Canton Weekly Register

FRANK BLAIR'S MEETINGS,

The People give Him a Cordial Welcome.

He Speaks to a Great Crowd at Lewistown, and to a Great Crowd at Farmington

On Monday last, Frank Blair addressed the citizens of this county at Lewistown, and on Tuesday, at Farmington. On both occasions large, intelligent and enthusiastic crowds were in attendance, who listened with intense satisfaction and interest to this fearless and stalwart champion of Free Labor.

Frank Blair, ever since he assumed the position of an advocate, on slave soil, of the rights and natural dignity of free white labor, his course has been intently watched by the Republicans of this county, and has inspired in their minds a profound respect for the man. They wished to see him and learn from his own lips that course of policy which will, in his opinion, ultimately redeem this country from the incubus of slavery. Mr. Blair's speeches produced upon his large and intelligent audiences a profound impression, and all came away from hearing him, convinced of the wisdom of his theory. He has an off-hand, pointed and forcible style of uttering his thoughts, that commended itself to the approbation of his bearers and frequently elicited rapturous applause.

Mr. Blair contends that a separation of the two races is the only way to prevent the degradation of the whites, and secure the elevation of the blacks. While they remain together the contamination will be visited with fearful effects upon the whites. All the painful results which are now apprehended from the connection of the two races, can be prevented by colonizing the blacks in some tropical latitude. There, with a climate and soil adapted to his constitution, the negro could bring to the full development those faculties which he has received from the God of Nature.

The germ of this policy is, no doubt, to be found in the colonization scheme of the illustrious Henry Clay; but Mr. Blair is entitled to high credit for practical improvements upon the theory, fraught with the most beneficent results.

Large delegations of Wide Awakes, and other citizens, accompanied by the band, escorting the ladies of the Glee Club in their beautiful boat, "Constitution," were present, both at Lewistown and Farmington.