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"Pfeghat:4ll4o-ILn. William El4ell.
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Associate Jud ger., r
ext. N. lkil,in.
rttlat ' y .1.1141(Tk or Golvts t 'fllentsn
Register and Reeonlor --A n (;.
.11Iett
Commissioners— joint
:Ifini.tmnery
Sheriff—Samuel Snyder.
reasurer —John J.
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14. It li n tFt,
I. 391 m I'. ll:,litton
Commissioner's (ili --AVtu. K
Commis. , ioner's Attorney - Link
111ereontile A.pprai , er— Ca
4 !minty Surveyor-- I.aae A. I'lewitt.
District, Attroney—Milnm M. Trough.
Coroner--NVilliant .1. Ike! , T.
'County Superitaemlent Baridq,
Assesorg Internal Revenue—lt, F. Clark.
John Thomas,
Assistant As;qmsor— I. I,,itt;ll,l,lre,r,
1.1. S. Nl'oods.
Colleetor —Benjamin Ihtnom.
N EW STOVE .NIP TIN SIIOP.
frq MA IN STREVT, 0.11 Ly I,pro,:rri
Mll.LRR'sesl'ultU,; g0n,)14461 , 11 ;, l'A.
THE undersigned hes j•rrt ivied tyr, sr l d opened,
his ne%
AND TF o snop,
in this ',taro. whets hi, 14 11(1111111red 1 , , up 111 , V1
W Ara; 4 3/111111414 1111110111 W, nod do repair.
ink a°tth ueathess and rIl p rich, 111.011111P111 , 1.1
solliitlill Wing, 11,111111/ ki.,os of Wiwi wri vEM nI
Various patterns as d xtylfK, tibia, to: nob sell op.,
terms to suit Porch:Ps:is.
Griv” hiwk 111, 114. 14 A gun! wochanie, and de
laming trf th ant Frofmthge
tiloolngtoirg, Fein. 9.
fIJ,,IBI'EJt l'Ult , .IJLK
tthnut ruling up a
r t elAS 1r XII 'X Zit ti
;II 'Ow PINN :111L1 3.4 OOP r to
VI, NIG tie UN NALO TuNS IW4T
Notia Scotia, %Vittle Pla.der,
prepared ruady r&fr uae in tittllttt to tl;t port too,
are, 44 ail two , (to,ill fir.t lf,), 4. .
J. 8. ltv
etdawiln.i, Jan. 11, 1901
►oo'l' AND:4IIOE:4IIm,
OSC.I it! P
Be•peorhuy t h tert., the w adi,: that he is now pre
pared to aidoulartare all kin d s or
pi BOOTS AND SHOES,
eh. at the 10 WEST Assihh• PA,g ;
at short naive and iu Ilt” it , ty begl nita Intro
Girsoo. OK e•eii.h noirn sn Ins s ossonsos t los
hod RIMY gears Of 440.4401.101 01110r0 10 , 004 4 P•pn
11041001 wusk, tthowity stud insisurants4 ot•
11041 ullonifismoonl.
rlacq • f Ists+iunin no South L.. 4 Corn,/ of
Mutts and !roil no the th, ther 1, K. (Strtoten Slurs%
Illoonothss fs ,f. Urt . 14, 1,0.4
FORKS 110 TEL,
GEO. IV. M.tEGER, Preprtetar
•
Ttie above w.,n 14,110%11 104 , 1 ht , n r , '"lOlV 11114 , r
poi.ltika! ri13104, , in 11...4 novnl4l
and its f 1 1, 1 1 ,11 0 ., aaaaaares la la, r 011.404 0
bad the travelllaz pllt hO that D4+ stranrn 4endni 10141
for the rampiri al his /411 , ntri att ; , .4 . 011111 In WM, in
the Efillittry. ilia 14401 . 1,4 tit always 1,44 taaad 04441
MA 14111:1, 16% Itit 511 1, 1411113 i 1011 it 114 31
the 11P1ieleji 4 +0f 1111; tlea-014. 044.7 “1444 1i
Otxtera tont popular brverav, 1: - .1 ,, wa ne •„i/,'
purchasedl4 4141011 frvial 1111111)(tifill
tirely 6.• • 1111)1 WI 14011011 1 111 0 t1t12.,
is thatitnil 4440 a ty4s , l - 411 til l
WI/I et/tame 10 avid:iv.; II ia tlt4 laa,rd
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Jun.! 13. Istol.—tf,
MACII INE .1-N I) BEI'S
TIIE on4lt tAinneft need tii e rnvertfolly nn•
wince to tio• poHot vortolly, that io prrpn, ed
to ttecni • ail hid nt
nifiAttri,atttt' r‘,D;NDIt V, to W ,,,, Mnbtim how ite.
rntt ahvo • be toond r+•o vter draalil r,itzar
tor, in, lotion Thr,tiont M.. boo. •. 01.4 ;nolo tt, n:i
#,A101.1.4 rarnonn rt•ntllt Al.s‘ .f. ft N;0 1 4,: .5.1.)
