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BELLEFONTE, FRIDAY MORNING,
AUGUST 8, 1862.
BY GEO. P. MORRIS.
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May the dove of Peace, descending
From celestial spheres above,
Over earth lier piuions bending
Fold usin eternal love.
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In her shelter, man reposing,
Feels what war can never know,
And each day some good disclosing,
Cheers alike the high and low.
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Pea ce her priceless boon bestowing,
We possess what none can buy,
Ip a stresm of blessings flowing,
From the fountains of the sky.
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Then may gentle Peace, descending
From celestial spheres above,
Over earth her pinions bending,
Fold us in eternal love.
GREAT SPEECH
OF
Hon, C. L. Vallandingham,
Made at the Democratic State Convention of
Ohio, on the 4th aay of July. 1862.
Following the reading and adoption of
the resolutions, loud and continous calls
were made for Mr. Vallandingham and when
he ascended the platform he was greeted with
rapturous cheers. Ile spoke as follows !
Mr, President, and fellow Democrats of
the State of Ohio : I am obliged again . to
regret that the lateness of the hour preclude
me from addressing you, either in the man-
ner or the particular subjects which other-
wise I should prefer. This is my misfor-
tune again to day as last night ; but speak
ing thus without premeditation, and upon
such matters chiefly as may occur to me at
the moment, if | should happen to get fairly
under headway, it may turn out to be your
misfortune.—(Laughter.)
1 congratulate the Democracy of Ohio,
that in the midst of public trial aud calam.
ty , of persecution for devotion to the doc.
trines of the fathers who laid deep and
strong the foundations of the Constitution
and the Union under which this country kas
grown great and been prosperous—the fath
ers by whose principles one and all, the
party to which we are proud to belong has
always been guided—to day we have as
sembled in numbers greater thanat any
former Convention in Ohio. I congratulate
you that despite the threats which have
been uttered, and the denunciations which
have been poured out upon that time honor~
ed and most patriotic orginization, peacea-
bly and in quiet, with enthusiasm and
earnestness of purpose, we are here met,
and in harmony which is the secret of
strength and harbinger of successs, have
discharged the duties for which we are calls
ed together. There was a time when it was
questionable if in free America—in the uni.
ted States—boasting of their liberties for
more than eighty years—a party to which
this country is endebted for all that is great
and good, and grand and glorious, —would
have been permitted peacefully to assem.
ble to exercise its political rights, and per-
form its political functions. Threats have
been mad= in times more recent, that this
most essential of all political rights, secured
to us by the precious blood of our fathers
in seven years revolutionary war, should no
longer be enjoyed. The Demncrats of our
noble sister State of Indiauna, second born
daughter of the North West, have been
menaced within the last ten days, with a
military organization and the bayonet, to
putdown their party: I hold in my hand
a telegraphic dispatch from the capitol of
that State, boasting of this infamous pur-
pose. I will read it gentleman ; because I
know that the same dastardly menaces have
been proclaimed against the Democrats
of Ohio, and because [ am here to day to
rebuke them as becomes a free born man
who is resolved to. perish—[Great applause
in the midst of which the rest of the sentence
was lost.]
Some months ago, & Democratic State
Convention was held in Indianna. It was
a Convention of the party founded by Thom
ag Jefferson, and built up by a Madison and
a Monroe, and consolidated by an Andrew
Jackson [applause] —a party under whose
principles and policy from thirteen States
we have grown to thirty~four,” for, thirty-four
there were, true and loayl to the Union be~
fore the Presidential election of 1860—a
party under whose wise and liberal policy
the course of the empire westward did take
its way, until the symbol of American pow~
er—the stars and stripes—waved proudly
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, over the
breadth of tke whole continent—a party
which, by peace and compromise, and
through harmony and wisdom and sound
policy brought us up from feeble and im-
Ppoverished colonies, struggling in the midst
of defeat and disaster in the war of the Rev-
olution to a mighty empire, foremost among
the powers of the earth, the foundations of
old Utfion which the Democratic party has
ever irigintained and defended. The Dem-~
ocriltic party with such principles and such
a history and record to point to, held a State
Convention in pursuance of its uages for
more than thirty years, and under the right
secured by a Stat. and Federal Constitution
older still, in the ctpital of the State of In-
dianna, And yet; referring to this party
and its convention, the correspondent of a
disloyal and pestilent, but influential news.
