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SPEECH Or HOU. AA'33l7 1:1140..5HE
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The very extensive-Balooo Nationg
:Market. street, holey? Thirteenth, MLR
denely.packed on Tuesday 'evening,' by orie"of
the largest gatherings that ever asserabled'in
•
Philadelphia,, Lorig Were the hour'aatioun.:,
- -ceTfor organna IQn. every evadable spa° 7 in
the large hail, the
_gallery, 'aisles, - and the
platform was' orOwded and bundrede were
unable to , obtain htimittance to the room., Mite
inciemericy of• the weather failed to" interfere
with or daatiett the ardor of the' Republican
• tames ofFhiladelphia,
About o'cloch.the meeting tree urghnized:
by calling Williau'D. Lewis, Esq., Collector of
'the -port of Philadelphia, tinder, Millard Fill-:
mere, to the chair.' , The President, on,takitig
the chair thanked themeeting for the .lioner
- cdhlerred upotaitn. -- IleCtiad never prerided
s over' so vast on assemblage. 'The sight ,,
said he, charms my heart. (Appian e )
proves that, lb this city, where the, cause of
Freedom was pronounced 'to the world, in its
---,tuostmajertio formUla,_ the air is still_inatinct
with its,viVif o big, influences. The has
come, my friends, when the sincerity of our
love for it will ho tested: the Magnitude of
the•principles at-stake in the pending contest
cannot be overstated. It is our 'duty to do all
in our power towni•ds enlightening in regard
to theseprineiplea, evt.rY voter in the .tree
1 States, se - -tbat each man may knoir when. he
gives' his-yoteti that ategives it' either on the
sicle_of slavery or'freedoth ; either to-prolong;
if not: perpetuate, the galling -bondage, iu
- which wu free born men
,have been so . long
held by:Southern politicians, or to liberate-us
at once ,at,d forever, from the disgraceful
thra;dop, [Grent applauge]. Such is our
purpose In:our-assembliug ; and I rejoice' to
see around- me some'of tkose vho have "stem
med the torrent of Southern
. .usuipation inTour
ilegialniiveitalte,_ond witerare.here - to:gjveur
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their countenance in the good work ive have
undertaken,
!Ir. Lewis concluded amid great applause.
• Speeche's were then . delivered by -Fenators
Coßamer of Vermont, and Trumbull. of .Illin•
cis, and the Hon. 'Burlingame of Mae
' sachusetts. The latter was 'received with a
tremendous outburit of-applause. A• similar,
storm of cheering greeted a resoluticg enders- ,
ing the action of the House on the Army A.p
propriation
. bill. All together the display
. . fo :was very spirited. - •
We give the following synopsis of Mr.. Buy•
lingame's speech, which will be 'universally
read:,
• SPEECH OF MR. BURLINHAME. ••
The Hon.' Mr. BurlingiiiiC took the stnnd
and was received with repeated shouts of iti
1-4ileuse.-- "Three cheers"' were -proppeed for.
Mr. Burlingame, and given with a hearty
good will. , .• Three groans" mere then
poied and given for Brooks.'•
. Order,
being restored, Mr. Burlingame said ::—Gen
tlemen, I•thank you from the, bottom of a
' grateful heart for this kind greeting. There
is heart :in: it, and right down honest good
will. Ido not'take it as a personal trihute,
but as.one - gush more.of enthusiasm for those
good principles which shall survive, when we
ore in,tho dust: [Applause.] , You .will bear
with me,.fellow citizens, this evening, while 1
. address you. My voice is almost putt, and 1
feel nitwit exhausted ; but while I am pliysi
cally 4prostrated; -
,my republican spirit is
wanner than ever.:' • .•
• Why is it; fellow ottliens,-that In this limit
' went weather; you , gather together in, such
.
unwonted nurfibertir — lris - be - csustrth - e worst
tyranny that ever trod on the necks of men,
has taken possession of this great government
whi4 cattle from bralns and was support
*, ed by the uneoliquetable• arms of our fore.
