Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-09-20
6NOTHER GREAT SPE C..
Daniel S Dickinson on the Mrs. Gun
ningham D mocracy."
EXTRACTS FROM Mr.. DICKINSON s
SPEECH At ITHICA, SEPT. 7TH-

ningham D=mocracy.
! EXTRACTS FROM Mr.. DICKINSON
: SPEECH AT ITHICA, SEPT. 9TH.
E Now, we are told by our friend who ha:
! just spoken, that there has lately been {
i Convention called Democratic party Con
) ventlon I do not SO understand 1t, and
;; take all the papers, A voice-"4ou Dc
: not take the Duty Ne,csn No. | d
not take the Nelrs. | do not agree witt
my friend entirely. understand him te
object to the Daily Nsrs. 1 think rebe
secessionists ought to have moose daily,
f until disposed of Great laughter. =
Now. know there has been Convention
held lately heard of it. But l do not
call 1t Democratic. And | will ;ell you
why. For, although it was called to order
BY Peter Cagger, and managed by Dean
Richmond and the resolutions were offer
ed by Sanford f. Church, it was not pre-
sided over by VIM B Ludlow and that
is necessary to its regularity. Laughter ]
Therefore, say it is not binding to this
party. To be sure it was presided over
by very respectable gentleman, who made
speech on the OCCASION And | was ex-
ceedingly glad-for he is highly esteemed
to hear that he was true on Gen. Jack
sons Mayville road veto-that his opinion
of the tariff of 1880 was sound-that be
was in favor o. the removal Of the depC s IS
Of General Jackson to the Sub Treasury Of
Mr.. FanBuren's Administration. And if
be had given his views on the discovery of
the art of printing, the invention of guu-
pov der the application of steam, and the
telegraph, be would have pleased me more,
for these matters were quite as material
and applicable. Laughter Now, as
to the Convention. The managers would
not aceede to the proposition made by the
Republicans to hold joint Convention,
and ignore all party during the war, Al
though they called everybody that would
come and meet with them, Of all political
shades, they refused it on the ground Of
principle. You must know that these man
ayers never depart from principle except
for interest, and are greatly concerned
about principle. do not believe one Of
them slept one wink that night after the
Republican pr position, fearing the loss Of
principle! ! And l would not have joined
had been there; because it might well
be that, if they should ever get in with
Republicans, especially the Abolition wing,
they never would know themselves again
so as to get ont They never could have
assorted themselves again when once well
mixed. Cheers and laughter 1t has
been inquired in some Secession quarters
why |, in my speeches, do not abuse Abo-
litionists aid Republicans more. 1t is
this: First, in meetings without distinc
ton Of party, where all members meet, I
think it in bad taste. Ia the next place,
cannot talk against AbolItionistC without
hitting Cagger. Church, Richmond (the
Quink, Common and Snap Of New York
politics. aad others shat we're at the But
falo Convention in IS4S: and AIN afraid
they would deem it personal and as aimed
at them if should speak of Abolitonists.
Laughter l AM not going to abuse
the Democratic leaders, though bogus, for
do not think it would be in good taste.
For, though | am now in for Union Of
the masses. | cannot talk where it bits
those who assume to run the spurious DEM
ocratIc machine | am net going to hurt
their feelings, as they are very sensitive
upon political subjects. Let us look at
| their resolutions The State Committee
few days since Illuminated kind Of de-
cree TO the faithful, what they call in
Russia a ukase what the Pope, suppose
would cal bull Laughter. And the
Committee is great on principle, saying
that while they were n favor # the war
and in favor Of tie Union, and were great
| big Union men, too. that you must always
carry wherever you 60, and hold out to
armed rebellion, LIBERAL propositions of
peace. You might point a bayonet at
rebel, but you must put proposition Of
peace on the end of it. And if you fired a
cartridge, you must at least wad your gun
with proposition of peace, and so ram it
down. That was their great principle
they must stand upon that principle, and
they therefore could not meet the Repuh-
licans, nor any other interest, in general
Convention, nor lay aside all party, and so
on, and prosecute this war, unless it was
at all times accompanied with liberal prop
ositons of peace What should the Con-
vention at Syracuse be called? call it
the Mrs. Cunningham Convention. Laugh
ter and Cheers It's managers want to in
herit the estate Of the Den ocratic party :;
Mrs Cunningham wanted to inherit the
estate of DR.. BurdeH, and in due time, to
enable her to inherit. produced a br gus
ba aby-and so has the Convention. p
roar Gus laughter. and cries of That was a
good one, y They went before the people
on that issue of propositions of peace
their own people, mean-few and far be-
tween, for there were some people who
were about as far behind the times as the
Pr. sidcnt of that Convention, who sup
posed these men were so near honesty that
if honesty had the small pox they might
possibly be exposed. And here they were
mistaken So the little big men went al
around into their country caucuses. shut
themselves up in close rooms, where none
could see in, showing they were ashamed
of themselves, They passed pattern reso
lu;ions of peace, according to those rule:
and regulations of the State Committee
and went to Syracuse to prove their fealty
When they got there change came ovel
the spirit of their leaders Dreams Thos,
liberal propositions of peace that had beer
so material few weeks-yes. few dayt
and hours before-were all begging AnC