PrrlNDt rio etr CASTING AND M AcMINIAY,
hone on t.ttott. tae-.tit to a g
11140 , 1 the fe54.044.11,1v1,1 .,4 .
Hi.rY I :ruq ln rta, I.•.• • , 34 l'oreat,lllll
Ihet 11110{1 Vt . 1.0 , 1V1A il. 1.11:04. 4 tti 100 plum, for
pine years, wntrnots boo in t
althrt: 11.11,1,kailil to all tvh t or.,} tat or ith
'tett work, . ,
14141M11010.111. Noy. 11, 14104
FALLON HOUSE.
rritV, suflarrlber having 4:uv.! thu - ranots
tiouttv." in
LOCK lIAV FN
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properly r f VV. Away. 809., w.dit.l 'al t o the
riumla of 1110 lioust., hoe acqualaranrea, pill/.
fir grntrally. that 110 1611111 N 10 .•herp at 11.161.,
0 ill, the itemitinwilatiosii and comforts of a ila o:.
and humbly aolscits Unit patirmwao.
J. 4/ITF:NKII:K.
Late of 113 , Ntafienn 110410. Palladdphia.
Lack Haven, 111. c.
I'S LIZZIE I'ETNRMAN,
711%14 1111tInntlIfe to the Indus ut theme built and
the Wale generally, that she has jest ter,sve.l 'rum
the eastern rite.s her
1007 Spring nail Stimmer
Ft tt k ttf
MILLINERY GOODS,
tonsoaing of All article s tisval:y foeuil iit first class
etorec 111. r Foods are of the ben TANIS
Awl R the ele.l haedoeuie PIA elmtips St wthe
musket. Call and examine Wpm f.,r yellersolVra.
Nobody 0 1 1 (n/I.IPANI134 , eetie •
in( Miss Peo•rmawa Eb,ck of good,' 11011111.;11 wade
10 Order, 00 MC 1.110ft04111011c.., or rept,' r.•d.
Mt/ft on Main Awci. i 4 LI , or below the ►tore of
Ak. Rupert.
Ditonnaburg, May 11, laC,O.—lf.
NEW TOBACCO STORE:
H. H. UUNSBERGEIt,
Hain Strive, &clam the "American name,"
aIsOCIMSBUS G I PA , ,
- Where he keep, on head, nod (unthaws to tn., home
And count's trade, at 14,112401 a (towed) pumas,
FINE I'UT,AND PLUG TOBACCOS,
NEEITIC AND IMPORTED OIOAR nil lonrie of
ti3ll/1i I AG T4lll ACC°,
a, Mooradian in mot llrinr Wood Piper, rind all
s pertatuing to his trade.
Thom) mail rrtnil .lealero In down and rhow.
%Wald 110 Writ to oftu brm n rail. in
hi trending to the Callon tOfwide they
purchu erns of 'hero country pillars.
bar 11.1611.-3111.
i GS, DRUGS, DRUGS.
etlirinriv n►lrhn p, Mayer'. DM Plug
?loin rind Market itreeto. A good aaac•'
PERE Ditlllo4,
int,. 011 p end Vitoleho•, atwny nn
I be bold cheaper tbun ut ru7 uther
OWN.
ITY GUARANTEED,
carefully compounded at Moyer's
lies Medicines sold at Moyer's Drug
Oordisl, Baker's Cod Liver Oil,
gym, sold at Moyer's Drug
nt medicines, call at afoyeea
whotraale and retail, at I.R.
• .mitlturg, Pa.
Vloolno.b.t4l ffltntollt.
13 ULI)MiS11101 IN
tv,f , MISLI WI, PA., BY
411 SON 11. tt'Oarii.
Trims,— On fry mlyanen. not pant within
x MONTH t, :10 , tont 4Rightionat will he ciotrttd.
,; N 4,1, 0,1104114 tonitl ;iii arre,,tAgr,,,
are paid el* , pi :it Iti otemn or Or r,,tiwt,
Ono 4qu. err Or.. ..... Mt
El et OlhePleqvi4t Itoa,rtion thdtt 13 '0
1,4,
t'sp. tuirt., 3M) 1 401 Cutil jum
Tvt :I I 6.1 1 41 I 901 I 14,141
Thrt.e I 7,01 F.S(I 1", 3 O 1F tO3
.-jm, 10.111 n 34,1)0 ttOloo
110', I 10,041 11,00 Njgo
(i)I• col owl.. 1 15. , I- 031 I thijOil 311,thi
DroTutor's awl Adttailidraloeh Notice. ........
