Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-07-13

the South, shrink away from iils contract
with truth don't you, entreat you, through
fasehood or hypocrisy, meanness or fraud,
attempt to hide yourselves from the open eye
Of lofty Honor. long continued applause
You Southern gentlemen have said many
pretty things about the Union. We, too
are devoted to this Union first, last and all
the time and VIC do not make Slavery con-
diion precedent 10 our attachment TO this
Union, either. Can you say as much p
Thank God We of the West have higher
hoicr and more patriotic motives. We are
devoted to this Union, because ere long, by
its perpetulty and advancement, we expect TO
become an empire of Freemen. and because
our Union is the hope of struggling Free
dom everywhere CHEERS long and loud)
Every public demonstration | have attended
here patriotic gentlemen have attempted to
turn into a Union saving machne-until |
nm sick of the endless praling about the u
nion,-beng fully satisfied that they say u
mon once and meun Negro three times
(Laugh;er.)
The Union, rest assured, is IN no danger
We of Ohio do not intend to 20 out OF the
Union, or le, anybody else do so. Loud
checrng) And If you flibusterlng South
Carolina gentlemen think of going out of
the Union, please take a 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 are kicked back
Remember Old by the Eternal /" brought
YOU up standing, once, and we ot the Cen
trail Northern state and Western states,
have determined to 10 so whenever neces-
sary. tApplause.)
The gentleman from Virginia asks, It we
are so devoted to the Union at the North,
how it comes 10 pass that we return such
men as Hale, w llson and Chase, to the sen.
ate will answer him fully aud fairly
1t Is the South that brought such men INTO
notice politically. At tho North, the contin-
uri agitation Of The peGce Of The tmon for
The pm pose Of eriendng Siarcry brings into
notice the men Of The North, Of CUNT intel
ieci, and moral Joice. Does he understand
a mote like the gentleman or myself, floats
very comfortably IN a still aud quiet atmos-
phere; but It takes the wild tornado to move
the mhedded rock. That political tornado
has been raised by yourselves; by your de-
termination to extend, by fraudulent and M
constiiut onal means, the area Of human
chdttedom Do you understand me. SIR P
Yes ace thank God zee hare Su,h men rs a
Il u
men who, knowing the right, have the nerve
to contend for it men of undoubtcd ntegrl-
ty and ability, ichose patent o. nobility com's
from h,areH. And, mark yc, gentlemen Of
the South the VS. of huukeysm al the
North are numbered. The Northern .tunkys
are all dead and damned and if ever snoth-
er one appears To your vision, rest well as
sured he is illegitma,c. We have elected
twenty-oue Representatives from Ono; all
pledged for the repeal Of this Nebraska mi
guilty and You wlil find, when they arrive
there. you VIII have an accession of Just
weniy-one Ilales and Wilson's on that qnes-
ton, ,rdh not q funkey among them. We
IN OHIO do not threaten Diem with political
death only bot have resolved that If they
do not stand mp for the right, in opposition
to the Entertainments Of the Slave propag
ondl.ts we will baog them high as haman !
long continued appleuse.)
A gentleman from Alabama cries out,
Douglass was rom the Norlhw Ford re-
Piled SO was Benedict Arnold The
British took the traitor and we retained the
territory. Our Southern brethren have the
territory and len as he traitor. They ought
to protect, If they do desplse him! ZAP
pause and aughler.)
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against tins plank IN your platform as I'M
just and unElghteous. The majority of our
delegation are from Virginia. the sons OF
her soil and Virginia, IN purer days Of her
commonwealth. taught us the lessons of lib
erty. You will remember by the cesslun
your State made 20 the General Government
Of the vast Northwest Territory, you Virgil
mans expressly stipulated that neither Sla-
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exist therein, except for the punishment of
or me We, them under the ordinance OF
81 arc the urst born IN the cause of freedom:
and IN OHIO, your children have resolved 10
carry out your Will 10y seeing 10 It that Sla-
very never does exist there: and we arc
prepared and determined to resist n. on.
croachments upon soil consecrated to free.
dom. Yes, VIrginans remember this that
with warm hearts and strong arms, your sous
will stand mp for Liberty and the Right;
and Ohio, cemented as size is with the NIGH
ty West, IS irresistible as The armies of Is
rael. Striking for the faith once delivered
to the Saints. 10, strike FIR Humqn Freedom
and Human Rights Cheers unl cries Of
q" 60 on"l
/ \ vuice in the crowd.) You had better
come back 10 Virginia aud see our condl-
ton" Ford answered We have been in
your State and all over il. We know the
situation OF your population, both white and
black. We know Virginia, in this age OF
advancement, has retrograded that the
white and black races both suffer under the
scourge of Slavery. have been on some
Plantations, where from one TO two hundred
Negroes were worked, who in the course of
the year, like the locusts of Egypt, ent up
every green thing Except the MASTERY and he
was compelled, In order to make the two
ends of the year meet, TO send few human
cbatiels Southwark In addition to this,
ignorance and superstition, mighty monsters,
brood over your land, shroudng II IN dark
ness iadescrbable. We OF Ohio have no
wish TO return to your State. That white
headed old gentleman before you spent halt
his days in Virginia. He has known your
peculiar institutions long and he knows that
the genius of Liberty having been driven
out from among YOU has come 10 take her
abode in the wiids of the Western world,
where she may build up for herself nstitu-
tons and laws based upon the immulable
principles of right. Tremendous applause
Much has been said about New York and
Sewardlsm and, lnasmuch as her delegates
are here, will say nothing about the State !;
but WILL hope, be permitted to speak Of
our own State Seicardisul gentlemen, at This
moment has lis heel on SUMS neck in Ohio /;
and unless you gire us d liberty ioping, justice
Ike looking Platform, the Lies Of October
nsrt l0M find SeisHdism standing icilh boih
feet on the political grape Of epery Sam in
this liant.
Already the voices of Freemen are heard
marshaling their forces for the contest the
fires OF Liberty are now burning on every
hill top and IN every valley throughout the
length and breadth OF the land, and may they
continue to burn UNTIL LIBERTY SHALL RE-
THE BIRTH RIGHT or EVERY AMERICAN /;
UNTIL WE HAVE A GOVERNMENT WITHOUT A
DEsPoTIsM; A RELIGION WITHOUT PoPE,
AND An EMPIRE WITHOUT A SLAVE
o. The worthy Commissioner Of sold
Orange" writing 10 us, under date Of June
18th, says:
I a ti.f hoe