Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-08-24


nstc apDlause1 If not, then say am against nun;
sybatever is put forth, will regard as my Poncal
brother and will sustain him SUCH threat ap-
plause. - - - ..,,. T ,,ll
resume nv remarks precisely at this polnt az s'lle
other vile. NO. no. Go on go on i nlGe' oUa,
siderf e begging, Mr.. Glddings obtained leave 70 re-
fire when loud calls were made for Benjamin f. but
Ter and Mr.. Culver of New York Mr. Culver took
the stand and addressed the audience as follows;
MR.. CULvER's SPEECH.
GrNr1EMEN:-I have lungs like double bound,
high pressure steam engine will make you near
lust like knife. Mr. Butler will speak after get
through. 1t is always customary where live to put
the Young steers first and let the old oxen come be-
hind.
Fellow citizens, you have cnme up here from all
parts of the country to signify your love OF Liberty
and hatred of Oppression. consider TINS the SUD
finest spectacle nv eyes ever rested on. | attended
at Tipuecanoe in 1910. | thought saw faces there
I Thought no man could number them but these were
nothing compared with this ocean OF heads tLaugh'
teri This immense concourse shows me that there
is something at the bottom OF this matter at work.
What is it that has brought little Rhode Island, that
little State which sets out in the sea, up here to-day
to strike hands with Iowa? What has brought Vir
pina I'D here that State of moonlight cotton bag abb
stractions? What has brought Ohio here, our elder
sister, too old to have children although she has sew
eral thousands here to-day, who are alive and kicking
Gentlemen, am just like Connecticut beer barrel,
and have wanted vent the whole day. Great merrl-
ment1 What gentlemen, is the one bond that has
tied us together? Have you ever seen that gushing
nh in the old partres that links us together? No. no.
What is that bond? Why, fellow citizens, we have
seen down at the South principle growing up and
STRENGTHENING for fifty years We thought 1t would
grow weaker, but it has been continually rising up
growing stronger and stronger tn at last 1t threatens
to oyewhem us all. But we will not have our necks
ground down. and this is what is rousng us up.
Fellow citizens, what is this glorious issue now at
stake? It is something tangible. We have talked
heretofore of Banks Sub Treasures, and Tariffs, but
now we have got hold of something tangible. Have
YOU not seen that the Shareholders have always fash
Toned our movements? When they said bank, we had
a bank. Even Calhoun could go for it then. If they
said Tariff we had Tariff. And If they said no Tar
,f the Tariff was gone in twihkling When the
factories all going, and the factory girls making
lots of money and our farmers making money and ev-
orything going on prosperOusy here at the North the
shareholders saw we must stop this. Those Yankees
are gong on too fast. They are becoming too rich
and powerful and they brushed away your prosperity
as a housewife brushes a cobweb from tile ceiling OF
u room. Why can not have our rivers and harbors
improved? Because the South want the money to pay
for war down in Mexico, and to get slaves there
have had little experience in this matter was one
of the immortal "oureen that voted against the war.
I voted against Texas when that base scheme was
brought ill., and the previous question called, so that
one hundred young members were not allowed word
of debate. Three Democrats then stood by my side,
Bradford Wood of Albany Horace Wheaton and Pres
ton King, who don't fear either fire or thunder APP
plausel When asked King why he opposed the
annexation, lie laid his hand upon his heart and said,
can never consent that the South shall acquire anoth
or inch Of slave territory T(ireat applause. few
davis after got the floor, and then lashed them with
what would have said on the day Texas was admit
ted. had heard they were about to heat up the pc
ltca furnace for the benefit of my three Democratic
friends, and told them that in old times three gooC
men and true who would not bow down to the idols o.
their masters, were cast into furnace seven times
heated but that they did not get scorched half as bad
ly as did they who threw them in. Applause.
| wish to say word about compromises, now
stand upon middle ground / know all about antisla
very Now there is that portion OF our party and thu
Wig portion and the Democratic portion, and W.
NAV not all think to set our stakes at the notch
Now it is important that we start out on some goot
ground and 90 it strong thunder far as we do go
Only get them on the track, and the South will MAKE
these men alconsistent by and by. There is a elias
of men, and honor them, who say we must look gu
fcr4he guarantees of the Constitution. | have hear
men talk as though the Constitution was got up TO
the express purpose of maintaining slavery. John
Calhoun said that slavery the only kind of ropert
but said it with all the sang fOid of Connection
schoolmasteh
Now the Constitution does not say word abor
slaves The honorable men atmade that lnstrumer
remembered that when, twelve years before, at tn
opening of the revolution they stuck their stakes an
stuck them strong it was necessary to have the syn
pathy of all the world and they struck out charte
containing certain great landmarks eft which they wer
proud, and it was a Virginian hand that drew it III
and thew recollected that in the platform thus lal
down were principles quite inconsistent with the exI
teHee of slavery in this land. But now you hear the
talk about the compromises of the Constitution
Where do you find them? Nowhere. Virginia
thinks the Constitution is great jug with the hand
all on the Southern side. And when you ask them
look on our side of the jug to see if there are not son
guarantees there they raise the cry OF non nterteren
or dissolution of the Union. But thank God we ha
guarantees there A free press and the right of pc
ton. And how did they abide by these guaranti
when that venerable old man who has lately gone
his eternal rest presented petition to the House
Representatives which had been sent up to HIM by
norton of the people of this country? Why they 0
tempted to crush him, to thrust him from the House.
But that old man stood firm, and how did our het
beat as we anxiously waited for the mails to bring
the tldngs from the Capital, that might lea
whether the waves Of Southern hate had overwhelm
him. But that old man triumphed goriously and Sc
those Southern hounds crouching and trembling ba
to their kennels Applause AND now dld
South support the guarantees when my friend fr'
Ohio presented his memorable petition ?-Why, tn
sent him home, and say in the presence of that mt
constituency, have longed to see your faces. Y
who in the dead of winter roledNp majority of 80
put his credentials in his hand and sent the great
footer back to torment the sensitive Southrons
They told us we should have freedom Of the pres
and do you remember that II or IL years ago N
England man went down among them to establis
free press and that they attacked him. violated
sanctty Of his home and cast his press into the rv
Did they say anything about the "guarantles" the
Motley sent four bullets and lodged them IN
breast. They murdered him, and what stamps
nation with everlasting infamy, those men still go
whipt of justice, and the murdered man has scare
received an honorable grave. But let him alone.
will sleep but little while longer ere his resting p
shall be marked by monument to FREEDOM. 4
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challenge slavery for another thing. They
about the guarantees Of the Constitution. Do t
wish to establish slavery in the Southern States s!
to break the balance of power? We will stand
the Jefferson Ordinance. Gentlemen go down Sc
and see The condition of the county. AS you tr
along you will see the works of slavery. worn
soil diaDidafed fences and tenements, and an al