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GREAT SPEECH
OF
Hon. Clement Laird Vallandigham,
Made at the Democratic State Convention
of Ohio, on the 4t/t day of July, 1862.
Following the reading and adoption of the
resolutions, loud and continuous calls were made
for Mr. Vallandigham; and when 110 ascended
the platform he was greeted with rapturous
cheers. He spoke as follows:
Mr. President, and Fellow-Democrats of the
State of Ohio: lam obliged again to regret
that the lateness of the hour precludes me from
addressing you, either iu the manner or upon
the particular subjects which otherwise I should
prefer. This is my misfortune again to-day as
last night; but speaking thus without premedi
tation, and upon such matters chiefly as may
occur to me at the moment, if 1 should happen
to get fairly under headway, it may turn out to
bo your misfortune. [Laughter.]
I congratulate the Democracy of Ohio, that
in the midst of great public trial and culamity,
of persecution for devotion to the doctrines of
Hie fathers who laid deep and strong the foun
dations of the Constitution and the Union un
der which this counlry has grown great and been
prosperous —the fathers, by whose principles one
and all, the party to which we are proud to be
long has always been guided—to-day we have
assembled in numbers greater than at any for
mer Convention in Ohio. I congratulate you
that despite the threats which have been uttered,
and the denunciations which have been poured
out upon the time-honored and patriotic organ
ization, peaceably and in quiet, with enthusiasm
and earnestness of purpose, we are here met,
and in harmony, which is the secret of strength,
and the harbinger of success, have discharged
the duties for which we are called together.—
There was a time when it was questionable if
ia free America —in the United States—boast
ing of their liberties for more than eighty years
—a party to which this country is indebted for
all that is great and good and grand and glori
ous—would have been permitted peaceably to
assemble to exercise its political rights and per
forin its political functions. Threats have even
beeu made in times more recent, that this most
csseqtial of all political rights, secured to us by
the precious blood of our fathers in seven years'
revolutionary war, should 110 longer lie enjoyed.
The Democrats of our noble sister State of In
diana, second born daughter of the North-west,
have been menaced wlihin the last ten days,
with a military organization and the bayonet to
put down their party. I hold in my hand a
telegraphic despatch from the capital of that
State, boasting of this infamous purpose. 1
will read it, gentlemen; because I know that
the same dastardly menaces have been proclaim
ed against the Democrats of Ohio, and because
I am here to-day to rebuke them as becomes a
freeborn man who is resolved to perish.—[Great
applause—in the midst of which the rest of the
sentence was lost.]
Some months ago a Democratic State Con
vention was held in Indiana. It was a Conven
tion of the party founded by Thomas Jefferson,
and built up by a Madison and a Monroe, and
consolidated by an Andrew Jackson, [applause]
• —a party under whoso principles and policy
from thirteen States we have grown to thirty
four, for thirty-four there were, true and loyal
to this Union before the Presidential election of
18G0—a party under whose wise and liberal
policy the course of empire westward did take
its way, under the symbol of American power
—the stars and stripes—waved proudly from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, over tho breadth of
a whole continent—a party which, by peace and
compromise, and through harmony and wisdom
and sound policy, brought us up from feeble and
impoverished colonies, struggling in the midst
ot defeat and disaster in the war of the Revo
lution, to a mighty empire, foremost among the
powers of the earth, the foundations of whose
greatness were laid, broad and firm, in that no
ble Constitution and that grand old Union which
the Democratic party has ever maintained and
defended. The Democratic party, with such
principles and such a history and record to polnl
to, held a State Convention in pursuance of its
usages for more than thirty years, and under the
''lghts secured by a Ntato and Federal Constitu
tion older still, in the capital of the State of
Indiana. And yet, referring to this party and
l tf l Oonvention, the correspondent of a disloyal
and pestilent, but influential newspaper 111 the
chief city of Ohio, dared to send over the tele
graphic wires, wires wholly under the military
control of tho administration, which permits
nothing to be transmitted not acceptable to its
censors, a dispatch in these words:
he fellows are scared, evidently not without
cause."