-----fathers.----If-we_wereleftfree in
_this L govetn:,
ment to work in practice up to its high theory,
. •we should have but. two. great parties. One
would be progressive, and one would be con
servative, and uteri would belong to these no
cording to age or temperament.
But thereis a - di urbing - element
_which
comes in to interfe e with
. - the"fair play of
, the working of•our institutions. What is that
element?. 'lt one word, iriltlavery
•
upon this subjeet.l shrill be-hrief. -- :: Whim' is
- this slavery that BOW dominates So likea.MitS
• ter in the Itind, or whence Caine it? Not
from the distant tents of Ahroltain—tut from
Lacoademen, .whete it is said billVerY Was
•
iriVented—not from old Rome, but-front too
' s dere Rome: It come like a spider . . from the.
bnaih,of Polio Miran the Fifa!, who in 14:',0,
nisi - re - 4 - a
• - . Rings of Portugal to take off- all Colioe:imeit
aid otiii:r furca bartcr
to b ea r theio ilitO perpetual keyirlet::., "I.p . rifer
ituut papal
Tiqrpr• l t ttety. _"1 tciil tut
• mice it 3 1113 Lory tlovr'it a liqglity Lstrioito } ILA _
Lacto to the present tirep. k It elvt.Lie •to
• thiS country in tii6 guise of Lutuaui{y. It
--, was Welcomed. by the Caialiets of the Smith
,it was 8401 rej*ed, t, han 1141!i , 14.
Pilgrimso, s
. IL, auhi Whalls
it ?;t./4,et.h 3 oki,
„
[A voice, "130 " Applause. ] It is 'that
system, whi ch denies the right of a man to,
hiatself-;- - thlhis.wife--to his °laid" , -witioh
,dudes a man born in the image ',ids) (lad, ,
with . soul whicltburns, , ,shAmArtal !i* the'
stars which burn above us this ht, beneath .
thh condition of the beast of ,the field; and
whileXt!edilsos him beneath thik ,00ndition of :
the beast: of the field, it belch; him as against
,%
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..hrtueltiethe reiponsibilities of _a human lie.
41-$4-e-The:relav,e--liaS iothisig_in_the world
which he can cell his 'cwna-save a Mosier; .
-Who may heist bins r -'bruise hin,' blister_ him„
urn hitn„, d 6 -Whatsoever he will.with. him.-
This is slavery', and I am sorry' to say, it, is
whit ii Called American'sla.very. ' '' ' - •
' What does-it do ? When 'our 'fhtliers met,
to term' the Ceestitutioh.of our cosintry,'o they
deemid ',slavery an evil.' They ihotight it
would soon expire. `Could those father's who,
met here to form that Constitution have fore
seen what could have been the effect of the
Introduction of its virus into it, I believe- those
noble, men would have fallen in' their - places
before they 'would have admitted it in -the .
'remotest degree'into the_ Constitution: Ynti
remember. that. Madison would not asks-.the_
-- Coristitsitionrwith - the wordelave r -bist by the_
accident of cotton it became.a pecuniary pow:.
er, and through that clause its the-Constitution
giving it it voting power, it-became a political
power—pecuniary and political, which thro'
ouolsegligence, has at length passed into raw
hands---not more than three hundred thousand
all told.. But-these men have bad possession
of this government-nearly from its beginning
to the present time. They liisti - tirChled all
the machinery of, freedom to foster ilavery.,
_Still so pernicious is the system in .itself that
'while it hatenotenrichektherm it has made
the land where they dwell poor. indeed. Free
debt and slavery you remember started togeth
er on their-race across the continent. Frei
,-...
dom taking the latitude upon which it first
plocid iis iron feet, has gone on trampling
- down barbarism and planting States, raising
--.the symbols of faith-by—every --tiver,_until, it
had passed the great father of waters, the
great Atinerican desert, climbed' the stony
mountains, mind this night with all the insti
tutions s of the Puri , Of the pilgrims, the son
. .
tan, atands by the fur off shores of the peace
ful, Pacific. [Applause.] Such has, been the
mighty march of freedom across the continent.
