The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-09
The Republican Party-spsech Of Hon. Rufus
Choate

The old line Wings of Massachusetts held a
Mass Meeting at " Old FaneuGl Hall in Bos-
ton, on the 31st ult., at which RUFUS CHoATE
was among the speakers. As the sentiments
of patriot and lover of his country-his
whole country-his speech is one of the most
interesting we have ever read. We give be-
low some extracts in which he gives his objec-
ton to the Republican, or Northern patty, which
has lately arisen, headed by such men as VIM.
II. Seward. It is the most signal humiliation
that any party ever received:
Why, lock at it. Here is a stupendous fabric of
Titan architecture castle, a capitol; suppose the
Capitol at Washington. 1t is a fortress at once
and temple. The great central dome swels to Heav.
en-. 1t rests grandly its hill; by its own weight
kept steadiast; seemingly immoyable; Titan hands
might have built it, il may stand to the aged Of
a nation pass by. But one imperfectcn there is;
a seam in the marble; flaw in the iron; a break
scarcely visible yet a real vertical assure; parting
by imperceptibe opening from the top to foundation
the whole in two; the builder saw it, aud guarded
against il as well AS he might; those who followed,
with pous and skillful hands tEied by underpnning
TO repair by lateral support by buttresses and but
tresses alternately, to hold the disointed sides in
contact practically, IL was becoming less formida-
bic; the moss was beginning to conceal it. even; and
here comes a workman who proposes to knock out
the well planned lateral SUPPORTS loosen the under
pinning Of the ends, dig yawning excavation un-
der both of them and then set on each the noun
tain weight of a frOwning and defiant dome Of its
own Down the huge pile topples in an hour Small
compensation it that the architect Of ruin finds his
grave too beneath i'll
But it occurs to me, that have been a little too
fast in assuming that your minds are already all
made up not to join this geographical party. Let
us then pause and inspect the thing little Let
as do il under three-fold dissection. See, then.
frat, exactly what it is to be; what if completely
formed, what it is to be. Second, what good it
will do. And third, what evil it viii do. What
evil the process of forming il will DO. What evil
il will do after il is formed. First what isIt TO be-
when formed Exactly an organization of all the
people Of the free States II they get ALL if not
maOrtes of all, into a political party proper, 10
oppose the whole people of the slave States, Or
ganzed into just such another association upon the
single but broad and fertile topic Of slavery. Into
this organization on one side and the other, every
other party is if possible 10 be merged; certainly
by this one every other is 10 be outvoted and
ouished This promising ana happy consumma>
ton, mark you, is TO be politicdl party proper
Il is not 10 be public opinion against slavery. 1t
is not TO be mere universal personal conviction OF
any man which be may carry with him into ali his
political duties and relations, and bind up with his
Democratic opinions, or Wing opinions, or native
American opinionS;that is not all, at all IL is to
be, and act as political party properly, technical
w. and with tremendous emphasis so called IL is |
20 Gil Offices, make laws govern great States, gov
erR the nation; and do this by the one single test
Of what is called opposition TO slavery; on the one
single impulse Of hate and dread Of the aristocracy
OF the South by which slavery is maintained. To
carry out this opposition, 20 breathe forth thshate
and dread IN action il lives; IL holds It's conventions
supports It's press selects lie candidates, prescribes
their creed conducts its eecti0neeTing, and directs
every act tha il does aud every word that speaks
And nov, when YOU consider how prodigioos an \
agency ia a republic, flushed and powerful party 4
is at best; when you remember what il has done TO /
shame and scare away liberty from her loved haunts
aud home BY the blue Kgean, or beneath the sun
ny skies OF ltaly when you consider how party, IS
the general fact, is sure 10 form and guide that pub
lie opinion which rules the world; how it grows TO
be the madness Of the many tor the benefit Of the
few; when YOU consider that 10 win or retain the /
general voice, all the ability this organization can
possibly command viii be enlisted and paid that il i
will offer Office 20 the ambitious, spoils % the gree
dy, tae dear delicious indulgence OF his single
idea 70 the zeaot strong in faith fierce and narrow
in his creed; TO the sentimentalist aud litsratar
the eorrupdng praise OF a foreign press, to DIS.
tempered and unmeaning philanthropy, the cure OF
one evil by the creation Of ten thousand; medita-
ting these things, you attain TO some conception
OF shat this party is TO be
Second. And nov, what good IS Il to DO, And
frs,-what Oh earth IL it going 10 do, any howf IL