, 1862-03-29


we, wen, perhaps you would say, that came
mere as an nbohEonist. do not. Ihaye yery
intle interest In the war as an abolitionist +
90 not believe the war can end without the
death Of slavery. General Halleck NAV make
~hat proclamations, General Buell. NAV write
What letters and General Mcclellan may issue
Nhat orders he pleases,- yet you cannot mike
this Pro-slayery war. There are some things
that ought not to be done, but there are oth-
efs that cannot be done. |Cheers,] Every
cannon that has been fired from the time the
war begun Is an anti. slavery lecture. ECheers.
and II tell you why. It is making the
United States Kansas on great scale. It is
hawkeis if you like. [Iaughter and appliance
n the great day Of ten years ago Tie SOUTH
threw down Missouri as q gauntlet to light
It miniature war. The South was repre-
North sent plow-shares, churches, printing
presses, men without arms. JOHN Brown
went to Kansas with seeds and Trees and
English cattle, and he did not cary
fownng-pieee: but the South came
ara tors r.. up bis orchard and slaughtered the
Ohio, and then came East with sonic OF Of III II
ne,ghbors, and requested arms to defend
themselves. It gave the South an fnteIIipnnt
appreciation OF what the slave power made
Us, and how It Kas to be treated. and aitcr ten
{sa1s. @ Of schooling IN that academy,
Of the United States, the emblem Of the DC
tory Of free institutions. Tremendous ap-
plause. But the South was not satisfied with
the experiment, nnd SO the whole fourteen
Southern States took the aide Of Missouri,
and have turned nineteen States into Kansas,
and hare called your citizens from their du.
Ties INTO the camp Of the Potomac; and
think they VIII be satisfied before they come
home. They arc learning on the soil Of Virginia
Hhat slavery is. They are learning its pur.
pose, and more, that what is inevitable neces
slty, and after that slavery cannot survive
Aga:n, slavery has taught the world, BY ter
montns experience, that cotton is delicate
plant, and they had best look about on the
/ rest Of the world to see If there was anv auv.
where else, England has tried the expefi
ment, and after tWo months she has found
thst cotton Is not king any longer.
l. :. Again, there is another movement: there il
voice IN the Cabinet ut Washington. 10
the first time In the history OF the anti-slsyer,
North, the Government has spoken; the Pres
fdent who first spoke an anti-slaYery Wori
after he got into the Chair Is our present one
Abraham Lincoln otter ten months tn1nl
around to the Border States and says, tt Gen
tlenen, have examined the grounds, stant
| at the head source Of the Nation and know al
the facts; Non u yo,tr time to sell. (Tte
mendous applause) The tide is rising yer,
high; i you wait 8 little while and have Il
lumP on Without any clothes on your back
frn,s Tan.s,yyr fay did not gtye you fair warning
Wren Geo. Canning, ut the head of th
British Government, Il 1898, frxt aritated th
suh]e1 Of slavery before the Goyer5ment ID
very first word was infinitely more milk an,
less water than Ahraha1n Lineoln.s Messape
1t ~as neshng. f bis Qincoln'sl Vas Hn,
wedge, Canning,s was no wedge 1t Ill, but j
shook the island and made martyr.
Lord Brougham caught up the ashes and seas
tered them over the West Indies, and thsy ne
came the statue Of emancipation. [Appl11se.
| No, do not stand here ss IN aholitIonIst. bn
On the broader basis Icomo he-ea Is citizen
my >interest Is the Union, not the dag. III
uniop IL good. palpable, substantial st, u
|: lure to thirty millions Of people. nm pe]