The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-01-26

: the way should mention that the Garrison
7 and Phillips party does not vote. They think
if they vote under the Constitution and hold
office under it. they would be bound to tax,
the oath of allegiance. and inasmuch ~ they
, cannot do that. they do no, vote or hold office;
but not SO with the radical abohGonis,s; they
hold that they have right not only 20 vote
but to abolish Slavery in the States. They
too have "higher law" aud say that mas
much IS slaveholders have proclaimed that
/. Slavery Is higher law they make issue. and
say that liberty is above all constitution. and
laws, and that the slave is allowed entirely
The use OF his own discretion as TO where
E and how he may hbera,e himself il liberation
IS within his reach. To that party belonged
John Brown. To that party belonged Cook,
aud to that party belonged every man deci-
dedly AID ascertainedly implicated in that
raid Not one belonged to the Repub.
hcan organization. No. Sirs After all
attempts IN every quarter to make capital ont
of the affair there has not been proved 10 be
one single Republican standing in alliance
with Seward and myself that they have been
able to implicate remotely ,or directly in this
raid of John Brown
rejoice that those resolutions of investi
CATION have been passed in the Senate of the
nited States. that they may call for me,
that they may call for Gov. Seward, that
they may cali on any other Republican, North
and South, and bring them before the prop.
er committee OF the Senate of the United
States, and there make them fairly and fully
disclose all q at they know upon the subject
tell you, now. it will result in our vindica-
tion, and in the modification of those who
have attempted to do Seward this single in
Justice.
HANG DOG TESTIMONY.
! '" hat Is the testimony upon which your
/ papers, aud the papers of Madison, have ar.
/ faiShed before the committee these men
why, that certain infamous English rene
gaze one rorbes-who avowedly fought for
pay In Kansas, and whose pay ceased as the
contest there ceased; who fought for money
IN that territory where your children and nv
children met TO seek homes, when driven out
oy the strong competition of unpaid wages
| publishes and declares that he intimated
ih conversation with Mr.. Seward, that such
RAID was going on: as he afterwards said he
dio not understand it to be anything but q
Iaid 10 collect together and carry out slaves
from the slave states by kind of stampede.
what does he say that Gov. Seward saids-
'o'r' Will have nothing to do with any such
PfoJect. Aou have no business to talk to me,
Senator OF the u. s., upon any such sub
lJect. But what does Mr. Seward saw Of all
ell? Said ie e heard Of it on his distant trav
Forbes. but utterly deny, upon the honor
OF man, that ever had any intimation dl-
reetly or indirectly touching upon any such
raid put it to every honest man, to Mr..
Magofhn. TO Mr.. Breckenridge and all their
supporters, is there single one Of you, on
such testimony as this by an infamous rene
gade who deserted his comrades in arms,
who would put to death the meanest sheep
killing dog? | will speak for you! know
you would not--not one of you would Yet
tins Is to implicate Gov. Seward, and through
him to cast sur upon the great Republican
party OF the L. s. No. gentlemen, we may go
down. but tell you here. now, tell all
these gentlemen We will never go down upon
such testimony that. Therefore reiterate.
we challenge you to the disclosure. We
boldly hurl back the imputaton as untrue,
whatever may be its intent and purpose, aud
we DEFY You TO the testimony, and appeal to
the country. That is what we do.
ABOUT INsURREcr1oss.
/ While upon this subject, allow me to SAY
a word on the subject of Instructions be-
lieve have made more speeches in vindica-
ton of the Republican party than any man
10 the United States, north or south. be.
lieve from my correspondence with individ-
that party, am intimately acquainted with
the purposes of that party as any man in
America, and l will tell you what believe
these purposes now to be, according to my
understanding, and their views with regard
TO this whole subject of the liberation Of
slaves BY force, and servile insurrectiou
We now and always have regarded the
poor African of an inferior race, and al
though we do not pretend to divine the in
scrutable designs of Deity, although we can
e not say what may be the design Of the great
D Il am;" whether they shall ascend in the
: scale of humanity, and We go down or they
! go up still higher, we leave these questions
/ entirely to the philosophical speculaior, say
e ins that is not subject of political action
: all; but SO far as prac,icabili;y is concern
8 ed, we say that the black man is now Of an
inferior race, and although the poe, saws
}, that the worm feels pang as great as her
giant dies" yet we believe that is all poe
: try and not truth. The life of man and o.
woman is desirable as il j. eleva'ed from the
: condition OF the beast of the field that Der
isheth. Therefore it is, that when Grea
: Britain held her supremacy over the immens 81
y millions of India, attempting by the despot
u ic power OF force to rule it by no amalga
d nation Of interests. taking it under a com
K mon protection and into a common glory
, those untold millions of Eastern men, by ru
= ling by force; and when upon the abs,rac
le proposition, every man was bound to confes
= that the night was on the side of the Indians
&c yet my sympa'hies were on the side of On
> common ancestors, and imagine, that out
= u side OF few fanatics, there were no me,
T. among these thirty millions of people tha
- did not sympashize with the British Th
q white race as against the red and colored n
e ces OF India. although, as / say. the righ
: was on the side of the East Indians Why
70 Because there was this dsselopmen. of ou
" " race, making them little less than godliks
4 and divine. and because more especially thest
a men had proved By The brutality. when I
Is II temporary success had crowned their efforts
q. fha, un6r for liher4x Tha y