Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-07-25
Speech OF VIM. c Bryant.

us together this evening is great cause.-The
cause Of Justice and OF Liberty. History my
brethren, delivers down to everlasting iniamy
the names of those who have distinguished
themselves as the introducers or promoters ol
slavery and crowns with immortal and un-
dying honors the memories Of those who have
stood up as the champions of liberty. 1t is
IA noble title; the noblest a public man can
wear. Every one of you who enrolls himself
in this organization becomes, by that very
act, in lis own person, one of the champions
of liberty. Applause | hope none of you
are ashamed of this title. Is there any one
who listens to me who is willing, even for a
moment to be classcd with those who seek to
extend tho empire of an institution which
good men in all ages and all countries have
agreed in regarding a calamity, curse,
and crime against the great law Of human
brotherhood | would that every citizen Of
the free states would ask himself, in serious
ness and sincerity, this question. | am sure
that it would receive the same answer which
you are prepared to give, in his heart, if not
from his lips.
But it is not merely as the friends Of liber
ty that you are organized and associated ; it
is as the enemies Of fraud and oppression. -
You are all familiar with the cnormtes
which have been committed upon our west
ern frontier. They have been pertinently
spoken of in the resolutions which are before
you this cvering, and the gentleman who
preceded me has wildly skctchcd them in a
few brief words, 1t is foul and bloody rec
ort,authentcated by testimony which no man
can gAinsav, collected by committee sent
out under the authority OF our government to
make the invcstigltion-a record OF crimes
winch cause us TO blush Tor our country and
for the race to which we belong--a record OF
ri,rhts Nyrpsted from our r,llow-citizpus nv the
strong hand-mock elecuons-ot usurnatlons
as gross as were ever committed in the rudest
I and most harharous times Of the world Iap-
/ plausc "a record Of murders of huruings. of
unofcndiug families driven from their homes
into the wi.dcrness-of a revolutionary gov
crnment established at the point of the bayo-
net-of murders in open day, and assJ.sina-
/ tion, in solitary ,lncrs and Ly NIGHT
This rortle,nan is the sum If that roul
and bloody record. Is thcre anv man here.
J.. thnro any man orony vou-I mood NOT ,sl,
y,u. / know your indi6nntion kindles Mt the
/ Ilre .ition-wbo would fur moment
r,uute,ItIire these WRONGS Ionpeal In Won
a.. mon of b,nnr--Do ,ou nor G..l that thev
/ Ji..,r.,cr flo American nau,o1 odlrcs. NV
/ s.lF f., ,,on or warm and ,,anor,,is Lo,,ts-
Are Won mot moved With INDIGNATION whom
YOU hear Of these tlinqs ,--by Indjrnation
,rlinst tbos, bv whom fLov wore ,srnn,r,t-
ed and bv svrn,thv for tbosn bv whom they
were endured address vou as men who re-
| cornize the voice of conscionca- Does not That
voice call upon YOU to rise and redress those
villanies which aHront Heaven, dishonor our
common country. and nrcnnre n lone train
of miseries and evils for the generations that
are IN rise mn and take ouP nIoces1 Doas
/ nat that voice call unon vou "a come the res
cue of our countrymen in the West-our late
ncigbtors. our kinsmen-wbose only fault is.
that tuey r,efer freedom 10 slavery and that
they stand in tho way of that mighty. greedy
ins4tiab bic olgarchy which, not content
with possessions more vast than those occu-
pied By TIE free states of the Union seeks TO
take to itself the fair heritage which our
fathers INTENDED as the permanent abode of
Freedom1 Applause
Gentlemen read the answer to these
] questions IN your couhtehnnces should see
/ 1t there Ii | dld not hear 1t IN your acclama-
tons 1t Is the answer OF men whose hearts
are IN the right place. We Will have no
more >laves-that Is the feeling that pervades
this assembly no more slaves 50 far as de-
pends upon us, We VIII have no muluplica-
non OF tina, class OF men who are destined
/ from their blrth to bondage. We Will open
no new regions to be titled hy those who toll
/ under the laeh. Applause g Will not
be slaves oursclves-we VIII not be chased
from the polls by the siaYc-drivers as they
would chase their negroes. We will not be
hunted from the territories where we choose
to Tx our abode, at the pistol mouth, as
they chase their runa ways home to their
plantations. Nor will we be ruled over by
the slave. We will not set slave of the
South at the head OF the republic, to manage
ITS affairs and execute Its laws
Ny friends. there is no yerler slave tolling
II,
VINO now slts IN the Executive chair at Wash
inGton. Cloud applause) No negro who
gathers cotton In the lantauon OF Alabama,
lsa yerler slave than buchanan Will he to hls
southern masters, if he should be elected
tAppause.) lie has put his own limbs in
irons by accepting the Cincinnati platform.
lie has indentured himself to the southern
planters for four years-for all his term OF
Office, if ever he reaches the Presidential
chair. Let us have no such man tor our Pre-
ling to share with the highwayman the purse
he takes on the road Let those support him
WHO are WING 70 u''Id' 'ne sioli VI I. III.
with loaded dice. and carries a PISTOL to Shoot
those who accuse him Of foul pav. Let
those suuport him who hold to the law Of
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We abandon them all to Buchanan and tn,
lrgparatDrs Of slavery (hrulausrl Bu
for Won. NV f1erds. and for all like Won
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