The cruelest slave driver on any Southern
plantation, is ever a'recreant, mean Yankee..
(Laughter.) The North has furnished.. its
recreant clergymen to supply .SOuthern pul
pits. It'hatiTurniehe - direpedlars 'of -- sleeks, -
and its pedlars of principle—the -latter far
worse than the former. It has. furnished
meaner than all theseit has furnished North
ern douglsfuces--(applausc)—men rho 'dare
to stay ou the soil ttei• deimorate ;'and for
getting the mothers that bore them there, dare
to advocate principles born of the : bottomless
pit. (Cheers.) Yes, the North is furnishing
the,brains to-day,, to carry on the Satanic , op
erationts of the present Administration. While •
Illinois furnishes Stephen Arnold "Doug's, on
the one band, on the Other she furnishes eta'
noble Senators as he whom you have -heard'
here to night. (Applause.) While. old Mn.il
Suchusetts furnishes Caleb Cushing, on the
one Itatub who„is the brains of the present
-Cabinet, who does the miserable etark , 'of the,
slave power,' on the other hand she furnishes
that noble champion of liberty, Charles 'Sum
no!. (Imesense,
,Cpptnuse.) ~, Slavery 'tts
reached the Rio ,Bravo?on dlteLsou tit, and 'the
groans of its victiiaattaitiitf , its'ch t aine
may be heard `
as itol4rlit443l,44;tlielVestrn
tributaries of the Misaissippi,4lver.k While
freedom has left the laid, in its bright path,
espangled with freeschools, and haitilled die
heavens with the shining towers of religiort
- and civilization, slaiery has left, the blighted
boil—it like lett ignoranca—it has left desola;
tion and death in its trail; All the time these
-tvitssyrstenseshave:been-running-their-race-Ao—
gaiter; Slavery like an assassin, has heen'try
ing 'to stab Freedom to death'. , All this -tittle
Freedom bus been giving its energy taioster
ir
Slaver : It has • poured a rich stream of
North rn blood into - the shrinking veins of the'
,South. It has furnished its met c t, its money,
its manhood—its meatiness also; vast quitn•
titles. (Laughter and three cheers for Suns
ner,) andisere. let me turn aside from the
stream 'of my remarks to say -one word of that
man. Ido not like to be -the hearer or 11l
things,. bedauso such a one ever lingers in your
- minds unfavorably ; .but the news ispol of the
best which comes from him. A Tear has been
long entertained now—that the noble mind,
wllO6O -e.intillatious have tilled the world with
fLaitomsl7,,o, opt lit ditiltnriss . urider'th . e 1 , 40 w
of a bludgeon, (a vc ice—the blow' cif :isas.
sin.) ssy,. there is gr:Mt...fear that the brill
liant miirl.of . that'nolde man nri'y
becaue of theblow wh:eli he r e
--e-Fivetturrh‘,4_ll,;or-01-Alre-f...zenatie Uoited
.
Btathii. (6ensatiotO . ..
And yet; there ere men who, in the Nee ,of
the ob . vieus faet;;— , 4nen, Jo I
, aliyl? The liin
guaie isTuot copious enough ':to fitruisl4 op!,
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artiste
Emu
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;Toy, , t ~,,,:! es for such b' Olitturefls gik , t..ttut
itttisitlitilf qting that mamtchatilts4lluttiner
itiq i
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litki4i*Jhe snow tloll4ol4Wlitiv.„
it ' ills—tunltn_whosehreathaUliviTtlL I
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#451 ess to everything wearing the , upright
form of man. Theldea that Charles, Sumner'
~.wittris, as far above' 'ratty' as the heavens
Ain Above tbejtolid earti— = the ideal hat, he•
_. i 'siouli stoop ii the degradationdub a itiioi e,
to him—that he, to use their,oivn.vulgar lap
gllagtr, is " playing pouting' and - feigning' a
sbiltnso,*bieti henevelt, hitd, I telliyott, feli.
low:citt!ze..ns, when they, say that they lie,
,and
they knolv.:l4._i(Eath”ittatio_chters,), . It.. is
the_only occasion I feel called upon to apply .
