Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-12-20

was to be belled, and the wisest among them
failed to discover the method. Laughter l.
They have Illuminated anathemas against you, at
Washington; but have they put down the anti
slavery agitation? Shall it be put down Loud
cries of No!l Have they not to war with the
very instincts of humanity? Have they not,
first to silence the very sympathles of the coun-
try? And they can never do it!
Sir, might congratulate this assembly upon
the progress that has been made, since | was
last here. Hear! hear 7 1t was my good fora
| tune to be in Faneuil Hail. on another occasion
| than that to which reference has been made by
the chair; and to hear Mr.. Charles Sumner de-
liver most able and eloquent address; iii tenun-
! citation of the Fugitive Slave Bill Applause. I
could not forget, that 5 years before, that hall
was crowded with persons anxious to hear one
who came there for the purpose of denouncing
me, and of recommending to the people of Mas
sachusetts the passage of a law, making it GRIM
inal, even to discuss the question of Slavery
APPLAUSE ] could not but contrast the state
of things then; and had taken ship for my ma
tive country the following morning, | should
have returned home with the conviction that the
Is years that had passed had been crowned with
as great success in defence of human rights, as
ever crowned the efforts CT any reformers in the
history of the world, cheers. Still, you have
only begun this great struggle; still you have
more than three millions of slaves in your terri
tories. Talk Of this country being free 1t is
not free. Any Englishman, who is honest in
opinion, cannot travel in the country Could
see the mammoth cave of Kentucky? | am
obliged to be content with seeing the representa-
ton on canvass! [cheers. But if I undertook
a journey TO those caves, and lived to get there,
do you think | should ever come out? TAp-
! nj | | fbo riv NV
other portion of the globe; but, may gaze up
on the Father of Waters at the South cross
the Potomac or visit your western wilds Let
Austria and Russia be rallied at, as General Cass
pleases; may travel in the sunny South, as
may in any portion of these most despotic coun-
tries of Europe! [Appause.] If this be case,
that you cannot, at the South, pronounce your
candid opinions of the Slavery institutions of this
country, is your country free? No, no. And
if your country is not free, what must be the eff
feet upon other countries Why, that every ad-
vocate of Kingcraft and State and Priestcraft
in the Old World, quotes this damning fact, and
throws it in the path OF those who are laboring
for reform under other governments applause I
! Why, my friends, should not venture to have
any part in the anti-slavery agitation of this
country, if felt myself rebuked for any lack of
| sympathy for the reform movements of England;
but can truly say that have never. in any
public addresses that have made in my life, ut
tered one solitary sentiment repugnant to the
principles which you cherish in this country
| Applause. Every where have | endeavored
to prepare men for great struggle for the es-
Establishment of those principles Every where
have | sought to recommend whatever was no.
BILE in your own conduct to the imitation of those
who sought to be free. Having done this, and
feeling quite sure that it was my solemn duty to
promo-e the cause of Freedom; and being con-
| fident that no man can quote any thing that
have ever uttered, derogatory to the principles
of other lands or inimical to the interests of the
institutions of America Il think may ask, when
am invited to deliver an address, that NAV
have permission to do so, not with fear and trem-
bling, but standing erect, as freeman amongst
freemen, willing that my opinions should be can
vassed, my principles investigated by what do
to carry out the great principles on which you
have made the foundation of your own ndepen-
dence. Loud cheers.
I shall not detain this meeting longer, this
morning, hoping to add few additional words in
! the after part of the day. will conclude bv ex.
/ pressing my satisfaction at finding in this great
State, all the elements tibet are necessary to
make this great cause triumphant | do not
think it necessary, now, for myself or any other
manto come to this country as missionary on
the subject of Freedom. (Applause) When
| was in this country before, | had audiences
few in number, and the sympathy in the princi-
pies | advocated, was extremely limited and
weak. But come among you to-day, and find
you have really no need of foreign interference.
You have eloquence ofthe highest order, virtue
courage, and self-denial, equal to any that were
ever exhibited in behalf of any reform movement
in the world. (Cheers) You have men and
women amongst you whom it is as idle to sup
pose can be put down, as that Mrs. Darlington
could keep back the waves Of the Atlantic, stan
ding in her pattens and having only broom in
her hands. Laughter and Cheers. venture
to say that not all the statesmen of this country
can put them down. They are putting them.
selves down, from their high places of power
and cruelty, and in thus addressing the abolition.
list, they might be made to speak of him as John
the Baptist did of the coming of Christ. 81
must decrease, but thou shalt increase" APP
plause Let no man, who expects to live sey.
en- years longer, talk of putting down abolition
Let no man DESTROYS of fame the aspirant fol
honor, or any man, who wishes his name to be
remembered and cherished, when he is dead
talk of putting it down. Cheers. No, sir, i
is not in nature that these principles can be pu
down, either by threats or resolutions, or laws
themselves, and have been refreshed, as | have
mingled with the people of this State, to fine
that they have conquered their prejudices,
laughter and loud cheers, and that they have
harnessed themselves for the race that is before
them. Continued cheers. | wish them Coo
speed. The cause of liberty is to be fought or
your shores 1t is sublime spectacle that the
foreigner is called on to behold in this country a
this moment.
1t is here that Christianity is fighting her no
blest battle Looking over the face of the world
cannot find any thing resembling the battl,
ground between Christianity and Despotism
Similar to that find here. / cannot doubt, 70
a moment, the Issue of that conflict / canno
doubt that you will act worthy of your ancestors
You will carry out the principles upon which
you established your own freedom; and, be as
sured of this, that we, on the other side, who ar
seeking to elevate our fellow subjects to the en-
joyment of that liberty which is your birthright
wish you well, and see with joy the progress
you make in this great cause. Applause. i
Therefore, beseech you, my friends, not mere
ly for the sake of your own country, but for tn
sake of all other lands, where the freedom tina
is man sinheriance, is partially or entirely with
held; beseech you, that you stand fast in tn
great cause of the abolition of slavery; and b
assured that we, in the old country, snail deepl
sympathize with you in all your movements, an
rejoice in the success that you achieve, CHEERS.