, 1860-08-08

tyrannical, but is it not eminently consistent,
tApplause.}
bnt i'll order to succeed ia tLis, slavery need!
controlling power In the general government
to sabdus and rule ,ls. Hear the slaveholder
at Is imposAlbi. that we should consider oul
interests safe in this Union, unless the poitica
equilibrium between free mud slave States bt
restored. If the free States arc permitted It
increase md the slave States stand still, We
shall be completely ut the mercy Of hostile
majority. We are therefore obliged to demand
aecessions Of territory GU. Of which new slave
States eau be formed, 60 M to increase our rep
r!esentation IN Congre.s, and to restore the eqnl
l1b11ufo OF power" Nothing more sensible. The
acquhlton Of foreign conntries, such as Cubs
and the Northern States Of Mexico is demand
ed; and, if they cannot be obtained By fair pur'
e1ase and diplomatic transaction, var must ts
resorttd to; and if the majority OF the people
ars not inclined to 20 to war, our iutcrnarnnsl
relations must be disturbed by 6llibustering e1'
pedtlons, precipitating, ifpoasible, this country
into wars, thus forcing the peaceable or cheat
'nag the enthusiastic into subserv'ency to tht
pians Of the slaye.pewer. You may call this
piracy, d!sgracing Us in the eyes Of the civilized
power, and TINT It cannot obtain that power e1.
cept by e1tensionl
90, pressed BY its necessities, it lays its hand
upon our national territories. Time.houored
compacts, hemu.ing in slavery, must be ahroga.
ted. The Constitution must be SO construed ~
to give slavery unlimited sway over our nation
al domain. Hence your Nebraska bills and
Dred Scott decisions, and slave code pla,f,tna-
You may call that atrocious, but can you deny
its consistency?
"But," adds the Shareholder, Of wha. use is
to Us the abstract right to 70 with our slave
property into tue Territories, If you pass LAWS
which attract 70 the Territories class Of pop
ulation that will crowd out slavery; il Jou A.
tract to them the foreign immigrant BY grant.
ing him the Immediate epjoymen Of political
rights; il you allure the paupers from al pnr,s
OF the globe BY your pre-emption laws and
homestead bills? We want the negro in the
Territories. You give US the foreign Immigrant.
Slavery cannot exist except with the system Of
larse laEms, and your homestead bills establish
Dor is inseperably connected. We are, there
fore, Obliged to demand that ali such mischiev-
Gus projects be abandoned" Nothing more
plausible. Hence the right OF the laboriuE man
10 acquire property in the soil By his labor is
denied; your homestead bills voted down, the
blight Of oppressive speculation fastened upon
your virgin soil, and attempts are made to de-
prire the foreign immigrant in the Territories
Of the Immediate enjoyment Of political rights,
which Ill the primitive state Of social organz
ton are essential to bis existence. All this in
order to give slavery chance to obtain posses
sion Of our rational domain. This may seem
rather hard. But Gnu yoa deny that slavery
for lis own protection needs power in the gen
eral government? That it cannot obtain thut
power except By increased representation
That it cannot increase its representation ex-
cept BY conquest aud extension over the Terri
tories7 aud that with this policy Ill measures
ore incompatible, which bid fair TO play III:
Territories isto the hands Of free labor:
This is not all Listen to the Shareholder
Il fla l, &n11,
sentially agricultural producing States We
have but little commerce, and still less manu-
featuring industry. All legislation finding to
benefit The commercial and manufacturing in
terssts principally, il therefore to our immedi-
ate prejudice. 1t will obljge us to contribute
to the growth and prosperity Of the free States
at our expense, and consequently turn the bal
We arc, therefore, Obliged to demand that all
attempts 10 promote, by Federal legislation. the
Industrial interest, be given up." Nothing
more logical. The system Of alure labor has
never permitted them to recognize ard develop
the harmony Of agricultural and industrial and
commercial pursuits What is more natural,
than that they should seek to giye the peculiar
economical interest in which their superiority
consists, the p1eporderance in our economical
policy? Hence their unrelenttng opposition to
all legislation tending to derelop the peculiar
resources Of the free States.
Here let Us pause. Is there anything strange
or surprising in all this? Icu may call it mad
ness, but there is method in this madness. The
slave power is impelled by the irrep1essible
power of necessity. 1t cannot exist unless it
rules, and it cannot rule unless 1t keeps down
its opponents. all its demands und acts are
in strict harmony with its interests and attri-
butes; they are the natural growth Of its exs-
tencc. repent, l au willing to acquit it Of the
charge Of wilful aggression; am willing to
nNa1n hat C$r .t,of e.
but now she mem. ntous question arises, now
DO THE MANS WHICH SEEN TO BE 1splsrRSsAB BLk
FOR HE SELF PRESERVATION or SLAVERY AGREE
wlru THE EXISTENCE ASD INTERESTS OF RGEE L.
noR SOCIETY?