That stinging opithet;, , thdt intensified English.
It is the.only propsiword that belongs.to nuab:
Men, rind it stionld‘be stamped on their brazen
brows by every hottest man.— ;. '
. .
But,' to retureonoe More To what I MO Ely
,
ingl ' I was St - peaking of the contributions made
by freedthriato slaveiy But Avitb them all the
DlOrth hilt grown richer and richer, and stion
ger and'stronger,' and the Seeth - pOorer and
poo'ker„ and' weaker and weaker., ' SfaVery
makes a people p cuniarily weak, intellectual
ly week, and physically_ weak.' I could *de
monstrate, if I t anitne, every one of these.
propositions. Take, fon one moment, :the
first,. ' The master will not Work—of purse lie
will not ! • [Laughter' :and applause.]The
sfave7will not - work;unless he is witched,,-and
I do .not blame him for that. ' The land is dy
ing : for that always dies wherever the black
folt of slavery comes down ; and I. do net,
' blame it for dying., [Laughter. I Then( where
is the result of the labor; which is the 'only .
1 wealth of tiny people ? . It is, by consequence
small. ' I could illustrate this pri)posilion.--,
Take any Southern*State—take Virginia. The
fences' are falling'down. -The-a-first families"
areas poor es half-starved rate. [Laughter.]
They liaveitothing comparatively- to-...rely on
tbere,in the way of cities, railroads, villages,
M. free schools. The planter antioijiates -his
single crop. .They have no diversified-employ
ment--diversified labors, which are,tecesaary
to make people happy and free. The North
Carolinian said of the " first families" there—
and you never hear of anylicond familien there
- ..thtit they lived one half-the-year-on dieters
and the: 'other half on past recollections.—
[Great laughter.] It is true thivit be Old Cum
tnenwtaltkof Virginia 4-1 am sorry for her—
is blest with the best natural advantages of
tiny State iu the Union. But Ido not, speak
half so harshly ,of her condition as - did Mr.
Wise, in his recent canvass-of that State for
Governor; but I will simply say that the wolf
and raven are 'returning to their old haunts
there ; the moss is gathering Around their
ebuich . door steps, and the owl hoots from HS
deserted tower. And it is slavery that - does ,
this, nothing else. It makes people , idtellea-.
tualliweak. ; this will appear to you at once.
You cannot have free schpokiwhere that is.
One fact will, serve as , -.,am. s ilfustration. There
are more 'books publish in. ,
'''' I
bare the honor to represent in Massachuietts,
[A voice, that's the State,'.'„ and applause]
over which you can•fire4l cannon ball, than in
all the slave States together. [Applause.]—'
Where' are their historians ? Where aro their
' poets ? Slavery never had , a poet—it never
will. Imagine some divine genius_ of song
singing the beauties of slavery r [Laughter.]
The morning march of the poor slave going to
the cotton field, or the baying blood hound as
he i 4 chasing women and . children through
the cane brake ! What subjects of poetry are
these.
'lt makes a people physicalfy weak: Now
I do not mean to say‘ that the people of one ,
section of;thiercountryt are any: hiuver than
ihe'Poilplof:sibiiiif. — 'Will not ibi •- •"tbi4 in
justice. Every.drop of American blood, wheth
er in the - N - Ord or South, beats with a pulse
of fiery valori but I. say - the - aystetti of slayer}
weakens this nation—especially does it enas
oulate the land where it exists. This is ob
vious With men chained to their door•posts,
hostile to them in a conflict of arms, how dare
-the,
y-leave-their..hcmeB L.
ntirent, and that is aeuurce of weakness. And •
yet it is. out of that land so weakened . and
blasted by. slavery—out of that desolate re-,
glen, come till 'the haughty boastaitwhat ,
they will do uilleas we obey 'them—knook our
knees togctherL . —" turn paleas Craw-faced
loons"—turn * flip flaps in the face of the na
tion'whieh would make the fortupe of an.); Mr , .
