The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-09-25
Senator Summers Speech.

our Foreign relations, and the part Eng. {
land and France have taken 10 regard to
oar civil war. As was expected, MIR. SUN.
ner gave slavery some homo thrusts, which
arc the more forcibc on account of their
truth. In speaking of the Southern Con.
fedcracy, he said -.
"Lnok at this candidate power as you will
in its whole continued existence from it's
alpha to the omega, and 1t is nothing but
slavery Its origin is slavery its main
spring is slavery its Object is slavery.-
Wherever it appears. whatever 1t does.
whatever form it takes. 1t is slavery alone
aud nothing else, so that, with the contri.
tiou OF Satan, it might cry out.
Me miserable which way shall fly,
Infinite wrath and Infinite despair
Which way fly is hell myself am bell.
The rebellion lie slavery in arms slavery
on horseback slavery on foot; slavery ra'
gng on the battlefield /; slavery on the
quarter dock robbng, destroying Turning,
killing in order to uphold this candidate
power. Its legislation is simply slavery in
statutes slavery in chapters; slavery 10
scctions--with an cnacting clause. It's di.
plomacy is slavery in pretended ambassa-
dors slavery 10 cunning letters slavery
in cozening promises slavery in persistent
negotia,ions--all to secure for the candidate
power its much desired welcome. Say what
you will try to avoid 1t it you can you
arc compelled to admit that the candidate
power is nothing cleo than organized sla.
very, which now in its madpess-surroundod
by it's criminal clan, and led by it's folon
chioftains-bravos the civilization of tho
age. Therefore any recognition of this pow.
or will be recognition of slavery itself,
with welcome and benodiction, impartipg
to !. new consideration aud respectablitv,
aud, worse still, securing to 1t new opportu.
nifty aud foothold for tho supremacy which
it openly proclaims.
A slave; e;monger power will take its seat
at tho great councii-board, TO jostle thrones
and beuches. while it overshsd dows hunani.
ty. It's foul attorneys, rceking with slavery,
will havo their letter OF license, as tho sr-
| bassadors o: slavery, to rove from court to
court, over foreign carpets, talking, drink
ing. splitting slavery. aud poisoning that mir
which has becn nobIy pronounced too pure
for slave to broatho. Alas for Englands .
queen, seducod, led and drawn away from
the cause of Wilbcrforce and Clarkson to
sink into nnseemlv dallianco with the scourg.
ore Of women and the auctioneers of chill.
dren. Alas for the royal consort, humane
and great, whose dying voice was given tC
assuage the tompor of that ministerial dis
patch by which,in an evil hour, England was
mado to strike hands with rebel slavo
nongers for the councillor is needed now
to save the land which he adorned from an
act of inexpintlo shame Alas for Eng
land, vowed thousand times to the cause
of the African race. and knit perpetually by
her best renown to this sacrod loyalty, now
plunging into adulterous honeymoon with
slavery-recoguzing the now and impious
protestations against liberty itself-aud
wlckedy becoming the defender of the Faith
even as profsssed by rebel slave -mongers."
, Tho following is tho beautiful. and ye
0 significant perOration of Senator Sumner
o speech
t II know not If Republic like ours ca
r, count oven now upon the certain friendsh
!. of any European power, unless il be the Re
g public of William Tell The very name
q unwelccme to the full.bown representa-
y tives of old Europe, who forgot how proud
d ly, even in modern history, Venice bore tn
). title OF Serenissima RepuLiiea. 1t will b
o for US to change oil this and We shall do il
d Our successful example will DO enough
o Thus far we have been known chiefly throug
o that vital force which Slavery could onl
% degrade but not subdue. Now, at last, b
d tho death o: slavery, will the Republic bt
n gin to live. Fo; what is life without Libel
d ty: Stretching from ocean 10 ocean
r teem,ng with popua,ion-.bountiful in n
sources of all kinds--and thrice happy
universal trapchisement-it will be moi
u than conqueror. Nothing too vast for j
10 power; nothing ton minute for it's car
/" Strong in it's own mighty stature-filled wit
o. all the fullness of new life, ard covere
OF with panoply of renown, it will confe
OF that no dominion is OF value which does q,
's' contribute to human happiness. Born
BY this latter day and the child of its own strul
y giles, without ancestral claims, but heir
90 all the ages-t will stand forth to assert ii
ny dignity of man. and Wherever any memb
w Of the Human Family is to be succore
D. there its voice will reach-as the voice
DO Cromwell reached across France even
10 the prosecuted mountaineers of the Alp
ds Such will be this Republic upstart amor
TO- the nations. Aye! as the steam .engiu
the telegraph and chlorOform are upstart
Comforter and Helper like these, it CT
- know no bounds to Its empire over a wilil
IN world. But the first stage is the death
:. .' Slavery" .... ....
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