New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-21

he wonn obey III Not fes the love of the millions
who hang upon his lips not for ten thousand times
more baube than that for which his speech
ia bid, would William II. eward Lift his band to
return fugitive slave 70 Virginia. Great app,anse
You spplaudit-aDd yet what compimsntti s' It's
only fair; 1t Is only deserved compliment Tor US 70
believe of greatest satesmsn thai when he ewore
10 support the Constitution he intended 10 commit per-
jury laughter lam not exaggerstmg; II l nad
ood here tonight 10 affirm IN your presence tnas he
great statesman Of the Empire State would nave
me, rightfuly the epithet Of Sanderer am obliged
TO believe judging by the record Of his life, by the
test pony of his fellow sitizens that the very Consul
tuition which he has sworn scores OF times TO
hands almost diviue-that when he swore to
support il he intended to commit perjury.
Ia that the Union to which you can
no when as s Ss would like
to add my weight to the civil influence OF
my country directly. Show me how ! can
without jeoparding my self-respect-without swear
and ought not to keep and viii vote for William
Fl. Seward for the Presidency tomorrow
And yet I'd rather zee Democrat Presiden; laugh
teri and viii tell you why i there rs ths h S1min
istration-you will all be waiting TO see what law can DO
what Liberty fettered can do against Slavery Agita-
ton viii be lulsd; everything like Tree ana unle'
Democrat be elected, and every man ID the Free
States will arm himself for a struggle Win
the Slave Power. and insunecnon VIII
break out the mountains, ana lhsurreclon "
thought in the pulps and we shall have greate ANU
Slavery progress IN four years than in Az under sncn
programme as that of Stewards Administration; AGAIN;
there is another law Of the United SAFES slavery
an expensive, wasteful institution IL canno. I'VE;
God Fixed it that Justice should be expediens, ana
Tyranny should be bankrupt. He fixed that when lie
settled The laws of His Kingdom. Therefore when
man assumes to represent his brother man. IN the rSt
place that m an ressts the right to nsurrecon Mark
you am not asking the slave to rise; am nos urging
him TO rise; only say Take Oft your loot, ana leave
them, the Anglo Saxon and the African, to write out
their own constitution by the vigor OF their own
manhood. And in addition, there is the pecunary
| motive. South Carolina, for instance, staods
in the keen competition Of the nineteenth century
We all of us, strive to get our living we exercise
our trains TO the utmost we harness the steam, ana
send the lightning on errands; the little child does
something and the of 20 contributes his mite.
| We all work. New-York works from the hudson
back to the Falls and, when she has eaten ana
herself, how much does abe lay up Now, South Car
DINA has OF eha idle, by aristocratic taste and fash
ion; the other half in chains does not work from any
motive but compusion, and OF course, at dsadvan.
age The consequence s there is not one man IN four
quarters live upon their nnsklled labor. How much
do you suppose they lay uPi Why, as the lsnman
as they threaten they should 90 out of the Union as
| Lydia Maria Child said, you have heard, per
haps, of the poor separating from the toWh'
t aTa' But suppose that they went out They
| have cot TO- SUPPORT Government, President gem
erals, police, navy, army-the luxury OF Govern
mept WHY Democratic Government Is Infinitely
more expensive than despotic. The Government Of
of Russia does not cost half much per head as the
Republic of North America In order TO DO II, they
have got to have taxes. What are they to rest on
Labor-a taxes do. Now that labor il capable OF
bearing taxes must be intelligent. If 1t is unskilled
they could not send pound Of cotton TO Liverpool for
less than ls or 20 cents To-Day the dispute Is gong
thing must educate him. Educate him Educate the
slave My throat is not safe. Educate the slave
You might heat locomotive red-hot get ON top, ana
ride into powder magazines you would be prudent
man compared with educating slaves. And South
Carolina must do it before she can support Gov.
eminent Leave her to this just law OF pollt.
cal economy; Ny good friend the slave does not
tioDe Republican or Democrat, Of the light; that Is all
he asks. Just tear ont that parchment to pieces
Ilisses and applause.l Well, now, I've great deal
more patriotism than you have-a great deal. 1 be;
lieye that George Washington and John Hancock, and
John Jay and John Randolph believe that when
they sat and made that instrument, they intended
That's the talk" believe that If you could raise
them to-day from their graves, and show them that
speech of VIM. III. Stewards, they would say: Chl-
dIen, for Gods sake, believe that we didn't mean t;
tear our mistaken parchment TO pieces, and do us the
Justice to believe that if could have seen our inst
tutions SO prostituted, would haveseeDlthem ami
hilated first. ! believe, with you, that they were
than youi say tear that parchment in tatters in
h nor of Washington. Kisses and applruse.I Dldyou
ever hear Edward Everett ring out with those clarion
tones of his that favorite phrase describing Washing
ton, "that immortal rebel We'll Jonn n Srown ao 81
Harper's Ferry was just the same. Applause ana
Kisses. You see we don't apply our logic rlgldiy 70
the line; you can't compare justice and logic. but
let me 90 on i want 10 finish my argument. i was
speaking of the influence of the Union. Why do
want to separate you from New-Orleansi Why, Tor
this reason want TO put you in relation TO New.Or-
leans Just where Liverpool stands in relation to New
Orleans. just see the difference. The New York
pulpit is end of a telegraph; the New. Orleans
II could separate New. York politically from New
Orleans VIM. ii. Seward would care no more for the
opinion Of South Carolina than he does for Palm
erston; The N. Y. TRIBUNE would think as little
of Toombs or of Keitt as it does of The Lon
don Times. We should intermarry just the same;
we should have the same religion the same language
the came literature, steamboats, running with the same
frequency, the same interchange of commerce, but
comparatively, independence in thought. To-day,
90 into factory village in NewEngland, what is the
mans kitchen; he pays the minister and turns him out
when he don't like him. Now ladies and gentlemen,
don't mean any disparagement trace my lineage |
back to Plymouth through almost unbroken line Of
elergymen. know the services Plymouth has rem |
dered, but know this, the best things my mother |
gave free lips, and mean to use them lap
plause.l PROSTATE race lifts up its hands and says
TO u.s. White man. free man, give at least the truth
il is the only hope and the only weapon that is left us.
And mean, far as am concerned, that they shall
have it. Now, If you enter the villages OF New
England, it is melancholy TRUTH but it is |
a truth, that the pulpit is the vassal of |
wealth. rode, as came TO you, along the railroads
of Connecticut, and by my side sat clergyman. In |
the innocent frankness Of his heart ne said to me:
"Mr. Stewards sptech is awful disappointment; |
wish he had been bolder If the ministers could only
speak ont said he but the rich men won't let us.
And looked into his eyes and thought you in fact
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