Well, gentlemen, I lcnow not how far Demo
crats of Indiana may be frightened—and a no
bler and more fearless body of men never lived
—but I see thousands of Democrats before me
to whom fear and reproach are alike unknown.
Frightened at what? Frightened by whom? We
arc made of sterner stuff.
"The militia of the State," he adds, "will
probably be put upon a war footing very short
ly"
And who, I pray, are the militia of the State 1
They are not made up of the leaders of the i.V
publioan party in Ohio or Indiana, I know. I
never knew that sort of politicians to go into
any such organization, in pcaco or in war. No
men have ever been more bitter and unrelenting
in their opposition to and ridicule of the militia:
and none knows it better than I. as my friend
before me by his smile reminds me that one ol
my own otfenses is that I am a militia brigadier
in favor of the next foreign war.
But who are the militia? They are the free
born, strong-armed, stout-hearted Democrats of
Indiana as they are of Ohio. Let them be put
on a war footing. Good! We have hosts of
them in the army already, and on a war foot
ing, but who are as sound Democrats, and as
VOLUME s§.
\ T EW SERIES.
much devoted to the principles of the party as
they were the hour they enlisted. They have
been in the Sfiuth, and I have the authority of
hundreds of officers and privates iu that gallant
army, for saying that not only are the original
Democrats in it, more devoted to the party to
day than ever before, but that hundreds also
who went hence Republicans, have returned, or
will return, cured of the disease. [Laughter
and applouse.] .Sir, the army is, fortunately,
most fortunately lor the country, turning out to
he a sort of political hospital or sanitary insti
tution, and 1 only regret that there are not ma
ny more Republican patients in it. [Laughter.]
Well, put the militia upon a war footing,
l'ul arms in their hands. ' They never can be
made the butchers or jailors of their fellow citi
zens, but the guardians of free speech and n free
press, and of the ballot-box. Sflinding armies
of mercenaries, not the militia of a country, are
the customary instruments of tyranny and usur
pation.
Hut this correspondent proceeds:
"If the Bympalhizeis with treason and traitors"—
Wo sympathize with treason and traitors! We,
who have stood by the Constitution and the
Union from the organization of the part)', in
our fathers' day and in our own day, in every
hour of trial, in peace and iu war, in vidtory
and in defeat, amid disaster and when prosper
ity beamed upon us—we to be branded as ene
mies to our country, by those whose traitor fa
thers burned blue lights as signals for a foreign
foe, or met in Ilartford Convention to plot trea
son and disunion fifty years ago! We false to
tho Constitution and to our government, the
hones of whose fathers lie buried on every bat
tle field of the war of 1812, from the massacre
at the river Raisin to tho splendid victory at
New Orleans; we who bore aloft the proud
banner of the republic and planted it iu triumph
upon the palace of the Montezumas: We, by
whose wisdom in council uud courage in the
field for seventy years, the Constitution and the
Union and the country which has grown great
under thorn, have been preserved aud defended;
we to be denounced as sympathising with (rea
son and traitors, by the men who for twenty
years have labored day and night for the suc
cess of those principles and of that policy and
that party which are now destroying the grand
est Union, the noblest Constitution and the fair
est country on the globe. Talk to me about
sympathising with disunion, with treason and
with traitors! I tell you, men of Ohio, that in
six months, in three months, in six weeks it
may be, these very men and their masters in
Washington whose bidding they do, will he the
advocates of the eternal dissolution of this U
nion; and denounce all who oppose it as ene
mios lo the peace of the country. Foreign in
tervention and the repeated and most serious
disasters which have lately befallen our arms,
will speedily force the issue of separation and
southern independence— disunion —or of Union
by negotiation and compromise. Between these
two I am—and 1 hereby publicly proclaim it—
for the Union, the whole Union and nothing
less, if by any possibility I can have it; if not,
then for so much of it as yet can be rescued
and preserved; and in any event and under all
circumstances, for the Union which God ordain
ed, of the Mi°fi e s'"iii Valley and all which may
cling to it, under the old name, the old Consti
tution and (he old flag, wilh all their precious
memories, with the battle fields of the past and
the songs and the proud history ol the past
—with the birth place and tho burial place of
Washington the founder and Jackson tho pre.
server of the Constitution as it isandof the U
nion as it was. (Great applause.)
