Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-08-18
asFAT SPEECH
Of the Hon. q. II. Morton. mt Ur.
bana, Ohio. Saturday,
August 9TH.

Of the Hon. q. II. Morton. mt Ur
bana, Ohio, Saturday,
August 9TH.
FELLow-CITIzENs : Again the peopl,
of Ohio are called upon to make choic,
between the Republican and Demo
cratic partice. The success OF Governor
Allen and his colleagues upon tn,
ticket will be the success of the Dem
ocratic party, in which the individual
ity Of these gentlemen will be almos
entirely lost. It is important, there
fore, to review the history, the princi
Piles, the purposes and inevitable ten
denotes of that party, in order to nn
derstand the consequences likely to re-
suit from its success. 1t is the boast o
that party that it's principles have no
changed, and that it cherishes the sam,
doctrines yesterday, to-day, and for
ever. But this is true only as to con
stitutional questions or those concern
ing the origin and nature Of the gov
ernment and of the rights of men, or il
cannot be affirmed truthfully that up
on economic questions, or those o.
general administration, the party j.
agreed, or has any sottled principles OF
views whatever.
THE DOCTRINE OF SECESSION IN THF
SOUTH.
Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice.
President of the Southern Confedera.
cy, now q member of Congress and the
representative man of Southern opin-
ion, in an address on the Fourth OF
July at Atlanta, strongly stated the
constitutional grounds upon which the
people of the South and the Democratic
party stand. He said that each State
is . nation. separate, independent. and
distinct from all the others that the
States being separate and distinct ma.
tions are attached together only by the
Constitution of the United States,
which is q treaty to which the States
in their sovereign independent charac.
ter are parties, and not the people in
their aggregate and primary capacity.
He represents the States as sovereign
nations like England and France, who
have formed treaty which they call a
constitution, creating an artificial con-
federate government, resting upon the
shoulders Of the separate nations en-
tering into the coalition. From this
constitution or confederacy it follows
that any of the national parties have
q right to withdraw at pleasure, and
this is the doctrine which made the re-
bellion possible, by which it was in
augurated, and by which others may
be upon any question, in any part of
The country that may become dissatis-
fled or pass under the lead of rebellious
demagogues, of which we now have a
living and pestilent brood.
THE DOCTRINE OF SECESSION IN THE
NORTH.
This blood-stained and reasonable
doctrine is openly avowed in the South,
and indorsed by the Northern Democ-
racy, under the phrase and label of
estate sovereignty" Senator Eaton,
of Connecticut, in speech in the Uni
ted States Senate. just before its adj
iournment last spring, used the follow
ing language:
"What is this government? heard
an honorable Senator on this floor,
within the last twenty daya, call it a
sovereign nation. A curious idea that
Senator has of q representative repub-
lici isyocernment IF ours, this great
confederation Of States, is not a nation;
it is a confederdcy of nations. 1t is
composed of sovereignties. | know
the honorable Senator from Indiana
(Mr. Morton) stated in his seat the
other night that there were no such
such things as Independent sovereign
States. In the State of New
Jersey, I beg to ask of tho honorable
Senator from New Jersey, is not New
Jersey sovereign State, sovereign in
everything the States of this Union are
except in the powers delegated to this
organ OF theirs, the Federal Govern
ment? And nation is a? Sir, 4
should disgrace my o,oa State, / should
forget the names Of EltstcorM and
Sherman If 1 did not denounce that
hes esq. A certain number of
the States, eleven, adopted and ratified
the Constitution of the United States.
Nine was the minimum limit. Now,
what became of that little common
wealth SO ably Represented on this floor
by my my distinguished friend from
Rhode Island2 (Mr. Anthony She
was out in the cold year and half
What was she, beg to ask my friend,
the senior representative from Rhode
Island, and what was she for that year
and half? Not a member of this ma
tion, of this Confederacy of States
What was she then? She was one of
the sovereign powers of the earth,
small though she was, and floated her
glorious little flag over every sea-
Neither gentlemen from Rhode Island
will deny that she was an independent
sovereign power of the earth. What
was North Carolina that refused to
come into the Union? One of the
sovereign powers of the earth, ,andevery
Senator knows 1t. Yet we are told
here that there are no Independent
States. These States were sovereign
and independent, owing no allegiance
to the Constitution OF the United
States. They had delegated no pow
ers to the Federal Government. What
did they lose? beg to ask the hon
orable Senator from Rhode Island,
what did Rhode Island lose of it's SOW
ereignty when 1t came into the Union
except the powers it delegated when
II came into the Federal Government !?
/ announce that every
State In this confederacy is sovereign
is independent, as sovereign and inde-
pendent as it was in l7S6, except in the
powers it has delegated by the Consti-
tuition. I defy any man or Senator to
successfully controvert it here or any
where, now or at any time. =
This is government of States. This
is government of States, equal States,
sovereign States, independent States.
When its ceases to be government of
that character may 1t be long after
have laid my bones In the soil near my
own river. That is the nature of this
government in brief, formed by inde-
pendent sovereigns, formed by free
States, formed by equal States"
THE DOCTRINE OF THE REBELLION, AND
WHAT 1T COST.
Here the Democratic Senator from
New England spoke the true sentiments
of his party, and proves 1t to be the
enemy Of our national existence. This
Democratic creed is the doctrine of the
rebellion. 1t has cost the nation half