Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-10-21
SPEECH OF BULLY BROOKS.


l am doubtful of the Democracy North
of Mason and Dixon's Line. They will
stand by the constitution, but catch any
one of them In corner and ask him If
Slavery is right, and he will tell you
" No" [ tell you man of that kind is
not always to be trusted. | want a ma j
to go the whole hog on this subject. Now,
fellow citizens, the Democratic party was
somewhat responsibility, it was to a
very great extent responsible-for that
act And yet 1t Is party with which
South Carolina will not affiliate, and /
think rightly. The Democratic party has
conducted the affairs of this nation from
its organization with success and glory
and under its influence the greatness
of the country has increased. Our
numbers. our wealth, our commerce, all
show us that, with all our abuses, we are
a great people. Now, this Democratic
party contributed to this last grievance to
which | have referred, but it did SO under
the assurance that Justice would be done
IN future to the South-that practically,
our interest was not SO great in the Ter
rltory acquired from Mexico as it was In
principle, and that they would give us laws
afterwards which would be better than
the modlfi cations we claimed in those
laws. The proposed measures were that
they would give vitality and force to that
principle of the Constitution which requir-
es fugitives from labor 10 be surrendered,
and farther, they said to US don't re-
sist-don't divide the Union on this issue,
and we will repeal the Missouri restric-
iIon line, which upon principle, is more
odious to you than anything in this bill
Now, 1t cannot be denied that the North
ern Democracy, with all their faults,
magnanimously, honorably and faithfully
fulfilled their pledge. They did give you
fugitive slave law, which is now on
your statute book. They did repeal the
Missouri Line, which was an insult to ev-
cry man South of it.
"No POLITICS BUT THE NIGGER."
Now, fellow citizens, it is impossible to
make speech on political question
without going into that subject which is
now the politics of the country. We have
no politics but the niger: and it is i'm
possible correctly to understand that and
your own relations to it, unless YOU 90
somewhat into its history, the different
causes affecting il, and the different ways
In which we have lost in it. | have gone
over this. have shown you what YOU
have lost of political power-of moral
power-of the moral force of numbers
Of the force of moral sentiment-of
that power which, if l may SO express it,
grows by Its own action-of the power
which a heavy body has over light one
OF the power which, like the snow ball,
accumulates by its rolling metion-of the
power, in short, of concentrating public
sentiment. Now, these Northern agita-
tors call themselves free soilers, and think
it great compliment they are not abo-
lltionists Well | hate them just as much
as hate abolitionists. Nay, worse. /
hate them worse than l hate the rattle
snake, for, unlike it, they give no warning
of their approach, and seek to conceal
their object.
DEFINES FREE SoILIsM.
Free soilism! Why, they had better
say abolilionism If they would tell us
right out, plainly, they are going to abol-
lsh slavery, every man of us would stand
to our rights. But they say, No, we
VIII not interfere with the rights of States"
They are State Rights men, as they inn
pudently tell us, but still thew will stop
you where you are. They will increase
and extend, while you will droop and
wither, until they get power enough to
change the government, to alter your in
stituhons, to crush your power, and finally
declare you outlaws if you continue to
hold to your property against the laws
which they will enact. They will reduce
YOU in time "a this, bear in mind, that YOU
will either forced to run away from your
negroes, or to be pu: on al equality with
them, or put them to the sword. They
tell us they are States Rights people
Why, they would put Gordon of fire
around US, and let slavery, like scorpi-
on, sting itself TO death.
HOW THE SOUTHERN BUCCANEERS MEET
THE ISSUE.
We have the issue upon us now, and
how are we to meet its | tell you fellow
citizens, from the bottom of my heart,
that the only mode which | think availa-
Tie for meeting 1t is jus, to tear the Con-
stitution of the United States, trample it
under foot, and form Southern confed-
eracy, every State of which will be a
slayet olding State. Loud and prolonged
eheers.) l believe it on my responsible
ity to you as your honored representative,
that the only hope of the South is in the
South, and that the only available means
of making that hope effective is to cut
asunder the bands that tie us together,
and take our seperate position in the fam
lily of nations. These are my opinions.
They have always been my opinions. l
have been disunionist ever since could
think.
DIFFICULTIES ARISE IN BULLY's MIND.
But no one State can dissolve this
Union. | think In due Difference to
friends who have more mind, as much
patriotism, and as much good feeling for
their fellow-men as l have-I think, l
say, that seperate action of any one State
would retard the movement. Our friends