Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-10-10

lHe benocTdJlC SpAhkers from the South
have done the Republicans at the North
good service. In Maine, they made Rcpu1-
licans by hundreds. They did the same in
New Hampshire, and they are doing the same
in New York and Pennsylvania. Could we
have been favored in Vermont with a few
speeches from Orr, Benjamin, Floyd and 9th.
ers of like stamp, the Republican State ticket
would have gone up to 1000 m majority, east
ly. We want to see that majority on the 4th
of November very much, and to help towards
t, since the Speaker will not come in person
we must do something in the way OF furnish.
ing our readers with their speeches.
We give to day an extract from the speech
which Gov. johnson of Georgia pronounced
before the Democratic mass meeting in Phi
ladelphia, II few days ago.
SPEECH or CIV. JOHNSON or GEORGIA At THE
BUCHANAN MASS MEETING AT PHILADELPHIA.
W hat were the territories of the United
States They were property-they were land.
if they pleased. belonging to the Union, or.
more properly speaking, to tn several states
Of the Union, represented by Congress as the
trustees of this common property. Well. #
it we're u common property. acquired 10y the
shedding OF common blood and tie taxing of II
treasury, he wanted to know by what rule Of
logic and justice or constitutional right or
Ouwn honestly. the southern states could
not get IL JOINT participation in those terrific
rirs And therefore they insisted and held
that az sound constitutional men, North and
South, the southern states had as much right
to carry their property there as the free states
had to carry theirs there. tArplause Slave
ry with them Of the %-outr was property.
and it mtttered not whrtho they of the
4 .,orth Thought it right or wrong as to the
moral AMI distract question ut the lu>tiht-
hill V of slavery, il was cuff 'iont for him rs II
southern man to know that the southern
states cama into the Union with it; and
when they came into the Union they agreed
to ahide by the constitution, and that consti-
tuition recognized slavery as property. They
had as much right to carry their property
there, no matter of what kind, as the free
states had to cirry their property there. [Ap-
plause. Under the constitution, therefore,
slavery was is much property AS II yoke Of
oxen or an acre of land. Property-tbat was
the idea. II was property protected by the
constitution. II they in Pennsylvania, at the
North, had the right, "a the people OF a free,
uol elavrhul ling STATE, to carry their yoke Of
oxen into Kansas. thew at the south had a
similar right to carry there slaves intokansas,
lI uptIl hllNf WIRE prop ny. ~ hIA hpl t-h
his fliow citizens around him, as the repre-
sentatives or as the people Of Il free, non
sldveholdiug state, to agree with himi in every
thing be might say on the subject. H. did
not ask them to say. if they believed con
srinntiously to the contrary, that the %institu-
ton Of slavery per- 81 was wrong or right.
Tlrv might diff r with him upon this qnes-
ton hut there was Il common platform upon
which tley all mu. t agree IT they recognized
tho constitutions, and that was, that 1t (,lavc-
rv) was property. recognized and protected
unI,r the broad n"gis orthpcouStitutiun which
was the basis Of the Union lie knew there
was Il wide diff Ference between the people of
the non slaveholding states and Of the slave
states in reference to the abstract question
Of slavery. They of the slave states believed
that slavery was the greatest missionary in
stitution which had ever been Instituted
upon this globe. lie would ask them to point
out to him the result of all the missionary ope-
rstions ufChristendom in heather lands whcra
their money had been spent and their preach.
ers sent where they had tOiled for the last hun
dred wears. AM he would reply thar the in.
s~titution Of slavery had christianized more
heathens than al the combined operations of
Christendom had done. Applause How
was it accounted for' 1t was true the insti.
tuition Of slavery did not carry the Bible to
Africa, hut it brought Africa to the Bible. In
the southern states there Were three millions
Of African slhves-thrce millions Of heathens
recovered from the darkness Of iiolatrv and
tienthenis'n to the light of Christianity. In
large sections Of the southern states there
were more ueLrp"s belonging t. the churches
than there were white people who belonged
to them. And vet they OF the southern states
Were cyerItstin-lv aud e~terntlly tainted with
'"iog triiii k'r> N human l--,, and humrn
uirltrS. II. UJu!i tell them that tine rpsults