The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-02-03
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arms. "peaceably &c thew could, but forcibly
iftbev must - and Il was only when those
descendants Of revolutionary fathers took up
arms in their own defense-and thank God
there were Kentuckians us well as Yankees
lighting there in that battle for freedom
that they drove back the invaders, and now
great and overX helming majority OF the
people of Kansas Wy that il shall be free,
Notwithstanding James Buchanan lifts up
his impious hands, and perhaps praying that
il may be 50, says that kansas is Us much
o slave territory as South Carolina" Is that
democracy In the name of that God To
whom he 80 impiously appeals, is it SOS 1t
slave State? Not Mt all. History tells us
that just there began John Brown. How it
is will state, rs Il comes TO me authentica-
ted. To the best Of my knowledge and be-
lief, before he shed the blood Of single man
one Of his sons was chopped to pieces in cold
blood, and another son was dragged in chains
by a vehicle until, from the heat, exposure,
the ignominy, and the torture Of the moving
Of chains his brain was crazed, and he went
mad; and his sister. looking upon all these
sad calamities and scenes of horror, was also
craked. Then this man took up the knife,
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shareholders and the invaders OF the soil.
There is the secret OF the whole matter,
10 help me God, Us believe | Cassius Clay,
as stand here tonight. l say the begin
ming Of this raid on Virginia. John Brown
felt that there was no protection for him in
the Democratic party; that the laws of Mis-
souri, and Kansas gave no protection to him,
and that he had once more to appeal 10 the
Godof Hosts for defense, and he carried that
war on in Kansas, and in Missouri and Vir-
ginia. The whole story is told; twas moth.
ing but the raid of man injured by aggres.
sions made upon him, and these proved u
have been begun and completed by the Dem.
ocratic party themselves. Therefore hurl
back the imputation, and history will stand
by the record. and will record the unwel-
come truth. That is all of il. It was no
servilc instruction ut all. i see before ms
this night man who committed John Brown
in Virginia, and | hsar from other sources,
as Senator Mason, that there was not a slave
rose in instruction. Ii was u raid-the
fruit of Democratic action ndinjustice; and
and il il is the thing it is said to be, that
will yet threaten the peculiar institution OF
the South along the whole border, they, the
Democrats, are responsible for it, by reason
of their avowals and their acts; but the Re
publicans are not. / repudiate the charge,
and appeal to the country for verdict.
The following are the concluding portions
of his eloquent address:
Let us look little at that thing Of DESC
luton. kbody would suppose with Cana
da Tar removed, that when il has become
dangerous for me to speak where there are
millions OF white men to few hundred
thousand slaves, that slave property had be-
come unsafe. Dissolve the Union, and move
the line to the north of the Ohio, and would
you have additional security? Does any man
suppose-is any man mad enough TO sup
pose that If these people, once bound togcth-
er by n common brotherhood of suffering, by
association in churches, by common Chris
tianity, by the ties of education, cannot re-
main in the Union, that they would remain
in peace odt OF il? Does Mr.. Breckenridge
or Gov MasOfin suppose such case as
that?
You have your answer when you say Gov.
Wise, who, in the last Presidential nce,
talked ofseizing upon the arsenal and march,
ing to Washington to take possession of the
archives, and preventing the Inauguration
ola Republican President, saying, now if
there is any fighting to be done it is to be
done in the Union, and not out of il; when
you SEQ your Democratic orators talking
round and becoming the defenders Of the
Union. Don't you all begin to see the folly
of this thing, don't you oil see, when all men
of common sens must see, that outside Of
the Union hero lies less security for slave
property? Certainly you do ! Nobody sup
poses that there would be anything other
than the way Mr.. Caldwell said to-day.
Do you suppose you would have peace
No, sir, il would be war to the knile-and
the knife to the hilt. That is what would
DO the result. Where is your security for
your slave property then! Would you eight
millions of white men, enter upon a contest
with twenty millions and hold your slaves at
home? Its not TO be heard of. More safe
ty! No. the fact is, you would have to
sacrifice your negroes, like France and Hun
gary did their slave property, Mt once, ut the
beginning ofthe war. Then what would you
gam 50 tar rs you are Shareholders? What
are the non-slayeholaers ~ gain? Why, it
reminds me ofa history that afriend Of NINE,
an ingenious man, used to tell of a white
man and On Indian. They got into fight,
and after while, the Indian proving too
hard, the white man took to his heels, and
while outrunning the Indian, the latter cried
out, "Stop, whitcman, stop" and the white
man beloved out, "Stop Twill be damned
il do" Why, gentlemen, YOU ask all of
us non-slayehOlders of tine Union who have
borne all the oppression, TO sacrifice all the
liberty we have, 10 return To those rGles and
regulations Of despotism, against which we
rose up in arms in l77G.
What do YOU propose to give us in lieu of
this great Unionas a protection? Why, the
Charleston Mercury and the Richmond En-
gnrer say, "We will send to Louis Napole-
ON, and we will ask him to lend us some
troops to defend us" Oh, shame shame
Are you going TO bring us to this? Is this
the reward that you offer US, that You will
call on Louis Napoleon, the despot of France,
and his troops, and he will defend us against
these Northern traitors and fanatics. Are
you ready for that, Democrats? We have
been led 50 long by Democratic leaders Is
this the feast to which you have invited us,
tina, after you can no longer be preserved,
that they will got Louis Napoleon (they can't
trust Victoria; she has too many notions of
freedom about her) to preserve US. What
does il meant Ii means going absolutely
back into French dcspotism. Arc you ready
for that?
The yice-P President is unfortunate in his
illusions 10 the great Athenian orator. Its
we who defend the liberties OF the people,
and they who propose to call in Philip Of
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