Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-03
g Abe" LinCOln's Great Speech.

"Abe" LinCOln'S Great Speech.
EXTRACT FROM HON. "ABE' LrxcoLx's GREAT
SPEECH AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW
YORK, on THE POLITICAL ISSUES OF THE
DAY-HE MAKES SOME TELLING POINTS.
Some of you admit that no Republican
designcdy aided or encouraged the Hur-
pcr's Ferry affair; but still insist that our
doctrines and declarations necessarily
lead to such results. We do not believe
it, We know we hold to no doctrines,
and make no declarations, which were not
held to and made by our fathers who
framed the government under which we
live. You never dealt fairly by us in
relation to this affair. When it occurred,
some important State elections were near
at hand, and you were i'll evident glee
with the belief that by charging the
blame upon us you could get an advant-
age of us in those elections. Tie election
came, and your expectations were not
quite fulfilled. Every Republican man
knew that, as to himself at least, your
charge was slander, and he was not
much inclined by it 10 cast his vote i'll
your favor. Republican doctrines and
declarations are accompanied with con-
tinual protest against any interference
whatever with your slaves, or with you
about your slaves. Surely this does not
encourage them to revolt. True, we do,
in common with our fathers who framed
the Government under which we live,
declare our belief that slavery is wrong;
Int the slaves do not hear us declare even
this. For ANYTHING we say or do the
slaves would scarcely know there is
Republican party. l believe they would
not, in fact, generally know it but for
your misrepresentation of us in their
hearing. In your political contests among
Yourselves, each faction charges the other
with sympathy with Black Republicanism;
and then to give points to the charge, de-
fines Black Republicanism to simply be
insurrcction. blood and thunder among
/ tho slaves
slave insurrcctions ore no moro common
now than thcv were before the Republican
Marty was orgapizrd What induced the
Gnmibom,n,on insnrractinn twpntv-eipht
,.o,rs oo,n il, which ot Inoet three times as
D,ony IiIns v,oro lost ne NJ Horncr's Ferry?
Won can scarcely stretch vour very elastic
foncv 10 the conclusion that SOUTHAMPTON
was rot nm nv EInck Rcnublicunism. In
thn nrcsenf states I do not think n gen.
era, or cvcn a vcrv extensive slave in
snrroction Is nossibin The Indispensable
concert of oction cannot he nttnined.-
Tho slaves have mn means of rapid COM
mn,ico,ion nor cor inccndinrv free men.
iiSclr or white snnn1v II The explosive
materials are eyerywicre in parcels: but
thrrc neither arc nor can be supplied. the
;ndisncnsahIa rcnnect;no trains
| Much is said bv southern pcoplc about
the affection of slaves for their masters
and ,nistresscs. and n mart of II, at least,
is trnc 4 nIot for an uprisinc- could
scarcely bc devised and communicated TO
%r;J,ois b"fore son,n nr them to
soro t,o Iifo of - fovorite master or mis-
trcss, would diyulgc it. This is the rule
o,J Tho esIovo~revoIntion in Uavti wos not
m oyccntion to il, hut was n case occur
r;ro, nn1cr macmillan rircumstorccs The
,,n99nowJcr r"9 Not Of British history. tLough
not connected with slaves. was more in
no;rt In tbot rosc only obout twenty
wcrn admitted TO the secret: and vet one
| or +Lcm in his anxiety to save a friend,
bctrovod The Mot to that friend, and. by
CONSEQUENCE. aycrted the calamity. Occo-
sinnol roisnninrs from the kitchen and
omen or stcnlthy assassinations in the field,
aud local ravoIts extending TO n score or
So will continue TO occur as the natural
rcsnIts Of slavery: hut no general insurrec-
linn of slaves rs think. can happen in
this country for a long time. Whoever
much fears. or much homes for such an
event, will alike he disappointed.
In the language of Mr.. Jefferson, uttered
many wears ago, alt is still in our power
to direct the process of emancipution, and
dcnortation, pcaceablv. and in such slow
degrees, as that the evil will wear off in
scnsiblv: and their placcs be. mari pdsSu
filled up bv free white lahorers. If, on tile
coutr,r,, !, I. IoC, In F,rco ;,soIr on Lu,nnn