The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-05-19

to hear what Mr.. Finegan would have TO
say in favor Of our Republican institu-
tons, as we had all heard he was deep
read lawyer,~and good jurist. The
boys and dogs lay round promiscuously
together on the floor, seemingly con
scious of the dignifed presence " the
speaker. The balance of the audience
sat gaping with their mouth and ears
open, quietly waiting for him to begin
He told us that this was a government of
the people, and that old Abe was Myth,
that if Abe wanted them to do anything
which was obnoxious, that they 1.-THE
the people, were sovereigns, and they
were not bound to obey, if they consider
it unconstitutional That Slavery was
right now, and always had been, for
King John, the Pope of Rome, and his
majesty, the Devil, had all decided it to
be a divine institution, and that was
sufficient authority for him, old Abe to
contrary Notwithstanding. He had no
sympathy with the long heel'd, striped
back, CALLER bellied, blubber Tipped,
wooley headed darkies, that this admin
istration was SO fond Of, and Rugged so
close to their bosoms, and according TO
the law. rs he had quoted three noted
jurist before, the darkies had no rights a
democrat was bound TO respect, and, there
fore, they were left entirely out of the
pale of human recognition. 80 So
The whole tenor of his speech was
directed against the government, and il
stranger had been present, he would
not have learned from anything he said
that formidable rebellion existed. In
fact, he never mentioned the word rebel
but the government had violated every
law, and broken over every land mark
laid down by our forefathers. He said
that himself, as an Irishman, and his
fellow countrymen, all came to this coun
try to escape oppression, but it was like
jumping out Of the frying pan into the
FIRE, they had come from bad to worse
and instead of living IN land Of free
dom, under old Abe's rule they were
subjected to the meanest kind of despot
ism. Such is the kind of sophistry used
to mislesd and dupe an intelligent Amer.
lean audience, in the rural districts OIL
the far famed State Of Iowa. Can a
man hold up his head, and claim to be
loyal, and talk in this way Does he
know that he is preaching treason when
he tells his hearers to abjure all obliga.
tons to the Executive department of the
government, and that they are even JUS
titisble to resist by force of arms ? What
is the object of these constitutional
sticklers Do they hope to stir up a
civil war in our midst? Is the same
reign of terror TO be inaugursted here
that exists in the border States, and 4
party warfare to be met by force of arms ?
Perhaps some of those shining lights OF
Copperhead democracy will be pleased
to inform us, as | never have heard one
of them counsel anything but opposition
TO the present administration. After
passing an euology on Vslandighsm and
Mshony, and claiming them to be Mar
tyrs in the cause of their country, he
closed his puny effort to convince us
that treason was not /" hard road to
travel"
He said his opponents might call him
a traitor, or, as they had done heretofore,
he would answer to the honorable name
of Copperhead, and then sat down appa.
rently exhausted with his mastery effort
to instruct us in the ways OF transgress-
ion. The bob tailed adjutant then made
a motion that We give three cheers for
the speaker and the Copperheads, and
so the Democrats all said aye, aye. Thus
il ended OBSERVER.