The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1864-03-17
Extracts from Gov. Yatess
SDOeCh.

Extracts from Gov. Yates
Speech.
On the 10th inst, at Chicago Gov.
Yates Of Illinois delivered q very stir.
ring and patriotic speech, from which
We take the following extracts:
1.-THE man, whoever he be-; North or
South, who sympa,hizes with treason,
the enemies Of our country, at the pre-.
sent time, that man is . traitor and de.
serves q traitors doom. Tremendous
cheering.] Do You want to know my
opinion about copperhead? ["Yes
Yesl'1 Then have only to say, Of all
the creatures that God Almighty ever
made-if He did make them-the mean.
est is copperhead. For the man who
sympa,hizes with this rebellion, sympa-
,hizes with jeff. Davis instead Of Abra.
ham Lincoln; the man who rejocies in
the success Of our enemies, who wishes
our soldiers should return home in dis
grace and defeat, the man who is not
on the side Of his country in this crisis,
for that man there is no station on earth
low enough no name black en- ough, aud
no place in hell deep enough. CChecrs. l
l know we'll the position l occupy in
the minds OF these respectable gentle.
men. | owe them no favors, thank
God. Laughter.I intend to fgh,
them as | fight traitors, because / be
lieve they are worse than traitors, and
they have no rights which even a nigger
is bound to repsect. They charge me
with being in favor Of negro equality.
l am free to confess l have never yet
slandered the poor negro SO much as to
wish that he may so down and down
to reach that unfathomable depth Of in
fanny which it would require to place
him on thatplatform occupied by Storey
Of the Times. The audience here
cheered again and again amid cries OF
that stripe from every part Of the honse.
It was long continued.l know, fellow
citizens. they should not tail at me be
cause the adherence Of my inmost
nature has been aroused against these
creeping, squirming reptiles
] remember when was boy, some
thirty years ago. went some forty
miles from where I was at school, and
became acquainted with a young man
who was at that time, County Surveyor
Of Sanga non county: He was not a
very elegant man, but we now have the
proud satisfaction Of seeing that boy
through his excrtions against every OBJ
stacle, triumph and triumph, till now be
does not occupy the place of monarch
or king, but the proudest, the loftiest
Of human elevation Abraham
Lincoln, the President Of the United
States Of America. Long and ccntinu.
ed applause
It is no use, as l heard q friend Of
mine say to-day; politicians may try
70 fix it up, but the people will have
Old Abe and no one else.' Applause
I must confess am for him first and
last and all the time. Cheers It is
no time to change fronts when you are
in the presence Of the enemy. 1t would
be unjust to change fronts, because,
although it is said that Abe is an honest
man, yet stand up here to say that
from long acquaintance with him, he
is not only one Of honestest Of men that
God ever made, but in clear, cool,
statesmanl,ke judgment, he is without
q peer in the history Of the world.
[Applause.] We might as we'll make
up our minds to it, for the Government
has been attempted to be destroyed
during the Administration Of Abraham
and it will be saved during his
Administration. Immense applause. ]"