The Richmond palladium., 1860-07-19

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in Gods name have it 1t is your right TO
have slaves, and just as many or as tew IS
you please. l will never join party that
desires TO force slavery any where Or keep It
from any place. Applause, l believe
that il is regulated by The law Of God, OF
natures God and all history proves it 10 be
so. All | ask is hands off-ie leave it to the
people of the States and Territories to settle
that matter for themselves, under the Con-
sti,uton OF the United States applause.
And now while | am up l wan, 70 put my
veto upon one thing. l know that | am not
going 10 be applsuded IN what | say. but
seed sown in good time will bring forth fruit,
and though you may say that am wrong.
vet think l shall live TO see the day when
the doctrines | advocate to nj ght will be the
doctrines Of Massachusetts, and of the North.
Truth crushed to earsa will rise again,
tn. eternal wears of God hers
" hiie error. wounded, writhss in pain,
And dies amid her worshiPers
WANTS The SLAVE TRADE.
I say 60 in for intervention in the
broadest sense of the term. | saw that this
whole thing should be taken out of the
hands of the General Government. l say
il is all wrong to be spending two or three
millions of dollars annually from our pock-
cts aud sacrificing thousands OF lives upon
the coast OF Africa in that terrible cline.
TO prevent our going there to get few ne
groes. Ii it is right for US 10 go to Virginia
and buy negro and pay $4,000 for him.
i, is equally right for us to so to Africa.
where we can get them for $50. Applause
aud laughter. Here is the condiiion we
are placed in. and you may as we'll come to
your senses and face the music
There are 2 200 of our negroes now down
at Key West begging not to be sent back.
II they should be sent back, what would be
the result? One half of them wonld die
before they got there. and the other halt
would be turned upon the coast OF Africa
upon the coast OF Liberia, among strangers.
- be eaten up by cannibals, or caught and
sold again, or die of starvation; and this
you call humanity l say it is piracy; |
saw that our Government is acting against
right and reason in This matter; and if the
Southern men had the spunk and spirit to
come right up and face the North, believe
the Northern Democracy at least would come
to the true doctrine OF popular sovereignty
and non Intervention. Applause aud laugh
Ter.
Think Of it: two thousands of these poor
barbarans from Africa caught within the
last four weeks. and kept upon the misera-
Bile island of Key Vest. dying there from
disease and starvation; what do not die are
to be sent back and landed upon the coast
of Africa. 1t is cruel, inhuman. wrong.
and l appeal to the good sense of the Amer
lean nation against 1t. Look at John Bull;
| he has bound US TO catch all we can, and
we send them back at an expense OF TWEEN
ty five dollars per head. We send them
| back. but what does john Bull do when he
gets them? He apprentices them out again,
aud makes slaves out of them. That Is the
| hypocritical treaty that you are bound by,
and vet / hear no Southern voice, or North
ern voice, raised against this aggression
upon the law of nature and of natures God,
but l intend to raise my voice against 1t.
humble as it is.
| Now. this may be secondary question
before us tonight. The great point Is har-
mony and union in the great democratic
party. Let US whip the Black Republicans.
| let us win the fl yht. and when We have set.
tied these things, let US act together and all
will be right.