Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-08-21

am opposed to extending any such arlstocrati-
cal privilege into any more Territory OF the
United States Loud cheers. do not
quality produced as | do about the bearings
of Slavery upon the higher and more endear-
Ing interests Of the country Are you me
chanc If SO, have you ever lived in the
South If you have, YOU have found that
there the mechanic is not measured by the same
standard that he obtains in Pennsylvania or
Ohio. Here labor is dignified it is de-
graded. Here blacksmith at his anvil may
stand up with the tallest man in Pennsylvania
and may raise his eye to the highest summit of
distinction In the South that same black
smith would be measured by the standard of a
negro of equal skill in the trade of black
smith, Here all the avenues to competence
and distinction are open to the mechanic and
his children. But in the South if a man is
born poor, he lives and dies poor. Those who
scale the summit of distinction in the South,
who roll in luxury and possess wealth, are the
lordIings, the nabobs, the oligarchs only, who
wiring their means of competence out of the
poor negro, and what they don't get out Of
him they get out of the poor white man of
the South. When | say poor white man
of the South do not indulge in any fancifu
sketch. If you doubt my word read little
pamphlet called "The Poor Whites of the
South" which is made up of collations from
the speeches and writings of distinguished Sou
theru men. That book shows that even in the
monarchical and deSpOtic governments of Eu-
rope the poor white men are not more debaS-
ed than they are in this land, in which our fa-
theirs intended that the blessings of free inSti-
tutons should be as the rain and sunshine of
Heaven, which descend equally upon all clas-
ses of people 1t is this view of the question,
feow-citzens, which makes this question prac-
tical to the aboring men of the South.
Where in the South do you see such exhibit
tions of the power of free institutions i'll the de-
yelopment of the energies of man as are eX
hbted in the present Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Nathaniel p. Banks Loud
cheers Once he was little boy in a cotton
mill working for his fifty cents per day, but
he worked amid the generous smiles of Free
dom, and he worked upward and upward un-
til by the influence of the institutions of the
Bay State, he attained the position as Repre-
sentative of one of the largest districts in that
State, and he is now the Speaker of the popu
lar branch of the National Legislature. And
this is not solitary example. In all parts Of
the North and West you will find men occu-
pying distinguished positions, and who with
out patronage or wealth, have, under the gen
erouS influences of the atmosphere of Freedom,
grown up from obscure boys to be men in the
highest walks of science, literature politics and
art. But where, south of Mason and DiXon's
line, is there such result growing out of Sla-
very? And now ask my fellow-citizeus, who
are fathers what kind Of institutions do you
wish around and above your families What
ever my be your political predictions, you
will all answer " give me and give them free
Institutions" And say for the same reasons
give Kansas and Nebraska, and all our Terri
tory now acquired, and all which we may ac-
quire, to freedom. Cheers This, fellow
citizens, is the question to be determined by
You at the next Presidential election, and |
ask you here tonight are the time-honored
principles of the Republican Party right