Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-09
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Senator Seward addressed very large
crowd al CoEinthiap Hall Rochester, ON
Monday night; : The, ofSflSwlpg jsla bGissl briissl
81 nopsis .ofihis speech:sd ,ieeri> rob
He spoke ,abnus one houfia half.
and dwelti chiefly upon The sGbjecti pf
Slavery. showing. irst,o, what We're :, tlle
intentions of the frapiers of The Cpnslitu5
tior; and, Sc cond, what has be n slIe 4 Ten
dency f,the Government under the con!
troll of the laristoeraey OF Slavery. This
country he said must eventually be wholly
Free or al ogeiher Slave ierritory" zafle arr
ragned the Democratic party rs beatty OF
the Slave power. Derhpc5ase Ado ms ra7
iions merely record It's behesIs. Tie nexI
Ienhtid of lhe Slave Power win be tie abrbA
gation of thea law suppressins the HslhYe
trade, aud SO tl'eywilT import from Africa.
at tile cost foniy 92oaOhead, slaves
enough to I'LL up the iHteriorgeftheI oconi
tinenG, Thus relai iyely. 1incieasing lhe
number ol Slave 'Stales, they'wiH ailowino
amendments.tpt the Constitution prejudlcial
to their interests. and having, petrnanel'tly
established their power they will expect
the, Federal. Jadiciaryito 70 uulhfy all State
: laws which shall interfere With The intefpal
When the Free, S ,ates shall be- Tsuf I
tieie6 yldem or:,lized to- tolerate Nthnse de-
signs, they ma y ,reasoiably concfuded that
e Slavery viii he accepted by these States
$ themselves , Ifit we,ss spassiblestocenceIvt
tor mofnent that the Denit er;lliG paft!
should disobey the behests of the slave
fholde is, we should them seeNa withdraw
OF the South Nwho1 would leaye, the
pa, ty TO perish. The eporlion uf. the party
which is found 'in'tlie Free Statcs.s is !;
mere appcndage, convenient TO modify i'i
sectional character without mpairing i'll
, sectional constitution, aud is less etfectiv'
, in regulating its movements than the ne
: bulous Tail ot the comet is in determining
its appointed though aPparenay- eccentii,
$ course in, the tieiy, sphere from which
!. emqnales. sSenaldrjSJ finally. spoke bf th
y policy ofthe Republican, patty as contrast
:. ed with that OF the Democratic. and al
. luded 10 the recent successes of the for
e mer in Pennsylvania and the West II /
S concluding remarks weresas foll@ws; Eth
@ secret Of it's assumed success lies in tha
!, veiy cha racterislic which in he mouths
scotfers copStitutes q great and lasting i'm
becility and ieproach, It lies in the ta,;
% that il is party ofnone idea, but tllatije
!. is noble one-an idea that fills and ex
10 pandso all generous souls-the idea 4
equality-the equality Of all men befor
% human tribunals aud human law S Z rs the
Is are equal before the divine tribunal an
IS divine laws. know and you know Ihs
" a revolution has begun ! know and IA
= The world knows that revolutions never z
y backyard. - Twenty, Sendtors AMI a'hun
" dred Representatives proclaim boldly !,
IS Congress ,t'-day. sentim, nts whichsnot S
n many men even IN this free State datednt I
= utter in their own homes twenty years a.s'
!. while tile Gpyernmentr the United STATE
:" under the conductofthe Denlocratic part
So has been all That time. surrenderng OF
re plain and castle after. another 10 Shaver.
IN The people of the United States have bee
~ no less ste4dilya and aperssyefingly, gsaths
ing together the forces by .whielI to r.
10 e.,'yer back again all he1Gelds and AL II
y castlesrwhieh have been l,st, and 10 aa,i
i'd found and: overthrow byOne decisive bleS
The b.trayers of the Constitution and, a Z
g. Freedom, forever nip i,9f& al no boIoyiros 8
tii IL ~ 3 .sett