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

my party, be il small or large, in or ont of
the State, concentrating yonr minds upon
general principles. But the times have
come to be such that you must allow
us TO go a little into personal explanations,
and if should seem to be little egotis-
tical on THU occasion, you must allow IT, be-
cause ! can appeal to the great mass of the
people that am not in the habit of in
dulging in that weakness.
pIsTuRBER or THE PEACE.
Well, then, Cass. Clay is disturber of
the peace, agitating the subject of Slavery
in Slave State disturbing old insIitu-
tions interfering with the properly Of the
country violator of law and order
Well, now, just let US look into that. Wien
the standard of moral invasion is raised,
the authorities of our common country call
upon us to rally TO its defense, and we fall
into line and 90 into the field OF battle, and
if through an ignominous fear, we desert
| that standard or betray our country, every
where without distinction of party, men,
women or children, that man is denounced
as traitor to his country; is he not ? Then
J iCit Hlts ihCu VI SONHiH'On anu loiis
| if such there be here tonight, if you de-
nounce one for falling from the banner of
his country, where duty and that eternal
allegiance which man owes to the place
of his nativity call him, how much more
shall he be infamous in the eyes of men
when greater danger is threatened (;
when the liberty of a country more dear to
him than all property, is in peril, and a
man meanly shirks from the post of dam
ger An enemy may lay waste your fields,
may burn your houses, sack your cities,
destroy your property; but when peace is
restored, and the prudent hands of indus
try and economy may soon restore you to
your pristine condition your fields may
be planted anew under the smiles of Prov
idence they will again be filled with grain
your houses will be rebuilt and your cof-
fers will be replenished. But when the
liberty of people is gone when the fee
dom of speech and of the press is stricken
down and silenced, who shall restore them
to you.
osAwAToMIE BROWN.
Well, now, / come to the answering o
the "Osawatomie Brown" affair. | am
going 10 speak plainly and above -boart
and without reserve. In my humble jjudg
mcnt it has no connection whatever will
party associations in these United States
as such. say it here now, as will say j
on all occasions, that it is nothing else but
sequence, and fruit foreseen by all sensible
men. of that invasion of Kansas by the
Southern Pro-Slavery party, united t.
their Northern allies. If you don't lik'
that, you must come home TO your bosom
and ask there whether it be true. 1t is
realization of the Scripture truth, that the,
who sow the wind shall reap the whirl
wind" 1t is that and it is nothing else
Our fathers knew and felt all the excitin
acaompaniments that have followed in tn
wrke of this institution of Slavery. The
foresaw that it would depopulate Kentucky J
and the great States of the West and South
q West, as it has depopulaed Virginia, an
r as it has partly depopulated kentucky, an
! they reserved in the Far West in the the
uninhabited territory, as a home for tn
: free white laborer and his children, as the
supposed, forever. against the strong CON
I petition of unpaid labor; where, unde
their own vine and fg tree, they may sit
and none may make them afraid and the
7 passed, as told you on former occasion
: this Missouri Compromise, that north {
: that line of SO deg. 80 minutes, includin
! the Territory Of Kansas, the scene of til
feud. the scene of all our woe should b
q consecrated to freemen, and that no slav
: should pass that line. Who violated ths
!, contract? j care not whether it was %
! m North or South, but il was really got u
: South. 1t was consummated by the Mort
, and South it was consummaed by til
. almost unanimous spirit ard conscience {
Il all the Democratic people of the Norther
!. and Southern States. Who violated il
Who opened up, again, this source OF strit
>, TO leave the question TO be determined ;
i it was, by the rifle the sword, and bloo'
h she'd? The Democratic party did it. The
n are the men who did it. Stephen A. DouI
= las is the author Of that bill, a leadir
~ Democrat, so claimed, North and Sout
10 Did not tell you as / went through he
=, before. there was honey-fugling goiu
a. on as to whether it should be Douglas
~ Buchanan? Don't you see the lealil
- papers coming out and taking one side
. the other; some for Douglas and some {
Z buchanan! 1tOuglaS WIS thc Wdh ~
, did it. He is strong candidate for {
ii Charleston nomination. The Dcmocra
SO then are responsible-not we. If bloc
nd shed was the fruit in Kansas of the
i tempt of the Democratic Administrative
IN contrary TO their pledges in the Cincinn
70 Platform, that they would allow the peor
-. OF the Territories to determine upon ih'
:, own institutions for themselves; j say
"a the Democratic party did, by Democra
. President. violate their pledges, and t
ueople were denied the privilege OF II
speech and free access to the ballot, drl
in Ing old Brown from his settlement. taxi
re- poss, ssion of his plantation, numbering
nd sons, and making his daughter mad, who
rn 10 blame for the institution of these u
ut steps of bloodshed and violence? 1t
lat right YOU should hear little wholrso
'us truth in Keutucky-you vino are not
ut the habit of hearing it. | say it Is no
20 ing but personal f-ud-a en'ril'a WI
he farc commenced in Kansas by the Den
he cratic party, and carried on by Brown
on the principle that wherever he toun'