The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1859, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8502. THE JOHN BROWNITES IN COUNCIL Great Confusion and Frequent Interruptions. Wendell Phillips and Dr. Cheever on the Stand. Independent Organizations in the Same Room. Serious Prospects of a Bloody Termi- nation. UNWONTED ACTIVITY OF THE POLICE. VARIOUS OFFENDERS EJECTED. PSALM SINGING, LAMENTATIONS, — DIRGES, ae, &o., ae. friends of the lato John Brown, of North Elba, New ‘York, who go recently carried the horrors of firo and sword into the State of Virginia. The occasion was one ‘that clearly showed that whatever may be the depth of genuine patriotic feeling pervading the intelligent classes of the North, there is yet a clique of misguided and cre- @ulous people who cling with strong infatuation to the Dieody and revolutionary principles enunciated and put ‘mito practice by the republican abolition hero of Harper’s Berry. The audience last evening at the Cooper Institute ‘eonsisted of respectable looking persons, not a small pro- portion of whom were ladies. As the number of visiters continued to increase, the female element assumed larger proportions. On some of the side seats we noticed seve- val colored men and women, who paid the greatest atten- ‘thon to the exercises of the evening. About seven o’clock the audience was considerably en- forced by a large arrival of persons whom it did not take Jong to see were inimical to the rroceedings. These were apparently very respectable citizens, who for some time preserved silence and order, but as the speeches of the erators progressed, they could no longer restrain their felings, and joined lustily in hissing and groaning. ‘Mr. Taappevs Hyarr, the gentleman who originated the gale of John Brown’s photographs for the benefit of the family of the deceased, called the meeting to order by pominating Dr. Fairbanks as chairman, who, however, declined to act. ‘Zhe band then very plaintively played the sweet music ef ‘The Sicilian Mariners’ Hymn,” after which Rev. Mr. Frexcu, editor of the “ Beauty of Holiness,” addressed the Throne of Grace, invoking the Divine bless- fwgon the meeting. He prayed for the Members of Con- grees, that God’s presence might be manifésted so that order might be brought out of con{usion, and that they might discharge their dutics with a single eye to the glory ‘and welfare of the whole nation. He continued thus:— 0 God, bless, we beseech thee, the afflicted family of ‘thy servant, our brother Joho mn, has been wi faken away’ from them, and now left them in affliction. ©, we thank thee for the warm place thou hast given yw’s God and the father of the fatherless. And this }, this costly contribution which the widowed has made—t of widowhood—to the cause t, Almighty 5 in r S *have ae to thank thee for fhe postin that follow this sacrifice. And do thou have mercy on the men who on the morrow are to be exe- ented. O give them repentance for ev sin. Give ‘them pardon for their transgressions, and when they de- part, O may they not die as felons in the eyes of God if ‘they do in the eyes of their fellow men; but may they dio forgiven of God, accepted of God; and, 0, let their execa- ion preach a sermon to bystanders and te this nation. ‘May all these things bo overruled for the bi ‘of the ‘Donds of the oppreseed, and deliver our nation from its sing and its iniquities, ana we pray thee toraise up a great ost of men who shail have pure consciences, noble souls, fearing God, and working righteousness, and ‘endeavoring te save this nation from its sins. ‘The band then played “Pleyel’s German Hymn,” after which Mr. Hoyt introduced the Rev. Dr. Cheever, of the Chorch of the Puritans, who was received with applause. Dr. Cuxevar spoke as follows:— SPEECH OF REV. DR. CHEEVER. ‘Two hundred years ago, after the completed action of Oliver Cromwell and the regicides, Jonn Milton took his pen, and in his work on the Tenure of Kings and Magis- feates, proved that it ig lawful and right to call to account ‘a tyrant or a wicked king, and to put him to death. On the same principles, but with’ still greater power of demon- stration, would John Milton have approved John Brown’s effort to deliver an enslaved race in these Unit@d States from the cruelty of a tyraunical and wicked government— (Applause and hisses for some time)—and the man’s dis- Interested benevolence and desperate attempt would “be o fit and worthy subject, even for the genius of the poet of the ‘ Paradise Tost.” ‘ But there Is another sort,” says Milton, *¢who coming in the course of these affairs to have their share in the great actions above the form of law and custom, or at least to give their voice ‘and appronation, begin to swerve and almost shiver at the majesty and grandeur of some noble deed, as if they ‘were newly entering into a great ain; disputing precedenta, forms and circumstances, when the Commonwealth nigh perishes for want of deeds, in substance, done with just ‘and faithfnl expedition. To these I wish better instruc- tion, and virtue equal to their calling—the formor of ‘which, that ie to say, instruction, I shall en- bestow on them.” Would to God Powers that will og tees at earth and sit: work for * sites; io ‘nota breathing of the common wind ‘Under the constitution of the United States, and by the word of God, Jobn Brown had a perfect right to jlaim liberty to the enslaved and to labor for ir deliverance. ‘Loud applause and hisses.) If the constitution i forbidden him to do this, while the word of God commanded him, then .he ‘would have been bound to obey the word of God—any- ‘bing in the constitution to the contrary notwi dling. Sete applause and hisses.) Butthereis nothihg in constitation requiring John Brown or any other man, ‘to defend slavery, or not to oppose it. (Applause and hisses. Tue police here put out a man who was disturbing the meeting. Mr. Se ivis continued :—If God’s word required him to ‘oppose it, he could commit no treagon against the consti- vation or against his country by obeying God. It was John Brown’s natural right to protest against slavery, and io every just and rigbteous way to pat that protest into action—(disturbance)—and any State establis! slave- ry by law—though God has forbiden it, and forbiding such a protest by law—though God has required it—(disturbance)—instantly makes such a protest not only a right, but a duty, and doubly both. Here a man jn the audience rose and said, “If you are sent here to talk about John Brown, talk about him; don’t you talk about anything else, God damn you.” Cries of “Put him out’”” and great confusion. Mr. Pilsbury, Superintendent of the Police, here mado iis appearance on the platform. ‘A Vore—Mr. Pilsbury, are we to be protected in our meeting or not? (Applause, amidst which the band played “Hail Colambia” and ‘The Star-St led Banner.” Mr. Hratr—I would ask the friends who are hero, if ‘they please, not to express any approbation, Thus they will give no oocasion to the other side to express disappro- ‘bation. The persons who were put oat were disturbers, Bot because we were not willing there shoul@ be an ox- Pression on both sides; but as timo is limited it is best for us now to express noither approbation nor disappro. An excited man here attempted to speak. Cries of “Pu: Bi out. and disturbance. Sein te ir, HyaTt—We will commit 28 into tho hands of Mr. Pisgery, » Release eae Mr. Pitssury—Will the