New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-31
PENNSYLVANIA SAYS "NO MORE COMPRO
MISE"
JOHN mcKMAE's PHILADELPHIA SPEECH.


On Friday evening, in Philadelphia " social re-
union of the Peoples Party Operatives" partook of
public dim at Samoan street Hall About three
hsntred p. rsons wee in attendance Most Of these
WeIe wel-hno"n ward ,oiltlcians, and some of taem
lold prominent municipal office.
Tie first tcast, The Memory Of Washington" was
drank il silence the Whole audience sanding. There
war no verbal resl onse. The second, "The Union
and the Constitution" was responded to by the Hon.
Join Hickman. Tie mention Of this gentlemans
nane excited great cheering prolonged through several
Minute, followed by tremendous stamping Of feet.
He said:
Mr.. PRrsIpEsT AND GEsTLEAEs OF THE Pro-
PLEs Panty OF PHlLADELPHIA: thank you for the
OF iiy you have afforded for giving express
son t. NY dey oion 10 the Constitution and the Union.
hye the Constitution, because it The Union,
and love The UIion becau.e II gives to security
apd PROPERTY With. ut them We 'hould fall into
Andy; lid wone, without them, broti or would be
aim! ed girft brot er, and blood would down
the streets OF your leauiful city.
Ii not nect ssary for TO declare TO you who are
arTrisfd of tran spring events, vhat they both in
dang,r and that neither of them will DO preserved by
PsIer resolves The time has rather sved for action
u an exIres-it u. No man tsa the in xriiy
Of tbis Uhion by popular assemblies declaring devotion
10 tie Constitution. Tie tire has when every
has SO, to cene Lis position in the great struggle
viii is about ~ ce off between riyal sections and
rival interests. No greater truth proclaimed
Il hearing If he American people than th.t there
J. al sntagoi i'm between FIetGsm and Siiyery. lap
llause AEG let man console himself wi the re-
t.c'io that tbs antagonism Ia 10 be quieted by the
rbliia'iyts Of compon.ire. A voice: Or by public
nteingr.J You Cannot form trucer between them
with will Tart. II Is us impossible AZ to dam up
nilhy rivers, and 10 say thai from such point the
dry land shall appear As long the free sentiment
vi tie North ssll invade the territory Of the South
70 long tie South i'll have col aints; and you have
whether you i'll serve God or Belial lAppltuse.l
1bs IL not tie krrt time in history that these dill
erhiet Lave cone upon us and when the safety Of the
country bus been iupeiilled In 1920 compromised
III lsa> We compron iso, III 1854 We compromised for
the lurIcte OF making Ieace between these rvnl and
coiGithe interests, and in every instance in which
cCmpft n,er have been enterd into ese compromises
have been follow ed by increased difficulties and dan
gers. And row Is proposed TO us, with all the expert
,nce of the raf, that we sha agsu endeayor 10 make
lasting true te,we cen Freedom and Slavery. have
rid at another tine. and III another place that air lines
nmy cNte rival eaies, but they bound con.
hiotiis en,inentr The ghts of tie press, the waves
Of pr fcent craft the mechanical tendencies Of highly
Productive aI-thtse " ID always make impression
niCn the weak ard the impotent. Ny felow-citizenr
Iut II 10 you, sober, staid sensible men 10 give
TO ne, II you can the lines OF compromise which shall
give 10 us rect. viii you restore tie Missouri Com
promise Hi.-IA voicc, mol enacted In 1870 at the
d'nsnd # he B nth, and repealed in 1854 at the san
'nLnd1 VIII you rccnaet il again IA vcie mot
b! IN m ahs. MOI by aIy means. No, would
rail.r = ter ny right arm " be severed from the
a oulcs, lthdersl than place upon myself any such
marx Of humiliation and disgrace. Renewed chcersl
Are you willii that this game Of battledore and
81 u,lec,,a 81 Ill longer be pyed between the South
sHd The ho'ih II you Are. AN not, aud the line is
drawn between us ne islhcly as il is drawn between
tie North md the South. voice, "He's exactly
right and cLetIs As for my self say il here, and
rsy II distinctly, defining not TO be- misunderstood by
al nm-ard yon will lind will carry it out through
ny hie.no more compromise. lCiies of Good"
AID ,o'iierons Ind long continued applause. NV love
hrue Constitution and the Union Is equal TO That of
an, OIL ,r man tcheers, but will not buy them from
any nan WHO does not exclusively own them. ("Good
ibid 'hteisJ IL the Constitution and the Laws will not
secure Tie iesly OF every right-mnded citizen is Il 20
ee>Tec'td that iiimsy compromise, patched up by
NJ lers OF Coneretr s going TO do whit they cannot
eject My motto is, millions for defense, not one
cent ior tribute ICleersl
lspoler, my fellow -ci,izens, that We should look
al The realizes Of the lin es South Carolina de, l,res
that Gle Las already eeceded from the Union; that the
bonds Lave been severed which bound us together /
contend that II South Carolina il out OF the Union thera