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SPEECH
or -
ROBERT R. LITTLE, Esq.,
0f Xtfth&g counij, at Orangeiille, tb
laali county, sept 30, 1861.
' REPORTED BT D. F. MURPHY
For. some years paat, fetlow-citizens.the
people, or at least a considerable .portion
of them, have been following after strange
gods, and announcing strange doctrines
doctrines that not many years ago would
have been scouted by every statesman in
the laud, and perhapi I may say are still
scouted by every itatesmwi in the land..
These doctrines have beeome for some few
years past the ius iion to such an extent
that those of a who still adhere tola
doclriuea of tbe Fafhers are btigmatized as
oppcrheads." What peculiar ignifi
eauce our Iriends oh the other side who
arrogate to themselves all' the loyalty:
aud patriotism that it has pleased God
ever to vouchsafe to ma , attach to this
term. I do not know; but'I think I do kn.w
that not many years henre we shall fiud
them undertaking to steal it from us, and
Uimiug t have been the original Cp
4ierh-ad. of the laud, tb have been Cop
prrheads Ironi the brginning
When th organs bf this :'loyrrpa"riy
shall o iu' to publish the usual notice of
th- proceeding of this meeting they
nduhtedly tell the r 4 loyal" readers that
vour tprakers upon this odcaslbn hdd a
great, deal to say against Abraham Lin
'coin, but not a word against Jtff-rdon Da
. T . L. I L.
tl. . Lest L migni oring reproacn upon
this meeting, i oeg o. ju, .euow-cmseu.,
t assume Ibat I have devo'ed a far por-
ft. "f y allotment oftiine to dedhrfcia-1
tiuu ui ujj . .. . .... i
tlOn ana House ot teueiauu j.itis xt win .
save your time ; it will save mo some U-j
3 . L. u .u t ir.. i
. i ..v. r t n.-jj ii
lr ; ana it wm uc mc isuciu wkui- )
n..;. L.nirhtpr.y I
I
I nefd not reintod you, (ellow-citizens,
Q - S
h,t Washington and Jack-on- on the oc- !
,u . . . , v.- i
Usiou ol their retirement rrom puon ine,
at a time when no
ootives ther than mo-
lives of the purest and loftiest patriotism '
could have inaueocea men?, warnea trie
I!' iAr V .K, f .,;.!.
lUMIIlin III I IUW lJCmWW''VBWBWMWB
. m K-wtr of sectional nartie. Dar- :
based upon geogrjrphroal divisions or
lines," or bsed apon issues which might
array the people of one section of the
flnnnir in hostiliiv to the Deoole of anofli
ir M.iMn nf the eoantr.. Yoa aU'rerol-
lect the waraings.df thos Venerated "become conclusively alienated from the
statesmen in reletence to that subject. I Union and anxious to escape from it we
'need not remind you of the history of o'iir will do our best to forward their views."
'ountry for the lat four year" ; il is too If I were to announce such doctrines
fresh io your recollection. Until 1860 uo to yon to-day from this eland, yoa would
'sectional party ever triumphed in the Uni- have re-ts m to pronounce tne dyidyal tr
ied States. . In 1360 a purely sectional This man Greeley yery clearly defined his
tarty triumphed in the election of that position at a Mibstqueni time in the follow
year. I kuow it is denied that that party ing language : ;
' "wis pectiobal ; but let us see. ! "If'the Cotton States shall become satis
Tbat party was based upon the idea of fled that they can do better out of the Uni
komilitv to the so called "neeuliar inst:- on than in it, we insist on letting them go
tuuou"of the South. That itUititatioO
Vms confined to the southern section of tbe
Union. It was,-therefore, a hectional io
ttuution. The party lormed upon the Idea
of hostility to that institution had its loca
tion in the northern' sertion of the Union.
The o' ject of it hostility was a sectional
institution belotHriiiff alone to the States of
"the South. Therefore, a party based on
rthis ideamust be a o'ectiOna! party. Tire
creation of such a sectional party To the
Nortb based upon tae idea of hostility 'td
, an institution which belonged only to the
South, naturally originated tbe inaugura
tion of a party in the South based upon
the idea of tbe support of that inntiturion.
We bad these two parties, one in tbe North
and the other to the South, and we have
before as the consequences which were so
aeearatelv anticipated and foretold by the
illustrious statesmen whose names I men
. .
tioned a moment since. -
WJiy thoull the Demodraflc party sym
pathize with tlio South ? "Why ibould it
vmoathize with .secession t Let us look
W this question a moment," for yon know
hat we are charged with such sympathy, j
J.nnl-in tn the nast. what has the Demo- :
? Mtl,;n
cr&vics Dalit r&iucu uy utvw o j, ti .
.? f 6 .t A a . ,
11 as It lost anyiQinz dt Becefsion 1 s a
Ta it lnet anvthintr br
party, as a political organization, it lost '
everything by secessions We were in pow- j
er iu
Congress.
