Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-08-14

much cattle to be driven, to be worked, to be
slaughtered But if the oath Of the adopted
citizen and his gratitude to his adopted
country restrain him from treadiug the helllss
labyrinths of the rebellion, his nerves will be
strung with new resolve as he casts his eye
beyond the seas and beholds the enemies
of freedom preparing to assist the slave
murderers in their war upon this Government
| | have heard the intimation that the best pro-
cess to bring about complete unity among our
people would be the Intervention OF the foreign
| Powers, md it has been whispered that some
of our adopted citizens needed this incentive
to action. Sir, it is impossible to add to the
justice of the appeal Of the Government to
our own people, and it would seem to be equal.
y difficult to aid to the infamy of the rebellion.
| But can readily conceive that wheu the des-
potic designs of the traitors are confirmed by
| the intrusion of the armies of Great Britain
or of France, or of both together, there will
be new rapture in the strife,a new motive to
make it desperate and decisive, and new op-
portunity for the development OF our national
manhood. Let us be frank, Mr.. President
The royalties of the old world are holding G.
carnival. The very last speech of Lord Pal
merston, and the very last leader Of the Lou
don Times, which arrived on Thursday. ed
monish US that they are preparing to take
part 10 the struggle. Their fleets are hanging
like clouds upon two of our frontiers, and the
English Premier is making impressive and
warning speeches" to the volunteer riflemen
10 Hyde Park. This pospect must not dis
courage us, Mr.. President. If we are to fight
this great battle against domestic slavery and
foreign despotsm, why so be it. With all our
advantages living as we no do upo1 ourselves
borrowing from each other, and in debt only
to each other, with soil as prolific as the
Garden of Eden, may We not for higher and
holer purpose emulate that self-sacr6cing
spirit which was exhibited by the French peo-
pie in the most fearful period of their extraor.
dinary history? When they entered upon the
work of reforming the abuses OF centuries Of
corruption aud tyranny they found arrayed
against them the sentiment OF the European
world, the prejudices Of 40 English king, and
the keen, unscrupulous Intellect OF the greatest
of English Prime Ministers. They found. an
insurrection of the aTistoracy in La Vendiee-
they fouad disaffecton and treason among oil
classes Rising to the sublimity OF Spartan
heroism, they crushed tr,ason at home, and,
with bleeding feet aud furnished forms, and 10
weapons but the pike, they resisted invasion
and saved the honor of their country. The in
surrec,ion was crushed-the old tyranny was
destrcycd-and the sword of Republican
general, in spirit OF magnificent revenge,
punished the perfidy Of his foes with Marengo,
AusterIitz, and Ulm.
Thus, Mr. President, this may become the
war of the world and if so, it may prove to
be to the enslaved nations Of the earth what
| IL I
damon, was to the Helots of Sparta. For this
is indeed moral earthquake. 1t is histoIi-
cally stated that many centuries ago al earth
quake, unprecedented in its violence, occsrret
in Spain. The greater portion OF its capital
was oyerthrown, aud it is said, probably with
exaggeration, that only FIVE houses escaped
This calamity did not cease suddenly ss it
came. Its concessions were repeated-it buried
alike men and treasure-snd one historian
states that no less than twenty thousand per-
sous pershed 10 the shock. In the midst OF
this fearful convulsol the slaves, whom the
cruelty OF Sparta had nursed in her bosom, re.
solved to seize the moment to execute their
vengeance aud consnmmate her Instruction.
Now was the moment when Sparta lay in ru-
ins-now was the moment to realize their Ven-
eeance. From field to field, from village to
village, the news Of the earthquake became
the watchword CT revolt. The earthquake
that levelled Sparta rent her chains. Nor
did the shock create one chssm SO dark and
wide as that between the master and the slave.
1t was as if the great mother herself had SUM-
mond her children to vindcate the long abused
the allinalienable heritage derived from her,
and the stir Of the angry elements was but the
announcement of a stern and solemn union be-
tween nature and the oppressed. Mr.. Presi.
dent, the fettered tribe of mankind may hail
the great moral earthquake in this country as
the signal opportunity for their deliverance.-
And the attempt of European despots to de-
stroy this Government may end in their own
overthrow, and in the diSfranchisment Of THAR
own oppressed and down-trcdden millions,