paper in the chief city of Ohio, dared to
send over the telegraphic wires, wires whol
ly under the military control of the admins
istration, which permits nothing to be trans
mitted not acceptable to its censors, a disw
patch in these words:
“The fellows are frightened, evidently
not without cause.”
“Well, gentleman, I know not how far
Democrats of Indianna may be frightened
| —and a noble and more fearless body of
men never lived—but Ieee thousands of
Democrats before me to whom fear and re-
proach are alike unkaown. Frightened at
what? Frightened by whom? We are
made of sterner stuff.
“The militia of the State,” he adds,
*‘will probably be put on a war footing
very shortly.”
And who I pray, are the militia of the
State? They are not made up of the lead.
ers of the Republican party in Indianna or
Ohio I know. I never knew that sort of
politicians to go into any such organization
in peace or in war. Nomen have ever been
more bitter and unrelenting in their opposi-
tion to the ridicule of the militia ; and none
knows it better than [, as my friend be-
fore me by his smile, reminds me that one
of my own offences 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 Dem«
oerats of Indianna 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 footing, but who are as sound
Democrats, and as much devoted to the
principles of the party as they were the
hour they enlisted. They have been in the
South, and I have the authority of hundreds
of officers and privates in that gallant army,
for saying that not only are original Demo.
crats in it, more devoted to the party to-day
than ever before, but that Lundreds also
who went hence Republicans, have returns
ed, (Laughter and applause.) Sir, the army
is fortunately, most fortunately for the
country, turniug out to be a sort of politi-
cal hospital or sanitary institution, and I
only regret that there afé not more Repub~
lican patients in it.
Well, putthe militia on a war footing. —
Put arms in their hands. They never can
be made the butchers or jailors of their fel«
low citizens, but the guardian of free speech
and a free press, and of the ballot bex.—
Standing armies of the mercendries, not the
mililia of a country, are the customary in~
struments of tyranny and usurpation.
But this correspondent proceeds :
«If the sympathizers with treason and
traitors -~
We sympathize with treason and traitors!
We, who have stood by the Constitution
and the Union from the organization of the
party, in our father’s day and in our own
day, in every hour of trial, in peace and in
war, in victory, and in defeat, amid disas~
ter and whe prosperity beamed upon us—
we to be branded as enemies to our coun-
t1y. by those whose traitor fathers butned
blue lights as signals for a foreign foe, or
met in Hartford Convention to plot treason
and disunion fifty yearsago! We false to
the Constitution and to our government, the
bones of whose fathers lie buried on every
battle-fieid of the war of 1812, from the
massacre of the River Raisin to the splendid
victory at New Orleans ; we who bore aloft
the proud banner of the Republic and plant-
ed it in tricmph upon the palace of the
Montezumas : We by whose wisdom in
council and courage 1n the field for seventy
years, the Constitution and the Union and
the country which has grown great under
them, have been preserved and defended ;
we to be denounced as sympathizing wlth
treason and traitors, by the men who for
twenty years have labored day and night
for the suceess of those principles and of
that policy and that party which are now
destroying the grandest Union, the noblest
Constitution and the fairest Country on the
globe. Talk to me about sympathizing
with disunion, with treason and with trai-
tors! I tell you, men of Ohio, that in three
months, in six wecks it may be, these very
men and their masters in Washington whose
bidding they do, will be the advocates of
the eternal dissolution of this Union : and
denounce all who oppese itas enemies to
the peace of the country. Foreign interven-
tion and the repeated and most serious dig-
asters which have lately befallen our arms,
