Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-11
From the Liberator.
SPEECH OF HON. NATHANIEL ?. BANKS,

In compliance with an invitation extended to
him by a large number of the merchants and citi-
zens Of New York, who had noticed with much
interest and satisfaction his CONSERVATIVE, con-
ciliatory and impartial course as presiding off
Ger of the House of Representatives Hon. N. !.
Banks addressed n vast multitude from the steps
of the Merchants Exchange in that city, on Thurs
day afternoon, last week. lie made an elaborate
speech of great length, a portion of which, illus
trating by a series of statistical facts the immense
superiority of free over slave labor, was instruct
i've and valuable but other parts of it were suited
10 the meridian Of South Carolina rather than
that Of New York, and showed Mr.. Banks to be
destitute of all sympathy for the enslaved millions
at the South, and all concern for their dcliyerance
at any period however remote, as any Shareholder
could desire. We proceed to quote a few of the
most Objectionable passages that fell from his con
sentative lips, to tickle the ears Of his 'conserva-
tive Wall street listeners.
First-read what he says of the American I'm
ion -
The Union of the States, not as it might be in
the imagination Of some He0riSt, but THE UNION or
THE STATES AS IT Is-THE UNION OF THE STATES AS
1T HAS BEEN-TIIE UNION OF THE STATES as
| trust in God it will be FOREVER, as long as the
stars of Gods armament shall brighten with their
fires the intelligent minds and the great hearts Of
the nation, and the call Of patriotism shall have
power to bring 50 many intelligent and truthful
faces together
Though we can make nothing Of the rhetorical
flourish about the stars Of Gods armament bright
ening with their fires the intelligent minds and the
great hearts of the nation the reference to the
Union is sufficiently slear and explicit. Mr.. Banks
goes for the Union as it has been and as it
is, and trusts it will never alter its present
character-i. c., he believes in perpetuating a
compact between Freedom and Slavery, by
which, four millions of human beings are
are securely held in their letters, fugitive slaves
are run down in every part Of the land, and a slave
oligarchy is provided for in Congress! He would
not have it as it exists in the Imagination of some
theorist,'-i, e., a Union Of freemen for freedom,
pure and consistent,-bu dripping with blood,
and every seventh person in the land a chattel
slaye--a Union of Shareholders, slave traders,
slave-brceders, and slave %catchers, with Northern
fre0men
Again he says -
l am, you may suppose, no little impressed with
the responsibility that attends me here to-day. !
speak in a place where great men have spoken
men entrusted with with the confidence not only
of your section of the country, but with the con
fdence and love Of the people throughout the en-
tire coi.tederacy Of States, which now numbers
t~hirty-one in one glorious Republic. | mean to
l speak, 50 far as | may, in elimination of exactly
b.. the principles and truths that they themselves.
: heretofore, and to you, always have declared, and
none OheT--aRd such as yOH Arrays haze been and
are nOw ready 10 1eciere.'
What a progressive Republican is Mr.. Banks
r But hear what he says of the present conflict now
/ sbokinp tbo noIinp 20 Sc oop+ra.
: In theory, and only in theory, fellow citizens
one class, or one portion Of the confederacy, in re-
gard to the Presidential election at present i'm
pending, is %arrayed, in theory and theory only,
say, against another portion of the coufederacy, OF
the principles that it declares, and in the candi
dates for popular suffrage that it presents
A mere theoretical conflict going on between
the, North and the South-nothing practical or o
> great moment! Again -
e 4 speak, to-day, for the institutions and tn,
-, principles that have been transmitted to us by
Washington, by Jefferson, by jackson, BIZ Polk
s and by Taylor-all Of them distinguished citizen,
n and statesmen of the Southern section of the con
$ lcderacy.'
I Not a Northern name mentioned Mr.. Bank
speaks in behalf Of only such institutions anC
n principles as certain Shareholders have transmit
u ed to Us! Now see what he says in regard 80 tn
a slave system itself-the source Of all our division
and ~calamities =
> wan the institution o" slarery are hare aotlia,
u 10 do. With the institutions Of the Southern State
h local or traditional, we have nothing to do and
r know l speak the sentiments that animate til
s hearts Of all men here when l say, that ire are d.
termiHed to interfere ia no Wdy, ut no time, and 10 n
ertent with those sectional, local and traditional
rights, which distinguish them. (Great applause.
But if they choose, for their own interest and o
., their own yolitiOn to. make this change, | trus
that there is no intelligent man here, intereste,
: in the welfare and prosperity Of New York, VIII
would have any thing to say against that. 1t is
IS work for them, and not for us, and ! dismiss thi
matter by asserting that the declaration that W
> intend to interfere in their affairs is a bold an,
" baselcss SANDER, animating no section of the peO
n ole Of the North, and representing the feelings
and the intentions, and the Purposes, of no con
n siderable portion Of any State of the Northern
portion Of this confederacy.' (Applau e.)
:, What utter disregard of hnman rights and des
y titution Of sympathy for the oppressed arc exhibit
cd in this declaration And how utterly at va
. rance with the truth is the assertion, With tn
L institution of slavery, we have nothing to do i
4 view of our religious and political a~iiliation Wit
the South! Again -
4 am not against Southern men or against South
ern Presidents. | believe we are safer with South
trn men oil character and honor than we are wit
some men. (Cheers, huzzas and laughter ] Sc
h you know what's intended to say. ! would to-da
), trust the institutions and liberties of this countr
to a man-filling the Presidential chair-to a ma
Z from the Palmetto State. | would say, in God
o name, give us a Palmetto always and for ever
because where there is a Palmetto man, there is
will, and if a man has not a will of his own, he
as clay in the hands of the potter, to be NOV le
into q vessel of honor or d~ishonor, las Webste
= said and more readily into a vessel Of dishonor
" (Applause.)
Let us have neither a Palmetto man-stealer nc
a Northern trickster to be President. One
more -
The compromise has been repealed, and il
repeal has given to the world scenes Of infamy an
wrong Of which we have not yet seen the end, an
of which no man can predict the result. Now. G
this we have a remedy. 1t is not that we sha
legislate against the South on the subject