Year: 1860

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broadcast sense. [ApplauSe.


CANNOT DO MUcE IN GEORGIA.


Now, my Northern friends, do not know that
] can do much in Georgia to reconcile these mat
| iers, but whatever l can do 1 will Applause


l say that friends in Georgia who are crying
out for protection Slavery in the Territories are
advocating mere theory, mere abstraction, a.
thing that is not and cannot be; they would do
much better if they would demand protection from
the General Government, and have line of police
established along the borders of the Slave States
to catch and hang the thievng AbotiOnists who
are stealing our niggers. Laughter and ap-
4 plause.


That is means of protection, and whyH Be-
cause it is practical. Renewed laughter and ap-
plause.


i SLAVE BREEDING.


Hero is my old native State of Virginia, the
slave trading and slave breeding State Of Virginia.
i Laughter.


Delegate from Val call the gentleman to
order. He casts imputation upon Virg gina
by calling her the slave breeding State of Vir-
ginia,


, Mr.. Gouden.-Well, will say the slave breed
ing State of Georgia then. glory in being slave
} breeder myself, Loud laughter. l will face the
: music myself, and have many negroes as any
man from Virginia. As l invited the gentlemen
Of this Convention at Charleston to visit my plan
} tation, will say again, that if they will to
see me, ] will show them as fine lot OF negroes
and the pure African too, they can find any
where; and l will show them as handsome set
of little children there be seen, laughter
and any quantity of them too; renewed laughter,
and wish that Virginia may be as good slave
trading and slave breeding State as Georgia,and in
saying that, do not to be dsrespectful to
Virginia, but do not mean to dodge the question
at all.


| NoN-INTERvENTloN.
Now, l want no office; never asked any; did
not ask the State Convention to send me here; but
am here to tell the truth to you all, and this is
my idea of non-intervention: want the State OF
Virginia, il she has negroes, to have many as
she peases; if you want Slavery in Massachusetts,,
l want you to have it; if you want it in Indiana,
Ohio Wisconsin, and Minnesota in Gods name
have it, II is ynnr right to have sla ves and just
as many or few as you please. / will never
join party which desires to force slavery any
where or keep it from any place. Applause. Il
believe that it is regulated by the law Of God, of
natures Cod and all history proves that to TO So
All that ask is, hands of-eave it to the people
of the States and Territories to settle that matter
for themselves, under the Constitution of the Uri.
ted States. Applause. And now while l AIN
up l want to put my veto upon one thing.
know that l am not going to be applauded in what
l say, but seed in good time will bring forth
fruit, and though you may say now that l am
wrong, yet l think that shall live to see the day
when the doctrines advocate tonight will be the
doctrines Of Massachusetts and Ct the North for


Truth crushed to earth will rise again,


The eternal years of God are hers


While error, wounded, writhes in pain,


And dies amid her worshippers


WANTS THE SLAVE TRADE.
| fay l 60 for non'intervention in the broad
est sense Of the term say that this whole thing
should be taken out Of the hand of the General
Government. l say it is all wrong to be spending
two or three millions of dollars annually from our
pockets, and sacrificing thousands of lives upon
the coast Of Africa, in that terrible cline, to pre-
vent our going there to get few negroes. If it
is right for us to 60 to Virginia and buy negro
and pay So, 600 for him, it is equally right for us
to 60 to Africa. where we can get them for fifty
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we are placed in, and you may as we'll come to
your senses and face the music.
There are two thousand of our negroes now down
at Key West, begging and pleading not to be sent
back II they should be sent ba.k, what would
be the result One half of them wonld die before
hey got there, and the other half would be turned
upon the coast of Africa-upon the coast of Libe-
ria among strangers, to be eaten up by cannlbals
or be caught and sold again, die of starvation
and this you call humanity say it is piracy;
say that our Government is acting against right
and reason in this matter; and If the Southern
men had the spunk and spirit to come right up
and face the North, believe the Northern De-
mocracy at least would come to the true doctrine
of popular sovereignty and noh-interventiOn. LAp-
plause and laughter


Think of it two thOusand of these poor barba
rans from Africa caught within the last four
weeks, and kept upon the miserable island Of Key
West, dying there from disease and starvation;
and what do not ole are to be sent back by our
Government at an expense of one or two millions,
though they are begging not to be sent back, and
landed upon the coast of Africa. 1t is cruel, in
human wrong, and appeal to the good senae OF
the American nation against it. Look at John
Bull; he has bound US to catch all we can, and We
send them back at an expense of twenty-five dol
lars per head. We send them back, but what
does John Bull do when he gets them He ap-
prentices them out again, and makes slaves OF
them. That is the hypocrtical treaty that
you are bound by, and yet | hear no southern
voice, or Northern voice, raised against this ag-
gresson upon the law of nature and of natures
| God but | intend TO raise nv voice against IL, !
humble as it is.


Now, this may be secondary question be-
fore US tonight. The great point is harmony
and union in the great Democratic party
Let US whip the Black Republicans, let us
win the fight, and when we have settled these
things let us act together and all will be