Hut this correspondent again proceeds:
•li the sympathizers wltli treason and traitors
meditate to carry out their plans in this quarter."
What plans'? Just such as to-day have been
(he business of this Convention ; lite plans of
that old Union party, laying down a platform
and nominating Democrats to fill the offices and
control the policy of (lie government, to the end
that tho Constitution may be airain maintained,
aid the Union restored, und peace, prosperity
and happiness once more drop healing from their
wings.
"Plans" the fellow proceeds, "in this quarter
they will doubtless rind the work quite as hot
us they bargained for." And 1 tell the coward
ly miscreant who telegraphed the threat that
he and those behind him, will rind the work fif
ty fold hotter when they begin it than they had
reckoned on, both here and in Indiana.
"Ten thousand stand of arms," he adds, "have
been ordered for the State troops."
for what 1 To pat down the Democratic par
ty. Sir that is a work that cannot be done by
ten, or twenty or liliy thousand stand of arms
in tiie hands of any such dastards in office or
out of it. If so full of valor and so thirsty for
blood, let them enlist under the call just issued
for troops in Ohio and Indiana. Let them go
and help the Democrats right the "rebels" in the
South, and let Democrats, too, right the unarmed
but more insidious and dangerous Abolition reb
els of the North and West, through the ballot
box. Forty thousand additional troops, I esti
mate it, are called for in the proclamation ol
yesterday, from the State of Ohio.
Where are the forty thousand Wide-Awakes
of 1800, armed with their portable lamp posts
and drilled to the music of the Chicago Platform!
Sir, I propose that 35,000 of them be conscrip
ted forthwith. They are "Home Guards."
They "don't go," but stay vigorously at home
to slander and abuse and threaten Democrats
whose fathers or brothers or sons are in the bi
llion armies or have fallen in battle. I speak gen
erally—certainly there are exceptions. But I will
engage that if the record of the old Wido-A
wake dubs in the several cities and towns of
Ohio shall be produced and the Republicans will
detail or draft 35,000 from the lists, I will find
5,000 strong-armed, stout-hearted, brave and
loyal Democruts to go down and and see that
they don't run away at the first fire. (Great
Laughter.)
Sympathizers with treason and traitors! Sc
ci•Boioiiiste! Sir, it is aboqt Uuie that we had
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDA Y'MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1862.
heard the last of this. The Democracy of Ohio
and of the United States, are resolved that an
end shall be put to this sort of slander and a
buse. Hut Ido not propsse to discuss this par
ticular subject just now. (Goon, goon.)
Well then, from that which concerns the Dem
ocratic party to a word, a.single word, about
what relates to myself; and I beg pardon for
the digression. Jam rejoiced that it has been
permitted to me to be here present to-day in
person before you. Had you believed the re
ports of the Republican press, you would no doubt
have expected to see probably the most extra
ordinary compound of leprous and unsightly
flesh and blood ever exhibited. (Laughter.)—
Well, my friends, you see that I am not quite
"monstrous" at. least, and bear no especial re
semblance to the beast in the Apocalypse, either in
heads or horns; but am a man of like fashion
with yourselves.
To the Republican party alone, anil its press
and its orators, I am indebted, 110 doubt, for a
part of the "curiosity" which I am sorry to say,
I seem to have excited; and which has brought
out so many of them as if to "sec the elephant."
