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Coudersport, Pa.,: will attend" the several
Courts in Potter and M'Kcan Counties. All
busineas entrusted in his care will' receive
prompt attention. Office corner of West
and Third streets. 10:1
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ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will
regularly attend the Courts in Potter and
the adjoining Counties. 10:1 •
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,COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business .
entrusted to his care, with promptnes and
fldt'ity. Office on Soth-west corner of Main
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of Third and West streets, will be happy to
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cowlersport, Nov. 8, 1859.-11.-Iy.
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ONE-IDEAISME EXPiAINED.
SPEECH OE'
HON. NVM. H. SEWARD,
DELIVERED -
At Dubuqe, .Iqzca, Sept. 21st, 1860.
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.
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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
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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
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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. - - • •
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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•
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