and Democratic Administrations, no war
no speck of war, ever existed between our
own people? How happens it, that, before
that time, the Government of the United
States, on the day of Lincold' election, had
not one solitary prison within the limits of
the republic-the very Jail and penitentia-
ry at Columbus was used for the punish
ment of mail robbers and such criminals,
because the Federal Government had no
jails-and now, although they have walled
| in half the country there ia not rom f>-