, 1860-10-29

don't cnrc whether the charging blessings of
freedom bless our laud, or Its glorious banner
heroine the f,istian rag tllat waves Its folds
over band Of Slaves.
What is our Republican doctrine? Go1nck
to the old fathers and read the old record Of
those tried and trusted men. These say to the
Democrats who laye wandered away, Return
from your hackElldings; seek again the old
paths" Our platform is but the .old JctIerso-
l,ian platform rcailirmeti. If We arc wrong,
then the framcrs Of our institutions were
wrong. Do yon ask for our principles? See
them Illustrated in the aboundiBg resources Of
Of Illinois or Ohio, :uld then Look ut Kentucky,
thirty years older. Wla' has made this differ
cncc! 1t is that over this Northwestern, Ter
tecting mantle Of freedom.
.1ust as the Lord placed The cheruI,im and
the flaming sword III tile garden of Eden to
keep the devil ont. The difference is that the
devil got Into Eden once, and thank God. the
devil of slavery never polluted our soil. Gov
ernor Wise accurately described the state Of
the South i'll a speech delivered at Alexandria,
Va, in an nddress made by him in 1885, from
Which read an extract:
"You l,ayc the line Of the Allegheny, that
beautiful blue ridge which stands placed there
by tho Almighty not to obstruct tic way Of
tile people to market, but placed there iu the
yGry bounty Of Providence t0 milk the clouds,
the sources Of YOUR riyers. and at
the head of every stream is the waterfall muir
1nurinw Inc ycry music Of YOUR power. And
yet commerce has long ago spread hcr sails
and sailed away from you; you have not, as
yet. dug more than coal enough to warm
have set no tilt hammer Of Vulcan
to strike blows worthy Of the gods In the iron
ioundrIcs. You have not set spun more than
course cotton enough. 1u tic way Of manufac-
turc, to clotlc your own slaves. You have
Lad no commerce, no mining, no nlanu1ac-
lures. You have relied alone on the single
power Of agriculture; and such agriculture!
inattcntion to your only source Of wealth has
scared the very bosom Of mother Garth In.
stead Of having TO feed cattle On 4 thousand
hills, you have to clla5e the stump
tailed steer through the scdsc
patches to procure tough t'cef:steak.
crty added 10 poverty, poor land added to
poor land, and nothing added to nothing
While the owner is talking politicsat Rich
moud. or in Congress, or spending the s,tln-
mer at the White Springs, the lands grow
poorer and poorer, and this soon brings land,
negroes and nil under the hammer You have
the owners skinning the negroes, and the nc
sroes skinnins The land, until Ill grow poor''
Would any Of you have these advantages?
You can have them by tue going. never ex-
rcct to 90 to the Territories AIy grave ia
already chosen. But wish to scc,lrt: for my
children and grandchildren all the blessings
their father and grandfather had before them.
We should DC as witc for the generations to
follow rs the Fathers were IN regard to us.
All, my Democratic friends; when tile hour
Of sober second Thought comes, you will be
soHy at what you have swallowed on this
subject.
Il il constitutional 10 do this, do you say?
WHO were wisc, The fathers, or thc young men
OF our day, ubout thirty-three years of are and
about three years out Of lawyers Office The
question for you s,will you follow these youn.
men or tile old 1nens The rrcat Stars. lii
up by the Providence OF God. ur those
Wil1 ~ the wisr,s .Ircriyinu md l.inu drc.;ycd
Cas- was tic orj.,nal iuycn1t,r IF thr idea
Of souattcr sovereignty. liz rave birth to Il.
The rickcty in1ant lau~1lsl,ci, and lan-uisi,inc,
died Cass hurled If. Dout,1ns took ofr tGc
clods, Opened tic coffin and ressufrectctl tie
Eody, By brcathin. not divine lif., hut his own
life into it,
You llcar about Popular Sovereignty, but it
las never been seen. You llayc had intcrycn-
ton but no non-intcrycntion Wien it was
tried in Kansas, Douglas had no sympathy with
her suffering Suns. When Republicans get the
power, beautifully robcd i'll free garments, Kan
sas will enme iu through tic doors they hold
wide open for her admission.
And Douglas says-said in lis late pcrcsri-
nations af,cr lis u,othcr-Has not nopnlar
soycrci.uty worked out Freedom in kuisas ,
As we'll might apostatc judas. lifting nj, his
head from pcrdjtjou. say. See what blessed
ness Of christianity l have conferred by deny
i,r and crucifyinr nv Lori. Iook At hfs
e.lccch in The Scuatc. when Jeff Davis rrcsscd
him. All! what a humiijatinr snect:cIe hc
presented When he bowed tl,s knee 10 JEFF.
Davis. Is the representative Of thc slave oil.
g;lrcy, an 1noallc4l his despair at their feet.
Oh! said he, my masters! 1ly masters! Who
hns done your work SO WELL 40 faithfully, so
long rs I? Never have you Lad n more cring-
ing, sycophantic servant than I. See
what have done. Through my means you
have moro slave territory tlan yon ever asked
for. have blinded my Northern supporters,
and done this for you. know Of uuthing to
form parallel 10 It but the answer Of Balaalns
ass, when snarting under The rod OF its master:
"Nllat have done unto thee that thou hast
6mittcn INC: Am not T not thine ass, upon
which thou hast ridden ever since was thine
unto this day?"
Many men say, no doubt the Republicans
arc right, but wc fear dissolution Of this glo.
rious Union.
They cannot dissolve it. from their ycry ina.
| biiity tu do 70. We arc the only protection
| they lsayr against their nis.crs. Tie minute
| they dissolve, these would shoulder lnNs
| kct and manage their own domestic institu
| tions in their own way They ncyc,
| will be permitted to carry out their yapid
idle tl,rcats We intend to inaugurate a SEC
| ond General Jackson, in tile stern, moral in
| tcgrlty Of his purposes.
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