Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-11-10
Stirring Speech of Senator VIII.
sen, Of Mass, on the Topics OF
the Times.

the Times. :
The Hon. Henry Y. Wilson addressed
large and enthusiastic meeting in Brook
lyn, N. Y, Wednesday evening. He wa
introduced amid loud applause, and walk
ed right into the Slave Democracy like ,
man with his coat off and sleeves rolleC
up:
| He said that they were now TO exercise
their dearest rights and to decide the poll
cy of New York upon one of the creates
questions of the age. Our territory wa
divided into Free and Slave States. Ii
the seventeen Free States We had seven
teen millions of men engaged in every
branch of industry, and the condition o
society is such rs could be found anywhere
on earth. Nowhere was labor so dignified
We were solving the problem of free Ia
Dor. In the fifteen Slave States were foul
or five millions of people, with four hun
dred and fifty thousand slave owners, and
four millions of slaves. The Slave Power
had taken possession of the Government:
of the Southern States. The President
like his predecessor, was the abject Slave
of the Slave Power. The Senate, too
was within its grasp, and the Supreme
Court, founded by Jay, had been forced to
decree that four millions of men had nc
rights which white men were bound to re-
spect. II had taken possession too, of the
Democratic party of the United States. 1,
| owned it more than it owned its slaves
Toombs, Hunter, Stephens, and others who
led public opinion in the South, owned the
J64Fh Cochranes and others who spoke for
the Democratic party here. What was
demanded by the South Of them, they
quietly acceded to. This degradation was
becoming deeper every day, and the Dem
ocratic party was whipped out in the North.
As the Democratic banner went down in
the Free States, it went up in the South.
Recently Jno. Cochrane who in lS4S had
the virtue of rebellion, but who now was a
plant tool of the slave power, had labored
in speech to show that the Harper's Fer
ry movement was part of the Republican
programme No man knew the falseness
of this assertion better than John Coclirane
himself nephew of Gerrt Smith
Applause. The Republican party was
made up Of the best men of the country.
and it had never had its peer in this coun-
try. Applause. Of its one and a half
millions Of voters, five hundred thousand
were Democrats originally, and they formed
the picked men of the old Democratic par
ty. Yet John Cochrane said that the Re-
publican party was party to aid in insur-
rection. Laughter. In '4s Cochrane ut
tered the sentiments of the Republican
party now-and went in strongly for the
"irrepressible conflict" He said at Cleve
land that ''they should surround Slavery
with the atmosphere of freedom, and the
Slave power must breath it or die" Ap-
plause. The speaker then alluded briefly
to the successive steps which had brought
the Democrat party TO its present abject po-
sition, each of which the New York Dem
ocrats bad aided and abetted. Yet John
Cochrane attempted to arraign to idea of
''irrepressible conflict"-which, as anybody
understood, meant the enternal opposition
between right and wrong, on every day,
age and nation. The same changes had
been been on Mr.. Stewards remarks about
the "higher law" and despite that, men
now believed that God reigned, not men.
Yet because of the assertion of the "irre-
pressible conflict" the attempt was being
made 10 fix upon the Republican party the
responsibility of the filibustering raid of
Old Johu Brown against Virginia-for it
was not an insurrection, but filibustering
expedition. The principles of the Repub-
lican party were at variance with any such
effort. They had asserted time and again,
that they had no right and did not purpose
to touch slavery in any State where it ex-
listed, but to stop its extension over terrific
ry now free. And any violent act Of anti
slavery men against slavery only enured to
the benefit of the slave power, as the vio-
lent acts cf Shareholders against freedom
only enured to the benefit of frecdom.-
[Applause.] Had Missourians never at
tempted to carry slavery into Kansas, John
Brown would never have attempted to
arouse an insurrection of slaves in Virginia.
and the latter was the legitimate fruit of
the former. When Nicaragua filibusters
were arrested by Com. Paulding, he was
condemned and censured by the Democra-
cy. So, too, of the accusation of the De-
mocracy that the Republican party desire
the dissolution of the Union. No Repub-
lican statesman had ever uttered such
sentiment; yet John Cochrane affiliated
politically with Toombs, and Slidell, and
Mason of Virginia, and Preston S. Brooks,
and Keitt, and Secretary Floyd, who were
disunionists, and avowedly so. And Gov.
Wise said in 1856 that if Fremont was
elected he would go for dissolution. He
even said that Virginia chvalry, (the Har-
per's Ferry chivalry, probably daughter
"would hew their way through all oppos-
ing legions." Renewed laughter. He
had even gone to Raleigh, to a meeting of
Southern Governors, where plan was de-
vised to dissolve the Union if Fremont was
elected. The Republican party intended
to elect President as soon as they could
they said this to Southern traitors, that
in that event the end of their expedition to
overthrow the Government would be more
ignominious than the end of the expedition
Of Old Brown. Applause.] The slave
holding policy had sacrificed the interests
of this continent. We might have $780,
900, 900 of commerce with the people south
of us, if we had preserved the love of the