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From the Dubuque Daily 772148 FELLOW CITIZENS:—He ivbe could pass:down .the illississippi i .as it washes the shoters of lowa, hint see the 'accumu lated products of the harvest, waiting; un der all changes of the weather, for means of tranoport to the_ eastern markets, and thence for - distribution to the needy in every . part of ,the globe, and be unmoved, niust be an enemy of his race.' He who could enter this, the principal_ seaport of the State, witness the signs of • activity and thrift which appear on all sides, as cend the -hills which overlook the town and river, and see the rich and useful mineral , everywhere and on every side extracted from the bosom of the earth, and sent abroad to perforto, -their part in the service of mankind, must be incapa ble of appreciating the elements of a great and -prosperous people. I have seen, as have my fellow 'travel lers, this exhibition ; and it-may not be unpleusing to you to know—the result of the observations we have made. It is that, although this town and. State were stimulated to a high degree of activity, and to a very rapid, process of develop ment by the great ; tide of capital and em igration from the east, which was arrest ed in the revulsion of 1857, yet the ba sis of the prosperity of this city and State is sure . and steadfast; the blood, atter such increased activity in searching the distant parts of our great system, must needs return to the heart again - in the East from which it flowed'. But as long 'as a great nation like this remains at peace, the blood is on long in filling up again the storehouse of the heart. in a year or two or three, 'the prosperity of Dubuque and of lowa will be renew ed. 1 50 === Fellow-citizens, we were tempted by the committee who accompanied. its to the bights which overlook the city, nod who took us for politicians of a differett class—we were tempted with the display before us. Here, they said at your feet, lie three States, lowa, Wisconsin, and 11- lincis, enough, they thought,- to tempt ambitious politicians as they supposed us to be. I answered that the States which were desired by Northern politicians dur ing, my connection with public service, had been no sue ld States as these which produced wheat Sod corn and lead; but they -were States which lay further town the valley of the Mississippi; the nearer the Gulf of Mexico the better. And my respected friend from Massachusetts re marked that they din'nt seem to know what constitutes a State in - the . esteem of a northern politician; it is negroes that constitute the States. Politicians Want slaves, and you have none to offer. Fellow-citizens, we in the East are in - - terested in your success, in your Prosper ty, in your aggrandizement, for we in the East are but the couisuincrs and the man ufacturers and the sellers of what you create. We should soon languish and die if production were to cease in the val ley of the Mississippi. Nor, perhaps, is it unnecessary to add, are you independ ent of us, for you are charged with the, responsibility of supplying the materials of men and women, and of men fur the defence of the liberties of this nation and its welfare. And if we of the East are feeble and imbecile, you in the West will languish and come down to the same cot:n inon ruin with- ourselves. It is therefore that we propose to speak to you on this occasion of what concerns us all; a great, political question, which is to be the sub ject of decision by the Ainerican ppople in the coming canvass. E. A. JOXr.S 13112132133 We' who have come here from the East say that the national policy 'for the last forty years on the subject has been erroneous, false, and tends to ruin, and that it must ne reversed. That policy simply, tersely stated is this : The poli cy of the Federal government has been'to extend and fortify African slave- labor in the Uitited States. Now let there be no• cavil on this point, for 'many who have - maintained the the administration and the party who have carried out this policy, have been unconscious, doubtless, of the nature of the policy they maintained. But it is not a subject of dispute or cavil that has been the policy of the government of the i country fir forty years. I will tide but one illustration. No man in the nation would have objected or could have ob jected to the admission of Texas into the Federal Union providedit had been a free State. No man who objected could have objected but for the reason that she was not a slave State. When the question of annexing Texas tried all . the existing partios, and puzzled, bewildered and con. founded the statesmen of the country, the question was final!, decided in a short and simple way; by the declaration of the ad- pesol/0 to fig, 2i.iiriples of beiweileß, orp) flle • Di4seir)iintioq 41'ohlii9, Kite ifelos POLITICAL. COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1860 'ministration 'of John Tyler,' made by Mr. Calhoun, his Secretary of State, that Tex- .as thirst be annexed - because it... was a siaveholding country—it must be, annea -led with the-condition of subdividing it into fotir slave States. Texas must be annexed for thepurPose, of foitifying and 'defending the institution of -slavery in the United States. 