New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-22
mas. Of the people that am not in The habit Of ndss
ing in that weakness

nov inst let ps look into tnAt. Nneh '"o Va
foreiyn invasion ia raised the authorities Of our COM
o country call upou W 20 rally 10 It's defense and
~ fall into line and 20 into the field OF battle, and If,
through an ignomnious fear We desert that standard
or betray our country, everywhere without dsuhenoT
of uarty men, women, and Children tnAl man ue-
nouuced az a traitor 70 his country ~ he not Then
tel me- men of CovingtOn and Newport, ssch there
be here tonight If you denounce one LOT i4iing from
the banner OF bis country, where dnty ana nat eternal
allegiance which man owest0 the place OF hs nativity
call him, how much more shall be be infamous IN the
ewes of men when a greater danger II threatened;
when the liberty Of a country more dear than al
property is in peril, and man meanly shlFks from
the post Of danger An enemy may lay waste your
felds; NAV burn your houses, sack your cities,
destroy your property; but when peace Is re
stored, and the prudent hands of industry and
economy NAV soon restore You 10 your pristine
condition; your fields may be planted anew; under
the smiles Of Providence they will again be billed
with grain; your houses will be REBUILT and your
Golfers will be replenished. But when the liberty
of the press is stricken down and silenced, who shall
restore them TO you!
OsAWATOMIE BROWN.
Well, now, come 10 the answering of this Osa-
watOme Brown " affair. j am going TO speak plainly
and abovebOard, and without reserve. In my humble
Judgment il has no connection whatever with party as
socations in these United States such. say here
now as will say all occasions that - nothing
else but sequence and fruit foreseen by all sensible
men, of that invasion of Kansas by the Southern Pro-
don't like that you must come home 10 your bosoms
and ask there whether il be true. II is realization OF
the Scripture TRUTH that they who " SOW the WIND
shall reap the whrwind. IL ls that and il Is MOTH
ing else. Our fathers knew and felt all the exciting
Accomplishments that have followed in the wake of
this institution of Slavery. They foresaw that II
would depOpulae Kentucky, and the great States OF
the West and Southwest as IL has depOpulated VIZ
gna and as has partly depopulated Kentucky, and
they reserved in the Far West in the then unnhablted
territory, a home for the free white aborer and
his children as they supposed forever, against Ihe
strong competition of unpaid labor; where, under
their own vine and fig tree, they may sit, and none
may make them afraid; and they passed, az told
YOU on former occasion, this Missouri Compr0-
mise, that north of that line of 30 80, ncud-
ing the Territory of Kansas, the scene OF the
fend the scene of all should be consecrated 10
freemen and that slave should pass that line. VINO
violated that contract care not whether IT was got
up North or South but it really got up South IL
was consummated by the North and South; it was
contaminated by the almost unanimous spirit and con-
science of all the Democratic people OF the Northern
and Southern States. Who violated II VINO opened
up again. this of STRIFE 10 leave the question 10
be determined as it was by the rife, the sword, and
bloodsLedl The Democratic party did II. They are
the men who did il. Stephen A. Douglas Is the author
of that BILL leading Democrat, so claimed North ana
South. Did not tell you, as / went through mere
before there was % honey-fudng" going ON AZ to
whether il should be Douglas or Buchanan Doht
yon the leading papers coming out and taxing one
side or the other; for Douglas, and some LOT
strong candidate for the Charleston nomination Inc
Democracy then, are responsibe-not we. They are
the agitatOrs, and not If bloOdshed was the run
Kansas OF the attempt OF the Democrluc Admins
traton contrary TO their pledges in the Cincinnati
Platform, that they would allow the people OF the
Territories determine upon their own institutions Tor
themselves; ] say if the Democratic party did, by
Democratic President, violate their pledges, ana the
people were denied the privilege Of free speech and
free access the ballot driving Old Brown from ms
settlement taking possession Of his plantation murder
ing his sons and making his daughter mad, who is 10
blame for the institution of these late steps oil blood
she'd and violence IL il right you should hear little
wholesome truth in Kentuckyyou who arc not IN me
habit of hearing it. Say Is nothing but personal
feud-a guerilla warfare, commenced IN Kansas by the
Democratic party and carried on by Brown, upon the
nrinciple that wherever he found sEvehOlder ne
should make upon him. All this assinllng OF ieau
ing men in the country in this connecuon-an 'his-i
had almost said infamOusattempt TO connect leading
men with it, base for all the baseness OF the
Democratic party. 80 far as j am concerned III any
way, in being connected with bin, | say to you, my
friends, that spurn the CHARGE won't degn 10 re-
ply to it, -
Gentlemen, | will say further that tins was leariul
thing For men banded together with the weapons Oh
oense OF destruction, OF murder and ASSASSINATION, 10
advance within the bounds OF peaceful State, Jeop,
ardzing the lives not only of men, but OF women ana
children, disturbing their quietness, winch IN CIVIL
lied life We boast above the savage IN the swamp was
n fearful crime, and most fearfully, no DOUBT VIII lhe
shades are am not disposed TO draw the pencil OF
light across the dark picture; but mark me now,
what do say, and that which come here to-night
especially TO say, that as much as | condemn thoS9
men even so much do L condemn those who would
attempt TO take away from the freedom OF speech
and the liberty of the press. Applause. why, gen.
tlemen, that hole project fell thrOugh why, men OF
Covington, did il fall through IL fell through pc
cause among the race of hereditary bondsmen, de-
graded by long generations of slavery, the manhood
was wanting, when the occasion presented Hseh
10 avail themselves Of the liberty offered.
To me- it is a melancholy picture TO men in the
form and nature of men, with all the spirit and soul
of manhood gone. The slaves of Virginia could not
avail themselves q the opportunity IN consequence oil
tbis
God Almighty has determined. when we shall so for
get him IA to cast eyes down in the debasng sub
seIviency OF the slave, that long generations only
shall apIease his anger for the crimes We have COM
mit,ed. Therefore II is that stand before yon ana
proclaim TO you that greater crime is that which the
man attempts 10 perIetTate against when he woud
attempt sthe The voice Of the press and crush OUT
my freedom of speech. Applause. How can YOU
get it back when il has gone l. not your org,
mai act a seal which Is placed upon you for untold
generations!
EFFECT OF SLAVERY on WHITE MEN.
Gentlemen, there - another attitud, IN which that
affair presents itself my mind and that is the melan
choly spectacle the people present. When Gov WISE
arrived at the seat OF THIS affair, and SAW that oul hVe
or eight were all that had taken possession OF city OK
9Ot6 inhabitants the United States Arsenal and hai
imprisoned from 80 100 of the principal citizens OF
Old Virginia, spreading terror and intimidation through
Virginia and Mary land reaching the very conhbes ~
their popuCus cities, the people standing parItlleu'
until little crowd of United States Marines came into
the action and sormed the place, he IN great ndna-
ton exclaimed, had rather both arms aud both legs
" should be severed rem my body than this disgrace
Z" had come upon Old Virginia There is the rub.
There is the moral OF the whole tale told at Viz
GINA does not lack courage. There did not fail TO be
a gallant spirit IN town. The blood Of h16 had not
nm ont -, Ifruiuia Che IL No