Eljt CiLabf.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
SPEECH br
HON. Pi FI'AtEIt.SMITHI
.OF , citilmstrxr.n,
Delivered in' the House .of RepreSentet
• fives , Februar . tt 18 , 1804 on the
schttion proposing to.regutre proofs of
loyalty front persons claiming payment
for . damages by the rebel raids.
Mr. speaker, my regret that the
gentleman from' Northumberland, Mr,
Purdy, is. not present, is modified by
the fact that whatever may be Said
here-to-night, or at any time during
his absence, by any one, will be faith
fully conveyed to:himi by the record of
the proceedings of this 'body. That
record, sir, of what . hrts passed in, this
discuSsion confirm my reCollection.as
to the correctness of the-gentleman
from Delaware, (Mr. Price,) when he
said that anything, in this' discussion
which :has given it a party aspect ar
ose entirely from the ;remarks of the
gentleman from. NortliuMberland.—
When the gentleman from. Clearfield,
(Mr. Boyer,) very properly made the
inquiry how the standard of loyalty
was to be ascertained, he said nothing
about party, but left the question open,
Whether Cite: .applidation- of a test of
loyalty referred to Republicans or De
mocrats. No sooner, however,: had
the gentleman from - Nortlininberland
stood upon his f6et,
.than, he assumed
that. all the resolutions of the• gentler
man from Washington, were a direct
attack upon the Democratic party.—
Without being able to Choose as good
words as . the gentlemark::frOm.lyash
ington, I will say that men who. excuse
themselves before they are' assailed;
are their own accusers..
What is:there; 'sir, in this resolution;
or this preamble,:.
"Whereas, There is reason to be
lieve that te rebel invasions in Penn
sylvania were, in a great measure,
brought about through the connivance
and by the encouragement of disloyal
persons in our own State '
•
"And whereas, Claims for damages
done during those , invasions are now
being presented to this Legislature;
there7fore,
"Resolved, That, the select commit
tee to whom are referred all matters
in relation to claims arising-out of al
leged losses from the rebel raids of
1862 and 1863, be instructed to report
as part of their bill—if they report a
bill—a clause requiring the parties
presenting claims to furnish satisfacto
ry proofs of their loyalty."
Is there anything said here about
Democracy or Republicanism ? The
question presented is a great, a glori
ous question, to be put to every man,
and every man ought to meet it, un
der any, circumstances.
The gentleman from Franklin, (Mr.
Sharpe,) gave as a reason why this re
solution should not be -adopted, that a
ve 7ILIALVMPRiii • • •
would be ItepubliCans:' Whot.e do you
Mr..Speaher,:a Republicanhere,
in r.erson or by his representative,
elaiming.to be freed •from this test ?-
11Yhere do you find . any Tan claiming
to be freed front this test-Who is a loy
al man ? There is no such man—no
loyal man- fears' this test. No loyal
man will hesitate to eorr. 3 up and meet
the test which will establish his loyalty
so far as, with propriety and emsist
ently with the rules of law, we can es
tablish it. . •
Now, sir, you find no such distinction
in this resolution 'or this preamble.—
It applies to every man without refer
ence fo party. I, am prepared to meet
it, and I doubt not, are prepared .to
meet it; the gentleman from Franklin
doubtless is prepared to !lied it, bon ,
Over and whenever it comes.. I have
net it when I have gone down to that
sad peninsula with a bleeding heart, to
reach, as I supposed, the dead body of
one was dearer to me than
met:it there before . I could' reach. the
spotl sought, and so•with hundreds of
loyal men—as good- men asthe gentle
man from Northuniberland ' or any
Whom he represents:- . -Who stopd "up
there to take that solettin Oath . of
alle
giance, expressive of their love of their
couhtry; and their determination to
stand Vit. Why'shoUld we not meet
it, sir ? We mot it When - W P first stood
up - as legislators hero; we meet it.wli en
we .enter. upon' any: •pu bile office.; and
when we propoS*now, seeing the per
jury which has manifesteditself in the
halls of Our National Legislature, and
which has been .developed throughout
the whole ; land, - through' those who
have taken the same oath as ourselves,
as, le,gigiators; as lowyers,,or - in' any
positiori.they,moy.Occupy . in the land,
when, by:reason 9f- that, - we propos?
now to go fu tiler into. , • and to
ask a man te.itipport . ilio Constitution
Of his State, and 'abolio 14.541t0,'0f his
notion,..why, should ,WO be Met,by gen
tleman saying,- "you • mean:us Lot
us ince. the- que:stipn,:and leVus aet
tegetlier'as' one inan;thicliving aside
all these questions of party, When" We
come toconsider a question paramount
to all party, to life, and to everything
but - otir accountability-tOHim who for
med-usas o nation,
' Sim, one test Of loyalty that I would
.