'This one single fact upon which the patties joined issue, is . conclusive., - will.not go further in show ing 'that that has been the policy of the country for forty years. Now I have said that it is: our propo sition to reverse this policy. Pur policy stated as simply as I have stated that of our adversaries, is, to circumscribe slave ry, dad to fortihj and extend free lirbor -or freedom. Mani preliminary objet. tio - ns are raised by. those among you and us, who arc not prepared to go- with ; us to the acceptance of this issue. They say that they are tired of a hobby and of men of one idea; that the country is too great a country, and has too many in terests, to be occupied, with one idea alone; besides that it is repulsive, offen- . sive; it is disgusting to have "this eter nal negro question" forever, forced upon their consideration when they desire to think of white Men and-other things. It is well - perhaps to remove, these prelimin ary objections before we go into an argu ment. Now, 'granting for a moment-that there is wisdom in the objection to entertain this eternal negro question, Dray; let us ask, who raised, who has kept rip, 'this eternal negro question ? The.negro,question was put at rest in 1781 by the fathers of the Republic, and it slept leaving only for moralists and hu manitarians the question of emanzipatton a question within the States and by no means a federal question. Who lifted it up from the States into the area of fede ral politics? Who, but the slaveholders in 1820 ? They demanded that not on ly Missouri should be admitted as a Slave State, located within the Louisana pur chas ; but that slavery shoUld be declar ed. forever and was forever without dec laration of law, established and should prevail limit the end of time, in lowa, Kansas, Nebraska. and in every foot of the then newly acquired domain of the Uni ted States ? It was the slaveholding-pow er who raised the negro question, and it was the Democratic party which made an alliance with that power, and which, in the Nurtlr and in Congress, raised this very offensive question, this so 'very of fensive legislation about negroes instead of legislation about white men. rt The question was put at rest by the Compromise of . 1820, when, God be praised ! lowa, Kansas, and Nebraska were saved fur freedom, and only Arkan sas and Missouri, out of the Louisana purchase, surrendered to slavery; and it slept again for fifteen or twenty years, and then the negro question was again intro• duced into the councils of the federal government,—and by whom ? By the -slave power, when it said that "since you have taken lowa, Kansas and Ne braska, and left us only Missouri. Arkan sas and Florida, out of our newly acquired possessions, yon must now _go on and .an nex . .lexas, so that we shall , nave a bal ance and counterpoise in this govern ment." Then the Democratic party again were seized with a sudden desire to extend the area of slavery along the Gulf of Mexico; and by way of balancing the triumph of liberty 30 as to put mana cles and chains on the claws of the con quering eagle of tht country' ! Who, then, is responsible for th'eter nal negro question ? Still such was the forbearadee, the patience, the hope with out reason and without justice, of tljc friends of freedom threughout the United, States, that the eternal negro question would have been at rest then, if it had not again been brought forward into the f. decal councils in the years, 1848 and 1850, when the slave power forced_ us into a war with Mexico by which we ac quired Upper California and New Mexico' and fur no other purpoSe bet that, not withstanding all. the advantages which, sli very bad gained, since the Atlantic States were free, now, as a balance, slave . - ry` must have the Pacific -coast, and so keep up the equilibrium (according to, the notions of Mr. Calhoun) between free' labor and slave labor or between freedom and slavery in the United States. Thus, on these three different occa sions, when the public mind was at rest on the subject of the negro, the slave power forced it upon public consideration and demanded aggressive rction. When they had at last secured the consent of the people of dm free States to a com promise in 1850, by which it was agreed that California alone might be. free, and that New Mexico should be remanded back into a territorial condition because she had not established :slavery—then there was but one man :in the United States - Senate that would vote to accept New Mexico as "a Free State when she came with her constitution in her hand; and that man the humble individual who stands-before you. [Cheers ] Aye, you • ; applaud tne for itiow ; but where were • your votes in 1850? Ali well; it is all past. When they had agreed on a_ compro-. rinse, and ; had dri'Ven.out - of the federal councils every. man but my4elf and -some, half doien otheriepresentatives who had opposed the aggressions of slavery," were they eontent• to-let the• negro question test? :No, but in .1654 the Democracy raised the negro question to', fa; ce it final ly and for - ever throughout the whole Re public, by abrogating the Missouri Com peornise. They abandoned the Territories ofKanSas - and Nebraska to slave labor, and actually assisted and encouraged the armies sent there by the slave-holders, to take forcible . pcssession of territory which.; until theri, had been free. 0 ! whit pleasuie shall I have, in-tell ing the people .