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Hireling men Hiifinnimi—aumii ±Jminutes before midnight—with a volley of cheers.A POLITICAL WHITE CBAVAT.A certain roan named Breckinridge—a Baptist preacher located at Lafayette, Ind., not long ago, made himself the object of future reprobation by uttering, among other things from his pulpit, the following endorsement of a traitor and treason :“ Posterity will number John Ilrown among heroes; and though it may not bo in pur day and generation, yet so sure as God reigns, the time will come when the grandest monument this country ever lias seen, will commemorate his death; and the flames of his funeral pile which just now herald the dawn, will light up the world with a noonday splendor.”And these treasonable sentiments the Lafayette Journal promptly rebuked, but the Courier rather winked thereat. But nothing daunted, the Rev. Lecturer got an invitation to speak on some thing at “Huntsman's Hail,” inLaporte, Indiana, on the evening of Tuesday, 20th December, and there chose to give the people a diatribe on “Did John Brown.” But he misconceived the public pulse out there, and was rebuked by a very small and unsympathi/.ing audience.We arc pleased to add the testimony of our coteinporaries of Laporte, the Times, the Democratic organ, and the Ihrald of the Republican party. The Times thus treats the political white cravat who goes it blind for a traitor :EEV. B5ECKENEIDGE S LECTHBE.Tiiis man, who hails from Lafayette, lectured on the subject, “Did John Brown,” in Huntsman Hall, in this city, on Tuesday evening last. Like Japhct in search of a father, this individual is in search of notoriety. We are not disposed to give it to h m at present, by any very- lengthy notice. We regret to say that a small assemblage of respectable persons gathered around the speaker to hear him discourse on “ Old John Brown.” We were present at the lecture and took down a number of bis remarks, with the intention of commenting upon them at length; but crowd was so small, anil the speaker so great — that we have concluded not to boost him into the notoriety which he so much covets. He didn’t meet with innch encouragement here, and wo are glad to be enabled to set Laporte down among the conservative cities of the North, whose mourners and “ crape-wcarers,” in behalf of Did Brown and his cause are few and far between.— The speaker did make one or two remarks which we will notice. He said the ijrepressible conflict had commenced at Harper’s Ferry, but the demonstration there was only the smallest type of what it would yet be. lie advocated a temporary dissolution of the Union. Pitched extensively into the democrats. (Applause.) lie likened the North and South to husband and wife, and said when the husband couldn’t govern the wife, let her slide!! (A terrible effort among a few individuals to get up a “prolonged applause.”) Said he had read Helper’s Impending Crisis, and saw nothing objectionable in it. Wouldn't invite a slave bolder to bis communion tablo until he had been purged of slavery, etc.With this we let him go, hoping he may meet with no better success elsewhere than he did at this place.The Herald (republican) thus adds its testimony, and is highly condemnatory :“Rev. T. L. Breckenridgc, of Lafayette, delived a lecture last Tuesday evening, on John Brown and the Harper’s Kerry Insurrection, to a very small audience at Huntsman Hail, and the most of those who attended went more from curiosity than from any real interest in what the speaker might say. * * We can only say this much,that we do not now nor did wc ever sympathise in any particular with the lecture. We had no sympathy with John Brown, save in his apparent disinterestedness and upright bearing after the lamentable transaction at the United Slates Arsenal. For his act in that most unwise, unjust and most extravagant enterprise, we can find nothing but the most rigid condemnation. We cannot (or a moment countenance any party olfaction who may be so presumptuous and wicked as to undertake by fire and sword to liberate the slaves of the Southern States.”(£/“ A correspondent of the New Yofk Tribune. w rit in1- from Philadelphia on the -24th De-
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Dawsons Fort Wayne Weekly Times
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 31, 1859
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