put would' be. a man should, be de
.sirous to-repel. the; invaders froni our
own State. -''l speak- of our own State
just-at-this ritenient, - but I-say that-far
above the'.*.Staie: is: the nation' 'Yet
how
. wae itWhen . these men who were
tho cause of this great losS, who in
flicted this injury upon .the citizens of
the great Cumberland vollehow
was it in this very toivu, and 'in these
WILLIAM- LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XIX.
very balls, when this mighty army,
which had ravaged its own country,
proposed as it was Said
,by:the . Gover
nor of this Commonwealtirbut a short
time since, to breathe for a while the
free air of Pennsyltania, such air as
they had never breathed before ? All
around this ball, at that time, and in
this hall—l speak that which I do
knowmen were sneering 'at the ef
forts of the Executive of the State and
the Executive of the nation to repel
the invasion. I heard with My own
ears men who, if in their place, would
now be within the sound of my voice,
members ofthe Legislature of Penn
sylvania, :sneering at these efforts' to
repel invasion, and speaking of it, as
if no invasion existed.., Had they wai
ted but a . few days . they would have
found - that there - was hardly a house
in all this State without its mourners,
because of those wbo died upon. the
battle-field of Gettysburg to repel that
invasion.. Shame upon such men and
upon those. who sustain them I
I am happy here to say, that one of
those men, a member of the Logiala
ture of Pennsylvania, 'was rebuked.by
a gentleman, .now a member of.this
Housewhom I do not sco in his seat,
but who does not- belong to this side
of the House. Honor ho to :Oat: it*n
wherever hels. I speak of him only.
I doubt not that there are many more
like him. Such, I say, is ono test of a
man's loyalty. . •
With some of the sentiments which
were uttered by the gentleman from
Northumberland I can agree. 1 can
agree that true Democracy and loyal
ty aro convertible terms. lean agree
that the Democracy upon which the
institutions of this country are based,
the principle which is to be foundin
every true man, whether he calls him
self Republican or Whig,'or Federal,
or Democrat—l can agree that that
Democracy is a convertible term with
loyalty. But What do you understand
by Democracy De, you 'understand'
that you shall adkere to•theOpinions
of those whom`, as an organized party,
you follow—Men such as those who
denounced Jackson, and Jefferson and
Shunt ? If that is a test.of Derit
- -.•.. em•
tow, and, have followed
.for,•years.-- 7
What L take. to: be the true Dentoeracy
is that - Which reccignites'the Will 'of the
people, expressed by' the majority
through the forms they haVe
,adopted,,
and.earried.into execution by the pow
er of the people; through tho officers
who have been choSen by them aceor
ding to. the same forms. When
.you
come up to that Democracy, you will
not. find men assailing their 'Govern
ment because a man has been 'chosen
to conduct its 'affairs, whom they did
not assist to put into authority. You
will find mon coming up to sustain the
Government under all circumstances
in which it may be placed, and espe
cially in the putting dolyn of such
rebellion as we are now witnessing—a
rebellion .which which was reserved for us
alone, • of all the inhabitants that have
dwelt' upon the' face Of the earth to
witness. This is the Democracy of
- Washington; this is the Democracy of
Jackson, and of that old man now tot
tering to - his grave, Lewis Cass; , and
of Douglas, who has gene to his grave',
from this •sairM • platforM of Demoet:acy
7
, .a, pla m tfor upon Which -he rallied' so
many of the:true citizens.of bis.coun-
Now, Isay here—and L•ei'n willing
to have this brought back upon me at
any time—that.,a man who cannot
mune up to this Democracy. and loyal
ty; who cannot. come 'up to this test
.
'l3e.s•no loyalty about•him. I will not
make.any applic.atione ; let every man
make the application for himself; but
I assert—and I am prepared to meet
it at any time—that my Deinoeracy
and my loyalty,, and, the loyalty that
emanates frorn .principles like these,
is that Which puts - the Government of
the United States above' every goVern'-
nient that is formed under it, that
makes.it, supreme, that recognizes no
pestilentheresy of State rights which
would lead a 'man' to say, "31y State
calls upon me
.to do se, and I am thera
fore a loyal - man,. whilst I urn obeying
that State, although she may be rebel
ling against .the • Government . of the
nation." . Out upon such loyalty ! Let
us'neVerhear of that in these halis.---
Oh that welad never heard it in this
country !. and those „rivers of ' blood
which have been' pouring dOwn over
every hillside 'and into the 'beautiful
streams of :oar eoantry,. would never
have marred their beauty, and,the bro
ken hearts which aro now to remain
breken:and Worn, the weeping eyes
wficise tears are never to. be stayed Up
on this earth—thoset:ears never would
have been shed, those. hearts. never
Would have been broken. And yet
the gentleman from 'Philadelphia to
night has undertaken to say that the
Administration of this great nation is
disloyal, ' and he hAs Charged, , thiS
blood, and those tears, and this desola
tion, and this sorrow, upon it, when
that Administratie, with thOSe who
sustsin it, stood ap to maintain our
national existence, and begged 'Tor
bearanee through the inaugural=now
praised, be'denounced at the:time it
was issued—when through all that our
President has done, in 'almost, every
public paper that he has issued, the
same tone may be observed—in the
face of all that, the gentleman chargeS
disloyalty upon him; because, in, the
exercise of the power that was given
him under the Constitution, and in
pursuance of his oath, he has endeav
ored to suppress this attempt to deis•
troy this nation and to retard the cha
riot of freedom, geayen l only liOws
how long. ,:
• Let us have right view upon' this
subject. Let, us not test our loyalty
by any such scheme as that •Oftlinse
men who have arisen in the South, and
have poisoned the minds as well as
the hearts of many in the North '‘7l.f.,h
the belief:that this great nation, form
ed by the people, was a mere compact
Of States: Why, when as boy. we
read : our
.cor . :Stitittion, those . of - us
heads.pre
,now gray, we never
looked upon the government of the
United Statesas a compact of States.
