Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-30
MIR. Trumbull,s speech.


Of the president elect. We give the
speech below, entire:
FELLOW CITIZENS: 1t is meet that
Republicans should make merry and be
glad, for the spirit of liberty, which, with
our rulers, was dead, is alive again, ana
the Constitution, ordained to secure its
blessings, which was lost sight OF, Is found.
In view of the recent political trlumphs,
Illinois Republicans have especial reasons
for congratulation. In common with their
political brethren throughout the Union,
they rejoice in the general result, which
secures to the country Republican Pres-
ident, who, we trust and believe, is to bring
back the Government to the policy OF the
fathers, and thereby restore the fraternal
feelings which existed between the differ
ent sections of the country in the purer
and better days of the Republic. In adj
dition, they have the satisfaction OF hav-
ing secured Republican Legislature, and
thereby Republican United States Sena-
tor, and the power to enact the necessary
laws to prevent illegal voting and to give
to every part of the State, according to
the population, its proportionate share in
the legislation of the State. And, more
than this, we Illinoisians have especial
reason to rejoice in the fact that the stand
ard-bearer in this great political contest,
who has led the Republican hosts to victo-
ry, is our own fellow-citizen, the pure, in
corruptible, patriotic, and talented Lincoln,
than whom the Constitution in all its parts
has not more faithful supporter, nor the
Union an ADLER defender. But, while we
rejoice over a victory so complete, let it
not be by way of triumph over political
opponents, for we are all, by whatever
name called, brethren of common coun-
try, and interested alike in so guiding the
ship of State through the boisterous waves
of these tempestuous times, as to bring 1t
to haven of peace and safety. Rather
let us rejoice over the success of the prin-
ciples we advocate, the maintenance OF
which we believe essential to the preserva-
ton of our free institutions and the perpe.
tuity of constitutional liberty. Mr.. Lin.
coin, although the candidate of the Re-
publican party, as Chief Magistrate, will
neither belong to that or any other party
When inaugurated he will be the Presi.
dent of the country, and doubt not will
be as ready to defend and protect the State
in which he has not received solitary
vote against any encroachment upon it
constitutional rights as the one in which h
has received the largest majority while
they, by whose votes he has been designa
ted as Chief Magistrate of the Republic
will expect him to maintain and carry for
ward the principles on which he was elect
ed, they know that in doing so no encroach
ment will be made on the reserved right.
of any of the States. They know thai
the Federal Government is one of delega
ted powers that it can do nothing except
the authority for the act can be found in
the instrument which created it, and that
all powers not conferred are reserved Il
the States, or the people of the States
Hence when their political opponents have
charged them with Abolitionism, or attrib
uted to them desire to interfere with Sla
yery in the States, or some fanatic has in
sisted they ought to do so, the reply ha
invariably been that the people who mad
the Federal Government did not thin
proper to confer on it such authority, an
| it has, therefore, no more right to meddl
with Slavery in State than it has to IL
terfere with serfdom in Russia. Nor ar
the people of the non-slaveholding State
in any way responsible for Slavery in the
States which tolerate it, because, as to tbs
question they are as foreign to each othe
as independent Governments. / have la
bored in and for the Republican organize
ton with entire confidence that wheneve
it should be in power, each and all of tn
States would be left in as complete contre
of their own affairs respectively, and at a
perfect liberty to choose and employ thei
own means of protecting property, an
preserving peace and order within thei
respective limits, as they have ever bee
under any Administration. Those VIII
have voted for Mr.. Lincoln have expecte
and still expect this, and they would nc
have voted for him had they expected otf
erwise. Iregard it as extremely fortunat
for the peace of the whole country thu
this point upon which the Republican
have been SO long and so persistently mis-
represented, is now to be brought to
practical test, and placed beyond the poss
bility of doubt. 1t should be matter G
rejoicing to all true Republicans that the
will now have an opportunity of demon
strating to their political adversaries, an
to the world, that they are not for inter
fering with the domestic institutions of an
of the States, nor the advocates of negr
equality or amalgamation, with which pc
litical demagogues have so often charge
them. When this is shown, reaction wi
4 assurediy take place in favor OF Republi
canism. The mind, even, will be satisfied
the rights of Northern men will be re
spected; and the fraternal feeling existin
in olden times, when men from all parts
the country went forth together to bait
for common cause against a common Ell
envy, will be restored.
Disunionists per SC, of whom, unfort,
, nately, there have been few in the coul
try for some years, understand this, an
are now in hot haste to get out of II
Union precisely because they perceive the
cannot much longer maintain an apprehel
, sion among the Southern people that the
homes and firesides and lives are to |
endangered by the action of the FEEDER
, Government. With such, now. or never
the maxim. Hence they seek to infian
the public mind by misrepresenting Il
objects and purposes of the Republic,
e party, with the hope of precipitating son
Q OF the Southern States into position fro
which they cannot, without dishonor.
!, terward recede, well knowing if they
lay till after the new Administration is i
8 augurated and tested, it viii furnish
e cause for their complaints. Secession
an impractability or, rather an impos