This
au ministration :
... . . t. -r -n i
wouiu nave uccu uncu n khuusij v''" v
evil results to the country bad is not been (Laughter.) Here this old Secession par
for Becession. We abould have still re- ( ty, this party that has to-day upon the
taained in a majority ia Congrew, and nr ; statute bdok of the State of Massachu
Bcotional policy could have been carried Mtts a secession statute unrepealed, this
Out by the present Administration. " IIow i great Republican party claims to be the
is it with the other party t . What have Cnion party ; and McClellan, whd de
they lost by secession t Nothing. A a' clares for the Union as the one and only
political organization, what haVe they, condition of peace, .is said to be the Dis
gaicad by secession ! Dominion in this ' union candidate 1 la it. not a pretty par
land, absolute,- arbitrary, despotic do- ty to claim to be the Union party ! Ah,
fcinionV ' - and it i bot long since Mr. Greeley called it
Then I ask yea again, felldw-citfzerji, ' the Unconditional Union party ! (Laugh
Vhv s.iould the Democratic party sympa-; ter.) . . . "
Uifft.with, fsel kindly tow-trds the south- . What is the present issue. ! la there an
vrn secessioa mt?eaenrt Looking to the . Unconditional Union party in this country,
future." L 0 '.V i3 it I Odr bopet are based and if so which is it ? McClellan says mat
fc-00 the reparation cf the Unidn ; allorir the Union is the only condition of peace ;
interests ai a -'rclitical
oianizatiori ire .
with t'ae Union. Restore tho
Unic, azJ va are tgain in power, periiia
t:tly 13 potrer as apnliti?al orffanizatioa.
IT?-7 will it le r".;h th Republican par-t-
? ' ei;izsij, they so th
J - - . , . :
BLOOMS BURG. COLUMBIA
doom of their party in the restoration
of
the Union as it was..
Aaio': of "all the Democratic statesmen
bf the land in the past or the present,
when or where have yon known ot one that
basever favored disunion or secession X I
What Democratic Convention has ever by
its resolutions endorsed br favored seces-
fionT Not one. Upon the other hand, ;
how has it been with- our opponents ! I
r . : v nn 11 rp. 1
ot give yoa the date, but you all re-1 sense responsible : if they will aban
ber as part 6f the history of (he coon-; don that institution, 1 will listen to propo
be fact that some years ago Senator i sals of peace." I think that if Mr. in
of New llampshire, Mr Secretary coin does'not listen to proposals of peaee
: member
try the
! Chase, recently of Mr Lincoln's Cabinet,
-and Mr. Seward, at this moment a part of
' Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet .resented and sns-'
l.. . . i 't ?..! I
i tamea a petition to uonress asaing mem
t- . t .1 . I .1 rt.
to aevise some pian Dy wn.cn ine uuiou
miirht be divided 1
mignt De aiviaea. .
Nor need we stop here, in 1848, Mr.
Lincolp, "the present President of the
United States, then a member of Congress
from the State of Illinois, announced on
the floor of Congress this prinriple, that
any people, anywhere, being inclined, and
having the power, have the right to with
draw from the rtwfing government and set
np another to suit them better. That I look
upon as pretty good secession doctrine.
fLauirhter.) That i just the docttine'tbat
Jeff Davis contenUs'for to day, -'ju3t the
doctrine that he announced at tbe time of
the sece-.-Mon of the Southern States from
tt: :,.,t u ,iir;n ihit thpnn.
holders of secession in the South Stand
upon to day. You have the history of
Wendell Phillips before you- I need not
rpnpat lha hundreds of instances in which
thar man. political preacher as he'H, has
declared bis hostility to ibis Union, has
declared himself to have been in favor for
twenty years past of dividing his Union.
Yoa have the history of Garrison before
you, the man who dec'ared that the Con
stitution of the United btates was a 'Meajue
nmt with hell.''
with death and a "cove
Yc'u have tbe history of Mr. Greely be-
What
haj he said on this subject ! On the 26th
day of November 186U, Greeley said in
His Tribune : '
"If the cotton States unitedly and earn
estly wish to withdraw peacefully from
the Union, we think they should and would
- . . i '..Z v." i
Anv attempt to
uttpmnt tr
compel them oy xorce 10 re mam wuu-u wo
contrary to te principle enunciated in ,
. . , n , fT.i j 1
ttim immnrM UftC aratioa oi laaeDeiinunce
luiuiwivu. r
and contrary to the -fundamental id.as on
.k;,h i.mar, i;HriV'i hhd " -
" v" " ..-..7 .-
Ou the 17th of December
following,
whilo South Carolina was in the .very act '
of seceding, Mr. Greeley declared : j
ivTf r.i,-.f; i T1n.n.Ur,r.A !
. ii .
l'unea iiie secessiou rom lueumun
pire of three millions of CoIonVts in 1770,
e uu ncC wuj ..... .
the secession of five millions of Southern-
1
ers from the Union in 1861."