Wo read it there, as plain as A, B, C,
that "we, the people," form this great
government and we read there, too,
that we gave to this great goYernment,
as a people, certain rights'and powers
for its preservation; and that in the
exercise of those powers and the main
tenance of those rights this govern
ment of the United States was an,
'WPM° j that when the goyerarnent
nacted laws, throUgh our constituted
authorities and through the forms that
the :people had depUtedi . those laws
were supreme, and • the man was a
traitor and a scoundrel—(those Were
.our sentiments .then; .and they. are
mine uow). 7 who deliberately says,
that any State has rights Which will
pia it aboye the government of the
United States, and that We, as citizens
of this,State or any other State, should
obey the behests of our State to the
i•Verturning of the government-of the
. .
tnited States.
Now, sir, 1 say, as a roeult. of these_
principles; that, coming 'up to this
standard in such a time as this no loy
al man will stop to inquire what are
the causes of the war. There is a war;
there is an effort to destroy the coun
try; there is an effort to bring men who
have had no heart for freedom as long
as:they have been men; to reign over
us. Yea! I use the word reign, for
they look to a monarchy, if not to de
spotic power-. I say that they look to
„
bringing men of that kind to reign o
ver us under- -those circumstances. I
Say a man has no loyalty who betrays
his heartlessness to his country, by al
leging as. anexcase for that heartless.
ness and disloyalty, that sectionalism
brought on-this War. Suppose it did.
'Why, there has been sectionalism in
this country. since 1820, and we at the
North then, under the protest of the
same base hearts and base minds in
the country, yielded to that sectional
ism. We met it again about 1832, '3
or '4, and we yielded again. Arid the
gentleman who says that that section
alisM was developed by the free States
lias not
. read.-history. aright; he has
read•it with a worse than jaundiced
eye, with a'perv'erted jadgritent.: It is
not for me here to say
.what Other
principles might have* been operating
upon him when he thus interpreted
history as saying that sectionalism it 7
rose at:the Ninth, or was carried into
effect there: Nor will a man who has
any loyalty, when we are standing up
hero against all the power of rebellion,
dishonest, thieving robellion,'Eneor at
the,' efforts that our Goverament in
her wonderful throes is using for the
purpose of sustaining herself. .
The gentleman from, Northumber
land indulged in a.great. deal,of wit, I
suppose—l do not know that it was
not wit—about the taxes and the li
cences which are laid upon us. Why,
is that not constitutional ? Is it not
constitutional-for the Government to
impose such a tax?. It may :be ,hard
that a tax should be iniposed for -the
.
purpose of raising money to supp ort
the armies, to repel invasion, and to
crush the rebellion. I can understand
that a man who desires that- this-re
bellion may Succeed 'should feel very
much: annoyed; and eXpond his sat.-
casthe 11 - 0 . '411. his Wit, upon the, action
of the Government in raising revenue
inithis way; but a man who was loyal
at :heart, who heartily deeired'to put
down thitirebelliOn;WoUld not I think
sneer-at the means which have been
Used=cOnstitational means, too, it
cannot be denied—AO Crush the treason.
