Now, I told you I would not flinch from any thing.  I am going to read you some questions that were sent after me from Glasgow, purporting to be from a workingman. [Great interruption.] If those pro-slavery interrupters think they will tire me out, they will do more than eight millions in America could. [Applause and renewed interruption.] I was reading a question on your side too.  “Is it not a fact that in most of the Northern States laws exist precluding negroes from equal civil and political rights with the whites?  That in the State of New York the negro has to be the possessor of at least two hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of property to entitle him to the privileges of a white citizen?  That in some of the Northern States the colored man, whether bond or free, is by law excluded altogether, and not suffered to enter the State limits, under severe penalties? and is not Mr. Lincoln’s own State one of them? and in view of the fact that the $20,000,000 compensation which was promised to Missouri in aid of emancipation was defeated in the last Congress (the strongest Republican Congress that ever assembled), what has the North done toward emancipation?” Now, then, there ’s a dose for you. [A voice:  “Answer it.”] And I will address myself to the answering of it.  And first, the bill for emancipation in Missouri, to which this money was denied, was a bill which was drawn by what we call “log-rollers,” who inserted in it an enormously disproportioned price for the slaves.  The Republicans offered to give them $10,000,000 for the slaves in Missouri, and they outvoted it because they could not get $12,000,000.  Already half the slave population had been “run” down South, and yet they came up to Congress to get $12,000,000 for what was not worth ten millions, nor even eight millions.  Now as to those States that had passed “black” laws, as we call them; they are filled with Southern emigrants.  The southern parts of Ohio, the southern part of Indiana, where I myself lived for years, and which I knew like a book, the southern part of Illinois, where Mr. Lincoln lives—­[great uproar]—­these parts are largely settled by emigrants from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina, and it was their vote, or the Northern votes pandering for political reasons to theirs, that passed in those States the infamous “black” laws; and the Republicans in these States have a record, clean and white, as having opposed these laws in every instance as “infamous.”  Now as to the State of New York; it is asked whether a negro is not obliged to have a certain freehold property, or a certain amount of property, before he can vote.  It is so still in North Carolina and Rhode Island for white folks—­it is so in New York State. [Mr. Beecher’s voice slightly failed him here, and he was interrupted by a person who tried to imitate him.  Cries of “Shame!” and “Turn him out!”] I am not undertaking to say that these faults of the North, which were brought upon them by the bad example and influence of the South, are all cured; but I do say that they are in process of cure which promises, if unimpeded by foreign influence, to make all such odious distinctions vanish.