They have never meant to be friendly to
wards mo, but. as I see some of them now with
in my vision, let me whisper to their ears, that
I never had better friends, and 110 man ever had
since the world begun. They have advertised
me free of cost for the last fifteen months ; yes,
I may say, for some five years past, all over the
United .States. Why, sir, a Republican editor
without "the undersigned" for a text, would be
the most unhappy mortal in the world. Every
little "printer's devil" in the ofliee would be hal
looing for copy, and no copy to bt; had. I know
they are friends, by the usual sfgn, "the re
marks they make." Gentlemen I have my share
of what Jefferson called the unction, the holy
oil with which the Democratic priesthood has j
always been anoinle'd—slander, detraction and
calumny without stint. Really lam not sure
that with me it has not reached "extreme unc
tion," though I am not ready, and do not mean
to depart yet. Well, I will not complain. It
has not cost me, a single night's sleep from the j
beginning. My appetite if yon will pardon the
reference—if you will allow me, as Mr. Lin
coln would say, to "blab" upon so delicate a
subject—has been in 110 degree impaired by it.
Others before and with me, have endured the
same. Here is my excellant friend near me,
[Mr. Modary,] Oil blessed martyr! [Great
laughter and applause.] For sixty-one years,
the storms of partizan persecution and maligni
ty in every form have beaten upon his head;
but- though timunmd toil have made it gray, the
heart beats slill to-day, as sound and true
to the instincts of Democracy and patriotism,
and of humanity, too, us when he laid his first
offering upon the altar of his country just for
ty years ago. What others have heroically suf
fered in ages past, we, too, can endure. We
are all, indeed, still in the midst of trials.
Hero before me, is the gentleman of whom I
have just spoken, whom you honored with the
Presidency of this noble Convention, for forty
years a 1 fornocratic editor—for forty years do
voted to the Constitution and the Union of these
States—a man who through evil and through
good report, has adhered with the faith of a
devotee and the firmness of a martyr, to the
principles and policy of that grand old party of
the Union: and now that the frosts of three
score, years have descended and whitened his
head—lie, I say lived to see the paper to whieii
he gives the labor and wisdom of his declining
years, prohibited from Circulating through u
part of the mails, as "disloyal" to the Govern
ment; (Criesof 110,110, shame.) Samuel Me-'
dary didoyal! and Wendell I'hiilip.s a patriot 1
Sir, it is not many months since, that in the city
of Washington, in that magnificent building
erected by the charity of an Englishman who
loved America—l wish there wore more like
liiin, that art and science might the more wide,
ly flourish in this country —the Smithsonian
Institute—Wendell Phillips addressed an assem
blage of men as false to the Union and the
Constitution as himself. Upon flic platform
was the Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, the third officer in the Government; by
his side the Vice President of the United states,
and between these two, in proportions long
drawn out, the form of "Honest Old Abraham
Lincoln." Am I mistaken, and was it at an
other and earlier, abolition lecture by that other
disunionißt, Horace Grecly in the same place
—there have been many of them—that Lin
coin attended ! The speaker and Vice Pres
ident I know were there: and with these two or
three witnesses before him, and in presence of
the priesthood of Abolitionism, the Numbers
and Wilsons, the Lovejoys and the Wades of the
House and Senate, (great laughter and cheers,)
surrounded by these the very architects of dis
union, he proclaimed that "for nineteen years
he had lnliored to take nineteen States out of
the Union." And yet this most spotted traitor
was pleading for disunion in the city of Wash
ington, where women are arrested for the wear
ing of red, white and red upon their bonnets,
and babies of eighteen months are taken out of
the little willow wagons drawn by tlicir nurses,
because certain colors called seditious are found
upon their swodling clothes ! The next day,
or soon after, this same Wendell Phillips did
dine with or was otherwise entertained by his
Excellency the President of the United States,
who related to him one of his choicest anec
dotes. Yet Democratic editors, Democratic Sen
ators and Representatives, and those holding
other official positions by the grace of the States
or of the people, are "traitors" forsooth, be
cause they will adhere to the principles and
organization of their noble and patriotic old
party! Such are some of the exhibitions which
Washington has witnessed during the past win
ter. Congress, too, has been session. Sir, I
saw it announced in one of the disloyal papers
of this city yesterday, that Jeff. Davis, and
Toombs, and Yaneoy, and lihett and other se
cessionists of the South, would derive much
comfort from this day's meeting.
