The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-08-30
speech Of o. a. Brownson.

speech OF o. a. Drownson.
The New York Tribune Of the 9Th contains
the following telegraphic report Of the speech
made by O. A. Browasou, at Washington, on
the night Of the 26th: - 49, us =
Dr.. GA. Bro~nson was serenaded tosnigh'
at Willsrd's Hotel, and responded in speech ol
great force and interest, which was frequently
aad enthusiastically applaudsd by the large con-
course The chief points we're that emancipa-
ton is war measure and colonization . peace
measure and that 80 long - the war ID conduct
ed q in the past and the present, the contest ID
unequal. That the draft IL . necessity a. an ev.
idsnee Of the power Of the Government, and
won't be submitted to - On exhibition Of ma
tionslty. That timid towards are weakness.
He said he did not appear before his hearers
either - an Abolitionist or an anti-Abolitonist,
but % an American citizen. He loved this
country Is his country, and wished to die when
the nation died
He was against letting the rebels have the ad.
vantage Of the labor of four millions Of slaves
to till their soil and raise their various products
while the masters we're engaged in the destruc-
tion of this Government. Whist he desired was
to take these slaves from them, thus compelling
them to 60 home and attend to their own plan
tationA
Hs cared not whether these slaves rendered
Us positive service or not. He wanted the
rebels deprived Of their assistance. He knew
there was great hesitancy about 1t, and people
talked Of the Constitution, and the herrors Of
San Domingo. When the agitation Of the ques.
ton Of Slavery threatened the Union of these
States, he opposed it; but now, when the Union
was threatened from Slavery, and Slavery was
the main support of its foes and as il was impos.
sible TO preserve both Union and Slavery, he
said down with Slavery. loud applause. r
Let every slave 60 free, but let the Union be
saved. Unlsss the Government was prepared
70 say this, the dangers which threatened ss
would not be diminished. The FIRST gun fred at
Sumter knocked OF the letters of every slave
in this land.
Slavery was doomed, and, therefore, as an
Anti. Slavery man, hs felt little interest in it.
What he wanted WAS liberty with Union, and
Union with liberty. There were two questions
before the public, the Slavery question and the
niger question.
On the Slavery question nine-tenths Of the
people Of the whole Union were Anti-Slavery;
but on the Niggers question about nine .tenths
were Anti-Nigger, and the great difficulty in
this question Was that whenever the freedom
Of the slaves was spoken Of host of psttifog-
gers crying out, ''You are going to have ne
gro equality" "Do you mean to give the me-
gro an equal footing with the white man and
have them live side by side?"
For himself he did not profess to be any
great niger lover. He believed the negro to
be man sprung from the same race as him
self, having the same natural rights, but he
was not willing that he should have the same
social, political and civil rights in the same
community with himself
He didnot wish that, nor did he think it would
follow from their emancipation. He desired
the two races to be separated. He favored
the colonization scheme Of the President The
only point wherein he differed with him was
that he did not make emancipation depend on
colonization.
He demanded Emancipation as war meas.
ure, as preventative of future rebellions.-|
Colonization would answer in time of peace,
when the.war was over. He heartily approved
of the draft, which he regarded ss the highest
evidence of the national majesty.
He wanted thorough going men, men Of ex-
treme views, to be placed at the head Of our
civil and military affairs. Conservative men,
who had lived for and by the past among the
tombs, were not the men for this great occa-
sion. r