Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-06
Senator Trumbull,s speech.

The Speech of Mr.. Trumbull we find in
full as telegraphed to the N. Y. Tribune,
as follows:
Fellow CITIZENS 1T is meet that the
Republicans should make merry and be glad
for the spirit of liberty, which with our ru-
lers, was dead, is alive again, and the Con-
stitution, ordained to secure its blessings,
which was lost sight OF, is found. In view
of the political triumphs, Illinois Repub-
icaDs have especial reasons for congratula-
ton. In common with their political breth-
rem throughout the Union, they rejoice In
the general result, which secures to the
country a Republican President, who, we
trust and believe, is to bring back the Gov
ernment to the policy of the fathers, and
thereby restore the fraternal feeling which
existed between the different sections of the
country in the purer and better days of the
Republic. In addition, they have the sat-
isfaction of having secured Republican
Legislature, and thereby a Republican
United States Senator, and the power to
enact the necessary laws to prevent illegal
voting, aud to give to every part of the
State, according to the population, its pro-
Portionate share in the legislation of the
State. And more than this, we Illinoisans
have especial reason to rejoice in the fact
that the standard bearer in this great po-
itical contest, who has led the Republican
hosts to victory. is our own fellow citizen,
the pure, incompatible, patriotic and tai
ented Lincoln, than whom the Constitu-
tion in all its parts has not more faith
ful supporter, nor the Union an ADLER de
fender. But while we rejoice over a vic
tory so complete, let it not be by way of
triumph over political opponents, for all, by
whatever name called ARE brethren of com
mon country, and interested alike in so
guiding the ship of State though the bois-
ferrous waves of these tempestuous times,
as to bring it to haven of peace and
safety. Rather let US rejoice over the sue
cess of the principles we advocate, the
maintenance Of which we believe essen
tial to the preservation of our free institu-
tlons and the perpetuity of constitutional
liberty. Mr.. Lincoln-although the can
didate of the Republican party, as Chief
Magistrate-will neither belong to that
or any other party. When inaugurated he
will be the president of the country and
the whole country, and l doubt not will be
as ready to protect the State in which be
has not received a solitary vote against any
encroachment upon its constitutional rights
as the one in which be has received the
largest majority; while they, by whose
votes he has been designated as Chief
Magistrate of the Republic, will expect
him to maintain and carry forward the
principles on which be was elected, they
know that in doing so, no encroachments
will be made on the reserved rights of any
of the States. They know that the Fed
eral Government is one of delegated pow
ers; that it can do nothing except the au-
thority for the act can be found in the in
strument which created it, and that all 9TH
ers not conferred are reserved to the States,
or the people of the Safes. Hence when
their political opponents have charged
them with Abolitionism, or attributed to
them desire to interfere with Slavery in
States, or some fanatic has insisted thev
ought to do so, the reply has invariably
been that the people who made the FEEDER
al Government did not think proper to
confer on it such authority, and it has there
fore, no more ght to NEEDLE with Slavery
in State, than it has 10 interfere with serf
dom in Russia. Nor are the people of the
non-slaveholding States in any way re-
sponsible for Slavery in the States which
tolerate it, because, as to that question they
are as foreign TO each other as independ
ent Governments. l have labored in and
for the Republican organization with en-
tire confidence that whenever it should be
in power, each and all the States would be
left in as complete control of their own af-
fairs respectively, and at as perfect liberty
to choose and employ their own means of
protecting property, and preserving peace
and order within their limits, as they have
been under any Administration. Those
who voted for Mr.. Lincoln have expected,
and still-expect this, and they would not
have voted for him had they expected 9TH
erwise. 1 regard it as extremely fortunate
for the peace of the whole country that
this point upon which the Republicans have
been so long and so persistently misrepre-
sented, is now to be brought to practical
test, and placed beyond the possibility of
doubt. 1t should be matter of rejoicing
to all true Republicans that they will now
have an opportunity of demonstrating to
their political adversarics, and to the world,
that they are not for interfering with the
the domestic institutions of any of the
States, nor the advocates of negro equality,
or amalgamation, with which political dem
agogues have so often charged them
When this is shown, a reaction will assur-
edly take place in favor of RepubIicanism.
The mind, even, will be satisfied the rights
of Northern men will be respected; and |
the fraterual feeling existing in olden times,
when men of all parts of the country went
forth together to battle for a common |
enemy, will be restored. Disunionists, per
Sc, of whom, unfortunately, there have
been few in the country for some wears.
understood this, and are now in hot haste
to get out of the Union precisely because
they perceive they cannot much longer
maintain an apprehension among the South
ern people that their homes and firesides
and lives are to be endangered by the ac-
tion of the Federal Government. With
such, now or never is the maxim