.'eus • clown. [Laughter.] 7hey )tell us . ulkt .
they would Flo ever Mid 'oooo,l,by seeeesiOnr,
land war—" horrible war"—and
cued t ternally,.in.Our great connhereial.
out of our proPrieties.by.:tile•zethi'ents... Wl L ev e
can they get . their !truly? 110‘i can they keep
an army in 'the field, these thsunionists nna
secesb . loniks against the Np! . th,_ or against. di'.
Uhiou; rather?. WilY,: -4, i : un(Y t
,siitkowsof dtvtt•,tu nioti4i•ii thne . s. Wi a . ro
'their proi!crty•npon Which to t:iso !oans.?
it t i 1at 4,1 1 „., - I„ l ,. y ... wi iilder.in,,. v.a , :trAnt 'of
pr,,porty., thrit - ratiTtahc its logo any, tiny until
run nwo.y..'4 [LOughtel.l IyhAtinnta in Am,-
steriloin, or tonnloc, or
p,hiti, or New York, or. tiny othc.P 'phico:it' he
hint o. Bane mend, would think of nnthitig loans
on, such propor_t3i—no---lhat, , ‘-:property which
,
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fty - fAte up , ner
tiOnce? '10: l-0
\AtAh ‘ j*
at of Autinhini p r k:t '
e_ Inv' of 86
tieg. their - coffins on their.packs!
very needful preiantion, I think. Oaugh-:
ter.) • 'lmagine these coffin regiments' going
'" llraugg . iheir ei!iroises—"Shoulder ooffins,",
cnifins,";'!ground coffins," would prob
ably be the last manoeuvre they would be call-,
ed upon - to make: "[Great applaniel
* , *
Two, tio o,f *hal:they will de through semi
-
sion and civil war, is the merest,• moonshine
that Was,ever imposed upon men. • -. "."
* - *
In regard to the threatlthat She election of:
Frement.'„wonlc(be end ought to,be the
,dieso,•
liition of the . 11,nion, the speaker asked, was it
iiitended not to sUbmit to the will of the
joritY. It is not for those 'who. make these
threats to'say *lien the Un)en sliallWi4 *
The moment they-tittenipt 041 a -their, threat
li:l'SL:condone, if there is heuip enough in 'old
Itentiicky; they will have to hang for it tAp
phiuse. '
The_spealitir illustrated-the ngpeesivw-antl
tyrannical disposition of_ the •Sohth. Ile' re
ferred also to the outrages in Kansas. ,It bat
been said' that the people should he left per
fectlifre6 to mould the institutions'-of Kau
sits. Is Collius - frep I
thoseloble men, who '‘aleep in- their 'bloody
shr9uds in llausait, free, in the cold trilliciuili
tyof the grove, to mould the institutions of,
tile, Territory.? [A voice; " their spirits are
free.] '.Yea.! their spirits are, and they walk
that beautiful land fortviir and,forever. • [Ter
rdio applause.] •-•
• , '
I'isc.epeaker alliided to the manner in which
Northern repreSentatiies were influenced by
threats to - support
-that the cliii4ter of Northern penticiaus was
owing itia measure to the fact 'but too little
attention is paid to politic'.,' that' we . are -so
much engrossed in tht;porsuit of the "alinigh•
ty dollar,'.' regarded as sit suitable
oltject for the exertions of the highest_order of
talents...--It•gave him pie - am - ire to allude to
-aotne - of the,;Tietoriterachleited - husome -of-the
free ,Stete men in Congress._ Massachueetts,
tvhioh has been denominated eitionielY right,
was, on one side, and South Carolina, which
may hei denominated extremely wrong, -on thu
other. - -
These vere the , two antagonistic principles
of, the fight. From-day to day we placed our
shoulders to the wheel. , You told us from
your cities, yoUr towns ' ; from your mountain
tops and forest„ " Stink to Hunks! stiolv to
Banks!" We did ao until we elected him.
[Applause.] When we found that Banks was
really elected, a about went -up from friend
and foe, until the Capitol fairly shook. He
has been the beet speaker since, the days of
Henry Clay ; in fact be is the best Parliamen
tarian in the world.
