The Placer herald., 1861-01-26

ment OF the free States. They look at us as States
not as individual members of the community
as we look at them, as States. not a. individual
members of society. They regard this as an evi-
dence OF public sentiment which has passed be
yond their CONTROL and they say now that there
is nj hope for them within the Union as equals
and they will secede. What we must convince
them OF is, that we will not only repeal our OBJ
noXious laws upon paper, but we will repeal the
prevailing public sentiment that is more pernici-
Gus than all the obnoxious laws of New England
and all the free States together TApplause.l 1t
is Il sentiment that has been infused by political
demagogues who have gone through the land eX-
ecutng commission of evil and if Satan him
self haC been permitted to come upon earth to
scourge mankind, he could not more successfully
have accomplished his mission than by going
through the country and preaching dcmagogue-
ism and sectlonalism on the subject Of slavery.
[applause] and whether he did it as a political
gogue or ministerial one care very little.
[Applause.] | call none such ministers Of the
gospel. | call them ministers of depravty and
OF vitatcd politics Our southern brothers will
reason with us when we reason with them No
amount OF finished and eloquent addresses will
serve us in this emergency-no finely turned
periods in speech-no resolutions however patri-
otto and well pointed and considered will answer
the occasion. No comm ission Of individuals.
however elevated, patriotic aud pure of record,
will be OF the least avail, unless the southern
people are perfectly satisfied that they represent
the public sentiment. When the conscientious
belief Of the South can rest on the sincerity of
our resolutions. addresses and speeches as repre-
senting the public mind at the North 3n1 'r0t
till then, will come concord and unity | have
little faith in anything except that which goes to-
wards creating or developing at home pure.
patriotic. elevated public sentiment. have little
faith in a meeting in this great commercial city.
or in anything it can do further than it is evi-
dence Of public sentiment. The South are sure
of the fidelity of the city of New York. Zap
plause] 1t has been true ut all times, it has
never swerved with its great and Mighty patri-
otc majority. But the South have seen that the
vote OF the country is overwhelming. and renders
the city OF New York powerless; so far as it is an
evidence of the public sentiment Of the State and
city, it will have its influence and no further.
But we must go further and must repeal the OBJ
noxious laws on our statute book, and the repeal
must carry evidence that it is not for any mere
temporary purpose-that it is not because our
pecUniary interests have been touched. but it
must be in evidence that it is reflection of the
returning public sense. and that those who would
not see have been made to feel, and that the re-
turning sense and reason are real and will be per-
manent. The free States must be brought up to
the consideration of q great publ duty. The
So lth have not offended us. They have not in
vadcd our domain. They have not interlered
with any interests belonging to us as sovereign
States. But they read in our newspapers that
their slaves have been run oil in numbers by an
underground railroad and they see it set down in
de- sion that one more southern individual has
been robbed of his property-one more slave,
Instead OF having been returned according to the
compact of the Constitution, has been run off
into the provinces OF Canada. and insult and in
jury returned for u constitutional duty. They
have determined to bear these things no longer,
and it becomes Northern people to determine
whether they will permit this state Of things to
go on, or whether they will make one last grand
effort to see whether this sentiment and evil
practice can be corrected. You cannot send
forth q stream by any natural process hi CHER
than the fountain. The South know it. They
have no faith in addresses and resolutions that
have not their sources in the feelings Of the
masses of the people. 1t is useless to say there
is no serious trouble. l believe that South Caro-
lima will secede so far as the movement Of her
Convention can do it, on the l7th or 18th Of this
month, and events must transpre shortly after
which will bring all cotton States in association
with her, and eventually every State which is q
slave State, and intends to continue such, will 20
along together unless the danger can be arrested.
This is as certain as the law of gravity. and he
is blind man and mad man who cannot see it,
All that we now do is to get time to convince
the southern people that there isa returning SEN
timcnt of truth ana justice in the northern States;
and the honest masses have been misled and have
misunderstood this irritating question, as | be-
leve they have, and upon proper consideration
will go back to their duty as members Of this
cOntederacy. and will welcome back our southern
brethren to the great family of POLITICAL social
and moral equals. [Applausc.] Our consttu-
tional and federal laws, repeat are well enough.
Our obnoxious State laws should be repealed,
and in their place public sentiment should be
set up and born aloft. as the great law eiver Of
Oden times set up the brazen serpent, that every
one who had been bitten by Abolitionism may
on nd ho ,pr1n
will close as | begun. | did not intend to take
part in tn meeting. | have no particular views
but what | have often repeated. and my hope is
that by this respectable meeting II public senti-
ment may be drawn out. II it be as just, con-
servative and beneficial as believe it to be,
we may then properly represent it to our
Southern brethren, and no longer be msundcr
stood. Look the danger fully and squarely in
the face. We must not put too much trust in
meetings, in Congress or in legislation; but if we
would remain united people we must say that
however wrong we may have been however much
error we may have committed, we have recon-
sidered our conduct, and are satisfied that we
must t. eat the Southern States as we treated
them on the Inauguration of the government
as political equals. When we have done that we
shall have done our whole duty. and perhaps
this glorious government may still go forward to
the frution that awaits it. Loud applause]
In ten States of the Union Lincoln did
not receive a solitary vote. 1t does not ap
pear by the returns tha: single human
being is in his favor in all that immense ex-
tent of territory. In five other States poll
ING several hundred thousand votes, he
scarcely received a corporars guard of sup
port. The Republican party is not a United
States party. 1t has no existence and is re-
garded as a public enemy Of all the people
in almost half of the States.
ES- A"Pacific Republic" flag was rails
ed on schooner at Stockton, on Wednesday.
The Stockton Argus says the flag is of silk,
with a union of blue upon which is lone
star; the balance is covered by wild noun