will speedily force the issuc of separation
and southern independence—disunion—or
of Union by negotiation and compromise, —
Betwoen these two I am—and 1 here pub-
licly proclaim it—for the Union, the whole
Union and nothing less, if by any possibility
L 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 "ordained, of the
Mississippi Valley and all which may cling
to it, under the old name, the old Constitu-
whoge greatness were laid broad and firm, | tion and the old flag, with all their precious
in that noble Constitution and that grard | memories, with the battle fields of the past
idea i a
end tHe songs and the prod history of the
past—with the birth place and the burial
place of Washington the founder and Jack
son the preserver of the Constitution ag
it is and the Union as it was. [Great ap-
plause. |
But this correspondent again proceeds :
«Ifthe sympathizers with treason and
traitors meditate to carry out their plans in
this quarter,”
What plans ? Just such as to day have
been the business of this Convention; the
plans of the old Union party, laying down a
platforin and nominating Democrats to fill
the offices and control the policy of the
Government, to the end that the Constitu-
tion may be again maintained, and the Union
restored, and peace, prosperity and happi-
ness once more drop healing from their
wings,
¢ Plans ” the fellow proceeds, ¢ in this
quarter they will doubtless find the work
quite as hot as they bargained for.” Andl
tell the cowardly miscreant who telegraph-
ed the threat that he and those behind him,
will find the work fifty fold hotter when
they begin it than they had reckoned on,
both here and in I[idiana.
** Ten thousand stand of arms,” he adds,
‘ have been ordered for the State troops.”’
For what? To put down the democrat-
ic party. Sir, that is a work which cannot
be done by ten, or twenty or fifty thousand
stand of arms in the hands of any such das:
tards in office or out of it,
or and so thirsty for blood, let them enlist
under the call just issued for troops in Ohio
and Indiana. Let them go down and fight
the armies of the ** revels ” in the South,
and let Democrats fight the unarmed but
more insidious and dangerous Abolition
rebels of the North aud West, through the
ballot box. Forty thousand additional
troops, I estimate it, are called for in the
proclamation of yesterday, from the State of
Ohio.
Where are the forty thousand Wide-
Aw akes of 1860, armed with their portable
lamp posts and drilled to the music of the
Chicago platform ? Sir, I propose that 35 =
000 of them be conscripted forthwith. They
will never enlist ; they never do. 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 Union armies
or have fallen in battle. I speak generally
~-certainly there are exceptions. But I
wi'l engage that if the records of the old
Wide-Awake clubs in the several cities and
towns of Ohic shall be procured and the Re-
publicans will detail or draft 35000 from
the list, | will find 5,000 strong-armed
stout-hearted, brave and loyal Democrats to
go down and see that they don’t run away
at the first fire. [Great Laughter.]
Sympathizars with treason and traitors !
fecessionists ! Sir, it is about time that we
i 4@ heard the last of this. The Democracy
of Ohio and of the United States, are resolv.
ed that an end shall be put to this sort of
slander and abuse. ButI do not propose
to discuss this particular subject just now.
[Go on, go on.].
Well, then, from that which concerns the
Democratic party to a word, a single word,
a single word, about what relates to myself ;
and I beg pardon for the digression. I am
rejoiced that it has been permitted me to be
here present to day in person before you.—
Had you believed the reports of the Repub-
lican press, you would no doubt have ex-
pected to see the most extraordinary com-
pound of feprous and unsightly flesh and
blood ever exhibited. [Laughter.] Well,
my friends, you see that I am not quite
“monstrous ”’ at least, and bear no special
resemblance to the beast of the Apocalypse
either in the heads or horns ; but am a man
of like fashion with yourselves.
