Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-09-20
z.srrotie Speech of Hon. Thos. Ewing.

Before the Union State Convnntiun, Oh
taking the chair, TO preside oTer its delibera-
tio15.
GENTLEMEN AND DELEGATES appreciate
the honor conferred upon me in selecting me
to preside over the present Convention. 1t is
a Convention of great importance in its bear
ings, and is charged with grave considera,
tons. We are in the most difficult circum
stances that can possibly beset nation
Host all other nations hare had to suffer from
similar difficulties and every where they have
prafed 10. be. the greatest OF. all evils.
We meet IS the representatives of the peo-
pie to express their. will and purpose. 1t is
cur province to represent and give voice to
the behests Of the people, whose patriotic de-
ORDINATIONS is to sustain the Government and
put down rebellioa, " ociferons cheers y
70 do this, force-physical and moTal--must
be resorted to. There have been different
views as to the measures to be employed for
! this Different persons will have different
opinions as to the mode for applying The re-
I suisite force. :, ,..,... .-.a
Now, Gentlemens the only method by which
! the power of the Nation can be put forth is
/ through the grm of the lawfully constituted
authority of the country. In any other mode
we are powerless.
As to the manner in. which the proper au-
thorilies. are 70 nroSaed, different ,,persoas
again, b2ye different plaEs some think this,
and some think that Now all this is of no
avail. We can't throw off the legally consti-
tuted authorities. In order to support the
Nation we must support the ExeculiYe Of the
Nation. ..[Gre9t aPplause.1 The tine may
have been; When it was otherwise. But that
time is not now. When our country and its
capital ere. threatened by a hostile force of
armed rebels is not the time to refuse our sup.
port to the National Executive Now force
must be met by force. NJ .,
I remember, at one time, when rebellion
threatened the country, and when Gen. jack
son planted his foot upon it, that with TWEEN
" other good Wings, called upon the old
General to assure him of our support of his
measures to crush iheipient rebellion. And
would do so again. LCheers.1
Much has been said about the origin of this
strife. Permit me to say, my friends, that
we have nothing to do with that. The Ship
Of State is now in the midst of breakers.
The comma ndCr with the aid of the crew may
be able TO save her, We must all unite. So,
even if all have erred widely, that is not now
the question but the question is what is to
be done to save the country. [Cheers
- ! hope, yea my friends, / know that party
spirit has greatly subsided. 1t cannot be that
men can all at once lay aside their feelings
connected with their party sympathies they
will continue 10 el them it is. impossible at
once to blot out alI these connections with tho
pnst l have stood aloof from politics for sew
eral years. Stree 1854 haYe not belonged
to any political party; but new l again find
myself belonging to party-the party OF
my county. LAppiause. 1 hope never 10
belong to any other. [Cheers.1
Under the troubles that have so grieroAsly
assailed our country there has been much Of
elimination and recrimiEation. The Republi- |
can has said TO the Democrat, you have
brou ,ht these evils upon US; and the Demo-
crat has replied to the Republican, you did it. I
But it seems TO me that, the representatives of
party had better just agree TO, close and bal
ance the accounts with each ctGer. r1augh-
ter and cheers. But, the fact is, my friends, |
the origin Of this rebellion is with neither oil
the parties, as such. The source OF the evil |
lies much deeper down and further back than
all this. From the time that Gen. jackson
planted his foot upon notification in South |
Carolina, in 1888, there has been u general
progress in the schooling for rebellion il that
State. Within that time q whole generation |
of young men has there been reared up and
educated to di3uron state. And the fact is /
now unquestionablc that she can be kept in !
the Union only by the strong arm of power |
/ T L. IL
hcsitating tirmncss and compel her TO remain |
Immense applause. Other States have been
by degrees, seduced from their allegiance to
some extent, by influences similar 10 those
which have proved so pestilentf.tl 10 South |
Carolina. \ GU all remember the wild buck |
aneering that was set on foot in l849, when |
organized bunds of adventurous young men
invaded the Island of Cuba in which iuva- |
sion an unfortunate and misguided nephew Of
the venerable John j. Crittendcn was taken |
prisoner and garotted.. Now, these young
men and their associates and sympathizers,
trained to live without labor, many of them |
poor and all of them proud. became lie |
- knights Of the Golden Circc,"-a secret or
ganization-set on foot to carry out their des. \
perate and yillaihous plans. But this was put
down. They organized anew, and were again
put down. but not till after desperate strug-
gle. have conversed with Judge Campbell, T
U. S. Judge in Alakama lcn this subject; and
he informed me that so strong and so violent !
had become this secret rLanization, that he |
expected on some occasions to be violently |
torn from the bench, and east irto the waves
of the Gull. These secret conspirators then
turned their attention to the North to educate .
political school in their desperate doctrines.
They sought to distract Ire country on the
exciting subject Of slavery. They so far and
so we'll managed their Vaccinations as t.
break up the Democratic party at Charleston.
By this ru1ture they so weakcnrd the political
power of that party as to bring about the
election OF MIR. Lincoln and lhcreupon seized
upon his election as prctext for dissolving I
the UnioN.
Secession, my lends, has never been sanc-
tionod by any vote of the people, except in
South Caroiinl The whole process was al
infumors ouirn re upon the right of suffrage.
'Fhe qui I and conscientious men of the South
wer. driven or iutimidatcd from the polls.
In conversation with Judge Campbell, We
assured M, that, in Alabama, if anything like
a full and fair expression of opjnion had been |
made by vote, there would bare been 10000
majority for the Union. But the whole elcc-
tion was farce and fraud. The same thing
is true uf various other States which have
been reported and received as voting for sepa-
PATTON.
But the Union men have been, some Of
them, dragooned by fear, and others exaspera-
ted by misrepresentation, till now it is prob |
able an actanl minority would be found for
dissolution And in Virginia, as you all know,
their CpnYention was surrounded by an qrned |