Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-12-01

Howell's motel 10 dine.
- 10 abiding to the Battle Of the Thames. Col.
Johnson took TO mention General Harrison
with honor and respect
Mr.. Adams and the CoIorcd People of Cin-
cnnati.
During Mr. Adams stay in Cincinnati he was
waited on bv Committees of Colored people
J. q Langion, their Chairman an Orator made a
shor, address to Mr. A, 10 which he replied: We
give below the speeches:
MIR. ADAMs-Sr:
The agreeable task has been conferred on me
IN behalf Of the co!o-ed people of this city, Of
welcoming you your arrival amongs, Us, and
proifeTing to you the tokens Of hgh hest regard
and esteem.
Sir, the situation in which we are placed BY
he laws and prejldlces of our country, 1~r.'"~~
US of an opportunity Of participating with our
white fellow cizons, in offering to you that kind
OF reception which we believe your claims justly
demand
However, Sir. permit to tender you en-
tire appreciation of the course you have pursued
when IN defiance of the threats and imprecaions
of a slaveholdIug representation, you endeavo red
to sustain unsullIed. the right OF petitions; right
guaranteed by the Constitution 10 every citizen
of the United States, ard inherited from benlfi-
cent Creator by all his intelligent creation.
Sir, your bic defence Of the Amis,ad captves,
by which means number of our fellow men were
raised from level with the brute creation, and
placed in the scale Of human existence: and your
indefatigable exertons against the admission of
Texas into the Union IN the event of which sa.
very would have been prolonged, and COM
mon country perhaps forever ruined, have con-
WINGED of the position you occupy in relation 10
tina, opprest portion of American citizens the col
ored people; and the views of American slavery
promulgated by you to the world, more than
sufficient esidence of the sentiments you enter
ia in in ia or of crushed and bleeding humanity.
These demons tratIons of your regard for US we
duly appreciate, and although we have no honors
of State to confer, yet we offer you a far higher
reward in the appreciation of a grateful people,
Injuries, we write upon sand, but favors on mar
BILE. not TO be erased and these acts OF yours are
indeiby written on the tablets Of our hear ts,
and never be CELEBRATED.
Sir your untiring efforts in favor of the &C.
know led gment of Ha y,,ar ind pendence, and your
whole course as 1t regards The policy of This gov.
eminent presenting 1t does, one continual
scene of active devotion 10 the improvement OF
the moral and political condition of man, lead us
TO recognize in you The true American citizen.
The supporter of equal rights and privileges, and
the friend of mankind.
Throughout the last half century, one portion
OF The people OF These United States for whom and
with whom you have fought the moral end polIf-
zeal battles of liberiy--have been living in the
full possession of al its fruits Of the happes'
among the family of nations. Willis. the other
during The same period. has been laboriug under
an oppressive bondage, such the world has
never
But, YOU will have your voice in the defence
of universal freedom, We hope il will never cease
to be heard until there shall not be slave &c
curse the soil of the boosted land of liberty.
The cause you have adopted sir is the cause
Of truth and justice; it is one which God himself
will sanction; and although the combined powers
of earth and hell shall be raised against it, il mus
and will prevail And here am reminded Of the
! language promulgated on one occasion. by you
venerable sire, when the energies Of his sou
were put forth in defence of the lib critics of hi
country.
| LET the pulpi, resound with the doctrines an
sentiments of religious liberty.
LET us hear the danger Of thraldom TO on
conscience, from ignorance, extreme poverty an
dependence, in short from evil and political sla
very.
'i.et delinea,ed before us the true ma
ture, and the noble rank he holds among III
| works OF God; tha, conserving TO slavery is