To the Republican party alone, and its
press, and its orators, I am indebted, no
doubt, for a large part of the ¢¢ curiosity’
which I am sorry to say, 1 seem to have
excited ; and which has brought out even
seme of them as if to * see the elephant.” —
They have never meant to be friendly to-
wards me, I know, but as I see some of
them now within my vision, let me whisper
in their ears, that 1 never had better friends
and no man ever had since the world began.
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
office would be hollowing for copy, and no
copy to be had, I know that they are
friends, by the usual sign, ‘the remarks
they make.” Gentlemen I have had my
share of what Jefferson called the unction,
the holy oil with which the Democratic
priesthood has always been annointed—
slander, detraction and calumny without
stint, really I am not sure that with me it
has not reached ¢* extreme unction,” though
¥ aw not ready and do not mean, to depart
yet. Well, T wil not complain, It has
cost me not a single night's loss of sleep
from the beginning. My appetite, 1f you
will pardon the reference— if you will allow
me, as Lincoln would say, to “ blab’ upon
80 delicate a subject— has been in no degree
impaired by it. Others before me and with:
me, have endured the same. Ilere is my
excellent friend near me, |[Mr. Medary.]
Oh blessed Martyr! [Great Laughter and
applause.] For one and sixty years, the
storms of partizan persecution and malignity
If so fall of val’
in every form have beaten upon hs head ;
but though time and toil have made it gray,
the heart beneath beats stil to day as sound
and trife tb its ‘nstincts of Democracy and
patriotism, and of humanity too, as when
he I4id his first offerings upon the altar of
his country just forty years ago. What
others have heroically suffered in ages past,
we, too, can endure. We are all, indeed,
still in the midst of trials. es
Here before me, is the geatleman of whom
I have just spoken, whom you have honored
with the Presiderty of this noble Conven-
tion, for forty years a Democratic devotee
and the firmness of a martyr, to the princi.
ples 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—he, I say, he lived to see the pas
per to which he give the labor and the wis-
dom of his declining years, prohibited from
circulation through a part of the mails, as
+¢ disloyal to the Government !
(Cries of no, no, shame.) Samuel Meda~
ry disloyal ! and Wendell Philips a patriot!
Sir, it is not many months since, that in the
city of Washington, in that magnificent
building erected by the charity of an Eng-
lishran who loved America, I wish there
were more like him, that the art and sci~
ence might the more widely flourish in this
country—the Smithsonian Institute—Wen-
dell Phillips addressed an assemblage of
men as false to the Union and the Constitu~
tion as himself. Upon the platform was the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, 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 Abram
Lincoln.” Am I mistaken, and was it an.
other and earlier abolition lecture by that
other disunionist, Horace Greeley, in the
same place— there have been many of them
—that Lincoln attended ? The Speaker and
Vice President I know were there ; and
with these two or three witnesses before
him, and in presence of the priesthood of
Abolitionism. the Sumners and Wilsons, the
Lovejoys and the Wades of the House and
Senate, (great laughter and cheers) sure
rounded by these, the very architects of dis-
union, he proclaimed that ¢¢ for nineteen
years he had labored to take nineteen States
out of the Union.” And yet this most spot-
ted traitor was pleading for disunion in the
city of Washington, where women are ar-
rested for wearing of red, white and red,
upon their bonnets, and babies of eighteen
months are taken out of the willow wagons
drawn by their nurses, because certain col-
ors called seditions ars found upon their
swaddling 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 choic
est anecdotes. Yet Democratic editors, Des
mocratic Senators and Representatives, and
those holding other official positions by the
grace of the States or of the people, are
“‘traitors’’ forsooth, because they would ad
here to their principles and organization of
their noble and patiiotic old party ! Such
are some of the exhibitions which Wash-
ington has witnessed during the past win-
ter. Congress, too, has been 1n session.—
Sir, 1 saw it announced in one of the dis
loyal papers of this city yesterday, that Jeff
Davis and Toombs, and Yancy, and Rhett,
and other secessionists of the South, would
derive much comfort from this day’s meet-
ing.
