The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-12

the glorious pathway OF their revolution. IL there
is light TO go forth--if there Is a brave
and manly werd to be spoken in behalf Of lberty-ne
and leaders the
sit in the high places of power-shou be the first to
give utterance 10 those manly sentiments. Why don't
theyf What do you bear from your government What
are they about What are the gigantic nteects of the
who are elevated to the first places within the power
Of the government engaged on2 Are they studying and
consulting, and contriving how they might best give
represent night? Are they striving spread repub
liberty the world oyer2 Oh no. nothing of that.
What are they about, thenS will you Secretary
Guthries letter Judge Bronson Daughter and YOU
will see by it that the mighty energies and the gigantic
intellects OF the chosen men Of this republic ars
night and day at work to that the hards and he
softs have fair shares Of the custom house plumber
They have no time, they cannot give attention to
any of those great subjects and from the time that the
present naugurated in power to the
present moment there is not single point of policy on
which their has been distinctly marked except
this one in what Mr. Guthrie says that is to be under
stood that the President and Cabaet united ss enc
tn. conviction that the softs shall have fair play
at the Custom House Iaughter) Now my friends
do not want anything to offend any of sensi
bilities am Americ as well as you; am as proud
friends amt you ashamed of yourselves9 Now amt
you ashamed OF yourselves, that the government OF
the United States can find no higher purpose to
which to call the energies of their intellect than
to sit and divide out the tide walters and inspec-
tors of the New York Custom House9 Why my
friends there other questons-really there
are-which ought to interest them. Qaughter) And
when Secretary Guthrie gets through this matter well
he will Just take the public documents of the United
States and look at thsm-aftsr things are fairly done
mesn-he will find that the United states own to day
than Ave hundred million OF land that the
government of the United States to-day land enough
to give every family within the borders Of the United
States a homestead of more than eighty acres. Zap
plause) He will find that If the fires of revolution be
kndled again in Europe and if the forces of despotsm
shall be too strong for the friends of liberty and after
the contest be the victims of oppression shall come
by thousands and tens of thousands We can give
them free farms-a hundred acres to family-and
hardly trespass on our great domain. say
Secretary Guthrie would lind that. And let me ask
abornc of New York don't think that
that is of much consequence the division of the
spells of the Custom Houses (Applause,) Well then,
here this free field of hundreds of thousands of of
fertilea great part of as the footsteps of
trod upoa since he first driven from the Garden Of
Eden and what do you want to have done with it? Shall
it be given to to cultivate it, shall it be locked up
generation after ration to swell the profits OF your
boated speculaors (Cries of mo! noo Why don't the
administration give their attention to something of that
kind Oh they must divide the spois of the Custom
House FIRST. by the bye, when that is all done they will
look at this Then there other questions. There is
the question Of low postage. Why don't they
turn their attention to thats Why don't they see
Affection. Of the human heart to traverse this waste
of waters with going and returning steamer so that
the affections of those who have out from the homes
of their childhood may go back in one ever living current
OF ble sings2 Great applause Why don't they give at
tenton to that Ii would to me that some Of
those questions the people Of this country have much
interest they have in this which the Secretary
of the Treasury most soemnly the President
and Cabinet unit daughter and applause The
party with which am associated, If we can do nothing
else look these questions in the face We are for
free farms believe that land in the wilderness is worth
nothing, but, inhabited by freeman, it is of ines-
mable value There is another subject which has oc
cuped great deal Of attention here That is, the
cause of liberty abroad. Why don't the government
that they right think the government ought to
keep close that. think the government should not
up they should maintain oyster silence. And III tell
you why The platform which they are pledged binds
them just exactly to that will read the eleventh reso
luton of the Democratic Convention held at Baltimore
the LIST June, 1852
situations Of shs Old world. hixS sacred duty i,
cratic party Of this country the party Of the people
That is welI-tbere is most glorious preamble-let
them TO encourage them to bid them God speed to give
them material aidt No; the resolution don't read
SO, but the resolution reads that "a high and
sacred duty devoves with increased responsibility
the democratic party of the Countrywide party of the
peopeto uphold and maintain the rights of every State
In Of the condition of political institutions in the
Old World is the high and sacred duty of the democra
ey to take care of ourselves daughter and applause
They thought suppose, that the resolution rather
would read no further, and would not to how
high and sacred duty it is folding his in most
comca manner) to take of ourselves Great laugh
teri Thus, my friends, you see how this party is
pledged to high and sacred duty to take Of number
They have acted upon it, they to do it. Kos
suh here and pleaded the Of his country
He told the story of her wrongs he portrayed the deso
tion which reigned what Hungary but
Hungary longer; he pointed you to the desolate
homes and to the wanderers whom despotim had driven
from those homes the world, and asked single
word o. sympathy, OF encouragement Did the govern
ment give it to himY No. Their high and sacred duty
to look after the doctrine Of State rights And the
battle waxed hot and the foes Of liberty rumphed in the
fight; and desposm, with iron he'll trod down the de-
f. nders of liberty and cove nment stood like dumb
dogs and did not open their mouths. Why9 Because,
my friends they afraid that if they sent SYM
pathetic note to the struggling friends Of liberty in the
Old World, it might reverberate back and by chance
6nd its way to slave hut here Tsat is the
off Great appause) And it will ever be. This
its mi hQ
full to its credit cannot act to its profession Just
SO long the interests of human slavery mounts like the
old the upon the shoulders every officer and
candidate for public Office in the land pplause Well
my friends it is said that party of
idea but don't think it is exactly This adminstra-
ton and this party may have great many ideas but the
only one they have get given evidence OF to the world
that they cherished with settled and unanimous
vcton to divide the spos fair between the hards and
softs That's all Something has been said about the Fug
tive Slave law Let ask you not melancholy and
humiapg thing that in the nineteenth century of the
Christian eraafer the battles of liberty fought
this country and Europe for many administration the
cause has been canonized by the blood of much
ers Of the pious-is it not a humilating re-
Election that the greatest evidence of fidelity
be the zeal and alacrity with which you contend with
Southern bloodhounds in catching negroes And friends
is not this factf Suppose candidate for public Office
the candidate for Judgeship-he may be as wise So
lomon-he may be as just Arisdes-he may talk with
eoquence second only to him who spake
spake and he unfit place the judicial bench
as scavenger the street He (Mr. Hale), however,
hope for the future for the people Of New York in the
strikes of journeymen tradesmen it proves that they
knew then rights and would maintain them. The good
book tells my friends that God made man-it is not
recorded who made wings and democrats. Remember
then laboring Of New York. that there indvi
dual judgment and individual responsibility which bel
ongs you election day And why take these mat
tiers into your hands and for principles which you
know will better subserye your highest benefit Go to
the polls and in the exercise of your individual udg
ment, cast your ballot for that set Of men who will
carry out that set Of measures which you know
Would it not be humiliang sight If some person from
foreign land should here and the November
election and when he inquired what all those voters
marshaed for he should be informed that it only
TO decide whether the softs should have fair pro
portion If the custom house plunder7 Gaughter.)
No, my friends. there should be higher nober
effort We should attempt 10 redeem fair fame, which
We have bot'ed-our revolutionary history, which has
been dshonored (Hsses and applause.) There is a
great mission before this countryside whole world looks
to for freedom And it seems tina if Prince Of
IN rkness had determined 10 destroy this beaut full tenn
pie liberty by Introducing the demon Of slavery Shall
he be successful Voices-' No, nol'D lie may may
Dot be successful but II rests with you the liberty
ala. I'll