The, next victory was . the Kansas . Commie
eion Cliibtnittee, admitting Kansas on the_Oeor
°Oho House with the Topeka Constitution.
This was a great triumph. -
The last victory in the House was not to
pucka bill to supply- the Kuneas army with
the implements to distress a free and persecu
ted people. -They miry think to drive us from
the positions we have taken ; they don't know
the men they havevto deal with ; they can
never do it. If we can gain each victories in
lin enemy's country, cannot yool9 eo4kithing.
here ?
You never had such a. chance ; all the old
iasues have gone glimmering through the
thilige'lli . at -Mere. "%kip but a .lingle-'istrue—,l ,
Whether fre'emeii Shill b e free not. 'Wo do
not wish to trouble them or their 'slaves - . We
pause at the State line. We have qo wish to
interfere with 'their property, but ihey must
let our freemen alone. Slavery may be their
peculiar - institution, but freedoti is aura, We
htive adopted a platform that ie as broad akit
is long; and this plittfOrni taps that tbo Union
.must and shall be preserved. Jamie Bucha-
It Makes them ipt
min lays he
tie is a platform: , • The light 'of that , ancient
body,now some seventy years old, l P l eased into
second ce4idition is worse
flaw his firgt. , Jcinealluehaiiiiki Wan old blue
lightTederalist. Once they *o'e -celebrating
the Fourth oUuly hi: Virginia, and au old_
revolutionary soldiOrTUrued up among the ass
senibled quot!. After feting him all, day,
its asked what battles lin had fonpitt, in
=
e are fright
Why," sail he, " I fought with the
nt YOrkto'wn." , T-tio-snuie way with the Dem
oorats—they and tti. their horror C:l4 have
noulinatedon enemy to the Wtir of .1912; , an
memy'io'llenmernoy itself, , Ile is too uld to
tau President of these United Olutes,- •-) ,
, •
ut..) , ‘.i;q9lo,lie is a cum
firmed otl bachelor—no woman in the:Amur
will go fur hitit—he is opposed -to 'talon a'n / 1 3,'
roitienAii,Aaverica are for union
to think there Iy son thine
'wrong shout this nitin- .ever"-tfTeii
-. •
x.e . y e c. - 104iy•••ailitir . iliiiig4ter Or the 14h.4 . 1‘ Ily
'should the country accept hi'? ''These pco,
phS want a man .
- 4 4 4 t
"I‘,l
N, o rnis it wise to toms a grent.. prirtiz/in tram
:1" k • •Y;
the Saul J.icharies ' Fremont. When' the •
Seditie4•bniiner , Of
ttinttle ow his itnapettou to answer to :•
a:thedetermined. J,aeltion, to support the
COnstitntyin, of I want, aIY Witi;
, I V.
for the nobly, Fromout. ,
Maine ia'jr;o'dliir 1•006 ; Vermont is cer
tain-lor a large-Majority ;--Massaebvisetta T ';
'goOd;•ClOd
,bless ber-ilow,t'fork State
for 75,000,itud Ohio give him
Looi F 'at 10wa,, , we hare ',Wept, that State ! -one
of tTie moat doubtful north of eoinfirnroitte
line. I Want you, friends; till and
'rotes like• the gallant eons of lowa. ' -
,youi aid there; ilk be one wild thrill of ,
joy from Maine te California. [Cheers' and: •
, We Make thi,followini. extracts, from Mr. ,
Burfingline'e,eppeoh deliyerest at a: Frempnt ,
Ineeting'ln ‘Harrielitirg a-feelAjiye since c
FIiEMONT AND BrlclisAxas
He then came to refer,to Buchanan and
Fremont, , and field bboie nothing but a,
Oatfortn.to fight, for .11r, Bochum:ta bas hiost‘.