Loyalty will not throw discredit on
the currency of the country. Why,
HUNTIN,(IOX, - ,_ PA.,',.WEDNE5DAY,;...M.40.1i:.Q.,:•.t804
PERSEVERE.--
what a sight have we here! A:nation:
dragged into , a , war wilco she had to
give one,dollor for fitly emits :nt,the
outset, having, carried , :, eon., this ..war
with hundreds olthousands of men ,
fighting directlybundredsof thousands
of traitors, and , indirectly, the groat
nations : of Vran.coindllogland : --and
at thin day haying gone:to work and
raised money upon suelyo system that
she has brought her six per centum
loons up to seven or eight per cent=
in advance of their par ‘,.olije iand still
we find men who sneer at the currency
of the country, and , say thal we will
be bankrupt Why, ,a man that can .
get seven:or eight, per cent, above par
for his obligationsis not,:yet esteemed
to be. 41141.44. But,,_supposing it
were so-7-supposing that. this eurrency
was as is-alleged, by the men who have
been Prod
. to ,by_ friend: from
' ton, nod who,. traversed the
State felior to the : election and de
flounced it—what is that to the.salvat
tioti of the country? Row was itwith
Our revolutionary. aneestors They
resisted to the ,death 00 payment of
ono cent imposed : upon them by a Ise,
gisla turn la which they ha_ d . no repro,
sentation, and they "took joyfully the
sPolirig of - their geode ;by their own
*pie, and :fer Alie defence of their
Own liberties. D.OW Many beautiful
farms in the . casteni part of this State
haVe been swept away from their ONN
ners,WhO kave thein up - cheerfully,
and who had nothing to support them
selves' kit the Continental currency
And yo,,* hear Of a' gentle Man UPOn
this flOOr; the fiber Where sits the chair
once occupied by the great leader of
the signers of theDeelaratiOn of _rade
pendencei .ventoring, :without a blush
to boast, yea, to,boast of his Democra
cy and bin loyalty; and With a sneer
endeavoring, so flu as'lM'has it in his
pen*, ithlividUidly and lions his.ofli
cial position, to bring discredit Upon
the very means by which the rebellion
is to be put down; Now, I do not
say that the gentleman does not want
to have the rebellion put dpwn, but
do say that I 'cannot interpret his
language in any other way. He may
be able to do it, brit
_. cannot. r
There are otheinoilitt in Ibiji,ciaes
min, 0, Wbieli:ll) - AEiviiii,49l:4s - di down ,
Cannot enlarge upon
Loyal Men Will not.discourage
enlistments. I do not Say that this has
been done by the geptleman froth Nor
thuMberland,!but I do ~ say that you
will find such trien-,than who' are tal
king,
about their desire to support the
C.onstitution 7 '-about their loyalty, and
at the same, time discouraging and
disheartening those heroes. Who are
now shedding their ; blood for their
country. You will find. them prating
about the genstitution, when every
act shoWs that 114 are in sympathy,
if not in co-operation, with those Who
are assailing it with armed bands:
You will find them :glorying in the
defeat of our armies, and you will
find them rejoicing when our adver
sary- tmcceeds r mourning when he
fails.
Now, sir, I wish to put a question
just hero, and I want to call the at
tention of every, gentlemen in this
Rouse to it, and
.1 ask members to
answer it, and to meet the facts upon
which the question is based. How is
it, I ask, that you look in vain in the
class of papers which the gentleman
from
,Northumberland enumerated
here the . other day, for any commen
dation of loyal men whose praise is
in the mouth of the whole country ?
You do not find it there. You can
find plenty. of strong articles upon the
subject of the maintenance of. the
Constitution. If we, do not under
stand what the Constitution means
according to *Se teachings, we are
very dull indeed; becauee we have hid
lectures and lectures upon it, .both up
on tho i lmstings and in these. .papers;
but.when you find any praise. of men
who have steed before the nation and
before the world as the defenders of
the Constitution and the defenders -of
the country, . yen do not find it, i
n
those papers or in : those
. speeehes.
It has been said somewhere—l think
by Blackstone—that you can judge
the character of a people by their poe
try. Now, in the Revolution we had
the good old song, of 'Yankee Doodle,'
as part of_the national poetry, and our
hearts 'thrill to-day when we hear it.
When the druM goes along with " the
sound of "Yankee' Doodle," it brings
tears to my eyes,.• when 1., see , that
drum before a band marching on to
the battle field.to defend my 'fireside,
or when'T find theM returning 'with
their thinned ranks, and . see the wid
ows of those - who lave been left be
hind—standing and looking in vain,
and knoWing they are looking in'vain
for their husbands; and .the mother
coming.aad looking for her dear. boy,
knowing that she shall never bee him
again on this side Of the Jordan. °fan
th
.. .
kee'Doodle" en goes to my heart:
In' the war of 1812, loyal nien ' had
§pangled - Isanner,"
and we. rejoice in it again.. Now the
loyal men have introduced another
bong, to an old nursery , - rhyme. It
'loyal
paper,
Copied; I believe; from. that
paper, the New York Day Book; and
that it might not be lost to us benigh'
.. . .
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1
ii-..,..
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tecl'.leptinylvar.inn, it isfinthd today
in tb.t !vat paper,• Patriot and
Unio ,
Lucus anon litivtdo. I will
read it:
. "Sing a song of gretnbacks,
Pockets ftill of trash;
Over head tind ears in debt,
And out of ready cash.
