New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-25
TIE U-oRXING WEN FoR FREE labor

lsS eyerrg of working men and o,hsn OF JERSEY City.
to near speeches in defense of Pree Lseor, row
daI ger @. degradation from Slavery, and OF unrquA
competition with Slave Labor in the Efee Erhouee'
Tie Hall derseH dltd and mssA1 e''euS's@m
prevailed TIE Rock, Mountain Gee Clu6of New
Nok was present and sang severs sIirh ssngs. the
audience eucsEirg them ever! tine tbey aaPecred.
Fx-Aldermsn wv. WpIrr called the meeting -
order ard nominated the following c<seSs who tcoA
their seats upon the platform, viz:
j1F.+,ii,if.-D. r,,or snl Jol Wa Z ue Yir-
Mad Iier9 Ba.er sad H,sp traeh Of tbs s,c md W.
rick Nus,nt .Ia IAsu.,. ncs- fthe Fourth Mod
>o,,t.y--J-lns, GiAh,ea and NsfhsnAei Trsst'
II was announced by The Chairman tba. RI'bert u.
Montgomery, President ~ the WeIkNmoa's RePub-
| lean Association Of Nrw.Yo,k, prcset, and hos
was invited 10 eat on he platform AMID applause,
10 which he briefly responded.
letter was then read from Robert I'm m,s in favor
of Free Labor and urging the support OF the kepubG
can party for the security Of the rights Of Free Labor
A number of Advertisements were tbei, resd from
Southern rarers % Slave Gborors ard slave mechenrs
OF all kinds fer SHE and hire; Also advert eraens III
Slave pens IN which Slave laborers and meo haacs arc
kept awaitiug market. II Wa shown that Slave me
cbhuics and uborcrs and mules hogs, catto and tarn
ing psils and kitchen furniture we've All commonly
sod ut auction Together.
These read samp es of what might be expect
ed If Slavery il extended into Kansas.
AMI Dom, Republican candidate for Ccsgrr~
duced amid much applause. lie SAID IN brief
thank you Tor this warm reception, TOR SHOWS your
noble sympathy with the great cause in which We arc
engaged. The object which We GEEK TO accomplish ~
10 bring back the Government to the principles o t.e
fabis OF the Republic. The great idea OF the kepio-
ican party * the Democratic idea OF the declaration
of the equality of all men. as set forth IN our greet
| Magma Chaita. of which Jefferson was the author
Wien our spporcnts tell W. that our fathers regarded
,hi- declaration but Il sounding generality meaning
rohipg they libel those great men mort UNANIMOUSLY.
fh.y.g ut dacl
that al men were born free and equal. mean that one
nan had the right to hold hundred OF his fellows IN
| bondage possess himself OF their persons, their
labor and their offspring No. And when our oppO-
neris assert this they practically do, in tho odioas
sd,crlis. nent. which you have just heard they de
Grade the memories Of thoso great men APpiausel.
Last evening Was conyersing with good old isrincr
from Litchfeld Conn, who, with his two.broher had
been TO kansas They had settled down, and smiling
crop rewarded their toll II does the toll OF every
freeman in that bounteous land. One Gag during this
| Summer his brother his way to LecomptOD
| 6r supples-whtn he was seized by a band OF FRO
| sInyery narauders who demanded whence he came,
| and where he going He told them. when they
| charged him It'll being an Abolitionist lie denied It,
| He told them that he cnInc from Connecticut. Ihas
| was sufficient; they released him but when he had
gore few stols, one OF them shot him through tho
heart. Tie sister OF this same man was 50 outraged
| by another bnnd that che died shortly after The
speaker narrated other int aneer based upon uodoubied
authority the fragrant nisdolngs of the border Rui-
fans and show ed that il was but the natural result
of the repeal ~ the Missouri Compromise
and the policy of the present Pno-SiSvery
Administration in Kansas The que op to be decided
AT the c, ming election IL whether these acts shall bo
approx whether the free people OF this country win
consent and .uncon this Iayishm@n Of their free ADD
gn so-thtse Ouregcs upon the rights OF American
iie.meD-by the minions OF tho Siave Power. The
Republican Party Is no AbolitioD-no Radcal-no
Revolutionary patty. IL dos not presume 10 touch
the question Of Slavery in States where II already
exis,s but it holds thar patriots it is our duty Tn
exclude il forever IRON all territory bow free Cheersl
This feel TO be duty Our intercsts as treeufn
| in this Republic too important, too vital To
| allow u to consent 10 the further spread OF An
evil which blgtts Free Labor, and destroys LIB
erty Applause Slavery letters men socially, morally
and pol tcaly and robs iheia o. ns oesT.st DIN
| that dyke which kept back the turbd, deyouring
| waves OF human bondage. We mean TO do this in .
