Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-19

they begin to starve, will they not cry aloud
for read ! Yes, fellow citizens, and The first
great consequence of dissolution Of the union
will be, that they will Use upon those who have
deceived Them, and crush the abolition party
to the dust! And then, mark you, will spring
up a great union party at the north. Laugh
ter. They will make tremendous effort 20
reconstruct this contederacy. They will say
to the south Why, look here you men of the
south, there has been mistake. Laughter.
We didn't intend to hunt you, except little
bit. To be sure, we hBve been living on you
for forty years. But we didn't think You
minded ii much. Laughter. We have called
you, too, all SORTS OF bad names. But come
now, Wen take all that back. Laughter. Let
us make friends Come, return to our trater-
nal embrace. What do you want There,
now, stick it in the constitution. Prolonged
laughter.
My friends. why they care no more about
the constitution than they do about the dry
leaves of the forest We understand the con.
stituiion We understand free government.
Like all the great nations of antiquity, We are
shareholders, and understand free governments.
The north does not. They are people wrap
ped up In selfShness. They have no idea of
free government. Their idea OF free govern
ment is this, that when three men get lugeth-
Vi, the iNO are ~ RUE lle one when 1--WE illtn
get together, the three are to rule the other
two; when seven men come together, the four
are TO rule the other three and make slaves of
them. But OF a constitution Of checks and
balances, under which all are to be free, they
have no conception; and they have, therefore,
flung the constitution, by which our rights and
property were guaranteed to us, to the winds,
and intend to rule you by means of vulgar
Yankee majority. My friends, am glad am
rid of them. We have dissolved this Union
for we mighta as well say it's done Applause.
And never with my consent will we go back
into the hands of our oppressors again. Great
applause They will beseech us, by what
they will call the ties of traternal blood-by
the blood Of our ancestors, shed for common
country-in common cause. They will wei
come us back to what they will call their fra.
tcrnal embraces. But never, as long as | am
citizen OF South Carolina will consent that
any other flag than the palmetto banner, with
the lone star upon ii, shall wave from the tip
OF Fort Moultree Never will | consent that
the fprtlhcatiOns built for our defense shall be
Ill Tue hands OF any government to be for tAe
purpose OF menaclng a people WHO dare to
cIalm their rights And when the cotton
states have formed southern coutederacy.
never, with my consent, shall any Yankees
De admitted into it, 1t shall be a contedera.
ecy OF saveholdlng states-none but slave
pause.
Another thing, too, my friends and I am
Gohe; AL the coming session OF congress, il a
Southern Coniederacy be formed, or if South
Carolina secedes alone, as she will A force bill
VIII be moved by the north; and | would not
be al all surprised, should a force bill be at.
tempted, that, before the next spring flowers.
you Will see the whole south come out of con
gress, just as they came out Of the Charleston
Convention. Applause. Already can we
see the signs OF fear creeping over the north,
Those who have read the papers know what
say. But sooner or later, the other slavehold
ing states must come to lis. Ii they do not
come Immediately: it is well. They will act
as the medlators III this great cause They
will say to their bretern OF the south,
come, be quiet; and they will turn TO the
north and say come let there be peace.
And we OF the southern contederacy will deal
with the North as any other foreign power
We shall hold them as enemies in war in
peace, friends And the historian 0. these
times shall hereafter recount with what IA
thence free people clung TO the constitutional
Their fathers, with what earnestness they
pleaded Tor tile COnSti. ution--how, again and
AGAIN, they demonstrated, and were answered
by insult and renewed contempt until wearied
out by concession upon concession, they at last
were driven to resistance, and, rising in their
indignation, their majesty, and their might,
they put at defiance the Yankee pretension
OF coercion They threw off the CHAINS OF their
oppressors, and established for themselves
government they could call their own. And
extending their empire across this continent to
the Pacific, and down through Mexico to the
other side Of the great guilt, and over the isles
OF the sea, established an empire and wrought
out civilization which has never been equalCd
or Supposedly CIVILIZATION teeming win ora
tors poets, philosophers, statesmen, and histo-
rlanS, equal to those OF Greece and Rome, and
presented to the world the glorious spectacle OF
free, prosperous, and iustrious people.