Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-05-10
Of SENATOR DOUGLAS
AT CHICAGO--~HIS SPEHCH,

ocrats united to do him honor. He re
paid their labor by war speech, i.
which the necessity of sustaining tn,
.'Goyerhment ana vindicating the homo
of the flag was eloquently enforced.
The following is brief report Of
Mr.. DOUGLAS SPEECH. -
Dir. Chairman: thank you TO-, tn,
kind, terms in which you -h9ie bee,
pleased to welcome me. / thank tn,
committee and citizcns of Chicago fo
this grand and imposing reception.
beg you to believe that i will not dc
You or myself the Injustice to believe
thasss'nsgniiicent ovation is persona
homage toslHysclf. | rejoice to know
that is.cApseases YOUR .deyotion to tn,
Gonsti seitoR, ,he Z hiou aud the flag OF
our country. Cheers
tsl will not conceal gratifcation at the
,tHeentre yerubio test this vast audience
Presentsthatwliat political differences
~ party questions may have divided us,
yet yon, all had conviction that when
tile country should be in danger my
lazalty could be relied on. That the
entsdanger is imminent, no man can
conceal III war must eome---if the
bayonet must be used. to maintain the
OoAstitasion--l can say before God my
sonseieHee is clean | have struggled
long for a spcaceiul solution of the diff
Guilty. / have not only rendered those
States what was theirs of right, but
lave gone to the very extreme Of mag
naninitY. s
The return we receive is war, armies
marching upon our Capitol, distractions
ind dangers to our navigation, letters of
Rarque to invite pirates to prey upon
eur commerce concerted movement to
blot out the Uuited States Of America
from the map of the glob. i'hesquestion
Is: Are we to maintain the country of
our fathers, or allow it to be stricken
uownthy those who, when they can no
longer govern, threaten to destroy. t.
yaM hat cause, what excuse do Disunion-
lists give US for breaking up the best
Government on which the sun of Heaven
ever shedits rays? They are dissatisfied
withsthe result Of a Presidential election.
bid they. never get beaten before? Are
we5io resort to the sword when we get
defeated at the ballot box. | under
siandeit that the voice of the people, ex-
pressed in the mode appointed by the
Constitution, must command. the aobe-
dience Of every citizen. They assume,
ON the election of particular candidate,
that their rights are not safe in the
Union. ~ hat evidence do they present
of this. i defy any man to show any
action which tits based. What act has
been omitted to. be done? 1sappeal to
t4,ese assembled thousands, that SO far
as the Constitutional ri ghts of the
Southern States, [ will say the Constitu-
tional rights of Shareholders are con-
ccrned, nothing has been done and moth
ing omitted. Of which they can complain.
There has never been time, from
the day that Washington was inaugura-
tod FIRST President of these United States,
when tie rights of the Southern States
stood firmer under the laws of the land
than they do now; there never was a
time when they had not as good a cause
fordisunion as they have day. What
good cause have they now that has not
existed under every Administration.
3 1t they say the Territorial question
now for the first time there is no act of
Congress prohibiting Slavery anywhere.
If be the non reinforcement of the laws,
the only complaints that L have heard
lE,vebeen Of the too vigorous and faith
ful taifillment of the Fugitive Slave Law.
Then what reason have they?
The Slavery question is mere ex-
cuse. The election of Lincoln is IL mere
pretext The present secession move
lnent is the result of an enormous con-
spiracy formed more than a year since
formed by leaders in the Southern
more than twelve months
ago. s
they use the Slavery question as a
means to aid theaccomplishment Of their
eads. g1'hey desired the election Of a
Nefehern candidate by d sectional vote
in order to show that the two sections
{ ainot live together. When the history
of the TIVE years from the Lecomptoal
Charter down to the late Presidential
shall be written, it will be
shown that the scheme was deliberately
made to break up this Union.
Theysdesired Northern Republican
to be elected by purely Northern vote,
and then assign this fact as reason
why the sections may not longer live to-
gether IF the Disunion candidate In
the late Presidential contest had carried
the united South, their scheme was, the
candidate successful, to seize
the Capitol last spring, and by an united
South and divided North held it. That
scheme was defeated in the defeat Of the
Iisunion candidate in several Of the
Southern States.
But this is no time for a detail of
causes. The conspiracy is now known
Armies have been raised. War is levied
to accomplish it. There are only two
sides, to the question. Every man must
re for the United States or against it
There can be no neutrals in this war,
only patriots or traitors.
Thank God, Illinois is not divided on
this question. [Cheers. l know they
expected to present united South
against divided North. They hoped
in the Northern States party questions
would bring civil war between Demo
Gratis and Republicans, when the South
would step in with her cohorts, aid one
party to conquer the other, and then
make easy prey of the victors. Their
scheme was carnage and civil war in the
North.
There is but one way to defeat this.
In Illinois it is being SO defeated by
closing up the ranks. War will thus
lie prevented on our own soil. While
there5was a hope of peace was ready
tor any reasona BILE sacrifice or compro-
mise to. maintain it. But when the