Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-07-13


are kicked back Remember Old by
the Eternal brought you up standing
once, and We Of the Central Northern
States, and Western States, have deter.
mined to do SO whenever necessary.
The gentleman from Virginia asks il
we are SO devoted to the Union at the
North, how it comes TO pass that We return
such nen as Hale, Wilson and Chase to
the Senate | will answer him fully and
fairly. 1t is 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 Of the
North of giant intellect ard moral force
Does he understand ? A mote, like the
gentleman or myself, floats very comfor-
tably in a still and quiet atmosphere !;
but it takes the wild tornado to move the
imbedded rock. That political tornado
has been raised by yourselves-by your
determination to extend, by fraudulent
and unconstitutional means, the area of
human chattledom. Do you understand
me, Sir? Yes, We thank God we hare
such men as Wilson, Seward,a a Sumner
and Chase-men who, knowing the
right, have the nerve to contend for it /;
men of undoubted integrity and ability,
whose patent of nobility comes from hea.
ven. And mark ye, gentlemen of the
South, the days Of funkeyism at the North
are numbered. The Northern fankeys
are all dead and damned and if ever an
other one appears to your vision, rest well
assured he is illegitimate. We have elect
cd twenty-one Representatives from Ohio,
all pledged for the repeal of this Nebraska
iniquity and you will find when they
arrive there you will have an accession Of
just twenty-one Hales and Wilson's on
that question, NTH not a turnkey among
them. We in Ohio do not threaten them
with political death only; but have re.
solved that if they do not stand up for the
right in opposition to the encroachments
Of the Slavery propaganaists we will hang
them high as Hamau Long continued ap-
plausel
A gentleman from Alabama cries out,
"Douglas was from the North !" Ford
replied "So was Bendict Arnold The
British took the traitor, and we retained
the territory. Our Southern brethren
have taken the territory, and left as the
traitor. They ought to protect if they do
despise him Applause and laughter].
Now, Mr.. President, We of Ohio protest
against this plank in your platform as un-
just and unrighteous. The majority Of
our delegation are from Virginia, the sons
of her soil and Virginia, in the purer
days of her Commonwealth, taught u, the
lessons of liberty. You will remember
by the cession your State made to the
General Government of the Northwest
Territory, you Virginians expressly stipu-
lated that neither Slavery nor involuntary
servitude should ever exist therein, except
for the punishment of crime. We, then,
under the ordinance of 'S7, 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 pre-
pared and determined to resist its encroach-
meEts upon soil consecrated 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, ,cemented 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.
ICheers and cries Of "Go onW A voice
in the crowd, "You had better come to
Virginia and see our condition. Ford
answered 4: We have been in your State
and all over it. We know the situation
of your population, both white and black.
We know that Virginia, in this age of
has retrograded that the
white and black races both suffer under
the scourge of Slavery. 1 have been on
some plantations where from one to two
hundred negroes we're worked, who in the
course of the year, like the locusts Of
Egypt, cat up everything, and the owner
was compelled, 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 mon
,ters, brood over your land, shrouding it
in darkness indescribable. We of Ohio
have no wish to return to your State.
That whitc-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