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Show Charles O'Conor. mea urcs of Abolitioni m and its abettors compel us to enforce. This is the ground that we must take, or abandon our cherished Union. 'Ve must no longer favor political leaders who talk about Slavery being an cYil; not· must we advance the ind<>fen ihle doctrine that negro lavery is a thing which, although pcrniciou:-, is to be tolerated merely because we have made a bargain to tolerate it. 'V c must turn away from the teachings of fanatici~m. vV e m u. t look at negro slavery as it is, rcmcmberinO' that the voice of in piration as found in tbc sat;red 0 volume, nowhere condemns the bondage of tho~c who arc fit only for bondage. Yielding to the decree of nature and the voice of ound philo::;ophy, we must pronounce that in ·titution jnst, beneficent, lawful, and proper. The Con titutiun e ·tubli~ h ed uy the fathers of our republic, which recognizeu it, must be preserved and maintained; and that both may stand together, we must maintain that neither the institution it elf, or the Constitution which upholds it, is \vicked or unjust, but that t~ach is sound and wise, and entitled to our fullest :upport. We mu t visit with our execration every man claiming our suffrages who objects to enforce, with entire good i~tilh, the pro vi ions of the Con titution in favor of lavery, or who ·"eelc, by any indirection, to withhold its protection from the South, or to avoid its obligation upon the North. Let u upport uo man for public offtce whose speech or action tends to induce assaults upon the territory of our Southern neighbors, or to generate insurreetion within their bonler.s. (Loud cheer~, aml cries of " Good ! ") These are the principles upon which we must act. This is what we must say to our brethren of the ~ outh. If we ha,·e sent men to Congre~s who are fal:'.e to these views, aml arc seeking to violate the compact which hinds tb together, we must a k to be forgiven until we have another chance to manife tour will at the ballot boxe . '\Ve must tell the South that these men shall be con igne<l to privacy, (applause)- and that true men, men faithful to the Constitution, men loving all portions of the country alike, shall be elected in their stead. Charles O'Conor. And, gentlemen, we mu t do more than promise this; we mu ·t perform it. (Loud applau e, follow d by three cheers for 1\Ir. O'Conor, and a tiger.) But a word more, gentlemen, and I have done. (Crie of '' Go on.") I have no doubt at all that what I have said to you this evening will l>c greatly misrrpresented. It is very certain that I l1avc noL bad time enough properly to enlarge upon, and fully to explain the interesting topics on which I have ventured to ex pre~· myself thus boldly and distinctly, taking upon my elf the consequences, be they what they may. (Applause.) But I will ay a few word~ by way of explanation. I have maintained th ju~tice of f;Iavery; I have maintained it bccau ~e I hold thai the negro is decreed by nature to a state of pupilage under the dominion of the wiser white man in every clime where God and nature meant that the negro should live at all. (Applause.) I ay a state of pupilage; and that I may be rightly under tood, I say that it is the duty of the white man to treat him kindlythat it is the interest of the white man to treat him kindly. (Applause.) And, further, it is my b ·lief that if the wl1ite man, in States where slavery exi~ts1 be not interfered '"·ith by the fanatic~ who are now creating the e di ·turbance::, whatev 'r law, whatever improvement, whatever variation. in the conduct of society arc nece .~ary fot· the purpo e of enforcing in every in ·tancc the dictates of inter •:-;t and humanity, as between the white man and the black, will be faithCully and fairly carried out in the progre s of that improvement in all these thing· in which we are all progres-ing. It is not pretended that the ma~ ter ha a right to slay his lave; it is not pretended thttt he has a right to be guilty of har hness and inhumanity to his lave. The laws of all the Southern States forbid that. "\V e have not the ri O'ht here at the North to l>e guilty of' cruelty to a hot"C. It is an indictable offence to commit uch cruelty. The . ame law, xi ·t in th" South, and if there i any f~tilure in enforcing them to the fullest extent, it is due to this external force which is pres. ing upon the Southern States, and compels them to abstain, perhaps, from |