Un the Z3rd OI J?Drnarv iom. aner
sven ytates had klr'ndi seceded, Mr,
vjrreeiey s-nu i
4
n Whenever it
shall f m
clear that the
ereat body of tbe SouTirerb people have
in peat e: . is peace:
Now, I believe, Mr. Greeley is as vhlefct
a war man as re can readily find .
What right then, fellow-citizens, has
this party to nccuseus of sympathy with se
cession T Further, what ngni nas mis par
ty to denounce secession ! They have ad-
vocated h almost from the begtnniug : they
are a secession party. I think 1 may
safely say that at One time or another all
the present leaders of the Republican par-
ty tave been declared, avowed secesion-
lata
Then rmit me to ask which oT the 1
oeLTvZL u naturally the Union j
two great parties i naturally
party of the country As 1 was on my
way here, 1 saw at oerauiou a great dim
in large letters posted up- against tne wall
of one of tbe hotels there "heauea jjtn-
coin, Johnson, and Lhiot ; and you will
recollect that last fall when intelligence oft
tbe defeat cf Judge Woodward in the gu
bernatorial contest in this State was an
nounced. Secretary Stanton declared tbat
that was a great XJaioti victory, that tbe
election of Governor Curtin wis a great
Union, triumph, of more importance tothe
countrv even than a great victory in the
fiobt Anrl .nn will recollect that Wm.
mvi , j i
rr o " . r r - o Washin.
ington, made within the past three weeks,
used this language : "the issue is now fair-
x. ocwui , .. ,
iv uiauc uo , i-f
rr.-- - ATrilll.. mnA lUtnnmn "
and he says more : he says that wita a j
view to the restoration of the Union he is.
in favor of exhausting all the resources of
taoderh statesmanship. That is the posi- f
lion of the Democratic candidate for tho
Presidency. That U our sida of the pres-
Truth
ent s.ue. 'How fa it upon the other side I
Mr. 'Lincoln says in effort "oh, yes,"I will
a?ree to-Deaee upon the basis of tbe in
ittgrity cf 'the entire Union, upon comh-
o a
: .oat, you wm uru v.... j
tneooutn, upon couuu.ou T
of the Southern fctatrs wm aD.naen.an in-
st.tution over which the Bedera Govern-
a,ent has no jur.sd.ct.on and orwh.ch
ttiere.ore, wneiner goou or uau, ,8 .u u
sense responsible : it tney win aoan-
irom ine ooum uuu. me ulTcu.Uii .
condition, he -will never listen to such
proposals ; he will have a chance to carry :
nn ikid na. at la.:) (Mir tDOr?. II he
; j 'L ...
IhnnlH nnl.irtiinilclll hP rP.PKTlHU D a L I
ruuu" w.- .j
e will listen to terms of peace on the ba-
,T 1 i
bis oi toe u nion, p wt vuw "ic i (
the South will first abandon the iu-titution
of slavery I And this is Greeley's "Un-
conditional" Union partv ; imposing this
impossible condition in the way of the res- !
toration of the Union ! Fellow-citizens, j
j . TT;.,r,;r a k;c. i
w uill -nnf. hvp nnv siieh Unionism a.. !
this : and we do not think tna-'h of iLu
'irtjf' rtf Vio norrc tKr
'loyi i'y'' of the party
impossible condition io the
toration of tbe Union and or peace
I have thus st'ated tb you Mr. Lincoln's
avowed 'position, and we fiud hi jbole
Dirtv occunvinff it today. ihe isew
Vork Times, the leading Lincoln organ
of tbe north shortly after Mr. Lincoln s
whom it may concern;' manifest, la-
bored baru to convince me people mat u
did not mean what it saiJ ; that in-saying
that he wou'd listen to terms of peace ba
sed upon the integrity of the UBioo and
the abandonment slavery ,he did not say
that he would not listen t projros Is of
peace upon anv other basis ! That was
the argument which, doubtless, most of
you saw in the leading Republic b papers.;
ol tbe day. They labored hard to prove
that Lincoln did uot mean what he said
but now they have given it up, and since
Mr. Greeley bus beefr nominated as elec
tor at large Upon the Lincoln electoral
tick t in the State of New York he has
abandoned the effort to di-guie Mr. Lin
coin a policv , to disguise the meaning of
Dis manuesio.
