The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-06

years, l can remember when left this country
American ym6o SO terrible had Il grown snI 10 To- e l@e
The imptnetrable mesh OF law, custom, rOlitcs,
race down. II was only when saw IL noatlng at the
masthead Of the hio In the Mediterranean sea -four
thousand miles from herel, that telt thrill of
emotion st the sight Of the banner. A national tune
made me sick at heart for 1t seemed to prOphesy the
per petuliy Of unjust power.
Now, no matter what clouds the shy, no matter
how dark the hour looks, no mater what apprehen-
siODs we have, this thing we know-thls nation lflt
equality. II cannot live Otherwise. (Applause.J Tue
hmsGaad q 10 eH e9G ess as Pbg @ as
often asked what is this great change TO be trRced9
have put it down to the credit OF Que great man
and leader. No matter whether one individual!
courage, end perseverance, below all that there
powef S OF any 10 mRe %Rs saeh nS Ghauss
The truth is when you look at it philosophcaly, we
IL could not be hindered, Certain men aud certain
iation towards idea; but the under current-the
great impulse-wns Ia that direction, The tact is,
equality. No man was worth ANYTHING except for his
manhood. His blood, his race, his wealth his social
position, amounted to nothing. Anything given TO
either Of those elements was temporary-it was not
tans and the Friends came here. WhRJwa the 8 ed
6ii4g here any OF the machinery of Europe. They
brought nothing but Gods souls They meant to build
fate; that is, they were to make an Institution OF
right.
Our foreiathers, when they assembled together in
1888 in tead of placing themselves In accord, in
time with that movement. undertook temporarily TO
1t barrier against that great American tendency in
building which should resist the great Niagara OF
an American idea. They undertook TO build ship
The idea was 10 launch government on the cataract
had done Il. They let down the bow anchor Of the
Church and the sheet anchor OF the pledges OF the
Seward states all this In 1858, before he lost his
6d hg %Sde SPeecn a. rraS IN
The THE irrepTessible conflict" lie said. in
perfectly what they were about they knew that they
IDEAS hat cod not ye 6gethe Ba 6ey
they could for century or so force them to live to-
between them, they said to each other I'VE know
at auction, and the idea OF the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence-eannot live together, any more than a
If they had taken cannon and iied 1t with red hot
ad them pngged down WHEN they gS the ps TR
In, walt bit. now we have got ~" In 1851 IL Ts
lion meant Nature testify ing against the effort OF our
fathers 70 rec, reconcile the bitter and the sweet TO put
an ehervescence, to deny nature All at once
n tne idea that what our fahers "G tred up 20
failure, what shall we , d Not what is the duty
zion, but II was, What is the necessity in the oirCum.
the tmid set, the old fashioned set the pubic fnnc
uOnary set, and they said Pot the cannon together
powder and @ the same plug fold I'D your arms and hope
set, the Crtenden set. That the Crltenden reso
luton July 20 1891 With all respect be it said that
ptnag paid for the sin Of seventy years thai our
best man could not outgrow his birthplace. Our re-
eou not oEtRroW his Birthplace MI hinOoi1 % %coad
ySnd he SMOKE his his own hare not
agen-a phrase we commonly use. Look back hun
S5eG @ OF wch as Sna
man OF his bTeathDgl Our children will look back
Which are the results ofineva6le
ou reGolect once German wrote the life Of Martha
nIst Si s0G pages wsn Ss o & hg
grew there, and the precise time the roses 6loomed
IhNimon eter and What the hottest day in the year
from which race the man came and the mixture
how nany children died before they were seven
OF Ses 81 Se END he ns hS1s
you the means to understand the soil out of which
" ant 10 understand Lincoln go down TO Kentucky
good under black skin; notice how Impossible II was
iOr n WING to believe in The people. The Wnig party
Desye in nen9T aaene NOW out Of that
party, and out OF that hat locality we had to take
lem he attempted to marry two irreconclla,
ey BE 6se sP
had an answer READY If you had g9ne, to a school Dol
by political gges'G1s and asked him th5 answer We,
lincoln answered Put the same thing together and
tie Goals, ct Them to white heat gel Duponts best
powder and ne best pGg yoS can an ga ana PSE IT, up
Horace Greeley9-"I ct to save this Union.
dGiy 10 save save this Unlon. The whole 20 100000 Of
people said Amen: that is your duty" Then Mr..
slavery am hound 10 do Il Without In other words,
j am / Ound make that Union of exactly the same
materials that our fathers tried to-" That, you see,
was saying thatthe recognition fslavery in the Con-
marriage institution as II was OF habeas corpus as 1t
WAS OF the property and land. twas eievaIng slavery
Btitutions of life. II II Mr.. Lincoln had said, I
am bound tOBaVe this Union, but must ex hRust every
means 10 save II before break up the married nstl-
tuition. must exhaust every means or saving IL
bsfo e destroy the habeas corpus must exhaust
every method TO save IL be fore I strike Gown the
great 81 xOD bulU arr OF Individual freedom. must
exhaust every means TO save It before strike down
slavery, must SEM million OF young men TO the
Bwamps OF the Chicgahomony. must take %, OOO,-
tic efore touch slavery" It was making slavery
as sacred ything else in the country. We have
our fathers. They said, "sal cry may lie there in
the Outbuildlng she may just have shel er from
the Storm We VIII tell yOu why, on the sly; don't
want TO cut her throat this moment. we wi let er
die gradually" But when she got that amount OF
TecOR milton she would rightly claim that she iu
the main building that sue was recoguiz and guar.
faith This great struggle was the grea intellectual
n istake-the great moral huntness-thAt wasted
necessary graves Now IN n was not the whole Amar
people RI The LircOln channel which was the
representative OF the American people. But IL yOu
had watched the He yuu would have seen amall
channel going off in another direction aud you would
have found written upon W. Fremont, Butler, Phelps
Hunter, and other names They were SET OF m4ri
God has given You he right to seize slavery tool
with which 10 resist TebelllOn IL 10 your duty, under
tho Declaration Of Inde e1endence and rs an Amerl can
staesmRni 10 Gluten ~ Don't waste llie douI lavish
dollar DON'T waste anything -Beize that the first
moment They said an American President repre-
Bpntng an idea, standing under Constitution 90 parts
the mOnen rebellion shows Itself In behalf Of slavery
20 seize slavery As the weapon TO put y down; and