The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16
COL, TOM FITCH
STIRS REPUBLICANS
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but popular in the North as well as II
the South, and those who procialnleS
themselves in favor of its abolition III
CURED social, business and poiltlca
ostracism in the North, and insult, as
sault and expulsion in the South re"
postmasters South of Mason and DIX
on's line would have delivered a copy
of the New York Tribune to subscrlp-
er, and few subscribers would nave
ventured to receive copy Of II, except
in a sealed envelop. The Northern man
who journeyed southwark padlockec MS
Hips when he crossed the Ohio river
In the streets of Southern cities slaves
marched to the auction block with the
cIank of their manacles unmuffled,
while the voice of freedom was husheu
to silence, her dramas were unrepre-
sented and her songs unsung. A des-
potism more drastic than that OF Rus
STA ruled in fifteen States.
The vast amount of capital invested
in slave property was apparently safely
entrenched behind bastions of judge
made law, barriers of commercial pow
err. and batteries of social prestige. In
all of the Southern and in many OF the
Northern States the great forces of So
. cletY We're enliSlS1 III tAiC AAAeOA 80 -
the Shareholders. The conservative in
fuence of the churches-always exer-
cised in favor of existing authority, al
| ways willing to render unto Caesar
everything that Caesar claimed, was
allied to the prejudices of the slums
against the negro. The power of the
| banks, millions upon millions of whose
money was loaned upon the security of
human chattels-was linked to the am
bition of politicians whose nomination
and election depended upon the favor
| of the Shareholders.
THE ABOLITION. MOVEMENT.
/ Yet the combined power of all these
| forces was powerless to silence the lit
| tie band of abolitionists who with
| tongue and pen attacked the institution
of slavery. The lark like voices of Gar
rison and Phillips, and Beecher, rang
out in brave heralding of the coming
| morn of freedom. The torpid giant of
the North moved uneasily beneath the
mountain load of indignities placed up
on him by slavery. AT last his droWSy
conscience was aroused by the action
of the shareholders themselves in re-
pealing the Missouri Compromise,
which for thirty-four years had been
regarded as a settlement of the line pc
yond which slavery should never ad-
| vance toward the North star me
| Shareholders in control of the Democrat
| ic party repealed the Missouri Com
promise, not because they needed Kan
! sas or Nebraska as a market for their
slaves, but because they knew that
| slavery must be aggressive by that
| very necessity of it's nature which de-
manded expansion as condition prec-
edent of continued existence.
| EVERYWHERE else in the world it WIS
| dying. England abolished it in her col
| onies Alexander of Russia emancipat-
ed his serfs. The poets and authors and
statesmen of Europe and America were
against it, The world was weary OF 1t
and demanded that it should cease to
affront civilization. (Applause)
THE REPUBLICAN UPRISING.
But the Democratic party was blind
| to the signs of the times, it was devoted
to the interests of the Shareholders and
it rushed upon its fate. 1t repealed the
Missouri Compromise and then the free
men of the North awoke with the
spring and roar of lions aroused from
slumber. Out of the farms and fac
| tories; out of the forests and mines;
out of the shops and counting houses
bthey came, and they proved the grand
| est organization of freemen that the
world has ever known, and they called
it the Republican party.
/ For that party and it's beneficent
purposes the tongue of the orator has
been kindled with fire from the altar.
For 1t the strain of the poet has swell
ed to the sweetness of song. For it the
sword of the soldier has flashed along
the line of victorious armies 1t may
not always have been infallible in its
| selection of measures. 1t may not al
ways have been wise in it's choice of
men, But its purposes have ever been
high and patriotic, and the memory of
its achievements will live as long as
the English tongue. (Applause)
THE CONTEST OF 1856
The passage by a Democratic Con-