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

'Oi aSte anu icau- a n0moer OF Centleme n
confessed IN substance what Gov Brown did I
Mr., Ford proceeded by saying tha, .aI
! open confession was good for The SOUL and
, lie hoped the gentlemen would learn another
truISn4 The only way TO get rid of guilt
was 10 repent and sin no more All We
ask OF you, gentlemen. is 10 do right, remern-
benns that there are eternal and unchance-
able principles of right, which no circum-
stances can vary, and ~hich God himself NAV
not distrub.
By Your confessions this dav. coupled with
your action, You place yourself in the conii-
non ot thief who having broken into your
mouse anu got possession Of our money. YOU
detect and arrest. You say 10 him. You
william what are You doing thus invading
my most sacred righ,s?" The thief comes
up 10 the confessional. as our friends have
most sacred nights: confess haasd HosHs
mi;ted an outrage and inflicted
great injury upon You. have broken into your
house and stolen yeur money. | have done
this mean thing. | regret, | deplore IL; But
INAsNUCH, NEVERTHELESS, NOTWITHSTANDING,
A. | HAVE GOT IT NOW, let there be no distur
bance between thee and me | both lear and
dislike agitation. Let us Just settle the diff
Guilty. You just step out and let me keep
your house and the money tool'' loud
cheering and laughter
This is the ridiculous light in which We
view you Southern gentlemen out in Ohio.
Here Mississippian interrupts by saying,
This line WAS worth nothing. of no value TO
any person. Ford proceeded by saying:
That IS beautiful! You will steal our proper
ty. aud for excuse say =. lis valueless.'' Re-
turn the stolen goods. and let the owner fix
the value. If it was but old ]ack knife.
'tis not YOURS. Come up like men and do this
great thing. Confess your wrong and do the
), right-alwavs remembering that 10 do right
and avoid the wrong is the great end of our
being. Don't rou, gentlemen of tie South,
: shrink away from this contract with truth
f don't. entreat you, through faIsehood or hy
pocrisy, meanneSs or fraud, attempt 10 hide
yourselves from the open eye of lofty Honor.
. Long continued appause.)
You Southern gentlemen have said many
petty things about the Union. We too are
. devoted to the Union; first last and all The
, time; do not make Slavery precedent 10
our attachmelt 10 this Union, either. Can
YOU say as much? Thank God. we Of the
West have higher ho1ier and more patriotic
r motives. We are devoted to this Cnon be-
cause ere long, by lis perpetuity and advance
ment, We expect to become an empire of Free
dom everywhere! (Cheers long and loud J
Every public demonstration | have attended
here. patriotic gentlemen have attempted TO
turn into a Union saving machine-untn |
! am sick OF tie endless prating about the Uu-
. inn-hning fully satisfied thar they say Union
once and MEAN NEGRO THREE TIMES. Laugh
ter)
The Union, rest assured, IS in no danger.
! We OF ONO do not intend 10 70 out of the
! Union, or let anybody else do So loud
cheerIng) And it YOU fllibustering gentle
men Of Soath Carolina think 0; going out Of
, the Union, please take a retrospective view Of
your pas lives. and you viii find this is not
. the first time you have tried to kick out the
t traces. And if YOU make tie TRIAL i. will not
, be the first time YOU are kicked back, Re
member cid Blythe Eternal brought YOU
up standing once, and we of the Central
/ Northern Safes and Western States have de-
termiued 10 DO so whenever necessary Ap-
r plau-e-)
The gentleman from Virginia asks, if we
are so devoted TO the Union at the North,
= how it comes to pass that we return such men
a. Hale. Wilson and Chase to the Senate?
viii answer him fully and fairly II is the
South that brought such men into notice, po-
litically. At the North, the continual agita-
; ton OF tie peace of the Union for the pur-
( pose OF extending Slavery, brings into notice
p lhe men OF the North OF giant intellect and
moral force. Does he understand A mote
. Ike the gentleman my self floats very com
!
takes the wild tornado to move the embedded
rock. That political tornado has been raised
l by yourselves, By your determination TO ex-
tend, by fraudulent and unconstitutional means
the area of human chattlcdom. Do you un-
derstand NE, sir? les: we thank God we
HAVE SUCH MIN a Wilson, a Seward a
sumner, and Chase; men who knowing the
right, have tie nerve TO contend for it; men of
undoub'ed integrity and ability, whose patent
OF nobility comes from Heaven And mark
We, gentlemen of tie South the days Of fun
keyism al the North are numbered The
, Northern flunkeys are all dead and damned
and ii ever another one appears to your Wis
ion, rest well assured he is legilimate We
have elected twenty one Representative. from
, Ohio, all pledged for the repeal of this Ne
arrive there, YOU viii have an accession of Just
twentv-o one Haes and Wilson's on that ques-
: ton, WITH NOT FLUSKET AMONG THEM. We
in Ohio threaten not them with political death
only. but have resolved if they do not stand
+, up for the right. in opposition TO the encroach-
a rnents OF the Slavery propagandists, we will
: hang them as high as Hanan! (Long con-
= tinued applause
I I a gentleman from Alabama cries out,
Douglas was from the North Ford re-
!, piled. 50 was Benedict Arnold, The British
:. took the traitor and we retained the territory
: The Southern brethren have taken the terri
. tory AND LEFT THE TRAITOR. They ought Z
= protect, if they do despise him. (Applause.
n Now, Mr. President. we Of Ohio pro,es
: against this plank in your platform unjus
and unrighteous. The majority Of our dele
h CATION are from Virginia. the sons of the soil
4, and Virginia, in the pursr days of her com
p monwealth, taught US the lesson OF Liberty
a You viii remember by the cession your STAT
III made to the General Government Of the North
en- west territory. you Virginians expressly ssiPu
ad Iated that neither Slavery nor involuniaT