The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-31
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Fansuil Hall.

"snse aodience In Fanenil Hall, Bostor
on "Wednesday afterneon from VIII Hch -
take the annexed paragraphs. OF II
modern "Democ,acy" Mr.. Everett said.
We look to those features of thu mod
efn Democratic policy, more or iesb con
neeted With the present state Of affairs
We shall surely End no reason for Cd trus,
ing that party with the Govcrumen, Al
moment like this The Virginia an,
nentucky resolutions of '98 and '9y not
Siih-tandlng the protest of Mr.. Madis m
sefe the arsenal from which the mos
dangerous weapons Of nulIi6ca,ios and Sc
| session have been and are drawn. On,
oi their leading principles vas embodied
70 the resolutions of The Democratic Csn.
ventiou OF Massachusetts, last year. The
hrss open aud successful revolt aesin.,
the authority Of the Federal Governmep,
the expulsion Of the Indians from Gsor.
sia-atsended ~ il was With the violation
y the IAisn OF seventeen treaties, aud fol.
lowed by most iniqaitous PARTITION OF
.heir lands, by land louery-w.s a
Democratic measure. So vas the semi.
oeis war, In which the United States er
Peldej SiO0, $4,000 70 create I pev
slave State and enAble Georgia to recover
iew hundred fugitive slaves. Notvith.
ssanding our Just complaints against the
Mexican Government, the great political
advantages Of the acquisition Of tie Mex
can provinces. and the blessings which
might have redounded to the cause of uni
Versal humanity BY the extension OF the
ADeio-Saxon civilization into those vast
bali dessr, and i'll governed regions. the
manner In which the Texan .nosxa,ion
~as effected, and the Mexican war cor,
rnenced, caused those measures 10 be on.
passed by every Whlg member of Con-
sress Ar Webster particularly was un-
,panng IN his denuuciations, aud this AZ
ne time OF their inception, and before
Texas had repaid the two hundred mil.
ions she had cost the United States by
he blaeksst ingratitude and tresehsry
by The most disastrous measures OF tbe
'oodern Democracy, connected also direct
~ With the presen. stale OF the country.
sere tbe repeal Of the Missouri rsstr,e.
tlon which tor thirty -four ye.rs had been
accepted, South and North, 4, an adius At
ment Of the territorial controversy and
the acts, both Of fraud and violence. en-
pIoy.d 10 force slavery upon the paopls of
Kansas. TalIeyrand vas accustomea 20
say that the invasion of Spain was vofse
than cFime-it Was fault. The Kan
sas policy Of the last two Administrators
~as both wrong in principle and ruinons
10 effect. The fountains of the gre mt
ieep. partially s,illed BY the Legislation Of
1850. were again broken up by a tempest
Ut sectional agitation. / ne d not dwell
on the Immediate and powerful agency OF
these measures ln causing the presrn.
state OF things, nor conmeut on the siran ga
inconseqaence Of again bringing the Dem-
ocratic party Ibto power. prostrsted as i;
sas by ihe odium OF these very measures.
under the idea that they aIone can rescu.
The country from the dl-tressful conditibn
ioto which they had 50 directly eontrlbut-
ei to plunge it.
The speaker referred as follows to the
subjects OF slavery and the emaacipasi5n
prociamation:
While the non-interfsrence with sla-
very, the cause or pretext OF the war. by
he Government of the Unitsd States
produced 20, the slightest effect in tht
say OF eoncillatlng the rebels, whom it
left in the undistu. bed possession Of what
they regard a. chef source Of strength
10 carrying on the var, il was rapidly To-
sing US the sympathy of Europe, where
their emissaries did not scIuple to adj.
luce this very non-in,erference As a proof
hat slavery had nothing to do with the
contest" Without gaining anything By
iorbearsnce at home. We we're allowing III.
slde OF public opinion to run against as
abroad, and materially increasing the dap.
ger ct hostile intervention, on the profess.
ed grounds that it was Z. qu,red BY the To-
ierests of humanity, and tha, slavery had
moth NJ to do with the struggle.
1t was under these circumstances that
the President, as Comman dcr-in Chief OF
the armies of the United States, fel, him
-elf~arran,ed in drawing this new weapon
from the armory Of tn, public law. Con
sid ring that slavery. either a. motive or
pretext, had caused the war, that it
streDg hened the rebels with the ph, ,sical
power Of 60O. 900 able bodied men, inha
bitants OF the South, and owing allegiance
to the United States; that besides the en-
ploy Of e-half of this uumber In di
rect military service 10 forls, field work
and general camp labor, il rele as d an
equal number of white men from ayricul
tursl labor, and other domestic employ
menss at hone. thus increasing to that
extent the force Of their armies, while in
many cases the slaves themselves were a..
rually armed and accompanied their mas
ters t, the 6eld; considering further that
i had been shown by the experience of
. ghteen = ,nths' war, that the apprehen-
| sion OF sersile insurrection so generally
entertained vas groundless; considering
that the coEt nue. forbeArance Of the
Uo,.ed States toward slavery was weake-
| ming US in that public opiaion, which is
the ultimate ruling po yer in the civilized
world. and in vaii ,us ways aiding and
strength euing the cause Of the rebelli n
abroad; the Government Of the United
States, vsrrasscd By clear principles OF the
law of nations. and in the exercise of the
undoubted right Of . belligerent 10 issl
var, declared, by the Presidents prorla