Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-10-12
MIR. MALE's SPEECH.
At q Mass Meeting in syracuse, Ang .,

J ny 'e Ie"afKs oil our eloquent friend (Mr Chase
VINO has Just addressed you that feel entirely nm
aoie 'as..p them in any other channel than that i,
"hi1h Fas directed yauFt, and even az the risk o
gong OYER ground which he has occupied so mucl
better than shall, you will pardon n.e if follow
train OF thought similar to his, hobeh perbaps ma,
be fortunate et1hgh to make some suggestions will
which he has MT already favored You.
| He has spoien about the great measures of ,be
Compromise. wish to call your thoughts moment
10 the consideration of what that was 70 be a little
literal about 1t, is word found in the English die
tlonares, with a toleraby ineligible definition and
IL means, IN common parlance, when two have a con-
troversy or difficulty which they cannot exactly see
how to settle, rd they sit down together and each
S'rcs little and takes ittle and by Welding on
both sides the diff renee is adjusted That is or used
to be, compromise Whenever parties. political or
national, have h3 misunderstanding q determine 70
Come to seerhen, that course has moi nnireouentlv
been adopted. Flow it so happened that two great
powers do nd mean that either the great power
and the 6He power, the slave power and the free
had difficulty, hnd they concluded; following illus
trlous examples,to settle it by compromise Well.
you represent tf3 free States. The slave power YOU
Know how that is represented. And what was the
question to be compromised Why, up to 1913 did
not know hatthere was bnt one question abou which
mere was any difficulty, q that was what government
should be given TO the territories we possessed added
to those we acqnired from Mexico ! was not aware
cor hat there was any other question which in
terposcd Ify difficulty ALL except that confess
that wasrn important question; perhaps little more
important than you sometimes fancied It's impor-
iance may be estimated by looking at the size and ex
tent of the territory How large vas it, Perhaps
you may fancy, about as large as this State of New
York. This State has about forty thousand square
miles, The Old thirteen States which declared them
selves Independent Of the OF Great Britain and
put that declaration upon the fearful issue of battle
Comprised about three hundred thousand square miles
Well, this territory which was awaiting govern
Ihent at your Hands, that lay Without any Organized
government and was beseeching you for it, Comprised
one million eight hundfed thousand square miles 0,1y
six times the size of the original thirteen States and
only forty times the size of the little State of New
York! Six nations, mot such g Six Nations as
you have been in the habit of hearing about in New
York; but six nations as large as the whole United
States could be carved out of it, and they wanted
government. What government shall they have =
And that question was to be decided by the people of
The free States. The slave States expressed their
and the free States had vast majority in
he popular branch of Congress, and the question
what government that territory should have, was with
point All agreed that it should be republican gov
them ,'but The question was, shall 1t be free gov
,rnment Shall it be a government like that of New
Iork, or of New England, shall it be a government
where the laborer shall eat the fruit of his own in
lustry and enjoy the reward of his toll, where
he obligation of the marriage covenant shall be pre-
served, and where the children shall be entitled to the
protection of the paternal affection aud control Shall
It be government where the laborer, when the labors
of the day over shall go 10 his humble house and
sit down TO look around upon the wife of his bosom,
and the children of his love- thanking God for the
enjoyment Of the priceless boon of their affection =
Or shall it, on the other hand, be place where man.
formed in the image of God, and redeemed by the
Everlasting Son of God shall be degraded below the
brutes that perish, and be sold the auction block
like thing Of merchandize That was the question
proposed to the people Of New York. And it WAS
not question to be decided for to-day for Tomorrow,
for this year the next for tie present geheraon,
or for uncounted generations but it question
whether it should be for ever, away down as far as
faith see, hope prophesy, whether the
coming ages of all future should be blessed with in
stiutons of freedom, cursed with those of slavery
Shall it blossom like the rose, under The care of the
industry of the free, shall it be parched with the
evered foot of the slave and drenched with the sweat
OF his .spaid toll Shall there ascend from these
hills and valleys thanksgiving to Almighty God for
the multiplied blessings which wait in the train of
freedom or shall there ascend TO the of the God
of the oppressed-O God, how long the clank of
the chain of the slave and the wailing bondsman and
the prayer Of the oppressed for judgment upon that
nation which might have saved them from this
sed lot, but did not! Applause. That the ques-
ton which the people of New York had to settle.
We hear it said that the government did this and
that Where is the government Have any of you
ever seen the government of the United States Do
you know where this government lives Laughter.
O, yes" says one, @ know" "Where!" SIN
Washington" The last place on earth to find the
government. Laughter.l No, my friends, have new
eft seen, aud expect to more living rep
resenation of the government of the United States
than see before me this very minute, here-I mean
you emphatically mean the State ST New York.
This was then the question to settle what sort of
government shall these people have, and what nst-
tutiohs shall they live under! You knew what free
dom was fof you lived under 1t, and you knew what
slavery was for you discarded it, If you could only
have been worked up single point above the point
of indifference, all would have been well enough
But no New York, when SHE CAME to speak upon
the subject through her constituted organs, says this
is something of question, but it is not question of
moaent enough for us to expend our thoughts upon,
and we are Indifferent about it. You said by the
votes YOU gave, that the State TO be framed out OF
this territory might have slavery not they pleas
ed, and that you We're Indifferent about it. No, II
was not exactly indifference. You rather limited that
il would be better that they should come in with slave
ny. You said come with free States, free schools
free churches, free labor and free men, rejoicing
in free Constitution and in the hope Of new in
heriiance of freedom, and we will take you in or il
YOU prefer not TO come So come slave State, ane
when you come to swear fidelity to your country''
Constitution, let your track be marked with blood o
tho victns and lei the clankn1 of slave chains bt