Lie identity and passed into a
,pl4tfOrtn,
the last stale ,of that man ie WOlllO than the
first. Whit was Mr. Buchanan !, First: a
Federalist an olcildiie-light Federtilisi;vzhiCh.i
Secordingto_the voters of the present day, is
theAfery eatipodes PewociLicy.
time a tariff man', then,' anti-tariff ; ~ opposed
to the repeal of the llissouri CoMpromise ;--
then again in order . to eecure, a . (Mimeo for -
the-presideifoy, ,is - willing to he anything thai,
the platforf4 way choose to Make him. Ih4ii
ottier objections. to Mr. Buchanan. I have
nothing to bay of him. pereunally, "but only
,Po 1 du not complain ot inconsisteu.
cy, for 1-would rather a wan should .be right ,
than consistent. Then again he has been a•
partizan too lung, and he is too Old. At, hie
Time of life lae 9 ehould ye eitiliog his: eyes to--
that bourue ilieuco'no traveier roturne.
is a bachelor—Le is a sectionalist, or Le bus
never beeu for union
How strange it wotild 'seem for MI old &outy;
grumbling, grizzly ghost of a bachelor, tp .be
ruarultaohrough the 'lofty
_chambers of the
White lloutelto - tilil you rather not sitia
happy family there ? For that in • Detuocratic
where you hear the prattle of 'loving latency.
It is in keeping Ivith , our eipausive . inetitu
tions. The ladies are all opposed to him as a
mutter of course. They ask how it is that the
favorite son, theetatestrian of seventy years
standing, has never been able to find a com
panion to share in Lie thoughts, end to crown
tie honors with her smiles Can it be thts. s t
his heart has been so cold, and stony that the
warm glance of lovely woman has never:‘ yet
been able to kindle affection for the gentle ass!
if so- they will have none of him—he wont
suit : (laughter,) or can it be that he has
yielded up to the fascinating charms of one of.
Eve's fairest daughters, and been rejected by
hie inamorata! (Renewed laughter.) Ohl
such a man-woukd-not snitA them. They are
for union', to 4 num. (Shouts orlaughter, and
great iypplanse.) Single blessedness is no
part of a true woman's creed, and so wherever
:we go, whether abroad or at home—on the
highways or in their dwellings—we 'find the
women of Amerioa - repuiliating this • one-ides
candidate for the presidency 7 (Great applause.)
Their eyes naturally turn to Freinont, who
had the pluck to run away
. with ...hesle"—
"Old Tom Benton'e deugliter,"—and to inst.
ry her. (Applause ). And it reflected honor
on 'li-s manhood that she could.t.ske him with
hef fair White band, and lead him back to her
father's.me t imioriAritl•Maki old Tom loi , e
ati -rieerlather lo.ted tt sop before. .(Teetaen;;'
dons Obeering) Fremont's whole history is
like serifs - dreani of romance. Look at"-his
life in the fens of SOrith Carolina. how shit.
poor'bey.,strtigg,led upwarit—how the weait}i~
planter _made him set *fir frocri his table, and'
how,he worked upiard ! His existence, ha.
been poetry in action. What •
raised the Mars of his ;country):so,:nearilhe
-stars of heaven as be ?
attainmente,. but because:. he ,bestawed .
Freedom on California.. : , Our children study
geography.uplyn.Fremont'S maps: He survey-.
.ed Uncle Stim's farm; arid who ejlie ought tp
be put in charge of it but he who surveyed it? •
vivid colors, theineeiing , el , '
the Geographical Society of Lon tin,' which
bestowed the medal' for
. th,e greatest attain
inents iii geog_or at.
1066 the claims of candidates for every coon
try' iu Europe, were presented ;rind urged. A
lOW evenings after, I went to Egy4tiou 'Hall
'io-seca Paporania.of the-overland -route. to .
California. Otte ECCIKC W:l5 'horse.'
back, and the lectureriinotim..ed it as
of Col. Frolm.Mt..ccatr:sinz file
aliatittUto • nieerfieT3 nstiand — on
tlit-Paeilic,,the man whO lc d the havuer
of ..titericanrule 'over. Caltrortthi. 'A shout
went up limn thotak cold ,lull" heaits,
aml above till went tip.orte Vani.:ee cireq; and
if thos'e sturdy Englishman wets sri rao.vetl,
hell : should we et:his - Own regaitt
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