The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-13

for man of the African breed. In your huge iron
foundries, where five hundred a thousand white
men are sometimes sweating. with thermometer
at 100 or more, the African must mingle his odoTs
with theirs Nay, more: the African, if this is to
be his home must have his house to live in; and as
many families Of workingmen often live in the
same house, or the same court. yard or block his
family VIII have one floor while yours must have
another.
Now, all such things, Mr.. Brooks went on TO say,
are unnatural, and against the ordinances OF God
as well as against the spirit and intent OF the Con-
stitution of the United States. The Constitution
had wisely provided that the African should stay,
live and flourish in the hot, congenial cline where
he was born, and God punished him and his race if
they came here, by limiting, or crippling, de-
stroying the propagation Of their species; for sta
tstics and we'll authenticated facts as well as our
eyes, demonstrate 10 US that the African could
not live and flourish and hvorably propagate his
species in these Northern States. The African race
increased with tenfod the rapidity South that it did
North; nay, il was not certain that the race would
not utterly die out North il not increased by eman.
cipation, or through fugitive slaves. Mr.. b. then
went on to dwell at length upon the fatal conse-
quences to countries where the white and black
race had mixed and mingled, and married, as In
the Spanish American States; and he pointed out
how the proud Castilian had degenerated into the
mixed and motley mulatto, quadroon, mestizzo,
&c. The races here had happily been kept apnrt;
and hence the prosperity OF our country beyond
that OF the descendants OF once the greatest people
earth--they who were from CASTLE and ARA
gon, the Cortezes, the Pizarros-but who were now
The motley Mexicans, the Ncaraguans, the Costa
Rcans. the Buenos Ayreans, or tho South Ameri-
cans in general.
The great effort now made to break down or
break over the Constitution Of the United States.
and to tempt, wheede, or cheat here the millions
OF southern slaves, Mr.. b. commended, was practi-
cay an effort to convert these northern free white
States and our northern free white labor into the
mixed and motley condition of Mexico, New Gre
NADIA, Central America, and other southern (Span-
ish) republics. Because. as northern man, he
had resisted this great effort-because he had been
true to the interests of the North as we'll to the
Constitution--he had been denounced ms q "dough-
face"-just that kind Of a "dough iace'' John Ad-
ans was. [Great cheering.]
Mr.. Brooks then went on to show that the HOSTILE
ty to Mr. Fillmore and his Administration
founded upon similar opposition; and he
cried down ostensibly for other reasons but really
because he did not veto the Fugitive Slave law
nay, even because he fearlessly executed the law.
He was unpopular in the North, we're told; and
why! Because, simply because he had done his
duty under the Constitution to the South well
to the North. The cry that he was unpopular,
however, in New York, Mr. b. said, was all pre-
tence, fraud, got up for Interior purposes, in
der to have no President from Now York, and to
leave vacancy here. He has always run ahead Of
his ticket in this State and he has administered
the Federal Government that he will run better
than ever. Nothing be made here against his
maintenance Of the law-nay, even the Fugitive
Slave law-for every Wing candidate for high pub
lie office who has the principle Of the Com
promises has profited from the popularity OF them.
Mr.. Brooks continued on this point at some
length, and then dwelt upon the great interests
which the city had at stake in its dverging rail-
roads, its steamboats,, packet ships, &C., with all
parts of the country, especially South and West.
The city, he said, was a light, whose motions the
whole country would mark II IL stood steady
MIR. Fillmore, it mattercd but little if some other
parts OF the State gave way; for in the end the
great voice of public opinion that found utterance
here would be responded to elsewhere.
Mr.. Brooks closed long speech, of which this Is
but an abstract, and retired amid much cheering.
JOHN H. WHirr, esq. then introduced Mr..
PRIcH, of Kentucky
They assembled, Mr.. Price said, for the
purpose of saying to MIR. Fillmore, swell done
thou good and faithful servant" From the shores
of the Atlantic to the Paciic--from Alabama 10
the North-every bosom approved what Willard
Fillmore has done. He made some remar ks upon
the administration of President Taylor. IT was
the pleasure of Divine Providence, in 1850, TO
snatch from the head Of the Government one who
had been elected TO the Presidential chair almost
by universal reclamation but his place was ably
filled by good man and true. He asked, was Mr..
Fillmore to be rejected by the whole country
because northern sectional party repudiated hinR
What were the Compromise measures? They
were a compact between the North and the South.
They were a compact for them to unite and pre-
serve the liberty which had been purchased by the
blood of their forefathers but, to place them before
them in the most practical form, they were the law
of the land.