Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1862-07-29

              "Will ' li iWMMaMMWBMMWMMWilWMMMMWMWMPWlPWWMI . - - ! ."i fai J-'.t t,'i"j-1- " . i '. ' - ' ' - - -. -" I 7. -i i : 111 T iil., Attlio DCTiiseratic 8tU (Jonveatioa,' : Held in,. Colambius July 1S6E. FpllowingvUie readiBjf-.aod adoption, of the! resolutions; loud ' and .continuoys calls were I made forHrZ. .ValIaodihain"f and wfien he v 'cKleJltherpUtfoim" he; waseeteA-'wilh raptnrouA cheers, lle spoke as follows ; c, ' ;Mr. President, and JVllow Democrats of the ; State of rOhjOi lana obliged ..agaiD tQ iregrei inat we aienesap in :ou?- breciiuies me from addresaine you, either An -the manoer or .upon the particular subjects which otherwise 1 should preftrv 11 a iny iniefortu.ie agam tooaj as laetjio&nt wit speaking thu.with- t .out preneiitaROM, ujjon, such Blatters 1, chieiiy as vay,-.occuKtO; me ax the mpmeiit, II . J. elMuld. happen to , get airl v woder head way ' it may turn out to.,be your tuislbriuiie. ,- j ' -1 coocrstulate the Democraty.of Ohio, that . in ibetUiiiLt ot-reat putjift trial and cluity, ; of, the UUaen wiio jaiu deep: vaflfl stropg; the - fqaiidatiots of the ?onlitution and the Uoiorr . under wVirh this country has growo. great arid -. been prosperous, the (ather, bv ' whose- priii-V v fclpfes one aoi all, the party to ""which we-are r,,prpadto: Vlong'has always, been guideii to v day wre have. senihled u ouuU;tti renter ,than any foruer..couveMtJon-jn-Uhjv-V 1 : gtatulate yoa, fhat despite thejthreau..whh1i . nave- beeu uttered aitu ineferiuiKifctxm. wiiul 'ha been. poured outQiiOtt that tittie-honoreiS '3.1 and patnouc organtzatton, peaceabjj and in ouiet.with enthusiasm-aotanei!Uiea Of ir pose we are here met. and in harmony, which .. .is the secret of strengtiv and tbe.lmrhinger o .. .success, have discharged, the duties .for wliieK-. Velwere callel. together., .There was a umc ; v Jhen. it was quepjiauaJife if-J -free America ... In the United States boasting of -their. liber 4 ties for wore than; eig h t y; y ea rs--a J"arf y... to - vtaicn .this country iSs ileltet for nil r.tbM 1 mj ereat and good and gpaiju a u glorious -would have been permitted peaceably to a eiwbJe to exercise its political rigUt--a;I 11 fornj its 1 o I -.. jiucai. iu itctions. , ; . njatixs liave. . eye; t-eei.; - wade iu times .more racentu thai fthiimo!-K. essential ef all political 'rights, .seem rd o us lj . the precious', blood of pur father in a seven years revolutionary, war,-houkt no loij er be enjoy e!;' .The ; Democrats, of our ibtje' sister State, of Indiana, second born daughter , of the Northwest, hve been menaced ,wiih:.n )tthe last ten day, with a military organisation an1 the bayonet, to put down their jki rty . 1 hold ia my hand a telegraphic dispatch from . the Cauital of that State, boastinar this inl'a- ,iuous purpose. I will read it, gentlemen, be cause 1, iuiow tnat the same au.-.Hnily men-ashare le.'n proclaimed ig-i'T tUe Democrats of Ohio, and . because 1 am here to-lay to rebuke them as becomes a Iree-'orn man who is resolve! to periib-- Jreat applause in the midst of which the rest of the sentence was lost. ' ..''. - Some months ago' a Democratic State Convention was held in In iana. It was a Convention of the party foundel by .;Th'..'na : J eSerson, and built up by a M(i iison and a Monroe, and consolidated by an Andrew .aok-eon applause a party.. under whose principles And policy from thirteen-States we hav-grown to . thirty-four ; ; for thirty-four : there were, true and loyal to thin Un'on. before the President tal election of - 18G0 a party under, who" -vise and liberal policy the course of I empire westward did take its way, until the symbol -ot American power--- the - tars and stripes -waved proudly from the Atlantic to the Pacific, over the breadth of a whole con-tinent a party which, by peace and " coinpro-''mise. and through harmony-' and wisdom and 'oQnd policy, brought us up from feeble and impoverished colonies,; struggling in the midst ' of defeat and disaster in the war of the Revolution, to a mighty empire, foremost amorg .the powers pf the earth, the foundations- of whose greatness ere laid. bro:d nd firm,, in . - that noble Constitution and that grand ' old - Union- which the DemoTatin cariv - 'h'n ever ;waintainel and defended.'- The Democratic . party, with such principle and such a liittorv v and record to point to. held a State Conven- V tion in ptirstutnoeof its usages for . more' than -thirty yea rs. ami under the right wcurevf by a - State "and Federal 'Constitution bMer still." in -the capital of the State of- Indiana. - And vet. : referring to this partv and its Convention,1 the r : - correspondent of a dfstbyal and pestilent, but mflnential newspaper ih the chief eitv of Ohio - -dared to send over the telegraphic wires, wires .wholly under the military control of the Ad ministration which permits nothing to Wtranf Tmitted not acceptable to its censors, a dispatch - ' 'In these words: - - :' j The. fellows are frightened, evidently1 nor -- i without caase.":'--''; ; .-: t,. ; wrr-f f t-4-l - i' Well,-gentlemen; I know" not hew- far Dem-- :ocrat of :Indianaiat-be -frightened and - "1 nobler and more ; fearless body of mfen vever lived -bnt l'see thouBands of 'Deiiioprats - r- y -:.lor Be to whom fear and ireproacH are alike -aaKBOwn. JTrirhlenedat what I rrighteiied .. . Jjj tfliomlf We are made of Aterner stutf. -:: .Ii ?The militia of the 4tate' he adds." "will mobably fut upon a war footing very ehor - "''3, And Who, t prayv are the militia- of the -State They are not made up of the left dtft y : -.lheepiiiUica party in Indiana or Ohio,! ' .'kaow. I never knew that eort of. polUitan to go aay awen - organisation, in peace or In wanr.INfl itoiniiate ever been-mofa Sitter nd unrelenUng in their 'opposition; to a n rid-' " jcile.of .