-of . Kansas three days hence, how that„ when - all [others. were, faithless and false and timid.they renewed this battis,- this standard of freedoni, and expelled the intruding slavehotder, and established forever amongst themselves the freedom of labor and the freedom of i men on the plains of Kansal. Were the Democracy then content ?I .Not at all; but they ietermi'ned; in 1858, to raise the negrolquestion once inure and to admit Kansas into the Union, -if she! Would have come in as a Slave State, and; to keep her out indefinitely if she should eleet, freedom. And 'only one year later i , when they found, that, Kansas - Was slippling from their clutches, who then raised once more the eternal negro iltiestien ?] The slave • pdiver and . the Adininistration took it up by demanding the annexation of Cuba, a sfayeh - olding islayrd of Spain, to be ac quired at, a cost 2 of8150,000;000, peacea bly, if it - could be li \ btained for that sum, and forcibly if it. should not be surren dered, for l the purpose of ;adding two! Slave States, well !manned and well ap pointed, to balaned the votes of Kansas and Minnesota, then expected to come in , to the Unipn as Free States.; Who haS brought this issue and enter ed it on the record of Kansas ? The slaveholdin7 party,the Democratic par ty. They held their Convention first in this campaign at Charleston. They pre sented again the everlasting incgro ques tion, nothing more. nothing less. - They differed about the form, but they gave us, nevertheleSs, the everlasting.ncgro ques tion in two different parts, giving us our choice to take one or the other, as they gave the people of Kansas the choice, whether they would take Slavery pure and simple', or take it anyhow and get! rid of it afterwards if they could. Of one part, Mr. Breckinridge is the representative. It is presented plain and distinct; it is that slaves are merchandize and property in the Territories under the Constitution•of the :United States, and that the National Legislatures and the Courts must, protect it in the Territories, and no poweron earth can disChnrge them of the responsibility. Of the other, Mr. Douglas is .the Representative, and the form in which it is presented - by those who support him isi What is the best way no/ to keep slavery out of the Territories? . I doubt Very much whether slavehold ers have so great a repugnance to the ne gro and to the eternal negro question as they affect.; On the other hand, being accustomed' to set id the Federal councils, wit i grave and reverend Senators, and to mingle with represcintatiVes of the people from slaveh:elding . States, I find a great !difference between "-myself and them on the subject; God ikt ows, I tiever would consent to be fie Unbidden, tLe unchosen Representative of bonduren ! musr be freemen ,that.l represent; every man of them must be a whole man. lint uiy respected friends who represent the Slave StatcS are. willing, and do most cheerfully, most gladly consent to represent three fifths of all the negro slaves. They takei a slave at three-fifths of a man, and they represent the three-fifths ; I doubt not they would be vets , glad if he could be created into five-fifths NVell, I think the Democratic - party has not so mu9li repugnance to. negroes and the negro question,. because they zionsent to take offices of President, Vice President, Secretaries of State, Ministers to Bogota, and to all other parts of the 'world, Consilships,and post offices, that are derived intii.ectly by adding another link to the chain of!States in ,which no groes count, each One, three-fifths. No, no ; slaveholders and the Democratic par ty would be:very glad to take votes from negroes, free or slave, by the head, full count, if negroes an:d slaves would. only vote fur Slavery; add it is only because they have a Sagacions insight into human nature, which teadhes them that negroes and slaves would vote for liberty, that makeS the negro question so repulsive to them.. But, fellow citizens, is this one idea, , the eternal negro question, objectionable merely on account of the negro? I think not : I think it far otherwise; for, after all, you: see that the negro has the least of everybody else in the world, to do with it. The negro is no party to it; he is only an Incident; he is the subject of • i putes, 'but not one of the litigants. He has just as much to do with it as a houseor a watch in a justice's courtovhon two neighbors are litigating about its ownir ship. The horse question or watch qut,s tion is excellent business for the jnstit e; and lawyers to make fees, and for tie neighbors generally