Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-03-20
BHED THURSDAY AT TOWANDA BRADFORD


as the State herself bows to the supremacy Of
that instrument Bot when au individual State
ignores the Constitution, and swears allegiance
to en- alien and hostile Gov ernment, its local
laws fall to tie earth, and eli the institutions
created by them go down with them. The re-
suit is, there is not to day single slave in all
the seeded State There are millions of col.
ored people, but no slaves. To whom DO they
owe allegiance? To the rebel confederate
government? If you say yes, you acknowledge
that q Legitimate and authoritative government.
Do they owe allegiance TO their masters Z
Traitors whom you are trying to kill are inca
ole of receiving allegiance Being outlaws,
they are entitled to nothing by law, If you
say they owe allegiance to the United States
Government, as they certainly do, then | ask,
being relieved from all allegiance to the power
that made them slaves, and owing allegiance
only to the general government, which never
made 8 slave, by what authority, by what con
stitutional rule can that government reduce
these millions Of free men and loyal subjects to
slavery? Congress never can do it never
viii dare allow it to be done. On the contrary
the general authorities must pr0cGim to them
"free we find you, free we leave you" The
people Of the free States viii never consent to
the restoration of slavery TO its former status
might allow it, but the people never.
The present war is nurturing in the public
mind deep and ayengiug hatred against this
Institution. The mother at home lies awake
at the deod Of night, tearfully thinking Of her
frs. born, OF Linn vino once lay upon her
bosom, enwrapped in the gushing sympa.hies
Of maternal love, but now far away upon the
battle field, barring bis manly heart to the cold
steel and the showers Of lead. la the agouieS
Of solicitade she inquiries, Why is this? Why
is he absent? The silent response steals in
upon her convictions, because Of slavery
At the depot at ElmirG, there is O daily average
arrival OF eight collins, and similar arrivals at
every point al over the land. Each rough
box br.ugs not ouIy the clay Of dead warrior,
bu, the spirit Of = living lesson, Whatever
their former fe -lings your soldiers speedily be-
GENE haters OF slavery, excepting the very few
who have not patriotism enough to preserve
them from putrefacliou, nor good sehse enough
10 pull the trigger o. 3 mCsket.
The pulpit is awake After siumber Of
years il now arouses itself in majesty The
pulpit. the herald Of the Son Of cd. the fu
crum Of moral power, the citadel Of light aud
truth after wearing for years upon its mouth
pad-lock they key Of which was in the hand
Of slavery, now opens its lips and speaks In
thunder tones for justice and Judgment
Throwing aside all shackles, ss Samson burst
from bis giant limbs the green withes. the
throne of the Prophets noW remembers those
that in bonds as bound with them" Men are
not ashamed now to preach in'fayor of freedom
and against deSpotsm-neither ashamed nor
afraid 10 do it, Ave, sir, the people demand
it, and the voice of the people is Almighty
They have become wearied and disguised with
the stale and false trash about pro-slaYery
christianity proslavery Bible, aud pro-sav-
ery God They spurn axd nauseate these nos
t-ums Of clerical doctors whose divinity is sick.
The press has come to its sensiblities.-
Armed w;;h thousand toDgnes and ten thou
sand teeth, it sets its types in lighting and
speaks It's liberty-loVing thulders through the
land
The pnblc conscience that has laid for ages
Ike the Dead sea, respecting the subject Of
slavery-cold, Shiny and inactive-fuIl of hid
eous monsters in the shape Of corrupt theories
Gal mighty les-is nov stirred 10 its depths BY
the hreathings of q new lfe and swells appeal
iag'y 10 Heaven. in behalf Of humanity, in
behalf of tie couRtry-against rebellion aDd
against slavery.
WIKI al these tremendous agencies marsh
allied against him, agencies strong now, becom.
ing stronger every hour, is any man 50 tool
hardy as to fancy it within the range of posi-
bilities to hol0 mp much longer upon its trem-
bling limbs an Institution waging wa- upon
the country and uDon every sure and noble
principe in the universe. 1t cannot be done
Let no. one lay the fattering JUNCTION 10 his
soul. TIE handwriting is upon the wall The
decree has gone forth The day of doom
cometh. Congress has and always had supreme
authority over this and every other subject in
the District Of Columbia The Constitution
guarantees TO them this control. Let them
dispose OF this institation in the Distric: at
once, then let them pass out, take cognizance
Of il elsewhere and sweep it from tie land
We shall thus give men the rights which our
patriot fathers declared belonged TO them by
birth. This is the way the question can and
must aud vii, be met. Do you not know, Mr..
Speaker, that revolutions never recede, that
the world progresses, that the world in its
progress is like some machines we see ia the
country that are moved with great levers
swinging forward and backward. There might
be an apparent backward movement bat il is
only 10 take neS hitch fog mighty Onward
push
There is moral side to this question. Go
not propose 10 give apoltieal TRADE or deliver
a sermon; bat il becomes Legislators TO look al
the moral side OF everything. We must not
ignore the morality Of any question. l might
enlarge upon this point bur viii not but I
say that progress is the gres; law Of humanity,
the seed Of to d y is the flower of tomorrow /;
the acorn OF this age is the giant oak Of the
next tbe child Of this year is the man tweu
" years from this. II is the great law that
the Almighty has wrapped around the Physi-