(be nuitia j. and none knews-it better ; ' I Jiaa Lai tB iViead.befoHc ma by - -htk' smile "-j-emtnd fiat tljat n oCtaty own- offenaes j5a -"' :i -.i?t foreign iWari.;.,,. -..mitv?.t.rlf-.H--,t.Bat : ho ax (he f militia.'; sTibeyt are ibe J c ree-hbrn, strong-rroedt. etout-hearted Demd- erat ., of Indiaaa, as they -are ,of rQbio J Let : hea, W put oa a war footiflg.! M flood I ?N .,3ar host of them in the irmy already and . w.ar.footiBg, bat, who ara.afaoiHiiem- iVSrtu favotrt M. be prfmsiples Vi-ifwtrt? thejr were the kovttJSe'T-ftli4t-' V': .?rf-Tble-aTe.l Soothiacil have . .the authonty.of hundred of .of3cers,n4pri-,t-- callaat armyrffp-avins-Uiat;DOl' pnly are theorinal Democrats ia itmofajJi. -u - ".. ot 1 J F ' "7t-- 1 J eef oefore bnt i-'"5 :-3 ' - we5t h-ee jle-jW. "t".r' x ' '-rr cr retarr,-cV?i ttftt 4Ti't imiZJ ti$ fvi w.wbijrr "Uiit t " . eooVtry .rWniae . oat toha' Vaoit-of - politieal hospital or sanitary instiratk-n, and I only net that there are not man more Republican patients; ia iw iaurnier.j , .Well, ut the mt'Iiua Oixm a war fc-otinc- Xut.armf in..' their hapda. ,;They" nevercaa be made the 4 butchers or i jailors of tneirr lellow citizens, but the raardiaoe rather of free speech arid a free ores, and of the ballot Lox.-' Stan ding armies of mercenaries not the militia of a country,' are the - customary instruments of tyranny and usurpation.' " ' ' ' ' Bnt thia'eorrecpondent proceeds: 'r' 4 . Vll toe sympathizers wita treason ana trait- We sympathize with treason and traitera ! We. who have stood bv the Constitution and theXTnion from the organisation of the party, H t'.-Mi, .l,AMP'il.w .Mil !W nra' nmmw A ar 'irk AV. ery hour of trial, !n peace and in war. Irf victory and in defeat, amid disaster and when- prosperity beamed upon, us wetabe laand as enemies of our country ,"lyr" those' whose traitor fathers burned bhte lights, ajs signals , for a foreign"loevor met hi Hartford Convention o plot treason and disunion fifty yejira" ago! JyTe false to the Constitution and. t0 or Gov ernment, the bones of whose fathers Jig buried on every battle neld of the War of 1812, from the massacre it'the 'River "Raisin toi the spleh-dM victory 'at .-New' Orleausr we who lore aloft- tbe'.proud lanner.of "the Repobllc "and nla'nted t in triumph upon .the pa'ae 6f 'the Mentezumasl We bj whose wimlom m council ami courege'in? the field' for severitr' vears, the Constitution and the Union and the coun try which has grown great lander them,'- have been preserved and defended we to he de nounced a yuipathizing .with, reaso arid. traitors, ty tthe men who for twenty years have labored "day and hfght for the Success of those which irs nojw destroying the grandest Uirion, ilie nobLet Constitution pjpd befaireat.Coun-trj on, the g1oieM Talk to"Jb'q about- sjmpa-thizinir with 'dfsunidn. wfthtreason and " with traitors 1 ? Itell ton. Jien of Ohio that'io six months,, in three mdnths-r ia xlweeks it.ma v lie,-these very, men. pad. their. masters in Wehr ingion wiipse uiiiip-; mey por win re.. ine ai-vocates "of theeie'rnatdiyol'utioii of this Union; "aiid deiKjunx aHwhp tvpp it as enemies to the peace of the rouii try. Foreign, uiritrrven t ion and tlie rpieat4laiuj mot-t serious ditaK tei-s whih.live tateh- e45illetf ;Oar nrnis. wll sieeilily. forrr ihf jfsue pi sei-arntion- aiti Sout h em iudcpeiider.ct----si(riioj--. pr of Un ioti l'y"v::n'eg(tfiatid and - compjomise. "' Jiefweep iBtf Tvio i mn ann i nere pwoneiy prpciatn it-r-for t he: U nio n t- the-whole Union rami not fi ins less, if. by any possibility. I can'bave it - it not, then for so much of it. as can.vet, Je Te; "'tied a rit preeifred ; ahil in any event arid tin -aer anicrciifln'sesi f-v the U nin which Cio't .orda inyd .'of h e 31 msiss ipptv VaI ley- atil ait winch, mavciHtg-tojtiMiderthe oldnnmtj. the oidOifnstUution.nnd . tht; old flag, with all Hieif precious menitiries. with the batffe fiehls of the -past a rd the songs nf tbs'protid hisld- ry of 'tlte pfst----withv the birth piuice umd Bie burial place of. Washington the. founder . .arid Jackson the nreserver-ef . thoConatilritfon'- dh ft iaaridoTheiUflionas it was'Great ap- 'Kut this COrresiyoae?rt'-sini:'TaKw i -i .... If the sympathizers with treason and traitors meditate tp carry '. oat their plans in this quarter." ; :':'..... - What plans ? Jut eurh as to day- have been the business of this Convention ; the plans of that old Union party, laying down a phuform and nouunating Democrats to fill the offices and control the policy of the Gevern-menuto the end that the Constitution may be again maintained, ami the Union restored, and peace, prosperity and hatipiness once more drop healing from their wings. Plans," the fellow proceeds, in this quarter they will dduhtlesA find the work quite as hot as they bargained for." And I tell the cowardly miscreant who telegraphed the threat that he and thoce behind him, will find the work fifty fold hotter when they begin it than they bad reckoned on. both here and in Indiana. . ': ' - ; '"-- . '- '-. "Ten thousand stand of arras," he adds, 'have been ordered for the State troops." For what ? To put down the Democratic party. Sir, that is a work whicp cannot be lone by ten, or twenty or nity thousand stami of arms in the hands of stich dastards n office or out of it. If so full of-: valor and so thirstv for Mood, let then enlist under the call just insued for troops in Ohio arid Indiana. Let them g down an i fijrht the armies of the "rebels" in the South, and let Democrats fijjV the rinarmed but'fnore insid'ous and daneer- ous Abolition -teheli of the North and Wept, through the ballot box. Fortv thousand additional troops. 1 estim:ite H. are ealle l for in the proclainatiou of yesterday, from the State of Ohio. Where are the forty thoiifs.ind Wide Awakes of lStKK armed with their ;orthie lam'poSt.--atid drilled to. the music of the Chicago platform ? Sir, I propose that 35,0)0 of them be CinscVipted forthwith. They will never enlist; they never do. They are' 'Home Guards " They ?on't go," but stay vidronslv at home tT1 slander and abuse and threaten Democrat? "whoe: fathers or hrorhrs or sons are in the -Uni. b .' armies or lrave fiilen in- b-ittle. ' I Hpeak genera :!r- rerm' aTv there are excep tions: ' But T ' ill eh'it- that if the " record-of the old W:de:Awnk? rlilm in the severaf -Miis and trwi of OHio-vTv-iil fi prolnced and t"'e "RepuJ.licans " will le:i:l or draft ""; from the lists. I will find o. W strong armed Htoutrheafted, brave and lovnl Democrats to s- lown ami see th t thev don t ran awav'.at the ri.rst fire. (Great laughter."" . . . ' Syranathizers' withr trea"sori nd 'traitors !. "-Secessionists 1 Kir.