Amittor'o Nnt i.e 2:4)
illhiertiSVlllVlitli iu rer Ito: according to*perial
cmorni,
IWO:woo m+liceo, Wtthmil ildveliNement, twenty,
Ertf,tylif :141V0rtigmwqm. pnyabie
NIWN dui= RM.!' th, OVA 1111.1efeloll,
ofFit!r, Cor. (4' 11tpt Outs
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SPEECH OF
11111,4 IN IN U. lilltr“
thiir, / th, .I Atifohf,
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Pardon me while I say that, in pre-entim"'"
tt vi'''w-;;.• 1 thirds or too livituf man, artiNid
uttrty, to \dont toy retrofits are m apply,
I hate to, talk freoly to you about the
daneets of the country. Little marls te•-
t.;he little ..hlet:t., to thee' Om., that.
a Wit 11, and he has attained
Uti , llVi..!•l• • rrpi/I:iCHtt '.'4l!. •fled` srty
v ' !• a I on or
as•::e 1 ,• showir •: . 1 11. trees
.d'ac hne ot l poi.• y. i. oo
ulta..ks to tr a on :in yii my, ov. nit' 1 l e ave
talc, tterl 1.• •v• :! 1 4,'• •.1 u, , y law%
woo! ! place a / T ow n
perishable; honor on the brow toy most
I 41..1• flee, if 1 asnicl thereby rta•cm; nay'
eauntoy front the perils that environ it'.
LApplan.c.l But if I have an enemy, and
a vindicative spirit, and desired him to lie
etime foreverlnthmons, I could ask no more
of' him than that It -1 nail support the h o d
lisp stdoemes oft foist; who are now seeking to
s uleee r t the Con-titution awl destroy our
liho.dy. Ile is di. ;inn a ~'rztVe for .I:l..self
it. ) „.o tso ity will never water with it tear.
Le; him alone. 1 have ,one to discus, the
pre- , ut phase or th.; r,..Nolt,Coto
We have had a war wh.ch raeed furiously
for ai r scars. It pri:Jinatel simply in a
dilicet`n., as t o o u r tight: under
the Ctots,ilail•io. f 1 ifferf Deo exi-ted
flinn the lii;st. It eni , tc4ll:kniotig the rtlitn , yr. ,
of thcs Con titutictn . it could not he settled
lay tiroduieot, awl an appeal was made; to
the stencil, It was an iwpoll fight. There
wa • -e• ;et or aniiidoons in the issue.
It wa • ',..••a;...•i Icy malt ildittata...- , 1 in the mass
es by eatotiou ea both sides; and
it wa• led to di a4rnr the Constitution, but
tri to ;at et. each ;,:•1 their different viexs.
ou our side it was assetiod that Ow l•••:totes
we,a; so:•arato and independent telveroi!nitic-,
and I:,;Censtitntion was a einapno, wi d t h
each ! , rty was at liberty to dissolve at will,
and ,•9 seceded and deelareil ourselves
tes,t the Colon. On the other hand, it
was culahlt , -bA that we were tir)t, out of the
oetwithstanlim.: our seeusslon was ;
a nd i l . ;n ion a
to e • not a u• tie
r.:••••• d;i011... I:.‘s tits ;• l ootes re
titie,; to inn 1...t••1 theiefere nee
• •: ; .'i it. the o •n
-r. : • t! • W
war. v...e eels eel ht lid we ;1. a-n
oar arm- anil .u.reed to a hat attn ••
we to r iii tle a i xi.+n,
JAroll METZ
G 17.011 0 ti H Assmur
But there is now atneher question to set
de. It is still within the range of argu
ment. Its preperdens aro huge. The is
sues are startlitte. It is not *difference of
opinion as to what the ciaisfitatiaii means.
and what are our rights melee It ;Alt its
objects is plainly, tunnistak4,o4,, toiletaside
the Constitution and provide somethingelse.
I have never doubted that we were coming
to this issue. In speeches made by me,
five. six, eight, and ten years ago, I predict
ed this and every pogo of oar histbry since
that time has verified the prediction. The
people of the North honestly love the Con
stitution, but the heelers there hate it and
intend to destroy it, and the convulsion
through which we have pawed has thrown
the opportunity of making the effort into
their hands, and the present military hill s
and the one which is not yet promulgated
as law, are the means adopted to accomplish
their design. There bills aro proposed f 4
our acceptance. There is a remarkable
feature in these measures, that while force
is employed to execute them, they are not
yet nominally submitted to us for our accep
tance or rejection.
I object to the whole scheme because it is
unconstitutional. A distinguished man—
pardon me, I ought to have said a notorious
individual, raid to me a few days ago, that
I ought net to waste my time to prove the
constitutionality of these measures—a thing
which every man, woman and child in the
country knew—and )et he was for accept
ing I • Ile spoke truthffilly. That tottering
gray-haired candidate in Pennsylvania for
perpetual infamy, who is building for lihn
self a monument of malignity that will over
top the pyramids of Egypt, said tbe Con
stitution had nothing to do with it. I shall
never get done shuddering, and horrors will
never cease to rise in my mind, when I see
men taking an oath to support the Censti.
Wien, and then legislating to put in force
measures which are outside of it. A great
many of our own people flippantly say the
Coustititien is dead. Then your rights, and
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 98,1867.
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Ina !Ant , voNA PAA: A • ?WAR.'
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1 1'01 04 f u r the future, and all hope fur your
children are dead. 1 ask every man, if the
Constitution in dead, why are we always,
every day, and at ever) new step, required
to support it?
