Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-07-05
From the New York Times.
owen LOvtJOy at cooper Institute

owen LoveJOy at Cooper Institute.
The announcement that Owen Lovcioy
of Illinois would address the Emancipa
tion League at Cooper Institute, last eve
ming, attracted an audience which little
more than half filled the room. The plat
form was crowded with citizens of note,
among whom were Peter Cooper, Edgar
Keichum, Alderman Dayton, DR. Hart and
William Cullen Bryant called the meeting
to order, and spoke as follows:
My FRIENDs-It is now this year just q
quarter Of century since a party OF men
went from Missouri across the great river
Of the West to destroy a Press, established
at Alton, Illinois, for the purpose Of dis
cussing the Institution of Slavery, and pre-.
pairing the country for its extinction. The
men bound upon this atlroclous errand were
of the same class with those who af erward
few years since, invade Kansas, and
sought to tasten the curse of Slavery upon
an unwilling population. The proprietor
of the journal whom they went to attack
was fearless and resoute man; armed
himself and his friends in defense of the
freedom Of the Press aud the rights of
property. Applause. For awhile he
held bis assallants at bay; but he was over
powered at last-he was slain, Elijah p.
Lovejoy fell pierced with several bullets
his press was destroyed, the types scattered
aud the Alton Observer from that time ap
peared no more. But, my friends, that
blood was not shed in vain. The very Stat,
whose soil drank 1t, that was polluted will
the cause Of the murderers, has given q Re
| publican President TO the Union ar
| plauSe. has given it this Chief Magistrat
who urges upon the States the emuncipato
of their slaves. Applause
But the crimes of that murderous bant
have been repeated since on q larger scale
They who formerly robbed and murdered
an individual, now have robbed nation
and murdered those who are arrayed in
arms 10 defend it. Thousands of our young
men, the flower of our population, arrayed
in arms in defense Of the Union, have found
their graves in the regions beyond the Po
tOCac. These deaths the rebels tell US, are
the fortunes of war-in the Book of God
they are registered as murderers. Ap
plause.
My friends it is my good fortune to in.
troduce TO you to night, brother Of this
martyr in the great cause of Freedom
Applause. A man, my friends, who is
fearless and resolute; who has never from
the time in which that crime was commit
ted, ceased to protest against that institu
ton upheld by snppressing the freedom of
the Press, and by assassination. | present
TO you--and l need onY to mention his
name 10 insure your careful attention to the
manly words he will address to you'll pre-
sent to yon Owen LoVejoy, o member o.
Congress from the Safe of Illinois. Great
Applause.
SPEECH OF MR.. LoyEJoY.
Mr.. LovejOy was received with a most
fatlering welcome. He spoke for nearly
two hours and half, in the most original
energetic and effectual style, both as tC
plete with argument, illustration, logic aud
denuncations. 1t was brim full of pathos,
humor, poetry, patriotism, history, piety
and eloqnence. He fairly held the audi
ence enchaned with the charm of declama'
ton, and the convincing power of his words.
His action was in many respects lnlmitable
aud we'll worthy Of historic fame, In fact,
the entire speech was one OF the most sue
cesstul efforts Of the kind ever made. U
course our space will not permit OF even a
sketch of the speech, but the following yer
batim report of the peroration will afford
fair specimen of the style:
The adoption by both Houses of Con
gress by large vote, of the resolution
which the President sent to Congress il
March last, forms another distinct land
mark in our progress freedomward, which
is the road to national salvation. Som
think the butter is spread on rather thin IL
this resolution. Bot the Executive raj
splitter understands his business. He know
that the thin edge of the wedge must frs
enter the wood Laughter. Did yo'
ever witness the process of rail splitting!
The operator first takes the iron wedge
sharpened at one end to thin point, ant
strikes it into the wood, just so it it vii
sustain itself, and then with the mall drives
to its head. So the Executive bas taken
the Abolition wedge, aud stuck 1t into the
log Of slavery, applause, aud now th'
heavy mall of Abolition must let the heavy
blows fall till it is driven to the head ant
the log riven in twain. Great Applause.
But mark in very ugly or cross grained, o
frozen wood, the blows have to be littl,
easy at first, or the wedge flies out. Roar
of laughter 1t is not worth while L
strike SO hard as to have q rebound, 70
that would retard the work in the Ion
run.
The President is like man driving
horse into the thills Of buggy, aud leading
another behind by halter strap. The on
ia the shafts is most superb aDimsl-broa'
between the eyes. ears small, short aroun'
the throat, stihle foil and hard. short coup
| led and can clear ditch and hedge, high