to get fun mut Of; and friend, General . Nye was never happy in his life as when attending suits before justices of-the peace, settling tl is eternal-horse question and watch qu s tion. [Laughter.] The nontroversy.is not with the negro at all, but with - two classes of white men, one who has.a monopoly of negroes, acid the other who has no negroes. ue is an aristocratic class, that wants to exteiid itself over the new Territories and so ic- 1 tain the power it already exercises; arid the other is yourselves my -ftood friends,, men who have no negroes and went hale i any, and who mean that the aristocrat c system shall net be extended. ' There s no negro question about it at 'all. Its ;an eternal question between classes—bb ltween the (c.. 71 privileged and the malty unprivileged-4the eternal question be tween aristocracy and democracy. m A orrowfull world this will no -whet that question : shall be put to rest; dr when it is the rest that it Shall have, elie:11 be the seine it has always had for. side thousand years . ; the riding of the privi leged over the • necks of the. unprivileged, booted and spurred. And the natio . that is willing to establish such an -arts •toeracy, aad is:shamed out of the defen.le of its own rights, - deserves no better fate than • that which here's the timid, the cowardly and the unworthy. It is . to-day_ in the United States ti c seine 'question ithat is filling Ilungar and is lifting the throne of a Ctsar of Austria from its pedestrals ; the sane which has expelled the tyrant of Nap+ from the beautiful Sicily and has driven him from his palace at Naples to seek: shelter in his . fortress at Gaeta. It is not only an eternal question ; but it is r universal question. Every man from foreign land will find here 'in a Americi,, in another form, the irrepressible' coniYill [Applause] which crushed him out, ap exile from his native land. Again,-fellow citizens, lam not quite, convinced that'it is sound philosophy i i anything, at least in politics, to banish{ the principle of giving paramount import , . ante at any one time to one • idea. If man wishes to secure a good crop of when to pay off the debt he owes cpen his land} he is seized with.one idea in the spring he plows, plants and sows; he gather/ . and reaps, with, a single leading idea o getting fcrty bushels to the acre,, if hi can. If a merchant wishes to be success' ful, he surrenders' himself to the one ide of buying as cheap,'and selling as dear as-he honestly ;can. I world nut giv much for a lawyer who is put in chargel of my ease, that would suffer himselfi when before the jury, to be diStracted; with a great many pleasing ideas. it want one devoted to my cause In the! Church we have a great many clergymen who have a horror d this one 'idea and! •thenegro question, but I think it was St.l Peter who had it made. known to - him in a vision on the housetop, that he musti not have scattered ideas; but there wasi to be one idea only, that is of being satis-i' fled with everything else provided he: eouldonly.win souls to his Milster. And Paul was very much after this spirit; he said he would be all things to all - men,. provided Ile could save scum souls. There was in; the Revolution one man Seized with a terrible fanatiCism, propelled by one idea. . He. scattered terror all through this continent; and When he pass ed from Boston' to Alio first Congress in Philadelphia, deputations from New York and Philadelphia went out "to meet this man of one idea, and that of national in dependence. And still John Adams I proved, after all, to . be a public benefao tot. There with, during the. Revolution, another man of ore idea that appeared to bu.n in him so ardently that he was mi. gardedas the . most dangerous man on the continent; and a triple reward was offered for his head. He actually went so fur as to take all the men of one: in the country, and suffer himself to take com mand of them. That men was Geer*. Washington. His idea was justice, po litical justice. There' was anothet mono =nice of the same kind down in Virgin ia; he, at the close of the Revolution, had one idea, an eternal idea, .and it even in cluded negroes ; and that was the idea of equality. it was Thomas JefferSon.. Now, though the Sato which reared him might be glad if it could erase from his monu ment at Monticello its sublime inscrip tion, yet the Nio r 1 d can never lose' that proud and beautiful epitaph, written' by lawsuit*: "Here lies Thomas Jefferson, the .author.of the Declaration 'of inde pendence." , 'About the year 1805 or '6, the Frecieh 'Secretary for Foreign Affairs gave a din ner to the American representative- at Court, and to American citizens resident there, and there. Was a large and various patty. When the Wine flowed freely, and & 1 FaNI7O:47T-87 i TER*§i -=sl ! 