Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-07-24

/ public of France had its Bonaparte; tn
republic of Rome had its Caesar and 1t
Cataline. and the Savior of the world had
his Judas Iscariot. 1t cannot be necessa
ry that l should declare to you, for yol
know them well, whose parricidal swords
are now unsheathed against the republic o
the United States. Their names are In
scribed upon scroll of infamy that car
never perish. The most distinguished o.
them were educated by the charity of tho
Government on which they are now max
ing war. For long years they were teo
from its table, and clothed from its ward,
robe, and had their brows garlanded by itc
hOnors. They are the ungratcful sons Of
fond mother who dandled them upon hel
knee, who lavished upon them the gush,
ing love of her noble and devoted nature
and who nurtured them from the very bo-
som of her life, and now in the frenzied
excesscs of licentious and baffied ambi-
tion, they are stabbing at that bosom with
the ferOcity with which the tiger springs
upon its prey. The President of the Uni
ted States is heroically and patriotically
struggling to battle the Vaccinations of
these most wicked men. L have unbound
ed qualification in knowing that he has the
courage to look traitors in the face, and
that, in discharging the duties of his great
Office, he takes no counsel of his fears
He is entitled to the jealous support of the
whole country, and, may l not add, with
out ofense, he will receive the support Of
all who justly appreciate the bOsndless
blessings of our free institutions?
If this rebellion succeeds it will involve
necessarily the destruction of our national
ity, the diversion of our territory, the per-
manent disruption of the republic 1t
must rapidly dry up the sources of our
material prosperity, and year by year we
shall grow more and more impoverished,
more and more revolutionary, enfeebled,
and debased. Each returning election will
bring with it grounds for new civil COM
motions, and traitors, prepared to strike at
the country that has rejected their claims
to power, will spring up on every-side.-
DisuniOn once began will go on and on in
definitely, and under the influence of the
fatal doctrine of secession. not onl y will
States secede from States, but counties will
secede from States also, and towns and cit
les from counties, until universal anarchy
will be consummated in each individual
who can make good his position by fOee
of arms claiming the right to defy the
power of the Government. Thus We should
have brought back to us the days of the
robber Barons with their mOated castles
and maFauding retainers. This doctrine
when analysed is simply a declaration that
no physical force shall ever be employed in
the laws or upholding the gov
and a government into whose
practical administration such a principle
has been introduced, could no more eontin-
nc to exist than a man could live with an
lngered cobra in his bosom. If you would
know what are the legitimate fruits Of Sc
cessiOn, look at Virginia and Tennessee,
which have so lately given themselves up
to the embrace of this monster. There the
schools are deserted; the courts of Justice
closed; public and private credit destroy
ed; commerce annihilated; debts repudiat-
d; cOnfscations and spoilatiOn everywhere
every check blanched with fear,
md every heart frozen with despair; and
all over that desOlated land the hand of
passion and crime is waving.
with vulture's scream for blood, the
sword of civil war. And this is the Pam
lamOnium which some would have trans
erred to Kentucky.
But | am not here to discuss tkis propo-
'itiOn tonight wish solemnlyto declare
before you and the world that am for this
Union without conditions, one and indivis-
bic, now and forever. l am for its pres
,ryatiOn at any and every cost to blood and
reasure against ali Its assailants. know
10 neutrality between my country and its
oes, whether tkey be foreign or domestic;
10 neutrality between that glorious flag
which now floats over US, and the ingrates
md traitors who would trample it in the
lust. My prayer is for victory, complete,
and overwhelming, to the arm
es of the republic over all its enemies.
I'm against any and every compromise that
nay be proposed to be made under the
,uns of the rebels, while at the same time,
am decidedly in favor of afording every
guarantee for the safety of
Southern institutions, which the honest con-
TictiOns of the people-not the conspira-
ors-of the South may demand, lctener-
r Mey shall lag doa0n their arms, bit not
ata then. The arbitrament of the sword
las been defantly thrust into the face of
he Government and country, and there is
10 honorable escape from it. All guaran-
ees and all attempts at adjustment by a.
nendments to the Constitution are now
cOrnfully rejected, and the leaders of the
ebellion openly proclaim that they arc
ighting for their independence. In this
rejection of guarantees, and
q this avowal of the objects of the rebel
ion now SO audaciously made. We have a
ompletc exposure of that fraud which
through the slavery agitation has been
ractIced upon the public credullty Ior the
lst fifteen or twenty years.
In the light of this revelation, we feel
$ one awakened from the sufocating tor
ures of nightmare. and realize what a
aseless dream our apprehensiOns have
cen, and of what traitorous swindle we
ave been made the victims. They arc
ghting for their independence! Indcpend-
nee of what ? Independence of those laws
hich they themselves have aided in en-
citing; independence of that constitution
hich their fathers framed and to which
ley are parties and subjects by inherit
nee of independence of that benifcent
government on whose treasury and honors
ley have grown strong and ilIustriOus- !
When a man commits a robbery on the
ighway, or a murder in the dark, he there {
' declares his independence of the laws
nder which he lives, and of the society
{ which he is a member. Should he. when
rraigncd. avow and Justify the ofense, he
,are by heeomes thc adyooate of the indie /