and he comes out openij
. i
nA T him credit for oos,essio2 a lit
6 - -- - - r , , ,
tie manhood ,n this a lea.t-aud declares
Jkof Mr T.inpr.ln and his nartv are On-
- r
. . .. e i r
tpo-ed to the restoration of ih Union un-
til slavery fchall be first abolished. W by 7
What is the secret of this "condition T The
party has a motive in tnis, ana i coin we
can very readily see it. it h Dec. use tney
know that .the restoration of the Union as
i?i,i., rnu ;.. H,;
V l . .u .u
country, i uey
. . , ,
the Union with all their rights under the
Constitution as they were before the re
bi llion, the white, people of those State
would be voters; would have the right and
I the opportunity afforded to them to vote
against Mr. Lincoln abd his sectional pol
icy. Of course, the rts lit would be an
end of Republican Dominion in this coun
try; their prrry would go down fcreVer ;
there wodld be nothing left of it. Th'ey
are unwilling to see the Lincoln dynasty
fail ; it must be perpetQated ; and hence
"the Union as it was"' mast be scouted ;
hence "the Union as it was" must never
be allowed to return to os I Of course,
however, they must diguie their real mo
tive ; it would not do to avow it ; and 10
what way do they disguis it ? They di- j
guise it by makiDg false accusations aganit '
Democrats, by falsifying the issue, b j
claiming that the issue is "Lincoln and j
Xjnion, or McClellan and D'sanion," by j
calling Democrats "copperheads," "tral- j
tors,'" and other bad names. ' They at-
tempt to disguise it by false statements of
tbe cause of all our troubles ; by the mis
erable pretext tbatslavery was tl e ca-ise
of the rebellion, and therefore slavery
must be put down. Ah 1 WVs tlavery the j
cause of secession I This Union existed i
happy and prosperous for manv years
I with slavery. Is there anything fa the
institution Of slavery which renders it in-
compatible., with the perpetuity of the j
Union? If nn. is it not strantra that the
discovery was never made until I860 X
Indeed, they did not make it so soon, be
cause you will recollect that in 1861 when
we beard so mush about no-paity ism,
when they told us tbat there 'should be no
more party now, that we should come up
to the rescue oi the Unioo, they also told
as that we must not say anything about
the came of the rebellion until the rebellion
should be put down. Why this sensitive
ness on the pirt of tbe Republican party
in reference to tbe causes our national
troubres I Ihe Ve
troubles I The Democrats were not afraid
. . . .
to talk about those causes : we were wil-
-
tiDg at any anu every uuic vu uiacuai iuc
caused of the country's treublcs ; but they
told uj that when tbe rebellion was put
UOWn it WOUIU De tune enouzu 10 lain.
about its causes; and you will remember
bow they illustrated this idea
They said "if a man's house is on fire, be j
would be a great fool to stop and enquire
who set the house on fire or how tbe
fire was communicated to the house, in
stead of putting out the fire first and then
instituting inquiry as to its cause" doubt
less a very familiar instance to you all of
Republican logic. We were of opinion
that while the soldiers of our armies ware
engaged in putting down the armed re
bellion it was always proper for the civil
ians to inquire into the cause of the troub
les and apply the proper remdy ; for we
knew that we could never apply that rem
edy without first ascertaining the cause Of
the difficulty.
. But the Kef. ublicans then were remlrk
ablv sensitive on that noint : thev did hot
like to hear the 'cause" talked about !
In 1662. bowerer, they made a new dis-
,ooTery
Then they stopped forbiddine
and Right- -God and our Conntrjt
COUNTY, PA.. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12, 1864.
Democrats to talk about the ceuse of tbg
country s trouble and went to 'discussing
it themselves. They made' the gra nd dis-
cotery that slavery was the cause of all
imKUc .nd tfpnintft! to ram it down
As I said before, the coun-
- " ... .--pf.-ii-.
7 g j uhl very for manV
very PW1 w Xo2eLtL
?ea . h " 'l
;f .'r;VK:.f. narfw nf ttlft
' urcauic, iu r-'v - .
country ; tor there is no ivepuimcan pari
now. Thre arc but twoparties.the Dem
ocratic party and . the Aboli.ion 'party ;
and h is idle for the Republicans of 1856
and 160 to claim any longer that they
are nr t abolitionists. They now declare
in favor of carryiag on this war against
. . rt vi?
a..k,m f.!n,nln hvhx F.mnci
Bl O. C I UUHUui ,
, . ,-., j0,tr,r.ir trt 'nlp!fr
pation proclamation undertook to piertge
u hJ. nilimrv and naval nower of tbe
.uv, u.... j
country 'against the initution of slavery,
IIipafty sustain him and ihat proclamation
and are endeavoring to reelect him with
th it avowed policy of hrs up n record.
Is not that party.then an Abolmon party I
'I'hm nhl AK.uirioa nartr was never in ia-
vor of wa-ins war amst this peculiar in-
it.tut.on of tbe South, m-ver ir
involving
at imposes thi-i the country in a bloody fratricidal war on driving the exhausted and shattered col
wayof them-' its -uecHnt : atkastit n-ver o declared it- u.nns of the braggart Pope.br telegraphed
of peace i self. Hut the vi-callrd K- libiican party, to tbe General in Chief "if I cannot be
thatoit v a f-w ji'ar. bso woi'l't h;ive
deemed ut if insulted if formed an Aboli
tion pa.i t , iicW "stands uaicly upon Lin
coln's platform in favor of employing the
whole military :-nd naval power of the
country against this institution of the
South. I say therefore tbere are how but
two great parlies in 'the country, the Dem
ocratic party and tbe Abolition party.
