The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-25
SPEECH OF JUDGE RosT,
DsIiUerSd al Mass Nesting al Concord ~ H. September
8, 1856.


gree, OF U-oe Tom memory, a live Red river planter,
who having heard of all the hard given him and
his neghbors in these parts and utterly unconscious OF de-
serving them has here TO show himself not without
hope that this friendly visit will satisfy you all that
be did not sit for the ugly picture you have OF him.
This was Of my objects in coming here but not the
only one. wished and to take by the hand the
nobehearted OF this Commonwealth, who unaffected
by the and which sway the northern
mind and regardless of all personal considerations have
stood to the last their country and their covenant with
the South their honored stood by their
covenant with their God. a.E
We have watched with painful anxiety the trials through
which you have passed and when, inevitable
der the fearful pressure that brought bear upon you
have your numbers diminish have set higher
value upon those who remained did the Roman Sybi
upon the remaining pages of her mutilaed book.
deem glorious privilege TO behold in this vast and
enthusiastic assembage the reward OF their heroic devotion
to ther country and the promise of peaceful
and happier times Ii confidently asserted at time
by the press of our opponenswth what approximation
to truth will not inquirthat there were few left
do battle with for the and the Union
II hail the change which this magnificent sight
discloses that the good work 80 happily
progressing will go on until the Granite State becomes the
banner State of the great national party II is thus you
will the sanderous attacks made upon your fair
fame and that of your favorte Has il not been
serted by hrng press that all of you who had not gone
over to Fremont were exclusively Pierce-men and that
through the advice and influence OF General Pierce you
would let the presidential election go by default 2you
who have done and suffered much in your country's
cause Chief Magistrate OF whom you justly proud
and whose greatest fault in the OF his enemies is that
he has conscence and the present cabinet to which the
future historian will point of the pures and most
national in the annals of the republic have all been charged
with double dealing and reachcry Let triumphant una
jory at the polls be the punishment of the calumniators
You know how false the charge is in relation to your
selves and that General Pierce anxious for the
of the democratic candidate he could possibly be for his
own he is patriot of the old school, inaccessible to self
ish influences of any kind. never fatter but
cpate the verdict of history and do justice to The man
who is about descend from power-unthanked for the
good he has done assailed for the evil he could not
| he ig wit
so will New Hampshire be when the time comes. Are
not the people everywhere patriotic, and sure to go
right If not deceived2 In proof Of this mark what
is taking place in the saveholdng States If
the presidential question merely one OF persons, Mr.
Fillmore would probably carry several of them but when
the internal peace of the country and the very existence OF
the Union at stake the conservative instincts of the
incline them to unite with the stronger and most
truly national party and the States upon which he most
relied give decided democratic majortes in their local
elections With the South united it promises TO be- and
the moral effect and force which such unannity ought
have in the non-slavehodng States the chances
greatly in favor If when coming TO you with our
one hundred and twenty votes, we could not induce
you give the national ticket the few required to
insure its success it would be- indeed such disruption
the last cord which keeps the country together
would constitute two distinct nations and justify separate
political organizations. i do not TO say that the
Union would in that be Immediately dissolved but its
dissolution would then be a question of time and
necessary consequence of the determination of oppo
TO admit slave States into the Union. We
do apprehend that bit political triumph
would not be satisfactory to the conservative men OF
the slayshoding States forming very large majority of
the entire population wish to the restoration OF the har
mony and kindly feeling which existed between the
people of the two great sections OF the republic They
well that the admission of Kansas into the
Union asa saveholdng state Is but the pretext OF
the present sectional organization in these States and that
the real object of is make upon the South and its
Institutions but they aware also that their opponents
deceived and view slavery not 1t lives and has It's
being among but IL s represented and disngured by
politicians novel writers cergymen, and the abolition
press and they sul believe in the possibility OF areconci
aon because the present state OF feeling rests upon error
and they know the undyng strength in the hearts of this
people of that manly old English love Of truth and fair
play which sooner later checks and prejudice
| among them and compels them to hear both sides.
Under that glorious characteristic Of their race ask
from them, through your intercesson impartial hear
ing Leaving Others eloquent and able TO discuss
large the merits Of the canvass in progress will
with your permission my share Of the labors
this day the task Of exposing the longcentuued Of
Misrepresentation apd sehood the subject Of the south
people and the Institution of slavery in consequence
(which oneha Of the country stands arrayed against
the other and millions Of Otherwise good and peaceabe
citizens counsel and support open resistance to the laws Of
| the land.
Abridged as what would wish 10 say must necessarily
be on such occasion this IL will be the truth
Tar as II goes, and spoken, | trust In the Christian
spirit (which turneth away wrath" can make allow
for influence OF education and respect convictions
which differ from mine IL Is with the facts upon which
| those convictions rest that deal.
II has become the fashion, when a southern man gets
into personal difficulty commits Of violence amy
kind TO attribute his evil deeds TO the influence Of slavery
and at the NORTH notorious for the commission
similar offences, loudest in their condemnation OF
system which they say 10 the of those evils Ii Is
further charged that the domneering spirit and love
command which slavery fosters and stimulates strongly
marked in the political of the slayehoding States
that they insist upon monopozng the power Of the gene
raj government ruling their sister States IL they
conquered provinces and extending slavery through
out all the Territories belonging the Union. On the
first Of the charge all know that of violence
among not confined by geographical lines and
unfortunately too common In all parts of the country;
where however so much in the, non-slayehoding
State OF California The imperial city Of New York Is
probably next in rank,
The social organisation OF the South while II eevates
the mind Of the MASTER undoubtedly stimulates his pride
and his love Of command, makes him morbdly sensitive
points OF honor and at time INSCRIPTIONS in the modes
OF redress 10 which he when nsulted But he
tends TO the feelings Of Others the respect which he claims
for his II is this respectful bearing this constant
not TO give offence which constitutes the pecsliar
charm Of southern society STILL admit that there
at the South who become perfect savages when insuted
aud that the only way to avoid Of violence with
them Is to treat Them at all times with due respect But
mast beg you while on this subject not to mistake the
squabbles and hostile Of politicians for the
eIponents Of the deliberate opinions and feelings Of the
sections they represent Difficulties Of that kind have
Cured before they have always been viewed purely
PERSONAL, and should be 30 still
To disprove the charge that tho policy Of the slavehod
ing States overbearng and aggressive the Judge stated
that the electoral yoes Of those States about equal in
number to those of the and middle States and that
the additional votes which TO the nonslavehoding
States majority Of fftytwo with the exception OF three
in California all from regions which
slave territory belonging TO Virginia and Louisiana and
ceased to be through the lberality of the South
He sho wed that the Cornpromse Of 1920