Now, I affirm that these military bills are
not only contrary to the Constitution, but
tlitcctly in tha hUe 111' the alloo ,, ty oath you
%%ore rewliml to take liner the surrender.
The f,overnir,out thought props in neeept.
jog p ol y submission, to take your oath to
support the Constitution of the United
Slat -4, awl the I;oion of the Stales. Why
was that oath required, the Constitution
%vas dead
But it is raid that the Con s titution do e s
too uppiy to us. Then don't Mi'Var to sup
port it.
Hot it is said again that we are not in the
Union, Then why swear to support the
['hi,' of these States? What "Union"
does that mean? When you took that oath,
was it the Union of the Northern State.;
aloe that you swore to piquant? What
lt-itp ,, , have you with that Union? No it
is ti,., l'oion of all the States known to 041
Con-titution that
,)At have sworn to sup
But they say that the oath was preserib
,"l by the President, and that he is not loy
al. Them I mad answer a fool according to
his folly, and a traitor acceding to his trua
sol. What do they require who passed
the .e ' t IMAnilitary dttn•ei num ? They
require every loan who registers his name
to vote, to support the Comdit mien,
and eoaosel and persuade other 4 to do
sn—
and ti!l it iu said that the Cote.tittition
n abio , : to .1,, with it! They say the scheme
cut .idc of the Cou-tit , ttion, and yet in
the prooess of earryitr, it, out, they require
an oath to support the Constitution and to
counsel hurl per •nade other , . to do .01 That
i 4 mote than Mr. J..ltestn ever required in
the oath which he premal'A.
It is my haziness to support the Constitu
tion, and my duty and pleasure to persuade
others to do so. Stone of you who !liver
the acceptance of the military bills take an
oath to this effect. and still intend to vote
fear a convention which you admit to be or
dt red emortv to the Constitution ! now is
this? It' you vote liar the convention you
are perjured ! [Tremendous applause.] 0 !
I pity the of colored people who have
never been taught what an oath is, or what
the Constitution means. They are drawn
up by a st Iti.h conclave of traitors to in
flict a death blow upon the life of the Re
public hi swearing them to a falsehood !
They are to Levin their political life by per
accomplish treason! I would not
visit the penalty upon them. They are
neither legally r morally responsible, but
it is you—educated designing %hite men—
who thus devote yourselves to the unholy
work—who aro the guilty parties! Yon
prate about your loyalty! I look you in the
tye and denounce you! daUse. I You
are morally and legally perjured traitors!
Von pPrjore yourselves anti perjure the poor
negro to help your treason ![lmmense a p.
plause.l You can't c* , olipe it You may
holm of it now, while passion is rife, but
the limo will come when the very thought
will wither your soul and wake you hide
from the dace of mankind.
I shall discharge the obligation oft r
amnesty oath. It required ate W supp ,t
the Constitution anti the emancipation of
the n ;to, awl I do. I ,will not bind my
nal to a now slavery, to bell. by violating it.
I talk plainly, but I simply want to strike
the inern,tation Of the hardened
afri make uses feel and realize
ticeia
I have proved that these military L'lns
violate the Constitution, and that you, in
carrying them out, violate it and your am-
nesty oath and your registry oath. And
what is your purpose? It must be a great
good you seek to induce you to commit so
much crime and folly.
Sometimes men wink at what is by strict
technicalities wrong in the individual, to ac
complish son►o great good to the public. I
do nut recognire the correctness of such
action; but what do you propose by tramp
ling upon the Constitution and violating
your own solemn - oaths? Is it to save the
State and preserve liberty ? This is not the
object, but the purpose is us infamous as
the measure resorted to to effect it,. You
first propose to abrogate your State govern
ments by authority of the so-called Con-
gress—a mere conclave of a portion of the
members of that body. By whom is this
dictated ? The principle that whoever
flutes a governmentshould form it fur them
selves as well us others, is a correct one ; but
the men who propose this for us do not live
in any of the ten States affected by their
legislation. It is not wade to suit either
black or white, or any other class of our
people, but to suit themselves, while they
arc not affected Ly it, and if you act upon
their proposition, in a manner to suit your
selves, you will not be accepted by them ;
nay, you violate the Constitution to subvert
the Government. And by carrying out
these measures you disfranchise your own
people. Suppose we concede, for argument,
that it is right to onfranehise all the negroes;
if this Le right by what principle of law
or moral do we disfranchise the white peo
ple? "0, but," you say, "the whites have
been rebels." Then they should all be disc
franchised, and not a part of them. Besides,
the government you are to frame is to be a
civil government, and last for all time, and
for peace, when there can be rebels. I see
it stated that General Sickles Ina advised
that the disfranchising feature be repealed
or modified, and fir the reason that the en
truncbleed clam are not fit to fill the Am&
Well, if ho has done so, he hasacted wi sly,
and has shown himself capable of apprecia
ting one truth. And it is a great truth—
one that will hide a multitude of sins; and
it might he well for his thine if these tree
ommendatinn alono could be remembered of
his adininiArni ion. In the liwt that a rehab,
ikon goverrow.ml:3ll rv,t, upon a n d ho pi.r
pot tutted only by tho virtito told
of the lottTit , , you poopo,e. 'hide the
toot 4 il,tvlligtn6 front atitl.f . , in the
goVOVIIIIII'IIt 1;4 , Vrl
lon will by the:-o toe:Nitres invigorate a
war of racett, it people who will ;.'“rog,ll•4.
