Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-12-02


Wen. then, / say. il tho sl.stbiiisys
were, by any f.naticisin or false iieds ~
pf5-peritt, iiiluccl TO 90 ipfr such scheii'e
rs that. Whit has Kentucky ~ gain by II
Therp Is not q slavehdlicr ih The ConimoH;
wealth. foolish fools as strfie 6f them arei
that believes he rtinld hold a single slave III
Til, State. A civil war nist mus, be main.
tanned in Slave Sia'e, ahd The Border
States mt,.t be tie seanc Of war ut that:
and when there Is battlefield. the cavalry
are tied in the streets Of Ccvington, your
fine houtss are destroyed, your properly il
wasted, and rs your slavcs they are s'i
Gonc. OF ttjutsc they must be given u;t
yonr property runs down, your mules are
taken. and your horses killed, and though
YOU should be successful, sot woqld be well
known dis the Flanders OF America;
Why are we, then, to join in such pro,
cceding MS that I? Why, there l. net sr ne
plan anv possibility OF contingency by which
Kentucky would or conld be benefited "
the disunion. when all their privileges. props
eriy. and liberty, now preserved un Ter THE
glorious Union, would be given upi lost, ans
destroyed forever,
Men of Kentucky, there Is NO resiirrce'
ton among nations. II any one truth mas
been determined by history, Il Is this--that
there is period df yBu,h, gf adoiezeertti
of manhood, If decay, and OF death among
nations. When that death comes, the ~
ton ia never again to be resurrccted. lhss
is developed in history, traslns the career
Of nations from the remotest antiquity
STATE riGttrs;
Well, gentlemen, what do we ask you ID
do? As Republican party, we do not
ask you 10 become emancipationists-
Everybody knows here, that am an cman..s
eipationist. You may call it abol;si6nlst 4
YOU please you all know, however, that
am opposed to Slavery. and in favor OF
Freedom that am in favor of defending
the rights Of the White man, and not %
Slave labor and the black man exclusively.
Is that abolitionism IL so, ] am one. I
believe that justice is the foundation Of al
prosperity in man, and that all ffieh are en-
titled TO freedom in the pursuit of life, lib.
erty. and happiness. Yet have been and
am willing all the time as have procla'ff-
ed here and elsewhere, 10 leave the quesss
ton TO be determined by the majority OF
the pcople in the States themselves: That
il my doctrine. If you like The term of
aholitonism as one to apply to il, care
not. so long as you understand the nature
of the thing. As Republicans, we do not
oomc to YOU as TO battle. We say that the
National Government il supreme in its
sphere. and we are States Rights meft, laws
abiding men. as we have said in our resofus
tions this lav. 1t may be that you will sed
| those resolutions. for it may be that scfife
of our Democratic friends will have ths
magnanim;ty to publish them, It they has6
Democrats paper near them, but such
things are very scarce in Democratic CONF
muni les.
We say that the National Government
has no right to say to South Carolina Of
] Kentucky. You shall have slaves, or you
shall be free but we say to them, If yoi
love liberty. the freedom of the press and
of speech, the development Of the resources
of your country; If you desire to see nfan-
ufactures built up. and love to see the pros
perity of the white race instead Of build~
| ing up degenerated mulatto race, as is 60
ing on in the Slave States, do so; but We
do say. that under the constitution OF the
United States, established by our fathers
for the promotion Of the happiness Of them-
selves and their prosterity. we will maintain
the territory Of this Union. now acquired
and forever hereafter to be acquired. fee
from this weak institution that has brought
MARYLAND and Virginia to shame and to the
blush before the world; that we will not
allow any territory, whore we may have
the power to possess Slavery. as is our
sworn duty. If you choose TO call that nigs
gersm, am for nigeerism.
am told Mr.. Hogan wishes 10 reply to
me after get through. Most certainly,
Mr.. Hogan.
Mr.. IIosan-It is all mistake.
Mr.. Clay--I beg the gcntleman's pardoi,
was Just now told that it wss ~,
If any Of our friends on the left choose
to come up into old Madison and establish
a paper there advocating that this country
shall be taken from the white n,an. will
say, let him; let him publish anything, and
we viii pledge ourselves up there never ia
get up a panic, we won't mob any women
or children. l suppose you have not nlgs
ger within ten miles of you. unless he -
running away from ''the land Of liberty to
tie sland of despoiism. where he has 10
work for his living" promise that we
shall make no attack upon women and chiI,
dren.
THE s'PECUIIAR INsTlTCTlON
have spoken of the National Repub.
lican party. Look at what have said. id
rational view. In the first place. is il not
right. according TO the Democratic tule
Their ideas, they say, is the good Of the
greatest number. If it turns out, tfteff.
that the white people are the majority. their
interests ought to be subserved. That Il
the doctrine they preach. bot not the ono
they practice. All along here in the Slate
States they say our institutions are pccu.
liar. II Siasery, aud freedom of he press
! and of speech, cannot exist together. it i
!, indeed a peculiar institution-de,fliSh t...
liar. 1t is an institaiion, moreover, ihs
e yon can't talk about without ang, TO some
; body. Well. we say we don't want anj
more tf 50 very peculiar an iH-si'ufiJn.
: A Voicc-Sci yonr niggrrs free.
D Mr.. Clay--Thcy are, and now | want I.