The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-02-03

beyond the possibility Of doubt. Who are
the men that have ayowed the intention to
dissolve the Unionf Look at the record
Not single county meeting, nordistrict con-
vention, nor ST to assembly, nor national
convention of the Republican party has ever
declared that, in any emergency, will they
dissolve the Union. No, sirs, we say all the
time that we submit to Democratic rule while
YOU Shareholders rule US, and we submit be-
cause we know of no other policy, no other
alternative, except il be force, and when that
is used all law is silent, and the government
becomes despOtism; whenever you resort
TO violence YOU have an anarchy as has Mex
leo, which Is continually at war because il
does not stand by any Constitution or law
All our pledges and anteccdents prove that
we are bound to DO loyal to the union OF
these States and, therefore, | say, we can
safely claim your suifmges, not taking us by
our avowals, but taking us by our acts. II
we have submitted for eighty years, we are
willing to submit for eighty years more, UNI
less we can persuade You to take hold of
those glorious privileges which we hold to be
right.
There is man in Carolina whose father
was born, it is said, upon North Carolina
sol, and we know not how many centuries
before his ancestors lived there, and it SO
happened that he belonged to that large class
OF North Carolina that may be called the
working class, Observation-Disclosures He saw
the influence Of slavery upon the interests OF
that class of men, and he broke away from
the trammels of that party and published II
book, and he tells us, that however good u
thing slavery is for the stakeholder, free labor
is better for the non-slayeholder. lie takes
up the census of the United States, and he
complies ut all unquestioned, and shows how
the institution of the South affects the mass.
He appeals 10 these masses and asks them TO
see for themselves and act upon their knowl-
edge thus obtained, if this thing is not ac-
cordng to the doctrine of Jefferson. tins
which believe was pretty good Democracy
once.
Now about this book am going to be
frank. | did recommend this book. l say
have read this book carefully, and there is
not single incendiary doctrine in it-there
is not single appeal to the slave. If it be
instruction among people protesting to be
free to appeal to the legal white voters OF the
country, for whose protection the Constitu-
ton PROCESSES to be made, to rise from u serf-
dom to the same power and control of the
government that the free hborers and free
people of the North have done, it is insurrcc-
tionary.
Let me 90 one step further and say that
there were some places i'm that book publish
cd by him that we did not regard us Just; and
inasmuch rs we conceived that the sayehold-
ers held their property on the tenure that the
British held it, we thought that it was po-
lilical question-we thought that the slave
holders should not be taxed. Wrote to him
that that was a foolish thing, but It was un-
derstood that all these objectionable things
should be expunged, as Mr.. Blair of Missou-
ri has said. lie says it was understood that
these parts were to be stricken out, not that
they were incendiary, but that it was ia bun
der not to be urged.
tell you, gentlemen, stand on Helpers
pamphlet, and you may make the most of
what say.
[Cries cf"go on, and "wc will stand by
you all night."l
l have stood by you all the long days OF
my youth and manhood, extinguished all the
aspiration of ambition, suffered ignominy
and contempt, been denounced, spurned and
avoided by the men whose interests was ar
guing, by thewhite man, and wronged by
the black man; but still holding myself true
to one purpose, stand there still. What to
me now are the rosy tints of life, with my
hair silyered over, with my sinews stiilened
with age? in the course OF human events,
have but little time t. remain here. say,
Kentuckians, come war, come peace, trust
in God may have the fortune to stay there
during the rest of my days, and that although
the millions may depart from me, there will
be in Kentucky one standing true to the last,
whose aspirations may be, however visionary,
however theoretical, true to the banner which
would have float over us. The same old
banner of l7S9-each stripe with the prog.
ress of the ages paling into a brighter galaxy
OF stars /! In the language of Webster, its
motto no such miserable interragatory, rs
What is all this worth? Nor those other
words of delusion and folly, "Slaycry and
Union"-hr less "Slavcry first and Union
afterwlrd," and yet more "Slavery with or
without Unionn But his own glorious
scntiments--fOr the which and with which
with filial piety walk backwards and cover
his late political nakedneSs, "LIBERrY AND
USIoN, Now AND FOREVER, One AND INsRr-
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