Well, sir, I have just come from a body
of men which I would not fora moment pre-
tend to compare for statesmanship, respect~
ability or patriotism with this Convention.
That body has devoted its time and atten
tion to doing more in six months for the
cause of secessionism, than Beauregard, and
Lee, and Johnston, and all the Southern
Generals combined have been able to ac.
complish in one year. Said a Senator from
the South the other day, a Union man, ‘Jeff
Davis 1s running two Congresses now and 1s
making a d—d sight more out of the Wash-
ington Congress than the one at Richmond.”
(Laughter, and many remarks of approval.)
The legislation of that body has been al«
most wholly for the “Almighty African.” —
From the prayer in the morning (for, gentle-
men, we are a pious body--we are —making
long faces and sometimes wry faces, too,
[laughter] we open with prayer but there is
not much of the Almighty Maker of heaven
and earth in it) from the prayer, to the mo-
tion to adjourn, it is negro’ in every shape
and form in which he can by any possibility
ve served up. Butit is not only the negro
inside of the House and Senate, but outside
also. The city of Washington has been,
within the past three weeks, converted into
one universal hospital ; every church, except
one for each denomination, has been seized
for hospital purposes ; and while the sanc-
tuaries of the ever living God—the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—not the new
God of the Burlingames and Sumners and
other Abolitionists, not that God whose gos-
pelis written in the new Bible of Abolition—
but the Everlasting Jehovalé God, have been’
confiscated for hospitals ; every theatre, ev-
ery concert saloon, every other place of
amusement, fron the highest to the lowest
—from the spacious theatre in which a For~
est exhibits to an enraptured audience his
graphic rendering of the immortal creations
of Shakspeare’s down to the basest den of
revelry and drunkenness, are open still ;
as in the Inferno of the great Italian poet—
“The gates of hell stand open night and day.”
Sir, if these places of amusement—inno-
cent some of them, but not holy, certainly
—had first been seized as hospitals, for the
comfort and cure of the thousands of brave
and honest men who went forth believing in
their hearts that they were tc battle for the
Constitution and the Union, bit who now
lie wasting away upon theif lonely pallets,
with 1c wift or sister, or other there to
soothe, groaning in agony with every dé
scription of wound which the devilish inge-
nuity of man can inflict by weapons, whose
inventor was itispired by the very author of
all human woe and sufftring—wounds; too,
rangling and festering for the want of sur-
gical aid—if those places, I say, had first
been seized, and then if it had become nec-
essary for the comfort or life of the thous:
ands ot other sick aiid wetinded who are
botne into the city every day, to occupy the
churches of Washington, I know of no bet-
ter or holier purpose to which they could
have been devoted. And now, sir, not far
from the stately capitol, within whose mar
ble walls abolition treason now runs riot, is
a building, “Green's Row’’—by name, in
which 1100 fugitive slaves—‘‘contrabands”
in the precious slang of infamous Butler —
daily receive the rations of the soldiers,
which are paid for out of the taxes levied
upon the people. One hundred thousand
dollars a day are taken from the public treas-
ures for the support of these fugitive siaves
while the army of Shields, and other Union
armies in the ficld even so lately as six
weeks ago, marched bare footed, bare head-
ed, and in their drawers, for many weary
miles without so muchas a cracker or a
crust of bread to allay their hunger. Aye,
sir, while many a gallant young soldier of
Ohio, just blooming into manhood, who
heard the cry that went up fifteen months
ago, *‘rally to defend the flag, and for the
rescue of the capitol,” and went forth to
battle with honesty in his heart, his life in
his hand, with courage in every fiber,
patriotism in every vain, lies wan
and sad on his pallet in the hospital, your
surgeons are forced to divide their time and
care between the wounded soldiers and
these vagabond fugitive slaves, who have
been reduced or forced from the service of
their masters. These things and much
more—1I have told you not a titha of an
are donein Washington. We know it there.