-: it i& iont tiVue that w-i had heard the lat of.thi.: The- ,Deopcray;v of 0hio andf the United .State ,are re-iolvtjd that an end shall le .put 'to' -this sort of slander and abuseJ But: ; I do not propose to 'discuss .this particular subject furthernoww---tVGp on, go on." . ; -. ... .- . .-.-v;w a;--, t Wellr then, from., that which concerns!! e pem'ocralic paTty, to a won!. , a siqgle. word aftotif what relates tdinvself; ari l I 'beg par- dob for Uied igress ion.r J am - rej oiced ' that it has been, perns it ted to me to be oecei present to-day in persou before yc- t- HayQtt beliey- ea ine jreporw pi tne .-tepupucan press, you Would, no doi6t Have 'expected to' see probably the most extraordinary " compound of - leprons ad uhsichllv fleh' and-lilood ever 'exhibited. f Laugh ter.X Well jgy ' friend,' 'you see that l am not quite looitrou''-at . least, ; and bear no especiaiiwrnblince" to 4he beast of the Apocalyp-4e,reitherr in heads or borne; , "r, B'w iita-lAsiiionwtth-yotir- ' To-the Repnbtieaa party alone.' an,1ti preee and orators, I am iDdehted, m .doabk'-for a urge part or the - moeity'' wh!chX a which has Littu?htoatve ?ftom AriK.,,. Iftoaeethl-ni.?' tter'htv mean 1. tnenaij toward tne, II khow; iut as I e aome of them io withitf "mVi utn letnne- wtisper ia4hiii-iearsU.at I ? never had' .. j .... ' . . ut- rt n iui.j, ini uu fji&a BTtrr usavince las : 1 1 - - -.. .1 : 1. cf CO;, c. ;ly ..-?; efcestrfer thal? :t IT- talgneil? for a text wouM be the tnonoihIapK8ayf ixaa ra-l.wj. mortal u:th 9d JiTm,Mulffp4to baxBDe Tie ier uavu in iae juuiotj- wouiu- .w u.iwwmjm foV cofiv: jitii fro 00': :to m bad?" T know that they are friends, hj biUl mp& tK remarks, toeyfhako'':.enUemea,l5 baye had ra y, aharej. of, whai -JefJTer8pn;;ledvhe unction, this hwv oil with which : the Demo crat ic-prleBt hood b as' 4l ways .been ' an noin ted - slander, detractiotV' and 'calumny without stint. -' Really Iani riofrsure that witltme it has not reached " extreme u.nction,.;.tbongh I am not ready and do not mean to depart y eti Well, I will not omplafn.';"lf lias", cost me not a single night's loss of sleep from he be- ginning. ? My appetileif too wftl 'pardov the' reference -if you will allow me, as Lincoln would say , to V blab" upon so. delicate a sob-. ject---bas been in ho degree 'impaired $1 it.- Others before tiie, and with me, hftve' endured the same. IIere.is my. excellent friend -near me, . Mr,,. .Medary.l t Oh, .. blessed Maty 1 Gyeav Laugh ter and applause. yor. one,and 1 sixty years, the storms, of partisan persecution a nd-malignity''in 'every form, have beaten? ft p-on his head: bnt though time : and toil have made it fray, the . heart . beneat h . heats sti II; to-day; as sound jind true to its instincts' .of De-i mocracy ant patriotism, ana 01 numanitv 100. as when helatd' his first onrm"gs ;ipVh the altar of his couatr-iust Jorty'ycant ago.- Wat others have heroically suffered .in age-past; we. too, can.nLire'-jn(e ate , -lnueea, siui in the midst of trials.. ; . x t -. , . Here" before meVls thVgntlemah of wKdm I have just apokepf -whom "you have honored with the Presidency, of this noble- Convention,; for forty years a Demooratic , eijitor for Jbrty vears devoteT. to the :(stlttidn "arid - the Unfori of thefe Slates -a - man 'whO.'throtiVtlr eood report, has adhered with tlie-:faithOf n devotee and the firmness of A', tuartvr.' 60 sthe princip'es and oHey ofttljt , g?andy did -party of ilie.Urii6ri:.atii now that the.frosts oft hree- jrore re irs ha ve descended' arid 'wfi 1 teried" h isH he-id- h.-I saviii Kved'.to see lb paper ?to ,.i. 1.. ..'jt. . 1 .Li j . i which he givesthe la;'bojr...And;the: wtstiomon fCrft 'ninWi"l Si miiel M edkr disldvaft itnd We?- tks'J Philljps-;ft patriot I f-Sir, -it is .not .many inonths suK-ethai .. he cny, ot vyhingtonv 'n tint mijriuficent' building erected, by the "haTny bf .1 n Erisrlihmrin who 'Idved Ameri-I would tl-ere were more like; him---tht rt- nd science:tidjitther;mo-widelyXnour-isb in th'ounry-r--theSUhonian Institute "-WeiideP-TRhillip addressed, an - assemblage of ujerr 'ns false to thP Upiow arid fb'e Cristi-tntion as himslfrTUport'ith ! plaffortri was ihe5keraofe-I,Io0heofjRpprefentAtives. .the third -offu-ef .-in ;thf :yei merit.: by , his i-'de the Vice President1 of the United ' States and ' between the-e two;. . in proporriohs long w out? the f form rt:;- f TnrieSt Ofd iA bra-: him Lincoln;" . -.Am l.mistaken. : id? was It it another and earlier A bolt 1 ion .lecture vby that other d"snioriijt,? Florsce jGreeley-in the os me?pf .e thete1 WavebVnj ma nv -'hf tljem-i-' batlinv-oeifetlf5 aWdW.-". Vice 'Presi- lent 'I .know were: there t a nd ? with these; two, 05 three-witqesf. es.beorei Wnrn and in presence of the priesthood of Abolitionism. the f urn tiers nriif Wilsinns.-the Xovejoy and the Wades of the. House: arid Senate. Great lansrhter and cheers. surrounded by these, the very architects of.disnnion,. he proclaimed that " for nineteen years he hod labored to take nineteen States out of the Union." And vet this most spotted trifor wi pleading for disunion in the city of Wnhinsrtoni where women are arretted. for the wearing; of rel, white and red. mon tlioir lv-nnet!, and barges of eighteen months are taken out of the little willow wasron drawn bv' their nnrses. because certain colors called sedition are found upon their swaddling clothes ! The "next day. or soon nfter; tliis same Wendell Phillips did dine with or was otherwf-?e entertnind bv his"! Excellency the President of the U-iifed States, who related to him one of-his choicest. anec. dot en. Yet Democratic editors. Democratic Senators and Representatives, and those Vold: ine other official positions by the grace of the States or of the peopls, are "traitors' forsooth, because thev would adhere - In the ;.priaeirles and organization of their noble. and, pa triotie old partv! Such are some pi the exhibitions which Washfnerton has witnessed duriris the past winter. Congress, too, has leen in- :ees-sion. - . - - .-' .. ' Sir, I saw it Announced in one of the disloyal papers of this e'tv yesterday that 'Jeff. Davis, and Toombs, and Yancev. and Rhett. and other secessionists -of the South.