Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-08-21
Are You a Mechanic 4?

[From the Speech Of Hon. Samuel Galloway
ask YOU now, felow-citizens, in all candor
do you real1irm the principles of Franklin and
Jefferson, or do You hold to the doctrine of the
Cincinnati platform, which provides for the ex-
tension of Slavery over the territories of the
| United States Years ago James Buchanan
would address his fclIow-citizens in opposition
to the monopolies of National Bank, or
general system of banking, and they would
have listened to him. But | ask you if there
has ever been monopoly so dreadful and per-
nicious as the monopoly Of Human Slavery !?
, No man here will defend the system of Slavery
James Buchanan will not do it, nor will his
followers in the State of Pennsylvania. Then
why is it that they are joining hand in hand
with those men who are endeavoring to spread
Slavery over our fair heritage "Ah," say
these men, we are for the Constitution and
the Union" Yes, these men have become
smitten all at once with an extraordinary at
tachment for this glorious Uuon.
| love the Union, and have great faith in
its perpetuity. | believe that justice will con-
troll this Government, and that the same great
principles which underad this Union at its
foundation will continue to underle it and
my faith is that among the last things will he
wrapped in the general confngration, when
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, will
be this glorious old Union, formed by some of
the noblest men ever created. Loud cheers.
Yes, feIlow-cltlZenS--we Grc-lrC are the friends
of this Union. 1t is because we believe that
justice is the great pillar that mainly supports
this glorious fabric-because we believe that
freedom is promntive of the general welfare,
that we desire to spread it everywhere for
wherever freedom is, there is n union of sound
and patriotic hearts, aud wherever such men
are, the tyrant must tremble, and his form be
stricken down. Loud cheers All, | know
how it is. Demagogues who discuss this great
question: talk about the dissolution of the Tn
ion 1t has been dissolved several times dur
ing the last ten or fifteen years, but phGniX
like, it has risen more glorious from its ashes
Cheers.
4 few years ago, when David Wilmot and
others resisted the introduction of Slavery in
to Territories, our brethren at the North all
at once become affected with a holy horror of
disunion. Laughter. Their patriotic hearts
swelled and heaved with strong emotions Re
newed Laughter and it has ever been the
case when freemen talked as they ought to
talk, that the men of the South, gathering the
imagination around Bunker Hill and Valley
Forge, Brandywine, and other battle fields of
the Revolution, would raise up both hands
and beg for the sake of humanity, the fathers
of the Revolution, and everything except ntg
gers, to save our glorious Union loud laugh
ter and, fellow citizens, as soon as our men
were affected to tears, their backbones relax
ed, and they cared in of this pathetic des
cription of % Union dissolved they would wipe
their tears, and say, Come let us sit together
brethren, for the Union has been saved by our
patriotic efforts on this occasion. Renewed
laughter Fellow citizens we have become
used to this sort of whining, and it has lost
its power The men of the North have dis
covered that instead of the Union approaching
dissolution, Freedom has been gradually Ian
gushing in this fair land of ours For this
question, fellow citizens, is not one that con-
Germs "niggers whether they shall be eman-
cipatcd or mott is a question that concerns
the very vitality of our country itself. 1t is
question whether Freedom or Slavery shall
predominant whether a STAKEHOLDER for eve
ry five slaves shall have a voice equal to three
white men !; whether the industrial arts of the
country shall sink down to the condition of
those arts in the Slave States whether poor
man shall have the avenues to eminence open
to him whether there shall be a distinction
of cause in our country whether there shall
be an oligarchy in our land I; whether three
hundred and fifty thousand men shall take pos
session of this land, dedicated to Freedom
and convert into one of the most dreadful des-
potisms that ever diSgraced humanity These
are the questions for you to decide my fellow
citizens Talk about the equality of rights
under the Constitution ~ Does not every
man here know that for quarter Of a century
all our territorial acquisitions have Injured to
the benefit of the South More square miles
of territory have been purchased for the Sonth
than is contained il the whole of the fifteen
Free States. The South has now one third
more of territorial area than the North, and by
these acquisitions the South has gained ten
Senators and sixteen Representatives in Con
gress, while the North has gained nothing DUR
ing the past quarter of II century by our terri
torial acquisition and this day thirteen mil
lions of white people in the North have not as
much political influence as six millions in the
South How has this arisen !? 1t has arisen
by provision of the Constitution which gives
to the South three votes for every five negroes.
Thus they have acquired and maintained the
power they now have | am for adhcrng to
the Constitution of the United States in all its
provisions, however hard they may he ; but