The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-09-23
VOLUME 1, NO II.

has given to the North her strength in the
contederacy. How came the North by
this excess Of the increase? At the outset
we were equal-thcn we were all slave
States. Now what led to the abolishment
of slavery in the North, and thus give US
the basis of our present strength! | will
tell you my friends, and you all know it to
be so. The Democratic party, under JEFF
terson, inaugurated the wise and benef1cient
policy of inviting the laborer of the old
world to plant himself down upon the
great and fertile plains of our country.
Under this policy the emigrants from Eu-
aope fiocked to the Northern States, be-
cause they found in it their soil and eli
mate, and in their institutions, more con
| genial home. SO you see my friends, that
it has been under policy inaugurated by
Southern statesmen-a policy which found
its most bitter opponents at the North
that our section has become all powerful
in the government. We now have a ma
jority III the Senate, in tie House of Re-
presentatlves and in the Electora. College;
but the census of 1860 will show that two
thirds of the members of the House of
Representatives, and an overwhelming
majority in the Senate, represent free
States. Is this time, and are these the
circumstances, under which an s'impressible
conflict" shall be waged against the people
and institutions of the weaker section?
When the South was strong, and we were
weak, they furnished us no precedent for
the course of action we now propose to
\
being the truths which history teaches, and
standing here as | do, at the very head
waters of the mighty Mississippi, whose
arms lock our country together, teaching
US a perpetual lesson Of fraternal love and
union. | beg of you to pause before you
enter upon a sectional warfare, which will
rive asunder those whom God has Joined
together (Cheers.) Before you do this,
look at history and see if the South has
ever hesltatel to uphold single measure
which was calculated to advance the whole
country, although in so doing, they have
bull: up the North instead of the South.
There is an instructive difference between
the two parties. The Democratic party is
a let alone party-the Republican party is
meddttug party. (Deafening Cheers
1t is great deal easier to denounce other
people for their sins, than to reform our
selves-it is a great deal easier to obtain
political power by int1aming the passions
and preiudices of our neighbors, by de
nouncing men thousands of miles away,
than it is to gain influence by governing
our walk in life by the principles of justice
or the dictates of sound patriotism
(Cheers.)
Is is not true that the reverse of this
has been hurtful to the morals of our peo-
p!e-and hurtful to the pulpit, of which
speak with all reverence, and 20 the holy
doctrines which should issue from the sa-
cred desk! (Cheers.) Is it not too true,
my Republican friends, that a Rife for
Kansas, or Curse for the South has
weighed more in the political scale than
private virtues or public service. (Tremen-
dous Cheers.)
Whence comes slavery? We have now
seen who prolonged it. Now, my friends,
do you ever stop to inquire who upholds
it! 1t is sustained by the firm of "UIeav
r, Wearer & Planter, and two of the
partners live up North. CHEERS and laugh
ter.) Every one knows that but for the
looms of New Eng land and old England, it
could not live day. The loudest denun-
Citations agains. slavery are made by men
with cotton shirts on their backs. The
most fervent pulpit exhortations against
slavery, come from men who wrap them
selves for repose at night, in cotton sheets,
who lay their heads upon cotton pillows,
and go to sleep thanking God that they
are better than the men ''down South"
(Laughter)
was called upon some years ago,while
Governor of New York, by deputation
of Quakers from Great Britain, to lay be
fore me "testimony" against slavery AS
they wished, listened to them. We af-
forwards fell into a conversation and the
question arose why the people of Europe
were SO oppressed, and burdened SO heavily
by taxation. We attributed it to the diff
ferences in their language-to the great
number of nationalittes, divided by ilnagi-
nary lines-the petty jealousies and strifes,
and consequent necessity for maintaining
large standing armies. We then spoke of
the bIe$t condition of Europe, if all these
rival governments could be moulded into
one, speaking common language, having
common sympatbies, with no custom houses
to annoy, and no standing armies to threat
en-; and my Quaker friends warmed with
enthusiasm at the glorious picture, and ex-
pressed the earnest wish that such a day
might dawn, for with it would come the
true millennium. but" said |, "when all
this had been achieved, supposing some
man should rise up in England, and say all
this geniaIfeIlowship amongtl,c nations, this
community Of interest and Of language
shall he destroyed, unless serfdom be abro
gated in Russia, and poIygamy in Turkey.
What would you say regarding such a
man. Say" said the Quakers. 1--WE
would say as he deserved the anathemas
of all good men, as a traitor to the best in
terests Of mankind, for doubling that God,
in His own way and in His own good
time, would work out remedy for all these
wrongs" Now" said |, ''my friends,
when we drew this picture of Europe, it
was not all fancy | described the broad
land which extends from the Atlantic to
the Pacfic-from the great Lakes to the
Gulf Of Mexico. Go two thousand miles
over this land, and no custom house shall
stop you-travel to it's farthest limits, and
YOU shall see no standing armies-you