I Well, sir, I havejust come from a body of
j men which-I would not for amominent pretend
j to compare for statesmanship, respectability* or
. patriotism, with this Convention. That body
j has devoted its time and attention to doing more
1 in six months, for the cause of secessionism,
■ than Beauregard, Lee, Johnston, and all the
| Southern Generals combined have been able to
j accomplish in one year. Said a Senator from
i tlie South the other day, a Union man:—"Jeft
[ Davis is running to Congress now, and is ma
king a d—d sight more out of the Washington
Congress than the one at Richmond." (Laugh
ter. und many remarks of approval.)
The legislation of that body has been nlinost
wholly ibr the "Almighty African." From the
prayer in the morning (for gentlemen we are a
pious body, wc are—making long faces, and
sometimes wry faces', 100 (laughter,) we open
with prayer but there is not much of the Al
mighty Maker of heaven and earth in it,] from
tl;e prayer to the motion to adjourn, it is negro
in every shape and form in which he can by any
possibility be served up. Hut it is not only the
negro inside of the House and Senate, but
outside also. Washington City has been, with
in the past three weeks, converted into one uni
versal hospital; every church except one for
each denomination, has been seized for hospi
tal purposes; and while the sanctuaries of the
eve r living God—the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob— not the new God of the Burlin
games and Sumnere und other Abolitionists, not
that God whose gospel is written in the new
Bible of Abolition —but the Everliving Jehovah
God, have been confiscated for hospitals, every
theatre, every concert other place
offyomusemciit, from the highest to the lowest
—from the spacious theatre in which a Forest
exßhits to an enraptured audience his graphic
rendering? of the immortal creations of Shake
speare, down to the basest den of revelry and
darkness, are open still; as in the Inferno of
the great Italian poet —
"The gatPs of hell stand open night and day."
Sir, if these places of amusements —innocent
some of them, but not holy certainly—had first
boen s tiz.'d a?hospitals, for the comf >re and cure
j of the thousands of brave and honest tnen, who
went forth believing in their hearts that they
were to battle for the Constitution and the ll
nion, but who now lie wasting away upon their
lonely pallets, with no wife or sister, or mother
there to soothe, groaning in agony with every
description of wound which the devilish ingen
uity of man can inflict by weapons, whoso in
iuveution was inspired by the very author of
a!| human woe and suffering—wounds too, rank-
an.i festering for the want of surgical aid—
if those places, I say, had first been seized, and
then it had become necessary for the comfort
or life of the thousands of other sick and woun
ded who are borne into the city every day, to
occupy tho churches of Washington, I know of
no In-tletand holier purpose to which they could
have been devoted. And now, sir, not far
from the stately capitol, within whose marble
walls abolition treason now runs riot, is a buil
ding, "Green's Row" by name, in which 1100
fugitive slaves—"contrabands" in the precious
slang of infamous Butler—daily receive the ra
tions of the soldier, which are paid for out of
the taxes levied upon the people. One hun
dred thousand dollars a day arc taken from the
public treasury for the support of these fugitive
slaves, while the army of Shields, and other ll
uion armies in the field even so lately as six
weeks ago, marched bare footed,, bare headed,
and in their drawers, for many weary miles
without so much ius a cracker or a crust of
bread with which to allay their hunger. Aye,
sir, while many a gallant young soldier of Ohio
just blooming into manhood, who heard theory
that went up fifteen months ago, "rally to de
fend the flag and for the rescue of the capital,"
and went firth to battle, with honesty in his
heart, his life in his hand, with courage in every
liber, and patriotism in every vein, lies wan and
sad on his pallet in the hospital, your surgeons
are forced lo divide their time and care between
the wounded soldiers and these vagabond fugi
tive slaves, who have been seduced or forced
from the service of their masters. —These things
and much more—l have told you not a til he of
all—are done in Washington. We know it lliere;
though it is withheld from the "people; and
while every falsehood that the ingenuity of man
can invent to delude and deceive, is transmitted
cv allowed by the telegraphic censor's of the A'l"
uiinistration —themselves usurpers unknown to
the Constitution and laws—these facts are not
permitted to reach the people of the U. States.
