New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-01
REPURslCANISH Az SLAVERY.
e" SPEECH nv
SAMUEL II. GLOVER.
p,l;rercd at Republican Meeting in S. LOUIS
July 26, 1860.

10 make political speech IL is unnecessary TO inquire
what the subject s to be. You should know already,
that negr, Slavery In aspect or other must be the
theme. Everything else has been satisfactorily dis
nosed Of Our railroads are all finished, our rivers and
barbors have been put into proper condition, DO nestle
industry enjoys all requisite protection, commerce. in
terpa an external has further claims on our atten-
ton. Ar and science, peace and war have ceased to
interest u.s. unless they can connect Themselves with
the oil abiorbpg subject The fact Is for the lest eight
or ten years. our people have been employed in what
Bacon called the proudest work Of man. They have
been planning rev States and Commonwealth, and
seeking tie best material for the foundation of those
noble structures There is but one question now re-.
naming for discussion. That question is whether
Freedom or Slavery the better rock which to build
Whether the white man from the foot of the Caucasus
or the back man from the banks of the Caabar shall
be relied upon TO give tone to these future common
wealt and impress his character upon their histories
ought, perhaps, say at the outset that there
nothing ridiculous in the question which has been
stated OF course not; for 1t is great party ques
ton, which is widely discussed, and of momentons i'm
pornce worked up has been into the politics OF
the tines and threatening Is does the very existence
of the Government under which we live. The Repub-
can party of this day the advocates Of Freedom,
and are led on by Mr. Lincon OF Illinois. The DEM
oerac party the advocates OF Slavery, and claim
There is third party, led on by Mr. Douglas of ILL
nois, an ingenious and schemng statesman, who has
been seeking long to squat himself somewhere be-
tween the two extremes. and who at last ls acceptable
to neither. The fate of Mr.. Douglas has been por-
trayed by the hand of master whose skill cannot be
gaiDayed: know thy works, that thou art neither
:" cold nor hot would thou vert either cold or hot
Sothen because thou art ukewarm and neither cold
Dol bot, / will spue thee out Of my mouth When
Mr. Douglas had reached that philosophic state OF mind
in which he could look with perfect Indifference upon
this question, and " didn't care whether Slavery was
voted up or voted down. the public lost to great ex-
tent their interest in him. He who does not care for
the result, is certainly no very strong defender OF
the truth, nor is he yet cOmrade warmly welcomed
among her eneni.ss He is anything or he is nothing
I think my friends, that Mr. Douglas has been, or
will be soon spued out by the whole country. There
is good scripture for it, and it must be So But there is
another party claiming your sudragee in the canvass
which must not omit to mention. mean the Bell
and Everett party. They call themselves the Cons-
tutiona Union party This party, according to their
manifesto, for the Constitution and the Unlon-the
Union and the Constitution the enforcement OF the
laws and the Constitution and the enforcement OF the
Consit and the laws; and consequently they are
the Constitutional Union party. These are the meas
which they intend to bring before the next Con-
gress that meets at Washington. have no doubt the
measures of the party will have the unanimous sup.
port of the people. Whether Mr.. Bell shall be elected
as their peculiar representative not, all must agree
his measures are right. have inqui ed and learned
that the manifesto Of the party and the name, were
gotten rp by Mr.. Everett He prepared it on the
Fourth Of July Mr.. Everett s very eloquent man,
and never fails TO make good thing Of it
''When words of learned length and laundering sound
Amaze the gazing rustics ranged around"
MY friends, as touching the great issues of the day,
/ do not know where Mr.. Bell stands. Do you know
what his opinions are 7 Mr.. Breckenridge says the
Constitution is part of our Territorial laws and carries
Slavery with it. Mr. Lincoln disputes both these pro;
positions. Mr.. Douglas, who is in betweenity, and
LIZ, 49, fpt,Ax.
to be whatever the Supreme Court decides it to be-
Mr.. Bell will say nothing but that he is for the Con-
stitution and the laws; and suppose, gentlemen, in
these hard times when there is such scarcity OF back
bone material in the country this ought to be suf-
fcient.
Now, i viii give you my own opinion Of John Bell,
and it is this that whenever he is compelled to take
ground upon this question of Slavery Propagandism,
be viii be found as intensely ProSayery as Hunter of
Virginia or Davis of Mississippi. know nothng.o
him beyond his votes and speeches in Congress- and by
these / make that judgment of the man.
Fell0w-eitZens, it was long the boast and pride OF
Americans that they inhabited country and enjoyed
Government whore people and political institutions
were to regeDerate the world.
1t IL no error to assert that this sentiment largely
shared by the people Of other countries. The great
idea Of this national pride and hope was Freedom.
This idea was supposed 10 lie at the bottom OF our
system and TO uphold BY its single power the entire
mighty superstrucure. IL constituted the distinguish
ing feature between us end the of the world The
mans incapacy and looked TO force and fraud as the
natural elements of social order. Ours was to rest
upon the simple basis of Freedom, and claimed for
this normal principle vital and eternal energy. Free
dom was the foundation, and Freedom was to be the
capital Of the pillar. Freedom was the fountain from
which was to flow the virtue and intelligence, the
health and wealth, the strength and prosperity of the
body polite with an exhaustless food Such was the
government fathers made, and such was their
thought and hope in making t-Washington and JEFF
fersOn and Madison and Franklin and Macon being
lndges. They were not compelled to this course
They preferred Freedom, they preferred the white
man; the black material already in the country,
and they were free to build upon it, had their judg
ments approved. In 1889 the negro was here and
had been for long time before His natural qualities
and merits were well understood. The negro was
here, say, but he not then statesman whose ad-
vice was necessary, nor was his presence deemed
senia otherwise to the progress and prosperity of the
country nor was he great political power awning aud
the land. On the contrary, the gentle
man from Africa, now SO important was looked upon
suspicious person. whose association the Fathers of
The Republic were DESTROYS to eschew and not to
report Of the proceedings Of the Federal Convention,
most dsrespectfu and contemptuous language
SANITY employed against him by such as knew him |
best. AT one time it was said he had brought the |
curse of Heaven upon the States in which he lived.
Then he was spoken OF as 90 wretched slave" Then
i wac poured down upon his head that he was ga ca
smity.' Another said that he had corrupted "the |
OF his white countrymen, and, worse than |
III, hhu converted LIB own Wds9er INTO u ptuy |
grant. Ii this was true, you must admit that it was
30 common crime But am not done with the re- |
proaches-I believe ought to cay the downright in
,ults-that were thrown out against Sambo in those
lays The virgnians charged him fatty with prac-
icing fraud npon them in the way in which he culti
rate their lands no to impoversh and wear them
,u They then shifted the mode of assault and assev
raed most srenuouty that he had deliberate plans OH
DOT "to prevent the emigration of whites, who really |
enriched and strengthened country" Thus beset
n front and rear, poor Sambo charged IN
lark with a secret but steady and devlish oppo-
ition to carts and manufacturer and the whole
torn which burst from every quarter Of the country