their 4.4"11 ....V.4144141 :1114 .1i .• the
ritKr.>t. into t'; t‘t cif f,: Ath
those %slit, ttrc not to he :01:Yt , .,1 thion 3
live oiler the a'rilttion of a foreLn power,
have no t ., r , 4 0 i1V4 , ; but if eon
seittneo, I hope to rant °1: :t, fly all y,tu hold
dear I warn yen that by these
military' hilt.. you Mem , c:- cure that
will extertninat the .1n . .-:•ote•
yon who hat. • t o ,. m -: • 1,
the negro by tic. -t . ..I.:
are his fiend, and tit: t yen ."41 him his
liberty'? l e ht / pf,,t ) ;,,tt! warm) sktP
t I 41141:4 ! Ve ; , i , lll in your hearty
teive and buy up the negro vote fir your
own benefit. Applause.) negmvs
know no better ; but I worth! ask thent : If
these men are nil Moss to the t'omtit titian
of the country, hew fan they be faithful to
pot ? la the •• it tut admit in the very act
that they are •••• enttlint , omaitution
They take an milt I t •t t it, with the
purpose and inollt t. n,•• 1 1 'tr.: •rtlettel to
violate it, ti" tl, - .• Itr n. la. 4 c on t rar y t o
it I 'fh y are 11 I fit tie,t, (I by any
animal, or than! pplattse.) Such a
man would 1 , -tray hi: pointer, anti such a
woman sell her pootiled They arc not cap
able or I the friends, of anybody hut
thetwtelv: s. T, tit n't pity the whitt
much who are to stiffer by them: me:l:awes.
"You knew your duty and did it not," and
it' you are beaten with many stripes, we
have the authority of Scripture for haying
that your punishment is just; but to see
the Africans led off by a clap-trait which
they don't understand, and used because
they don't understand it, and thus led to
the slaughter by wan who are faithless to
every principle—under the belief that they
are being elevated and exercising God-given
rights, is enough to make any man feel sick
at heart anti experience the deepest pity for
the unfortunate rave.
This is not the first time that such things
have beenattempP , l. Unfortunately, there
Lave before I,eon Loh fools and knaves in
%Ito world, and some of you, it wo.thl seem
will not learn wisd , !'run the i of
the past. If the Constitution is dead, we
are outside of it, an pray, what government
have we ? We have nothing, in that case,
but the will of an unlawful villein and
.don't you know this means only anarchy,
and then despotism and tyranny? What
inducement is held out to you to accept their
propositions'? You say it is to get back
into the Union and for this yon aro will
ing to submit to disfranchisement and the
inauguration of a policy that tends to a war
of races to gat back into the Union
just, where you are already, and always
were
What do you want to get back into that
sort, of a 14rion fur ? If you are not now in
it, what can you expect by getting in such
as they present to you ? You say it is to
get representation in the Union ! hr not
in the Union.? slay she any rep-
Kentucky
resentation ? The telegraph intbrms as that
that resolution has been introdueusl into the
so-called Consols making issesiries abetli
er Maryland, Delaware awl Neioucky have
State governments or not ? Are you so stu
p!,l as not to see what all this means ?
result be the substitution of thu Radi
cal will for all :sw ! Take that homo with
you utel digest k, That's Acres-en are go
ing ! Kentucky is e.. - ebled from repress:us
tation because it is allo- ' va her represents-
tires were voted fur byslisloya: men- What
is meant by disloyal ? Every man who
does not support the Radical party will won
be declared disloyal, and every State which
does not vote the Radical ticket will he dis
loyal and her government illegal. 1 tell you,
unless patriotism shall wake up from the
stun which the horrid confusion of war has
given it, the Radical party will be our only
government, and Radical will La our only
law.
I look for this revolution to go on. Who
ever thinks this war upon the Constitution
will stop with the ten States is a mailman
or a simpleton to he pitied, era knave to be
despised. d have expeeted them to take
charge of Connecticut because site dared to
elect a Governor that did not agree with the
Radical party ; and suro enough, Sumn e r
in a late 11 tter s:;ikes that Ley note. lie
says a similar bill liar all the States is a cut
short to universal range. Th. so-called
Congress immediately on its meeting took
charge of Kentucky and excluded her wbolo
delegation with one exception. If they can
reject those, tliey can reject every ono who
differs with them, and they will do so ; and
they will receive only those who will agree
with them. These they will receive. I
care not what may have been their sins here
tofore ; it' the very worst secessionist in all
this land will whine around the streets and
say he is a radical now, ho is as good as the
saints in !leaven for Radical purposes.—
[Applause.] They are not for race or color
nor for antecedents ; it you now favor rad
ical schemes you are loyal, and if you oppose
them you are disloyal !
