land as the Huguenot did, as did Soule, the stern American orator, as
many others within your limits have done under more recent struggles
for liberty in Europe? [Applause.] Then, who are the paupers and
criminals? Is that to be decided by the ruling of other countries, by
the laws of France, or of England? Or is it to be decided by your own
laws, by your own rules of judicature? If by the latter, then there is
no good ground for controversy. We do not advocate that any country
shall empty its poor houses, get rid of the duty of supporting its
paupers, and throw that charge upon us. We could not permit any
country to empty its prisons and penitentiaries to mingle that portion
of its population with ours. But we do war against the use of terms
that delude the people, and are intended to exclude the high-spirited
and hard-working men who contribute to the bone, the sinew, and the
wealth of our country. [Applause.]

Such, then, my friends, is the opposition to the democracy, the only
national party. The opposition, I say, claims two things from the
federal government, neither of which it has the constitutional power
to perform. It agitates this section of the Union in relation to
property which it has not, and of which, I say, it knows literally
nothing. For had the orator (Mr. Giddings) who was quoted to-night,
known anything of the relations between the master and the slave, he
would not have talked of the slave armed with the British bayonet. Our
doors are unlocked at night; we live among them with no more fear of
them than of our cows and oxen. We lie down to sleep trusting to them
for our defence, and the bond between the master and the slave is as
near as that which exists between capital and labor anywhere. Now,
about the idea of British bayonets in the hands of slaves: The
delusion which has always excited my surprise the most has been that
which has led so many of the northern men to strike hands with the