i .aid that in. 1862 tbe Republicai:s dis
covered that slavery was the cau-ie of all
our troubles in what sense can slavery
be considered the oau-e of sece-sion arid
of the evils which have followed secession T
If one of you. having a hU.e money m
his pocket, should happen to be robbed
on the way home, you could say with
precisely the same propriety that money
wiatbeciuse ot your being rabbed. If
you had not had the money, yoa wou'd
not have been robbed; and therefore mon-
ey was the cause of robbery. Therrfure Iiurnside ; 4I know Gen. McClellan as
money nhoulUie ubohiked. If it were not "well as I know any Lumati being on the
for the love of money, which inheres in "face of tbe earth. 1 know that do feel
ihe human breast, our list of crimes would ' "ing of ambition beyond that of the suc
be very greatly reduced : therefore.money "cess of our cause, ever enters his breast,
is to a very large extenttheciue of crime l' "AH that he does is with a single eye to
If slavery hadnever existed, there would uthe success of the government and the
never have been an abolition party. If , 'breaking down of this rebellion. J know
there had never been an abolition party, ; ''that nothing uuder tbe sun will ever in
there never would have been any secession. "duce that man to swerve from what he
If these had been no secession,there would "knows to be his duty. He is an honest,
have been no war. But that is a strange 1 christian-like, and conscientious man ;
way to prove that slavery is the cnue of . "and let me add one tbiOg, he has the
ihe war 1 Now go back a step. So long "soundest head and the cleart military
iiUuprv was Ip.i alone, so lonr a the "perception of any man in the United
constitutional principle that the federal
government had no power or jurisdiction
over any domestic institution of aDy of the
States was recognized and respectvd, there
was no secession and no war. It wai not
until a political organization was formed
00 the basis ot hostility to an institution
of the South .over which neither the federal
government, nor the government of any
State where it did not exist had any ort
of power or authority, that there was any
trouble on this account1; aiid ytt we are
told that slavery is the caue of all our
national troublei I
It does not require a man of any great
mental capacity to see through all this
miserable attempt to disguise the true at
titude and policy of the Republican party
Any man can see it that ivillsee it. Anv
man that tcill see can see that slavery was
not the cause ot the troubles which now
afSict the couutry ; that il slavery bad
becu let alone, as the Constitution com
manded us to let it alone, there would
have been no trouble on account 61 the
southern evfetem . of labor. I need not
s't. ud here and argue to you that we ot
the North have do better right to interiere
with the system ot labor of the South than
the people of the South have to claim the
right 10 dictate to us what system of labor
we shall adopt in the Northern State. I
think we should not be long in getting our
backs up if the people of the S,uth should
attempt to aictate 10. us wnat system 01
labor we should adopt here. It they
should undertake to say to us "you shall
carry our system of labor into your States,
you thall implant it there, and if you don't
doit we will make you do it," I think we
should not submit to it very quietly. If
not, why should we expect them to sub
mit quietly to such dictation from the
North ?
In 1860 the Deonle wanted a chansre.
rl Ahrtnt tha tirine of
a'cbanse. True, the country was pros-
perous. every thing was going on very;
well ; but it was said there was a great
deal of virtue in a change, tbere was no;
telling how much good might come fmm '
it ; and therefore many of the people were ;
for a change. Well, they got a change, j
and now how do they like it I I tell you, j
fellow-citizens, that we want a change j
how. and we mean to have it. The op- ,
. . . . - 1
poitunity is now-afforded to us b effect a
change by -choosing between Abraham
Lincoln and George B. McClellan. What
sort of a record has Mr. Lincoln made for
himself? He declared in 1848 in favor
of secession. That was the first we had
ever heard of him. We heard nothing
more ol him until about tho time he hap
pened to have a little controversy in Illi
nois with Senator Douglas and got beaten.
We beard no more of him until 1860,
when by a minority vote he was elected
President of the United States. Since
then, he has issued an emancipation proc
lamation ; and he has issued an amnesty
proclamation by which he proposes to
organize bogus States in the South on the
principle that one-tenth of the people shal l '
govern all the rest. That is Mr. Lincoln's
record, mat is aoou iu tne reooru u .
ha ; it is all I have ever known of him. I
; General MeCleUan has a record, li
"will not occupy your time now by going i
over'his war record or his peace record.'!
It is familiar lo this people. On this
; point i miani reier iu xvujudu u. uc :
'imest ta Greelev of the Tnbunt to,
' almost all he preent leaders of the Re-
publican partyj for there is scarce one of
K tbafbasot at one time or another
lan(!fid McClellan and conceeded to him
- . ..,
the praises so richly merited by
fcis skill and his transcendent services.