But you say you are in favor of going in
to the Union, because if you do not, your
property will be conflocated. A gentlemen
of this city, a few days ago, said to mo that
he was in favor of the acceptances of these
military bills, because he thought it the best
we could do. Isn't! to him, "You do not
say that fur yourselves, but for your brick
Pores !" Applause.) But you aro not
half so wise as you are k navish I You would
bye Ow I 'oust itution and thecountry to save
your brick :,tores, and then by your very
vow o you will lose your brick stores also
1 am ashamed to talk ot use argutuentsabout
vont': :athet in time of peace t It is a war
no 4 ,, r, no: kwo o to international law except
as a war pow-r, to be need only in time of
al, Upon an enemies goods 1 Confiscation
in time of putee is nothing more or less than
ruble, ;
you Fay they have got the power and
tiny will excereise it, unless we do as they
hid us. And will you in this ease abandon
your only protection ? ft is like going out
into t iAway and Arrentiering your pm. e
to it, r to keep him from taking it !
I . 1 7 . inteodueo at!seat float of high am
t : the point, hut twill not
in ••..1 tie , Itadiettl portion of this audience
be r: atlinr from any authority for them ex
cept how a Ma.saelue.ettt, Judge. licre
what he says :
"ft [, a been sni,pl).4t,il that, lithe govern
ment have the ri g ht s of a belligerent, then,
niter the rebellitm i upin eyed, it will linVe
the rights of conquest ; that a State ant ita
inhabitants may be perilittlitltilY divested(Jr
ell political privileges, awl treated aifiguign
territory Iminiretl Ly aims. This is an or
vie. ltellig, , rent rights cannot lie execrLised
wit-ru there are no belligerents."
That what I : C o nfiscation is only
a war measure, and ceases with the War. ,'
Again : the United States take
postosion of' a rebel district, they mere vin
dicate their per-existity Under
de
potie governments the right of confiscation
may he unlimited ; but under our govern
ment the right of sovereignty over any por
tion of a State is given and limited by the
Constitution, and will be the same after the
war as it was bef c t the wat
'!'here is one hot in Massachusetts, and if
Abraham were alive to d a y, I would h a v e
hint pray to God to spare that Btatu and trust
it—not only to three men, but, even to one.
There is at least one good man in it, awl he
is a Judge, and dares to proclaim to all
that security to property is given by the
Constitution the same after as betbre the
war. And now, 1 will read for the patri
ots of the audience, something front the
most distinguished of all writers en intyr•
natiokal law :
"When a sovereign, arrogating to himself
the absolute disposal of a people whom he
has conquered, attempts to reduce them to
slavery, he perpetuates the state of warftfre
between that nation and himself- Should
it be said that in suet' a case, there many be
peace, and a kind of compact by which the
conquerer consents to spare the lives of the
vanquished on condition that they tick med.
edge themselves his slaves : he who makes
such tm assertion, is ignorant that war
gives no right to take away the Mit of en
enemy, who has laid down his arms and
submitted. But let us not dispute the
point ; let the ;ran who holds such primed
pies of jurisprut. keep them for his own
use and benefit ;i well deserves to be sub
ject to such a law. Rut men of spirit, to
whom life is nothing—less than nothing,
unless sweetened with liberty, will alway,i
conceive themselves at war with that op
pressor, though actual hostilities are sus
pended on their part, through want of abil
ftiettlsi this was written by a man
Ow lived in despotie times, a OM who was
tatteht under ft a desrotie government, and
hew his hive of liberty and law shames the
praters about loyalty in free America I
But I will dwell no more on this subject.
Gonfiscatien is the law of enemies in war,
and hi peace it is the law of the rubber. If
they have the will to rob you, you will nev
er escape b. submitting to their power. It'
you submit, give up the law and substitute
the will a the robber, he boldly avows that
it ix his purpose, not to give the black man
melts, but to bring about such meas
ures, aeul Si) to shape timings as to perpet
ato the rule of the lludical party- Every
man who joins tlw party, and can satisfy
th em th a t he will sincerely help in this
work, will be accepted. They will put their
antis around you and oil you brothers.—
lApplamml You eau make a friend of
the devil upon these saute terms [laugh
ter and applause,] and there is but little
difference between them. 'Great applause.)
If you pleas: time one you will go to the oth
er, and I am not sure but you will get what
you deserve, but 1 object to your taking the
country with you. [lmam applause.]
But, 0 ! it is sad to see the Constitution
trampled upon and the country destroyed,
only to perpetuate their heillish dynasty
and then to see some of our own people juin
in this unholy work, calling upon us to sub
mit and become the agents of our own dis
honor I This is sad, sorrowful, and fills me
with shame!
Them: bills propose at every step to abro
gate the Constitution—trample upon the
State and its laws—to blot out every hope
—to perjure every man who accepts them,
with every principle of honor, safety, and
justice disregarded, trampled upon and de
spised—all to perpetuate the power of their
wicked audio's. Can this scheme succeed ?
