Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-10-12

oOy VINO may see nj to seize her for the viest pur-
poses! Is that lawP Your political friend looks
pale and says, " DARK days about those tines We
were in danger The great men Of the lind put their
heads together and saved the Union, TIaurhterl T
oeileve ~ saving the Unon-yes, believe rive II
up-that is the law. " Save the 11nion >, s,y ,,o,
Don talk TO me about such Union rs that If
there is Union which protects the horse. bu, gives
up human beihgif it is such Union ne tba, ,o,,
saved let me tell you was not worth saving ., An
pauseI But be very careful how you get warm nm
on the subject be very cool when you tell il at home
because if your wife should let her bosom throb i
niue too quickly ybu may shake the platform of the
= two great parties" [Laughter.l
Well now, my friends here you have the Co,npro-
miSe' IL Is easy to go through it and tell what YOU
gare, but wait sumo New York politician of same
school or other, TO tell inc what we Took What was
there given up for this tremendous concession which
was made! My friends | have heard that Question
asked frequently, but have never heard an answer OK
cept that we took the universal c5ntempt of eyerv
mend OF freedom throughout all time Well sir
we hear talk about danger to the Union. or all the
ridiculous stories that ever started, the idea that
the Union Of these States was in any danger is the
most ridiculous, Webster and Clay are both now
dead and buried. But / say now, if know nv own
heart, and if there is particle of truth in il do
not believe that Daniel Webster and Henry CLAW ever
saw the day when they could have met one another
in the Senate at Washington and have said ANYTHING
about the dissolution of the Union, without bursting
ont in laughter in each others faces AZ the rdicu
lousncss OF the idea. The thing was so ridiculous
that 1t had not the dignity of respectable bug bear
II was not fit to brighten children to bed with.
Now the parties have laid aside all other issues in
their fidelity and allegiance 10 this and I've are to sion
agitation: Why do they not &c and tell the winds Of
heaven not to stir the mountain pines WHY not 90
and tell the waves of the to ce8syand be stil
why not go and stand beside the foaing torrent and
tell 1t to turn back and roll up the mountain side TO
It's source! They would stand better chance of be-
ing obeyed than when they tell christian people to
still the surging of humanity in their breasts
No, 1t cannot be done. This is before fhe coun-
try and before the world, and will 90 Gu The pur-
poses of Divine benevolence will be accomplished.
and it will make great difference with us when the
question. is whether are fighting with God or
against Him.
The question is reaching across the ocean it is
stirring the nations of the Old World, and lettering
the crowns end thrones built for ages with the blood
and tears Of the victims of oppression. The strug-
Cling hearts of reemen marshaling themselves in
the Old World. They marshalng themselves in
Hungary. and they turn imploring eyes to u.s. they
send their prayers TO u.s. and ask u.s. for what! For
one word of sympathy and
if nothing else They ask that when they harness
themselves for the fight, and put the of lb
erty, and go out " to do or de-" that they may be
animated on the battlefield with the thought that
our sympathy and prayers, if nothing more are
with them. But they did not get even that Our
government was silent the republicans Of the
Old World who have slept for centuries beneath the
sod of the valley We stood in this great struggle
like dumb dogs, with eyes closed and lips sealed and
r A.
Cling friends of liberty in the Old World, lest it
might come echong back 10 some slave hut upon our
Southern borders. We all know that this was the
reason why were false to our mission in that great
hour of peril to the cause Of liberty, and it is now
openly proclaimed that if the effort shall be made by
those having the right and the power TO make it, to
strike off the chains of the oppessor in tie island of
Cuba-F Here beams from Heaven hope of that
vision that daISned upon the hour of crucifed Sa-
vior, when he the travail of his soul, and said;
" 1t is finished If that visioh is about to be real
lied in the island of Cuba, we told, say, that
tile United States stands pledged to throw your free
bodies and your immortal souls, as living hulwarks
around the institution of slavery in Cuba, and say to
the Most High, " Not yet shall the mission of Sa-
vior's love be accomplished upon earth, if
prevent it,
That is the pBsion we occupy tonight before the
nations of the old world in regard to liberty and
slavery in the island of Cuba. Let me appeal to you
citizens of New York how long are you willing 10
occupy this position Had God no higher purpose
in spreading out these beautiful vaes in png up
these hills and pouring these streams which fer
ze your field than to fit the land for the abode Of
men pledged to such an infamous purpose as this -
Is there no higher destiny for you! Are you con-
tent that New York shall be the great workshop id
which shall be manufactured the chains and the man
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slavery and degradation ioreSet Does no higher as
pration warm your breast than that you and your
childrens children after you shall have no nober vo
cation than hunt the footsteps of the slave he
makes His way across New York, from the house of
bondage, guided only by the North Star, that great
beacon that lights alike the paths of the slave and the
sailot in their wanderings!
Let me ask the freemen Of New York Are you
willing that your children whom you are nururing
and raising up TO manhood should look forward to no
higher destiny than to occupy the places of blood
hounds which hunt the slave on his way 10 liberty!
When the hearts of the brave in the old world having
borne the Impressions of desposm until the burden
has become ntoerable rises up in the energy of des
potism to make effort for freedom, are you
willing that they should find you on the side Of their
oppressors These are questions which may be ask
ed to-day, but the answer is in the future. But be
assured that it is no picture of the imagnation.-
There are three millions OF slaves, and the energies
of the Federal G0etnment, Tonight are devoted not
amelioratng their condition, but 10 devisng
by which the area Of slavery may be still further
tended and this number of victims still further in
creased. And do you know that you are the men
they calculate upon to help il onl Not because you
are men, but because you are Democrats and Wings,
and they trust that in those characters you will forget
your manhood, conquer your preudces, repress your
impulses, and forget the God above you. | hope