Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-20
ABOUT INsURRECr1oxs.

While upon this subject, allow me to say a
word upon the subject of Instructions
believe have made moro speeches in vindiea-
tiOn Of the Republican party, than any man
in the United States, north or south be-
lieVe, from my correspondence with indiYidu-
ais, associations, and other combinations of
that party, l am as intimately acquainted
with the purposes of that party as any man
in America, and 1 will tell you what believe
those purposes now to be, according TO nv
understanding, and their views with regard
to this whole subject of the liberation of slaves
by force, and servile insurrection.
We now and always have regarded the poor
African as of an inferior race, and although
we do not pretend to divine the inscrutable
designs of Deity, although we cannot say what
may be the design Of the great Il am ;" WLeth-
er they shall ascend in the scale of human
ity, and we 60 down or they 90 up still higher,
we leave these questionslentirely to the philo-
sophical speculator, saying that is not a sub
ject of political action at all; but so far as
practicability is concerned, we say that the
black man is now Of an inferior race, and al
though the poet says "that the worm feels
pang as great as when a giant dies, yet we
believe that is all poetry and not truth. The
life Of man or of woman is desirable as it is
elevated and removed from the condition of
the beast of the field that perisheth. There
fOer it is, that when Great Britzin held her
supremacy over the immense millions of In
dia, attempting by the despOtic power Of
force, TO rule it by no amalgamation of inter-
ests, taking it under a common protection and
into o common glory those untold millions of
Eastern men, but ruling by force; and when
upon the abstract proposition, every man was
bound to confess that the right was On the
side Of the Indians, yet my sympathies were
on the side Of our common ancestors, and
imagine, that outside of a few fanatics, that
there were no men among these thirty mill
ions Of people that did not sympathize with
the British. The white race as against the
red and colOred races of India, although, as
say, the right was on the side of the East
Indians. Why2 Because there was this de-
Velopment Of our race, making them little less
than gOdlike and divine, and because more
especially these men had proved by their bru-
talltyi when temporary success crowned
their efforts, that they were unfit for liberty
The man who dares not to be generous, is
not tt to rule or to be free, and we all re-
joiced when We understood that the old Brit
ish lion had risen triumphant over the Jug
gernautism flags Of the people.
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and see Hungary when it struggled against
superior power, for that independence
which Austria attempted to take away from
them. When she fought for her God-given
and national rights of independence all this
was changed Why7 Because, by the libe-
ration of their slaves they showed that they
perceived great principle, they based them
selves indissOlubly upon the sympathy of all
the unbiased intellect of cur wide world of
humanity. We all wanted Hungary to tri-
umph. We all desired her independenee.-
So, in regard to the black race, l say here to-
night that which l have said as many ss ten
or twelve years ago, that if that issue arose,
which God forbid it should come, when the
African slave and the superior race should
take up arms to yindicate their liberty, which
can be in some States done, but by the abol-
ishment Of the white race, lam on the side
of my own race. The solution of this prob
lem is fFaternal one. These are the senti-
ments which have always svoWed, therefore
| cast back the infamous calumny that there
is in my breast any sentiment like that which
would sanction the making Of a raid upon
the South. Further, I believe this to be the
sentiments so far as know them, of the mem
bers Of the great Republican party of the
States. sl