Year: 1859

have devoted good deal Of time 10 our State
affairs because thought them important
have devoted some time 10 questions Of na-
bonal administration in respect TO economy,
because have thought it worthy Of your aeri
Gus consideration, but am free to say to you,
the great question whether this country shall
be ruled BY this slaveholding oligarchy, or by
a Free people, such az stand before me, trans-
cends IN importance all these other questions,


FoREioN BoRN cIrlzENs.


There are other topics upon which would
like TO sPeak upon, 0a that cry which men see
ht for their own interested purposes, TO utter,
that the Republ can party is unfriendly TO the
foreign born citizen. ! shall not speak Of that
to-day, except simply to say here. that brand
it as falsehood Ny own course is before
you. No man can point to the act or word Of
mine which has not breathed the brOadest spirit
Of libeTalty and freedom for all, without regard
ing the country from which he came; and
here enter my protest, and believe l protest
Ia common with the Republican party, against
any such determination as the Federal Govern.
ment has lately proposed 10 sanction, in its Cass
letter. while / also protest against any such
Discrimination as has been imposed by law im
the Ststos Of South Carolina and Aassachu.
sets.


the HOMESTEAD BILL.


There is another point to which should also
like to speak 70 YOU because regard II as vital.
| refer to the Homestead Bill The Republican
party stands by the Homestead Bill: that is 10
say, they stand by the principle that Il is a
great deal better that the public lands Of the
country should pass into the hands Of settlers,
that they should have all opportunity 10 take
Up those lands, with little or no price, and
cultivate them, the country looking for rcmun-
Grafton, not TO the price Of the land, but to the
increased wealth resulting from the settlers
industry. 1t is the policy 0f our party to have
free homes for all, and because this homestead
bill contributes to that end, we have endorsed
It. know that the Democratic party in the
State Convention endorsed Ii too, bat what do
they at Washington In solid phalanx they
voted against the bill. All the shareholders
in the South aided by great body of the Dem
ocrats of the North, united in voting down H. at
proposition They so united last winter -
They will so unite again. What good does il
do that your Democratic party here protest
against it, None We want votes and acts,
not words. Votes aud acts the Republican
party have given for it, and these they will
continue to give, and this in my judgment
marks it as TIE party of the people, and not as
the party of an oligarchy


l have said now, believe, all propose to
| soy INV hOb naiu uHutI GAtCuilblhuCS5
which surrounded ne, precisely as l would. ]
have not perhaps, said all would have said, OF
in the way l would have said it, but have
spoken in substance what desired to say.
have laid before you, | believe, facts. true
facts. submit them to your judgment, and in
laying before you facts, and in asking upon
them your honest judgment, believe / pay
you higher compliment than l shOnld by any
exciting appeal whatever.


i submit these facts TO you farmers and work
ing men, | submit them to you citizens of all
occupations and classes, and ask simply that
you will take them into your serious eontem-
plation, and then vote as conscience and reeson
require, Do not either, be content with
voting yourselves, alone; we have an indefati
gable opponent; we have the Federal Treasury
against usi they are mighty, and nsught but
the will Of free people can overcome them
You must not expect the issue Of the battle tC
be with the careless, but to the Vigilant, the
earnest. the active.


You here in Eric county have more to Dc
besides electing your own ticket. You hav,
more to do than that. You have got TO con
tribute to the election of the State ticket, ant
thus put your voice upon the side of freedom
and tue Republicanisn; all through the county
you have got 10 do something more than fgh
your own battle. You have to fight for free
dom throughout the Union, for the example o
this people will be potent in that struggle :
Therefore / ask you, men and women, to tax,
these things to heart and not merely that yol
may do your duty, but that you may see tha
all your neighbors come up that every MAJ
who can vote is brought up to the polls; tina
the protest Of Ohio agairst oppression, thi
fall, be, as believe, from all the signs tha
greet me, it will be, more significant and NOR
emphatic than it has ever ye! been.


The Governor sat down amid perfect storm
of applause