audience keep their seats? IC they will we will be ablo to seo who the disturbers of this meeting are. I cannot tell unless they, do, 1 trust tho speaker will be allowed to goon. We all have our rights here. He hasaright to speak. I trust you will hear; that you came bere to hear what he as to say, and others. We want quiet here. 1 wish the andienor’ those who are disposed to hoar the speaker, will Koep their seate. (To the speaker) I think you can go on, Dr. Croxzvar continied—John Brown was at liverty not only to ‘remember them that aro in bonds as bound with them,” but also to protest. against the unrighteons law, The State, commanding the wickedness and forbidding the protest against it, made such a protest so much the more John Brown’s duty towards God ; for the momen: anything criminal in. itself is commanded by law, that moment two distinet obligations come upon every in First, not to'do the thing commanded; second, ia God's name and by G0d’s authority to denounce the law com manding it If it bo admitted that all men owe supreme al Jegiance to God, then John Brown, in going against slavery, ‘conld not poeaidly Commit treason, bat was merely acting out what common men theorize—namoly, putting in prac tice a righteousness which timid men aud hypocrites re ‘atrict W abstract speenlation, rravely informing you that abstract right becowes practical wrong, if there is any a oe = MORNING EDITION—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1859. 8 mere abstraction, and man’s lew the peadlicel right—ihe 1 . Brown was hanged for enter- ing his protest, in action. such atheism. John Brown is the very man described in two impressive of God's assisted by his prophets, Jeremiah and Eze- kiel, in view of the vei Tol agate Joho Brown, by natural it and by ’s commission. himself—“Run ye to and fro through the land and sce truth, and tpg passage in stranger wrongfui oppressed for a man among them that ‘should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me, for the land, that Tshould not destroy it; but I found none.” John Brown is God’s gapman. (Hisses. from God, and bis faithfulness with it. {Again the meeting was interrupted by hieses and con- fusion. A man near the platform shakes his cane at the speaker, and is immodiately seized by the police and put out. Another in the audience is hi out for attempt- ing to interrupt the meeting.) . Coane again resumed—Their language is, “Ran | to and fro, and.see }a can find a man, be gment, that sceket? mental murder. It and justify it, shows them to John Brown acted upon to the letter. There is anothe method by which the quality of his action may be which is this: suppose that all men acted in this matter just as John Brown acted; what would be bad criterion of conduct, and the answer would completely justify his course; for if all men acted precisely to the letter, regard to this wickedness, and it wero known that they would, slavery could not exist; it would be fully abolished; the wicked laws mainiaining it could not be executed, but would have to de repealed; the rights of the black’ man would be re- garded as sacredly as of the whites; there would be no more kidnapping or slavebunting; benevolence and kind- weighed, the consequence? This is not as John Brown has done, in ness would be the law; violence would no more be in our land, nor nor destruction in our borders. ‘The course which would be just and blessed, if all men pur- into injustice and crime, be- cause only one man followed it, and that man John Brown. Tatand here to-night to vindicate the majesty and supre- macy of God’s law over man’s; to say that man’s law, if against God’s, bas no authority, but on the cont ', you it. sued it, could not be and I, and the whole country, are forbidden to ol Such obedience would be treason and right, the ‘supreme law. cause it is unconstitutional. indirectly, the slaves (hisses) unrighteously held in bondage as pro- perty than the patriarch Abraham was guilty when he armed his trained servants and went against Chedorla- omer, and the king’s confederate with him, who, in open war, bad taken captive the inhabitants of Sodom and Go- morrah, and Lot along with them. ‘He divided himself against them, he and his servants by night, and smote them,” and delivered the captives. How many he killed in this raid we are not informed; but he is neither accused of treason for invading the State and government of Che- dorlaomer, nor of murder, for putting to the sword those who resisted his attempt to deliver the captives. On the contrary, their resistance against his attempts was: held responsible for all the violence and for every peath, Nevertheless, if the federal government of which Chedorlaomer’ was President had conquored caught him Abraham and 7 hanged (him as a traitor and a murderer. On the other band, it is obvious that if John Brown had had Abraham’s 318 train- ed men instead of 17, the tables would have been turned, and the hanging defer indetinitely. But it is a much greater crime in Wee inia to hang John Brown than edorlaomer if he had hanged Abrabam; for the government and slaveholders of Vir- ginia, in maintaining that it is a Christian right to make | merchandise of men and forbidding all opposition to sach. property as treason, are a corporation of pirates in com- it_could have been in parison with the government of Caedorlaomer, poor eathen that he was. (Clapping of hands and histing ) Jobn Brown could not commit treason against Virginia in endeavoring to release the im blics for he owed that State isidec He could not com- mit treason against the federal goverament in that en- | ceavor, for there is no article or principle ot the constitution which makes it the duty of no more allegiance than Melo any of the citizens of the United States to respect slavery, or preacribes its defence as an element of loyalty, or requires any obedience to its ernelties. On the contrary, the principles and letter of the constitu. tion, rightly “interpreted, forbid it, and one of the moat eminent of American jurists, the Hon. John @ Spencer, has averred “tbat the adoption of the Declaration of In- dependence rendered slavery unconstitutional, und that | the first act of our nation, being a solemn recognition of | the liberty and equality of all men, ana an affirmation | that the rights of liberty and happiness are inalienable, was the corner stone of our confederacy, and is above all constitutions and all jaws.” john Brown, there- fore, was perfectly loyal to the constituuon and to the federal government in acting out the prin- ciples of liberty for which the constitution was ) and by which it must be interproted. "This being settled, we have shown that John Brown could not commit treaso. against God, for God’s law forbids slavery; and in pene himself against slavery, John fisses.) We have also shown human laws established slavery, and command mon to support it, then again God’s laws. command men to disobey, and reject those wicked statutes. The laws sup- porting crime create and commit a second crime in such unrighteous legislation, and make it the duty of all good mento set themselves against such laws. Thore is a much more tmuperative obligation laid upon men to it when it is commanded by law than when it is not so commended; plainly, bocause such commands, if net resisted, will inevitably whelm muiti- tudes in the perd! of such crimes. But there are also explicit passages: God’s word