!leaps of tax-collectors"—
I think the gOrillenian fioiii Nor
tiiiimberland must have read this be
fore, he made his.speeeb:
"Heaps of tax-colleatore,
As busy as a bee,
Ain't we in a pretty fix,
With gold tit fifty three ?
Abe in the Whitellouts,
Proalardatiori'vrriting,
Meade On the Rapidan, •
Afratd to defile fighting."
Meade afraid to do the.. fighting!
Publish that within fifty Miles of Get.
tysburg! 'Send it throughout this
town and perhaps . to Gettysburg• it
self, and call. Men out.'uptm Cemetery
Hill to read that Meade ..ivas afraid to
do the •fighting I ~God have mercy
upon us ifilicade had I.icon . afraid
do'the.fighting ! - 1 1 Thete wOuld.have
been your capital this day if Moado
had been afraid to do tho fighting?
And yet is not this confirming what
I said'a moment ago, .that you . will
look in vain in the papers of. which I
have spoken to find praiso of our
groat men.? Meade' afraid to - do the
fighting!. Why, it could' only have
beetiworse if it . had been said that
Ourlieynolds was - afraid, to do Alio
fighting—that great - man who fell at
thp first orislatight "mid saved the
State, Arcade, who ~ ommanded 4hiit
great army pat into his hands the Very
hour almost that he was called iiito
the figlit—lfeade afraid to do the figh-,
ting! . .
•
"Seward-in the . cltibinet,
Surrounded by his spies:
Ileßeek with the'telegrapis
Busy forging lies.:
Chase in the Treasury,
Making Niorthless notes;
Curtin at Harrisburg,
Making shoddy Coats.
Gilmore at Charleston,
Lost in a fog;"—
If Gilmore is bidden in a .fog, it is
the fcig -- th at- the has ah* hni !):
those cannon whose , bullets he has
poured upori:Sumter, &Meting . down :
the dirty rag that so many mon - even
here in Pennsylvania love better'than
the stars and stripei. But is is down,
and they may rung it up once more;
and it Will go down .again. Gilmore,
who took Fort Wagner, lost in a fog?
No, there is no fog about. Gilmore. We
see him plainly hero, though -we have
never sot our • eyes . upon him. .We
know him here, standing up, for: tbe
country and those of the brave mon
that have been under him. Neither
lie nor they have linen lolst in a fog;
and the day will come when they will
stand out in the sheen of a clear sun,
when the groat firmament' of this na
tion is cleared of the fog of rebellion.
But that is not all :
"Forney under Abe's chair,
Barking like a dog.
&Ilona down at Baltimoi.e,
Doing dirty work,
Butler at Norfolk,
• As savage ns a Turk."
Well, now, upon this Turk question,
I suppose theY Would use the lan
guage of theiy friends South of Mason
And Dixon's line, who aro, endeavoring
to overthrow • - our
,governinent, , and,
would call Butlova beast; only, it W'ld
not miikerhinie; but I suppose Turk
will do as well.as:boacit., Z.. want just
such Turks as Butler , --tho kind of
Turks Who, when--a Man pulls down
the flag of My country, :will hang him.
[Applause.] And 'if a man' is a Turk
for that, let us Have 'a few More Turk's
and let tlicsni o to work, not
Turks g ,
moreiy at New Orleans, or at Fortress
Monroe, or at Newbern, but lot them
go to work in Pennsylvania, tnayhap
at Harrisburg.
There is a little more yet.
Sprague in Ithoiolelnnii,
Entindipple sass; , •
. - ,
Now, I must say, that this shows a
great deal of venom, though' perhaps
it was , made to fill up the rhyme. Why
out of his own, pocket Sprague detray
ed the expenses of an entire regiment,
and started them Ml' inApril, to
protect the Capital ; therefore'he ought
to be sneered at by mon who desired
its fall. What has he done His
State which 'according to their thee
ry, is ahovo the governine4, has sent
him there to represent her ip the Con
gress of the United States; and what
has lie OVp , done thtit :should call
down the sneers of nnfess it
was that he defendi'd hie country ? I
agree that in their. eyes that is suffi
cient C.\llBo. -
Everett •at Gettysburg;
Talking like an,ssd;
Banks out in Texas, ;
Trying to cut a figure
TERMS, $1,50 . a yeai in aavimcii.
He is cutting a pretty handsoMe
figure, unless I . am mistaken. Ifehaii
got'into Texas, and he has cut - a
piece
out ofterritory formerly held by 'the
rebels; be has put there the army - of
the United Stateil,'Which ditetirie
will march ihrough Texas, and . that
State will belOng to the Union :Aga in:
I doubt not we shall soon hear' that
he is 'cutting irfigure at, 'Mohile also.
