Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-29
Stirring Speech Of senator Wilset,of MasH''
ON the Topics Of the Times


The Hon. Henry WttsoN addressed large
aud enthusiastic meeti g in Brooklyn, N. y.
Wednesday evening lie was Introduced amid
loud apr ausc, ard walked right into the Slave
Democracy like a man with his coat of and
sleeves rolled up:
lie said that they were now to exercise
their dearest rights and to decide the policy Of
New York upon ore Of the greatest questions
Of the age Our territory was divided into
Free and Slaves st tcs. In the seventeen Free
States VIC had seventeen millions of men en-
geged in every branch OF industry, and th' con-
diuon Of society is such as could bo found any.
where on earth. Nowhere was labor so digni
fed We were solving the great problem of
free labor In the ff cen Save States were
lotr OF 1--WE millions Of people with four hum
Dir, d aud fifty thousand slave owners, and four
millions Of slaves The Slave Power had Ia
ken possession ofthe Governments otthe South
cin States. Tue President, ike bis predeces-
cor was the Gliect Slave of the Slave Power.
The Senate, too, was in its grasp, and the Su.
pfeme Court, founded by jay, bad been forced
to decree that four millions Of men had no
rights which white men were bound to respect
Il had taken possession, too, of the Democratic
party of the United states 1t owned it more
than it owned its slaves. Toombs, Hunter,
Stephens, and the others who led public opin-
ion in the South owned the John CochranCs and
others who spoke for the Democrats party
here What was demanded by the South of
them, they quietly sccoded to. This degrada-
ton was becoming deeper every day, and the
Democratic party was whipped out IN the
North AS the Democratic banner went down
in the Free States, il went up in tho South
D. N1vr To-, Ia, in had hn
virtue Of rebellion, but who now was a plant
tool Of the slave power, had labor d in speech
to show that the Harper's Ferry movement was
part of the Republican programme. No man
knew the falseness of this assertion better than
John COchrant-him self nephew of GeTrit
Smith. [Appsuse The Republican party
was made up of the best men Of the country,
and it hsd never, hadl its peer in this coun-
try. Applause I OF its one and balf mil
lions Of voters, five hundred thousand were
Democrats originally, and they formed the
picked men Of the old Democratic party.
Yet John Cochrane said that the Republican
party was party to aid in insurrection. Laugh
ter. In '49 Cochrane uttered the sentiments Of
the Republican party now-and went in
strongly for the 'irrepressible conflict" He
said ut Cleveland that "they should surround
Slavery with the atmosphere of freedom, and
plause The speaker then alluded briefly to
the successive steps which had brought the
Democratic party to its present abject position,
each Of which the New York Democrats had
aided and abetted. Yet John Cochrsne attempt
cd to arraign the idea of 'irrepressible conflict"
which as anybody understood, meant the
eternal opposition between right and wrong,
on every day, age and nation. The same
changes had been rung on Mr.. Seward remarks
about the "higher law" and despite that, men
now believed that God roigned, not man. Yet
because of the assertion Of the "irrepressb!e
conflict" the attempt was being made to fix
upon the Republican party the re possibility of
the illibustering raid Of Old John Brown
against Vrginia--for it was not an insurTec-
ton, but fillibustering expedition. The prin-
ciplcs Of the Republican party were at variance
with any such effort They had asserted, time
aud again. that they had no right and did not
purpose to touch Slavery in any State where
it existed, but to stop its extension over terri
tory now free. Aud any violent act of anti slav-
cry men aginst slavery only enured to the beue.
fit of the slave power the violent acts ofslave.
holders against freedom only enured to the
benefit Of freedom. [Applause Had Mis-,
sOuriaDs never attempted to carry Slavery into
Kansas, john Brown would never have attempt
ed to arouse an insurrection of slaves in Virpiu-
ia, and the latter was the legitimate fruit of the
former When Nicaragua tillibusters were ar
rested by Com. Pauldng, he was condemned
and censured by the Democracy. So, too, of the
| accusation of the Democracy that the Republi-
can party desire the dissolution of the Union.
| No Republican statesman had ever uttered such
a sentiment; yet John Cochrane affiliated po-
litically with Toombs, and Slidell and Mason OF
| Virginia, and Preston s Brooks, and Keitt, and
| ,yfA hn Il 1
avowedly SO. And Gov Wise said in 1856 that
If Fremont was elected he should 90 for dis.
solution He even said that Virginia chivalry
(the Harper Ferry chivalry, probably laugh.
t9r] ''would hew their way through all oppos-
ing legions." Renewed laughter He had
even gone to Raleigh, to n meeting of Southern
| Governors, where plan was devised to dsso v c
the Union if Fremont was elected. The Re.
publican party intended TO elect 4 President as
soon as they could-they said this to Southern
traitors, that in that event the end of their ex-
pedtion TO overthrow the Government would
be more ignOminiOus than the end of the expe.
dilion Of old Brown. [Applause ] The slave
holding policy had sacrificed the interests Of this
continent. We might have $500, 900, 600 ofcom-
merce with the people south ofus, if we had pre-
served the love Of the people there for US. They
had lost their love for because of our fllibus-
Monroe doctrine, England with her ships was get
tinE the commerce of that country. With an
Administration opposed TO flllbusering we
would regain the confidence of the people, and
our cammerce reach two hundred million of
dollars. Had Mr.. McLane's mission to Mexi.
co been TO get commercial treaty, he could
have got it. But he wanted not that, but ter
ritory for the slave power They intended to
elect man to the Presidency who was commit.
ted TO the doctrine of non extension of Slavery
It might be William Ii Seward, applause,
Salmon p, Chase, (applause,) N. p Banks, Zap.
plause,) Judge Read, of Pennsylvania, or w.
p. Fessenden of Maine, (applause,) or old Ben
Wade of Ohio, (applause) e)-whoever seemed to
be the strongest man, and who would dash
down the Pro Slavery Democracy. To the
workingmen he appealed, to put New York
where she stood in ls56-committed to tue
interests of free labor. This was the spirit of
the age But when Alexander of Russia de
vsed the plan for the emancipation of the serfs,
did the Democratic party say word in com
mendatiOn of the actl ltwas their duty then to
overthrow party which ruled one half of the
country and held the other to perpetuatc wrong