Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-09-22
SPEECH or SENATOR BROWN.
Delivered at Crystal Springs, Copiah county,
Mississippi, September 6. 1860.

introduced to the audience assembled
ar und the stand, by WI. Willing, Jr.
N complimentary terms. After indulg
ing in a retrospective peroration relative
to matters and lhinys in his beloved Co
piah, he said that he had spoken to
them twenty-five years before AS a Dem.
ocrat, aud he asked, Will you hear me
to-day as . De'nocrstl A voice-We
viii. He came to-day to tell the truth
be came as he had always came; a
plain, blunt man, to make a plain, blunt
speech. When he left his people about
eight months before, he left them united.
They were now divided-one party for
Breckenridge, another for Bell, and now
aud then a discord,nt note for Douglas
each hurrahing for their choice. But
this was all wrong. He would have
them hurrah for State Rights, flor Justice
and Equality. Our interests, are one
our destiny must be M He again da-
~guerreotyped the respective candidates
in the order in which they were nomi-
natd.
Lincoln he considered a man Of strong
native intel|ect-be would say vigorous
intellect, though lacking culture. lie
studied and understood men more than
he did books. He also alluded to bis
fixed, immovable hatred to the institu-
tons Of the South. He spoke Of Han
nibal Hamlin Is = keen, shsexd, cum
ming "dowo-easter," but with no great
amount Of intellect. He thought a
great deal more of him when . Demo-
crat than he does now. II heowed old
Nick . debt in the shape Of !. genuine
Yankee, and wanted to settle with him
fairly, he would send him Hannibal
HamIin.
He next took up Mr.. Bell. He would
do him no injustice. He sorued the
petty advantages which some Of his
party were resorting to. Nj. Bell had
served forty consecutive years in public
life, and it was not strange that he
should be the best informed. He thought
Mr.. Bell could shake a tree longer and
not make an apple fall than any man
he knew of-that is, he could say a
great deal aud not make himself under.
stood, If be so desired. That is, he was
old and cunning; he had stood on every
side Of every question, and yet was not
committed to anything. NJ. Everett,
as a scholar, stands unrivalled, but be
was no politician.
lie characterized NJ. Douglas as bold,
intrepid and dashing, and full Of ambi-
ton. He marks high, and boldly strikes
for victory. Mr.. johnson was slow, but
Of a vigorous and ponderous mind ; he
arrived at conclusions SLOWLY, but as he
had supposed, with great accuracy. He
couldn't account for the position he at
present occupied, unless that lie loitered
behind the main army, and was picked
up by the real guard.
he then very briefly alluded to Breck-
'nr'dge and Lane-speaking of the
former Is young, ardent, and enthusiast
tic; and, as a politician, if he has a
fault. it is in being a little too cautious.
He laid special stress on "OId Joe,"
Honest Old Joe :" be was a great man
great in goodness and purity Of
tbougbt-knows what is right, and hon
eat enough to do it.
Gov. Brown was willing to do justice
to all personally, aud thought that ma
ture had endowed each and al! Ct them
with . sufficient amount of talent to dis
we'll the duties of the Presideu-
tisI office.
But he would speak Of the platforms
on which they were nominated. The
platform was founded on the
idea Of hostility to slavery-ou
bitter, unrelenling, Internal preju-
lice against us and our institutions. To
Mr.. Lincoln belonged the honor of first
proclaiming the "irrepressible conflict"
doctrine, and quoted from a speech de.
'ivered by him June II, 1858, ir which
he asserted that a house divided against
slave, half fee-cqhid not
'tand-that it must be all one Ming, or
the other, etc. He wa for meeting
such men at the very threshold and
'hrottling them. Survive or perish, said
be, this government shall not pass into
he hands Of such men. With such q
party in possession Of the government,
how long could slavery stand Que against
10 machinatiOusi Dovnvard5 down..
ward, was it, doom /; and be stood there
10 warn bis fellow-citizens of the ap-
preaching danger. Already he heard
he rattling Of the distant thunder, and
'aw the lightuing's CLEAN.
OF the Union platform be would say
barsh. He felt very much, in
regard 70 that, IS the husbasd felt,
whose wife insisted on him spanking the
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