I will 'net occupy your time no w by quot
ing their many laudations of his eagac
ity, bis regnrd foi his soldiers, his skill
' in tbe accomplishment of important re
sults with but little sacrifice of life,'' bis
courage, his fidelity, his patriotism. All
this was before he was known tO( be a
'Democrat, or "we should'never bave'heard
it from these faynl eoufcrs. 'I will only
refer to Hallock's pitiful dispatches when
the rebel cannon were tbuudering in the
ear of the tre bling ingratPs at Well
ington ; when McClellan's army had been
withdraw u from his cemtnaud ; when,
.tand.r.g within hearing
of those cannon
at Acq mm Creek, while Lee s h-gtons were
allowed to 'command my own army, per- j
tia faic." at that dread moment the
trembling Halleck with pallid lips and
thakinc'pen was writing his despatch, now
historical, ''come to me and aid me in this !
crisis with yous skill and experience." J
What an endorsement of our glorious !
Hero I and from fuoh a source from the j
inn who had conspired with the shuffling
demagogues at Washington to render :
abortive hi plans, lest success might '
crown them and make him the people's '
idol. Ah ! our
------
Ah ! our Hero's triumph was sud
den and sure. Ho came lie re-organte
td the bbattered remnants of our defeated
forces, and pressed on to South mountain
and Antietam, driving the exultant and
hitherto victorious legions of the enemy
before him like chaff before the storm.
I will" only add the verdict of General
"States.
Mr. Greeley about the time of the
Cleveland Convention, said it was danger
our even in time of peace to re elect any
man to tbe Presidency, because of the im
mense patronage which he wields ; and
that especially in 'time of War, when the
ualroaase of the Government was increas
cd to such a vast extent, there would he
danger to the country in re-nominating and
re-electing Mr. Lincoln or any other man
occupying the Pre-idential chair. But
Mr Greeley has forgo'tted all this now ;
he swallows Mr. Lincoln. Even Fremont,
who accepted tbe Cleveland nomination
Ooly upon condition that Mr. Lincoln
3uould be the nominee at the subsequent
Baltimore Convention, has come iato Mr.
Lincoln's support. They make a great
many wry faces about it, however; he does
not go down easily; but ttill they take
him down, long legs, boots and all.'
Laughter. Mr Greeley, in the article,
in which he gives in his adhesion, says.in
effect
ana 1 believe 1 give almost his
words "true, Mr. Lincon lacks
lit
very
capacity; true, he lacks earnestness, but :
weiuutgive him earnestness; true, he j
la,k energy, but we must give him en- j
ergy." That is the kied of a man whom I
t proposed to make President of the ;
United States for a second term, notwith-1
landing the immense danger that mast
certain ,
ic UJ
But. fellow-citizeds, as thtre are other j
speakers to follow me. I must not Ires- j
pass too much on your patience. One;
more point and I shall relieve you. Wo j
wire told a few years since, at I a.entiont d t
a tLort time ago, that we should have no i
party now ; that we should all join to put ;
down the rebellion, and when that was t
done, we could talk about politics. In
other words, we were all to go together j
nutil the . Republican party became the
ouly party of the cou itry, and then things '
: II i L I . 1 x. J5 V :
les heard a great deal of this kind of:
illr U'rion r lonrlora nf t ha WomiKli I
can parly first made tO us this no-party
proffer you recollect how it was received.
Ve met them half way At that time a
Republican Congress declared a platform 1
01 principles, wnica was to govern tue
conduct of this war. I refer to tho Crit-
tenden war resolution.
The Democratic
party accepted it. It was placed at the
editorial head of the leading Democratic
papers throughout the country. The De
mocracy said, "we accept that resolution ;
we accept il even as a test of loyalty, if
you will; as a test of fidelity to the coun
try ; as a test of patriotism." We stood
b it ; we stand by it to day. We did
more: we voted in Congress all the men
and all the money asked for by the Ad
ministration to carry On the war. We
certainly met them more than half way.
But how were we treated by these no
party men ? As the time for the election
campaign came round each year, we found
them organizing their-, party machinery,
issuing their party circulars, making their
nominations, . and all the time talking!
about no party. What did- it mean? it)
Two
meant, simply, ,'no party, but the Repub
lican pirty They may have pulled the
wool over our eyes for a thort tiaic but we
have got them open agajn.
They talked about holding "country
above paily""; as if tbe Democracy had
ever done otherwise than hold ountry
above party j as if our organization was
not planted'upon the Constitution ; as if
we did not own all our succees in the past
to the fact that onr party was for the
country and was be only party that was
for the country ! ''Country above party'"
" that is our'party'creed ; and 1 believe I
but express the honest sentiment of all
those Democrats who like you, Mr. Presi
dent, have stood laithfuliy by their party,
through good report and through evil re
port; through darkness and storm and
adversity as well as in the v sunlight of
prosperity, When 1 declare that we have no
attachment to our party except o far as
we deem it Deces9ary to the vindication of
tbe Constitution, necessary to the restora
tion and preservation of the Union, neces
sary to the re.toration of the country to
its former'conditibn of greatness aud pros
perity. Proud and glorb'us'as the history
of that party has been, and as its record
is to day I would see that history and
tbat record blotted out and forgotten, and William H.. Seward Secretary ol Stt
tbe glorious old party itself swallowed -P (wih hi- c-onven-em bell at hand,) and
in oblivio . if I believed that the restoia- S(mon CitmPTO Serrelary a, Warfound
tion of the Union to its old status and ol m fijjna ,ha, heea
the country to its former happy and p. os- , filletJ by Madi-on. by
parous condition, demanded f uch a sacn- i ' , v e i
ra tt . .1 I MonroH and by many wi-rth'e 'f no
fice. 13ut no, fellow-citizens ; we mustj ' ' .......
