Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-30
speech of Anson Burllngame.


Speech of AnEOm Bur1ingame.
a large and enthusiastic meeting of tn,
Peoples Party was held in Philadelphia
on Tuesday evening last. Among many
prominent Congressman who addressed
the meeting, was Hon. Anson Burlingame
We find the following synopsis of hi:
speech in our Philadelphia exchanges
thank you, fellow citizens, for the
warmth of your feelings, but after all that
has been so ably said, it will not be cx-
pected that 1 shall traverse the same
ground Tonight. The dark cloud of De-
mocracy which has been hanging over us,
| is breaking away, and the stars of Lincoln
and Hanlin are breaking through the
darkness. The Democracy has fallen,
trust, foreverl 1t is now being broken in
fragmcnts-a mournful monument to false
hood and fraud. 1t fell because of the
weight of its corruption. 1t fell because
of the factions in its own ranks. 1t fell
because it cheated you with symbols, and
spoke with q double tongue. When it
could cheat you of Pennsylvania no long
or, it raised James Buchanan, through
,vour suffrages, to the Chief Mngistracv,
and you fondly hoped that the protection
SO often refused you would be granted,
but the Congress heard, in the time of the
struggle, the Secrctary's command, and
not the Presidents. So Morrills, so Nor
ris's Tariff bill failed. Mr. Gnrnctt. of
Virginia, stood up in the closing hours of
the previous session of the house, ard
stated that the election Of James Buchan-
an was free trade triumph. In the last
hours of that session, CLANCY Jones ad :
mitted that lie was not in favor of tariff
or protection. he was slnitten for that
speech by the blackSmiths hammer and
Ill crr1rS7T17rTI. rII(N EIa best uelcBN-
tion that it, ever had in Congress; but af--
ter passing the House of Representatives,
in the Senate your Tariff bill fell. In the
Senate everything but the interests of the
oligarChy has fallen. Has the South
which is the SenHtc-nOt said that 1t
owned it's laborers-th0t it has better
system of labor than ours? 1t hates you
hates YOUR interests-it will ruin you If
YOU do not resist. l will not speak OF the
corruptions of tho Government. Honest
John COvode has done so. But there has
never been an Administration which has
approached in extravaganza tnat OF James
Buchanan He has expended nearly $780,
OOO. 900 since the era of his elevation to the
Chief Magistracy, and yet, while Govern
ment is crippled and bankrupt, when NC
proposcd n tariff to furnish him n revenue,
he vetoed it down. The poor men of this
land looked to the Homestead bill-to the
| River and IInrbor hills-to the Kansas
bill for honest legislation. All have fallen
by the vctoes of n Pennsylvania President.
So it is with everything. might pass
from the interests of money to those OF
men. Man is higher than money. All
the rights which are the heritage of our
race have been stricken dead.
! nnuonrVOti 10 marty has fallen away
! from the path of the filthers-from its own
primary principles. 1t stands to-day,
speaking through Breckinridgc. who leads
the only living Democracy. 1t mennces
the free States to-day will. the decision in
| the Lemon case.
| Il have not time to follow out the line OF
argument we were pursuing. The Sec
tional Democracy is headed by the ticket
bearinp tho name of Breckinridgc; its
headquarters is in the South. There is nm
"irrepressible conflict" between two ordl'
nary forces n conflict which is disrupt,
ing Church and Party. Wm. II. Seward
(Cheers,) never spoke these words. Lin
coin and Hamlin represent the rights o.
the people. Mr.. Douglas thought ht
could be false to freedom and yet not true
to slavery. He has failed. He happen
etr to remember once that he was born IL
Vermont,naud eudeavored to localiZe hi:
principles. Had he Joined the Republi
can PARTY be would have never tastct
death. FGrcat cheers. He should have
understood the stern logic of despotism.-
The South has put the poison dagger int
his heart. l point out to you, friends o
Douglas, tonight, the way to victory "n'
vengeance 1t is through the path w
have opened. Immense applause
Douglas gave the power his ability t
slave States. The honest Democrats q
the land now join the gathering forces O
are to come into the power of the govern
ment Abe Lincoln is man who doesn'
steal men or money, or stuff bNllot.hoxes
or forge such papers ms John Covod
exhibited to-night, He will not endors
false contracts by writing 81. Il" on Ill
back OF them. He is one of the people
He knows your hearts. He w"sWhitter
barefoot boy. He did maui rails. The
make reproach oft am proud Of i
Those who do not dishouor human naturl
tApplause) I call on those who are Be
and Everett men. If they could hear tn
voices of the Bell and Everett men of tn
South, they would vote for Lincoln an an
Hamlin. call upon men of every part!
now. when sectionalism has trampled npo
our banneF-to give your strength Wit
ours and hurry secession so that the han
ofmo political resurrectionist shall eve
raise it-you who keep, step to the mus 11t
of the Union. Great Applause -.
/ call you who belonged to the Al Ames
can paFty-whose sentiments are SIN Der Y.
to me to-day. Guardthe pollsl See ttl'
your votes are insured. See that tilos no
forged naturalization papers are OF n
avail. The legal President of the Unite
tStntcs should be yours to-day. (Vo'ces-