• •
Beecher in Brooklyn,
. fowling for the nigg,or..
Lots of abolitionists,
Kicking up a-yell;
In comes. Parson Brownibw,
And sends them:all to Hell
Burnside at Knoxville, •
In a kind of a fill—
•
Is not Burasido in a •fix ? reckon
he fixed Longstroet., I reckon he, and
Grant, and Thomas, and, Hooker, did
some little fixing out Jhere , a short
time ago; and that fixing I 'want you
to bear in Mind; is the occasion.: of all
this kind Opoetry, and of all such
speeches as Nye, „have hard in, the
House from the 'gentleman from Npr
.
thufnhorland. , • '
. . .
Novf,.they have Jeft,the last .; great
man for the last.. We see .iThitt
they, sung about
Dahigreon at Sumter,
Poundinf , at the bricks;
Grant - at Chattanooga, .
Trying Bragg to thrash; _
Is.it any scolidtr4.!
The Union's zone to;arnash ? :,•,,
`Grant:!; OIL! could they; not = haie
spared that.grcat niu i?. :Could they,
not: have: felt that ithey'Avere trespas.
sing too much upon the.patience'of the
people of this errantry (assailing:Grant
in this way? Pid - they know that one
half of them are anxious-, that- -Grant
should be their 'candidate for'the Pro's;
idency ? they' say.. that
Grant's great -victory of Chattanooga
is a step toward bringing the Union
to smash? -
Had the gentleman .frinn
phis .read this before he inide his
speech to-pight,. and talked .abont the
Got.ern remit of this country cOntinu
ing this war for _the sake Of continuing
themselves in power;?:''Are - .Grant's
actions like the coral haanee .of ;the
war? . Keep Grant.there; •-• and I tell
ott.thal.the:war is soon jto . ekise. .'':!
hailii.dWelt upon this longer: than
L expected; but I wished to show just
what is the sentiment nf these peopte
who stand up.here in this and : :other
States of the North,•and imam .thoSe
who, are sustaining .the. Government
of disloyalty, whilst every day , that
they aro, speaking they issue from
their accredited organs su4t-„ trashy'
articles and doggerel rhymes, as this.
I agree again with my Jriernl. from
Washington in saying . that, this :does
not belong to the mass of the people
of this country. The hearts of the
mass of those who belong to the great
Democratic organization, as they now
term it, are with, their country. But
they have fallen, I *now not how;
they have fallen into the hands of the
Philistines; and men who have been
assailing them for years and years,
now assume to lead;them; and they
lead them to their destruction.
The, gentleman from Northumber
land, when he referred to the
_destruc
tion of his newspaper, asked who die
appreved of that. Well, now, I will
ask a question before answering, that.
Wfio disapproved of running the -To
ries away in the times of the I?,evolu
Lion 7 Who disapproved of,the Com
mittee of Safety that our fathers got
up,in theßovolution ? It was not the
loyal mon of that day; it was not the,
men whoa went
• out and fought ; for'
tbeir country; .;but it was the ; , men.
whose - sympathies were with grre4t,
Britain that disapproted„of it. ;,, Who
disapproved of the hanging:9f Andre?
Just the men who wanted .Arnold's
treason carried out. do not-say
that: this newspaper office ought' to
have been, mobbed. I know not the
ground upon which it .was donc,, nor
anything of it except,the,fact ;that it
,was done; but I do py that. it_ is, -im
possible fora freo,peoPle, for: loyal
community,to stand, -by and see. and
hoar the enunciation,swhich are made
from mouths find from papers, and, not
feel ,as those things, ought, ta.hp sup :
pressed,. and that it is dangerous, to
the welfare of, the country
,that.,they
ehofildis ' .9 3 )Y
a 3i•onder to me tlm i t this kind.of mph
bi ng whieb is ;spoken pt. II s prevailed
to
,so small-a. degree as it has:.
I. want now,- f*lc ;another
question • or two..l.lnve ; you eyer.iieftrii
of ally paper ;:boing.„§tippressed„Sor
8 9 1 4iPP.- 01 Xouct_tr.Y,,
or for urging the suppression- of rthe
:rebellion? Ilay,e.ye,u,-;e,ver i bearik of,
any. Paper being etipprosiferifor calling!
upon-the yxyigl 914)9,1.11nd : tbe. Middle
aged men to enlist fn the defence of
country , ? ll ikv.@ you ,ever beard
of.any papor ,boing,impprirmt or ;any
man being iniprieciried flienouneini,
j'eff. Davis .I-lave ion ever heard or
=I
=NEM
NO. 87.
