The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-07-19


don't believe their own talk No, sal lie.
speaker they don't believe Il tkemselves.-
They dissolve the Un:oa' They constitute
bus one-third Of the population, and 18th
Of the power Of the country. and they nave
that element Of destruction among them OF
which jefferson said: No man eould lay Lis
head upon his pi..ow n sate.t II the m9t>i 81
i.' The South done mean 10 dissolve The
L Mon. Thev know tha; i i Their social, Pc
litical, aud had almost SAID Their eterua. sal
walton u remain in The Union. AZ .ause
and laughter
Mr. Mason, Of Virginia. who Was exceed
ingIv agJta-ed at the prospect Of the action p:
tie neSt House Of Representatives. was
troubled before his time Laughter had
said during the last few DAYS Of the last session
that If the House repudased the principles o:
tic Nebraska bil he woula: turn his back
upon the Senate and walk ous. Vel. II he
should walk out. il would hurt nobody badly.
This great ORD would sui continue is reyolu-
tons and the affairs of the country would TO
doubt 20 on Just as if nothing had happened.
Laughter Bur Virginia has three hundred
hostages in the hands of lie Union. IN the
persons OF sons OF the First Families. who
hold office in " ash,ng.on And did any body
ever know Of a Nir-inian leaving the public
crib as long as he could STAY 1T IT. Laugh
Ter. Voice in the ~r5wd--Nayer. while there
is any fodder In the rack.
There is no sectional feeling here. fCres.
No, No) We are broad. national and COM
prphe,Si,e in our ideas and Interests. We
feel il to be oar duty, as a great Democrat IN
his day, Legge,t, said, 40 perform % 'nas-er
and slave. the duties Of common humanity.
We are not sectional. We stand upon the
great platform that all men are born free and
equal" Voice. Petit; saws that's lie J
Yes. though a senator from your own STATE
declared it self evileat lie, > we believe in
that declaration. We support the Cous;i.u-
ton We believe il WAS meant 10 extend
freedom. (Applau<e.) We q platform
within and upon that Constitution. and We
will stand upon it. let come what vii. zap
plausc) Our principles a~e national, our
aims are national The Black Power, and mol
national doctrines governs fifteen States. That
Black Power has captured the Democratic
party, and taken Pierce and lis AdmiuIstra-
non That Admins, ra ion is today the hum
bic instrument. the tool Of the slave power,
and nothing else. (Cries Of true. true! and
applause
The Kansas Nebraska act Of which the gen
tleman who preceded me has spoken most
ably, was introduced into Congress eighteen
months ago, by 4 rising young man Of Your
born in New England, and, am sorry to say,
50 was Benedict Arnold. (Applause,) We
have great many men born IN New England
who come out to your country, whose births
have done US no credit. and whose abandon
mcnt of their early principles have done you
no credit The speaker dwell few minutes
on the bad faith Of that measure, and said,
that in the National Know Nothing Council,
Of which ven may have heard. i was general
" conceded that a great wrong had been
done US but nobody had the courage to try
and RIGHT it, One distinguished Southern
man had told him that if New FORK and New
England had stood up side by side IN that
Convention, and presented an unbroken front
our rights would have been conceded US
~ y tho N>-.l. l - ~s5ai~St the
Nebraska meas ure, together one man, there
were enough fair minded men in Delaware,
Mary land Kentucky and Tennessee. 10 have
secured US our rights and prevented the per
petralion of the wrong. But | tell YOU. We
shall never have divided South till We have
an united North, (Applause.l The dough
faces are enemies not only of the true men OF
the North, but Of the generous liberal men OF
the South Our mission Is to exterminate the
whole race. (Great applause. They have
been false to freedom, and not true to slavery.
They have BETRAYED the North. and deceived
the South. And the true men Of the South
will thank Us when we throttle the rest of
them-expel them from public life, and send
them TO the rctiIacy of their families. When
we perform this work, and we are row about
It applause we can meet our Southern
brethren, look them in the eye take them BY
the hand, and say, you shall have all Your
rights but no more, and We viii have our
rights"
lie then noticed the increase Of anti-slavery
sentiment in the country in twenty wears! So
long ago, he said. there not man who
dared assert hat now declare to-day. that
slavery is sectional, and Freedom national,
and the Federal Government should have no
responsibility for il. In New Hampshire ia
1855. the Legislature decl&red BY an over
wheming majority that the abolition Of slave
Nv in the District Of Columbia wau b. "a Vi
olarion of National faith. I,aac H. said tha.
not one man in five hundred had any srmpa-
thy with anti slavery men. hIr. 1i-ree sait
that none but silly women had any sympathy
with the anti-slaverv movement. He has
probably seen some cause since 70 change his
opinion (Lauchte7) L. that SAFE a par
ties had acted in beautiful aud harmonious
concert, and bv vast majority had put three
true friends Of freedom in Congress IudItus
may lay her hand upon the heart OF New
Hampshire, and she Will find that heart beat
responsive 20 her own. The speaker then a.
ludcd 10 the success Of the Republicans in
Ohio and Indiana, and said that these glorious
results had been Oh aimed by union.
wan: to see 9 union Of al tic people On
this question. There IS no PARTY nosy exist
ing Tia; can carry any election against The
Administration TIE wings cant d it,
The Wing party lives" a webster s.:t.
"only in history" They could not Do l. ever.
if they made Pierce their candidate. Laugh
teri But Pierce viii not be the candidate in
1856. The Democratic party have tried him
once, and won't take him up again. They
made small experiment" with hin