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

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brands to day, to carry on the Satanic opera
| tions OF the present Administration. While
Illinois furnishes Stephen Arnold Douglas, on
the one hand, on the other, she furnishes such
noble Senators as he whom you will hear here
tonight. (Applause.) While old Massachu-
sets furnishes Caleb Gushing, on the one
| hand, who is the brains of the present cabinet,
who does the miserable work of the slave pow
| er on the other hand she furnishes that no.
BILE champion of liberty, Charles Sumner
(lmmense applause.) Slavery has also made
its way towards the setting SUM- 1t has reach
ed the Rio Bravo on the South, and the groanS
of its victims and the clank of its chains N V
be heard as it slowly ascends the western tri-
| butarles of the Mississippi river While free
dom has left the land, in its bright path, es-
pangled with free schools, and has filled the
heavens with the shining towers of religion and
civilization, slavery has left the blghted soil
1t has left ignorance-it has left desolation and
death in its trail
All the time these two systems have been
running their race together-slavery, like an
assassin, has been trying to stab freedom to
death All this time freedom has been giving
its energy to foster slavery. 1t has poured
rich stream of Northern blood into the shrink
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men, its money, its manhood-its meannesS al
so in vast quantities. daughter, and three
cheers for Sumner) And here let me turn
| aside from the stream of remarks to say one
word of that man. | do not like to be the
bearer of i'll tidingS, because such a one ever
fingers in your minds unfayorably but the
news is not of the best which comes from him
4 fear has been long entertainments is enter
toir hot Ia ,bo-
scihtllations have filled the world with light,
may go into darkness under the blow of a
bludgeon, "a voice-thc blow of an assassin.
| say there is great fear that the brilliant
mind of that noble man NAV go into darkness.
because of the blow he received on the floor
of the Senate of the United States. (Sensa-
tom
And vet there are men, who, in the face of
the obvious facts-men do | say The Ian
guage is not copious enough to furnish epithets
or names for such creatures as 90 about mis-
representing that man. Charles Sumner is as
pure as the Snow that falls on his native hills
a man whose heart breathes with kindness to
everything wearing the upright form of man.
The idea that Charles Sumncr-who is as far
above party as the heavens are above the earth
the idea that he should stoop to the degra-
their own vulgar language, is "plaving pos
Snm," and feiguug a sickness which he never
had tell YOU. fclow-citizcnS. when thew say
that they lie, and they know it. (Enthusas-
tic chcerS.l 1t is the only occasion | feel call
ed upon to apply that singing epithet, that in
ten>iiied English. 1t is the onlv proper word
that belongs to such men, and it should be
stamped Oh their brazen brows by every hon
est man.
Bat to return once more to what / was say
ing. | was speaking of the contributions made
bv freedom to slavery But with them all. the
North has grown richer and richer and strong
er and stronger, and the South poorer and
poorer, and weaker and weaker Slavery
makes a people pecuniarily weak. intellectual
ly weak, and physically weak. could demon
STRAIT, if | had time, every one of these propo-
sitio,> Take for one moment, the first. The
m SER will not work-of course he ,riH not =
Laughter and applause) The slave will not,
unless he is watched, aud / do not blame him
for that. The land is dying, for that always
dies wherever the black foot of slavery comes
down aud | do not blame it for dying
(Laughter.)
Then where is the result of labor, which is
the only wealth of any people 1t is, by con-
sequence, small. | could illustrate this propo-
stlon. Take any Southern State-take Vir-
ginia. The fences are falling down. The first
families" are as poor as starved rats Laugh
ter They have nothing, comparatively, to
rely on there, in the way of cities, railroads,
villages, or free schools. The planter antici-
pates his single crop.
They have no diversified employment-di-
verSfed laborS, which are necessary to make
people happy and free. The North Carolinian
said of the first families" there-and you ne
yer hear of any Sscond families there-that they
lived one half the year on oysters and the 9TH
er half on past recollectionS, Great laugh
ter 1t is true that the old Commonwealth
of Virginia. am sorry for hers blessed
with the best natural advantages of any State
almost in the Union. But do not speak half
so harShlv of her condition as did Mr.. Wise in
his recent canvass of that State for Governor;
but will simply say that the wolf and raven
are returning to their old haunts there the
moss is gathering around their church door
steps, and owl boots from its deserted tower
And it is slavery that does this nothing else.
1t makes people intellectually weak. this will
appear to YOU at once. You cannot have free
schools where that is. One fact will serve as
an illustration. There are more books publish
ed in the district have the honor to repre-
sent in Massachusetts, over which you eau fire
a cannon ball, than in all the slave States to-
gether.
Where are their historians ? Where are
their poets ? Slavery never had a poet-it
never will. Imagine some divine genius OF
song singing the beauties of slavery (Laugh
ter) The morning march of the poor slave
going to the cotton field, or the baying of the
blood hound as he is chasing women and chil-
dren through the cane brake /! What subjects
for poetry are these
1t makes people physically weak Now,
do not mean to say that the people of one