The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-10-24


and was greeted with great and protracted ap-
pausr. He said
Fellow Citizens of Lancaster, and men OF
pennsylvania - come here to-day to address
you, under circumstances more extraordinary,
perhaps, than ever surrounded any plain citizen
who ever before had the pleasure 10 speak 10
you a farmer, as you are, when at home,
men throughout the length and breadth of this
land have heaped upon me loads Of abuse and
revIlement for an honest and free expression of
the sentiments which have entertained Yet
] fear not, for truth ever lends its votary the
courage requisite for lis vlndicaiion. am here
upon Democratic stand to speak 10 you and
am glad to be here, because upon it stands with
mysei! the son Of the man who stood by my
father-the son of the greatex FOUNDER Of the
Constitution--the son of the revcred and lamen-
ted Webster. (EmmenSr appIansr.) We stand
here together-and why? Does he come here
to ask for your votes for himself! Do come
here on any such mission Does he come to
ask your Mr. Buchanan for ANYTHING Do we
come TO ask any iavors from the Democratic par
ty? No! tell you a thousand times, no
! ask none, and believe Mr. Webster asks for
none. We are here for our country. Jap
plause) We came here in the cause of the I'm
ion, which Is sancifed by the efforts of his faith
rr and mine. Though in their graves, Clay and
Webster are not dead. Such men can never
die. They have left their words as an inheri-
tanee to us; and although the mantle Of Mr.
Webster has not fallen upon his son, and al
though the mantlr Of Clav has not fallen upon
me, his son, yet both Of them have f+f their
record for you and me and all of us to study
applause What have they told us? What
do their writings tell ms now? What did the
Father ofthe Country tell us in days long agone.
Washington warned us against srctionalism.-
He bid rs beware ofaIl parties arrayed on sec
tional issues.
Mr.. Clay interrupted by delegations which
marched into the Square, with bands playing and
banners flying. Three cheers were proposed and
given for the son of the Sage of Ashland and three
more for the OF Daniel Webster.
Mr. Clay resumed his remarks :-Fpllow-
citizens, thank yon for the honor of your
cheers They cone from yoors tru.. end hourSt
hearts. They are not form they are for him
who, though gone, is yet amongst YOU (Ap-
Plause.)
! had commenced to tell You why L was that
| am here to-day / have referred to what
Washington has said. told you how be warn
ed YOU against SectioDaliSm against the draw
ing Of geographical party lines, and eSpee tally
against drmagogurS and the candidates Of sec
ton. Other men followed him.-mrn YOU uSrd
10 love. You used 10 love two farmers-the
farmer Of Marshfed and the farmer Of Ashland
(APplausr.) They followed in the wake Of
Washington, and they reiterated what hr had
told you. In 1920 they gave YOU solemn
warning, aud told YOU that the country was 10
danger. Standing together by your help, be-
cause your Union-lovng people were with
them, those men saved the country then. They
thought tia; it was saved for all time TO come
that this miserable question of slavery was pa,
10 rest for ever: but they were deceived. In
1890 the black cloud again hung over us. But
they feared not. They batll4d bravcly for the
Union and the Constitution, and they were sue
cessful once more. They did not fight alone.
They were surrounded by patriots Of every SEC
ton and together they presented glorious and
enaobing spectacle. The day that Webster
and Clay, and Cass and Buchanan, and all the
great men Of the country stood side by side TO
save this Union-that was great day for Iber
ty. (Appausp) They warned you against
the Sectionalism which would drive your breth-
ren of the South from you. They told YOU that
the same people who originally accomplished
our independence, still lived in their descen-
danis and they implored you 10 keep them uni
ted (Applause) And what do sc see now?
Planting themselves on a miserable abstraction,
a hollow preteXt, sectonalSiS have aroused the
North thank God not the whole North. (Cries
of no and cheers for the Union.) They march
under flag with but sixteen stripes; under
banner with the inscription, "No Union with
They ask YOU TO put our save-hoding breth-
ren out Of the Union-not that they have done
anything wrong, but because they have in their
midst an institution which they did not make
for thrmselves-an institution the existence of
which many ofthem regret as much as you do.
IApplause.1 The KanSas-Nebraska bill was
passed by Congress, and they told you that its
object was the extension Of slavery. | say
there is nothing oftha sort in the bill. They
told vou that the Cincinnati platform is design
ed TO extend the area Of Slavery. 1t is not
true and the men who tell you so have not
read that Platform (Applause.) The princi-
pie of the Cincinnati Platform is the greatest
principle of the Compromise Measures OF 1880.
which emanaied from the greatest minds OF
modern days; that the people every where are
capable of selfgovernment. loud and pro-
tracted applause.) The Cincinnati Platform
announces that the people OF Pennsylvania bad
the right TO form her own domestic institutions;
because her people were free people and that
the people Of the Territories ought to have the
same right Of Selfgovernment. lApplause. y
The Democrats Of Cincinnati proclaimed their
adherenee TO the principle that when the peo-