Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-08-01
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Let everybody, those with small crops as
we'll as large, give evidence IN this way Of
their patriotism, and believe that the poor
man that puts down but two bales, if it be
half his crop, gives more, and more patriot.
cally than the man who grows one thousand
and puts down one half of his, because, as
the Saviour said, the woman who gave her
mite gave more than all the rest. Letcvery-
body, therefore, put down portion of their
crop, if it be two bales or fifty bales, or one
hundred bales, or five hundred bales.
I tell you the revolution is at the North.
There is where constitutional liberty has
been destroyed; and if you wish to know
my judgment about the history of this war
you may read it in Tire history of the French
Jacobins. They have become licentious
and fawfess mob, and shall not at all be
surprised if in less than three years the lead
ers in this war-if Lincoln and his Cabinet,
its hcad-come to the gallows or guillotine,
just as those who led the French war-(ap-
plause) for human passions when once
aroused arc as uncomfortable as the elements
about US. The only hope of mankind rests
in the restraints of constitutional law and
the day they framed and ratified these law
Tess measures of Lincoln they dug their own
graves. They may talk Of freedom and
liberty, But I tell you no people without
rulers restrained by constitutional law can
be free. They may be nominally free, but
they are vassals and slaves, and this unbri-
died mob, when they attempt to check it,
Lincoln and the rest Will be dealt with just
as tell you it was in France. Why, the
conservative sentiment in the North is
against this war. When I tell you it is
R,natTcaT, do not mean that all men are
fanatics. just as the sturdiest trees of the
forest yield to the blast of the storm, so have
the friends of the constitution yielded at the
North. And how is Lincoln to get these
four hundred million ofdollars !? I told you
might say something more about it. They
have not the money. That is true. I sup
pose the North now might raise one hundred
million in gold and silver. I have not seen
the returns of the banks. But their money
lenders are not going to lend it. Some say
that the war will be short one No, my
friends. do not lay that fattering JUNCTION to
your souls. How did the Jacobins raise
their money? Why, they laid their hands
upon it, and that is the way they will do at
the North. First, they will issue scrip but
the Secretary of the Treasury cannot come
up and tell them that it is wrong. He has
not the nerve, and he might lose his head if
he were to do it. They may issue four
hundred millions of Treasury notes, and
thus get along for twelve months, or per-
haps two years, before they are too much
deprecated. They will then issue scrip
against the rich mans property. What is
to be the result of this war? l am not
prophet, but ! look upon it as fraught with
the most naonentous consequences, not unto
us, but to the people Of the North. have
always believed that if the Union were de-
stroyed, the North would run into anarchy
and despotism. We are the salt of the con-
Germ, and it is only questionable whether or
not we have quit too soon. This is the only
doubt | have. Where it will end I do not
know, but never again will the1 eninu con.
stltutlonal government at the North. They
never understood it. Constitutional liberty
is plant of Southern growth, watered by
Southern hands. and if it is to be maintain
ed, to live to light the world, it is to be done
in the Southern confederacy. applause
At the North there is anarchy. Property
will migrate, just as it did in France. That
IS the end. How long will they be able to
war against us? l tell you it will be until
we drive them back. There is no hope for
US, there is no prospect for an early and
speedy termination Of the war until we drive
them back and my idea, my wish, my de-
sire and my counsel would be to raise men
enough Immediately, from the mountains to
the seaboard, to do it.