Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-06-20

your time. Go on 60 on I'VE want tc
hear about Douglas 'Oh let that siunL
alone - Great laughter There is an old
Latin maxim that you would do well to OBJ
serve with regard to Douglas-' NJ de NOR
NOS HiH b9HUm. That is, Nothing concern
ing the dead Douglas is dead, and he de-
served to die. Great applause. tell you,
icilowctizcns, even in this world, retribution
sometimes follows hard upon the heels Of sin.
lie thought he had secured the Presidency hy
selling out in Congress white men of the
North But the men of the South demanded
an exhibition Of virtue sterncr even than this;
they demanded large sacrifice, and he gave
humSoT away Yes. he "sOld out" GrOans
and misses for Douglas.
Il will repeat Il sentiment which | uttered
in speech in the House. 1t will come to
pass in these latter days as it was in the days
Ol old. There was some such apostles then
as there are now, and Of one of these Jercml-
an the Prophet speaks Therefore, thus
saith the Lord, concerning Jehoiakim, the
son OF Josiah, King of Judah. They shall
not lament for him saying, Ah, Lord or All
his glory All my brother or All, my sister,
but he shall be buried with the burial Of an
ass Great laughter and applause. We
have had such funerals in the state of Ohio.
They were remarkable from the fact that
there were no mourncrs. Laughter. No
one left to lament the death Of such misera-
bic ingratcs We buried Wilson Shannon
in the state of Ohio Applause.
This man that doubts, this doubling Pre-.
sident, who had no clear vision upon til
subjects upon which John Quincy Adams and
John c. Calhoun had clear vision, wanted
some miserable creature to serve his purposes
in Kansas, when they would not been served
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plausc. And soon he started round with
his fishing rod and line, with a golden bait
at the end of it, and after going, over the
whole country comes fually to Belmont,
where they had sunk man into pit Of
despair drops down his hook there and brings
up Wilson Shannon. Laughter.
The robes of The maglstracy are put on
this Wilson Shannon, and he is sent to Kan
Sls to govern people who arc " bone of our
bone and flesh of one flesh There he is.
Not n missionary Of republicanisn not an
exponent of the doctrines of our fathers, but
there he is, in his representative character
occupying about the same position before the
sacked city cl Lawrence in which the immor-
tai lIlynlu stood before Komorn in Hung
ary. You have got Il heart. 1t is not a ques-
tion Of intellect, nor Of political economy,
nor Of philosophy, but it is question of the
hcdft IL Is thc same question: Whlch aIltitcu, =,
and does agitatc, the moral and intellectual
energies Of the people who secured for us the
invaluable political privileges which are our
birthright and our boast
Let me say to you. my fellow-citiz'ns, if
the signs Of the times are read correctly by
me, here are yet to be other ConcorIs, Lex
ingtons, and Bunker Hills. Tremendous APP
plause.1 There are to be other battle fields
upon which are to bleach the bones Of some
of the present generation, falling, and fight
Ing as they fell, for the same great princi-
pies which ncrved the arms and hearts of our
revolutionary fathers. Up, be doing put
on the whole armor, and 90 out to the battle
Thus great question now before the people Of
this country is not the emancipation Of the
negro. but the emancipation Of the white man.
/ APPLAUSE.
We are bound in the bands of slavery to-day
we are cnclged-we are prevented from talk
ing out those sentiments which animated
the hearts of the spirits Of l716. This crisis
has come. Here are two antagonistic powers
about to come into colIision-ireedom and
slavery. The question is which shall we re-
c,iyel Loud cries - Freedom freedom u
Which do you desire to transmit to your de-
ccuIants Which shall be the governing
principle Of our American institutions
- freedom freedom ' Freedom, you
say; then labor, and fight, if need be, for it.