-wonM derive much comfort'- from .this - day's meet; ing. :'; . . '. .- :;, .'wv; ; ; ,'s . ' W11. sir. I have just come from a. body of men which I would not for a. moment pretend to comnsre rfor 'statesmnshipi respectability or patriotism" with--this-- Convention: i That body has devote 1 its time and attention to do ing" more in sir months, for the ennse ofsees-s;onii-m.' th-n Beanremrd. and Le. and.Tohn- onand all the .Southern Generals cornhined have been able, to accomplish in oneyear.--Said a Sena tor from the South, the other day, a Union nian : Jff.Davis is running two rdngresses now; and is making a d sight more -out ofthe- Wnshingtori: Congress- thA. Uie one at Rich mond." Laughs er, and many remarks of ai-proyal. . , - V-;.; -'." ; i The lejrirsation of 'that hoily has been almost wholly for the " almighty " Af ican' From the prayer in the morning (for." gentlemen, we are & pious loly. , we' are making Wng taesi and sometimes wry. faces, too. Laughter -we open with praver lt there is noi much of tbe'Altni'ihty' Caker of heaven fttSt-eaVth--in iff from the prayer to the "motion to. adjourn i is negro in every ehape-aiMi form m wh.i.h he oan by : any possibility be served up ' But it is not only the negro inside' of the nduieaii'F Sehflfte hntdut'Me'atso. Theeit"v of Washintou has been.'wlthifi the pawt three weeks, oonvertej Jntdioneimierslr'hospita': every oliurcbr .expt, one i'oj; each dermiina,-tlonr h as" been Seized ibr ho-jital purposes' : Tnd while the'Batoctuariei 'Of thevevey living flod--4lie God of 'Abraham, ' Isaac 'And 3 icob r-rnot .the new .God vOf the Burliflgaine' hud Sumpera aud other. AbolubuiU.mot.tht God whos'oai!.! -riUen- IjiiKb ew,.Bhiep AooiHioo -out tne veriivipgjhfau.jtioa, have besn confiscated for hospitals, eVeiy,t!lie ater, eTery edricert eaJoonVeverrot'heV plajt of amusetoenCfrom the highest to 'tHe'JoweI--frdtn tbe prtbeater rrilwhcb '"aJoresi exbibitt to an eArapture audience pis gkpbi0 renderings of tb 6 Im'mprtal'cfea 1 ions 'of Sh'ak-speare, down 6b drunkennesir.rc open iiff W Itf-tbe inferno of-tb'grwt Italiorr poetU-v -: -: . -f " -: f..r . ilt'iTk gtoi of belt stand epa Ug aa flsyi9 "' '.s Qtrl If these places l am'usemrat---innoceni btne V tbemi bat" i6t; boly certaJA!y2ibA3 ifirrt beeiit seized" iordspitals f&t thecomTort and1 fcur .bfth ousaeds of' bra re a odf b dnesi raenT h west fcn-lb belUvlft liiJHhelr hearts lhatheier'to? battla for ihe -ConsfitutTori And the-Uriioa btjt iebo bow He wastrri'a way opoBtlir lonely palle'tA.'witlitrj wL'e, or Ux tr or motherherff faidtbeTifTcan!'-; i-j ony wli'J .?fcry 'dccrirtluir. x vozt i v. Lkh Tcr t fori. through ajpart of themails as "dtsIoyaF to ': the' GovernmenVV ' f Cries ' of 1 " No. So.. flrsibee'n 'e- l; ahdtben it bkd ecessary for 1 omfort or life ofthe tbouaaods of Otber avc Id wpuaded who re borne into the jciij eburchla oTWashingU or holier purpose to beeff devoted; ;A.na .that stately. eapitoti abblitioii treason now r Jreene Row? by nai gitive'elaveB-contrttl slang of the infamous the rations -Of ibe'soVd'.-out of the taxes levied hundred -.thousand .'do-front the public grease these -.fugitiye: slaves,' Shields, and other U41 even so lately as six .w footed bare beaded, an many weary miles wit I er,ra crpst ot br4 w day; I know -a aw - wa a w 1 whose marble walls s riot,- ie a buildings . ; in which :llQOra-ds"'" in' the preciooa tler-afly '.receive rwbieb-are paid for pon-tbe people. One i day are taken- T fof tk ' nnnnrt- Of while-' the armv ofj . armiee4 io ! the . field ' :a ago,, marched bare-' . a their drawers,--for uf o much asa crack 4 b. which to allay.their J3unger. , Aye str, wa str many AraUantyoung. soldier ot OhioViust bfoffune'rinto' , manhood: who heard the cry that wnt up fifteen months ago,!" Rally to defend the, flag and for htree-CM-of the capital" andi went forth to battle, with "honesty .in bis heart, bis Jife.in his band, with' courage inteyerj fiber. And patriotism, in evert Mft.'4iea'Ait and sad on .Kinr naJlel in the hospitai,-y"oBr surgfpnyr are forced ' to di-4 Vide their 4ihe"arid care between the wound ed soTdiera And these ,vagabojsd fugitive sUves, who,have, been seduoedor forced rou the service of.their masters. . Theee things and muc)i raore-41 have told yott, not" a tithe of allr-are doiie in . Washington." We know it .there, though, it is '. with held irpni the people ; and while' everv" falsehood . tbat the inirenuity.or frf man can invent td delue and decei ve, is trans-" n 1 mitteil or.allowed by 'the telegraph io censors of the' Admirilstratipn-tuemselves usurpers, "on kn owli to t he Cdns iration arid 5 laws these met are not1 permitted tbr' reach the people of tne u nitea states. , ', Y our newspaper, the nat-1 tlral watch4 dogs 'of nbertv,, are threatened mth eupiiression if but the-half or the hiin- 'irroin pan 01 uie imiu ie iota, abu doh. too, when but. one- ot hr- means remained for tW.redres of. this and te hundred' other po-' liticat jeTievanee. under Which the land trdans. partjr organisation ; andpubUc assemblagesof me peopie -een these; too, are threatened with suppression ty "arnied force.J; Jye,rer, tbdt vry party whleti.'not' many yeara ago. liorp. npoa- every banner the' notoV '' Free Speech and a Free Press," ntpr day by day forbid s the- transrandon - through your m a i is of the , papers ' frojn. whtcfi - yrdit' d-rive your Knowledge pj niiiJic eventfc-a.iid which advo- con uits print:! pies you vofrlcn. r And . Democratic editors, too. are seized "kidnapped" ia.the jnylnight- haur tornfrom their fanrilies---gagged their wives with', officers Over theni mettaci8!.vio!ence if they but n3,k"one farewell grasp of ' the hand, one parting kiss thrust into a close carriage in the felpi's boufof midnight,''. and with violence draggel-to this" Capital, arid here forced upon An express train-and hurried Off to a- military fortress of-the Uhitel States. . Yes, Men of Ohip', to a ortress that; bears the honored name of "that firet martyr to American lilterty the Warren of i Bunker Hill : yef it " roar vbe 1 tcrj thAt.other bastile, desecratjiutbatJatl name sacred in American history, and honored throughout the earth the- name . of that man who forsook home and gave up rank and title, and in the first flush of youth and manhood came to our shores and linked ' bis fortunes with the, American Chuse- the prisoner of Ohnutz, the 'brave' and gallant Lafayette. Aye, freemen of the West, , fortresses, bearing these honored names, and meant for the defense of the country against foreign foes, and out of whose casemates bristle cannon planted to hurt death and destruction at armed invaders, echo now with the groans and are watered by the tears not of men only from States seceded and in rebellion, or captured in war, but from the loyal States . of the North and the West, and from that party which has contributed nearly three-fourths of the soldiers in the field to-day '; Are these things to be bornef ? ".Never;; no. never.?