Your newspapers, the natural watch dogs of lib
erty, are threatened with suppression if but a
half or the hundredth part of the (ruth lie told.
And.now, too, when lint one other means re
mained for the redress of this and the hundred
other political grievances, under wliielr the land
groans—party organization and public assem
blages of the people—even tlieso, too, arc threat
ened with suppression with armed force. Aye,
sir, that very party, which not many years ago,
bore upon every banner, the motto "Free Speech
and a Free Press," now day by day forbids the
transmission through your mails of the papers
from which you derive your knowledge of pub
lic events, and which advocate the principles
you cherish.
And Democratic editors, too, are seized, "kid
napped" in the midnight hour—torn from their
families—gagged—tlicir wives with officers over
them menacing violence if they hut ask one fare
well grasp of the hand, one parting kiss—thrust
into a close carriage in tho felon's hour of mid
night, and with violence dragged to this Capitol
and here forced upon an express train and hur
ried off' to a military fortress of tho 11. States.
Yes, men of Ohio, to a fortress that beurs (he
honored name of that first martyr of American j
liberty—the Warren of Hunker Hill, or it may i
lie to that other bastile desecrating that other
name snored in American history, and honored
throughout the earth—the name of that man
who forsook home and gave up rank and title,
and in tho first flush of youth and manhood
came to our shores and linked his fortunes with
WHOLE NUMBER, 3019
the American cause—'the prisoner of Olmutz,
the brave and gallant Lafayette. Aye, free
men of the West, fortresses, bearing these hon
ored names, and meant for the defense of the
country against foreign foes, and out of whose
casemates bristle cannon planted to hurl death
and destruction at armed invaders, echo now
with the groans and are watered by the tears—
not-of men only from States seceded and in re
bellion, or captured in war, but from the loyal
States of the North and the West, and from that
party which has contributed nearly three-fourths
of the soldiers in the field to-day. Are these
things to be borne? (Never, no, never.) If you
have the spirit of freemen in you, bear them
not ! (Great applause, and cries of that's it,
that's the talk.) What is life, worth ? What
are property and personal liberty and political
liberty worth ? Of what value are all these things,
if we, born of an ancestry of freemen, boast
ing, in the very first hours of our boyhood, of
a liiorc extended liberty than was ever vouch
safed to any other people, are to fail now in this
the hour of sore trial, to demand and to defend
them at every hazard? Freedom of the Press!
Is the man "who sits in the White House at
Washington, and who owes all his power to the
press and the ballot, is he now to play the ty
rant over us? (No! never, never.) Shall the
man who sits at one end of a telegraphic wire
in the War Department or the Department of
State, a mere clerk it may be, a servant of ser
vants, sit down and by one single click of the
instrument, order some minion of his a thou
sand miles off, to arrest .Samuel Mednry, Judge
Jtanney, or Judge Tlturman and hurry them to
a bastile? (No; it can't tie done; we will nev
er allow it.) The Constitution says, "no man
shall be held to answer for crime except on due
process of law." Our fathers, six hundred
years ago, assembled upon the plains of liunney
Mede in old England, and rescued from tyrant
hands, not by arms but by firm resolve, the God
given right to be free. Our fathers, in the time
of James I, and of Charles I, endured trial and
persecution, and loss of life and of liberty, ra
ther than submit to oppression and wrong.—
John Hampden, glorious John Hampden, the
first gentleman of England, arrested upon anil- j
legal executive warrant, went calmly and hero- !
ioally to the cells of prison rather than pay "20
shillings of an illegally assessed tax, laid in de
fiance of the constitution and laws of England,
and the rights and privileges of Englishmen.
