Year: 1859

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mad, who is to blame for the institution o
these late steps of bloodshed and violence


1t is right you should hear little whole
some truth in Kentucky; you who are no
in the habit of hearing it. say it is no
thing but personal feud--a guerilla war
fare, commenced in Kansas by the Demo
cratic party, and carried on by Brown, up
on the principle that wherever be found 8
STAKEHOLDER be should make war upon him
All this assailing of leading men with it
is too base even for all the baseness of The
Democratic party. So far as l am con
cerned in any way, in being connected with
him, say 10 you, my friends, that spur
the charge-I won't deign to reply TO it


THE FOOLISH FOOLS.


In the fiIst place, let US look to the
shareholders themselves. They are not all
fools; though some of them are the. big
gest fools ever saw, because they belong
to the class of "foollish FOOLS" and as the
old man said, "the damned foolish fools"
be could not stand, and being asked what
they we're, he said they were the fools who
did not know it. Gentlemen, the whole
cotton crop that is said to be King, that is
said to do all the commercial exchanges at
home and abroad, without which the
world would come to an end, is nothing.
The census shows that cotton cuts but a
small figure as production of the United
States, it being but one thirteenth of the
whole. Why, the Insignificant thing Of
hay, that General Shelby said he would
not raise-a little dry grass, as he called
il, is produced in larger quantities If any
man tells me cotton is king, tell him it
is no such thing. Hay is king. Well, the
cotton crop is about eighty millions of val
ue. Well, gentlemen, the Government
spent about eighty millions during the last
year, and we all thought that was large;
even the democratic party thought that
was too large sum. Well, now suppose
you dissolve the Union-suppose you Eave
succeeded as General Wise proposes, in ia
king Harper's Ferry, 10y the Brown has
Harpers Ferry,) aud you take Washing
ton and the archives; how are you to main
tain IT'D Does any man say that the
Southern Confederacy will not have TO
have large internal police, larger ma
rine and larger navy, when they have
not only TO stand against the powers of
France and Great Britain, but the whole
of the free North. There is no man of
common sense but will admit that the ex-
penses of such government will have to
be larger than they are now. Foot it up.
When you have paid the expenses of your
internal police, Of your Southern Union,
of your foreign navy of your home army,
of course it will take more than eighty
millions. That is to say, when your whole
crop has been sold, providing, always, that
sell it successfully, you have spent every
dollar of the income to preserve the peace,
and have not single dollar with which to
buy pork and beans, your niggers and
jeans.


THE "PECULIAR INSTITUTION"


l have spoken of the National Republi-
can party. Look at what have said, in
rational view. In the first place, is it not
right, according to the Democratic rule
Their IDEAS, they say, is the good of the
greatest number. If itturns out then that
the white people are the majority, their in
terests ought to be subservsd. This is the
doctrine they preach, but not the one they
practice. All along here in the slave
States they say our institutions are pecu-
liar. If slavery, and freedom of the press,
and speech, cannot exist together, it is in
deed peculiar institution-devilish pecu
liar. 1t is an Institution, moreover, that
you can't talk about without danger to
somebody. Well, we say We don't want
any more of so very peculiar an institn-
ton.


A Voice-Set your negroes free.


Mr.. Clay-They are, and now l want
to do the next best thing. l want to set
those fellows that call themselves Demo
Gratis free, for God knows they need it more
than the niggers. Now, gentlemen,
if you will allow me to tell you, niggers
get good master sometimes; but your
masters neither feed nor clothe, but put
their hands in the exchequer to take out
the contents, and the devil bit of it do
they give to you poor fellows. l have Of
ten thought of this as / have seen Cufy,
black and sleek, working in the field, and
then have seen the lazy, dirty, lousy DEM
ocrat, unfed and ragged, halloaing "hur-
rah for Democracy, and damn niggerism."


Gentlemen, have said enough. If all
these truths, presented to you in this plain
unvarnished style, SO that you all can un-
derstand them and comprehend them, do
not move you, no logical deductions that
may be drawn by fancy, can. If with all
this living experience before you, of
that institution which has driven your
forefathers and you from the Atlantic
slope, and which will drive you until you
cross the plains of the far West, and seek
the shores of the Pacific, you are not
moved; if the marks of eternal prosperity
and progress exhibited in and by the Free
States Of the Union; if the unparalleled
increase of population and wealth-rail-
roads and canals-vessels at home and at
sea; if the admiration of the world, GEN.
tered upon the great States of the Ere.
North, and above all the great school
houses and churches-living evidences that
God Almighty has declared that the un-
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