Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
For the State Sentinel.
Hon Lewis D. Campbell.

Hon Lewis D. Campbell
According to announcement this gentle |
man addressed a large assemblage of admit |
ring friends. He came upon the stand in
black dress-coat, light pantaloons, buff vest
and standing collaborating in his hand |
huge pile of documents, and attend |
ell by a friend. After being seated for a few
moments he rose to speak. From the repu- |
tation of the gentleman among his political |
friends, we expected TO see and hear a Sc
cond editionof Henry Clay, but we were DOOM
ed to disappointment His remarks were
tame and his gesticulatiOn stiff and awkward
in the extreme. His effort reminded us moro
of a school-boy exhibition speech than any
thing else.
In the commencement of his speech he said
there were three things in the world which
he could not see the use of, and for the life of
him he could not imagine why the Almighty
permitted thom-that if he had had the
world to make he would have left them out
entirely they We're slaUery, t0hisky and
snakes, he thought the snakes were the best
of the three, probably on account of their SINH
| larity TO his X n friends He stated he was
never teetotallcr but he went in for pro
hibitory law, and as for his being a Know
Nothing-that people might call him just
what they pleased.
He then took up the Kansas and Nebraska
bill which ne opposed mainly on account of
its anti-Ameriean features. He here read ex-
tracts from several documents on the subject
of the importation of paupers and convicts to
our shores-that Belgian convicts had been
sent over here in the ship Rochambeau, Capt
Stackpole, with passports in their pockets to
a. Al h., III
to come into New York, but to travel through
the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois to Kansas, and there become voters,
and to rob, murder and steal, SC. (dere an
unsuccessful attempt at applause was made.)
Whose land is this, said the gentIcman-who
= paid for tit is yours and mine-your money
paid for it and my money paid for il, Che did
: not say whether any Southern money had
f been paid or nOD and yet these Dutchmen
from Ba,len can come in and by announcing
their intention to become settlers, be as much
:, of citizens as You and me- lie wished to be
o particularly understood that he was an "Amer-
. lean" but not n dark lantern Knight He
was in favor of every one wOrshipping God
as they pleased. He never vas a professor oil
IS religion; he never expected to be-he never
e felt good enough, he always felt thai
olics to worship God as they pleased
he had no desire to dictate to their con
I sciences, but he wished it to be distinctly
&c understood that he did not want any body els
r (meaning the priests and the Pope we sup
IA pose) to dictate to their consciences (thi
burst of eloquence brought down the house
and one old gentleman near us, stamped hi
feet, shook his head in ecstacy, groaned Joy
n fill ii MI
II and looked round at his neighbors as mucl
"A as to say, "them's 'cm. ~ Soon as tn
~ thunders of applause had died away, the gen
D. tleman spoke of platforms-hc said Their
es was one platform laid down eighteen hundre,
at years ago, by the Redeemer of the world an,
80 that was the sermon on the Mount and il
that platform was a plank-the golden rul
D. and that was the reason why he opposes
DR. slavery. That he had taken his cue not iron
~ Chase or Sumner or Hale, but from Ken
,o tucky's great statesman, Henry Clay, 9TH
e audience were very still about this time) an
80 Henry Clay was opposed to slavery, Che rea
i one of Clay's speeches delivered in 1927 {
d, prove his position) and as he had been a viii
g. till the wings fused-he was opposed t
r. slavery. He spoke of the Rosetta case-h
told how the North had been trampled upo
Sc take their slaves through Free States, the
es had right to keep them there temporaril
We and ifthey had a right to keep them there eve
for a minute-why slavery was fastened upo
the North-because man might come fror
he Kentucky and find his son who lived i'm In
nj diana backward about his crops and he migl
90 back home and send his slaves up to hel
IN his son for two weeks-and SO on-abol
n here the gentleman was taken suddenly sic
a he sat down and after an Intellectual atteml
. again TO speak, the audience was dismissed
nj we regret exceedingly that Mr. Campbc
was thus seized, he seemed to be quite veal
III we hope he may soon regain his health
Mt, The state of his health may account for I'll
weakness of his argument for to speak cal
didly, such a speech would have disgraced
Sophomore. He made no attempt at re-
al argument, in the beginning he spoke of Ii
ies Pilgrim Fathers coming to this country
' r avoid persecution, and yet he as a Kno
- Nothing would prosecute other men. Il
". made some remarks in which there was
&C. faint attempt at wit about Frank Pierce lool
at ing at the Know Nothings through q
cracks. The burden of his speech, howeve
was against the immigration of the rascal
IN furriners into Kansas, which was to he
- Slave State. He seemed to forget the ia
70 that the great tide of immigration rolls I'M
ou the North and that slavery and foreigne
ay are antagOnistic If he is one Of the stror
pillars of the Fusion party, Heaven help tt
of weak ones.