Sir. ii Mr. Hammond, Of South Carolina, or
Mr.. Brown, Of Mississippi, lad listened to me,
would they not be obliged to give me credit for
having stated their case fairly: Now listen to
ME, while state our own.
Gust Eour eyes over ,lat grsat bee hive, cali
ed the Free States. See By tue railroad and the
tele2rHphic wire every village, almost every
backwood cottage, drawn within the immediate
reach Of progressive civilization. Look orer
cur grain fields, but lately lonesome wilder.
ness, where machinery is almost superstdipr
tue labor Of the human hand; over our work.
shops, whose aspect is almost daily changed bY
tue magic touch Of inventive genius; over our
fleets at merchant vessels, numerous enough to
make the who!e:world tributary to our pr osper-
ity; look upon cur society, where by popular
education md the continual change of cond,.
classes are almost obliterated, look upou our
ssstena Of public Instruction, which places even
the l1wiiess child Of the people upon the ti.h
road Of progressive advancement; unon our
rlapid. growth and expansire prosperity, which
is indeed subject to reverscs md checks. but
contains such wonderful fertility OF resources,
hate7try check is meTe incentive for new en-.
hnf
for the development Of new powers.
To what do we owe all thiss Flras and fora.
most, to that perfect freedom Of inquiry, which
acknowledges no rules but those of logic. no
limits but tho:c that bound the faculties OF the
human mind. [Cheers.l Its magic consists in
It's universally To it we owe the harmony Of
our progressive movement in nj! its endless
raniheations. No single science, no single
practical pursuit exists in cur day independ-
eatIy Of all other sciences, all other p1 a:sicul
pursuits. This is the age of the solidjty Of
progress. Set limit to Inc freedom of iuduirr
in one direction and you destroy the harn.ony
Of its propclliDg notion. Give US tue Hon,an
lnquisition, which forbids Galileo to think
tha. the earth moSes around the sun, aud
lie has to interrupt and give up the splendid
train OF his discoveries, and their influence IN.
on all other branches Of science is Inst: be has
to give it up, or be must fight the lnquisitiou.
lCheers.l Let the slave power, or any other
political or economical interest, tell US tha. ne
must think, and aaJ, and invent, and diecorer
nothing which is against its dem11ds-and We
must interrupt and give up the harmony Of our
progressive development. Q: light the tYraani-
cal pretension, whatever shape it mar assume.
Loud cheers,
Believing. as we do, that the moral and ideal
development Of man is the true aim and end of
human society, We must preserve in their eAi-
cheney the means which serve That end. In or.
la n apcn n Ia rf Il c.1t
productive power, We must surround It with all
the sale guards which political Institutions nf.
ford. As ne cannot set 4 limit to the actiyity
Of our minds, so we cannot muzz1e ou7 mouths
or fetler the press With Censorship. LAD
plause.] }3e c1nnet arrest or restrain The dix.
cHssion Of ths Yu'ssion, tgAas $: STEM Of tabor, Or
teAaS organisation of society promoks bat Tie
,norak anu tateuectsdk dtstlopmtnt of man,
Loud applause We cannot deprive q single
OF the privileges which protect lin
in the free exercise Of his lacuties, aud the en-
loymens Of his right, 50 long IS these faculties
are not employed to the desriment Of the richta
and liberties OF others. Our organization Of
security in general system Of popular educa:
tion, which fits all for intelligent exercise Of
thoAe rights. This is the home policy Of frae.
labor society. It's policy in our federal afflira
must necessarily correspond. Deemiug free
mud intelligent labor the only safe basis Of So
cety. it il cur duty to expand its blessings over
all the territory within our reach; sreinx our
own prosperity advanced by the prosperlty of
Dur neighhors, NC must endeavor to plaot npon
our borders q 81 ystein Of labor which answers in
that respect So We recognise the right Of the
laboring man. to the soil he cultivatss aud
shield him against oppressive speculation. See
ing in the harmonious development Of all
branches Of ieoar source Of progress and
poser, we must adopt policy Which draws to
light the resources Of the land, gives work to
bur workshops and security to our commerce.
These ase the principles aud views governing
our policy.
Shareholders look at this picture, and at this,
Can the difference escape your observation |