though it is withheld from the people ; and
while every falsehood that the ingenuity of
man can invent to delude and deceive, is
transmitted or allowed by the telegraphic
censor of the Administration —themselyes
usurpers unknown to the Constitution and
laws—these facts are net permitted to reach
the people of the United States. Your
newspapers, the natural watch dogs of liber-
ty, are threatened with suppression if but
the half or the hundredth part of the truth
be told. And now, too, when but one other
means remained for the redress of this and
the hundred other political grievances, un:
der the lands groan—party organization and
public assemblages of the people—even
these, too, are now threatened with sup-
pression by armed force. Aye, sir, that
very party, which not many years ago, bore
upon every banner, the motto *‘Free Speech
and Free Press,” now day by day forbids
the transmission through your mails of the
papers from which you derive your knowl
edge of public events, and which advocate
the principles you cherish.
And Democratic editors too, are seized-
‘‘kidnapped” in the midnight heur—torn
from their families—gagged—their wives
with officers over them menacing violence if
they but ask one farewell grasp of the hand.
one parting kiss—thrust into a close car-
riage in the felons hour of midnight, and
wit violence dragged to this Capitol and
here forced upon an express train and hur
ried off to a military fortress of the Unjted
States. Yes, men of Ohio, to a fortress tha
bears the honored name of that first martyr
to American liberty—the Warren of Bunker
Hill; or it may be to that other bastile des-
ecrating that other name sacred in Ameria
can history, and honored throughout the
earth—the name of that man who forsook
home and gave up rank and title, and :n the
first flush of manhood came to our shores
and linked his fortunes with the American
cause—the prisoner of Olmutz, the brave
and gallant Lafayette. Aye, frecmen of the
Wesl, fortresses bearing these honored
names, and meant for the defense of the
courtry against foreign foes, and out of
whose casemates bristle cannon planted to
burl death and destruction at armed invad
ers, echo now with the groans and are wa-
tered by the tears—not of men only from
States seceded and in rebellion, or captured
in war, but from the loyal Statesof 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 free-
men in you, bear them” not ! (Great ap-
plausé, and cries of that’s it, that’s the
talk.) What is hfe 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,
boasting, in the very first hours of our boy-
hood, of a more extended libérty than was
ever vouchsafed to any otier people, are to’
fail now in this the hour of sor trial to de-
mand and-to defend them'at every hazard ?
Freedom’ of the press! Fs the man who
sits in the White House at Washington, and
who owes all his power to the press and the
ballot 1s he now fo play the tyrant 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 mefe clerk it may be, a servant of serv-
ants ; sit down and by one single click of
the instrument, order some minion of his a
thousand miies off to arrest Samuel Medary
Judge Ranney, or Judge Thurman and bur-
rythemto a bastile? (No; it can't be
done ; we will never allow it.} Thé Con-
stitution says ** no than shall be held to ang
wer for crime except on due proc ess of law.
