Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-09-04

men cnalhed 10 their doorpoSts hostile to
them in Il conflict of arms, how dare they leave
their homes 1t makes them ignorant and
that is source of weakness And yet it is
out of that land so weakened and blasted by
slavery-out of that desoate region, come all
the naughty boasts about what they will do
unless we obey them--knock our knees togeth-
er-" turn pale as cream faced loons"-turn
flip flaps in the face of the nation, which would
make the fortune of any circus clown. laugh
tcr) They tell us what they would do ever
and anon, by secession and war" horrible
war"--and are we to be frightened eternay
in our great commercial cities, out of our pro-
prietieS, by these threats Where can they
get their army? How can they keep an ar
my in the feld-these disunionists and seceS-
sionists against the North or against the I'm
ion, rather? Why, money makes up the sin
ews of war in modern times Where is their
property upon which to raise loan Is it that
shadowy, wandering, yagrant kind of property,
that may take to its legs any day and run
away? Laughter) What man in Amsterdam,
or London, or Boston, or Philadelphia, or
New-Y York, or any other place, if he had a
sane mind, would think of making loans on
such property as that-property which may
rise up in conflict, and smite its owner in the
! face
say it is a source of weakness, and it makes
them weak for purposes of war. Where are
their manufacturing establishments Where
could they furnish their arsenas They can
not make sword with which TO stab us
They cannot make a muSket with which to
shoot us. A voice-NOr rifie) No. they
cannot make rifle. (Great laughter aud APP
/ plause.) say, that the very fortifcation but
hot i
in 1882, they bought down in Connecticut :;
and the very cannon that they planted in
South Carolina ready to belch forth fire and
death upon anybody who shall approach with
IN a thousand miles of that warlike nation
(Laughter.) Where did they get those can
non They are some cast off pieces that they
! bought at Woonsocket, Rhode Island and
yet through the lips of their disunionists, thro'
the lips OF their secessioniSts, they talk about
marching up to the line of 30 deg. 80 min. with
their coffinS on their backS-a very needful
precaution, | think (Laughter) Imagine
these - Coffin Regiments" going through their
exercise " shoulder collins" order coffns -
ground collins" would probably be the last
manGuvre they would be called upon to make
(Renewed laughter.)
| tell you, fellow-citizens, all this talk about
is the mcrcst moonshine that was ever imposed
on men. When hear these vauntings so fire.
quently, sometimes have kind of tingling
desire that they will try to make their yaunt-
ingS true See what they say every dav See
what Mr.. ToombS threatens to do" To call
the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill" | tell
you that Hill would blaze again as it did in
the Revolution. He dareS to say that if"Mr
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to be dissolved and it will be-" tell you we
will elect Fremont, tremendous applause y
What does he mean, and what does the Pre-
sdent mean, who ought to be the tribune of
tie people who ought to be the President of
the whole people and not party section, with
Mr. Toombs and a whole band of these sec
tionalists They go on and threaten what
will be done if the people vote this way or
that way. What does Mr. Toombs mean, and
his band of sectionalistS and disunionistS Do
they mean to say that if the majority of the
American people, speaking at the balot-box
their defiant will, shall elect Mr.. Fremont, or
any body else that they, when voted down,
will not submit If they mean to say that,
then the quicker the people of this country try
the strength of this great government the bet
ter (Applause.) | tell you the people of
this country-when We have been voted down
by their contrivanceS we have submitted We
have ever been loyal. and ever mean to be 10y
al to the pivot doctrine of this great govern
ment that the will of the majority, CouStitu-
tionally expressed, shall be the law until Con
stitutioually reversed, (cheers.l | tell the
President, | tell his immediate advisers. tell
Mr. Toombs, with all his boasts that it is not
for them to say when this great Union shall
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existence. tell them that the Mississippi
planter might as well try to dam mp the father
Of waters with bag of cotton, or South
Carolina secesSionist to smash down the Ale
ghanies with a hammer, as to try to eradicate
this Union from the hearts of the American
people, and We tell Nj Toombs, or any body
else, North or South, who proposes treason
against the peoples will and the peoples go
vernment that the moment they try to put their
threats in action, if there is hemp enough in
old Kentucky, they will have to hang for it.
Immense applause
But they do not think of any thing of the
kind You might as well expect the paupers
of the poorest town in Pennsylvania to revolt
against the legal authorities as that they will
revolt against this great government. They
are dependent for their very existence and their
safety upon the cleaning bayonetS of the
North. They talk about what they will do
through secession and war Where can they
get an army? They have generals enough
for every Shareholder is a general or colonel.
Where will they get the rank and file? Among
the slaves? Among the clayeaters aud the
sand d-hillerS, men as stupid as blocks-made so
bv the blighting influences of slavery-their
noble minds and their immortal souls darken-
ed by this blasting institution ? | pity them
The wrong done by slavery to you does not
begin to compare to the wrong done to the
poor whites in the South. They feel its crush
ing weight more than any body else. 1t de-