The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-04-29
Nnlitiral.
WaGe'S DaguerreOtype of the
DOUghGaCeS.

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despicable Of men. The modern dough
face is not character peculiar to the age
in which we live, but you find traces OF
him at every period of the worlds history.
He is void of pride; he is void of self
respect; he is actuated by mean grovel-
ling selfshness that would sell his Maker
for price. Why, sir, when old Moses,
under the immediate inspiration of God
Almighty, enticed whole nation Of
slaves, and ran away, not to Canada, but
to old Canaan, [ suppose that Pharaoh
and all the chivalry of old Egypt denonnc-
ed HIM as a most furious Abolitionist
(laughter). do not know but that they
blasphemed their God, who had assisted
the fugitives from labor to escape. |
have no doubt at all that, when some
Southern gentlemen Of the Gospel come
up to preach to the North, they will say
that the Almighty acted very fanatical
part in this business. | am afraid they
will say so; for He was aiding and ahet-
ting in the escape. But amidst the glo-
ries of that great deliverance, even feed
ing upon miracles Of the Almighty as
they went along, there were not wanting
those who loved Egypt better than they
loved liberty; whose souls longed for the
aesh-pots of Egypt; and who could turn
from the visible glories of the Almighty
God to worship an Egyptian calf. These
were the doughfaces of that day. They
were national men (laughter). They
were not exactly Northern men with
Southern principles; but they were Isra-
elites with Egyptian principles (laughter),
Again, when the Saviour of the world
went forth on His great mission to pro-
claim glad tidings of joy to all the people
of the earth, to break every yoke and to
preach deliverance to the captive, He
met with the same class of men in the
persons of Judas Iscariot and the chief
priests. In the days of our own Revolu-
ton, when Washington and his noble as
sociates were carrying on that struggle to
establish justice, and to secure the bless
ings of liberty to themselves and their
posterity, they met with the same class
of men in the admirers Of George III.
and Lord North.
They are all of the same class-false
to the education of their fathers-false to
the great principles which have been in
stilled into them by their mothers from
their birth-willing to do anything that
will minister to the cupidity of their mas
ters, let the consequences be what they
may. 1t is this class of men, aided by
close aristocracy at the South, that has
enabled the minority to rule with iron
hand the majority, since the organization
of this Government. have endeavored
to daguerreotype these men for the ben
eft of future ages; for | believe that, like
the Indian tribes, they are disappearing.
You have put them to very hard service,
sir. They die faster than the Northern
negroes in your rice-swamps-politically
[ mean. You put them to service that
they cannot stand. When you ask them
to vote for fugitive bill, they may do it
once, but political death stares them in
the face. When you ask them to 90 for
the repeal of the Missouri restriction, you
find the same state Of things And now,
worst of all, when you ask them to fasten
upon their fellow-men, in Territory of
the United States, Constitution which |
that people abhor, tell you every North
ern representative who participates IL
this act is not only politically dead, but
he may thank his God if he escapes with |
that
But the Senator spoke about a degrad-
ed class in our great commercial Cities
[ have to confess that there is some truth
in that. We have degraded class in
the cities. They are the offscourings
of the Old World-men who
come here reduced to beggary by their
ignorance; reduced, to beggary by their
vice /; ignorant, vicious, dangerous. [ do
not deny it. They are incident to all
large cities; but the Senator should not
of them. They are the chief
of your political strength in
the North. Find me the vicious ward of
any city that does not uphold your sys-
tenn of slavery, vote for its candidates,
support its measures and labor for its
men. No, sir; you should not complain
of this vicious population. In truth and
in fact, they are about the only stay and
you have there now, and you
ought not to traduce them From their
very natures, they attach themselves to
you, and I do not think by any treat
ment you will be able to drive them off.
They are naturally with you; they were
slaves in their own countries they do
not know anything else than to be the
understrappers of somebody; and when
they hear that here are shareholders con-
tending with freemen, you find them with
the former all the time.-Speech Of B.
f. Wade, IN the United States Senate,
March 13. |