Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-02-12
Honest and Outspoken.

10 the race of doughfaces who have not
pluck to stand up before a STAKEHOLDER
and give words to their true sentiments
respecting the institution of Slavery, ''the
sum of all viIainies'; to the knoek-kneed
"sons of plunder,' who choke themselves
to silence with Treasury spoils, ladled out
to the orthodox Democracy by Jefferson
Davis and his man Friday, Mr.. Pierce, we
commend the following honest, outspoker
and noble sentiments of Mr.. Brown, Repre-
sentative from St. Louis, in the Missour
Legislature. In his speech few days
since he said:
I am freesoiler, and l don't deny it.
No word or vote of mine shall ever inure tc
the benefit of such monstrous and alb.
horrent doctrine as the extension of slavery
over the patrimony of the free white labor
ers of the country. | ain, sir, for the
greatest good to the greatest number, and
agains: the system which monopolizes the
free and fertile territory of our country fol
few Shareholders, to the exclusion Of
thousands upon thousands of the sinewy
sons of toll, who in peace and war are the
foundations and ramparts of the social ed
ifce. The time will come, sir, and per
haps very soon, when the people will rule
for their own benefit, and not for that of a
class which, numerically speaking, is insig-
nifcant. In that near day Democracy
will not only mean the rule of that soy
ereign people, but the rule of the sovereign
people for themselves, and the dignity as
well as the rights of free labor will be re-
cognized. Therefore it is, sir, that stand
ing here in the midst of the assembled
Legislature of Missouri, l am proud to
avow myself FREE SoILER. Let those
who are scared at names shrink from the
positions, if they will. I should never
feel alarmed at meeting the issue under
whatever name, or style, or title, or shape,
or form it may come. And, furthermore,
| would add, sir, that whenever the cues
ton may arise, whenever the contest comes
between the labor of tie white man and
the labor of the slave, 1 shall take ma
stand an favor of white man. Here in
Missouri shall support the rights, the Dig
nifty, and welfare of the 100000 non-slave-
holders in preference to upholding and per-
petuating the dominancy of the 10000
shareholders who inhabit our State. NY
sympathies are with the toiling masses and
not with the privileged few, and while
shall be far from designing any violation o.
the rights of property of any class, yet
conceive has labor to be as much the pro-
perty of the white laboring man, as the
slave is the property of the STAKEHOLDER
and as much entitled to the fostering care
and the protection of government as any
vested right in the commonwealth. l shall
be g ad TO sec both protected SO long as
they may be co-existent, but l shall ear
nestly look forward to the day when by q
wise and statutory system of emancipation
Missouri may rid herself of the evils and
incubus of slavery, and open wide her rich
hawest-felds and unbosom her mineral
wealth to the active energy of her free
white population. Such are my senti-
ments, sir, upon this subject, and l scruple
not to avow them openly and with nc
shadow of concealment.
Mr.. Price, of Green. 1t is time to be-
gin now.
Mr.. Brown. Neither am I tremulous
upon the point, sir. Let it begin when it
will, and now as well as any time.