Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-09-03
VOL 9---NO. 80

such an organization in this city and State
rs will wipe out the last vestige of them
prolonged applause.
i would like TO read a little to YOU fnon
Henry Clay. Cheers L wonder if the
Abohtionists will have any difficulty in
knowing where the great immortal Clay
would stand were he here? We have ON
tins stand gentlemen who fought with
him ariently and faithfully during his
long life, loving him dearly, and clinoing
TO him in all his efforts to perpetuate a
great national party, Applause. See
how the old Sage of Ashland speaks as
with tongue prophetic from his honored
grave. See what he prophesied as the
condition of this country if Abolitionism
ever got the upper hand. l will read YOU
what he said in 1913, almost twenty
Years ago.
He deSpaired even then, faint and
! gllmmerlng as the streak of light appeared
here III the North, that danger was coming
but the great man, with his prophetic
mind, look out into the misty future and
clearly depicted the condition of things
that must result He asked Walter Col
ton to write tract He said -. Show
the origin of slavery: trace it 10 the Bri-
tlsh Government show how il is dispo-
Sed OF by the Constitution thai If Is left
exclusively 10 the States except IN regard
| TO tugitives, direct taxes and representa-
ton show that the agitation of the uues-
| ton in the Free States viii destroy all
harmony and finally lead 10 a disunion.
Perpetuate war, the extinction of the
African race, and despotism" Zap
planSe-
''But the great ann and object of that
tract should be to rouse the laboring
classes IN the Free States against Aboli.
tionism. Great applause Depict the
! consequences that would follow from i'm
mediate Abolition. The slaves, being
free, would be dispersed Throughout the
Union; they would enter into competition
| with the free laborer-with the American
the I!Ishman, and the German-reduca
his w.tges, be confounded with him. and
affect his family and social standing
Applause And as the uItras 90 both
for Abolition and Amalgamation. they
show that their object Is TO unite in mar
riaTe the laboring black woman and the
white man, and reduce the white laborinr
man 10 the dispised and degraded con-
dition of the black man ICries of
Never. never"
That l. what the great CLAW savs; and
i not his prophecy almost fearfully full
filled, Ii stands here I'm fearful record
before you Day and night. the evil. Is
menacing your liberties, and the freedom
of your person from arrest. Noman has
liberty under ii, and now the evil monster
has threatened this community and every
man, woman and child In IL
But Henry Clay was too great and
national You know his fate. His
heart WAS broken before death touched
him and he went down TO his grave, no,
unhonored and unsung. but TO be wep;
and wOrshiPped by generations TO come
for his grea: and high purpose In uphold
ing the nationality of that Federal [ mon
How l. 1t about those men who talk
or free speech and a free press, When
the great and gOd-like Webster went
home from Washington. after the greatest
act of his life, when he expounded the
Constitution and predicted the results
that would certainly follow If IL was viola
ted, when he went home TO Boston. and
wanted 10 speak IN Faneuil Hall. which
was dedicated by It's founder TO free speech.
for the first time IN that CITY the massive
doors of that temple were closed against
the old man, and he turned and Mept. and
said, . | 'r7H speak to the people OF Mas
sachuSetts-" He did speak 10 them ON
Boston Common, with nothing beneath
him but the stony street, and nothing
above but Gods canopy. He said
- People of Massachusetts. YOU have
done much in this great country. but IN
less you do one thing YOU have not, all
the rest is nothing. You must conqroz
your prejudice
Now, a single word, and am done.
Other gentlemen are TO follow. and | have
trespassed too long cries of MOT al all
90 on y want YOU 10 hear what have
TO say; because | know you viii be glad
to hear it / want you to know that the
example of the immortal Clay and Web
ster Is being kept now by the President of
these United States Deafenins ap-
plause and cheers Here Is an extract
| written yesterday by the President, which
deserves the respect and marked conside-
ration of this meeting, and is addressed
as 4 proper rebuke 10 that arch traitor
and disunionist, who has been trying all
his life TO break up this nation, Horace
Greeley. Gruans for Greeleyl i will
not pead the whole letter. II Is printed IN
The public journals But there is on.
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