which commanded Joho Brown was obeying G thatif Brown tointerfere in bebalf of the oppressed and en- slaved, and he declared that he intended doing this peace- ably; that is, without insurrection, without injury of any human being, all the righte of men being respected. You all know the seal of Virginia against tyrants. John Brown acted under its instructions—obeyed them to the letter. John Brown has simply stamped the meaning of that seal with an individual action. You all know tho May Flower compact, the foundation and security in God of your liberties; Jobn Brown has simply fulfilled the terms, and acted out the spirit of that covenant. You all know the preamble of your constitution; John Browa bas merely carried out that preamble, bringing back tho constitution to its first principles. You all know the great commandment whereon hang all ths law and the pro- phets, John Brown has simply obeyed that commandment: shalt love thy neighbor ag thyself,” takiog our blessed Lord’s own interpretation for his gulde, i the his- tory of the good Samaritan. Yon all. ‘know the exclamation one of Virginia's cloquent sons and patriots in her better days—“Give mo ll- berty or give moe death.” John Brown has ox- panded and transfigured that watchword beyond any Sep other patriot’s imagination of sublime disinterestedness, by acting it out in behalf of our enslaved, dehumanized and hated race, “Give them liberty or give mo death.” ‘hisses.) Which was the grandest, Patrick jenry’s exclamation or Jobn Brown's action? ‘But now the creed of the patriots and wise men of Virginin reads— (Applause ana “Give us slavery or give us dea; concede tous the pri- vilege of holding and breeding slaves as property, and coniees that it is not only no crime, but that you will hold it sacred from invasion, on pain of death as for high ‘treason, or we will march straight out of the Union.’” The shibboleth of Ephraim now at the ford of this Jordan is—Slavery or death.” You know the man that, while your revolutionary fathers were fighting, starving, dying for their country, went through the American camp howling ‘ Beef, beef, beef.’’ [A disturbance again took place, but was soon quelled by the police.] Dr. Cuxever continued—Yon see now a resurrection 9 that kind of patriotiam in the merchants and “meno property and standing,’ that, to drown if possible the thunders, of God's providence and word, in John Brown's death and letters, aro shouting for cotton and the Soutnern trade. It is the patriotiem of thuse who made silver shrines for Diana. It is a trades union with slavery that these plated patriots are advocating, avd not a union for the sake of liberty;and, God helping us, we mean to maintain liberty and union one and ingeparable; and wo neither mean to march out of it ourselves, nor suffer them to march out of it, John Brown's memory will in due time take a noble revenge for all the in- sulta, outrages and falsehoods of his persecutors. John wwn's characteristics of Christian patri- otism were the legitimate fruit - of the stady of the word of God with prayer, and we see in him what kind of a man the word of God and the grace of God do make, when God requires such a man for his Purpose. He was laboring tor others, not for himself, | and thus he became a martyr, There bave been martyrs | of liberty, martyrs of science, martyrs tor the truth—but | a martyr of the word of God’ for the deliverance of aa | Py race from bondage, is a new marvel of heroic vir- ne, [Again there was an interruption. “He did not become @ Martyr at all,” fald some one in the crowd ia ono part I—"The people of Ceggera have used coppeintas and exercised robbery, and poor and peor you, ~ have .) found him, and men killed him. God prepared and commissioned him to pro- test against the nation’s crime, and the govern- ment that legalizes it; and, as of old, they caught God’s messengers and slew them, and cast them out. So now they have slain this man of God, because of his message him. He must be hanged and if ir against God be our government cannot to live. Cn Et, Ea contend that putting . Brown to death for the of unrighteous law. All law in de- fence of slavery is unrighteous and forbidden of God, and cps icy gn rr Sal the violation of such law is judicial and govern- is that si ing of innocent blood which distinguished the career of Abab and under pretended authority of the statutes of ‘tis that crime, the of which fills up the cup of a nation’s iniquities, and, if the people accept have passed the limits of God’s fort ice. Besides, the Word of God, whose commands to deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, to break every yoke, and proclaim liberty every man to his brother and every man to his neighbor, r Doth against God and the constitution, which not only does not profess to lay pon us any obligation contrary to natural and divine law vat sap, such natural and divine right as ¢ s.) Freedom, equity, and the most perfect justice are ueclared to be the objects of our consti- tution, and apy law that contradicts and renders impossible its object and spirit is null and void, both in itself and be- . Amen” and hisses.) John Brown was indicted for treason and murder, neither of which crimes was proved inst him, and of neither of which was he guilty. He did not intend either, directly or but simply intended to give liberty to as many of the enslaved ag possible, and without insurrection or the shedding of blood. The insurrection was on the part of the slaveholders and the slaveholding government in defence of the unrighteous claim of property in man— against John Brown as the representative of God’s government. John Brown was no more guilty of treason or of crime in endeavoring to release and deliver of the ball; and in another partan old Tammany rough “Paddy Burns,” offered some resistance te the police, which created u distubance there, but he was removed and order was again restored. . SOENES AT THE LOWER END OF THE HALL. “he confusion here was indescribable, not leas fhree hundred individuals, most of them Dr. Camever then continued—America has treated the | young men, who wero under the direction of one very first 1 ce of such heroism with the gallows. America! And it is little more than seventy-five years since Warren, Washington, Lafayette were canonized and rewarded for treason against Great Britain— violent, armed, intended treason—incomparably worse than Jobn Brown's, less justifiable, not #0 di- Tectly commanded of | God, and they who ap- plaud Washington for taking up tho sword, now quote against John Brown our blessed Lord’s proverb, ** that take the sword shall perish with the sword.’’ fe i ‘no resistance that God forbids or condemns, and never shall. But if we do not acknowledge the grace of God in this man, we should show a malignity like that of the persecuting Jews, who stopped their ears from listen- ing to the truth, and ran upon Stephen, gieching on him with their teeth, Had the churches and tho ministry in this country only thirty years ago begun and continued an earnest, united, peaceful protest, with the word of God against the wickedness of slavery, John Brown’s in action would at this day have been superfluous; such an interference would not have been needed. A 1 grace of God vouchsafed in him. "Ho is the legitimate ey Se ie hi a yy prayer , informs, ener; je is the of that school of the old masters among whom had bis education and oe up his Sele Baas, eer aoe ee Dodane Saint's Book of Martyrs Pilgrim’s Progress. We thank Got for te Gaaibetea deer humility towards God, mingled with such firmness towards men, conspicu- ous {n bis nature, We thank God tor all the precious evi- dences of his Christian experience and ary 4 We thank God for the trium) it testimony he been enabled to leave in grat for the inflnite grace of God, to the honor of His word, to the efficacy of prayer, to the reality of faith, in the confidence of his own goul in God in Jesus Christ, unshaken’ in the most trying hour and circumstances of existence. One such man, one such here is one reality; in an age of speculative theological and editorial skeletons bong round with broadcloth, here is one living soul; in an of paste, here is one rude gem; in an age of do be iin here is one of God’s Lenya pg and applause)—here, in a time of hollowness and cant, is a man of faith—a man to whom the idea of dismterested benevolence was a living expres. sion—a man to whom the negro was a brother anda man—(hisses and applause)—a man who to the death re- jected religious communion with slaveholding ministers as defiling to his soul; but, on the —— e scaffold, stooped down and kissed a little negro cl had put in his path, that through that little one his last dying act might be the giving of @ cup of cold water to ‘that enslaved race for whom he died. A Wowmay’s Voice—“God bless him!’ (Hisses and applause.) Dr. Cuxever—Here is grandeur; here is God’s own work and grace; here, in an age of sounding briss and tinkling cymbols, is one great soul, like a living organ, through whose trumpet notes God has blown an anthem that shakes the land like an carthquate, Can Senator Mason put down John Brown's ghost by a bill of inquiry? Can Senator Trumbull put down John Brown’s ghost by standing up to be catechized? Will it put down John Brown’s gl to declare that slavery is Bocrime? You might as surely imagine that you had im- prisoned his immortal spirit inthe grave by putting an additional screw in his coffin. Presently you will hear of some new miracle of disinterested love to them that are in bonds as bound with them; and a new batieri ram of God’s divine word and providence will be driven against this wickednsss, and Herod will start from his uneasy slumbors: ‘John I bave beheaded, but who is this?” (another disturbance here, which lasted for some ime. Dr. Cunever continued:—John, the beheaded, is but the forerunner of Christ the conqueror; and if need be in this conflict, he will raise up soldiers for his truth out of the stones in the streets. But whoevor comes, on whomeoever the mantle falls, he cannot go beyond John Brown in his faithfulness, living or dying; no man can strike a more terrible blow at the heart of the slave power, nor bear a more emphatic lawful record in fife, in death, as to the incompatibility of slavery and Christianity. Rather than seem to admit to the world that a man defending this wickedness could be a Christian minister, he would pass to the scaffold and ped gone alone, rejecting the offer of the goepel from such a man. But God was with him, and John Brown felt that any man who by defending slavery maintains the assassination of the living as consistent with the Gospel, is unwortay and | unfit to convey its spiritual revelations even to the ig in wi We rejoice in the sublime and sacred scorn with be refused the spiritual services of any apologist for su: a crime. That dying protestation was a blow slavery more effective than could have been wmness and consistency of John Brown’s testimony even to the close; for the awfully solomn witnessing, on the verge of eternity, against the wickedness of slavery, as so wicked that the man who defended it would not be suffered to worship the same God with a Christian about to die for bis opposition to it. Lat that work, and work it will, in the hearts and consciences of millions. Let tbat work, as by the grace of God it can be made to work, ti!) our churches everywhere shall be cov strained to excommunicate this wickédness as incompati- bie with faith in Carist and the hope of heaven, and sia- very will speedily be abolished. And now, lot men re- member that because Joha Brown is hangod the stock is notexhausted. There are plenty more of such creatiens through the power of God’s Word, God’s discipline, God’s spirit, when God’s time bas come—plenty more of such ecourges. They that will keep slaves must be content to | do it as man settle on the slopes of Etna and Veauvius, with all the offeets God has appointed against the security | of euch property. Twenty thousand siguatures for a | Upion-saving meeting cannot prevent the eruption of the yolcano under them—it cannot prevent the re- surrection of John Brown. They cannot silence God’s Word; they cannot prevent the fire of Goi’s Word, when it gets into the dones of such a man as Jolin Brown, from breaking forth as in a conflagration. They, capnot prevent God, whenever and in whatever way it pleases bim, from raising up men to execute his plagues ‘against their wickedness; and when God commissions such @ man as John Brown, he will protect his memory and justify bis cause. Amidst the Babel of tongues at Washington one manly voice has been uttered, declaring the greatand only question in this conflict—‘ Is slavery right or wrong?’ Let Mr. Curry remember—let the whole South remember—that there are millions at the North who receive God’s word on this subject just as Jobn Brown received it, and with convic- tions of the wickedness of slavery as deep as his. ‘Thorne who disregard and violate, and by force suffocate, theee convictions and the truth of God- who, North and South, deny the supremacy of God’s law in this matter, are standing on the only real voleances. ‘These convictions cam never be given up; never! and God’s word cannot be concealed or silenced. The conflict is not between North and South, but between the South and God; and wo to him tbat striveth with his Ma- ker, He that reproveth God, let him answer it. ‘The union of these States is a Union under God for liber- ty, not slavery; and so, God helping us, we will abide by it.’ God appointed it for liberty. commands us to maintein it for liberty. We have deen called unto liber- ty, but nét liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, not liberty to enforce slavery, but by love to serve one ano- ther as the servants of God; for all the law is fuldlled in one word—‘'Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.”’ But if ye bite and devour one another, take hoed that e be not consumed one of another. Stand ‘fast, there- fore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath mado us free. And, if you ask, Who is my neighbor? God hath made of one blood all them that dwell upon the face of the earth, and those whom he hath made with a skin not colored like your own are not the less your neighbors, but more, in that ee the more your love. is is John Brown’s justitication: Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them. They are Christ’s breth- ren. And He hath said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of them, ye have done it unto me;’” and, “the giver of a cup of cold water only shall not lose’ bis reward.” ‘Again, I say, that we desire to try John Brown’s action thoroughly by the Word God. We disavow all manner of resistance against ‘evil “not approved in God’s Word, But we take Jobn Brown’s own solemn declaration, that ho never did intend insurrection, or treasou, or bloodshed, but simply what he thought he could accomplish the de- liverance of a number of the enslaved without injury to any man. If,said he, Thad interfered in behalf of the rich, the erful, or for your friends, your neighbors, your children, under auch ‘oppression, you would all have applauded the action. I see you kiss @ book, which I suppose to bo the Bible, and it teaches me to love my neighbor as myself. And] am yet too young to under- stand that God is any respecter of persons. If John Brown had mterfered in behalf of a company of whites, carried away into slavery, to be condetiaed. with their children to the misery of perpetual chatelism, not an in- dividual would have reprobated that interference. But God’s justice is not chimerical,meither is righteousness a quality only skia deep Let this whole action be exa- mined with the severest scrutiey by Goa’s own Word, in view of the natuye of slavery as a crime, and a system of accumulating crime, forbidden by him: and whatever be that judgment, it is Ours, becaued it is God’s. Whatever there may have been in John Brown’s course contrary to God’s law, God forbid that any of us should be found ap- oving it. But whatever conflictiog opinions there may be as to John Brown’s asserted madness, or the method of it, there can be no question as to the sacredness of our: duty to the widow and the fatherless. And as many as believe that John Brown was mistaken or wrong in his Id whom God’ oe ‘two leadmg spirits, being ‘assemblpd there. H. Haswell, ex-President of the Board of Coun- mounted one of the seats and proposed ‘three for the constitution of the United States,” which n with great enthusiasm. At the conclusion of tration another respectable looking man as. ‘@ seat, evidently Imboring under great excitement mable sentiments advanced by Cheever at the of the room, and said, “I am not going to have try run down in this scandalous manner. Jama man, Ihave shovelled coal all day, and I will my country spoken of in this way. I did net re to preach treason,” This sentiment was re- with tremendous applause. another man exclaimed, ‘‘Americans! I never fanything like this in my life.”” tendent Pilsbury advanced from the fron’ latform to ‘the scene of disturbance, that ‘order must ‘be maintained. “We desire was manifested by the occupants of the of the hall to ize @ Union meeting,” but ir Was ling his remarks the pur- not be carried into e! Besides, as some of the more cool lovers of their country wisely observed, the evolutionists had hired the hall and had a right to promptly. “Three cheers for General Washington” was ‘the last proposition, which was received with Meanie After remonstrating with the excited auditors occupy- ing this portion of the hall, Superintendent Pilabury in- duced them to take their seats and listen to the speakers, and save an occasional interruption, the request was com- plied with. SPEECH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS. ‘Wrnpeit Pius took the tloor at half past eighto’clock, and continued standing ,while the greatest dizorder pre- vailed. The rowdies had now gathered near the platform and kept up continual uproar. Three cheers were given for Phillips, followed by groans and hurrabs. At the end of about ten minutes order was lly restored bye police, and Mr. Phillips as follows:—Mr. 5 man, ladies and gentlemen—It seems to me that the re- sult of this evening, whether you or I are allowed in our own hall to meet for our ewn avowed purpose in peace, is one of those elements of education which John Brown’s enterprise begins to unfold to thirty States. We calculate the strength of the blow from the amount of the re- bound. Men say John Brown’s enterprise was a failure. He has proved one thing upto to night in the Btate of ‘Virginia—he has proved that she dares not exist except as ‘a despotism. No man can pectrenge. olyag tele- graph wire in her northern count thout a permit rom Gent Taliaferro. Nobody may pass from one town to another without a passport from her mi authorities. Noman may enter the State under the shel- ter of the United States constitution. Why? Because seventeen men have struck on the apparently full vessel of Virginia {pride, and emptiness resounded. tlave Sates but a despotiom in maequerede, »(set.) elave ut 8 masquerade. ; ‘A Voice—That’s a lie.” (Cries of “Put him out,” and disturbance.) Mr. Puruups—The ‘question, ladies and gentlemen, to- it is, whether yon are the subjects of Virginia, or the citi of the free of New York. (Applause and hisses and disturbance.) For one gentlemen, I care not whether I speak or am silent to-night, under the noise of those who choose, not with fair hisses, but with disorder- ly systematic noise, to prevent the objects of this mect- ing. (Renewed disturbance.) For if the fact is that two thousand citizens of your olis cannot hold a meet- ing in quiet, it is better that we should know it. (Here a man was put ont for disturbing the meeting.) Ladies and gentlemen, what have we come to consider? Whatare we here to to cach other? I hold in my hand alike- ness of a girl of seventeen summers, It was taken from the borom of Oliver Brown in that armory, after he was gore ap ie Wodpess oe ¥ traiesman, Sie | See ae ren ae gi hs Adena oe on 0 ‘ the living victor in a battie. Thanks be to God for the | I saw a group of New York Northern girls—widows. fir Where had their husbands gone, and for what? In that rude cottage you find the home of four heroic men; in the next, the home of two more, making six of that of Vi twenty who flung themselves against the State irginia for an idea, What was it? According to the law of the State they committed felony. What are we met to sym- pathise with them for? What have they done that crowd these walls with men whose hearts make ramparts for those bereaved children, those almost homeless orpbane? What brings us here? There must be something about that death that divides ‘tfrom common deaths. What is it? Was he a murderer? (A voice—‘ Yes.’ “Silence.’’) 1am glad tohear it. Let us try to answer. And first, let vs look at the man. Pure, tender, brave, disinter- ested, (A voice—A Kansas horse thief,””) and’ resolute. Every word be spoke has touched a homeless heart. i yoice—*Who murdered Doyle?’ Another voice—“‘John Brown.”) Every act he has done’ since Virginia held her foot upon him only lifts not him, but a million of men, into a higher level of life. Mark it! Virginia utters not one word against him—not one. Her Governor gays:—Trathful, firm, brave, disintercsted—the bravest man Iever saw.” (Applause and hisses.) Virginia has nothing to reproach him with but the tingle act at Harper's Ferry. It is Virginia's subjects in other States that are obliged to run back four or five years to hunt otten Ne in Kansas, in order even to get the pope forge means of breathing the shadow of suspicion over his spot- Jees escutcheon. Mark you that he has stood the ordeal of a frightened and indignant, yes a sorely tried common- wealth, and she has not one fault to allege against him except the single incident that I am about to examine— ‘that he ted his rifles against her citizens. But thatex- cepted, he is a model man, Virginia »eing the witness. Outside of her territory, slaves with souls who would be dearly bought at the price of @ counterfeit sixpence, up the forgotten lie of Kansas in order to find something st him, and i: is the only hold they have on the fame or old man. rep nypen se bible ce responsibility, a as the 0 Brown. (a bias.) r that from the time he setae ‘he gitoet eucred inal oumung ages—( hia) made the (a — there is a ond his—not one—that will i senes closest scrutiny and the keenest analysis of any man who stands on the basis of American principles. (Hisses.) More than that, Iaffirm that the r you probe his life the brighter it shines: (A hiss.) I went to his houso on No th Elba, where wheat freezes, where nothing can ‘be cultivated but afew potatoes, where the mountains look down on a home that is almost a shanty—a roofless dwelling, but standing upon a soil that grows heroes, I said to one of his children, ‘What brought your father to such a place? what could he love here? He could have found mountains elsewhere; whut attached him to these barren acres?’ Said she, ‘‘When Gerrit Smith gave to the colored men of New York a hundred thousand acres, he thought they sht need a friend to advise, to instruct, to encourage, to aid them.” He flung away life to come up and freeze on the mountains. in order that he might be by to hold them up with his strong right arm; anda heart that never failed; and whenever you probe that life you find nothing but disinterestness. Now, what made him fing himself against Virginia? Mark you, he was not alone. He was only the centre of a group. Around him were his sons. The old farmer went down With his household, and such was the magnetism of his enthusiasm that he gathered the neighbors’ households into his arms, and they surrounded him as he went down to Maryland in order to agsail the institution of Virginia. He was only the centre of be Thoee children in their teens, those young men of twenty—when you read histories, their letters, their words, they seem to ave grown up for myrtyrdom. Other men breed their sons for business, one for agricalture, another f»r com. mere, another for college, one for gain, another for am- vition. This man bred his children for martyrs. He made them—no, he didn’t make them; when they were born, they imbibed it in the blood he gave them, tbat they were created to die for the we. On the altar of heroism we havo seen great names in our. day, throw themselves for their own rights, We have seen bearded men in the middle of life, in the beget A thought, having tried other channels, come up to the deed of defending their own rights and those of their neighbors; but here are girls of sixteen and nineteen summers accepting as serenely their place in the martyrdom for a race into whose eyes they have never looked. There has nothing been as holy, nor that ap- proached it, since the Cross that stood on Calvary, for race in whose blood the Divine sufferer had no share. (A slight hiss, followed by silence.) I mean what I say. Heroes of other days died for their own rights. John Brown died for a race in whose blood he had no share. Now, bad he a right to die? Was hea felon? Let us look at it. What wore his motives? Virginia being witness, they were disinterested. There is no need of discussing the point, when gia herself acknowledges that his motives were pure. Tat is a greattheory. Now, that action, upon them lies the greater responsibility to smite | acknowledgment of the Commonwealth of Vi-ginia is a with the sword of the Spirit, wbich is the Word of God, marvel, for Virginia lips are from the Natural the sum of all villanies. In this duty towards God we go | Bridge to Harper's Ferry at this hour. I will give for Union. ava shall hold fast to the Uuion, because it gives us power, and we mean to know no South‘ no North, you an inetance of it, ani when I do it 1 will use it to illustrate another point. When in the midat of tho no East, no West, but all one in the right inalienable to | who in the midst of tho battle at Harper's Ferry gthe Mife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Wherever there ig an advocate of slavery, North, South, East or West, there is the enemy of freedom and of Goi, and againet such an one, against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the datkness of this world, we mean .to put on the whole armor of Got, and stand fast and strike with God's own weapons. ‘The Intter portion of this speech was delivered amid great disturbance and disorder; hisses and applause, groans aad speeches in diffrent parts of the hall, bang all the time in progrera. It was difficalt for any Dut those | nearest the platform to follow the gpeakor at all mes, ! apt it took over an hour for the di gpeech. ory of the entire Mayor’s body lay dead within the range of the rifles of these Northern boys, his friends said, “Bring him off; save it for his kindred home, and go.’ At last a boarder atthe hotel said to Miss Fouike, “I will goif you will stand between me and the rifles; and ho weat. He knew he could trust the gentle sacredness of woman in tho eyes of these brave Northern boys. He went, placed ube body on the carriage, and sheltered by her presence, carried it back in'safety, A day later that very girl tlung herself on the breast of one of those very young men whose rifles were spiked when she stood before them, son of a Virginia gentleman dared to avow it in 118 of his na [ aged hy his father, ‘ aved Virginia could woman, with the heart, of herself, ith nature, for mercy an rifle aud Thompson’s life; Virginia, that crushes everything, of dieavowing her own bravery, ‘stand well in the community Despotism again—Jobn Brown ing of his act, we have says they were not pure. poet It was to free slaves. imity, between Hunter's it to-day the despotism of then, what was his pur- that an honest act or Is it honest for a slave to rise and take his master his way to liberty over dead bodies as could Vir wo Is it, or is it not? born at the ‘im. the heart of a human being eloquence of that black, friendlees face. And mixicean Cove Oo, Soe Sis. a) daug! bold u) ‘auction: titan were not of te colo ge z whatever a be 4 pose. Wel a ion that rose.” Brown ghee not right why did Greeks? Answer Koscisuao from the mont banks of the Hudson. If it is not right, why Av We whit (laughter) roce— We were . Mn. Panurs—Aye, aye, white men; that is the exact point. White men! and, as John Brown said, Jess eloquent, in that immortai bad done what I have for the wi men. have blamed me.” I thought as T stood, thoge Vermont hills, over which we carried his body ite last resting place, and saw in some houses that opened their doors to us, the blue eyed babies of the Vermont their aaug cradles—I thought, how often Carolinian was laid on the black baby in its mother’s lap, taking it and is mine,’’ and selling it at the auction block; and the church says, ‘‘Amen,’’ and the State But let us see. A man aH fee Tenet. If itis s F 4 & 3 i ch to the Court, “ If I B goes to Vermont and puts his hand on the sunny ringlets and blue eyes of a Green Mountain ‘babe, and the pn will bed legen agen oe spite of party and puipit both wi ve ue eyed baby othe Toerty of the Vermont Hills. applause and hisses). So, he was black—that difference. But Lafayette said, ‘Had I known that it was iblic holding slaves, I never would have drawn in the Revolution of 1776.” bbe ese Bat I ‘was coming to John Brown’s act. An act up of the motives, the final purpose and the means. Well, his his final purpose the ‘behind Lafayette, there, God save New York. Now for his means, Men folly was aye he