New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-17

.teu oet zoe precious eou which had been abandono9
thai the estest evil that has ever befaen our laod.
tAppl Snse You matured In the right tjme AsA
how ca NE you to 70 mstuIe How came you y
be better "lssp osn we % the Atlantic states The
never been DO uted by the FOOTSTEPS Of slave Eyerv
| foot of onrs bad been redeemed from Slavery yoz
are people educs ed IN The love Of fsedou and 70
whom the practice NJ freedom and Of Democracy be
longs for every one o. Fou own the land you cultivate
and no brroan being tina, hiss trodden Il has vov
The mancIes of q slave. i,oud applause Ana
you come from other n;qopss nd TO- -, You eo.s
SLAVERY. You come from Germany and from Ireland,
and from Holland and from Frs,ce. and from Italy,
and from all over the face of the globe where you have
learned by experience the suerines toat result non
aTistocrsey and oppression. lAppisnseI Ana -
brought away with you from your homes zoe scott
ments the education Of freemen. fou csme, tncn Ja
at the right moment. You came prepared. foo oa0e
qualified. You came sent by the Almighty 70 rescue
this land and the whole continent from Slavery. DC
ever man have more glorious duty to perform. % =
bepecen destiny before them than the people 81
the northwestern angle that lies between the One
River and the great lakes and the Mise,ssppi1 am
glad to zee that you are worthy OF H. tke' yoc APpre
ciate it.
1t does not need that should stimulate you by en-
appeal to your patriotism to your love Of Justice or -
yow honor, to perfect this great work TO Perseyere
u until you shall bring the Government OF enc Unifeo
states 10 stand hereafter it stood forty years ago
tower OF Freedom and refuge for the oppressed OF all
lands, instead Of buawark Of Slavery. (Applaase.t
prefer to deal rather in what may perhaps, Be not
less pleasing 70 you snd that 10 to ted yon that the
whole OF the responsibility rests henceforh directly
indirectly the people Of the North Vest Abandon
that responsibility, and Slavery extends from the Gulf
OF Mexico to the Gulf OF 81 Lawrence On the Atlantic
Coast There can be no virtue in commercial aud man.
uiacturng communitiest TO maintain democracy whea
the Democracy themselves do not want democracy.
IIsughter.l There is ns virtue IN Pead street. fn,
Wall street, in Court street. IN Chestnut street, m amp
&c fhat
the great Democratic Government OF ours when yog
cease to uphold it with your intelligent votes, your
stroDg and mighty hands. You must, therefore, lead
U.S. as we heretofore reserved and prepared the way
for YOU Wsreeign to " the banner Of human rights
and human liberty on this continent, and we bid you
be firm bold and onward and then you may hope that
we will be able to follow you. Loud aPplause.l
have said that you are to have the responsibility
alone. have shown you that in the Atlantic Norther1
States were dependent on you. need not tell yos
that at present you can expect effective support
sympathy in the Atlantic Southern States.
You must demonstrate the wisdom Of our cause By
argument by reason, by the firm exercise Of schrage
in every way in which the human intelligence and
human Judgment can be convinced of truth and right
you must demonstrate it, giving line upon line and pro
cept upon precep overcoming passion and prejudice
and enmity with gentleness with patience, with loving
Kindness to your brethren Of the Slave States unA
they shall that the way Of wisdom which you have
chosen, is also the path of peace. lAPpause The
South West are sharers with you of the Northwest In
this great Inheritance of Empire. 1t belongs equally
to them and to you They have plains as beauti-
full. They have rivers as noble. They have
all the elements of wealth, prosperity, and power
that YOU have. Still, from them, from Kentucky
and Tennessee, from Missouri and Arkansas, from
Alabama and Mississippi, and Louisiana you will, for
the present receive no aid or support; but you WIN
have 10 maintain your principles IN opposition, al
though trust not in defiance Of them and that, for
the simple reason that in the great year 1877, when
Mr.. Jefferson proposed that Slavery should be ex-
cluded in all the public domain of the United States
living southwest well as that lying northwest, Of
the Ohio River those States had not the forecast had
not the Judgment to surrender the temporary
niences aud advantages of Slavery, and 10 elect
your ancestors chose for you the great system of Tree
labor They chose Slavery, and they have 10 drag
out for years yet not long, not 80 long as some
Of you will live, but still 90 long that they viii be
drag and weight upon your movements, instead OF
lending you assstaHcehey have got to drag out 10 the
end their system Of slave labor You have therefore,
as you see the whole responsibility. II depends upon
you. You have reliance upon the Atlantic
States of the East, North, or South. You have
the opposition of the Southern States either eide Of
the Allegheny mountains; but still the power is with
you. You are situated where all powers have ever
been that have controlled the desny of the nation to
which they belonged You are In the land which pro-
duces the wheat and the corn the cereal grainsthe
land that is covered with the OAK and whore they say
the slave cannot live. They are in the land that pro-
duces cotton and sugar. and the tropical fruits the
land where they sag the white man cannot labor, IN
the land where the white man must perish il he have
not gro slave to provide him with food and raj
ment. Laughter They do, indeed, command tbs
mouths of the rivers but what is that WORTH except
they derive perpetual supplies perpetual renygors
ton, from the hardy sons of the North, laat reside
around the sources of those mighty rivers? Appsuse
am sure that in this am speaking only words Of
truth and experience. The Northwest is by means
so small as you may think it, speak thus to you be-
cause feel that am and during all my mature life
have been, one of you. Although of New-York, AN
still citizen of the Northwest. [" GOod!"l The
Northwest extends eastward to the base of the Ale
ghany Mountains, and does not all Of Western New
York lie westward of the Allegheny Mountainsf
(" Goodl"l
Whence comes all the inspiration of free soil, which
spreads itself with such cheering voices all these
plains &! Why, from New.York, westward Of the Al
leghany Mountains. The people before me-who are
you bat New-York men, while you are men OF the
Northwest? 1t is old proyerb that men change
the skies but not their minds, when they emigate;
but you have changed neither skies nor mind. APP
plause. might cali the roll of Western New-York,
and doubt not that when came to Herkimer County
l should have response / certainty have had re-
sponses here from Csypga and Genesee-tA yoios,
" Erie and from Erie; Ia voice, Auburn, and
from Auburn; ia voice, "Ssneca, aad from Ssneca:
Ia voice. Yates, and from Yates aye, aye. LOAD
aughter:l Bless my soul! have been lsborihg I'M
der deuson all the time. thought was out here,
midway between the Mississippi and the lakes and
lind am standing on the stage In the center park at
home. A voice, Right at home" Another voice,
"and old Ontario And old Ontario. We will not
forget old Ontario, nor old Oswego, nor Oneida
Fellow Citizens will add bat one word more, this
is not the business of this day alone. 10 is not the bust
Of this year alone IL the business OF the North
west alone. 1t is the interest, the destiny OF huua
society the continent You are TO make tins Whole
continent from North to South, from East to West,
land OF freedom and land of happiness. Applause
There ia no power on Earth now existing no Empire
now existing or as yet established that 70 equal or
can equal in duration the future of the United States 1t
ia not for Yourselves alone you have the least possible
Z. It ind fort