Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-10-11
Speaker Banks mt philadelphia.


merchants of Philadelphia, at Independence
Square, on Monday last, was an able and elo-
quent effort After some patriotic illusions to
the local history of Philadelphia, and declaring
that the Republican party sought, as did our
Revolutionary fathers, the best government for
the people of the United States, and the most
stable and enduring Union of the States, Mr..
Banks traced the history of the slavery question
trom 1857 10 the present time, reviewing the re-
peal of the Missouri compromise, and the ques
ton of slavery has been wantonly thrust upon the
Americad people at this time by the slavery prop.
agandists themselves. He criticised the bogus de
mocracy of these times, az compared with the JEFF.
ferson standard, in the following just and logical
style, ater declaring that " Cass and Buchanan
had weighed the thing now called democracy
down to destruction, perdition and DEATH"
The great maxim of Jefferson's Democ.
racy was, that the world was governed too
much That of the present democratic lead.
ers is that it is governed too little-that they
must thrust in questions for the purpose of in
PRODUCING rule of action which will bind
and weigh down our defendants twenty-five
or fifty years hence. 1t contravenes all the
great doctrins of the Democatic party-that it
is the right of the people of the United States
to govern themselves as they please.
Now the government of Kanzas does not
give the people that right. Judge Douglas
says that the question of slavery is judicial
question. We hear not now of its being de-
cided by the people. 1t has been SO decided
You of Pennsylvania decided 1t so in 1870,
among the first States the very first State
that abolished it-even before Massachusetts.
Pennsylvania was the pioneer of freedom.
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lshed in Missouri tereitory over an extent of
one half million of sqnare miles. 1t has al
ways been popular question till now; and
now it is made judicial question. The pow
er is put into the hands oil such men as Judge
Lecompte who has given decisions that would
even darken the fame of Jetfries. He has de-
clared that the refusal to obey laws more in
hImau and bloody than any legislation that
the sun of the world or the eye of man has
ever shone upon, is treason against the Amer.
lean people,
The demands of the friends of freedom at the
North are thus stated:
We demand that the compact of 1920,
shall be made good to freedom by the Ameri-
can people. We will submit to nothing less.
BY the grace of God we will make our de.
mands good. So long as the government of
this country is directed exclusively for the
maintenance and propagation of slavery, so
long we can have peace. 1t cannot be !
Look at the church, usually taking no part in
our exciting political discussions, now every
where pouring forth fervent prayers for the
restoration of peace and liberty to Kanzrs and
Nebraska. Look at the newspaper press
Can you silence the psess 1t is scattering
millions of lolios broadcast over the land, de-
handing with one voice the restoration of the
covenant of 1920, and the peace of 1850.
Another week and you will see IL, 900 or
10000 friends of peace, who seldom frequent
the polls, come forward and demand Justice
at the ballot box. Then the working men
have found that free labor is not admitted
into competition with slave, and they are all
with us. Who can stand against us The
quack democracy of 1856 Never! Cap
plause J They will be swept away as if they
were myths and never had an existence.
NeYer!''
The following comparison was made of the pol.
itics of Mr.. Jefferson and Mr.. Buchanan on the
slavery question =
s. find in the campaign life of Buchanan,
which l purchased at booksellers, who told
me he had sold but one other cody, while he
had sold forty or fifty thousand copies of the
life of the Pathfinder, that with part of the
Southern men and the Constitutional De-
luOCIdCY, lie OppO5eu bnS uOCtTln6S OF the VIII
mot Proviso, and proposed as a settlement
on the basis of the act of 1920 that the Mis-
souri, line should be extended to the Pacific
ocean, and line s dFsT gde East and West to the
shonfd be slave territory. "i'i''"
Mr.. Jefferson also drew line once, North
and South. His proposition was to draw
line from the Mississippi river until it should
reach another line passing East of the Kama
wah river and that between these two lines
there should be seventeen States created i'll
which after 1900, slavery should be forever
abolished, and that territory sacred to free
dom. That was the policy of Jefferson in
1884, making seventeen new States, and de-
claring that in sixteen years they should all
be tree. That proposition was lost because
Virginia and North Carolina were divided on
it. South Carolina and Maryland voted against.
it. 1t needed vote of nine States in its favor,
and as Delaware was absent, it failed"
The following is the concluding portion of Mr..
Banks's remarks:-
"Now, we ask for peace. We ask for quiet.
We ask that all shall have their rights. We
assal no rights-local political, traditional,
or social. We want peace for the sake of Penn
sylvania, for the sake of the Union.
Pennsylvania has always taken the lead in
patriotism. Will she not do it nowl eyes,
yes, ana applause Inc state Where lnue'
pendence was declared, the second to adopt
the Constitution, the first to open the mineral
resources of the continent, the leader in steam
navigation and eanalization, will never be be-
hind in the struggle for liberty.
Mr. Banks here spoke with flow of Ian
guage seldom surpassed, on the contemplated
reforms of the Republican pcrty in she postal
department and in the construction of a Pa.
cic railroad. He showed that by the abol-
ton of the ranking privilege, and the allow
ance to members of Congress of a fixed amount
for postage, at least four millions of dollars
might be saved yearly to the country, which
could be applied in establishing ocean penny
postage all over the world, as well as reduce
the internal postage rates SO low as to be with.
in the reach Of the poorest laborer.
He then closed by eulogizing Col. Fremont
the young eagle of the mountains, proclaim
ing him the next President of the United
States
SENATOR WILSON'S SPEECH, at the Broadway
Tabernacle, New York, on Saturday evening LAST