went there with New York can reach him (Applause and hisses.) say the great ought American republica, he would have been right. Over his to Richmond, Webster and Clay would have been seen from their seats in (if they ever got there) (Applause and hisses.) ‘They would have been. e there by the eloquence of their brightest Senatorial A Voics—Don’t condemn a dead man. Axorner Voice—We are defending a dead man. Mr. Puu.tirs—Now look at the means—seventeen men. ‘A Voicn—Twenty-two. Mr. Prmurs—Well, twenty-two. Now let us look at it. In the first place is Virgina a State? Isay she is not. ‘You think that is fanaticism. If it is, it is two ears old. Cicero, the eaysin his treatise on law— Wil Roman statesman, M you call a cammunity of pirates a State? Wil) you call aconcerd of thieves a Btate? Ne binasi me meres er ppiause and bieses, and cries ,” 80 says the Roman, “thou heathen (Applause) I say that a State the consent of {ts citizens to its laws, which does not un- dertake to protect the inalienable rights of one-half of her citizens, forfeite, before God, the character of a civil com- munity. A State that sends one-half of its population 10 Te avetion teaching bicok, tbat them to read, that condei oe “No, ‘No. shalt aprisops women mos one-quarter of its population by law to prohibition, that steals the labor of every other man, and condemns him to the life of a brute, is not a State, but is a concord of pirates—(prolonged hisses, mingled with applanee)—it is an American Algiers. Well, I don’t euppote the doctrine will be Laughter and hisses.) If you were to ask one-quarter of the pulpits in the land, they would tell you that John Brown was crazy. what that reminds me of. aCgeridge, tho Fog! says that when he was at college, until one o’clock in bis study over his books, and then he came down into the common room below, where bis classmates had been drinking and were con siderably tipsy; ‘and when I entered,” says he, “they and voted me drunk, I looked so odd.”” ave no doubt—I have not any doubt what that to one haif the American pulpits a man who under- takes to practice the sermon on the Mount and the Decla- zation of Independence looks very laughter.) He is so odd that I don’t know that anything could be done with him but to hang him; he has no fight to exist. We have had Union meetings all about. A Voice.—Well, we will have another one. Now, I will toll you he spent the night odd. (Applause and Mr. Pumasra—Yes; well, have it. plause.) We hadonein my town, and the clergyman who introduced it with prayer, prayed that the Lord would bless: this glorious confed Southern part of it (Langhter and ap- —“especially the (Laughter and applause.) And it reminded me of the old prayer which a fugitive slave told me of years ego, which used to be made bya man in the far South who owned half pray “Lord bless Tom, especially my half of him.” Toarlous, langhter, applause and | hisses.) | @ negro. He used to i in that: in North Elba, before he went, to his neighbors seated around him—T know I can go South, and Tcan show ht to resist, and will resist.” ‘own—and cries of ‘treason, Pammrs—Now, it may be treason; but the fact is the blood. We were traitors in 1776. 1 tell you treason is an epidemic up in tl fermont mountains. Down here in your city the larger portion of you are poisoned, either wit ink or cotton dust. them that the slave has a A Vorws— Yes; resist John (Applause and hisses.) plant their own and eat it, and ask no man’s where, sheltered from the inclemency of they ae ee to live eechiccta ne a own ts. Why, up ou men who recog- nise John’ Brown as the ideal (Applause and hisses.) tracing him; he went to Virginia. ‘oie —He committed murder and ‘That is what he did. God and their their piety and their pa- got hi (Cries of “Put his out? Ir, Pinuira—No; let him stay. come here to talk to you, who know all about this matter Ido? No,I don’t; I come here (Applause and Do you suppose I a great deal better to talk to him and those like him. laughter.) And if he could have looked upon the calm Drow of that old man, as he lay in his coffin, on his own bills, and seen those daughters and one son about it, serenely yielding him to the need of a race, hardly ymen of which they ever saw, victins toa bondage Jefferson said ‘one hour of it is worse than years ere as — es a a hye beg earn & man in at crow ere—(pointing to where interruptions that wd bebe tied his voice against the memory of the old martyr saint of Har ‘Tus same Voice. —Yes, there is. Mr. Paurs—Well, if there is, 1 can only there is, then New York does not breed as hrave souls and as manly as the State comes from Ireland.” Mr. Pmuturs—For this is the testimony of every man ced in the face of John Brown who was not melted into admiration ef the man and his motives. But I was trying to Satcreatger aa thern town An it -four shall let the slaves know it, they wish.” He did it; he Ferry, and held it from Sunday unattacked. He collected some thirty sla sixteen of them stand to-day safe from the yulture under the shelter of the English longed applause. ) ‘Well, then, he stood thore unc! at ten o’clock, he was the maste! rived in his at Charlestown and Har, man in al! Virginia who Tn the Geena 3 ight to Monday nig! ‘un Monday night, yr of the State of ty. men, and wh: do? Why, according to a Maryland Colo 0 described the scone to a friend of mine, they ran t to the tavern, and they would have got un- is if had Been necessary. (Applause, hisses ANGER in the audience—That is a lie. Mr. Prmuars—Well, perhaps that is not trac, but a Ma- ryland Colonel said 0: settle it with hi Srraxeer—Name him. ive us his name.’ Mr, Punsyrs—I » no ghjection to toll his name. A Now, ladies and gentlemen, jnst ‘slop & minute. Iam not ® member of Congress, and Pn eae B 70n wi euee for ten years hisses, w ter), f may get into the habit of apologisiag and bet catechised. But I have not got the habit yet. Whether I shall tell that man’s name or not, remains for m: consideration before I get through. (Hisses and groans. Well, now, I am going on with the account John Brown stood there on Tuesday morning until the Martinsburg company made the first assault apd were repulsed. What followed? Sixteen of your agent warines, selling their bodies to your service for $8 or $16 & movth, approsched. He had conquered Virginia, and held ber under his foot. (Hisets aud applause.) Well, if he had not, why did notshe send himaway? (Ap- plavse and laughter.) There he bad stood thirty-six hours. ‘The telegraph Lad flashed the news over holf of Virginia. Three companies had approached twenty-two men and had been naps ‘That cannot be excepted to, for it is the fact. If they had not run away, they would have been driven away. (Hirses and applause.) The United States marines approached. stop a moment. Rg they had not |. Suppose the United ates, In the shape of your agents, had not approached him. Say that as a matter of bullets his ente: was a failure. — he had stood there Tuesday ; 3 ry i £3 F E E ig Louisiana—suppose they had and he had had seventy-five men instead of the twent: Paai cei! He is that he would have fone down to mand and— Governer Wise. ‘Laughter, applause hisses. ‘my impression {rer ithe Unlon bad not faced Jobe Brows, eed he bas hat gna eine Sate tose een a eran men of sorthern southern Pennsylvania, be would have ‘over the State. - ee te ne can a Mr. Prowurs—I know that in 1831 Nat Tarner, a slave, ith 101 men waiked