Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-07-12
sueech ., r. H. rora, Of Ohio.

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cred before the National Prov Nothing
convention and reported for thc papers y
30 plain, blunt and truthful wi;hali that
we cauno, refrain from giving our readers
! an extract:
1 "The gentleman from Virginia asks five
are 50 devoted to the Union at the North,
how il comes to pass that We return such
men as HALE, WILSON and CHASE to the
/ Senate. will answer him fully and fair
/ ly. It's the South that brought such men
into notice. politically. AT the North the
! continual agitation ofthe peace of+he I'm
; ion for the purpose OF extending Slavery
brings inlo notice the men of the North. OF
giant intellect, and moral force, does he un-
aerstand A mote, like the gentleman or
myself floats very comfortably in still and
: quiet atmosphere, bot il takes the wild tof-
/ ,nado to move the Embedded rock. That
/ political tornado has been raised BY your
\ selves, by your determination to extend, BY
/ fraudulent and unconstitutional means, the
! area OF human chattledom. Do you under
stand ME sir , Yes, zee tlans God trs haes
such men as WILSON, SEWARD.
/ SUMNER and CHASE; men who, knowing
I the right, have the nerve to contend for II,
men Of undaubted integrity and ability,
,esoss patent Of noiilay comes from hsaren.-
And. mark, We. gentlemen of the South,
the days of funkeyism at the North are
numbered. The Northern .fiunkeys are
ell dead, and il ever another one appears to
your vision, rest we'll assured he is illeg,i-
mute. We have elected twen,y-one Rep
resentatives from Ohio, all pledged for the
repeal of this Nebraska iniquity and YOU
viii find. when they arrive there, you will
have an accession Of sttwen,y-ope HALEs
and WILSON'S, on that question. With not
turnkey among them. We in Ohio did aot
! threaten them with political death only,
but have resolved that if they do not stand
up for the right in opposition to the en-
croachmen.s of the Slave propagandists, we
will hang them high as Haman ! Q.ong
continued applause.)
A gentlemen from Alabama cries out,
douglas was from the North" Ford re-
pled:-So was Benedict Arnold. The
British took the traitor, and we retained the
territory Our Southern b-ethren have the
territory and left US the traitor. They
ought u protect. if they do despise him -
applause end laughter
Now Mr. President, we Of Ohio protest
agains, this plank platform a unjus. and
unrigh,eous. The majority OF our delega-
ton are from Virgins, the sons OF her soil
and Virginia in purer days of her common
wealth, taught US the lessons Of liberty
You will remember by the cession your
State made to the General Government of
the vast Northwest Territory, you Virgin
ians expressly stipulated that neihsr Slave
~ nor involuntary sergituie should ever
s5h.
crime, we then, under the ordinance OF ST
are the first born in the cause OF freedom;
and in Ohio your children have resolved to
carry out yonr will by seeing to it that
Slavery never does exist there; and we are
prepared ard determined to resist its en-
croachmenis upon soil consecrated 10 free
dom. Yes Virginians remember this; that
with warm hearts and strong arms, your
sons will stand up for Liberty and the Right
and Ohio. cemented az she is with the
mighty West, is is irresistible as the ar
mics of Israel. Striking for the faith once
delivered 10 the saints. irg strike for Human
Freedom and Human Rights, CHEERS and
cries of .'go on.'D
a voice in the crowd) "You had better
come back TO Virginia and see ,ur c3nii-
ton FoEp answered: We have been
in your state an ali over it. We know the
situation of our population, both white and
black. We know Virginia in this age OF
advancement, has retrograeed; t al 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, eat up
every green thing Except the MASTER and
he was compelled, in order to make the two
ends Of the year meet, TO send few human
chattes Southwark. In addition to this, g-
norance and superstition, mighty monsters,
brood over your land shrou, ing il in dark
ness indescsibable We of Ohoio have no
wish to return 10 your State. Th.t white
headed old gentleman beftre yen, spent hat
his days in Virginia. He has known your
peculiar institutions long, and he knows
that the genus or Liberty having been driv-
en- out rom among you has come 10 take
her abode in the wiljs of the Western
world, she may build up for herself institu-
tons aud laws based upon the immuta-
bic principles Of right Tremendous ap-
plause.)