Litchfield enquirer., 1859-09-29
ty millions for Cuba and think nothing of it

munication between the East and West, and you will not find one vote in ten from all the slave States in favor of that road
 1 Gentlemen of California, you may vote and labor for the South you may pettifog you may be as Southern as your State has been and as blind tool of the Slave power as she can be, and for all that you will never get 8 one quarter vote for the Pacific Railroad - Never once, because it is contrary to the gen. l jus of the slave states to employ the public means to build such work They are ever ready to employ them to bny Territories to l territory available. MT. Buchanan, at the time our Minister to London <; Mason, our Minister to France, and Soule, our Minister at conference, held that the danger that Cuba tion island, as such are called-it behooved us 50 wrest it from Spain, and avert that danger That is to say, the blood and money of the people were to be squandered to prevent the Spaniards in Cuba from freeing their own slaves. That was said to be sound constitu- tional law. repudate the doctrine. If we are to have non-intervention here, let us have it with foreign Governments. If we are to be indifferent on slavery at home, let us also let it alone under other Governments. Yet such is the manifesto of this Government, as signed by MT. Buchanan, now President, demanding that in no case Cuba shall be made free is- land, aml if she attempt it this Government shall employ all its power in prevention. Such is the policy of that Democracy which governs the nation to-day, and proclaims effectual nol- intervention, while all it's power is put forth to strengthen and extend Slavery everywhere.
 The freemen of the Free Atlantic States, by large majorities, protest against that policy, and demand a return to that of our fathers They protest against the doctrines laid down by Richard Carey Meade, our Minister to Brazil, when, in his address to the Emperor, he says the United States and Brazil are uni ted by great common interests-that they are the two principal slaveholding nations of this continent. deny that ours is slaveholding nation. Certain States are but am not a citizen of slaveholding Republic. l am a citizen of the Free State of New ork, united
 in certain bonds with number of Slave States. That is alI No such word as Sla- very stains out National Charter, the Consti- tuition. No such idea as the question of up- holding Slavery is embodied in that document, which is declared to be for the extension of the blessings of Liberty, and not Slavery. l stand by that document, and defend it every where. have spoken long enough doubtless. What have endeavored to set before you are the principles professed by the Republican par ty, which has SO rapidly attached itself to the conservative, the large majority of the free states of the Union. believe theirpurposes should commend them to the attention and support of the humane and generous in every part of our country. know that the best citizens of the slave states eagerly look for our success. I know they desire that the pow CT of the slaveholding oligarchy shall be curb ed, as it would be after the election of Re publican President know that the great mass of the people of the slave states would breathe freer if this principle succeeded.-- There would have been no more doubtful fa- ces. but trustful words, throughout the nation, had we carried the Union and elested Ere mont. 1 believe we shall get the active sup port of conservative men in many, if not most of the slave states. l know many men there would give it now They are strong for freedom and the extension and success of Re publican principles.
 It is said of us that we struggle against the interests of the slave states. We say No, though opponents. My state was once slave holding, now free, with million more inhabi- tants and many millions more property than before. This same policy in Virginia or Geor- gia would lead to the same results. God for bid that should wish evil to the slave states. 1 wish them, in the language of the Apostle
 Paul, "such as am except these. bonds." only wish the shackles taken of their arms so
 that they, with us, may go forward in the ca, reer of common prosptrity and common glory.
 l believe the day is nbt distant when, if the
 freemen of the nation are true to the princi- ples of freemen, true to the traditions of their
 fathers, slavery shall fade out of the slave states, not through any active interposition by
 the free states but by the might of example
 by the power of conscience and the influence
 of good conduct and good conversation
 brought to bear upon them. know the pow.
 CT of opinion in our day grows stronger.
 see the telegraphic wires uniting nations and
 states in spite of their own antiquities. sec
 railroads carry us in a few hours from the fur
 therest North to the sunny south, and the ln
 terchange of products go on. Aided by it wt
 cannot long be two people, for one policy shall
 animate us and the rule of liberty govern us
 They will come round to us. Today slavery is strong because it has elements of stringent power. It is strong because it is emphatically right here in Placer County, advocated as stepping-stone to Post Offices and Collector
 ships. Therefore has the slave-power apollo gists. "Why," says smnggler at Britisl Custom House one day to an official, do yo'
 see these cases ?" pointing to some he wished , to smuggle through. Certainly I do," re } piled the officer. Will you see it if I put guinea over your eye ?" eff you were to pu guinea over each eye could not see them a all" [Great laughter.] The trouble in thi country, for years past, has been that tn Democratic party has had guinea over eacl eye, which has rendered it indifferent to tn