The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-03-23
Lewis I'd. Campeli,s specclr.


The Washington Globe of the 22nd pub
| fishes. at length, the capital speech of Mr.
Campbell--iling eight colnms of that paper,
Previous to its receipt we had in type 6the
letter of correspondent, and which will be
found in this morning 5 issue, giving a synopsis
OF the speech. Southern members have been
patiently heard for weeks denouucing the
Union, declaiming against ''Northern aggres-
sion" /" aud threatening secession and dissolu-
Ition,--these ardent offensive, and distracting
declamations and threats were calculated if
lot designed, to provoke angry and denuncia-
! .ory responses. But we are pleased to notice
that Mr.. Campbell, and other members from the
Free States, rebuke the disloyal and revolu-
| tionary sayings of the South in the most COM
mendable spirit and temper, giving thereby
additional force, pertinency and pungency to
their speeches in response
Mr.. Campbell's speech is full Of historical
and political truths, pleasantly Illustrated and
enforced by anecdote and good humored re-
capital and effective speech, and win do good
We can find space to-day, simply to extract
the closing sentences Of his speech-an "anec-
dote,'' as he terms it-but which we regard
as most Interesting and instructive remine-
81 have shown some of the reasons why /
am in favor of the proviso of the ordinance of
's7. l designed going at large into an exhibit
ton Of its practical effects. For want of time
| will relate an anecdote which is calculated
to impress them upon the mind.
81 have constituent who has been an eye
witness to the rapid progress of that Terri
tory TO which our revolutionary fathers first APP
piled 1t. He is a native of the old Dominion,
| and at the age of sixteen fought in the battle
of Eutaw and Guilford Court House. The
northwest Territory was then a vast unbroken
wilderness, uninhabited save by the savage
and the wild beast. No keel had ruffed the
smooth surface of her magnificent lakes and
| rivers Her boundless forest were untouched
by the woodman The sod in her vast prair-
les was unbroken by the agriculturist! In
1887 it was decreed that this soil should
never he polluted by the foot of slavery! In
'99 he left his friends, and with his rifle upon
his shoulder cast his destiny there. In that
year he taught in log cabin on the banks of
the beautiful Ohio, the second school of the
Northwestern Territory. Subsequently he
aided to "carry up the corner of the first log
Cabin, where now stands the great city of
! Cincinnati In 1902 he was member of the
Convention which framed the constitution of
Ohio, and aided in embodyiag in it the clause
prohibiting slavery.
'.Sir, that man still lives to witness it fruits.
-Four millions of freemen are happy there. with
no fears of Instructions to trouble them in
the stiffness of the night-the lamentation of
no slave to disturb there repose. Instead OF
the single hut, surrounded by sayages, thou
sands of colleges. academies, churches and
! school-houseS adorn the land and tens of
thousands ofmerry children acquire in them
those impressions which will make them use
ful to their country, and prepare their souls
for eternity Sir, i relate this anecdote to chal-
| tlenge gentlemen to point ne in the history of
all the world to any country, in any age, where,
in the life time of one man, such progress has
| been made, and for the purpose ofpointing TO
these monuments there erected to the patrio-
tisn, wisdom, and sagacity of those who form
ed the old Continental Congress of 1774!-
That individual, although aged, still lives, and
is still physically able to protect the family of
a native of that soil who is absent from his
home to urge, as solemn duty the passage Of
the same provision for the Territories which
our posterity must occupy.
Before high Heaven, let me say, that duty
regardless ofconsequences, viii be discharged
That person will urge upon all to keep up the
lights of liberty enkindled by our fathers that
we may be directed by them in the advance
mcnt of measures which viii secure the high
est degree of perfection ofwhich man in his
fallen condition is susceptible in this life; and
when its itful dream is over a place in that
land where sorrows and oppression never
Iyome." s.