The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-09-29

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will for the present, receive no old Or 0npp0rt
but you Win have 70 na7nsain your principles y
cpposisson, altAouehy tA1it ~ u dS1sncc Of
lAelk +k.d that foe theaimp1e sspson thee = fhe
great year, 1857, when Mr. jefferson proposed
that slavery should be excluded Y ~ re pnblic
domain Of tie Udited StateA lying 10nshwe1t, -
well o. that lying northuesG a st6S2 Ohio river
those States had mot ths forecasA bad no4 the
Judgment to surrender the Temporary c9pyenf
ences and advantages Of slavery and 70 elect, -
your ancestors chose for you, the crest system Of
free labor. They choSe slasesy, md they have
to drag out, for some years yet not 1nn& mot 70
long q some Of you will live, but still o. long
that they win be drag and . weight upon your
movements, instead II lending yod Assistance
shsylhays got y drug ost9ts ths snd, their ys1
TEN Of slavc labor. You have, therefore, - roo
zee, the whole responsibility. Il depends upon
you. You have no reliance upon the Atlantic
Nsatesof thevEast, North or South You have
ne ouuos;tion &C she Alleebany nounHains; hut
still The power isr With yea. You are situated
where al powers have ever been, that have con-
trolled the destiny Of Che nasion 70 which they
belonged. You are IN The land which produces
the vheat and the corn, tha osredl grains --aile
land that H. covered with the oak, and where they
cay. the slave cannot live. They are II the land
that produces cotton and sugar. and the tropical
ffuits-in the land where they say the white man
cannot labor, in the land where the white man
must perish il he have not . negro slave 70 pro-
vide him with food and raiment Laughter. L.
They do, indeed, command the mouths Of the
rivers; but what 10 that worth, except 9 they
derive perpetual moral reinvigoration, from the
hardy sons of the North, that reside around the
sources Of those mighty rivers? CApplanse.l
/ am sure that IN THU, am speaking only
words Of truth and experience. The Northwest
is by no means so small as you may think i;
speak thus to Won because feel that am, and
during all my mature life hare been, one Of you.
Although OF New York, I am still q citizen OF
the Northwest, (tgood.0 The Northwest ex-
tends eastward to the base of the AIleghany
nountains, and does not Ill Of western New York
lie westward Of the Allegheny mountains =
(.Good.D .,; - : 'ss si-s.F.s ~.
Whence comes all the inspiration Of freesoil,
which spreads itself with such cheering voices
over all these plainsy Why, from New York,
westward Of the Allegheny mountains The peo-
pie before me---who are you but New York men,
while you are men Of the Northwest It 10 an
old proyerb that men change the skies, but not
their mind, when they emigrate; but you have
changed neither skies nor mind. (Appiause)
might call the roll Of western New York and
doubt not that when came TO Herkimer cotln-
ty should have = response. certainly have
had responses from Cayuga and Genessee-A
voice Erie, y and from Erie, "a voice sAuburn,o
and from Auburn !; "a voice Seneca, Z and from
Seneca "a voice yates, and from Yates; aye,
aye. Loud laughter.) Bless my soul i have
been laboring under q delusion I'll the time.
thought was ont here midway between the
Mississippi and the lakes: and find am stand
voice sR;oht Mt homc'S Another voice sAnd
old Ontari9.Y And old Ontario. We will not
forcrt old Ontario nor old Osvero. nor old Onei
da. a11sit2' II '-s.9a 99-79- III 71'7'is
Fellovt citizen, + viii add but one more word:
th;s i nor the business IF this dav alone. II ia
not The business cf this year alone Il is not the
business of the Northwest alone Il ia the in
terest, the destiny Of human society on the Con.
tinent. You are to make the whole continent.