St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-11-12
CALEB CUSHING.

Hon. Caleb Cushing lately made a
political speech in Faneuil Hall Bos-
ton, by invitation of the Young Mems
Democratic Club. Below we give his
peroration:
Merchants Of Massachusetts , with
your superb galleons from the ship
yards OF East Boston and Newbury
port, moving over the sea in the pride
OF their beauty and their strength.
frcighted with the rich agricultural
productions of Carolina and Louisiana,
you have been told here that Your in.
tcrcsts are in conflict with those of
the South
Manufacturers of Massachusetts
you, with your palatial manufactures.
10 weave into apparel, for the worlds
wear, the agricultural productions of
Georgia and Alabama, have been told
here that you must surrender vour-
selves to the evil spirit Of jealousy Of
the South.
Citizens Of Massachusetts and cs.
/ pocially you ut' the Industrial Glasses.
who wear the cotton, eat the corn and
sugar, and drink the coffee of slave
labor, and who provide objects of art
for the use Of slave labor, and of those
who own it--you also have been told
that slave labor is the irreconcilablc
antagonist of free labor, and that
therefore, leaving all other things, yo,.
must betake yourselves to hating the
South with sworn hatred like that
Of Hannibal for Rome.
Men Of Massachusetts YOU are
cxhortcd TO cultivate amicablc rela-
tlons with Cubs, a,-slavc colony though
it be,--to supply it with lumber, food,
and other objects of value, and to buy
and consume its products, and thus to
sustain and pcrpetuatc slave labor
there, and love slave owners. while
you are called upon to sacrifice the
peace and honor of the State. and dcd-
icate yourselves from rcprobation of
slave labor, to unceasing hostility
/ against your own countrymen of the
Southern States
| say, Down down fo the Internal
pit, where they belong, with all these
derelict inspirations of malice, hatred
and uncharitableness. You, the peo-
pie of Massachusetts,, do not, in the
inner chamber of your hearts, approve,
and will not, on consideration, adopt
this abominable theory OF sectional
spite and hate You will, in the end,
if not to-day, rcpel the policy with
scorn and horror. Before that time of
sober Judgment comes, |, who stand
up for the American Union, in its
letter and spirit, who will die in the
breach rather than 50 let it slide, II
may be struck Down by the tempest
Of party passion, but others, better
and more fortunate, will rise up to fill
the gap in the ranks of the sacred
phalanx Of the soldiers of the Consti-
tuition
| Man is feeble, mortal, transient but
our country is powerful, immortal,
eternal. In the long ages of glory
which lie before us, rolling onward
one after another, like the ceaseless
rote cf the surging waters on the sea
/ SiicAt, h'A'S upon ",|I VIZ W
fill the place of that which sinks into
the main, generations of men will
come and go, with their joys and sor-
rows, their aspirations and disappoint-
mcnts, their conflicts and their recon-
citations. Then it will be seen that
he who was the highest had been but
an atom Of the great whole, and he
who was humblcst had been as much.
We are alike in the hands Of the Al
mighty, and but the instruments of his
will in doing the great work common
ced by our fathers at Jamestown and
Plymouth, continued by them at Sara
toga and Yorktown, carried on by us
at Monterey and Mexico, the great
work of reducing to cultivation and
civilization the sayannahs and forests
Of our country. Massachusetts, once
the banner State of the Union, vii
not be found backward, at the hour o
need, in performing her appointed
part of that great work Of the Lore
God in the New World