The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-29
VOL. XII.

storms and sgitations of inquiry and free die
cussion. We are conscious that our social o.
political institutions have not attained narfa,
ton, and we invoke the examination and ~.
criticism of the genius and learning of 81
Christendom. Should the Senator and b;s o.
itators and lecturers come to Massschusetts -
q mission to teach our hireling class of manu-
laborers," our mud-sills,' our tslayes > H.
" Tremendous secret of the ballot box" and -
help combine and lead them" these stigrs
tized " hirelings" would reply to the Sena,o.
and his associates, I'VE are freemen we o.,
the peers ofthe gifted and the wealthy; we kno,s
the tremendous secret of the ballot.box = GA
we mould and fashion these institutions ina,
bless and adorn our proud and free Commor'
wealth These public schools ara ouro q.
the education OF our children; these Libraries
with their accumulated treasures, are mr.
these multitudinous and varied pursuits ofIGa
where intelligence and skill End their rews,j
are ours. Labor is here honored and resnsct
ed, and great examples incite us TO action
All around us, in the professions, in the mart.
: OF commerce, on the exchange where mercbsn,
: princes and capitalists do congregate; in tbess
manufactures and workshops, where the nro
: ducts OF every cline are fashioned into tbop
sand forms OF utility and beauty; on tbesa
smiling farms, fertilized by the sweat of free
LABOR; IN every position Of private and Of
public life, are our associates. who war
but yesterday hireling laborers.' 'mpds;llsi
; slaves In every department Of human ef
fort are noble men, who sprane from onr
ranks-m whose good deeds will be felt and
will live in the grateful memories of msn
when the stones reared by the hands of afIac'
ton to their honored names shall crumhI.
into dust. Oar eyes glisten and our hears
throb over the bright, glowing, and radiant
pages of our history, that records the deeds If
patriotism of the sons Of New England. who
sprang from our ranks and wore the badge,
of toll. While the names Of BENJAMIN Frapk.
hin, Roger Sherman, Nathaniel Greene. and
Paul Revere, live on the brightest pages n
our history, the mechanics of Massachuset,s
and New England will never want illustriops
examples to incite Us to noble ASPIRATIONS and
noble deeds. Go home, say to your privileged
class, which you vauntingly say leads pre-
gress, civilization, and refinement that it il
the opinion OF the hireling lsborers of Mas.
sschusetts, If you have no sympathy for your
African bondmen, in whose veins flows 50
much of your own blood, you should at least
sympathize with the millions of your own race
6 whose labor You have dishonored and de-
graded by Slavery You should teach your
millions Of poor and ignorant white men, 50
long oppressed by your policy, the 'tremeu
dous secret that the balot.box is stronger than
an army with bannersl' You should combine
and lead them to the adoption of a policy
which shall secure their own emancipation
from a degrading thraldom"
Mr. President, for four years the distant Ter
ritory Of Kansas has been the battlefield be
tween Freedom and Slsvery-between free Ia
Dor which elevstes, and that seryile labor which
degrades. In this contest, Slavery has startled
the nation by series of acts of violence and
by frauds you will scarcely find paralleled IN
the history of the world. These acts of violence
these frauds, perpetrated by the necessities of
the Slave Power, upheld by the ready serving
OF the Democratic party, are now made the tests
of fealty by the Administration. Fealty to the
Administration, to the Democratic party Is
now fealty to human Slavery, to violence
to trickery, and to fraud Sir, by perversious
of the Constitution and the laws, by the red
hand of violence by unveiled triekeries and
transparent frauds, by the indecent prescription
of men of inhexible integrity, by the shameless
prostitution Of the honors of the Government.
and by the Crank corruption, mining all witt
in" which "infects unseen" the Administra.
ton is converting the American DEMOCRACY
into mere organization for the perpetuity, a
pansion, and domination of human Slavery Oh
the North American continent. There is no,
to-day, in all Christendom, political organizs.
ton so hostile to the rights of human nature.
to the development of republican ideas, to the
general progress of the human race, az thr
Democratic party OF the United States. There
IS not political organization, even In Spain,
Russia, or Austria, that dare, in the face OF the
civilized world, blazOn its hampers with doc.
r N 10 ba IF
to humanity, as are avowed in these
Halls, and upheld by the Aperican Democracy.
under the lead Of this Administration. TIE
great Powers Of Europe, England, France. and
Russia, have fixed their hungry eyes upon the
coveted prizes Of the Eastern World; and VT
are invoked to forget the lessons of Washpg
ION, to close our ears 10 The appeals of the peo
pie OF Kansas, whose rights have been outrs.
yed, and turn our lustful eyes 10 the gEtteriuy
prizes of dominion, in Mexico, Central Am4rica
Cuba, and the valleys of the distant Amazon
No party in those three European mouarcbies
iare avow, in the face of Christendom, the sen.
iment we have heard proclaimed in these
Halls, that territorial expansion aud territorial
dominion must be made, not for the advance.
lent OF the sacred and sublime principle Of
,.qusl and impartial liberty to all men, but for
he subjugatioR and personal servitude Of other
md inferior races.
Duty TO the Government now prostituted and
to the country nov dishonored IN The
ace OF the civilized world, summons the Liberty
owing and patriotic men of the Republic, OF
every name and creed, to forget, forgive, All
ante" and rally to the overthrow of this vensl
;ringing, and inglorious Administration, sndto +
he utter humiliation of the oligarchc Demo-
scy. To the men of the North, ay, and the
men of the South, who loathe fraud. patry trick
Try, venahty, and servility; who believe thst
righteousness exalteth a nation" this sun
mons alike appeals. But to no men does this
ummons appeal with such irresistible and I'M
peratlVe force as to the whole hreing class
u manual laborers and operatives" now dis
isininily stgmatized as the Slaves, the "veT
nud'sllis" OF that society upon which that prs
legged class assumes to rest, which now claims
o control this Government, and " to lead pro-
.ress, civilization, and refinement" in America.
y appeals to them to repel the libeous aspeT'
mons cast upon the toiling millions of America,
~ taxing, through the ballot-box, the reins Of
power from the grasp of the slaveholding srs.
ocracy of the South and their servile allies OF
he North rebuking the arrogance of the one
" Punishment from usurped power and the
erviiity of the other by putting upon Their
breasts the "Scarlet Letter of dishonor. Ii
appeals to them to place in every department
It the Federal Government, Statesmen who cher
Sd profound reverence and an inextingusR
bile love for humanity who are animated BY
ofty motives, aims, and purposes; guided BY
rise, comprehensive, and pratriotc counses
md who will put the Republic in harmony win
be sacred and inalienable rights of MANKIND.
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