Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-06
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constitutional form OF government, puI III
utter destruction of the checks and balance
of the Constitution, shall overturn the Gov
eminent of Washington, and shall place in
power a Government utterly at war with it,
I tell you, for one, lam aJsolved from all
allegiance to that Government. My ale.
glance is due to the suJuerted Government,
and although amay be IN a minority, here
Is n ma that wW stand IyH, Hre or die.
Fellow-citizens, have said to you enough.
1 have spoken but the words, | trust, of ex-
p%erience and of truth. I have been far
more respectful to my opponents than they
have been to me. CA voice, That's 500
I have done them no injustice. l have ag-
crossed on nobody. I have assailed no
mans reputation and no mans name, and
no mans patriotism. Theavowed opinions
of candidates are before me, and [ have a
right to deal with them as an individual,
and my acts as an individual have nothing,
in face, to do with this canvass.
Suppose l we're all that is charged on me,
how does that effect Breckenridge and Lane,
who stand forth the defenders and advo-
Gates of Constitutional Union and a Con-
stitutional Democracy? In the Convention
at Charleston and Baltimore, Mr.. Douglas
had a friend, Mr.. Goulden, of Georgia, who
made two speeches in favor of re.opening
the African Slave-trade. He was cheered
by everybody there, and rebuked by no man.
Would it be right and fair and just in me
to charge Mr.. Douglas with being in favor
of the Slave trade because Mr.. Gouldon
was in favor of the trade, and is his sup
porter? The editor of the Southern CON-
tederacy, published at Atlanta, floats now
at its masthead its prospectus, proclaiming
that it is for disuuion ifthe Slave-trade laws
are not repealed. He is a supporter of
Douglas. Would it be manly, fair or can
did in me to charge Mr.. Douglas with be-
ing in favor of the repeal of the laws against
the Slave-trade, because that gentleman
supports him? There are doubtless in your
churches some men that ought not to be
there they are there from worldly, sordid
motives, and are not the true followers of
the meek and lowly Lamb. Shall those
churches be denoudced as worldly because
that is so? When Jesus Christ was upon
earth, there was a man Of the chosen twelve
who was himself bad man and a betrayer.
Should Jesus Christ have been cruci6ed by
the Jews because there was a bad man
among the twelve? Yet the Douglas men
say so by their philosophy. have no doubt
that fellow was Douglas fellow Applause
and laughter The party that will con-
demn Breckenridge, Il Union mai all his
life, who avows he is in favor of extending
the limits of the Union, with d%isuniou be-
cause Yanccy is his friend and is called a
disunion mani tell you if such a man
was living in the time of Christ, he would
have been Judas, and would have crucifed
Jesus Christ for entertaining him.
Grant all against me that is said. Grant
that | am a bad man. Don't you know some
of the most unmitigated scoundrels unhung
in Memphis supporting Douglas, as we'll as
Bell or Breckinridge? Yet, by the logic
which makes our ticket a disunion ticket,
because | am its supporter, you must make
out Douglas to be a bad man.
But | don't acknowledge that l am a bad
man, not at least before a douglas tribunal
or a Bell one. There is tribunal before
which it is said, There are none good, not
ONE There | stand abashed. But | don't
acknowledge before that tribunal that &C.
cuses me in the spirit in which they have
accused me, and the manner in which they
have done it, and the failure to do me the
justice to publish my answer | don't &C.
knowledge before them that | am as bad as
they. How much worse they are I don't
say. [Applause.] There may be some, and
many Of them, even better.
The hour is closing. I only wish to say
this: Let US look where the true Demo
cracy is-let US look to where the old ban
ner loats-let US see who are the boilers,
and what their object is, and see if there be
not among them an animal that has a ring
on his tail, and see if you can't see the
coon-skin sticking out now. Some Of those
Douglas fellows have got the paint in the
brushes, and they are trying to paint the
fellow now. The Douglas leaders are will
ling to do it. They remind me of an anec-
dote. There was a shoemaker, an lrishman,
and in putting up his sign he had painted
on it boot and a shoe, with the motto of
his native country, erin go braugh.' A
Know-Nothing cawe along who wanted to
have his boots mended. He saw the sign,
and would not have his boots mended by
this man, and he told him so, and gave his
reason why. The Irishman went home and
told his wife, and, says he, What shall |
do. You are wiser than |, any how 'Well,'
said she, do you mix his sign with your
sign. Go and put on your sign, ERIN E.
P!uribus Unum Go Braugh.' So it is with
Mr.. Douglas and Bell, they have got on
their sign. ERIN Z. Pluribus Unum Go
Braugh.' 1t is neither Irish-it has not the
genuine brogue of 'Swate Ould Ireland,'-
neither is it good American. 1t is a mix
ture simply designed to appeal to the pre-.
JUDGES and passions of those sections. say
let US have each stand out for himself.-
Applause. erin Go Braugh' has a right
to a footing in this land-it has got a right
to equal rights with IL Pluribus Unum.'
Side by side, IL. Pluribus Unum' and Erin
Go Braugh.' [Great applause.
If the temple of our liberty, in process of
time, should be taken possession of by those
who have no right there; if the temple of