The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-10-11
SPEECH OF TRUMAN SMITH.
At the Wigwam, BROOKLYN. Y.

both 10 Texas and 10 Louisiana for long
time, and for the last tour or five months
in Egypt. In Texas Republicapism was
pretty much crushsd out, but in his pre-
cinct in Southern Illinois, where there
were but four votes for Fremont, there
was club of sixty FIVE now for Lincoln
The Dem ocrats hsd done everything the y
could, by word and deed, to beat them
They had nobbed Republican meetings
and shot at Republicans. He related the
experience of Mr.. Dsnnenhauer and Mr.
Bates, in attempting to make Republican
speeches in Nashville and Mount Vernon
A party of one hundred armed Republi-
csns protected Mr.. Bates in Nashville
and the Centrslia Wide Awake Club took
care of him in Mount Vernon, leaving one
DeEocrRt for dead, who attempted to
break up the meeting These men were
SO tesotted and benighted, that one of
them having discovered picture Of a
black bishop in one of the books OF Sab
bath School library, they got together a
Democrats love feast and burned the
whole library. He was sure that short
residence in the South would convert any
body who was Inclined to Pro Slavery
views. Although the Southern portion
Of Illinois went heavily Democratic. yet
the State was pretty much sure to GO for
Lincoln by 5000 to $4,000 majority;
that sas conceded by the friends of Doug
las as well as Lincoln. Loud applause.
The Hon. Truman Smith of Conn. was
then iutrod 1ced With three cheers. He
said that it wss certain that 20 man could
be elected President BY tho people but
Abraham Lincoln. And We were tod
thst if Lincoln was elected the Union
would be Knocked into a cooked hat, and
it would te dissolyed The only response
be had TO this threat was " Ii mp, heap
heup ?" Dir. Smith then proceeded to
coD,iter which OF the candid ates was best
qualified; why We should not vote for the
oUly candidate who could be elected by
the people; what would be the consequence
of letting the election be thrown iDto the
didate of dangerous fusion would not
then stand the best chance, and if the
great measures OF the Republican party
-thetariff aud anti corruption, the home
stead measures, the propIiety Of rebuke
to the mon who broke up the Missouri
COMPROMISE, the only ueaus of securing
the property Gf our country aad carry
ing on to a successful is-ue the great prob
lem Of the ability Of the people to govern
themselves. We had seen some very
strange things in this State iu this cam
paign. We had seen some extTaordina-
II attempts at fusion; the more fusion,
the more confusion. It vas said of Je-
shuruu that he waxe1 fat and Kicked
Now the hard she'll JeshuIun and the
soft she'll Jeshurun, and the no-shell
Jeshurun had all, be would not say
waxed fat. but they had kicked in the
widest way. These antagonists of Lin
coin we're using each other up and secur.
ing hi election. NoS Ehat reason was
there Why Abraham should not be elec-
ted! They said il was sectional that Lin
coin and Haulin we're both fro q the Free
States. Was Gen Jackson cectionalist
When he ran Witb Calhoun. and was cleo
ted, t3o We were sectionalists too, be
cause We could not carry any Slave State
He would like to know bow many Free
States they could carry for John G. Breck
iDridge. He would like to know hou
u.any they could carry for Stephen 4
Douglasl The Prince of Wales would
make great mistake if, after having
seen Blondin perform on the tight rope
be should go back to Eugland withou
seeing Stephen A. Douglas perform OF
the political tight rope, sometimes on hi
head snd sometines on his heel--ir
Pennsyl. auia for tariff. 10 Virginia fo
free trade. Bat Stephen A. Douglas
boas;ed that be could 60 into every Stat
in the Union. while Abraham Lincoll
. dare not visit bis fathers grave in Ken
lucky. He said that was foul slsnde
on the people Of Kentucky. If any sec
ton OF the Union was so lost to patriotisC
as TO undertake TO overthrow the Govern
uent, the people of Kentucky would stan'
by aud help Abraham Lincoln put
down. He asked Southern Senator o
free eating stamp, the other day, if b
thought George Washington would 60 a
bout the country begging an election TO
President. The answer was, "no; and
he did, the people would have too muc
sense to elect him. Mr.. Smith then al
luded to the views of the Republican par
ty on the subject of Slavery iu the States
reaffiruing the right of ell the States t
constitute and maintain such domestic in
stitu,ions as they chose. Let them hu
the thing The tine was when there va
Slavery in Connecticut. His father own
ed two slaves be remembered them vel
But soon after the Revolution the North
ern States passed post'nsti laws Tor tb
abolition of Slavery. They had the VII
dom to abrogate slavery. Let those wh
had not the wisdom to sbrogste 1t. bug
as long as they pleased. He did n
, mean to molest them, and he knew thi
, they knew that Abraham Lincoln Woul
, not. Bot they would one day grow VII
, enough to abolish it themselves Ihel @
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