The Van Buren press., 1860-10-19
Jobn R. Fellows, Esq,

The Bell Elector for the 81 District,
agreeable to appointment. spoke in this city
on Wednesday last. 1t was in oil respects
the finest speech that has been made here
during the canvass An easy. fluent speak
er, he command the attention of the audi
ence for four hours--itis is true. that it caus-
cd some wriggling about among our Breck-
inridge disunion frienls-but as general
thing. they took the dose very well. It
was expected, however. that Col. BCRRow
would. at least. have attempted reply to
SO bold an attack on his party and his
friends, but he showed no such disposition
allowing the little fellors to boldly and
unequivocally charge Disunion and Treason
upon them, without word of defence.
~ friend who heard the speech. has
handel US the following extended notice:
As to the mariner. tossed about on
| oceans trackless waste. the few glimpses of
| the bright skies beyond the cloud excite
pleasurable anticipations. So to us, amid
| the sargings of political strife and the ex-
| citement Of civil contention-bright, heart
stirring, hope-exciting words point to a
better future, to favorable issues.
| Such was to US the speech Of JOHN r.
FELLOWS, ESD. on Wednesday last. Full
of trumpet nes rallying around the Ma
tional standard, all faithful soldiers of the
Union. the speech of the gentleman con-
tanned also, soft pathetic strains, which
imrressions of citizens duty. Envious
20 Al,
discourscs clothed in language beautiful,
striking and varied-their envy sneers at the
rhetoric because their discriminating tact
| penetrates not to the kernel which the
beautiful shell encloses. or because their
lack of truthfulncss prevents them from or
propriating the truths thus presented to
their minds. Under the very appropriate
comparisons and figures so elaborately
weaved into form and comiiness, SO. artis
tically wrought into the speech, and wi.hal
so clear and explicit-under these, there
was evidently fine sense of truth, fine
tact of political sagacity, which was pleas
ing and instructive. The masked batteries
are not the less powerful. With stont
heart and arm in his bark, so often prosper
ously guided on deep currents and stormy
waves, the voyager starts on-the skies
| smile upon responsive waters-the glossy
mirror Of the lake reflects the imagery of
skies and landscape-the bark gldes on
unconscious of treachcrous currents beneath
the roar Of Niagara's cataracts. in threat
ening sound. disturbs the dreams of the
| security of home and friendship-too late
| he strives to regain the shore-the once
| faithful bark and her sound timbers are of
| no avail-away it speeds over rapids and
through breakers-one final plunge and the
| rising spray of the mighty cataract becomes
the winding sheet, whilst the eternal MUIR
murs are the requiem. Thus fatally evil
breeds evil disorder. selfshness, disol ,edi:
ence ever work out disunion and rebellion !;
the very waters which were once so COM
placent and beautiful, become the very
means of ruin and destruction. Thus the
Breckenridge party on the slippery path to
rebellion is working it's own ruin.
With depth of pathos and with an
appropriateness equal to its truthfulness.
rose before the audience, the picture of the
distant home. of the fireside where beloved
ones gather their sympathies and joys. of
the no less cherished spot where in the
sleAr Of death reposes parents. friends or
childrcns-but alas a line of division sepa-
rates the family Of Ameri"a's sons and
daughters-the Black Republican prevails
at the North-the Breckinridge party gov
erns at the South-the heart longs toward
the old homestead-your passport, sir;
your passport, sir The family is broken
We consider this picture of the old horoe-
stead, as colored by Mr.. Fellows, as one OF
the finest sketches exhibited before the pub
lie. during the canvass. The family altar
accessible only with passport, from ty-
| rant brother at the South, to visit the pa
rent at the North A passport, that relic
of barbarism. from a puritan at the North,
to free thinker travelling South Anar-
chy and all its fatal results included therein.
Weneed not expatiate on all the merits
Of this speech. The comparisons, allego-
ries and figures were perhaps, somewhat
lengthy, but were always correct, full of
nnmistaken meaning and right at the point
The arguments were we'll carried out-were
convincing and their logic pitiless Far
from any man or State having the right of
secession or of planting new standard,
the orator showed in language, clear to its
very depths. that the old flag which had
waved over Americas battle field, and over
the corpses of ancestors. dying for the Un-
ion. was not the property of one sectional
party. of Lincoln, or Breckinridge-
but belonged to each and all, and that the
sole right of each and all was to fight for
its full action to the breeze, North and
South the same for the Union, whose true
son is neither a Northern man (would be
but half man). nor a Southern man
(would be the other half of the animal),
but an American true to the United States,
as his own beloved cherished motherland,
for whose unity and maintenance he should
be ready to die
| The audience was an intelligent and at
tentive one, cheering on the orator by fire.
quent rounds Of applause, and betraying
by their coantenances that many of his
words reached not only the head but the
heart.
Mr.. F. showed the inconsistent and trea-
sonous behavior Of the Breck party their
inconsistency in clinging to wreck drift
| ing into the quicksand of anarchy and rev.
| olution. whilst pretending to be friends,
| tried. firm and true to the Union; their
trsasonous behavior in keeping within their
circle; yea. in following as ringleaders
men who only wanted. according to their
own words to g precipitate the Union into
revolution" and 4" crush down the be-
cursed government of this country" In
stead of all true Democrats rallying around
| platform that of Douglas. which would