- -
nn j, ordpapekg
suPtitASedfoi. approving the
liigbftlaitols"for"tearing - down -- oWn --
flake? tbeiii do'nerArY ?A Or= it 3 dvg you
ever heard Of.,,pn, Taper in sup;
p,r .- 0 14 8 f ed L i T t i d21 Witt il as krt IV. lB. 3t o .lc.Fiv e
,ifiAni - 1 1 11)adiflphist,trfor f.reftp.
sing ..to , negotiate-witlt-jeff. l Davl&?
You never have, and you never will
in this eatihlry . „ , The idea of negotia;
tiny The idea of
making psaeofr: . down upon
our knees and:81)3:1n:glo* Jeff Davis,
4fiat tqiiisdifts:Yciit - i '%iii3t2tia to sub
mit th;?' idesgoi,t4eogniting
that man i as at the head of nliY
govfirninent,whiph oggilt to be
kir'h6nCit 'nlen;loyal men,
civilized •nl On, or tidy .elass, cif metihut
barbarians! • - - -
Andihen ilia 'rnet flare to'-niAlit s ,- , Y.
and I eenfe'Ss that
by the remaric that' aridialtfillA.
cause we Sustain
fuses to stOP—LWhat r
war!' -And _the . , jmplication, of that
remark is if I un4qvitsii)4,4, th t,fti3!
war should .noreik.4avnjeth 404yleti
eed; ti) ilnpliealion s pf that Fedinrk: is,
if I unde - iatini was said in con
nection with IVO - Ale:: flirt;
guage,) that thiS -War inightlitte betni
stopped if had wdegotiated'Aiithi
those traitors in thci-beginningO•and
that *a were .wrolig- rubtrig: -to
arrhslor the Suppreosion'tif t'his4elitd•
lion
- I hdve•heardotrt6 pilperteinigqdri:
out k:.52 . --'-d 'euetaitiedJOreri
oral .Taektgolrcin , ,:latippreeshig , iTdhif
Calhoun, and there Avou
none tornout' at - ftlid ddy:: .3 6,1fii$Val
,Inekeon had'had 41114-E4llr l dbe
perrnitled n SohtriCliCtillfcrtiirtit
that day:
tett:then Sohn C.:CalhoUri' - ehtivid , 4l4l
hung; Uddi,wani - now diet: Old-tire - 6d;
wliieh has sprung from hilt North hiht
South, be bung: , fa
Then this grUrioulir tile Dditiodratio
party existed-'in" iiii r men - 'and iii` its
principles. Its prinCiplo;kohig thta,
the country ahis= alit , VU''‘caVnr/Ilitug
else, and its men refusing oea nu atilt.
the valtie of the' Union:- ITOiv, - they
calculate' the value of this - great Union
bYn. Pehay stamp uPini r t, lc plaster
placed upon a ait;lCiii,kn i st'llck? "itlia' i
la the way` thtit ' t ha. Y,liiittlifi;t6i,"Yroll4
Nortlinineerltuni: Meets, 'tide ' ifigi
qdestioh. ' 1...wi1l- say, in conclusithil,
that this old Democratic pinity.;,a.nd,
this old bdincua'al ; t9. pfinefitile---f999
in whatii4thrfihrey:th.ey ' , nay be
Sustain the cotintrYl !hitt 'tit piTe*li
when we.called.- ouraelvia 'Defilohifiect
and Whigs or•Dethooruts and•;ltep'ull-i
Beaus,. or Democratic r4pd, ! lP,appigeff
Party, tbore was,. nothing, hi?l,xost „us -
that Went down=diiivii - to;tlfif . tolit":4e
Democracy and inlinif Ifs -- thefe . ...dlinir-'
iiig , -it needeftthis rebellion tci bring
out,. that :all D'eniodracylw,ns,the :scionter
thing `, - vtlXire - veijp miglit bp;,, , ,and; that.
Jill thc pi:ll34l:es 'otoyalty,and
. pit.
te4itisin sprung f?oi*`_4o-;.110,`-Dlini66FICY1
et. , *hintl-Ifaittnl,tiVis.!abitattdii*? -
niene.ilf. inyrenimiltis:'.Vr;:4,y , ia-,... - f, ilini
t : The Democracy which , lvilUT pa tibia.
counfry'aboVe eve,qtilillg 9h9,,, is t_hol
Democracy that we 'di "lov'o:' :1 - 6 - 14td
not Iv lirother' thO'fn nil' `Una ' Viii'lief f"it
Deninerat or'a Litcritibliedit, itlioiLitiez,
cf3s his varty . Alma: his ,ctittttry4-1 kw
desires to grind out of plo,,grqipomy),
tears of ,the people that .r.hluh k.( ,wi 11 .
