Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-04-17

under aggravated circumstances. iSLdUeTg re.
established, and the same consequence essentially
aoouid foLloD again.
There is really no possible hopeful end to
this conflict but the end of slavery. There is
no such easy escape from our national troubles
as some seem to imagine-no prospects of the
war being short but by being useless, or else
by being radical and determined, and, /, may
add, in regard TO false principles, most upspar-
ing. To purpose, therefore, that the Union
shall survive and its glory AID power be trium.
phantly restored and perpetuated, is virtually
to doom slavery to speedy extinction. The pre-
serUati0n of tie Union and tie destruction of
SLarery are inseparabls age, identical nOaO
and he aoho Uotes for the one necessarially vOtes
for the other. X
Surely, sir, we may consider this overwhelming
testimony of warriors, patriots and sages, as a
sufficient offset to the vapid defamation of the
Senator from. .Berks
may pass then to another point. He afins
that not slavery but trcksters of the south and
fanatics of the north actuated by helish pur-
poses have caused all our troubles, Mark in
his judgment the offence of Southerners has
reached to tTlckery, while the crime Of northern
fanatics has lowered up to the terrible climax of
heillsh. What have these poor fanatics" done
these abolitioHiSts that you talk SO much
about Gentlemen waxed eloquent as they
contemplated the fact that Wendell Phillips
sometimes lectured upon the subject OF slavery
Their eyes opened wide when they affirmed
that many years ago VIM. Lloyd Garrison es-
tablished paper in the city of Boston. They
seem astonished that men should talk and write
upon the subject of slaVery-that is what has
been done at the north. They admit, TO be
sure, that there have been some Ircksters in
the south who have CO operated with those
men-but certainly with no great fraternity
between the two parties | repeat, what have
these abolitonists done Have they invaded
any mans rights Yes" the response was,
" Ohm Brown did" Yes, be did, sir. Aud
then the double charge is that those abolition.
lists sung song to his memory. | never did,
because have not the ability to sing, but if |
had | would at least have Joined in the chorus.
With regard to John Brown | have to say this:
did not introduce him ; the Senator from
Clarion made The introduction. l have only to
say that in many things he may have been a
mistaken man ; but for all that, his name will
live when the name OF the Governor who hung
him is forgotten 10 rottenness and as the
one goes down lower and lower, the memory
Of the other will rise higher and higher as
man, th ough of fallabiity, yet of heroism,
of manhood aud philanthropy. But as to the
song, the Senator told US that our soldiers
were not gaugrened with this fanaticism -
Why, sir, am sorry bis reading is so limited
Who marched deliberately, treadng to the
beat of the drum down the great street Of the
city of New York 2 Was it not one of the
regiments of your brave soldiers And, as
they went, they sang that same terrible song:
" John Brown, though his body is in the dust,
his soul is marching on y and the people by
the thousand and ten thousand along the
street and from the balconies and windows
with tearfnl eyes and tremulouS voices joined
in the chorus. " Fanatcism" becoming quite
general, affecting your regimen of soldiers, as
well as the common people, even in the city of
New York. The fanatics have gone thus far,
they have dared TO think and talk and write
upon slavery-they have even sung song
and this is BELLIsH ! On the other hand, what
have your shareholders done Who has rhed
the northern mail bags and pronounced nor
thern priuts incendiary documents Who has
impeded travel and subjected the country to an
oppressive system of espionage. There stands
a Senator, Mr.. LOWRY (and every man to
look at him would know that be was half
heart and a good part of the balance brains
be would not hurt anybody gentleman as
he is, who,up going down into Virginia, was
seized, and forty men appointed to guard him.
do not wonder at the fact that John Brown
with sixteen men, two negroes and O COW held
the Commonwealth OF Virginia for eight and
forty hours Who was it that maItreated
and stripped christian ministers and sent them
atoat down the Mississippi river on a slab p
Who is it that has held northern men in con-
Gnement for their unexpressed principles aad
suspected ideas ? Oh sir, it is only these gen.
tteI SoutherH lrstbern whose offences never
rise higher than trickery. | tell these Senators
frankly and plainly, they are the direct advo-
Gates of slavery and the indirect apologiests of
rebels, the principles they have proclaimed
here are better suited to the traitor Congress
in Richmond than to the Senate of Pennsylva-
MIA, and if uttered in the former place would
call down the applause of the House. The
Senator from Berks afirms that he who lifts
his hands against the government, has 90 right
to protection IN person, property or life
Good true | agree with him there But
if these seeded States, that have lifted both
hands against the Government, have no right
to protection as regards property or life, how
do you get along with this next declaration
that these same men, are to be allowed to come
into the Government aud plead the immunitieS
of the Constitution. The Senator says they
have no right to protection either in person,
life or proper y yet he claims that in the
winding up every one of them shall be permit
ted to come into a national court, and take po
sition behind the Constitution, and plead all
its privileges in their favor | leave him to
harmonic it,and it is but one of many contra
dictions that | commend to his second sober
thought. The Senator from Berks puts this
question to US very earnestly. Said he =