Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-09-10


boring men of that country earning the COM
forts and even the luxuries of life, and you see
the effects of the depletion of overburdened
ranks of labor. Go to China. This system
has been in operation there, and again the
truth of this position has been demonstrated
There has been no emigration-no seeking Of
new homes-no interest of the soil !; and the
people, denied emigration, have been filling
up and thickening year by year, until they
have become, as have already remarked, one
mass of degradation, poverty, ignorance and
crime; and now depletion at length takes
place, by selling them as slaves to the West
Indies and this Continent. Is there any man
in the North who wishes to see this state OF
things here ? Are we ready to dedicate all
that vast territory to the negro? If ii were
dedicated to the profitable labor of the negro,
that would be bad enough; but it is to be CIV
en- to the South to be wasted for there is not
a Slave State that is half full, but the soil is
wasted and abused. My time does not allow
me to enter into any elaborate consideration
of this question, but it is repete with inter-
est TO every man who loves his country and
has his hopes invested in its future. 1t is a
question between the laboring men of the
North and the negroes Of the South. The free
laboring man of the North should know that
the people of Kansas are fighting his battles,
and fighting to settle the question whether he
shall have right to go there and build home
for himself and children. (Great applause
1t is, in fact and in truth, question between
white men and negroes, and nothing less
But there are other respects in which this
question is to be looked at We look forward
TO Pacific Railroad, as one of the great and
cherished objects [The remainder of this SEN
tence was lost in spontaneous burst of ap-
plause. There are few men whose hairs are
gray that they do not hope to live to
the time when the iron horse shall be heard
laundering over the plains OF the great West,
passing beyond the Rocky Mountains, and
bringing n of n
dies. filling the Northern States with wealth,
enterprise and commerce. Now tell me, II
you will, if we make Slave States of our Ter
ritorieS to the Pacific, how soon we shall see
that railroad built ? Never, never!l If you
make them Free States, and fill them with the
free population, the progress and enterprize
of the North, the schools and manufactures
and churches ot freemen will arise on all those
hills and yalleys-a tide of life will roll over
the Rocky Mountains, and in fifteen years the
Pacific Railroad will be built. GGreat ap-
plause.] But dedicate that soil to the negroes,
and | tell you your response is truc-it never
will be built. But there are considerations G.
nough, in political point of view, why these
Territories should be secured. Suppose they
fall into the hands of the South, and become
States. Each State will send two Senators,
the South will have the preponderance of pow
er; and when do you suppose we will get it
back Never never! not while we have a
doughface. You say truly. twill be never.
Nothing will get it back except bloodshed and
revolution. If that power passes into their
hands how will they use it Will they be
more scrupulous in using than acquiring it D.?
If they acquired it by robbery, and fraud, and
murder, will they use it more magnanimouSly
mo, MOL And their first measure will be to
reopen the Slave trade, filling the country
with negroes stolen from their native land.-
Not only this, but they will give free transit
TO Shareholders into the Free States with their
Slaves, thus taking the first step toward carry
ing into execution the threat of Senator
Toombs, that he would call the roll of his
slaves beneath the shadow of Bunker Hill.-
Never! never i--they cannot do that.1 Yes,
you say never; but the man who says never
must do never. GGreat applause, and three en-
thusiastic cheers for Fremont Faith is a
ry good thing; but ssfaith without works is
dead, being alone" 1t is very good thing
to have faith that the stakeholder shall not call
the roll of his slaves the soil of the Free
States; but the man who would prevent it
must begin the work in time. 1t win not do
for men to say ssneyer,'' and sit down in the
fulness of their faith till the work is accom-
piished. The man who would prevent il must
go to work in season-he must discern the
danger in the distance, and use prevention in
stead of cure. have seen, not long since,
men whose conduct could not explain or re-
concile, except on the supposition that if the
South should demand it of them, they would
have Slavery among you of the North. have
seen men in Congress whose votes / could eX-
plain on no other principle. And / believe
there are men among you now, who, were the
question raised, would be ready to introduce
it into New FORK. No, no 1t is so! yes !!
no doubt of it, Yes, there are such to be
found, and their conduct can be explained no
other way. That is it-that's the doctrine
At one time, | should have believed this idle
talk; but that time has gone by, and the exs-
tence of this fact should put every man upon
his guard, and make him exceedingly sensitive
TO public opinion upon this subject. But / am
OBTAINING you, too long. loud cries of $50
on.'l Who is responsible for the state of
things! THE Democratic party-We are. i
1ou have seen outrage after outrage perpetra-
ted upon the Free-State men Of that Terrific
ly; you have seen the courts of Justice closed
against them. Every man is aware that of all
the forms of oppression judicial tyranny is the
most terrible. This oppression our people up
the soil of Kansas feel in all its terrible ri
gor. There is for them no redress, no legal
justice. Murder stalks abroad citizen finds
a neighbor butchered in cold blood, with the
steel still in his body; but he has no appeal to
the courts of justice. They are closed against
his complaints; they are but the instruments
of oppression and the vehicles of insult and
outrage. Our men are murdered at home and
abroad, and the murderer goes unhuniehed.-
To such despotism and outrage are our men
in Kansas subjected. Even now the civil war
is raging upon its soil, and men are left to
weiter in their blood for the sake of their po-
tical opinions. There time when the
arm of the Executive Of the United States
could have been interpoSed to have prevented
this internecine war, when all this could have
been remedied if we could have had man of
nerve in the first office of the nation. Gallant
men are now in prison, and guarded by the
Dragons of the United States, upon charge
of treason, which came from whom The
first intimation that treason had been commit
tod in no of ba Nr