Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-10-22
CORWiN ON HIGII.

At a late political gathering in Cincinnati
Tom Corwin treated cf some of Senator
Pugh's doctrines lately uttered in the same
place in the following humorous and pointed
manner
Let mo consider the genealogy Of parties:
My good friend, Senator Pugh, says that
an old Rip Van Winkle, Of the name of Tom
Corwin, has just walked up after an eight
years sleep, and is trotting out some nags.
Laughter, One of them is popular Sovc-
reignty, nag of mettle and OF blood tho
other is that old, wind broken, spawned
horse, the Wilmot Proviso. Now there is
some truth in what he says. | admire that
horse of Popular Sovereignty ; and think
that if should hold a conference MEETING
a class meeting with brother Pugh, l should
point out the bullets the Democratic party
has put in that horse. / think l should
bring him, as the Met hodst preachers say,
to a suitable sense of his unworthness -
Laughter and cheers.
I think could convince every impartial
man that the horse of Popular Sovereignty
was dead horse-blown to atoms by Demo
cratic guns And as ior that wind broken,
spawned poney, the Wilmot Proviso, he was
sired by Thomas jefferson himself, and it's
the horse mean to ride while there's hair
in his tail. Laughter and choers,]
Those Democrats, large and small Il hope
they'll excuse me if say, meaning no disre-
4pect to any of them, that some of them are
smaller than others-tell the people that
this Democratic party is the lineal descen-
dant of Thomas Jefferson, whose proviso
Senator Pugh denounces as wind-broken and
spawned
For Thomas jefferson drew with his own
hand that article that forbade slavery in the
Northwest Territory, from which have come
five great Western States. lie wrote with
his own hand this old wind broken, spawned
horse And yet Senator Pugh says they are
his linea descepdants "We think as JEFF
ferson thought, have the same politics and
religion, and philosophy that Jefferson had. !"
and bid you beware of the Opposition ticket,
for that's Federalism. Laughter)
What queer family that Jefferson family y
must be 1t is a progressive family, an i'm
proving family. Thomas jefferson said that
slavery was the greatest evil that ever cursed
country, and that when he looked up tc
God the equal Father of the black man and
the white man, and saw how in this country
the white man held the black in slavery, he
,rembled for the white man And his linea
descendants call that proviso by which he
hoped to prevent the spread Of this curse q
broken down, old, spawned nag
jefferson, like some of us, actually believ
cd that Moses told the truth, when he sale
that the Almighty sent man abroad into
world of thorns and thistles. lie told him
either for a blessing or a curse, to go anC
earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
Thomas Jefferson thought this was tru,
account, and since the white man had stoler
the black man. he hoped the Merciful Fa
ther would find some way to remove the evi
where it existed, and himself endeavored t.
prevent its growth.
jefferson thought labor was good for tn
white man. Jefferson was IA man who rea
s0ned, Not to be sure, 50 smart man a
senator Pugh, immense laughterl but still
man not to be succeed at-a considerable
man in his day.
Well, Jefferson reasoned when he lookc'
IN a sheep and saw the wool growing ON hi
back, and was aware that in our climate
men ny.-4 coats made from wuOl--he rca
s)ned, say, that if man was not meant t.
labor, the sheep was not made right. ]
. man WASH intended to cut and wash anC
card the wool, and spin it and weave it int
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