Make hini rich:- ih'iS'disloyttl;L ii6tor.
ding to the test Which l'tlrilik-ofW
to be ..applihd4-ageording,tif, Ens ::test'
which, l: am willing to be ,appl t ruif ,tii
' lV il le irs ' is nhi - , - itiOthhetii - df . e . %4" .: Ai:ii": .
hatir-Linnoli4 liittl•inilit he'infintilied
to saylete,ithat havingidOne all-ltlia't
I. conldros anl.honorablefifiartiSiml..ib
pl.evont- his obtainingthe:poSition
which lie noWoccupies, ,te'efin,,, ,, ilia!,l
was snsfaining'iwiriOqinia,Wlitelillifia
alwayssiistamed. by voting 'for
eneavoring to secure the - Ore‘ction - -. of
another rnani I-am prop4red, now ,to
say--not that I eslgsra Abgalkar . kLip
col n a perfect ,man--144 that )110.,..445
done -every al lit" "ha t I *Sklld . litiVkidii-
sired—but`thit; looking •iii,''Abiiiiiirni.
Lincoln - disintere - siedika4 , `-tlinliattd"ltif
the , nation, I think ,11 - 0 .hasip'utenatho
course, whielr, he rise . 1 :91 1 kv!:K 1, , vgjtigilit
eye atingle ti..itire . beit
.I.rtterotit4 , ch,tlu#
country. r - dd: not 'Sat' fruit - 1;40r
inerins than4hOSo which , -he .iutit;inai4
might not.:have Iniewitidopteliptlutil
do saY.7 - And- - I- firA1Y:91. 1 11.f 101 91n.91V49-
lie'vo qtu;limiwilliug,to Alp et ,gns, siff,
iirassifin - a ikininirlitl!,irliighe'ba'r
thaii:tliti fvibinidf.'lcreficrii qirfilehl'liiii
n')w speaking-17-4i'say; --that -, :liktnf.
Bove- thotrio the-besl , loftri - olthility4a,nd
with the desire -to,sav,g.,hloottabeti r •
Ivi - th thi desire' to,. Vriiik,lXCl:tficie
who had' • giiuilftiiilY - *Vic - 6'6'o'll'4
country;Livitliithel. , thisiiii-'l6' secure
pence to'th - co oottntry,:miholi. tivtinchti'd
alreadyintorvenel, and.,,,,folicTing.:-..up
his Acme, topr,cyjmt
,Nar,, iris single
object has, been`the:welfare . ott4q cowl,-
try.' I ,Vollevo tin& tiiho - ii ern4"..iiiitii
ot; aUd'l beli&C , thatif hislifyWei• WM
equal to his wish, aiid if Aiis'iiisd'olii
was oqual.to liitltivisk:(APcicil do' not
say that it As
,not,) , that - pv,..tiryt,i4ug
aroula hi) done in this UOiiiitry ,khioli
the heart of its best citiaiiiielatildife'.
siru. , 14 - pplause:yl4 , l3 , olkovo - -lhat in
akY" 9 f l 49 11 9Sii,,r§ 9r:.111 99.Y.: - 9f,tke41.9 1 -
ces; of which - , bf•Phija:
'delfihia has '.461 - eoff ild'lnfo'l''ilkioli
desolation. haa.ititinicil:="y-6ii ' - ikill• not
find -:ffenn :Any Mothei 7or li,nly : futility,
ißniY.,9f 049 1 10, ../1.Q4Pagi,:+.1104109/41a90
efilbrahalit •lihrpin......lfouJy,kliglap.
'that co oler iw fi`o''gliiit or tlie Aigly,
Wiibli'hiiiifCiii3 dO l iiO,tlll4lAft' Militia
lion bii ti -hriefo' lier , t4holis-otl'i‘eliqetli
is. inadb. the brighter to. z luirg•vitiiair _by
til!idagir;9T 9 oo.,Alint , .hav9:c9o4lo',!-oYilr
in kiEl,deatli i and thenasktit%. a te 4pf
IffoitnViii`;Abralliiiii: 'l,inb for ailing
led out thei l affni4'ititcftifiliiiiiiiii - gdist
•itedit.=' I SlitinWilflrefu&S; Eilld' , "4lll4ay;
-`d‘,4y. boy-iwentinto‘the;servialszatc-,bili
PoliPifFY) PAlci 1 9,F9.bi1a.11a.kt441ir40 . 6 .
niy epuntity„gPr i p;;.',..ii£l V,i6nr .iv 41
- deiiBnriin!'this *hi-, th6figg'ir lifir' il, '
-Veil finiilltb kflit77 li:chiPh&iiiiiil if rei.
er, - will say ftliat'As§ritbaur -lihitgltydid
;wrongirig.igailjag IF.out.t:amprooky,Ato
.tll9iimpi non for thp„mvipqi,qil.,4o
'couiltry746l:ln cal)i-out,th.r4T ) i nn,
d'rdirtlicitiiiaiiii' innre r', iilihollili ilif
l ,
racks come haelt : withalit th §ot6 at
he lovesPrest uptin , oßrth. [Applause.]