Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-09-04

II hapy he may, land OF freedom. tell you
there is no freedom there Mr. Toombs, OF
Georgia, may come to Boston and make his
philppic in favor of slavery and against Re.
publicanism but can that noble man Charles
Sumner, go to Savannah, Georgia, and respond
to him ? Here is then the slave power What
could sthese clay-eaters and sand-hillers oi
South Carolina do, ignorant as they are against
such hardy men as behold before me | tell
you, you would scatter them like chaff before
the wind Not that you desire to do it-no
for they are your brothers, and we desire to
lift off the burthen, the heavy yoke which they
bear We desire to let in the light of learn
ing upon their darkened souls-that is what
we wish. We wish to keep the land fair as
God made it for them and for us, where we
can go and toll side by side by the gushing ri
yer, and the smoke of our cabins curl together,
and our labor not be disgraced by this curse of
slavery.
say they could do nothing in conflict of
arms, for it is ascertained in modern times that
in such conflicts brains have more to do with
victory than mere brute force. l tell You, it
is the charge-the bayonets fashing-the cul-
tivated eye that determines victory before the
bayOnets crossed. (Applause.)
They could do nothing in that direction
But | owe it to you, owe it to truth, to state
that they have power in the South it is a
political power 1t comes from that clause in
the Constitution giving to every man who hap
pens to be the owner of FIVE human beings, the
equivalent of votes on account of the slaves,
together with his own vote. | know he him
self does not cast these votes with his own
hands. Better far if he did then the vote
would sometimes be divided. 1t is a kind of
wandering, vagrant power in the Constitution,
welded by few hands, by which they can find
the South to be unit on the subject of sla-
very because they can control the money power
of slavery, and the political power, dominating
over the poor man there-controls his very
bread-and whoever controls the bread of the
people can generally control its political actions
| do not care whether the tyranny is money
tyranny at the North, or slave tyranny at the
South-it is essentially the same. 1t is this
power that makes the South a unit on the sub
ject of slavery, and by casting their force in
with one or the other of the great parties of
the North they easily control the whole coun-
try. They have had the sagacity always, in
time past, to make united South and div-
ded North, and it is that game they are play
ing now but. alas there is sign that the
North intends to unite, and then we shall have
a divided South.
Speaking of this power, it is the power of
fear 1t is so right here in Philadelphia, be-
cause it has dictated the policy of the Govern
ment-it has made peace, it has made war
1t has come down ever like a hammer on your
interests, because whateveI makes for the inter
ests of freedom is against the4nterests of sia-
do i,.D
delphia, they will find constitutional objec-
ton against i. Do you want to send your
thoughts through your own ?. O., paid for by
your own money, because every Northern State
Yields revenue yearly to the Post Office De-
partment, while every Southern State is a tax
upon the public treasury If you try to do it
they will not let your papers and thoughts go
through their Southern Post Offices. When
you call the attention of the Government to
the fact, the Government winks at the violation
of the law In Massachusetts, we wanted to
try question of law in one of their courts
We sent a most venerable man there to try
that question. And what did the great chv-
alrc State of North Carolina do 1t went to
war with the grey hairs OF that poor old man.
and he was only saved from death by the con-
duct of beautiful and heroic daughter, who
like all Northern girls, stood fast by her father,
in the hour of EXTREMIST peril
But | will come to something more near to
us. / will dwell on these outrages of the slave
power. | could stand here until the blaze Of
to-mOrrow'S sun enumerating them. Look at
what it is doing now in Kansas. What a pic
ture it has spread out to you tonight. See
how the remote prairie flower in Kansas is be-
ing stained with the rich blood of our brothers
See how out Of their blue lodges they send
their border ruftians to strike down the liber-
ties aud take away the rights of our brothers
there See how they have sacked their towns
how thcy have hunted them like wild wolves,
over the prairies-how they have despoiled
them of their property-hOw they have made
death and starvation stare them in the face
hog they have murdered them-these poor
brothers and sisters of ours who Went out from
the hills of Pennsylvania and from good old
New England to build up the houses of free
dom, and to make that land beneath the hand
of labor blossom like the rose. They went out
there under the pledge of fair play, under the
deluSion and snare of what they call squatter
soyereignty-that doctrine which they dcclar-
ed to be that these brothers and sisters of ours
should be left perfectly free to mould the i'll
stitutionS of Kansas Is Collins free ? Is
Baxter free Are those noble men who sleep
in their bloody shronds in Kansas free in the
cold tranquility of the grave to mould the in-
sttutions of the Territory? { \ voice-Spir
its are free Yes, their spirits are, and they
will walk that beautiful land for ever and for
ever
And what does the Government do when
civil war RACES all over that fair Territory
when brothers hands are being stained with
brothers blood. The Government stands idly
by, or, worse than that, it gives the strength
of its mighty arm against our brothers, against
their rights, against their lives and what re-
medy have they If they 60 to the President,
he is naturally a sympathetic man, and the
tears will run down his cheeks at the tale they