not now look for relief in this dark hour of ; nitn'pfl a" honorable record w.ll be hnd by
the nation's calamity to the kacrifice'ol j hitry h.rever. r. ,;
that party nnder whose counfielsthe coun- j Nr could I amid" rfflectins t'.af a hula
try became gWat and prosperoa; the : way north, beyond th limits . id the free)
Union, the admiration of the world ; St r Un'red S:re and under the sovereignty of
system of Governmen, at ouce the pride the British Queen, there obtained m there
of the American citizen an.d the terror of has I0112 obiained throughout . ih Bri:istt
the old world royalists. From the tern empire, the Hbolu:e si.il unquf-ii'-id do
porary defeat of that party in its vain minion d law. U Vact for.t Pai mwtos
smuggle with sectionalism and fanaticisih ,jnj a 0W) firsll Minister of the Crown,
in I860, came war and blood and carnage cooM 0, hiire i-Miej an orJer for ,i,ear
and death and desolation and I disaster feat of ,he hpinbIeH ,ntyct n u,, Britisti
t..u.e y.u.ateu cuu inmpieu Wuum..uh-
came the prostration of the great writ
of liberty, tbe peoples only protection from
arrest wifhout warrant, and imprisonment
without crime came the suppression of
free speech, and of a free press came a
reign of terror in this land of boasted lib
erty came taxation, tothe full limit of
the people's endurance, upon everything
we eat, driDk, wear, see, feel, smell) own country and its administration under a inon
or possess came an inheri'ebce of 6a archiat power. In tne'bne case-a rulodf
lional indebtedness that will cau.-e our
children's children to curse our memary
and worse than all, and with all, eame a
broken and shattered Union. To the suc
cess of that party in this renewed contet
with the Fame foe we now look for the
triumph of the Union, and "iu this sign we
conquer.
SPEECH OF
HON. C. It. BUCKALEW,
AT THE COURT HOUSE,'
BLOOMSITURG, FRIDAY EVENING,
SEPT. 30, 1864.
FeVow Cil zem of my ffntice Coun'y :
In the'mo't.'h of An.:ut 186i,three years
aT'.o an.tohoTtly after the outbreak of the
war, I retimieJ home from a loreisn coun
Iry. 1 bad resided l-Tsme lime in one of
llie Spanih Amerii nn ii? p lblios, where
front the frequent recurrence ol" revolution,
riiiht" of property an I person are insecure,
and ureal social us well a political evils
1m ve a chronic exigence. And il lud been
my pride, while ab-eni t' rotrra-i the con
dition of iio-- cout'.i'ir with our own
the fnc:es of free inMiiu'ions here with
their failure there and to draw a ccucl 1
feion therefrom hijhly favor-bla to our
countrymen.
1 landed at the port of Ne.v York, the
chief city of the Siale of which William
II Seward is a citizen and ihe commercial
meiropoli ot the United States. And I
found my countrymen ensued in civil
war , found ihat ihey had forgotten the in
strnction o impressively gien them by
Washington and J-u-kt-on ajiiint-t sectional
ism aud factional parties ; that they had fol
lowed tho evil example of the turbulent
and degraded countries w'uhin and beyond
the tropics and had put in peril the exi-t-euee
of their freedom and pro-perity by a
resort to battle aud lo war for the sd'uUoii
of their internal dispute.
For my feelings on that occasion I have no
adequate language, nor woulJ I recall iheat
lo mind except for an instructive purpo.
Becoming acquainted with Ihe condition of
public affairs catng sn anxious glance
over' the entire country as it 'presented it-j-elf
to my observation I felt, as doubtless
you fell ai that time, deeply troubled and
humiliated. The storm, long foretold as
the result of sectional agitation, had come
in all its f-jry and power ; siouteM hearts
quailed; nd ihe suteoman whose businest
it is 10 lake a wide view of affairs and to
reliere himself from lh vexations of the
moment by contertplating those general
law which voa.rol the consequences of
paricu!ar events, was, equally wiih others,
ot.able to enmpreheud the extent or dura
tion ol the great conflict.
Tne fird battle of Bull Run hadjn been
fought and losl.and the President haif been
obliged to rail to his aid the patriot chief
lain who had rescued West Virginia from
the rasp of secession, and commit 10 him
the defence of the Capital and ' the reor
ganization of the army. It was a t 't'ne of
much gloom and despondency aud well
calculated 10 awaken anxious thoughts in
one who came freshly 10 ihe scene, with
personal interests as a citizen iu the course
and chancer of pnhl'i? events.