-; If you have the spirit. of freemen in you. bear them ' not ! Great applause, and cries of "That's it, that's the talk." What is life worth? What are property and personal liberty and political, lib- ertywdrth. or what value are all these things if we, born of an ancestry of freemen, boasting, in the very first hours of our boyhood: Of a more extended liberty than was ver vouchsafed to any other people, are to .fail now in this' the hour pf sore trial, to demand and to defend them at 'every' hazard? Freedom of the Press I Is the man who sits in the White House at Washington, and who Owes all , his power to the press and the ballot is' be "now to play the tyrant over tisT "No 1 neyer. heVfr:"-: Shall the man who stts at oneend of a telegraphic wire in the - War Department or the Department ot State,' a mere clerk, it hiay he a servants of servants, sit down and bv one single click of the Instrument, order a minion of his.- a thousand miles off, to -arrest Samuel Medaryv or Judge -Ran ney, or Jodge Thurnian,, and hurry them, to a bastile? "No, it can't le done ; we ' will never allow rt.u The Constitution says "no man shall be held to answer for crime except on Ine process of , law." ;. Our fathers, six hnndred years ago. asaembleti.. upon ,the.plajna of Runny-mede in'olif England; and rescued from 'tyrant hands, not by arms but by iirm" ' resolved : the GoiVgiveri right o be; freeri Our' fathers, in the time of . Jamesr 1 and of Charles; iU endured trial arid persecution .and . Joss of life arid of liWrty," rather : than nbmit to oppression ahd'-wrong.1 5 J oh n 9 Hampden,' glorious John Haropleatrthe ftrt gentleman of ' England., arrested .upon an illegal exeoutite , warv .wt calmly, a ad herpiejilly.r to, the. cells of prison fatlteban piy .twenty shiTlinga1 ofi ani-illegally-assessed tax',?1aid of Enjjhindi arid ofj the tlghttf ajutrpriTilegea-Ettgliame AnJL all.histojy.JIs fnjl of likeaxawple8...Wit-t.W-wkeH the Mtyranra rown. bis day afid genertlpri, in defense bf ibsi same riglits;'in the-ridblVrepttblie brtbeSwissjtTand that gallant . little" peopleV' hemmetl ' fca samdng lhe-:Alps,;thoagH sarroundeit on very s!de: by despots whose legioas -atimberedv more: than therwhole popnTation of Switiertand, hftvel by thata.me mdomiUble spirit 6f liberty m&in-tajaedUieua rightii their iiberties jrnd: their independence to this boar.- And at Americaai nowitoloSerthemaelves sp areervile 'sacrifice apoa.-4beh ml titr arbitral baVe misread signrpf the timer an' the lempef of :tbie people;' if there is not already spirit dn ihsr land which -ttt abdot to' speak- id thooder tonea.td ibowa wbic etretchr-forttetn the atmng-arm: of .despotic. jpower,?ThaA 4p shalt thou come, and :bo . farther.? -Wictaads' yon f r yoa jre---otnerTAnts.Thi, v tir; terward when h cl in olicejis the gift oCthe. people-to ItO r- I f tjreitbe Utla.jpro.v -.'!y. xAH I. .fskff t' .--:-j-cri-:; neyft'r.o ot jer rr 1 -- rTtri tr.r vr.c!i :CCri-i YcaiL .'.! ! -.r- h; ;i- lienor .re..sia iwz& tan-tTidiap. tJy to men m oCl.cer k?9 I ! fwaa . AftbwZor in first .manhooi. end a.rrivate citizen and Af v while the organs and insbumeats of ' the "p Ee---te fresa na puojte aasenxbagea i-are .tet , ' suppressed 8dtbe,'Ck)nstitation, i.wiU-Its iw else be sacrificed jKHcnpoo the tyranl'a pleA that it is I necessarr to save the Government. nien.tbe Uoiotul Sir; w 'ihdTsav'e the Union for years- ves ..we did. - We were the U a ion taa yere iot . eighteen months'agol Theinhere waa'not an epi-tbet.ia the wboleyoeabalary af pblilical .billingsgate, ett opprobriotta, in the eyee of A: So-publican when applied to the Democratic par ty as 'Union ehrie.kers'';or the Uoion Sa-ere1 I remember ia my-own city; on- the day of the presidential election, is 1860-1 re- roemper a weij.ior 1 oaa. iaa( oy triviea seyeral hundred miles to vote for Stepbeu .A. DourUs for the Presidericr -tb at in a ward where the Judges of "election were all Demo- pats, your pa triotie n .Wjde-A wa kes, at rutting in unctions uniform,, came up bour after, hourj toniriing mnr uncoi uKta iwist idibib and. finger at the judges with .the .taunt and BnT,'Mth4-UnxonytavlhX7nionl" And yet jnow,-; forsooth, we are fHraitorei and ' "se cessionists !; And old gray-bearded and gray- headed men who lived and -vpted in the jimes of Jefferson and Madisout and", Monroe, -and Jackwmmien wbd lia'vfought'and- bled'tip- on the 1-attle. field, and! wbev fondly indulged the Uftusion for; iortv-yeare that they were pa triots--wake up suddenly to-day, to find them Felves "traitofsr' -sneered at," reviled and in salted by; stripplings whose fathers"' thev would have disdained ' tot have : set with the dogs of their flocks." .Of. all these things an inquisition, seartdiing and terrible, will yet be made, as sure and as Sudden, too, it may te. aA the ' Day of Judgment. e of the loyal States we of. the! loyal party of the country, the Democratic . party we; the loyal citizens of jhe U-nlted States, the editors of" loval news- papers we who gathered together in loval nssetnblsges, like this, andare addressed by truly loyal and Union men as I know you are today and at this moment "That's bo: that's the truth ;" we, foreootb, are to be now der ritedOnr privileges and our rights as Americans and as freemen v we are to be threatened with-bavonetM at the ballot box. and lavonets disperse Democratic meetings ! - Again, I ask, why dp tbey not "take up : their 'muskets and march to the South, and like brave men, meet the embattled hosts of the Confederates in open arms, instead of threatening, craven-like, to : fight unarmeHemocrat8'at home possibly unarmed, and possibly not. Great lahgb-fer arid applause, - and a reaark "That was well put in." ' If" so lelIigerent,'so eager to shed that last drop of blood, let them volunteer io reinforce the broken and Shattered col umns of McClellan in front of Richmond, sac rificed as be has been by the devilish . machi nations of AiMHttonism. aiHl there mingle their blood with the blood "of the thousand who.have already perished on'tlioee fatal " battle fieids.r But no the ; Whistle,, of the bullet and the. song pf the shell are . not . the sort of music to fair pleasantly ' upon" t he ears of thifc Home truard KepuMican soliiiery. ' .