Will it succeed ? That is the question. I
fool truly thankful in my heart that I have
an answer which lifts my soul amidst all the
gloom and apprehension of the hour. Some
of you may nut appreciate it, but to me it
is the only oasis in this desert. This scheme
will never, never succeed, and I proclaim
its ultimate failure to day in your hearing.
[ Unbounded applause:l I know that some
think it will. The air is fall of the words
of those who proclaim that there is no pow
er to prevent it. Men have before this been
weak and ii,rdi h, and cowards and traitors
have before believe l us you talk now but I
have a reason for the fitith that is in me,
which is absolutely sublituesin the strength
of its foundations.
Ist. It will fail, because it is not poible
to perpetuate a government or force under
the forms of a Democracy. It may take
some thneto comprehend this thought, but
you will not forget it. That which is now
proposed is force. It is proposed by men
who do not live in this State, and whim;
agents 'lo not live here ; and it is sought to
be aveomplidied by military power, but un
der the pretowe of your sanction—not to
please yourselves, but them. There is not
an instance in all history where !I govern
ment of forc e has been perpetuated under
the limn of fr, institutions. it is an
and can never suceecd. [Ap
plan
2d, Rut it ins sought to he aceomplh.hed
by deceit and fraud, which cannot much
longer escape detection. The iklilSq4 of the
people of the North love the Coniktitution
and fought for it and the Union, but the
leaders did net light for it, and do not lore
it, awl they now suck to destroy it under
pretence that we 111t1,1 give some further
guarantee fir our future good behavior than
merely suppioting the Constitution. As
soon as the means by which their deceit
and fraud have been covered up are remov
ed, the scheme will he crushed to death by
the people. It is a double shaped monster,
like the Sentinel at Ilull-gate which can
live nowhere except in a political panth -
titanium.
And what must be the results ? Ido not
say we will conic out of all this with free
institutions preserved, but this scheme can
never succeed. A despotism over the whole
country and over all the people, guilty and
innocent alike, may ensue. You fail, but
you may bring ruin upon all. Whenever
you pull down the Temple of Liberty, you
also will be crushed by the fall. You can
not level or lower us and elevate yourselves.
We must either all rise or all go down to
gether. Despotism may come, empires may
rise and Gill among us, but whether they do
or not, we shall not have the reign of a
radical party. 1 thierstand me : If I say a
man cannot live high up in the air, I do not
mean he cannot go up in a balloon and re
main for a time ; or if I say a man cannot
live under water, I do not say he cannot
go down in a diving bell and remain a while ;
but the Radicals will as certainly fail to per
retitate their power under this scheme, as
that a man will thil who attempts to dwell
in the air, or drown who makes his home
under water. Such a government would be
unnatural—a political monstrosity, and can
not possibly last ; hut you may destroy the
forms as well as the principles of free gov
ernment, and then you will have a monarchy,
an aristocrat', un empire, or a despotism,
as the ease may be. * • " •
It may be that we of tho Petite(' States
I have been so crazy in leaving the Constitu-
I tints— the only Ark of nafety— that our
heavenly Father has doomed us to perish,
but I am gratified with a hope that it is not
so. if not. there is but one method for our
rescue, and that is by a prompt restoration
of the Constitution. Will it conic? Will
we escape an agrarian war with insulting
despotism, and save our institutions for our
children? 1 hope we shall—l believe we
shall. Though a great effort is being made
—a designed effort—to destroy tin as Rome
wwdestroyed, I believe the effort will fail.
: 4 "ofteektQitla in the Anglo-Saxon blood.
'''4ottragement front Anglo-
Saxan biats,..e. Our liberty was not born in
a day. It is not the work of one genera
tion. It is the fruit of a hundred woggles,
and its guaranties have been perfecting for
eight humble! years. Many have been the
efforts to destroy it. Often the English Con
stitution was trampled on. Often traitors
sought to substitute arbitrary will far well
established low, and onen have the people
Liar a time been misled. lint thus far they
have always waked up and culled thetraitors
and flictionistm to account. Charles I. tram
pled on the Constitution. He had Judges
who decided that his will was the law, and
all who resisted that will and defended the
Constitution were punished as disloyal.—
And it did seem as if his power was bre
sistuble. NO doubt if you weak-kneed Rad
icals of the South had lived in that day you
would have said "the Constitution is dead,
and we must consent to what we cannot re
sist." But John Hampden would not con
sent. He resisted. He was tried as a
erimnal for resisting, and was condemned.—
But what was the sequel? The people
finally asserted their power? Charles and
his ministers perished. The very Judges
that condemned Hampden were themselves
tried and condemned as criminals, and the
very Mere, even the Sheriffs wt.) executed
the order of Charles and his courts, were
sued by the citizens for damages, and had
to pay nearly a million of dollars for execu
ting the processes of' a void, unconstitution
al law I Fur a time traitors held the power,
and trampled en rights but vengeance came,
and perpetual infamy followed.
So Cromwell and his Parliament violated
the Constitution, and though they also
flourished for a season, they too were over
thrown. So James 11 trampled on the Con
stitution, and had to tee Nm his kingdom
a fugitive fur life. In all thole struggles,
good men, for a time, suffered, and bad men
fora time, ruled' bat the ICnglish race have
never yet failed to rescue their Constitution
from the power both of traitors and anat.
