Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-03-29
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They were fairly matched, John Brown.
the most Influential American in aiding our
civilization (appIanse, man who has done
more IN The providence Of God to shape the
fate Of this generation than any other man
save one, whom am proud to name and
st at his feet, William Lloyd Garrison.
Applause, with one or two Kisses. John
brown went to Kansas, a farmer. with the
best stock, and owner Of the best orchard
west Of the Mississippi. He carried as
pledge Of good citizen the prizes he had
won ia the Agricultural fairs Of Ohio he
didn't ever own gun, nor iowlng-pieoe.
He planted bis trees, advertised his stock
and il was not until Missourians came
across the border and destroyed his orch.
ard, and stole bis cattle that the old maa
went ont and bought a musket The his
tory of Kansas since is written too patent
Tor me to repeat it She has crushed Mis-
souri, under her feet, and has taken her seat
10 the Senate Of the U. s. a representative
: Of free thought and free-labor ia the U S.
Applause What Missouri did to Kan
sas, the South does to the North to day.
Napoleon said of Russia, II taught her
to fight" and so has Missouri taught as
what the Slave Power means, and what
this contest means-conscience behind O rife,
Laughter.
l trust, secondly, for the suicide Of the
slave system to the fact, that the South has
re-enacted Missouri and the North is re-
enacting Kansas to-day Edacated ia un-
derstauding the Slave Power, educated In
knowing how much and how far it must
resist, and what must be its means of resist
ance, we should be up TO the Importance Of
the moment, and seize the golden opportu-
nifty forever Wrestling our beloved land
from the insidious influence Of the slave
propagandsts. Every cannon Hred to-day
is better Anti Slavery lecture ttan q
thousand men like myself or my brother
Or, Perpont) could make. Every can
non that Halleck has fred, or Mcclellan
has heard (for be has never fred ouel,
prolonged laughter and applause], is q
better AntiSiavery speech than was ever
made in yonder Senate, or Fantuil Hall,
for it teaches the Northern people the
meaning Of the crisis, and takes them up
to the responsibility of the hour My sec
ond hope Of the death OF Slavery is, there
fore, as l have shown, based upon the
education which this war gives
The third is based on another cousidera-
| AiOus " AhC nAbb blult tuc RdlS5 Of Tue
holy Of holies have opened and we have
heard voice from the sanctuary Of God.
From that Cabinet, before which in i'm
pressive and utter confidence the nineteen
i millions ofthe North point to-day, we have
9 heard voice. 1t is the message Of Abra-
ham Licnoln to the Border States.
Three cheers were here proposed for
J. the President, which were responded TO
Il with the greatest enthusiasm, the greater
!. portion of the audience rising to their
feet
A message of which hold the practical
= amount TO be this Gentlemen of the Bor-
r der States now is your time to SELL Laugh.
ter. If you do not sell now, and the ext
r gencies of the Government require in q few
months that we should take without bar.
gain, don't say l didn't give you due warn
q ing" Laughter and Applause That
is very remarkable document-that mes
IS sage of the President.
/ am not practically acquainted with rail
splitting, but they say that in taking a
large log and making it into rails, the first
thing you dois to apply a small wedge Well
! this is very small one, laughter, but it lisa
wedge for all that Renewed laughter and
! aPplalse. The negro preacher said. "If
| found in the Testament a command to
go through that stone, wall should go
at it. Going at it is my part, getting
through is the LORDS" Laughter and
applause. Well, now, hold to this in
some cases in regard to this emancipation
Going at it is the Presidents part and
getting him through is the peoples part.
Laughter.
Now, If l am here for any peculiar par.
pose tonight, Mr.. President, is to persuade
you, ladies and gentlemen, to help the Pres
dent through. In other words seriously.
as an Abolitionist, go back to the year
1928, when in obedience to the request of
Clarkson, Wilberforce, Lushington, Alex.
ander aud others. George Canning sent his
celebrated resolution to the Legislatures of
the West India Issnds. That was the FIRST
voice from the English Government
For the first time the Government spoke.
they said Slavery onght to be ameliorated,
aud looked TO the legislature of the Islands
to adopt the necessary measures That is
all they sought. A very tiny wedge It
vent to the Island however, aud stirred up
great deal of excitement and hence
came the martyrdom Of John Smith, that
thunderboalt, which Henry Broughman
raised and hurled across the Atlantic at
the slave system Of Jamaica 1t went
down eleven years afterwards
look upon this Message of the Presi-
dent in the light Of George Canuing's reso.
luton. 1t is the first voice from the Gov
ernment--a very pregnant one.
The Anti Slavery sentment-and say
it with all due respect--bas conquered the
Cabinet. loud apDlause You hera
think great deal of your City Of Wash
ington; you have right to. Bat am
one of the people; come up here from the
millions look upon you as a Rebel
! camp [aughter] nothing more. Renew.
ed laughter. YOu are in rebellion against
your former masters. The tyrants of slave
D dom have borne away here for thirty years
and you have now rebelled and driven them
! out. Applause Thus you are Rebel
camp The question of the hour is whether
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