The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-28

men as Hale, Wilson and Chase to the
Senate? / win answer him fully and
fairly. It's the South that brought such
men into notice politically. AT the North
the continual agitation of the peace of the
Union for the purpose of extending sla-
very, brings into notice the men at the
North of giant intellect and mora. force.
Does he understand? A mote, like the
gentleman or myself, floats very comfort
ably in still and quiet atmosphere; but
it takes the wild tornado to move the i'm
bedded rock. That political tornado has
been raised by yourselves-by your de-
termination to extend, by fraudulent and
unconstitutional means, the area of hu.
man chatteldom. Do you understand
me, sir? Yes; we thank God we have
such men as Wilson, Seward. Sum-
ner, and Chase-men who, knowing
the right, have the nerve to contend for
it; men of undoubted integrity and abil-
ity, whose patent of nobility comes from
heaven. And mark We, gentlemen ofthe
South, the days of fiunkeyism at the
North are numbered The Northern
launkeys are all dead and damnedl and
Il If ever another one appears to your Wis
ion, rest well assured he is illegitimate.
We have elected twenty lone Representa-
tives from Ohio, all pledged for the re-
peal of this Nebraska iniquity; and you
will find when they arrive there, you viii
have an accession of just twenty lone
Hales and Wilson's on that question, with
not funkey among them. We in Ohio
do not threaten them with political death
only; but have resolved that if they do
not stand up for the right, in opposition
to the Entertainments of the slavery pro-
pagandists, we will hang them high as
Haman. Long continued applause
A gentleman from Alabama cries out,
douglas was from the North!" Ford
replied: So was Benedict Arnold! The
British took the traitor, and we retained
the territory. Our Southern brethren
have taken the territory, and left us the
traitor. They ought to protect, if they
do despise him. Applause and laugh
ter Now, Mr. President, We of Ohio
protest against this plank in your plat
form as unjust and unrighteous. The
majority of our delegation are from Vir-
ginia, 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 cession your State
made to the General Government of the
| North West Territory, you Virginians
expressly stipulated that neither slavery
nor involuntary servitude should ever ex-
ist therein, except for the punishment of
crime We, then, under the ordinance
of '87, are the first-born in the cause of
freedom; and in Ohio your children have
resolved to carry out your will by seeing
to it that slavery never does exist there;
and we are prepared and determined to
resist its encroachments upon soil consc-
Grated to freedom. Yes, Virginians!
remember this; that with warm hearts
and strong arms your sons will stand up
for liberty and the right; and Ohio, ce-
mented as she is with the mighty West,
| is irresistible as the armies of Israel
Striking for the faith once delivered to
the saints, we strike for human freedom
and human rights. Cheers, and cries
of $50 onl'' A voice in the crowd,
"You had better come to Virginia and
see our condition" Ford answered:
We have been in your State and all over
it. We know the situation of your popu-
lation, both white and black. We know
that Virginia, in this of advancement,
has refrigerated; that the white and black
races both suffer under the scourge of
slavery. | have been on some planta-
tons where from one to two hundred
negroes were worked, who in the course
of the year, like the locusts of Egypt, eat
up everything, and the owner was COM
PEELED, so as to make the two ends of the
year meet, to send few human chattels
southwark. In addition to this ignorance
and superstition, mighty monsters brood
over your land, shrouding it in darkness
indescribable. We of Ohio have no wish
to return TO your State. That white
headed old gentleman before you spent
half his days in Virginia. He has known
your peculiar institution long; and he
knows that the genius of liberty having
been driven out from among you, has
come to take her abode in the wilds of the
Western world, where she may build up
for herself institutions and laws based
upon the immutable principles of right.
Tremendous applause. Much has been
said about New York and Sewardism;
and inasmuch as her delegates are here,
viii say nothing about that State, but
will, | hope, be permitted to speak ofour
iown State. Sewardism, gentlemen. at
this moment has its heel on Sans
neck in Ohio; and unless you give US a
liberty loving, justice-like looking plat.
form, the ides of October next VIII find
Sewardism standing with both feet on the
! political grave of every .'Sam" in this
land. Already the voices of frcemen are
heard marshalling their forces for the
contest. The fires of liberty are now
burning on every hilltop and in every
valley throughout the length and breadth
of the land: and may they continue to
burn until liberty shall be the birthright
fof every American; until we have gov
ernment without despotism. religion
without a pope, and an empire without a
slave!
4 H A mans own good breeding is
the best protection against other peoples
| i'll manners.
/ As a gladiator trained the boy, so we
must the mind TO self-sacri6ce, .sto en-
dure all things to meet and overcome
difficulty and danger. We must take
the rough and thorny road as well as the
smooth and pleasant. and a norton a,