The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1860-12-27
Extracts from the Speech of Chas
Anderson, at AInIO, Texas.

Anderson, aI AlnIO, Texas.
Speaking Of himself in the commence
ment, Mr.. Anderson said he was born and
bred in slave State, but had passed many
years in the North, and to this fact he at
lributed mis- supposed ability to consider
the questions of the day "wilh somewhat
more experience and impartial modera
ton" than others. He spoke simply as
an individual, without the weight of any
organization. religious or secular, to give
weight to his words. He spoke in very
complimentary terms of DR.. Boring, to
whom he was replying "But," i'd he;
"rhere is one thing | can do as
well as other men. l can speak plain,
straightforward truths when l know
them, And, as l have had occasion and
the courage often b-fore this, in the Nor
thern States, to audiences as large and as
heated by party and sectional passions as
you are on this momentous occasion, to
utter most unwelcome truths of fact and
warning, so do | now and here make bold
to tell you to your faces what know and
think of the rights. interests. duties. and
faul,s Of the South, in all this now dread
ful matter.
My friends, this is by no manner Of
means the first time that I have discussed
these high and solemn themes. Then,
however. they were in the distance ofap-
prehenson. Now, alas! alasl thanks on
ly to the madness Of sectional parties.
they are rightfully near aud instant upon
us.
DR., Boring had discussed the question
as to whether Texas should set up an indie.
pendent government or attach herself tc
Southern Confederacy. Mr.. Anderson
said:
As for myself, where the best is un
bearable, l can make 10 choice or recon-
mendaton. By the way, see severa
b ue cockades on hats and lappets. .around
me. Are they emblems Of the presen
Lohe Star experimeut-present whilst
that high and bright banner OF beauty
and glory-our banner of stars anc
stripes-gaily ripples out all its brigh
stars, to the admiring eyes of meo and an
ge.s, or defautly flaps it's broad stripes il
the face of every foe. "Our flag il
therel" pointing to the proud banner
over the Menger Hotel, amidst the great
est cheering and enthusiasm But you
Lone Star-~here is a9 We well know
its place in history, 1t was once an EN-
blem of truth, courage, fidelity. honor, no
treason. But in nature, there are no lon
sars. They cluster and constellae.-
The ignis .tatuus, the Jack, o-lantern
only floats DER ieus aOd flats, pale, siek!y
feeble, flickering, delusive sham Of rea
stars. The historic Lone Star of Texa
paused not in her dark solitude, bu
yielding to her life-like divine impuls
within her, towards the Great Cenlra
Luminary--our Constituton--she darts
upwards with the speed Of a comet an
the power and brightness of the imperis
Jupiter, to unite with that-our constella
, tion-no more lone star--but one Of Il,
celestial flock, smoothly and sublimel
wheeling and rolling her bright orb j
proper sphere Of use and ofglory, An
there she floats in yoLder sky. Let us de
) scend however, from these heavenly flights
to borrow some earthly lessons from he
independent career. l will not describ
1t at length. To be brief. 1t was yer
full of "honor," but dreadfully poor
Utter insolvency was the price she pal
; for solitary grandeur. And il she ha
been left alone A voice in the crowd
"she would have died from starvation y
: Starvation my dear fellow-her carcas
would have been SO poor and thin, thl
= these Merican Buzzards would have scorr
ed the pickings Let us hear no moi
then Of these lone stars and blue cocl
AIDES. And as to blue cockades-are the
5 of this age, any better, or less treasonat
than were the black cockades of the YaI
: kee treason--in the last generationS
= JUSTICE TO MR.. LINCOLN.
1t is bad enough, God knows. / Al
the last man in this nation to set up au
defences or palliations for that execrab
| party, have personal reasons, superat
ed to public grounds, for hating in i