The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-01-26

history to substantiafe ali say Ion naren
under volir Missouri hordes SO formed lnto
the territory OF Kansas, aud aithougn IL =
well known and as history has proven thae
the Republican party was IN a clear hlaJofi-
ty, BY force of arms you took down tue Jug
cs of election that were appointed ieSaiy--
They were taken by force, the Missourisns
going on, with their banners flying and with
eolors disrIayed. and the question was asked
not: .sare YOU Judge according TO the Con
stitution and the laws Not 'are you
Judge of the election carrying out the deelar-
atoms of the Cincinnati platforms OF 1909
and 1856, that the people should determine
upon their domestic institutions IN tner own
waya" But ~are YOU sound on the sooses
Tha, was what they asked them IN other
words. Are YOU Tor slavery Not {" Are
YOU for the CopstKuti3n and the laws and Tor
the support of Republican institutions and
princInles as our fathers handed Them down
70 use'' II a man did not answer that way
that pleased them. they caught him by the
collar and elected him, any many who upheld
the constitutional right of election were com
PEELED 10 fy for their lives. and many were
wounded and killed. Where then stood the
Democratic press Of the United States =
Aiding and abetting all this treason The
free-soi citizen from the State of kentucky,
as well as he from the free States, who had
seen BY actual experiment the glorious bene
fits Of free institutions, and others who had
seen the woe of slavery, and who found that
the pledges of the Democratic party bad
been kept in word and violated in fact, late
in the day sent Il their homes both in Ken
lucky, the slave and the free States, and took
up arms, and upon every field and by the
whole power that God and nature had be-
slowed upon them, they esisted the attempt
to enslave them What then did the presi-
dent of these United States? All the time
he by the force OF the United States, disarm-
ed the Republicans party, and lett them at the
mecy of those inva lers OF their rights
JOHN BROWN AND HIS RAID.
Then sprung up this John Brown. I say
he is the legitimate son OF the acts and
avowals Of the Democratic party, that they
intended to take possession of Kansas by
force of arms, ''peaeeably if they could, but
iorcibly it they must, and 1t was only when
these descendants of revolutionary fathers
took up arms in their own defence, and l
thank God there were kentuckians as we'll
as Yankees fighting there in that battle for
freedom, and they drove back The invaders,
and now a great and oyerw helnling ma ority
of the people OF Kansas say that IL shall be
free, notwithst auding James Buchanan lifts
up his impious hands, anI perhaps praying
thar it may be SO, says that Kansas lis as
much slave territory as South Carolina >
Is that Democracy In the OF that
God 10 whom he so impiously appeals, is it SO
is it "a slave State? Not at all. History
tells us that just there began John Brown
How is If | will state, as it comes to au-
thenticated To the hest of my knowledge
and belief. before he shed the blood of sin
gle man, one Of his sons was chopped to pie
ces in cold blood, and another son was drag
ged in chains by a vehicle. until by the heat,
the exposure, the ignominv, and the torture
of the moving chains, his brain crazed,
and he went mad; and his sister looking up
on all thesA sad calamities and scenes of hor-
rOr, W as also cIaZeQ. TiIcu su,oh
up the knife and made war of extermina-
ton upon the Shareholders and the invaders
OF the soil. There is the secret of the whole
mater; 50 help me. God. as l believe l am
Cassius Clay, as / stand hele tonight, say,
the beginning of this raid on Virginia. Johu
Brown felt that there was no protection for
him in the Democratic party, that the laws
of Missouri and Kansas gave no protection
to him, and that he had once more to appeal
10 the God of Hosts for defense, and he car
red that war on in Kansas, and in Missouri
and Virginia. The whole story is told; it
was nothing but the raid of man injured
by aggresslons made upon him, and these
proved to have been begun and completed
by the Democratic party themselves. There
fore, hurl back the inputation, and history
will stand by the record, and will record the
unwelcome truth. That is all of it, 1t was
no servile Instruction at all l see before
me this night a man who committed John
Brown in Virginia, and 1 hear from other
sources, as Senator Mason, that there was
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the fruit of Democratic action and injus
tice. and if it is the thing it is said to be- that
will yet threaten the peculiar institution of the
South along the whole border; they the De-
mocrats, are responsible for it by reas n OF
their avowals and their acts, but the Repub-
licans are not. | repudiate the charge. and
appeal to the country for verdict.
THE vICE-PRRsIDENT's ALLEGATIONS
Gentlemen. having said SO much prelimin-
airy and in explanation, | come 10 the declara-
ton OF the Vice Presiten, OF the United States,
as formally put forth By him, sent me under
is distinctly different from that lie made il
this State House.
Iou will pardon me for the length of this
argument, ii it may be so called. embarrass-
ed as | am by the difficulty of my position
here. 1t is rather more desuitory than had
intended it should be, but the Importance of
the questions to be discussed will, think,
plead my Justification.
The Vice President of he United States
makes against the Republican party ten Tor
nal allegations. He Says:
Il charge that the present and Interior pur-
poses Of the Republican party, are:
ITO Introduce the doctrine of negro equal
ity into American politics, and to make il the
ground Of positive legislation, hostile to the
Southern States.
To exclude tie slave property of the
South from al territory now in the Union or
which hereafter may be acquired.
TO prevent tbs admission. in any lsti-
tude, Of another siassholding State.
To repeal the Fugitive Slave Law and
practically refuse % obey the Constitution on
lhat subject