I tell you the American people will not
always he deceived. They will rise if de
fence of their Constitution, and traitors will
tremble. They who rallied three minket
htrotig to defeat what they considered an
armed assault on the Constitution and
Union, will not sleep untill a few hundred
traitors from behind the masked battery of
Congress al oaths and deceptive pretensions
of loyalty shall utterly batter down the Con
stitution and l'nion for ever. I warn you,
boastful vindictive Radicals, by the history
of your own father'', by every instinct of
manhood, by every right of liberty and
every impulse of Justice, that the day is
coming when yen will feel the power of an
ontraged and betrayed people. [Applaus.
Go on confiscating! Arre4 without warrent
or probable cause; destroy Wefts corpco ;
defile your own race, and flippantly say tho
Constitution is dead ! On, on with your work
of ruin, yo hell-born rioters in sacred things I
Rut remember for all these things the people
will mil you to judgment. [ Prolonged ap
plause.' Ab ! what an issue you have
made for yourselves. Succeed and you
destroy the Constitution ! Full, and you
have covered the land with mourning.—
Succeed, and you bring ruin on yourselves
and all the country I Fall, :and you bring
infamy upon yourselves and all your deluded
followers! Succeed and you are the perjured
as:emitns of liberty! Pall, nut) you are defeat
ed, despised traitors Ibrever. Ye who aspire
to be Itadival Governors and Judges iu
Georgia, I paint before you this day your
destiny. [Unbounded applause. J You are
but cowards and knaves, and the time will
COMO when you will call for reeks and mean
t sins to fall on you and the darkness to hid t
you from a outraged people. I Applaule. J
Does it do you •nod to trample on the
Constitution—deceive the negroes and ruin
the conntry ? It may be sweet now, but I
tell you the sulphurous fires of public infamy
will never be quenched on your spirits.--
[Applause.] I pity you from my soul
Would that the time hail never come when
I had to stand on Georgia's soil and thtut
talk to Georgians. A struggle Is coming.
It may be a long and bloody one, and you
who advocate this wicked scheme will perish
in it, unless the people now arouse and check
its coosumation. Let every true lawloving
man rally at once to the standard oft he Cone
stitinien ofhis country. [Applause.] Come 4
Do not abandon your rights. Defend them.
—Talk fur them, and if need be, before God
and the country, fight and die for them.—
[Enthusiastic and prolonged applause.[ Do
not talk or think of secession or disunion,
but come up to the good old platform of our
fathers—the Constitution. Let all North
and South, Conte and swear before God that
we will abide by it in good faith, and opposer
every thing that violates it. The man who
loves the Constitution now, and Is willing
to live and die fur it, is my friend and
brother, though he come front the frozen
peak of Mount Washington ; and the man
who is for trampling upon it is my enemy,
and I shall hold hint so, though ho oome
from the sunny clinic of the orange and the
cotton Use». That is my issue.
0 ! how •orry a creature is the man who
cannot stand up for the truth, when the
country is in danger. There never mut such
an opportunity as now exists for amen to
show of what stuff ho is made. flow can
you go about the street and say "all is wrong
but I cannot help it?" You want courage
my friend ! you are a coward I You lack
courage to tell the truth, and would sell
pour birthright for a temporary MSS of pot
tage ; even far a little bit of a judgahip or a
Bureau officer's place.
But sonic one says: "flow will you re
sist it?" I will resist it first by not titterer..
ing it. If everybody would do that it would
he effectually resisted so far as we are con
cerned. But the so•callial Congress has pro
vided a cover for itself in advance under
which to hide from the odium attaching to
this scheme. It has provided that you can
vote either for or against a convention, and
again vote for or against whatever constitu
tion it may frame. It is sought to 111411 era
responsible for whatever may be the CeOfte•
(plena., and relieve them. After a while
when you become alarmed at the result, they
will say, "We did not do this: We only
gave you a chance, and you did it."
But if we defeat this, it is said, military
rule will continue. Certainly—until wicked
men shall be driven from power. But let
it be so. General Pope seems to be a gen
tleman, and I infinitely prefer his rule to the
rule of such men as you will get under this
scheme. Besides, the new government, in
augurated, will not be able to live a day
without military• protection. It is better to
be governed by power than by treachery.
Perhaps you will think I have overdrawn
the picture of the fearful consequences of
accepting this scheme. I recollect an lad
dent which occurred over six years ago,
when 1 was urging the people of Georgia
not to secede, because the country would
thereby fall into the hand, of Radical•, and
predicted war and its attendant sufferings
as the result—though then deemed rimiest
ary. I would be almost ashamed now to
rend my remarks of that day—ray picture
would be so tame and so far short of the
dreadful reality that has followed. A very
prominent gentleman replied to me, urging
that there would be no war, and to prove It,
he read an article from Dome Greely's
Tribune, and old Bon. H'ade's speech
CONTINUED ors 6,SCOND PAO'.
NO. '26.