The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-12-01

4 government II treason; but these genie
1 men call man traitor because be de-
4 sires to sustain the government, and toI
uphold the Constitution.
Who are the people that call me .
ftraitsr! Are they those who march uu-
der the national dag and are ready 70 de-
fend III That's my bannerl Praised y
In Texas last summer, and when the peo-
\ pie saw shining amidst it, stars and
stripes. .TIIE CoNsrTfuTioE AND rHE
| UxIos,i they knew il Was no traitorous
I hag. They rallied 10 Il; but these gen
Itleneil stood aIoof. bear Il still aud
80 long asst waves proudly DER me, eEen
lit has waved amid stormy scenes where
these men were not.I can forget that 4
am called a traitor VI y .E.
Let those who choose, add - my
watchWord, 'sthe enforcement OF the lawi.8i
fIf they maintain the Constitution and the
Union, the enforcement Of the laws must
follow. III.
But, fellow citizens, We haye.a new
|patfy 10 our midst They have deserted
the old Democracy and under The lead Of
Mr.. Yancey hare started what they call q
i Southern Constitutional party They say
THAT they could not ret their constitutional
rights Ia the National Democracy; aud
because the platlOrtA was adopted which
lthey al endorsed and under which they
al tonight in 1856, they seeded. They
are the keepers Of the Consultations; they
.ldon't want anything hut the Consultation,
and they won't haze anything but the
II Constitution. They have studied il 90
4 profoundly that they claim 10 know bet
Ter what il means than the men who made
Il it. They have nominated Southern Cpns
4 stitutiOnal candidates and have men travel
! ling about the country erpounding the
Constitution; and yet, tiers IL scarcely
i one of them but will tell you that notwith.-
i standing the fact thai Mr.. Lincoln may
be elected 10 the mode pointed out by the
Ccnstitntion and BY Constitutional ma-
ljorlty, they will not submit. You hsar
il from the stump; you read il 10 their
papers aud in their resolutions, that IL
Mr.. Lincoln is elected the Union 10 to be-
dissolved Here Il . Constitutional party
that intends TO violate the Constitution,
because . man is Conttit1tionally elected
President Here il a Constitutional party
that proclaims it reasonable for q mas
to uphold the Constitution If the people
Constitutianally elect President, is the
minority to resist himl Do they intend
to carry that principle into their new
Southern Confederacy? II they do, we
can readily conceive how long il will last /.
They deem it patriotism to oVerturn the
Government Let them succeed, and in
that class Of patriots they will be Sble
to outriyal Mexico.
But who are the teachers of this new
tangled Southern constitutional Dem
ocraeya Are they not men like Yaneey
and WigfaIl, who have been always regard
ed as beyond the pale Of National Dem
ocraeyl Transplants from the SOuth
Carolina nursery or disunien. We still
have the institution Of slavery. 1t Is our
own, and the North has nothing to do |
with It. The North does not want il, and |
we haVenothing TODD with that. Their Gus,
toms are their own They are guaranteed
to them. just as ours are to us. Wehaye
the right 10 abolish slavery they have
the right TO establish Ii. Its our interest
TO have t. Climate, soil associate ali
make the Institution peculiarly suited 10
u.s. IL il were 70 their interest, the people
OF the North would have it. Even in
Massachusetts,, as / told them few years
ago in Boston, they would have it yet,
but for the fact that It would not ply.
Now, when the cotton Statese are 'spre.
cipitated into a revolution" and the South
,srn cenfederacy Is formed, is the idea Of
State Rights TO be maintained, or is there
to- be centralized government, forbid
ding the Statesto change their institutions,
and giving peculiar privileges TO CLASSES?
! warn the people 70 look wen to the
future.
Among the unsatisfed and corrupt poll
ticians OF the day, there are many who
long for title and power There are
many wealthy knaYes who are tired OF |
our simple Republican manners; and they |
have plant tools to work upon in the for
nm and with the pen. So long as the |
union lasts, the masses need not fear them |
when it falls, aristScracy will rear its |
head = Those who denounced me a. a
traitor for voting against the Nebraska
bill we're the frst TO deny the bargain |
they had made, and to break with their
Northern friends, in reference to its con-
Etruetion, when its eopStruction was a. we'll |
known at the time Of its passage as then.
]. proclaimed my opposition to il on &C
count Of the power it conferred on the |
Territories. And yet the men who then
denounced me- now deHeunce their North.
ern friends for holding them TO the bar. |
gain. = :. ~ 3 -. . .- " |
+ | invoke the illustriops name Of Jack |
sou, and bid you not prove recreant to /
his memory: 70 those who plot the ruin |
Of their own country, Serth or South, I
that name brings no pleasant reniem.
bfauees; but the national men Of long
service TO the young men who have been |
reared to love that name, ] appeal. The
same issue is upon. you that was upon him
He stood with the Constitution at his |
back and dsfied disunion Let the PEG,
pie say to these Abolition agitaterI Of the
South, You cannot dissolve this Union I
We will put you both down; but VIC will {
not let the Union go!" T.. r |
Now, mark me, do not call all those
Democrats who are in the ranks of this
Southern Constitutional party, Disuuion-
lists, but l do say all the Southern Dis
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