-With reason', therefore, - fellow-'citizens-.- I congratulate you; to-day pnonr the victory which you have; achieved; A. great poet has - "Peace bath her vie tori e aa well asWar..,-To-day the cause, of free government has trv u mphed;"" a victory of the Constitution, a victory of the" Union, ha been won, but is yet to be made complete by the m-n-who go forth from this the first political battle-field of the campaign, bearing upon their banners that noble legend, that grand inscription THE CONSTITUTION AS IT IS, AND THE UNION AS IT W AS." - Great cheerrng anl a nplause. IN THAT SIGN iSHALL YOU CONQUER. Let.it be inscriled Upon every -ballot," einbla zoned upon every banner, flung abroad to evr ery breeze, whispered in the zephyr, and thundered in the tempest, till its echoes shall roue the fainting spirit of every patriot and freeman in. the land. It is the creed of the truly loyal Democracy of the United States. .Iuber half of r this great cause -it is that; we are now if need be. to do and to suffer in political war-; fare whatever may -. be: demanded of freemen who - know their .rights, , and ' knowing dare maintain them. Is there any one man in all this vast assemblage .afraid to 1 meet all the responsibilities which an earnest and inexorable discharge of duty may require at his hands in the canvass before us? "No. no. not one." If but one let him. go home and hide bis bead for very shame. s . . , - . - --'.". Wh" would be a traitor, khavs, Who eonld fill a eoward'a grave, ' .wy..-i.-.Wh..sp baae as be a! atave. s . . Let him turn and fleeJ . - '. - ; ft h no contest of arms to . which you are invited. Your fathers, your brothers, your sons are already, by thousands and hundreds of thousands, on the battle field. To day -their lKHielie bleechine upon the soil of ev ery Southern State, from South Carolina to Missonri, It is to another conflict. Mxv or Ohio, that you are summoned ; but a conflict, nevertheless, which' will demand of you some portion, at least, of that same determined courage, that same unconquerable will; that 'same inexorable spirit, of endurance, which, make the hero -npdu the military - battle field. I baye mistaken the temper of the men who are here -to-day. I have misread the firm our- 'pose that speaks .from every eye, and. beams from every countenance which stiffens every sinew and throfs in every breast ; I have misread Ulall, if -yon are not resolved to go home and there maintain at all, hazaxds and bt xvxbt sacrifice, the principles, the policy arid'tbe organization pf that, party to which", again And yet again I declare unto you, this Government and conntry are indebtel for all that have made thenr- oaakp. olobiops ajid (at. " XCheers.ajid greal.applanse. " , t Ta iPceaUEent,r Um? ba- presenting-- Mr; feSIere.ia be heart, of Ohio, vbera 'ao long has been the residence of Governor Mediryi no introdncllonl iheTmocnrif Ohio is fHfcr?0 ?re l? '? e?(ec-n--i tBepea' ed cfieere we'riphfj9 aa-be-turned. to the audience, and said: - . " - i . '....,' GfnUemen, .Democrat nf Qkiot -Too. must trxCu'seftne' iCl shduld appeara little .nervous on being5 notiSed of . the high- honor ' Ott'bave cpnerTai;Bpot meii I ia oi pfleft that me in modern times at promoted to high, and honorable distinctionswithcut beinj notified befoib?jdat;Ly3aoIlUiso1 pronoted. LiUle did I expect wbtto I appeared jts a delegate" frorii Tranklio cpuatv a few minutes ro- to bear my-name announced aa. President, of t..a4ucst rec; :civ..3anif patriotic ConreDtiou of the Dci30cr-'7'f! Clio.; And wbeajX -aay Democracy f f Caio; Irliope there ia hothin'-' "t r?r 1 1 -w L&t2U?z t l C , a few m6menf t'will offer a feV'remark da think thie a pfd per' meeting Tor the Fourth dar of JtfTmAtr4l reara after thes 'Jktttt&totynxei all Obat ax a. lefCi-c ) r I f , . - - " -. t 1 t '.It. jarauon proeiaimai(ireeaom ana . w guw 01 man to toe woriu, a am astonisnea ip ear. men or sense casnnz lmpurauona upon mote old fkthers who tood by their edtintrr in tbeiattW:wbstlheJrrTeuA-tl boors of .trial is-weil aa, prosperity; botho ac- eprdipgto the principle wid down a wer.-aa- aerstaua. toen, ana .accorainc. to .me great ftmmferof Democracy, Thomas J effersbn-rrl i saT-l am enrprised to hear imputations cast. rape those old .heroes.. . '5; I - - -' - ; Tb.ere4s brdly 5 an old-anan here who Las not a son under the command of the United States forces;, and we bave placed our sons in ids nanus oi mm wno is vxmmanaer-in-Vyniei of tbe - armies of the Uoion. r and . who has sworn to preserve: not only the country, -bet. the liberty, and freedom. oX its people. ' Gen tiemen-iC vou will ' permit: me. ;i. will take tliis opportunity to indnlge io-a personiil remark ortwp. ; i am astomsoen at yon, gentlemen, to-dlTTo havetnetwldness and daring to -defend an old "gray-baired Democrat from the charges resting upon him. - In- vindicating mvself, I will vindicate you. I A voice "that'e so.') I have been' charged with not being loyal 4o my country. '' God knows that if I am notvnobodv is; I have .in opinions, and ytn jnicht as well atemnt to consolidate into one ereat church all the relieiona raith ot the cbunfry. . as to consolidate all the political opinions under one bead, " and "require every man 'of every party , to believe' alike, v But when I pay my. taxes I support , the .Gotern-ment. , .When I" pay for each spoonful of-sugar I put in my tea. I support my government; and when I pay for the tea my wife puts in her teanoL, I sunDort the eovernmenti when I pav for mr clothes, or my . windinir .sheets X support myrgovernment.t Buti I,liave: done more: I sent one of Jnv sons, info the arhiyv, arid supported him for six months but of ' tny-own pocker.iwitbout the aid 'of a dollar - from the government r end a aon-in-Iaw. who- mar ried one of mv daughters- and you who have daughters know how you are attached to them, fte-iliT when they, are left alone was in the thickest of the fiht, having charge Of a reginent when Lyon fell at Springfield. And yet I am a traitor I- , - . - . Why am I called a traitor? . Because I believe that the doctrines which were taught me, and which I have taught to thousands pf pth-ers. are true and necessary to the" welfare of the country. Has the Democratic party ever been untrue to the country? (Several voices Never no. nor ever will be.) Tbey say ' I 5m a revolutionist; so I am; I was cradled by revolutionary parents. But;L look JO" the Constitution to guide me. in the chaDges that come upon ns. ' ' ". , ' ' : .-: . ; There wat time when they wpuld burn John Rogers at the stake, because Jie did not (teliev.in their religion, and there-tnay be a time, -I admit, in all governments..when.men will be punishcTfor diSeririg with' the State politics of- the ; country.1 (A vbice "That time naaarrived. basnt it?) t I understand it has been intimated that this Convention could npt.and ought not to be held. For Why?-- Because politically we differ with the administration in anthoriiy, I ask tou." supposing 1 throe dicnHiMi in the "TJntted St-rt 4d . oiv j curred when the Demoerals wereTn" powelr; anct supposing your Democratic Jfresident andOon-gressmen bad prrie-i-on the war for the suppression of the jrelellian contrary to the feelings, and opinions of their political opponents' would they not have said thev disapproved of it? Have they not always add eo, when - we. had. a war on hand?..; ''S' r :' -' Irffm warn, yon, on thisv4tb of July thia Sabbath of Liberty that, whenever the doctrine is preached. that" during civil war all men must close their mouths till the civil commotion is put down, civil liberty is in danger. Let a tyrant be elected, and civil commotion m4y1e gotten iip for the express purpose of suppressing freedom of speech. ; ( Voices, That's .so t -thpit'e the doctrine) Were I an ambitioua man. like Napoleon or Nero,- and wished to make my people support me at all hsxards, my firsLobjact -would- be to get up, irher Jy my own etTprts or by some other means, cml commotions, that I might require ne peopie .10 ,ie unanimous in my support. . I then might not "only manage that war, but raieiit rob and . steal to my heart s 'content. with my miniops around me, filling their: pur ses at the expenses or the people who dare not open their mouths. (A ?piceThat time nev er will come in this conntry. Another : voice " It has come already." I say fearlessly, that the truest friend the President and the country hve. is he who will openly" and bold ly "tenon nee the robbery of the poor soldiers in the fields. : But the dth'er day, throughthe se-ftret machinery of secret pperatipns, and by the closins of mouths, not only here, but upon the floors of Congress; a grave Senator of years' standing, in the 'gravest body in the world; for it once was so regarded.) was detected and exposed in selling his influence for $50,000. for securing a contract of fifty thousand half made muskets 1- And. yet we are told that we, and our children, and our children's children must submit td this robbery and in dignity without daring td open our months at the ritk Of leing run off somewhere rat some hour of the night, when neither wife nor children can sound the alarm. Nowjf there is a Republican so-called -or a simon pure, unadulterated Union njan,' that is too good to pray at the feet of the old Gamaliels if there is one such nnder the sound of my voice, I ask him if what I have said here to-day in the advocacy of a free expression of right ' and the conlemnation of wrong, if it would not protect him if we got in 'power as much as it would protect us when tou are -in -power? : I would scorn to preach that which was good only for DemocratajTlw"6Til4.. scora'to preach a doctrine-that-was not as potent for the protection -of my political -. enemies as .myself And my. friends-,.. When I had a liole difficulty prf niv.hanila Lb Kansas a civil war in miniature exilHion"-i"arid undertook to seftlertbe" troab-" les there and bring eoeie'ty to'crde'aml poace"; It wileoBcel Utterly by what; was -xAl led the FreeiStaje papers: jAawben" Js asked if 1 ea w those attacks, I ouid reply; Yes, and 1 ha ve read t hem jrjt b i n terest and arei" Eveyyjpressioa tjfit gave newJhtj iostead 6fben6ed fprtbe i pi prison men i of the ' au- rhot" Iw'onJdjuefc 40. Ihe.best adranlage; jaitid filth e resi go ' Ti :. . V ' " 1 ' r ti."; , ."i : 'Gentlemea I have saidl inonzH.-ri (Jorwi-' have' aaked and plead" ibr the ,'maiatenancc An4 eutiaiuince'or the- organization, of this oldtiemocratio party, bat ll-baea known from my youth, J jny study,-pf reyolntio-is, .4 especially uch as ibit, ..and jjarticularly the masjir ia which the' civil" part" was proeectt-tod; "Ii bar TookedVor tbrHim;,wheB we would be' slooltedr to And prayed as the lasx boon of the countrv. If the time never should come when -we eonldew-in-rndeave thej CDuntryine oraaizuHw wum -.-vf m-u.' Ibr ! it a peaceable ap-cons.utiiona orui- r"'K-.V "''. "."V--V"'-" r-;; I ...,e li TtOluifi nouiuj m.vur f aiir ttic.c r ani Iri i.i v. 3, at I r. --rf I ta; 9 c - -r r.r Jnct ; v.. X ear.yoA, ay devnoeratio Trienda' will Lc iL e onlr . Union men left in the countrr-(A there shell be intrigues of other' natiotis, strd iL. .k.H k. inln-liu Af vt mm . - ijs. - m r- I ti4 authority t WaluigtpnrbJ submit4 peaceably' to the U viek hil Ac.A .yc i ta vision of. tLese disunionista ?: ButTre tnll: let that pass, fcr I . fs-an-unhapryjftjnclition nottifair abeii.