Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-18
Extracts from D. s. Dickinson's Late
Speech in Cortland Co., n. Z.


Any Democrat that undertakes to en-
barrass the Administration, whether he
loves or hates it, in such crisis as this,
is no Democrat and no good citizen, and
ought to be put up as monument for
scorn to point her slow unmoying finger
1T. His genuineness must be about
equal to that of the old revolutionary
soldier I have heard of in the interior Of
Pennsylvania. The inhabitants Of the
place had determined on having a 4th
of July celebration, of the old fashioned
spread eagle kind, and looked for a man,
for revolutionary soldier, to give in
terest to the occasion, and finally sue
ceeded in finding one, an old German.
He was brought a great distance and
placed upon the platform near the ora
tor, who waxed .grandly eloquent upon
the patriotic deeds of the surviving hero,
and at the close of the Grafton he was
desired to give some of his personal
recolections Of the war. "You," said
the President, "must have known Wash
lngton?" Eyes, | knew him "W here
did you see him?' AT Trenton. -
"Were you in the battle?'' "Yes, I sur
render to Washington" "You surren-
der to Washington! How was that?'
Il vas Won Hessien!' Great laughter
Now, l thiuk, when you find men
ing the Administration at such a time
as this, when you ignore their history,
you will find they were "von Hessian. !"
Laughter. -
The great cry now is "Peace.' They
say: "There must be peace" We are
all in favor of peace. don't doubt
but that many honest men, Democrats
and others, think it attainable by nego-
tiations with Rebels, but any one who
will look at it with half an eye can see
that it is impossible.
Stand up, Mr.. Apologist for SECESSION!
and let US see whether you can face an
indignant people. In what work are
you engaged? Attempting to destroy
the Government Of your fathers. Il am
not trying to do that. I am in favor of
peace Every widowed woman, made
SO b his rebellion, has right to look
upon on, sir, as the murderer of her
husband. Every orphan may look upon
you as the guilty wretch-the destroyer
Of its natural protector. The loyal cit
izen, too, looks upon you as one who
aids and abets treason, and furnishes aid
and comfort to the enemy. Your hands
are red with blood-blood of your mur
dered citizens All, in this. brief war
how many have been sent down with vi
olence and butchery to the grave! How
many bitter, unavaillng tears have
been shed! How many pure and gentle
hearts have been crushed and broken?
And still you cry peace, when you know
there is no peace! Come, take arms in
your hands and stand by their side and
point your hayonet at the breasts of
your brethren here, or else help US put
it down. You will stand as men and be
no more guilty in the sight of God to
take arms than to encourage others to
do SO. [Applause. The party that
attempts to do this ought to sink. Any
party ought to sink to infamy that can
not lay aside its politics ia this crisis;
and should the Democratic party, with
all its ancient history, attempt carrying
this question by opposing itself to this
war, there would not be enough of them
left for fngerboards to point to the
burial ground where the whole party
will be engulphed together. Zap
| p!au5e.