Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-07-20
..The Talk In the Camp.n

We copy below extract from a speech of Mr..
Thomas H. Ford of Ohio, delivered recently in Phil
adelpha 1t has the true ring of fanatca insolence
and aggression in every line, and is full of the idea
first advanced by Giddings and since repeated by
Senator Wilson, that the South could not be kicked
out of the Union.' At any rate, the North seems
disposed to try the experiment, regardless of the re-
suit.
Exulting in the majority of numbers and federal
denomination, abolition nothing now to deter it
in its long nursed schemes Of Southern destruction
and humiliation. 1t looks back upon a long career
of impunity, and forward to future of complete
triumph
You Southern gentlemen have said many pretty
things about the Union. We, too, devoted 10 this
Unlon-frst, last, and all the time and we do not
make slavery a condition precedent to attachment
to this Union, either. Can you say much ? Thank
Cody we of the West have higher, holier and more
patriotic motives. We are devoted to this Union,
because ere long, by its perpetuity and advance
ment, we expect to become an Empire OF Freedom
everywhere! [Cheers, long and loud.l Every pvS7a
demonstration have attended here. patriotic sel@ie-
men have attempted to turn into Union saving ma
chine, until am sick of the endless prating about
the Unlon-being fully satisfied that they say Union
once and mean negro three times. [Laughter.] This
Union. rest assured, is in danger We of Ohio do
not intend TO 60 out of the Union, nor let anybody
else do Loud cheering. And if you ilibustering
South Carolina gentlemen think of going out of the
Union, please take retrospective view of your past
lives and you will find this is not the first time you
have tried to kick out of the traces And if you make
the trial. it will not be the first time you kicked
back Remember, old By the Eternal brought
you up standing once, and of the Central North
ern States and Western States have determined to
DO so whenever necessary. [Applause.l
The gentleman from Virginia asks if we are so
devoted to the Union at the North how it comes to
pass that we return such men as Hale, Wilson and
Chase to the Senate [ will answer him fully and
fairly. 1t is the South that brought such Ito
notice politically At the North the continued agi-
taton of the peace of the Union for the purpose of
extending slavery, brings into notice the at the
North of giant intellect and moral force. Does he
understand! A mote, like the gentleman myself,
floats very comfortably in still and quiet atmos-
phere bnt it takes the wild tornado TO move the i'm
bedded rock. That political tornado has been raised
by yourselves-by your determination to extend by
fraudulent and unconstitutional means the area of
human chatteldom. Do you understand me, sir
Yes, we thank God we have such men as a Wilson,
Seward. Sumner and Chase-men, who know
ing the right have the nerve to contend for tt men
of undoubted integrity and ability, whose patent OF
nobility comes from Heaven. And mark ye, gentle
men of the South, the days of funkeyism at the
North numbered. The Northern funkeys are
all dead and damned and if ever another one ap'
pears to your vision, rest well assured he is illeg
mate. We have elected twenty one Representatives
from Ohio all pledged fo the repeal of this Nebraska
iniquity; and you will find when they arrive there
you will have an accession Of just wentyone Hale'
and wilson's on that question, with not nunKeJ
among them
"We in Ohio do not threaten them with politi ca
death only but have resolved that if they do moi
stand up for the right in opposition TO the encroach
ments of the slavery propagandsts, we will hans
them high as Haman; Long continued app lause.
gentleman from Alabama cries out Douglas was
from the North! = Ford replied So was Benedic
Arnold The British took the traitor, and we re-
tanned the territory. Our Southern brethren have
taken the territory and left the traitor They
ought to protect if they do despisc him. Applause
and Iaughter.l Now, Mr.. President, of Ohio
protest against this plank in your platform uni us
and unrighteous, The majority of delegation
from Virginia. the sons of her soil and Virginia
in the purer days of her Commonwealth, taught us
the lessons of liberty. You will remember, by the
cesslon your State made 10 the General Government
of the Northwest Territory, you Virginians expressly
stipulated that neither slavery involuntary serv
tude should ever exist therein, except for the punish
ment of crime. We, then, under the ordinance o
81, the frst-born in the of freedom and
in Ohio your children have resolved to carry out you
will by seeing to it that slavery never does exis
there; and we are prepared and determined to resist
lis entertainments upon soil consecrated to freedom
Yes, Virginians remember this that with warn
hearts and strong arms, your will stand up fo
liberty and the right and Ohio, cemented she i
with the mighty West, is ir esstabe as the armies o
Israel.
The British and French Commanders.