Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-10-30

expected to follow.
but, again, gentlemen, what have
We to gain by this proposed change
of our relation to the general Govern.
ment! We hare dttcays had contro,
OF IL, and can yet, if we remain In IL,
and are united as we have been. We
have had a majority of the Presidents
chosen from the South; as well as
the control and management of most
of those chosen from the North. We
have had sixty years of Southern
Presidents to their twenty four, thus
controlling the Executive depart
ment, So OF the Judges of the Su-
preme Court, we have had eighteen
from the South, and but eleven from
the North; although nearly four
fifths ofjudicial business has arisen
in the Free States, yet a majority OF
the Court has always been from the
South. This we have required, SO AS
to guard against any Interpretation
of the Constitution unfavorable to us.
In like manner we have been equally
watchfully to guard our interests ia
the Legislative branch Of Govern
ment. In choosing the presiding
President pro tenn Of the Senate, we
have had twentyfour to their eleven.
Speakers of the House, we have had
twenty three and they twelve. While
the majority of the Representatives,
from their greater population, have
always been from the North, vet we
have so generally secured the Speak
er, because he, to a great extent, sha-
pes and controls the legislation of the
country. Nor have we had less con
troll i'm every other department of the
general Government. Attorney Gen.
erals we have had fourteen while the
North have had but five. Foreign
Ministers we have had eighty-six,
aud they but fifty.four. While three
fourths of the business which de.
mands diplomatic agents abroad is
clearly from the Free States, from
their greater commercial interests,
yet we have had the principal en-
bassles, so as to secure the world
markets for our cotton, tobacco and
sugar on the best possible terms. We
have had vast majority of the high
er officers of both army and navy,
while y larger proportion of the sol
diers were drawn from the North.
Equally so of clerks, auditors and
comptrollers filling the Executive
Department.; the records show for
the last fifty years, that of the three
thousand men employed, zoe hare had
more than ttcO thirds Of the same,
White zee hare DIT one third of the
Uhite population Of the Republic,
Again, look at another item, and
one, be assured, i'm which we have u
great and vital interest; it IL that of
revenue, or means of supporting gov :
ernment. From official documents
we learn that a fraction over three
fOurths OF the revenue collected for
the support of the government has
nnifermally been raised from the
North. '.
pause now, while you can, gen
tlemen, and contemplate carefully
and candidly these important items.
Look at another necessary branch oi
government, aud learn from stern
statistical facts how matters stand In
tina: department.. / mean the mail
and POST office privileges that we now
enjoy under the general government
as 1t has been for years past. The
expense for the transportation OF the
mail In the Free States was by the
report of the Postmaster General for
the year 1860, a little over S13, ,OO0, 900,
while the income was $4,000, 600.
BIT ia the stare States the trdnsportd.
ton of the mail pas $l4, Tie, 900, Whitt
the recenae from, the same tods So
00l ,028, tearing a deficiency of So, ll5
1876, to be supplied By the North TO,
our accommodation, a,id pith0m Il
zee must hare been entirely cut of from
the most essential branch Of yopern-
ment.
Leaving out OF view, for the pres
ent, the countless millions of dollars
you must expend I'm q war with the
North with tens of thousands OF
your sons and brothers slain in battle
and offered up as sacrifices upon the
altar of your ambition-and for what
we ask again? Is 1t for the over
throw of the American Government,
established by our common ancestry,
cemented and builtu by their sweat
and blood, and founded ON the broad
principles of Right, Justice and H,t-
mdnityS And, as such, | must de-
clare here, as / have often done be.
fore, and which has been repeated by
the greatest and wisest statesmen
and patriots of this and other lands,
that II is the best aud freest Govern
ment--the most equal In its rights
the most just in It's decisions-the
most lenient In it's measures, and the
most inspiring in Its principles to ell
evate the race of man, that the sun
OF heaven ever shone upon.
Now, for you TO attempt to over
throw such government as this,
under which we have lived for more
than three quarters of century--in
which we have gained our wealth,
our standing as nation, our domes-
tic safety while the elements of peril
are around US, with peace and tran
guilty accompanied by unbounded
prosperity and rights unassailed-is
the height ofmddness, folly and oick-
ness, TO chich Team neither tend ma
sanction or my pote."