Hut atnoiii! all the thoughts which then
found lodgment iii my mind, those awaken- j
Dollars per Annan
NUMBER 51.
ed byaccountf ol arbitrary arrets n' th
northern Jate were miml painful. Order
ed by pnblir HUihori'y they wer? unstained
by ftic party ol ihe admiiiitrtilion through
out the country, nd most absurd, friTO
Inud and impudent reasons were lield .
-othcieni for tlii r vindication. That these-nrre-ts
slu.uld lake place in known viola
tion of lie Uw and be sustained and evea
applauded by many, was "Tafull ef idence
of our unfi ness for lf "ovemm ent. It
was aIo proof of a danger, 'qni'e. new lo
ot- ami so inrredible that il h- not, even yet
beWii rcreivd as ral by mauy 'ucera
men among the friends of power 'ha dan
er of a permanent ,lnjf. of liberty by onr
peol ami a charts, ultimately, In their
form of aovernmnt. ""
Yerl I wan. forced :o admit'tVe nnwel
come fart .hat 1,'in corqmon wiib my
lllow-citi.enB, held all my political right
and particularly ill, rihi of personal lib
erty, not under the tablihed law ot
.he land, but w'ject ton telegrapkit dis
patch from Simon Cameron I
This was the condition to whT-h Amer
ican freemen were dtrra led at tbat ttime,
j viher, lYourd Abrahim Lincoln President,
dmiiiior... r,r directed r.slanr . a wril
ol h'htJt coiput iuing from any C"irt, coU
on'ul or imperial without be inn forthwith
hurled from power and having hi proud
name f-iampej with enouriug inf'a ny and
disgrace.
SlcIi wa the contras. presented between
the adniiniiration of goernmem m thin
law, and in the other case a' rule of men.
lit ihe one, security ol private rights and
prompt punishment for'thetr invaion; in
the other, iusecor'ny of those riehts and to
their invader, impunity. The con'rast was
one of hnmihaiion to. an x American, but
. that contra'l yet exists, h has not disap
: peared. Ou the contrary its line an I shad
' own have steadily grovn deeper and mora
6lrongly marked to this day.
1 Gentlemen : I made up my raind. at the
time referred to, opon this whole hninea
and my conclusion was, that I would bu
mit to a system of arbitrary government in
this country ; I would uttnmit 10 hold my
righ's as a citizen of the United S ate ul
jeci 10 the mere pleasure ot pow-r only o
long as t'could not prevent it ; aud that at
the earliest possible moment I would onite
with those ot my fellow countrymen who
should be like minded with myrell to res
cue our government from the control of
1 arbitrary principles and restore it to its for
mer course of just administration.
Th lime ha now come, Had for ihit
among oluer reasons, I stand before vou to
night an earnest advocate of the election ot
General McClklun as President of. lh
United Sate. But it will be moi coove-
nient lo present this great question of the
liberty of ihe citizen in connection with
o'her 'Questions involred in the.eleclion ;
thus obtaiolni completeness of Vfevr an I
certainty of conviction, upon 118 whale issue
before ns.
. 1 - g
Now what do we desire ? What are th
capital or chief objects upon which our
: attention may be fijeed ai this lime 1 Let
us gel a little outride the circle of passion
. about os, away Irom ihe petty debate
1 which Oil our ears is we pass Y6"s.nl fro in
: our daily walks and in our daily associa
j tiotu. Conceive Gentlemen, a man croa
J in a dangerous stream npon a narrow
j footway which Obcillateo beneath him. He
I is troubled of heart, for dangers tnnrnpuM
him . cesi'rueiion yawns at his leei. He
hesitates in bewilderment, unable to pro
ceed and acarcely able 10 stand. He swy
to either hand and is almost lost ! .Rot 'm
that moment of extreme peril let him lift
his eyes Irom tbe dangers which surround
him and place them opoA tnme eo'-.spicoj.
ous, permanent, fixed object a little way ori
opon the shore, and whai is the result ?
Whyjhere come firmness to his footstep
and courage to hii heart, hi nerve re
traced ajain to manly exertion, and he
parses on iu safety over the loosed and Mr
bulent waics. Finn land is goou reached
aud danger left behind him.
The Terror of an earthquake the great
est of physical commotions known li us,
leaches its highest, point when we come to
observe the instability of nil object w:hid
the range of vinioi.s not merely those tj,Ku'
the curiae uf the earth but the earth JtleVt,
For nothing escapes the . power ol the
' earth storm," which more forward w'nn
universal effect and irresistibly; iu it
course of desjroction. .
Now, Gentlemen, in onr present Ituation .
of great emharrasmeut ml pei.l, when vra
are bewildered and alariiie'j by wbal is oc
curring around as. when it "appeal impost
ible lo go back and, in.-ale 10 forward.
J and our heari are nouoied an'j T almost fail
Concludod 6a fonrh p'e.
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