The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-08-21

aSAr'; ""lcrc wao the a:m q: tl,, Govern
'rirnt appointed TO guarantee to every man
protection to life, liberty srd property 2"
After paying high compliment to Tim.
4. Day, he proceeded to speak of the great
; question now in Issue. Old issues were
dead a'td clio ohiy Question now before the
| lr1pic, WAS whether noble lan,l-laruer
than the entire area OF the Free States, and
watercl 10y the noblcst rivers in the world
Should DC the heritage of freedom or
gwen over to the curse OF slavery.
lie cou:d not speak of Buchanan person
ally, because he had abdicatc,l his personal
NY. iie was not james buchanan, but the
Cinc'nn:u plattorm-a Platform that re-
, telrcd 10 all that was good in the past and
adopted all that was bad in the present,
and which reflected lasting disgrace on
CINCINNATI, 10y connecting her name with it
rs apretix.
The political history Of buchanan re-
minded him OF IN anec,lote of an old rev.
olutlonary soldier which the people of
country village once made a great f;tss over
.\ttcr marching him throus sh tile streets,
with the music Of fife and drum, and feast
ing and treating him, they askc. him what
battle in the Revolution he had fought in.
He replied that he had fought on the side
OF the British at Yorktown. This dampcd
the anlor of their patriotism, and they soon
quietly dispersed and left him alone.
So it WAS with our Democratic friends
they came here with their keystone band
beating The drum through the streets to
nominate Il Democrat, but went home and
found that they had nominated a Fcdcralist.
thing of all others that the Democrats
hate. Cheers and lauyhtcr.l
buchanan, l'rsidcs being an old Federal
i>t, Wis an Old bachelor. \ voice, "No-
body woHld have him."l Really, said the
speaker, this is one of the best aulier1ccs |
ever addressed. 1t can make better speeches
all the time than can. Buchanan had no
right to disobcy the Biblc niuncton-thcrc
must bc something wrong about it,
Laughter. What had he done toward
filling up this great Western valley with
frccmcn?
Fremont had placed the flag of our
country nearer Iteavcu than any othc, man,
bit no. higher thar his own f;trnc, and not
half so high rs it WAS vet destined to 90.
lie was man you could not buy, nor sell,
nor scare. (Applausc.) lie lad Il back
bone running all the way down. (Chccrs.)
There WAS touch Of Old Hickory in him
and when he WAS President Gas lie surely
would beg let South Carolina nulIily if she
dare! There would then be Use of South
crn hemp, for we didn't mean to let any
body dissolve this Union tremendous ap-
i,!avsc:) but meant to suljug:.tc all men 10
Freedom. (Applausc)
lie then Appealed to the different rolit-
icai parties:
lst. To the :rcn of the ok! Free eu;i
Guard, to take the flag Of or country as
the ciansmcn Of old seized the cross of fire
in Scotllnd
Next TO the men Of the old Wing
school-thc friends of Webster, now in his
grave by the sounding sea he loved so we'll
TO those who. had been accustomed to
listen to the rich voice of the gallant Henry
Clay-to the Democracy, the lion hearted,
the followers of Andrew Jackson, SiIas
Wright and Robert Rantoul-thcy who did
not like to see Jackson's old friend, Francis
l.. Blair, driven from his home because lie
loved freedom. To that Democracy that
always boasted that its great arm of labor
was bigger than a Wigs waist-the De-
mocracy who had always professed to love
liberty-to come one and all 10 its rescue
now-to unite all as brethren to sustain
freedom in its hour of peril.
Mr.. Burlingame spoke little over IN
hour and halt, and was listened to with
the deepest interest and frequently inter.
r"pted by irreprcssiL|e bursts Of applause.