Qur fathers, si hundred years ago, assem-
bled upon thé plains of Runney Mele mn old
England, and rescued from tyrant nands,
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, rather than sub-
mit to the oppression and wrong. John
Hampden, glorions John Hampden, the first
gentleman of England, arrested upon an
illegal execution warrant, went calmly and
heroically to the cells of prison rather than
pay twenty shilling of an illegally assessed
tax, laid in defiance of the Constitution and
laws of England, and the rights and privel-
eges of Englishmen. And all history is full
of like examples. William Tell brooked
the tyrant’s frown in his day and generation
in defence of these same rights, iu the noble
republic of the Swiss: and that gallant httle
people, hemmed in among the Alps, though
surrounded on every side by the despots
whose legions numbered more than the whole
population of Switzerland, have by that
same indomitable spirit of liberty, mains
tained their rights, their liberiies and their
independence to this hour, And are Amer-
icans now to offer themselves up a servile
sacrifice upon that altar of arbitary power 2
Sir, 1 have misread the signs of the tims
and the temper of the people, if there is not
already 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
farther. We made you ; you are our ser
vants.” That sir, was the language which
I was taught to apply to men in office, when
I was a youth, orin first manhood anda
private citizen, and afierwards when Lolding
ume as we gilt ot the people, to hear ap:
plied to me, and J bore the title proudly. —
And I asked then, as I ask now, no other or
better reward than, “Well doce, good and
faithful servant.” (Cries of, <Yon shall
have it, you derserve it.”') But to day they
Who are our servant creatures made out of
nothing by the power of the people, whose
little brief authority was breathed into their
nostrils by the people, would now, f-rsooth
become the masters of the people, while the
organs and instruments of the people—the
press and public assemblages—are to be
suppressed , and the Constitution, with its
right of petition, and of due process of law
and trial by jury, and the laws and all clse
which makes life worth possedsing—are to
be sacrificed now upon the tyrant’s pled to
that :t is necessary to save the Government
the Union. Sir, we did save thé Unién for
years—yes we did. We were the ‘Union
savers,’’ not eighteen months #go. Then
there was not an epithet in the whole vo
cabulary of political billingsgate so oppro«
brious in the eyes of a Republican when
applied to the Democratic party as ¢¢ Union
shriekers,” or the ¢ Union savers.
I remember in my own city. en the day of
the Presidential election, in 1860 —I remem-
bered it well, for I had traveled several hun-
dred miles to vote for Stephen A. Douglas
for the Presidency —that ina ward where
the judges of election were all Democrats,
your patriotic Wide Awakes, strutting in
unetious uniform, came up hour after hour
thrusting their Lincoln tickets twixt thumb
and fioger at the judges, with the taunt and
sneer, “Save the Union ; save the Union !”
And yet now forsooth, we are “traitors” and
‘‘secessionists ”’ And old gray bearded
and gray headed men who lived and voted
in the times of Jefferson and Madison, and
Monroe and Jackson—men who have fought
and bled upon the battle field, an1 who
fondly indulged the delusion for forty years
that they were patriots, wake up suddenly
to day to find themselves ‘‘traitors I” sneer-
ed at, reviled and insulted by striplings
“whose fathers they would have disdained
to have set with the dogs of thetr flocks.”
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 judgs
ment. We of the loyal States—we of the
loyal party of the country, the Democratic
party—we the loyal citizens of the United
States, the editors of loyal newspapers—wé
who gather tegether in loyal assemblages
like this, and are addressed by truly loyal
Union men as I know you are to-day and at
this moment [that’s so, that’s the truth] we
forsooth' are.now to be denied our privileges
and our rights as Americans and as freemen
we are to be threatened * with bayonets at
the ballot box, and bayonets to disperse
Democratic meetings !' Again I ask, why
do they not take up’ their ruskets and
march to’ the South, and like brave men,
meet the embattled hosts of the Cosfeder.
ates in open arms, instead of threatening,
craven hke, to’ fight unarmed Democrats at
home —possibly unarmed and possibly not.
[Laughter antl applause, and a rvemark—
‘That was well put in.’| Ifso belligerent,
80 caget to shed that last drop of 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 = Abolitionism, and
there mingle their blood with the blood of
‘he thousands who have already perished on
these fatal battle fields. fut no. the whis-
tle of the bullet and thé song of the shell aro
not the sort of music t&' fall pleasantly upon
the ears of this Hoe Guard Republican
soldier. eth :
With reason; theicfore; fellow citizens, T
congratu'ate you to day upon victory which
you have achieved. A great poet said :
‘Peace hath her victo:ies as well as War.’
