Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-06
The Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson
on the Civil War.
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How he Dfsposes of the Jabber OF
fPeoce" tMen, and Would put the
War 4 through.

The Hon. DANIEL S. DICKINSON
made speech in Wyoming County,
Pennsylvania, on Monday, in which he
said many good things. We copy a few
of them from full report:
y y !: | would coerce rebel
lion wherever I could find it. You may
not coerce a community, but you may
coerce its thieves and murderers. You
may coerce State criminals, and thus en-
able the State and its loyal citizens to
fulfill their relations in the Government
of the Onion. If we can uphold our
Constitution it is not by compromising
with rebellion-it is by putting down
rebellion, and making our compromises
with fidelity. "9
l believe it to be my duty to stand
upon the ramparts of the Constitution,
and defend it from all foes, whether they
come from the North, the South, the
East, or the West. [Cheers My fell
low Democrats, supposing there are any
such in my hearing, Cries, "There are,
'There are, y supposing Breckinridge
had been elected, Sumner, and Garrison,
and Wendell Phillips, and the Aboli-
tionists Of the New England States gen
orally had started rebellion against the
authority of the United States, what
would have been done? l would have
done as | am doing now. [ would have
tried to animate my countrymen to put
them down by force of arms. Cheers
and cries Of "Good."1 Now, why not
treat Southern rebellion just as you
would have treated Northern rebellion
Eastern rebellion as you would Western
ebellion-and wherever rebellion comes
from, put it down, forever. [Cheers
That is my doctrine. | have stood upon
that doctrine in olden times, and | will
stand by it now, and if that doctrine
goes down [ will go down with it,
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1 have confidence in the Southern
people; and the result of the great con-
fiict in Kentucky assures me that the
Southern heart is with the people sound
to the core. Though terrified into SEEM
ing secession, with the exception of one
or two States in the South, / am we'll
satisfied that if the question of Union
or Disunion was submitted to the people
to-day an overwhelming vote would be
given for the Union and its stars and
stripes. Applause1 Every indication
has shown that whenever there has been
an election in any Southern State, and
a fair opportunity given, you have seen
that the Union sentiment has prevailed
You will see that it is by military power,
by threats, intimidation, destruction,
murder and arson that they have sue
ceeded in getting in advance the cause
of secession. In some States, as for in
stance Louisiana, they have never sub
mitted the question to the people at all.
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We have seen by the action of the
Border Southern States that it is not
their intention to permit this Govern
mcnt to be subverted. Every crime
known in the catalogue of depravity from
treason to larceny, has been committed
in attempting to drive them into Seces-
sion. How can these men be sustained
by any one, with hands dripping with
blood-not only with the blood of
Northern, but of Southern citlzens; and
why? Because a Northern candidate
was elected, who had four years to serve,
whose election they might have pre-
vented-whose election they connived
at, they will hazard a whole eternity, SO
far as temporal existence is concerned,
to crafty present personal pique and
feed mean ambition. Whoever sus-
tains them, will not Whoever cries
peace, [ will not. Whoever cries COM
promise with them. I will not. TGrea1