Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-01
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an address bv Hon. Preston SBrooks, and another
/ by Senator Toombs of Georgia. Afterwards din
ncr would be served, and after dinner speeches
would be made.
The President then introduced Major-General
McGowan the orator of the day, who, after short
introduction, expressive Of bis qualification at the
spirit with which the people Of South Carolina
sustained their honored representative, proceeded
to give his views views on the political questions
the day The following extracts will sufficiently
illustrate them:
FOR WHOM WILL SOUTH CAROLINA VOTE?
/ We will vote for James Buchanan for President
not in any spirit Of man Worship, nor because We
approve everything which he promises to do
may have done-but mainly because he is the
bearer OF the democratic standard, upon which is
inscribed the repeal Vt the odious Missouri restric
ton and the equal rights of a the States in refer
ence to slavery IN the Territories And fellow
citizens, at the same time and f. the reasons
we will war to the knife against that mongre crew
which, like the buchaneer Morgan, half fapatic
and half pirate, with mingled prayers and curses.
fights under the black banner of black republ-
canism---that motely mob of freesoiers, Fremont
ers, free niggers and frcebooters-(applause)-
that robber band headed by the upstart,: renegade
traitor Fremont who of all the men | have ever
heard Of best deserves the indignant execraton of
the vauquished patriot:
! Oh, Portius is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven
Who owes his greatness to bis country's ruinS
loud aud prolonged cheers.)
THE ASSAULT AND ITS PRovocATIoS.
Whilst this extraordinary application (the ad-
mission Of Kansas under the Topeka constitution
was pending upon Congress, Mr.. Charles Sumner
senator from Massachusetts, rose in his place in
the Senate, and delivered studied speeah as it
was afterwards labeled in favor of free Kansas,
which has been characterized as ''the most un-
American and unpatriot speech that ever grated up
the ears of the members of that high body The
speech contained gross and unprovoked libel upon
the state of South Carolina, and the character Of
our beloved and distinguished senator Judge But
Ter, who then absent. This Mr. Sumner, so
far as have been able to learn, a neophyte in
politics, narrow-minded bigot in sentiment, with.
out one impulse of a gentlemap, or the first quail
tcation OF statesmau and IL addition to all that
! the greatest blackguarG in America had the i'm
pudence to say in the Senate Of the United States
that the Constitution of South Carolina sis repub-
lican only in name" and that her shameful nlbe-
cility from slavery was confessed throughout the
Revolution"
As the conclusion of Maior-General McGowan's
speech, the canes and goblets duly presented
after which Mr.. Brooks proceeded to deliver his
address, of which the following extracts compose
the material part;
| SPEECH hon. PRESTON s. BRooKs-HIs MepEsYY.
! feel embarrassed in making any allusion to
| the circumstances such that know you do and
will excuse me- feel that my individuality has,
in great measure, been destroyed, and that from
circumstances have oeen placed in position
which constitutes me for the time being and in re-
ference 20 the matter, the type and representative
Of the entire South. For nhcting punishment
upon Mr.. Sumner of Massachusetts, l have show
cred upon me applause and commendaton from
every part Of the entire South. My own people
have even humbled me by the honors which they
have poured down upon me.
HINT OF WHAT Is COMING.
l will tell you, fellow-ctizens, what l believe
from the bottom of my heart l set up to have
none OF the gifts of prophecy; / don's pretend to
be statesman; bat am identified with your in
terests and | am man of common sense. / see
what is coming toaDd let me tell you that poti.
cal questions will have, in very short time to be
settled not by statesmen in conclave, but to lie cut
like the Gordian knot, arith the SUOTd. It SCENE,
in the providence of God, that the institution of
slavery, which has SO interviewer itself with our
social fabric that if it falls fall with it, has to
be determined upon the American continent The
problem of slavery utility has to be settled on the
American Continent. Things working to
crisis, and a crisis which affects pot only your or.
der and your interests, but it affects yoVF vitality
your very existence rs q people.
THE FIRST MISTAKE OF THE sOUTH-THE REVOLUTION
AIRY PATRIOTS HAULED OVER THE GOALS.
South made by the patriots of the Revolution.
These great and good men--far greater-possibly
beuer-than we would be and doing better possibly
than would have done under the precise Gil cum
stances, were yet wanting in our advantages for
the scales have been removed from eyes and
we see things not as they them. The first mis-
take was made on the 18th Of July in the year
1877, when Virginia yielding to the love of liberty
and of Union, magnanimously y surrendered her
northwestern territory from which five States alone
IN lo adj lut from yhir he Yopk loo hnya
cheated us out Of an other.
That mistake was incorporated in the ordinance
Of 1887. The fatal error was the provision by
which slavery or involuntary servitude except for
crime, was forever prohibited there. That was Il
tacit acknowledge that slavery of itself
wrong And here let me toll sou that any people
who distrust it are not prepared to defend it. /
tell you mole than that-those great and good men
did distrust it, They did not believe at that time
that slavery would exist at this day on the Ameri-
continent Slave labor bad ceased to be profitable
in Virginia
Mr.. Jefferson who has been styled the Great
Apostle of Liberty himself distrusted the inst-
tuition. They thought it was mT Overishing their
soil and interfering with their prosperity But
the finger of the Almighty. which has left its imY
press ON this institution on more occasions than
one, is visible in that very imporantly y.seemipg
invention the cotton-gn-cotton itself being an
indispensable proGuet. an article of pecessty next
to bread, for the people of the world
FURTHER MISTAKES COMMITTED BY TIE sorTn.
The next mistake was in the constitution itself,
and it consisted in requiring the basis Of repre-,
sentaton South, five negroes to count but three
votes, while the same negroes carried north Of tho
line of separation would count the same as five
white men-and white gentlemen at that There
was no sense in the requirement 1t was trick
it was a concession 1t was concession to those
who bad been thirsting to BECOME our masters
and, who, if we have not the spirit to meet them
half way will bc cur masters The next mis-
take was in prohibiting the slave trade after tho
wear 1905 as an evidence of the opinion that !
have just advanced to you, viz: that ct the time
our constitution was formed, the people of the
South, particularly of Virginia, were Indifferent
to this subject. And as an evidence that the peo-
pie of the North then did not make it Q question
of morality il is a remarkable fact that upon that