, 1862-11-10

sefseu- lie mas neen TOO mercifn1 and for
oearlng-not treating them as rebels, but
ance, he, in his kind determination, gives tham
ninety days to retura to their Loyalty.
But II theF still determine to seek .la na-
t1onal life, then Gu the first day Of January
next, let the Proclamation be enforced, and
al the slaves Of rebels be made free. Is not
this right and just? Is it not in accordance
with the principles and utterances Of our
fathers who founded this Republic? ? They
declared that "au men were created free ana
equal, endowed With certain inalienable rights.
among which are life, liberty, and the pu5suit
OF bappness' They made no exceptions for
caste or color. The charge is made BY his op-
ponents, that the President has taken posi-
zion unwarfanted by the Constitution. His
tumble opinion was that the President
las always stood square on the SUBJECT. He
certal1ly had right to confscate the proper
y Of an enemy In time Of war. Al writer's
viii admit this-unless il be the writ rs Of a..
cession Newspapers. TIE speaker here cited
the opinions OF J. Q. Adams and the Emperor
Of Ru6sia.
The speaker denied that ou- manufactures
or commerce would be deletcricusly effected
by the emancipation Of slaves Free labor ia
q success wherever it has been tried, S,uth as 81
well as North. Several instances were cited
by the speaker in which his statements were
fully sustained, and that the argument n .r-
sisted in by the Southcrnsr5 that the slave
would only wo:k under the lasa, vas untrue.
i The black man has as great desire for a,a,'
| Us the Wtite man. ~
The charge that the ernaacipation of the
slaves would oyerrun the North aud degrade
| the labnring classes, vas aus 7ered bT the
fpeaker conclneiqe1y. Nations NATURALLY
| gravitate to the climates to which the Creator
| seems to have fitted them. # no obstructinns
we're placed in their way, the blacks would
naturally 60 to the South; not only those in
t slaVery, but free blacks from the North woy1d
| eeek more conSenfI cline. As to compcfi.
tor, the speaker conteuded that to couluete
with slave labor Was the most severe uoon
| Northern manufactures, because the siare
owner pays his slaves as near nothing a. en-
| be well calculated; aud the South can thu;
| produce many articles at 1ess cost than the
North, where all labor is rewarded. Tac
speaker plead guilty 10 the ch lrge Of innoya.
tion made by the South-tae charge OF desi.
t ring to equal;za the whites and the blacks. III
quoted Jefferson on the subject, and was il
| favor OF having every mau Stand equal before
| the law. The question as to superiority in
intellcc: or qualification, Is not taken into &C.
count; the superior in either respect will al
ways prcdominate.
The interest Of tue North is to elevate and
make all labor honorable, because it is the ba
sis Of all our noblest institutions. The fn.er
est Of the South is TO make it dishonoraolt
and degrading, They stigmatize our laborer:
ard artisans as greasy mechanics and mud
sil's, ard even the semi-secession newspaper
contend that the emancipation Of the slave.
will rl5ce them upon level with the whit,
laborers Of the North.
The speaker contrasted the condition Of th.
whites North aud South, as to their social con
dition, and their abili J to provide for them
selves, independently.
Though u Southerner by birth and educa
fion, he bad always been an anti.slavery man
and he doubted whether there was . san,
man or woman 1u the land who was not,
they understood the matter thoroughly. H
even now preferred that the South shout.
come back to their allegiance, and that th
proclamation should not be enforced-ure
aeired that the Shareholders should be Der
| s1Iadcd aud convinced as to th kduty md in
trIest- But if they ojE MT, aud still coQteu,
that either they or VIC must be conquered
then he would say, let the proclamation b
fully enforced and the Institution Of SLAYER
crushed forever. This is no time for p.ayfu
arEument-thfs is w2r.
Providence has shown His hand in this mai
ter. You of the North hare heretofore pre
tected slavery because you have by comm o
consent considered it constitutional. No,
you can cling to !. no longer. Deity ha
decrecd that We must give slavery to al1 Q
Zone; but men OF all parties must be Just b,
fore We can expect emancipation. What.yc
may he his shortcomings, he had, in aG
vaucirg bis political views, done what
thought, before God, was right, aud lis praJe
was that he miy ut have courage to stand u
for Truth and Justice, South as well as No.tl
and that he might yet live to see the day whc
we shall again be united and h1ppy, aad
free people throughout the length and breads
OF our country.
The speaker was listened to with marke
attention throughout, and his sentiments
| expressed were frequently greeted with a
| plause.