St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-10-04

~ AAeAs " AAS 40 ~ = SOtuIuK Uut YOU 6llOW~;
ing to me my rights, and allowing to you
equal rights---every man having exactly his
right to decide whether he will labor
and eat, or will be idle and die and if he will
labor, for what he will labor, and for whom
he win labor, and the right to discharge his
employer just as the employer can discharge
him: [Cheers. You see thefruits of this pol
icy in another way. Go over the American
continent from one end of it to the other,
wherever the principle of equality has been
adopted and adhered to, and every citizen of a
State, and every citizen of every other State;
and every exile from: foreign nation may
write, print, speak and vote when he acquires
the right to vote, just exactly as he pleases,
and there is no man to modest him. no man to
terrify him, no man even to complain of him,
Now, on the other hand, 60 into any State.
which has retained the principle of the ine-
quality of man, and determined that it will
retain it to the last, and you will find the State
where not even the native born citizen AID
slav eholder, certainly none but he, can express
his opinion on the question whether the Afri-
can is or is not adescendent of Ham, or wheth-
er he is equal or inferior to the white man, and
if he be inferior, whether it is not therefore
the duty Of the white man to enslave him. No.!
''mum,s the word' for freemen wherever sla-
very is retained and cherished. -, -. ,...s.
Silence on matters Of state, the absence of
freedom of speech, and of freedom Of the press
what kind Of freedom is that? Is there q
man in Minnesota who would for one day con-
sent to live in it if he were deprived of the
right to hurrah for Lincoln and Hamlin, or hur-
rah for Douglas, to hurrah for freedom, or to
hurrah for slavery, just as he liked? think
that these 10000 people who inhabit here,
would be seen moving right out east and west.
into British North America or into kamschat-
ka, anywhere on the earth to get out of this
luxuriant and beautiful valley, if any power, g:
human or divine, should announce to them
that henceforth they spoke and voted their
real sentiments and their real choice at their
peril of imprisonment or death Now, fellow
citizens, You need only look around through
such mass Of American citizens as can see
before me, and you may go over all the free
States in the Union, and you will find them
every day of the week gathered together, ev-
pressing their opinions, and preparing to de-
clare their will just exactly as you are doing.
Does this happen to be SO? Is it mere chancee
Is it indeed even mans work, or device, or
continuance, that in this land, on this side of
the great lakes, on this side of the Atlantic
Ocean, on this side Of the Pacific Ocean, men
may all meet or may oil stay apart, may all
speak, think, act, print, write, and vote just
exactly as they please, while there is no other
land on the face Of the earth where ten men
can be assembled together to exercise the same
rights without being dispersed by an armed
band of soldiers? Does it happen to be so in
the United States, or is it the result Of that
higher law controlling.the destinies Of races, =,
Of nstions, of men, SO as to bring out and
perfect here the model of what I have de-
ecribed as the true constitution Of society.
Of a sef-governining people, on the principle
of equal and exact justice to all classes and !.
of men? Manifestly it is not Of
mans device or contrivance, but il is tie
work Of q superior power that .....
- 'tshapes eur ends,
Rough hew. them how we may"
Now, fellow citizens, while we see ow OBJ
viously this is the, result Of controlling ne
cessity, in accordance with the very pur- :
purpose Of benevolent Providence, how
singular and strange it is that so much
pains have been taken by ourselves to de" "
tion of this very system Of government among
US! What has not the nation seen done and
permitted to be done in the Federal Council at "
Washington They bayepermitted statues to
be made, and judgments to be rendered in
their name, declaring that men are not free i
men, but that in certain conditions, and in
certain places, they are merchandise. The
Supreme Court Of the United States Of Ame1-'
lea never rises without recording judgments 3
and directing executions for the sale Of men, 4
women and children, as merchandise; and
this is done in your name and mine. The
Constitution never declared, never intended to
declare, was never by its trainers understood
to doclare, that any man could be . chattel
or merchandise. Applause. (..Theee cheers
for that declaration.'') All that it did de-
clare was that all men should have rights to :
personal security, ndpersonal libery within
the action Of the Federal Government. You
see how we have had new religious systems
established among us, teaching that the AZ ,
rican slaves among us, nay, all Africans are,
the children Of an accursed parent, who was
cursed not only in his own person, and in
his day and generation, but III all his gener.l
ations, and teaching that every, body had
right TO curse anew those accursed generations
to the end Of TIME. We l,ase had religious.
creeds established among us that it is our.
duty to capture and return 10 slavery, slaves
escaping from thei, owners, be. ause, they say
St. Paul sent bach Onesimns, as they say 10
his master-cven teaching that it is the duty
Of men and q free State, not only, 10. submit
to laws, passed Tor the purpose Of extending
human bondage, but even personally to exc.
cute them. D You have seen how in portion
Of the. Union, the great governing race, the.
white man, actually deprive themselves in Is
large, degree Of The adva1ta ges3 Of education
and instruction for greater security Of keeping
slaves in ignorance, 50 that schools and collie
ges and universities, as they are Organized and
perfected in the free States, and nov IN most
Of The States in Western Europe, are II hot iin-
popular, yet feebly maintained in the Slave
States. You have seen how We have in order
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