Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-11-19

demonstration OF the season. 1t was the
occasion of the new Oregon Senator, Col.
Bakers welcome. His friends rallied in
such throug5 in and about the American
Theatre, as never were packed into or
spilled out of, any building in California,
to hear any man, before. Everybody was
there, and hosts of ladies besides. The
Colonel was equal to the emergency. He
had hard work to make his Popular Sow
eaeignty and his thoroughbred Republic
'canism travel in harness together without
hitching, but hee6jd it. He took back
nothing of the Popular Sovereignty of his
Oregon speeches, nor bated hair of his
old irrepressible, up-to-the=handle Anti
Slavery. He rode along the lines drawn
up for the battle, assuring the timid, con-
6rmtng the courageous. he spoke two
hours and a quarter, and not a fellow
budged nm inch from his seat till he had
ended. He takes down and puts out of
sight all others of our Pacific orators
He is merry by instinct, in his most seri-
Gus arguments. How he sometimes car
ries away his audience IN incident will
| show. He had heen saying that "even
where despotism is rife, ideas of personal
liberty Rrc thriving. Even under the
shadow of the throne of Russia-on the
banks of the Seine, where the ashes of the
/ first Napoleon repose-where the British
Queen in majestic dignity presides over a
nation of. frcemen-everywhere abroad,
the great ideas of personal liberty spread,
increase, fructity. Here-ours is the ex-
ceptionl in this home of the exile, in this
I land of constitutional liberty, il is left for
us to teach the world that Slavery march
! es IN solemn processionl that under the
American stars Slavery has protection,
and the name of freedom must be family
breathed-the songs of Freedom be faint
/ ~ sungi Garibaldi, Victor Emanuel, and
hosts of good men are praying, fighting,
dying on scaffolds, in dungeons, oftener
yet on bnttle fields, for Freedom. And
while this great procession marches under
the arches of Liberty, we alone shrink
back, trembling and afraid, whit Freedom
is but mentioned" The audience cheered,
of course, but a gentleman on the plat
form, whom every one knew-an invalid
apparently carried away with enthusiasm,
rushed to the footlights, with extended
| arms, excessive vehemence, and hollow
voice, exclaimed: sit is true it is true,
gentlemenI We are slaves compared with
the rest of the world. The Colonel is
right!'-thcn, pale as ghost, staggered
back to his seat
Possibly some may think that the Col
onei since his election may he a littleluke
warm inhis Rcpublicanism-cooled by the
=
Let such read the following. and iudgc for
themselves. He had been talking about
the Union; when pausing suddenly he said:
"Bnt here somebody RECEIVERS his wits
and seems to address me: "Col Baker
what say you of Stewards irrepressible.con
| tiict2 Why this. IF Mr.. Seward had that
opinion, think he had right to express
it. And npprehend it is your opinion,
too l'aughter] You don't think Slavery
is going to last forever? God is too good
for that. Athousand years is rs Que day
/ in His sight, and it may take some time for
it utterly to decay. hope diseases won't
last forever; ] don't think that death will,
| very much doubt if Slavery will. Yon
Breckinri1ge men, if there is a little vein
of picty-in YOU, inherited from your moth
er, Laughterl not practiccd by you per-
haps-cven you must hope that slavery
will some day be abolished. Mr.. Clay
and hewas no abolitionist-used to felici-
tate himself that, by the freed slaves of our
land, civilization would yet be carried to
the banks of tho Niger. Read Pope's
Nessiah-I don't know that Pope was an
abolitionist-though inspired poets are apt
! TO be. Applause. Homer was, Shak-
| Spenre was, the Bible is. and Pope would
be in very good company if he was. So
long as there is aslave and master in the
world the slaves heart will throb for free
dom. Educate him and hewill fight for it.
Nerve him and he will die for it-and YOU
to save your soul, can't help saying: 'Hu.-
rnh for the weaker partyr [Cheersl l
! would shoulder my rifle to suppress insnr-
J rectioni and yet in my own impulses, in
the depth of.my own reflection, feel that
it Mr.. Seward, looking forward with the
eye of great statesman and philosopher,
said the conflict was irreprcssible-G0 cd 20
! h Ia II I S,,.l- At. FFS-
mcndous cheers
! As the Colonel is famous for perora-
tions, think you will pardon me for re-
porting entire, impertectly of course, as /
am not up to that sort of thing, his con-
Guiding remarks. He had been saying that
whatever was nominated in the bond he
wodld abide-no more. Then he pro-
ceedcd:
ain the presence of God-I say it rover.
cntly-freedom is the rule and siavery hut
the exception. 1t is a marked, guarded,
protected exception. There it stands. If
even public opinion must not be allowed
to visit its dusky cheek too roughly, be it
SO; but go no further than the terms of
the compact. We nrc city set ON a hill.
Our light cannot be hid. AS for nc, 1
dare not, will not, be false to freedom.
LChcers. Where the feet of my youth
we're planted, there, by freedom, my feet
shall ever stand. 1 win walk beneath
the banner. 1 will glory in her strength.
have watched her, in history, struck
down on an hundred chosen fields of bat
tie have seen her friends Hy from her
her foes gather around her. have seen
her bound to the stnke; have seen them
give her ashes to the winds. But when
they turned TO exult, have seen lieragoin
meet them face to face, resplendent in
complete steel, brandishing in her right
BILE light. Vehement cheering Jake
courage. The people gather around her.
:. Eha Gani..s of :.