2s - PER -'4o*lM''i-: the converbation ought to have bnen : geil,l ; eras, there *as .6i:to young !nab *be wine possessed with out idea, and he could, nob-, rest, but kept _continually. pittiugoliti idea before the minister and . -,the,teft.tot the guests; sayintt, "If,Yenonlymake.up for ine a purse, - or Ants_ a.lmAktjuit will lend me five thousanddellars,,l wjlt put a boat on 'the iltidsoti fiver ,*bititt will make the passage from New,Yor.k.td Albany at four miles .ctu .hourov.ithnlit being driven by'cars or an offing - ye monomaniac, that, Robed - Fulton. But still.had it notbnerrfor his one We, I-xwa . haveilept titn , last sixty years, and down to - the.-twentieth century, and, not one human beinglnford me qr Within the bonndartes uf this Statd would have resided here. - What; derstand by one idea is this t It simply means that a" man, or a people, or a Slate; is in earnest. They get an,.idea .which they think is useful, and., they are. earnest. God save us..when we, aro to abandon confidenee ip earnest men-and take to -following trivial tneti -- ot. - ,figlit minds, confused and scattered ideas, and weak purposes: Fellow-citizens), there is iio sttch thing as government carried out tylthont din niter- vention, the rising, the exaltation df clnd idea, and without theactivity,gdidario and influence of earnest men. YOU"iday be, listless., indifferent, indolent, eaeli erin of you; do yon therefore get other,peophi to go to sleep 7 No. You go to"shett ) and you will find somebody that ,lias got one idea that you don't like, Who 'Wit bit wide awake. They want to be wideayralt'd on the negro question as . long as it_ptty:9 ; and it pays ;just as long: as ,yotf- bd content to foilow theirgaidauee and.trikd several ideas. ; ' Fellow-citizens, industry is thti rest* of one idea. I have never heard of idid ones in the beaver's b amp; but' do kid* there are drones in the beehive.', Never': theless, the beavers' camp and the lid& hive all give evidence of the denotnidSz don of one idea. The Almiahty Ptitief himself could never have mink the World ; and never govern . it, if he had not bent the force and application of the tind itl&t to make it perfect. And when at .f o'dloOlt in the morning three months ago, •witli. \ the almanac in my hand, 1 stoodi•with my smoked glass between me and-the sun to see whether thee almanae-maker 'was correct or whether nature vaseillated - beA tween one idea and another, lwasiistena ished to see that, at the very second in dicated by the astronomer ; the shadow of 1 the moon entered the disk of the snn.-74 There was one idea only in the mina ot the Omnipotent Creator that, six then.= sand, or ten thousand, or twenty thousand ) or hundreds 'of thousands of years ago i • set that sun, that moon. and this earth itt their places, and subjected them, to has which brought that sbadow cloddy d 5 this point at that instant of time: Earth is serious; heaven is serious; earth' is ear nest ; heaven is -earnest. There, is no place for men of scattered' and tonfined ideas in the earth below, or in the heav ens above, whatever there may be in thd places under the earth. - - • • 1.- Every one idea has its negative. 11 has Its destinies, Its purpose,' and it hits its negative. So it is with 'the idea of slavery; it means mothing -less, nothing more, nothing different from the!extension of commerce or trading in slaves; and in. our national system it means the eaten. lion of commerce in slaves into - regtona - where that - commerce has no right -to-ex- - ist. The negative of that is oiii right which we are endeavoring to inculcate in your minds ; opposition to. trading in slaves within those portions,of the Terri. , tory where slaves are not lankily a sub.; ject of merchandise. '.- . , , .- . At the time of the compromise 0f.1820 the Democratic Party saw, for they-ota, wise men, and their opponents,. Ruftici icing, John W. Taylor and otheni -bt Congress, saw, that there was as irre pressible conflict bet Ween the two ideas !of slavery and freedom; or rather betwecd lthe two sides of one idea. The alternos, give offered to the Democracy .and to all 'the people of the United States,: WAS 11, iplain one; —the slave holders are strong i flare united; there are many slave States: land.they are agreed in their policy; them care as many Pree'States, but they are di vided in opinion. -Lend your support, to the Slave States and you !hall bay° -the power, patronage : , honors and _glory. of. p.dminie.crin g the government of the United - States. Some asked, for heti ong 7 Wise men cast the horescopo, anti aid forty : just about that tiuman,infaet,- State shall grow up north of Missouri. ; within the Louisiana purehase,and itraitha, br shall grow up in - :lianses. These ford ; ty years . the great . men .I have paincl - seemed few and feeble in utimb4si istili w . e would rather baps quiet . enfiscience..l : luriug all the time and postpone ,honors , and rewards for forty years, rather 'than take the side of slavery ; and the,Denv..• 'GiveParty reasoning otherw6e„' i‘Give us the offices:and power 'wet Will bold it the forty years and , tunin 4 St , e can. They say that the." old brie' is iueFg• =EI M i:;',t . ,>- ' .:4i. 'Nj• ' ; F. ;';CI 'k :' ^C :-..,fl .1 l•:' MEM _L F.izf) • i- C.:1911t1 ~,'..,.....7.,-::...1;,,,,,;.,id,-,•2 1 ,, ..tV,:.!,.., , -*- -- 1,'."- - ..'; - ".. --:-...-':' NM
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