To day the cause of a freé Goevernn ént
has triumphed ; a victory of the Constitu-
tion, & victory of the Union, has been one,
but is yet to be made cotiiplete by the men
who go forth from this the first pilitital
battle: field of the catnpaign, beating upon
“theif banners that noble legend that grand
inscription—The Constitution as it is and
the Union as it was. (Great checring.) [In
that :izn you shall conquer. Let it be ine
scribed upon every Lallot, emblazoned upon
every banner, flung abroad to every brecze,
whispered in the Zephyr, and thundered in
the tempest, till the echoes shail rouse the
fainting spirit of every patriot and .. freemen
in the land. It is the creed of the truly loy-
al Democracy of the United States. In be
half of this great cause it is that we are now,
if need be, to do and to suffer in political
warfare, whatever may be demanded of frec-
dom who know their rights, and knowing,
dare maintain them. Is ther any one man
ju all this vast assemblage afraid to meet all
the responsibilities which an earnest and
inexorable discharge of dufy may require at
his bands in the canvass before us? (No,
no, not one,) If but one, let hin _go home
and hile his head for very shame.
¢* Who would be a traitor knava.
Who could fill a coward's grave,
Who so hase as to be a slavo,
Let him turn ard fico.”
Tt is no contest of arms to which you are
invited. Your fathers, your brothers, your
sons are already by thousands on the battle
field. To day their bones iie bleaching upon
the soil of every Southern State from South
Carolina to Missonri. It is to auother con-
flict, men of Ohio, that you are summoned
but a conflict nevertheless, which will de.
mand of you some portion at least of that
same determined courage, that same uncon-
querable will, that same inexorable spirit
of endurance, which makes the hero upon
the battle field. I have mistaken tlic temper
of the men who are here to day, I have mis.
read the firm purpose that speaks from cao
ery eye and beans from every sinew and
thiobs from every breast. I have tHisread
it all, if you are not resolved to go home
and there maintain at all hazards and by ev
ery sacrifice, thé principle, the policy aud
the organization of the party to which again
end yet again I declare unto you, this gove
ernment aud country are indepted for all
that have made them grand glofions and
great. (Cheers and great applause.)
IZ7A peasant being at confession accused
himself of having stole some kizy. The fath
er confessor asked him how ifvany bundles
be had taken from the stack. ¢ ‘That is of
no consequence,’’ replied the peasant, ‘you
may set it down a wagod'[6ad, for my wife
and I are going to fetch the remainder very
soon,” .
7 EE
Io Litile Siss—+* Oh, Bobby, F'm going
to have a hooped dress, an oyster shell bon-
net, a pair of ear drops aud a little baby!
Little Bobby—¢ The tt.under you is!—
Well Tdon’t care, I'm going to have a pair
of tight pants, a shanghae coat, & shaved
head, a crooked cane, a meerschaum pipe,
and a pistol.”
177 A newspaper, in noticing the prescus
tation of a silver cup to a cotemporary, says :
—¢ He needs no cup. He can drink from
any vessel that contains liquor—whether
the neck of a bottle, the mouth of a demi.
john, the spile of a Keg, of the bunghole of
a barrel.”
[7 The papers offer an encouragement
to their readers to persevere in getting
through their work, by stating that an old
lady in Bolland, whose sole occupation was
housewifery, scrubbed her sitting room floo
until she fell thioukh into the cellar.”
Sasa
[77 Did you ever go to a military ball v
asked a lisping maid of an old veteran. No,
my dear growled the old soldier, «in those
days I once had a military ball come to me,
and what do’ you’ think madam, # took my
leg off.”
- : a
[7A famous Spanish bull fighter offers
to bet that he can'kill a bull in’ six minates
We have seen an ordinary Americar cow-
catcherdo the sams thing iv two sce.
onds.
{C7 Some ¢ stupids,”’ bantering a fat
companion, remarked that, if all flesh was
grass, he must be a load of hay.—*‘I sus-~
pect I am,” said he, * from the way you
asses nibble at me.”
[=~ A temperance editor, in drawing at-
tention to an article against ardent spirits in
one of the inher pages of his paper, - says,
‘For the cffects of intemperance, see our
inside I”?
[77> The ring -leaders of the world —The
young ladies who lead their lovers on by
hopes of marriage