And all history is full of like examples. Wil
liam Tell brooked the tyrant's frown in his day
and generation, in defense of these same rights,
m the noble republic of the Swiss; and that
piUnut lit lla people, hemmed in among thu Alps,
though surrounded on every sido by despots
whoso legions numbered more than the whole
population of Switzerland, have hy that same
indomitable spirit of lilierty, maintained their
lights, their liliertios and their inde|iendenco to
this hour. And are Americans now to offer
themselves up a servile sacrifice upon that altar
of arbitrary power? Sir, I have misread the
signs of the times and the teni|>er of the people,
if there is not ulready a spirit in the land which
is about to speak in thunder tones to those who
stretch forth still the strong arm of despotic
power. "Thus far shalt thou come, and no far
ther. We made you: you are our servants."
That, sir, was the language which I was taught
to apply to men in office, when I was a youth,
or in tirst manhood and a private citizen, and
afterwards when holding office as the gift of the
people, to hear applied to ine, and I bore the ti
tle proudly. And I asked then, as I ask now,
no other or better reward than, "Well done,
good und faithful servant." [Cries of, "You
shall have it ; you deserve it."] But to-day,
they who arc our servants, creatures made out
of nothing by the power of the people, whoso
little brief authority was breathed into their
nostrils by the people, would now, forsooth, be
come the m:isters of the people; while the or
gans and instruments of the people—the press
and public assemblages—are to he suppressed,
and the Constitution, with its right of petition,
and of due process or law and trial by jury,
and the laws and all else which makes life worth
possessing—are to be sacrificed now upon the
tyrant's plea that it is necessary to save the Gov
ernment, the Union. Sir, we did save the U
nion for years—yes, wo did. Wo were the
"Union savers," not eighteen months ago. Then
there was not an epithet in the whole vocabu
lary of political billingsgate so opprobrious in
the. eyes of a Republican when applied to the
Democratic party as "Union-eluiekers," or the
"Union-savers."
I remember in my own city, on the day
of the Presidential election, in IB6o—l re
member it well, lor I had that day traveled
several hundred miles to vote for Stephen
A. Douglas for the Presidency—that in a
ward where the judges of t he election were
all Democrats, your patriotic Wide-Awakes,
strutting in unctious uniform, came, up hour
after hour thrusting their Lincoln tickets
twixt thumb and linger at the judges, with
the taunt and sneer, " Save the Union; Save
the Union!" And yet now forsooth, wc are
"traitors" and "secessionists!" And old,
gray headed and gray bearded men who liv
ed aud voted in the times of Jefferson, and
Madison, and Monroe, aud Jackson—men
who have fought and bled upon the battle
field, and who fondly indulged the delusion
for forty years that they were patriots, wake
up suddenly to-day to find themselves "trai
tors!"—sneered at, reviled and insulted by
striplings "whose fathers they would have
disdained to set with the dogs of their
Hocks." Of all these things an inquisition,
searching and terrible, will yet be made, as
sure, as sudden, too, it may be, as the day
of judgment. We of tho loyal States—we
of the loyal party of the country, the Dem
ocratic party —we the loyal citizens of the
United States, the editors of tho loyal news-
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VOL. 6. NO. 4
papers—we. who gather in loyal assembla
ges, like this, and are addressed by truly
loyal and Union men as lknow you are to
day and at this moment, (that's" so, that's
tire truth) we, forsooth, arc to he now de
nied our privileges and our rights as Ameri
cans and as freemen, we are to be threaten
ed with bayonets at the ballot box, and
bayonets to disperse Democratic meetings!
Again I ask, why do they not take up their
muskets and march to the South, and like
brave men, meet the embattled hosts of the
Confederates in open arms, instead of threat
ening craven like, to fight unarmed Demo
crats at home—possibly unarmed, and pos
sibly not. [Laughter and applause, and a
remark—"That was well put in."] If so
' belligerent, so eager to shed the last drop
ot blood, let them volunteer to reinforce the
broken and shattered columns of McClellan
in front of Richmond, sacrificed as he has
been by the devilish machinations of Aboli
tionism, and there mingle their blood with
the blood of the thousands who have alrea
dy perished on these fatal battle fields.—
But no, the whistle of the bullet and the
song of the shell are not the sort of music
to fall pleasantly upon the ears of this Home
Guard Republican soldiery.