over five counties, and Virginia dared not look in his eyes until they sent down to ‘Srrayazn—Why didn’t you go? Mr. Ponurs—I say, therefore, that the Union crushed John Brown—the Union helped ‘up the State of Virginia, and enabled her to exist. Very ; you conquered John Brown, not Vii ‘Srraxcer—No we didn’t; we only hung him. Mr. Pururs—It is* your business and not Now I have reached the point where the Union crusbed him. Jobn Brown having used his rifles, then began to use the press. (‘A-men” and laughter.) Having taken possession of Harper's Ferry, he began to - png ly set ee a Yore a for the next three weeks—| ter and applanse)—an< php be ey ‘ORK LD Was 5 ‘ap s oon Jail—(groans i i He stood there in that Char! and hisses)—he taught the Union, by the unfold that lift him above the mere guerrilla soldier teacher, a Christian anid a martyr, for an idea. God called him higher than the mere boundary of a bullet. He takes his place among the men that make the con- sciences of their generations. He umes: the form of the teacher of the thought of the American people; and the success—the consu: his enterprise. I say it was a success before, so far as achieving all be promised to achieve; and then he outdid bis promise, for slavery is dead to-day in the Common- wealth of Virginia. He loosened its roots; be has de- stroyed its vitality; he has tnade Virginia to con- sider the question of, the emancipation of he: and that act—the’ result of a ment—is- a success broader than any he could have achieved as @ mere eS es Harper's Ferry. But I am occu} more time than I intended. Gis of ‘Go on!” TG" on hisses applause.) me allude to one point. This lie of wattomie. (Hisses and groans; cries of ‘Music by the band,’ ‘‘Mareeilles Hymn.”) This lie about Kansas, I long before I leave the to say one word in regard to that. Jobn Brown was not at Potawattomie; he was within twenty-five miles of the spot. I know Cushing said he was, and Caleb on that occasion af fi ri ifs i 8 i g : i £ E <E ct it of and one that Governor Wise was a as true a man as he ever knew, by pe ele ez No, not for a not weigh that ord “the word distantly related to John Brown as to Green. No! (Laughter and applause, we have the authority of John Brown himself, who never told a lie, and of his son brought up im the same school, that John Brown was twenty-five miles from the killing at Potawattomie. Now, let me rit ligt i i o 42 there,’ added this further statement: ‘The act was right.’” Well, Ihave spoken a great deal too long. (Applause, “Go on, go on;” hisses and groans.) I think it very right our capes there shonld make a noise to stop. Tought to retire to give way to rs. (Cries of ‘go on; go on.’” Tivant fo nay One -werd about (hip Potawattomio’ matier, and it is this— Srraxcer—Who murdered Mr. Doyle? Mr. Priturs—The Kansas men bad suffered death, and every insult. (A voice—“Three cheers for Go' Wise.) I wish I was speaking in Virginia; Ido not be- lieve but what I could get a silent audience in Virginia. I have got in my house a lock of hair from old John Brown’s temples, sent me by a slavcbolder of Virginia, the teatl- mony of his sympathy and respect for the man bis com- monwealth was about to hang—(Several volces—‘Name him, name bim,”)—and from Baltimore I had a larger sum than most men would think of giving to this very fund sent me by a siaveholder of Baltimore for the John Brown— (Several voices—‘Name him, name ey O, no, continued Mr, Phillips; manhood is not extinct south of Mazon and Dixon’s line, only there is a despotism reigns there that makes men fear to utter what their hearts realty feel. (A voice—‘That’s #0.””) Old John Brown lifted up on that gibbet, sacred for the centuries, because he bas consecrated it, will show to him every noble soul in those States as well as ours; and when fire-eaters at the head of politics ufidertake to threaten ‘that they will walk out ee ae they Now, my friends, separate from the town, the next act will be South lina going ovt of the Union. ‘pplauge ond hisses.) Why, long befor@ it is. done ‘generous friends on the pA ag tantly tnereapting "Mr Tt wi cont ‘. lend them money to buy crutches, for i) get out nor get up without assistance. Tsay this from mere rhotomontade; I gay itin the honorable Northern labor; I say it in the spirit of that free Isbor those States which knows that by the law of God wicked- nese ig weakness, and that by sublime counsels des- pga baie . As old John Brown said in hie , wi ‘Sir, it will pay.” He knew it Now, slavery won't pay: it cannot be made to pay. The devil 2% to baokruptey; ft cannot go anywhere very pias t your ‘tate—cnen here with the brains, heriting the culture of halt a dozen centuries, Ee Emerson says, ‘with more brains in their Bands than tad your chlven work asd your wives wort mad geo and your ren we and your harsess the elements and sia the eee iH rands, and when you have done, at how much do you up? Six ‘cent. on your capital, or seven or ent ile mene ai fee wn very one of you work. Here isthe boastful State lina with the majority of her citizens in chains, of course. with no motive to work. You may buy 's muscles, you cannot buy his heart. ‘The conseqr , he won’t work and the whites won’t. Let me a story. woes om — wife went = Ry (Ps prison an mending cost, a yoube Virginian, doubtie families (laughter), who bad on a uniform, although requested by & friend to retire for the purpose of letting ber and Brown. talk of old times alone, oked in through the window. But the wit of the woman rié of him; for i af Ee i Bag Tait on bose, “toraee, and ‘was not seen again for half an hour. (Groans planse.) Now that is @ imen of duis ‘white gabe ta: . (Applause, and cheers for Governor Wise from part of /the audience on the left.) I say, then, that in the Carolinas these blacks only amount to about one-half of white working men, but the whites do not work at all, and the consequence is that South Caroli- na is bankrupt every year. One man cannot support three oat Bi er £0. "A Voice—I'll bet $1,000 that is not Mr. Punurs—And if she should go you should lend her the crutches to go ii out she has one of two things to do. She hae got to let her government sink for want of money to support it. Men say that Brown’s enterprise is afailure. The com- monwealth of Virginia bas got into debt half a million of dollars to put him down and she will never pay the first red cent of it. If he did not beat her with bullets, why, then, he strangled her with ex- penses. The sharp Yankee that was born in Connecticut, took the State of Virginia and cheated her slave system. But I was speaking of got either to sink bankrupt or she has got to slaves. Well, now, educating slaves! A im well heat a locomotive at white heat and it der magazine as to teachslaves. South: it, knows it to-day, and when she makes a will walk out of the Union, she knows make New York and Philadelphia souls never go home, even to dinner, but stay ledgers—(applause)—whose Sermon on the Mount per cent @ month—(laughter and cheers)—' idea of ethics is profit. This is the set of men said John Brown encouraged assassipation! Assassination, Tike to grapple it. Assassination, yes, that’s what each age has suid of the man who, crying out, “God is God,” trampled wicked Inws under his foet. Now, this ie jum, where We stand. T accent it. Jobo Rrown said “those laws [CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE.J 8 a) i df i i i: Hs Ae