Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-14
THE AMERICAN RATIFICATION MEET
ING IN BOSTON.
SPEECH OF SENATOR WILSON.

proceedings OF the American Party Convention
held in that city on Thursday last. The meeting
held in the afternoon was with closed doors, the
meeting in the evening was open and free
The evening meeting was organized by the choice
of DIR. West, of Boston, for President who on TAX
ing the chair made very neat speech. He was
followed by Governor Gardner, who spoke at CON
siderable length in defence Of the action Of the
Northern delegates at Philadelphia.
Mr.. Wilson said:
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens Of Boston -
need not say that | thank you sincerely for your
kind and cordial greeting. It's always pleasant to
have the appreciation of our friends. 1t is more
pleasant to have the appreciation of our own con-
sciences; and if had returned from Philadelphia
and met your stern disapprobation, and | should
have preferred that even to yours. (Applausc.)
Sir, went to Philadelphia, commissioned by the
American party to maintain and defend the princ-
pies, measures and policy of the American party
af Massachusetts. | knew where Massachusetts
stood on the question of human liberty in Americas;
knew where the American party of Massachu-
sets stood on that question; and l am the last
man on earth to retreat from tho position which
Massachusetts,, or the positition which the Amer-
can party of Massachusetts,, has assumed upon
that question. (Appause)
| went to Philadelphia with determination to
yield everything but prnci Dle for peace union and
harmony; but was determined, before | went
and while there, to he infoxibly true to the sent
mcnts and convictions of Massachusetts. Cheers
Jnc SIlNc power HlS IOTCCu upon us the slavery
issue. We boldly and frankly met that issue /
knew, sir, before l went to Phiadtl lphia that the
bold, arrogant and determined chiefs of the black
power would meet us there prepared to urge their
peculiar interests.
was struck, sir, by remark of yours, the 9th
er night, at another place, and on another OCCASION
that this conflict ut Philadelphia was not because
we were there, and men Of the South were there ;
but because God was in the heavens. That was
profound truth. God lives and reigns and 1 tell
you here tonight. that the agitation upon the
question OF human slavery will contnne while the
foot of slave presses thu soil of the American re-
public. applause and cheers.) When the last
bondman can stand up and say 'I am man, y
brother, an American, aye, native American" i"
then and not till then, will the agitation of the
slavery question cease in this republic (cheers)
and that politician, whether he be a member of the
American party or any other party, who believes
that we can put puny hands upon that movement
inaugurated by Almighty God, sustained by every
attribute of God, and everything pure and holy
on earth, and arrest it, may be an enthusias.
tic, but not very far-sceing politician. Zap
plnuse.)
rejoice here to night that the issue has been
mct-that for the first time in the history of the
republic, there has been National Convention
and the North has maintained its manhood
| (Cheers.) have been ut a National Convention
before (Applause.) l stood in National Con-
vention in 1913, and then met these bold and ar
rogant, unscrupulous chiefs of the black power.
They conquered, and we of the North submitted
always excepting very few "sizzlers" Gentle
men, that "sizzlo" of 1913 has grown into full
grown rebellion of 1858 That little movement of
1913 has been followed by the delegates of thirteen
sovereign states of this Union in 1855 and now the
American party is forever cmancipatod from that
degrading connection with the chiefs of the black
power of the South. (Applauso.)
say the separation is final and complete. There
is high wall and deep ditch between us and
| nd hnro irbt hnGn oD1 in, 10
presense, say, and would say it to the whole
republic if my voice could be heard, that never
more will we meet those men who were false to
freedom at Philadelphia, and act in concert and in
harmony with them. (Applause.) would as soon
support Franklin Pierce and Stephen Arnold
Douglas as the men who, at Philadelphia, adopted
that majority platform. (Cheers,)
Now, gentlemen, having separated ourselves, /
trust forever from all sectional issues and combi-
nations, let us stand boldly and manfully upon a
broad national platform, that comprehends the
whole country, and the people of the whole
country-including the North. (LAughter.) We
hear great deal said about no North, no South,
no East, no Wcst,-I trust, sir, we have found the
West at last (renewed laughter) and that We are
large enough, our hearts are large enough, to en-
brace in our affections the whole country-includ-
ing the South.
Gentlemen, if the men of the North, had gone
into the National Convention united, ready to main
tain the sentiments of the people of the North,
the of the South, the true hearted liberal mon
of the Southern slave states, would have accepted
the ultimatum we rendered to them, would have
stood by u.s. and if they had been stricken down,
would have fallen gOriously, fighting for the glory
and honor of the South. know what | say and
| say that there were men in that Convention from
the South who would have agreed to restore free
dom to Kansas, if it had not Seen for .thc
treason of the State Of New York. Zap
plause.l
/ Jf tbo Nortl IN tLo+ ,1onront;o, LoJ ootaJ q,
concert and harmony,wc should have had n united
North and divided South: but before we went
there, there were the chiefs of bafied and de-
feated fraction in the State of New York-mcn who
were organized to break down William ii. Seward
(cheers) and for no other puryose-who went to
Philadelph prepared to put their heels upon our
necks, to crush us at the North, if they could only
survive and DO the little and insignificant chiefs OF
a baflicd faction in the city and State of New York
(chcers.)
And, gentlemen the cause Of the country, the
cause of freedom, the cause Of the American party
was sacrificed by these little insignificant leaders
to crafty their own petty ambition. Sir, they will
DC scorned and Kissed in the State of New York
The American party of that State will trample upon
them. (Cheers) | told them in that convention
that William ii. Stewards heel was upon their
nccks, and that he would be pccring down into
their graves when they are dead. Their own par
ty, their own followers, will place them i'll those
graves, and we shall havethe pleasure of trampling
upon them. (Applause.)
Sir, we have taker. our position in Massachusetts
to-day. You have endorsed the action Of your del
cgatcs. had no doubt what your action would
be but, gentlemen, ] ask you fer a moment to turr
your attention from your own political position
and to look at the position of tho country The
interests of this country dcmand-the cause of lib
) erty demands-that the people of the flee states
shall act together, in concert and harmony. W.
are nnon of men who think alike, feel alike, an(
, in the future will act alike.
| trust that everything which VIC can do, we
the American party of Massachusetts, will do. t,
bring into q harmonious party all who think n
! we think, feel as we feel, and wish to act as W,
act am sure that the heart of Massachusetts
? beats responsive to our action. We wish to be il
union and harmony with our friends in New Eng
land, in the Central States and and in the West