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Show ! B. Grata Brown of Missouri, on tne Stump. F.V.oir-Cuher,.-. Repull;.--ut. Democrats, Dem-ocrats, Conservatives, Old Line Whigs: I address myself to ail -of you, because in this canvass I have spoken to the people of Missouri without distinction of party, in behalf of a common f reedom ree-dom equally from political disabilities applied to persons and from the more subtle slaveries of property, in the gui:e of taxation and tariffs. 1 have made a square fight. No man can say I have evaded the live issues of these times, or sought an election under any disguise or subterfuge as to my own position or the attitude of this canvass, and if it shall go forth on the eve of Tuesday next that the people of this State have committed to my charge the destinies of its government for the ensuing en-suing term, I shal claim that they have endorsed the doctrine of equai rights to all men, and that any abridgement abridge-ment of personal liberty is tyranny, and that any levy of taxes for ostensible protection to special interests is plunder. plun-der. In making the canvass I have been assailed by all rhe combined weight of a national and State administration. admin-istration. The edict has gone forth to office-holders that their heads would be in the barrel before the moonlight if they dared to say their souls were their own and rate as freemen. The levy of blackmail on their slender salaries has been ruthlessly carried on. A military reputation is flaunted in the air against our personal freedom. Let me say then that if this fight shall go with us, I shall claim all over the nation that it is the verdict of a free people that power shall come from beneath, and not descend from above ; that the civil service shall be purged of the paitizan ship that breeds measureless corruption, corrup-tion, and shall be used no longer as a machine to elect to office men whom the people do not want ; and that before be-fore God we will re-write the Declaration Declara-tion of Independence, and declare that not merely is every man born free and equal, but that every man shall live and die free and equal in this, our republic re-public Brotcn's Speech in St. Louis. |