Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-15
Col. H. ID. Baker on the "TrrepreAsibIe
Connict.''


publican senator elect from Oregon, in San
Francisco, few days previous to the election,
has been briefly alluded to 10y telegraph The
correspondent OF the New York Times gives
some Of the passages from that speech, which
indicate the character OF his rcpublcanism
better than any OF the flying rumors which
have been current since his election. He had
been talking about the Union, y hen, pausing
suddenly, he said -
"But here somebody RECEIVERS his wits and
seems to address me Col. Baker what ray
you OF Stewards irIcpresSibe conflict? Why,
this. Ii Mr.. Seward had that opinion think
he did right in expressing it, Aud | appre-
bend 1t is your opinion, too. (Laughter.)
You don't think slavery is going to last Tor
ever! God is too good Tor that. A thousand
years is as a one day in his sight, and it may
take some time for it utterly to decay. | hope
diseases wont last forever; ] don't know that
death will l very much doubt it slavery
will. You, Breckenridge men, if there is
little vein OF pcty in you, inherited from your
mother (iaughter) not practced by you, per
| haps-even you must hope that at some day
slavery will be abolished. MIR. Clay-and he
was no abOlitloniSt-uScd to teHClate hmselt
that, by the freed slaves of our land civiliza-
ton would yet be carried to the banks OF the
Niger. Read Popp's McsSiah-I don't know
that Pope was an abolitionist-ihough inspired
poets are apt TO be. (Appause.l Homer
was, Shakespeare was, the Bible is, and Pope
would be in very good company it he was.
So long as there is Il slave and Il master in the
world, the slaves heart will thrub for freedom.
Educate him and he will fight Tor it, Nerve
him and he will die for it-and you, to save
| your soul, can't help saying-'I lurrah for the
weaker party! (Cheers.) | would shoulder
my rifle to suppress Instructions and yet in
my own impulses, in the depth OF my own re-
Election, l feel that i! Mr.. Seward, looking
| forward with the eye of great statesman and
| philosopher, said the conflict was irrcpressibe
God 90 with him! l endorse the sentiment.
| Tremendous cheers.
The colonel closed his speech in the follow
ing STYLE which reused his great audience to
a very high pitch of enthusiasm -
"In The presence OF God-I say it reverent.
ly-treedom is the rutc and slavery but the eX.
cepuon. 1t is marked, guarded, protected
exception There il stops. Ii even public
opinion must not be allowed to visit its dusky
cheek too roughly, be it so f.; but go no further
than the terms ct the compact. We are Il city
set on a hill. Our light cannot be Ind. As for
me, dare not, will not, be false to freedom.
(Chcers.) Where the feet OF my youth were
planted there, by freedom, my feet shall ever
stand. | will walk cath her banner. l
will glory in her strength. l have watched
her, in history, struck down on an hundred
chosen fields of tile | have seen her
friends fly from her, her foes gather around
her. l have seen her bound TO the stake; |
have seen her give her ashes to the winds.
But when they turned TO eXult, | have seen
her again meet them face to face, RESP lendent