Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1859-11-14
spsssh 81 Hon. DanIel !, Ilickia.oIl!

Suing ~ 90 thrslii the 1Htefloff 20 speak
to you upon Jour municipal aGaifs, but L
avail myself Of the kind invitation extend
ID 10 me BIZ your President 70 dissousse.
for few minutes upon matters which
concern the positive well being of this
great State andz.ils people. and which
cencernthe relative eondiiionfof, theStste4
as member u this eonfSderacy I avail
myself Of the opportunity To- speak not
only 70 the great mass Of the people be-
fore me, but the greater mass throughout
theextendsd borders Of thu. Empire Stats
through your sprighlly. well conducted
and widely circulated public Press. T.
have seen some service. and that recently,
too, In tlse cause which now agitaies the
public mind, and you win be happy TO
learn, as democrats having the well being
Of your State and Of the whole country.
as wen as the democratic party, at heart,
that better feeling never existed than ex1
lists now throughout this State among d
united and determined democracy. fAp-l
planse. i have spoken 81 Albany, at
Caltaraugus At Chautaulue. at Buffalo,
at Lockport, al Syracuse, at Adams. at
Watertown, int 0gdensburg, and other
| places, and better feeiing E have never
seen, thought have beehsupoh the stamp
upon such occasions Tor thirty years
When you find the community excited.
agitated. in regard to not only All exciting
but an alarming condition Of the times
III this great commercial city, and YOU
may well have your attention awakened
10 political Affairs. There have bean, my
fellow citizens, and always must be i'd
political life, Us in every other condition
ofsociety, two princiflesthat oppose each
other. There is q right and a wrong, a
good and an evil. 4 truth and d falsehood.
Thus in political affairs there ara two
great forces that come upSin determined
antagonism. and can no more agree than
Hight and darkness. This ,antagonism il
more fully and completely exemplifed,
perhaps. in political affairs than ID any-
thing elsewhere. Political partnership III
this county commenced, as we all know,
with The democratic and the federal par
ties. and the democratic party Of to-day
Iis the democratic party Of all our past
histofy--,he democratic party Of the
times Oft homas Jefferson. III has never
changed its, principles or its nanle-has
never employed an alias. never put on a
disguise, never shirked q principle !; il
stands upon the same great principle Of
equity and equality, aud the constitution,
that il did when it was tirstgushered into
existence through the great apostle of de-
nlocracy. The other party, when il was
the federal party, with all its faults, with
all its heresies and false doctrines and
abominations. we might say we still fo44
spect. for twas at least national party,
extending throughout allsshe borders Of
the country. The best form It ever took
afterwards was that Of the old-whig par,
lty.1 But tie present republican party, let
me say here, is q regular offspring Of an
Gent federalism. Its course may be
traced like that Of a winding stream
sometimes open, sometimes hidden, some
times runningsto the North, sometimes to
/ The Sputh. to the East or 10 the West,
wherever its purposes could be subserv!
Led, and latterly more on an underground
railroad than Otherwise. fApplause and
Glaughter.) Sometimes it has trauersed
polsndus swannps. sometimes hidden in
| parehed aud arid sands ]. but. it has al
ways been the same stream, from Che
same pusrid lake, and vending its way to
the same ocean home Of dissolnIieR, des.
(ohion and destruction. The old WING
party, combating the democratic party
upon fnsncial issues, proved, with ali lis
errors, a foeman worthy OF the democrat.
1ic STEEL. Itbrought into the field great
and powerful altay--its Websters. Gays,
Claytons,t Dayises and Choats--a greal
salexyt Of talent, and although ID The
opinion Of the democracy and The whole
jpeople. as the event showed, ii naintained
4 aasond notions in regard To- internal i'm.
pEovenaents, a protective taEiff, q nationai
bank and The national treasury. Yes il
'ewaa a nation party railying Jafound the
fconstitutlon. twas too nationals, party
sItof serve tho purpose of the tmanagine
leaders who had taken possession Of Il
land hehcestheold7 whig ship was scuttled
her crew dismissed, and the republican
party ihauguraled. sailing under its blacI
and bloody leelors, and based upon sin,
glezilea, no higher orworthier 10 STATE
or national legislation than slavery. Tht
! party took to itself all the bad elements
Eof The wing party, disnissing the good
1galhering the debris, the desertion, The
sftreacharous material of the democratic
! party; gathering aff the ssisms and cites
! OF any names TO march ia q crusade, like
! the army Of Peter and Hermit. 70 'expel
4 the infidel stakeholder frora his holy land
/ oftfle republic. (Applanse- To Kan
4 sas, which was in no more dangersof be-
coming slaveholding than Of becoming
one vast rice field, it sent It's sanctiied
1 rifles for the purpose .of shooting the
gospel into, every creature daughter
/ and it chartered the Browns, the blues,
i the reds and the blacks. to go there and
enter into this .'irrepressible conflict =
The whole legislation Of the country was
brought 10 d stand, public attention was
[arrested. and whenever Kansas shrieked,
iTepublicanism lifted up It's responsive
voice. Kansas was the stock ir trade,
1.-THE floating capital for republicanisms %
trade upon; and by means Of that it took
possession of the. State Of New York and
lother democratic States, taking advantage