Year: 1860




We see some of the Southern press begin


ming to apologize for Black Republicanism;a and


representing it as quite moderated, and likely


70 be very harmless in the control Of als Gen


eral Government We give extracts from


Mr.. Stewards late speech at st. Paul's, Min
nesota, to show the unchanged policy Of this


party:


can look southwark and see, amid all tho
convulsions that are breaking IN the ancient
provinces of Spain, the Spanish American Re.
| publc--see in their decay and dissolution tbA
preparatory stage for their reorganization az
| free. equal and independent members of tho


United States Of America. Standing on such


an eminence and looking with that far distant
range of vision, can now look down on the
| States and the people Of the Atlantic coast
of Maine and Massachusetts, and New York
and Pennsylvania, and Virginia and the Caro-
linas. and Georgia and LOUISIANA and Texas,
and round by the Pacific coast to California
and Oreeon-I can hear their disputes, their
fretful controversies, their threats tfat If their
own separate interests are not gratfed and
consulted by the Federal Government they


will separate from this Union--will secede


from it, will dissolve it; and while ! hear on
their busy sidewalks these clamorous conten-


tons, am able to say, Peace, be still. These
subjects Of contention and dispute that so i'm
tate, and anger, and provoke you are but
| epheneral and temporary. These institutions
| which you so much desired to conserve and
Tor which you would sacrifice the welfare Of


The people OF this continent, are almost as
ephemerai as yourselves" The man is born
to-day who will live to see the American


Union, the American people-the whole az
them-coming into the harmonious under.
standing that thisis the land Of the free men
for the free men-that it is the land for the
white man; and that-whatever elements thers
are to disturb ! present peace or irritate the
passions of its poisessors will in the end-and
that end will come before long-pass away,
without capacity in any way TO disturb tho
harmony Of or endanger this great Union.
[Applause.


Certainly since we can lay so little claim
to having produced these results by car own
work, or wisdom, or virtue, what could it have
been but that overruling power which, by its
higher law, controls even the perverse wills Of,
men, and which means that this shall be,
henceSorth and forever, as it was established
IN the beginning, land not Of slavery, but
land of freedom. Cheers.


Fellow-citizens, either in one way or the
other, whether you agree with me in attrib-
uting it to the interpostion Of Divine Provi-
dence or not this battle had been fought, this
victory has been won. Slavery to-day is, for
the first time, not only powerless, but without
influence in the American Republic. The
serried ranks of party, which rallied under it
to sustain and support it, are broken and dis
solved under the pressure Of the march-the
great and powerful march-of the American
people, determined to restore freedom 10 its
original and just position in the Government. &
For the first time in the history of the United
States, no man in free State can be bribed to
vote for slavery. The Government of the
United States has not the power to make good
a bribe or a seduction by which to make and
convert Democrats to support slavery TAp-
plause. For the first time in the history of
the Republic the slave power has not even the
power to terrify or alarm the freeman so as to
make him submit, and scheme, and coincide,
and compromise. 1t rails now with a feeble
voice, as it thundered in our ears far twenty
or thirty years past With a feeble and NUT
tering voice they cry out that they VII tear
the Union to pieces. Derisive laughter
Who's afraid? Laughter, and cries Of "No
One."l They complain that if we will not
surrender our principles, and our system, and
our right-bejng a majority-to rule and if
we will not accept their system and such rulers
as they will give US, they will go cat of the)
Union~ Who's afraid? Laughter.1 No
body's afraid; nobody can be bought Now,
fellow citizens let me ask you, since you are
so prompt at answering, suppose thatany time
within the last iorty years we could have found
American people in the free States everywhere,
in the free States now--in such q condition
that there was no party that could be bought,
nobody that could be scared-how much
sooner do you think this revolution, would
have come in which we Are now engaged? 1 z
10 not believe there has been one day since
1857 until now when slavery had any power
in this Government, except what it derived
from buying up men of weak virtue, no prin-
ciple and great cupdty, and terrifying men of
weak nerve in the free States. Laughter and
applause This battle is fought, and this
victory is won, provided that you stand deter
mined to maintain the great Republican party,
under its great and glorious leader, Abraham
Lincoln, in inaugurating its principle into the
Of the Government, and pro-
vded you stand by him in his administration,
if it shall be, as trust it SHALL wise and just
and good one, until the adversary shall find
out that he has been beaten and shall volun-
.arily retire from the field. Applause. A
do it, Unless you do that, there
S still danger that all that has beeu gained
may be lost