"Peace hath her rictoties, as well as War."
"To-day the cause of a free Government
has triumphed; a victory of the Constitu
j tion, a victory of the Union, has been won,
| but is yet to be made complete by the men
1 who go forth from this the first political bat
i tie field of the campaign, bearing upon their
\ banners that noble legend, that grand in
scription—THE CONSTITUTION AS IT IS AND
THE UNION AS IT WAS. [Great cheering.]
,In that sign shall you conquer. Let it be
I inscribed upon every ballot, emblazoned up
on every banner, flung to every breeze,
whispered in the zephyr, and thundered in
the tempest, till the echoes shall rouse the
fainting spirit of every patriot and freeman
in the land. It is the creod of the truly
loyal Democracy of the United States. In
behalf of this great cause it is that we arc
now, if need be, to do and to suffer in po
litical warfare, whatever may be demanded
of freemen who know their rights, and know
ing, dare maintain them. Is there any one
man in all this vast assail dilate afraid to
meet all the responsibilities which an ear
nest and inexorable discharge of duty may
require at his hands in the eanvnss before
us? [No, no, not one.] If but one, let him
go home and hide his head for very shame.
" Who would be a traitors knave,
Who could fill a cowards grave,
Who so base as be a slave,
Let him turn and /lee."
It is no contest of arms to which you are
invited. Your fathers, your brothers, your
sons arc already by thousands and hundreds
of thousands on the battle field. To-day
their bones lie bleaching upon the soil of
every Southern State from South Carolina
to Missouri. It is to another conflict, men
of Ohio, that you arc summoned, but a con
flict, nevertheless, which will demand of you
some portion at least, of that same determin
ed courage, that same unconquerable will,
that same inexorable spirit of endurance,
which make the hero upon the military bat
tle-field. I have mistaken the temper of
the men who are here to-day, I have mis
read the firm purpose that speaks from eve
ry eye and beams from every countenance,
which stiffens every sinew and throbs in ev
ery breast; I have misread it all, if you
are not resolved to go home and there main
tain at all hazards and by every sacrifice,
the principles, the policy and the organiza
tion of that party to which again, and yet
again I declare unt£ you, this Government
and country are indebted for all that have
made them grand, glorious and great.—
[Cheers and great applause.]
WHO WAS HE?
A capital story is tolil us of an old farmer in
the northern part of this county, who had been
"saving up" to take up a mortgage of S2OOO
held against him by a man nearer the sea shore.
The farmer had saved up all the money in gold,
fearing to trust the banks in these war times.
Week before, lat he lugged down his gold and
paid it over, when the following colloquy ensued f
"Why you don't mean to give this s2ooo*
in gold, do you!" said the lender;.
"Yes, certainly," said the farmer, "I was
afraid of the pesky banks, so I've been saving
up the money, in yellow boys, for you, this long
tune."
"AH right," responded the lender, "only I
thought you didn't take the papers, that's all!"
"Take the papers! No sir, not I. They have
gone on so since the war's been agoing, that I
won't have one of the d—lish things about.
But, the money is nil right, isn't it 1"
"Yes, all right, £2OOO in gold. All right,
here's your bond and mortgage
And well he might have called it all right,
as the premium on gold that day was 22 per
cent, and his gold was not only worth the face
of his bond, hut $ 140 besides, enough to have
paid for his village newspapers for himself and
posterity for at least three centuries. It payb
to take the papers.— XorwaH(Ct.) Go*.
"Don't von mean trf irUrf/, mV" 3eaf sirTJ
"No, my dear miss; I'd rather lose all the rsbtf
I've got than take another."