, 1859-11-04
Tom COrIyfzi ist New YOlk.

l&iuM kAt i. AFHaAEJ
Lamartine Hall was crowded last evening By
m assemblage of tue citizens Of the Twentieth
Ward. 4 speech was made by F.. Datatield
Smith, Esq., in the midst of which several
members Of the Association entered the Hall,
accompanied by the Hon. Tom. Corwin OF Ohio,
who was received with tremendous cheers. Mr..
Smith having concluded his speech,
Mr.. Corwin addressed the meeting. He said
they certainly would not expect III address,
especially lrotn nun who had not been untir.x-
se1 for .llirty-six houra. [Lnugllter.1 But he
confes, ed tu u feeling Of qualification ut mrctsny
his lcllnw.citizens here tonight. lie felt Us il
he we're stranger. and something like tho man
who tlati sliPpea into the wedding party, when
te had not been invited. (I.auglter.} Two or
three times he had thus intruaed himself, and
he alrays observed that the purity were unusu-
ally attentive in their Efforts and showed most
amiah1e disposition. Laughter. As citizen
Of tho United States he WINS just rs much ut
hnn.e us he was on Turtle Greek in Warren Go.
Ohio, where he hail resided for the past sixty
years. 1t had been unfortunately true that men
had begun to talk Of citizens Of the North, Of
The South, aud Of tue East, and of the West. Us
if in the political geography of the Republic
there could be any North, any South. East or
Nest tCrers. lie did not yet understand
this question Of the wrongs Of the North and
tl!C NJ VIZ IN VI t4E a@UukH- IL III ulI lit rtlQuiu
begin at home, and should speak If the pecca-
dillos Of the North, to use as mild II name us
possible laughter, and # the almost untor.iv.
able sins Of the South, laughter t-cunnn1ittc,l,
however, all tile time through joint agency Of
Il united South anti Il frasmcntary portion Of
tile North. lie ought to say that he lad some
right to ii cuss that question, for he had been
discussing it by night and by day, every day
Tor the last Two months-in fact, he had heard
and dreamed Of nothing else. lLaughtcr.} In.
deed it lid seem to him nt last that the ctet
end Of rnun WIS to discuss tile difference be-
tween 1 white n'an and n1gycr. iI4anghtrr.1
Just now class of ,nea-the ltcrnocsa,ic puriy
WHO had always btsr characterized by such
lender cunsclences. delicate sensibilit1es, and
great regard tpr ts"v hap;.<.ss Of mankind
tluughter,} were mourning tlnt TN i,l*urrecton
au been attempted hy II white men, ull Of
whom, il they were in the County Of Warren,
in the State Of Ohio, and on Turtle Creek
tiauglterJ he could convict them every one OF
insanity Laughter, md send them TO the Luna
tic Asylum ut Columbus. Yet these II white
isen a,i,! tive negroes l,aL thrown two powerful
STATES Of This Republic into >;tute nf co,.slef.
nation. which could mt bare Lee, srcatcr hal
the 4ov ,ho men Of the urnlies Of Italy landed
at Norfolk.
And nnw they we're attempting to make out
poor Brown the scai'c-:oat ct the Republican
purity. Of the North; and they tried to make it
out that some man Of that party had made u,
declaration that hnd so seized upoc the i1uacin.
alton Of Old Brown that he could not shake it
"1t-shHt there WAS ats ''irFepresxib!e contict" +"
between white mud negro labor. [Lnushter.3
That mah would neSer have been known in the
public records in this country, hail it not been
that few men in Washington, in 1854, repealed
tic Missouri Compromise Law, which produced
civil war. He did not know how it would fare
with us to have sons dying, with claukil,a
cllhins about their limbs, Or to hare our daug-
f.ry .r-
these things had produced insanity III Old
Brown. This was one Of the fruits OF Popular
Sovereignty lArplause-] kausas-the bog
kansas-was left to do ~ be pleased to take
his own WAY. Hence he was not put to school,
and being without the rale Of parental control.
he cut up capers. Laughter. For amusement
he took to cutting throats, aad for three vears
the military power Of these United States either
would or could not suppress the insur-ection in
that Territory. Utah, too, was instanced by the
speaker AS an instance Of the beauties Ut Fopu-
lar Sovereignty. lie reviewed the doctrine uf
ar. douglas. Going back to the formation Of
1he Constitution, no such idea was either ex-
Congresses had acted upon eidea Of the power
OF the Federal Government to control the Ter
rltories. 1t was reserved for q little gentleman
1t or st feet high to find out, eighty years after
ward, what the frnmers Of the Constitution
meant: They should be grateful to Divine
Atof4aence- t4.ausHteE.l It1 tHete Was some
thing melancholy in the thought that thirty mil
lions Of human beings should be subjected to
such ernpiric;sm in politics. But Popular Soye-
reigntv gaze birth 10 Old Brown: and though
be did not see it, Jet had his attempt sucecedc,l
in arm!u= the s]ares, it would hare been follow
ed by the butchesv of tile whites for time, but
finally when reaction came by the e1ternina-
ton ol the blacks. Bur Old Brown and bis fet-
lows will die from the yallnws, cloryiug in their
martyrdon,. 1t would be so will the men who
believed in Popular Soscrc,snty-shey would
die c!ingin; to their faith. (lau.Eter.! Mr.
to tile Importance Of the issues now pendin.'
and the necessity that existed for earnest work
in behalf Of principle They had heard the
soices Of PENNSYLVANIA t{cheersl, Ohio [cheessl,
Illinois [cheer*], Iowa lloud cheerx], Wisconsin
leheers}, and Minnesota loud cheers. Would
York not 10 join in thu chorus. Loud chcers.l