The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-01-03


captain:.) of tho States Of Virginia and
North Carolina were to attack Springfield.
if there was not man within five thousand
miles Of there. the women would bind them
in thirty minutes, aud would not ask sym.
pathy, and the matter would not be deem.
ed Of sufficient importance to ask for com.
mittee of investigation on the part Of the
corporation. Why. sir, Governor Wise
compared the people Of Harper's Ferry to
sheep. as the public press states. 1t is .
libel, it is not true. for never saw flock
fifty or hundred sheep in my life that had
not belligerent ram among them. We
do not understand this case. sir. We un-
derstand no such panic as this Ii seven.
teen. or fifty, or one hundred men. were to
attack town Of the size Of Harpers Ferry
anywhere throughout the region with which
| am acquainted. they would simply be put
in iail in thirty minutes. and then they
would be tried for their crimes. and. if
guilty. they would be punished. and there
would be no row made about it If seven.
teen men were to attack the city Of Detroit
in any capacity, and the Mayor should ap.
point as guard more than seventeen con.
stables to take care Of them. the City Au.
ditor would decline to audit the account;
he would not pay it.
The facts in this case. as they appear to
be, are these The fugitive slaves at Chat
ham. in Canada. got together some time
ago, | do not know when, and organized .
provisional government for the United
States. There are, understand. about
sixty thousand fugitive slaves in the Prov.
iuce of Canada. They got together in
Chatham, in Canada, and there resolved 70
organize provisional Government for these
United States They did %, and sent as
their agents-this gather from newspaper
accounts-to put their government in mo-
tiOn, John Brown and sixteen other white
men and five negroes, without any hopes
of support from any source. Nov. gentle
men, ask. where did these funds come
from? All that was needed would amount
to about probably twenty cents on each
head Of your own fugitive slaves in Cana.
da; and yet the Republican party Of the
North. representing one million three hun.
dred thousand votes. is to be charged with
completely in this miserable fugitive slave
government, established in Chatham somc
time-God knows when. and neither know
nor care. Sir, it is too ridiculous can
not treat it with any sort Of Seriousness. As
said before, no man Of common sense at
the North even thinks Of charging it upon
the Republican party. The Democratic
party and Democratic press, from which the
Senator from Georgia read copious extracts.
is kuown not to represent the sentiment
there. 1t is hired. pampered press Look
at that identical paper from which he read.
and | will guarantee you will lind hundreds
of dollars worth of Government advertise.
ments in it. Sir. it is villainaus press.
hired to do dirty work and it does it faith.
fully.
The Senator from Georgia states that
your northern allies are in hopeless mi.
nority. Well. sir, that is true You have
crowded them little too far. You have
left their bones bleaching all over the land.
They are politically dead. hopelessly dead.
beyond any resurrection The trumpet Of
the archangel will never reach them, politi.
ca,ly. You have crowded them too far. sir.
You have forced them to vote for your Lie.
compton constitution. You forced them to
vote for the repeal Of the time-honored Mis-
souri, compromise. You have kept The
"nigger" eternally before them, and wheth.
er he was acceptable or obnoxious to them,
large or email doses as you saw fit to pre-.
sent him. and it has been fatal dose; you
have given too much.
Sir, hope this resolution will pass unan.
imously, aud l hope the action of this com.
mittee will be effective. l hope it will b
searching and thorough. and my word for
it. some other party than the Republican
party will come up delinquents under it,
action.