constitutional way believing that in doing so We ad-
vance the best interests oi our common country-our
uLoie country. North well al south lApplsnsek
| Mr. Dodd then briefly summed up the history oil
Slavery aggression, and reasoned from what had been
done that uress lover Of his country rallied nov
10 the work of opposing impossible barrier 10 this
accursed c, H. ere long will be too lac, and our Re
public will droop, and crumble into decay under hs
baleul influence. He hoped that every true lover II
his country would weigh well the ssues, and fsJiessiy
dchagc his dny 10 God and to Liberty by voting tor
Fremont and Dayton Great applause
Tie Chairman then addressed the meeting. He
raid J. IA 4 workiDgman am Republican, aud i
will tell you Why Think every man. every working
specially, should be a Republican. wall begia
by reading erce l section 4 OF the Constitution
The United States shs guarantee 10 every II We Ro
publcon form Of goyc Duient aud proiec, thm from
invasion. Webster lays Republic is State IN
which the eAercte Of the sovereign power b
vested he reprcs+ btatives Of the people. Who con-
-'tuis the people. Not ewa moitiy-but oil Of tho
ci,lep- thereof In state where any portion OF tbs
| people src denied voice in the Government tiet -
not Republic. The Declaration Of independenoe
SAYS Of the oppressiOs OF King George us may
b.. urgcI with equal Srce against the DO Line Whiys:
alias An ericans alias Know Noth'nR- iDer would.
deprive portion OF feew'cti1cns Of they p".t-
csi ri,It, III, ErD,ess has bcen tInylD2 Gvl Fre-
mon, air o. the beginning Of the cnmp,iya, for his
eneod rl;gous belle. yet the Const.ution guarantees
10 eyery man the free eIercise Of hr religious besl
| al his 1out few bls,es were heaIdl' Nf. Noyn
| ;5. I viii inst inform you hssers that vie bsTs
"a u,;le- due youth oi here nave let Same sttx
and doc not hurt [App1usel have sen Cufisa-
zen with hir-uy fthnr owned slsvcs and ~ a
.m thoroughly acquainted .ifli all OF the woSar a
~ ,L. ln-tituton anc / hato Il ike death. L I III
| YOU I nm Southern man with Northern p,1 ri.
ples aDd southern pluck. hr. away Greet y .r
irgl he -Ieakyr tlon rad from tie Know " ,p,
riiUs Ire obt. ~ the Ordsr. rhOWiug that naN bni
third dcersc members Eligible 10 ofhce-ths mona
bat the candidates o the order could be- yO.si ar Ia
m.nDeIs. unless At tie Ienaliy C exprkS ., and
foreigrers and Cs,hOlics. whether Of native
or foreign sirth, ana that Catholic wes ca be %
| sny flee. lie shoScd tie absuIiitS OF ~ Know.
Meetings. bafte,iD e sway Jeuiiism whes in princi-
PIE they mose upscrupuovs AMI more lam erous
usn tbo Jesuts seeking 10 attain 70 posd cal power
| through Ire most den ous paths and az an cost He
PROCEEDED TO show u workings OF oln" sry from bus
| cgu 0bee,ya.ior,-urnd tpUn al men hcse cspi,sI
is tttir labor Whose heritage ~ fTecN TO- 10 suptet
the rrpcipss and the candidates OF he Rer aoucan
| PaitJ 6rest applause
dress 10 bis How couDtfyin zen alpe' ling 10 them
the, wanted free fans sLd oIps rtapi.y to drpre
| = r.. LII IN yofe Free