M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-02-21
Lincoln Speeches.
THE UNION DESTROYED.

of the President elect, at Indianapolis,
Cincinnati, Columbus and Pittsburg.
We wish every man in the North
could read these effnsions, Of this ac-
cidental President. For Uur part we
feel ashamed Of such productions,
coming from the President of our
gl OriouS country, even if il is only,
from the executive officer Of the re.
mainder ofthe United States. Let
US see by o short review of these
speeches, what the President means.
At indianapolis he evidently makes a
coercion speech, gives us to under'
stand, by asking the question, "if tho
Government insists on holding its
forts, and of recapturing its forts, OF
collecting the revenues, and of with
drawal Of the mails from the South.
Would this be OOercionp that he is
IN favor of coercion, no san man will
deny, who reads this speech. Not
content with this he giVes the Bell
and Everstt men and Democrats and
all conservative Republicans, who
are opposed to coercion, to understand
that they are acting "spitefully" he
Gays, "thOss who have spitefully re-
solved that they will resist the coer-
ci on or invasion of any State" In
Go ds name has it come to this that
the people without respect to party,
cannot meet to greet and pay respect,
to the heif magistrate of the Nation,
rs such, without being insulted by
that chsif magistrate. Reader please
ask yourself the question. What is
the Presidents positiOnl You can an.
swer it at your leisure
Judging from Mis-. Lincoln's celloqual
powers on the cars, we thing she can
beat old Abe on big talk. 1854
At Cincinnati the President further
diSgraces his office, by telling Ken.
tuckians, that he once before told
them that they would be beat, unless
they changed tteir principles; we
suppose by this Lincoln meant, that
they should abolish sla very, What
other principles does he want them to
changeG Again he says they would
not change and the result has come
sooner than his Accid ency expected.
What glorious exposition ofprinci-
pie, from this embodiment of Black
RepuLlicanism and all other isms.-
Again his Accidcncy says: "We-the
Republican party mean to treat you,
&c. Not the President mean tV do
so and so, but we the Republicans,
&c. Can any Republican or any 9TH
er man, put his finger OF such sen.
tence in any language of either ofhis
predecessors. Old Abe evidently
means to be tile President ofhis party,
not the whole people. Again he
says, "there is no difference between
us and Kentucky" Now in Gods
name WHY not tell tie truth. He
says again, 1--WE mean to deal with
you equally" does the President mean
to establish slavery in Ohio, or does
he mean that he will abolish it in
Kentucky, the laws in both States
cannot be equal in respect to the sla-
very question, that's so.
At Columbus his Aceidency seems
to have been laboring under strange
delusion, there he tells the people,
"There is nothing wrong" "There
is nothing that really hurts anybody,
we entertain different views, upon
political questions, but nobody is suf.
fering anything" In the name ofall
we hold dear, as American citizens is
not this humiliUting, to be told in the
face o. all our miSfortunes, of hun.
dreds OF the best business men of our
Country broke up, of thousands Of our
laboring masses, turned out ofem-
ploymert, and hundreds begging their
daily bread in consequence of this
Crisis, the consequence of the great
political revolution that we are now
passing through, to be TINS falsely
told in the hearing Of hundreds of all
parties, of men who al! knew that the
President was not telling the truth,
was it not reader most humiliating.-
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