The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-23

brought into conflict, it could end only in
the determination of the latter after scenes
of woe for which language is too faint, and
for which the liveliest fancy has no ade-
quate images of horror.
CALEB CUSHING followed Mr.. EVERETT
He was received with deafening applause,
and proceeded to make most powerful
speech. We have room only for the fol-
lowing extracts:
Who denies that John Brown was guilty?
Who says he did not undertake invasion and
perpetrate it? Who says he did not medi-
itate treason and endeavor to perpetrate it.
Who says that he d d not slay unarmed and
inofensive men in the streets of Harper's
Ferry? No man denies this. ALI that is
said and done, in regard to that, is to as.
sumo that those acts of atrocious and fero-
cious felony-that these were not meritori-
GUS acts. l say, then, all honor to the
State OF Neutrality-suspicious. and cheers
for Virginia Il say all honor to the State
of Virginia, to her judicial authorities, and
to her executive authorities. All honor to
the State of Virginia that this traitor and
neutrality-suspicious. in the very act of
his treason aid murder applause that
this traitor and murderer was duly, fully,
lawfully tried and convicted according to
the law of the land-not alone in the State
of Virginia, but of every one of the States
of the Union. Applause.
But, then, gentlemen, in these most extra
ordinary manifestations which have occurred
in the State Of Massachusetts, and elsewhere
prayer meetings, public assemblies of
rejoicing and of pretended subscription
Applause and laughter in all this it is
said that there is extenuation, if there is no
other suggestion applicable to the case, that
should cnange our impression of the charac-
ter and acts of Brown. Extenuation! In
the first place, gentlemen, what extenuation?
We have been told that John Brown was
maddened to perform these acts by the sense
of wrong committed on. him, in the violent
death of one of his sons in Kansas, and that
that is to extenuate his acts. Is it so?
| Fellow citizens, we live here in populous
community, with all the securities of life
and peace around US, under the shelter not
only of the laws, but of our relations as
fellow citizens. But 60 with me to one of
those fertile prairies oil the West-go with
me to the frontier cabin of the pioneer set
tiers of the far West, we are in the dead Of
night. In the dead of the night, the hus-
band reposing in the beloved arms of his
wife, with their dear children around them,
in the fancied repose of their common secu-
rity under the laws of their country, they
are aroused from their slumbers by the
treacherous approach of armed murderers.
The husband-the husbands are torn
from the arms Of their wives they are ruth
lessly slaughtered in cold blood--nay, their
youthful children are Drained before their
eyes and methinks l can hear now the
wailing cry of that poor woman Mahala
Doyle, and of that unhappy Louisa Wiki
iDson that wailing cry which must smite
upon the ears and heart of each one of US,
as they cling to the limbs of the murderer,
and pray for the children of their husbands
and their children. But they appeal to a
merciless heart, they speak to a merciless ear
for they speak to John Brown. Applause
and Kisses. Aye, to John Brown. A
voice" That's lie." Cries of Put him
out" and applause and Kisses. say, and
deny it who will, and who dare, applause,
and cries, "Good,"" Good;"] whoever de-
MES it, say, that man was John Brown.
Applause and Kisses. That he was there
his sword dripping with the gore of these
slaughtered, inoffensive, peaceful, slumbering
men and children-his sword dripping with
their gore, and that sword from the State of
Massachusetts. Applause.] I say this
is true it is true, by incontrovertible evi.
dence that evidence exists on record in the
report of the committee of the House of
Representatives to examine into the disor.
ders in Kansas, and say that murderous
act of John Brown was the commencement
of bloodshed in Kansas. And by the lurid
light of those blazing houses, and by the
demoniac cruelty of that man on that occa-
sion, by all that we have the key to events
which otherwise might have been a mys-
terry.
That was the commencement of bloodshed
in these United States, and it was in that
same spirit that John Brown, with an in
sane ferocity of cruelty, proposed to ravage
the peaceable inhabitants of the State of
Virginia, and millions upon millions of
white men, aye, and of white women, too,
to servile instruction and civil war, and to
outrages indescribable, impossible to ina
gine-worse even than million of deaths
SO much for that pretence of extenuation.