-1 . received to-dayr -tu inost-extraorGinary Jrc"-.a- detitjal letjxxvfronra aonrce tmtrtiild -tr - ct- ed, warnine us that the honr-r-not tiirty cays. pernaps, aisianvrwnen- ia. te -oeirevea vq. proclamiti'on will be issued from Wnehizrtci. asking A northern- people -to- submit to a tI i-' vision of this country. - wever toot at.ici . it.) .'i aste tbeuiif. thia;l)e'rthefit---anJ I , don't pretend to state whether it is or not ;. who then will be in favor of the dissolution of tbeJnion? The terr tnen witbLconiraets ia . their pockets, who bave. iwh-rich' rby the-mifrtuneeof Sheir tilntry i9 '.xhia war. and ' they,"wholiave carried ropes to bang, tboea '-who oeyer-.breatbed, A?dloyfti breatb, will - have JL6c gi?yt&fTri plause.) " " .. I V . 'J - .'- -Vt - . I thank you, gentlemen most : heartily v it - the manner in which TOtrbtre iionoredLe sa President of this bod vs and I think that I will prove forerrnany rmontha. thaf, of all vniea ia this world, neither yonr President to-day, nor the men making up thie Con veetion, -are enti tled to the charge of disloyaltyWbeircpun Remarks oCTadge Thnrnian fS-t "-'AtlT2 : tLZZ&T .--. f-- DEMOCRATIC STATE COJfYEifTIOS.' At ; the clo8eofudgeTRanheye remarka Judge Thurman wis loudly and continuously ' called for. At last be' reloctantly took the" Tatiaud and-began i - 0 ;- --t--f uaitl . Why, what kinTbf people, axe jou?. A voice-white people. ' Have you not1 rentl in Republican newspapers about Tbarmaa.-sympathizing with rebels, as well as 1 Val'aa-digham aud IXedary, and why "do you tllon us to speak? fA voice we sympathize with you." , Well, I tell you what if is, you, ld ' better take care that you are riot taken' out -of your beds and carried off to. Fort Warren soibe of these nights. I wpuld like to make a pe;h toypu, but there is not time ndw fGo ;oa ; we can etay here all nigh tno bear the ' truth'. ' Well, after the two or -three regular speeches, you. will sot. want more-, thaa a ahort one from oie. " .- .:r-.v-jf iilr-t-y This shall be my text: ; That .never,, siaca God made this; world,; bas'any ' party" been ao infamously treated as has the Deroocrafie pir- . 1 ty since thia war began. Tbat'strue. "Never, since history -began to be written, was there A-party. that made the same sacrifices or its feelings, prejudices land opinions, and brongbt its influertce-to: bear so strongly in aupport bf an .administration that it didn'Lelect and elevate to power, as, baa tbe Democratic '.party since tbe war fcegan. ; And what Las been tbe i retura t We baa done all we.cdullto avert-the war ; not one of. as had uttered "one woM in. favor of, eeeessiba'noi one xf x bad ever . made an Argnc'''i-via.vot jpr-iK of;tb Union. On the contrary, we had ftc-od foYlhi Union tinder cireamstance IL at r ' .-have almost justified us in cutting loos ? from all Srmpatbies-with the ; South j they : trestid ' us, the Democratic party in tbe North---wi.li.: something leas than respect, at the Cou ven tion -.-. in Charleston and "Bajti more ; we h ad a rilit to eom plain -of -them, but we' eacricei our feelings upon the altar of the country ; and remembering our duty to the Congtitntion And the Union, .we said to, those merwithwbera we bad co-operated sd long, -we will forget "our . resentments if you will help to-Bave the Union. We- remousira ted. with." tbe South': Against secession v we argued.with the .North against . secession ; we set .our faces against every. ex treme sentiment or feeling that -would" leadto-alienation-. We besought the people to biy aside party feeling and, sacrifice, every thing that stood in tbe, ay of tbe country's welfare, that we might preserve the land from that which we now see has happened to it. That is what--we' did and -we -were treated witb, scorn and contumely Jrom that lime on; - IiU-tie flippant fellows- not knee high to a dqck, as the boys say. would eay to old gray haired men, You' don't knpw anything about' this matter we'll run over' the -continenf in thirty days, and make those fellows skeddadle -and behave themselves.''': .There were. at the SoQtt. just as bad a set of men"; they were determine ed " to break up ; the Union ; 4ud' these two . classes played into each other's hands;1 The ' Southern party to this disunion platform gaTp the finishing touch, to their work by .firin-gopc on Fort Sumter. aDd then what did ih e .Democratic party do? 'It gave aeupportsacH as ho political party ever before gnve to an "AJmisi. ' tration chosen, by . politicals oppontsU- '.TLo whole North presented a unanimous front to check. tbe madness of tbe Sputbv Tiytat. Jbl"" lowed? - Why it was n"ot".a month before-wi had sent our aona and brothers to the field by . hundreds of thousandswho were pouring out treasure landood- werwdeppunced.by the Abolitionists ; as rebels sympathisers, jf-:w would not go the whole abolition , figure ' an t make this a war of emancipation, They coa!4 not be content with a united -ICorth. to restpfs the .Union and maintain the? ConetitutidA.-a " That was too Democratic.; vThey were wilU"! to hare a United. North, but itmost' be pin the Wendell Phillips plari,-and '.every man whd would not tad en-tht jAatC-rm "vasATebtl sympathizer. "Np'mstter rttit li -uAde tion. if he i.idu."t bow Ui-.U.;tu-ilcH:ii;"a " god of. Abolition, lie was a rebel trr itorl or at . least aeympathizer with traitors."' .WLat Geu era! who is a Democrat has not met all araoj of ppposition anddit2eulty.?"v Wbatbave liey - said of AlcUJeliau,. and .what will tpej sr . (hat'misfortnnehas t-tfAlIeb"" him t .V est Grants and- every oilier -DenKX'ic Ceaerif younn mention f ButfSf-ai.Vi'wuI atv' abolitionist like HQafcxJ and. "at "red.Xr?tfv-he . on niggers and guasin. their handf fed jde-j rnand the righu And" cwisideraUori fo ihfci. as free1 white eoldiers enlpy if he te a man' likfc Freroonabst aril issue a ipraclaiiiou-that biAQwncemmandeio-ehief has to revek-a f the will applaud and sued by all be x!es. thousand rebels atafelip; yoa are toll t:.at I. ? deserve to oe hungr' xea, tbon- vc vouk flesh arid bjtood to-pat down rtl." :to- voa do not favor Alolitioa. yea are d 'nM. it rebel ermbathlzer.'. , " . ; 1 -This injustice iiasfoneonaboutl fApplause, and cries of th&t b so . 13 talk." ' It is time Car these isncc".:.- w ceaie.- Abase of the ITorthera Pscocrirr.er. 1 vi:. tions .of. the Corstitution, trirbc-t- plausible pretext cT public neee?s :r, raddear of -strer. iheriin the sri c. . iem-nert T7Len t;'j creat Co vcrr. : 7C0.CC 3 tr?-crv tl''.s IwlC .tr la."? e cf C "attriiiriirv t,r- ar.j c 1 t - v ea fcunvtrej r - 'i . ;-,iv-3'; !.-; , , -, . r -1 1 v, .1 . 3 1.