The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-09-06

ern states TO request becoming guar
antees, they never justified armed
rebellion in any shape or manner
And what were those causes OF rri'
tationS The only real. practical
cause of irritation was the non-exe
cution of the Fugitive Slave law
But that did not affect the cotton
states, so called; but Missouri, Ken.
lucky, Virginia, Maryland and Dol.
aware, and perhaps one or two other
states, were the only ones ever in,
jured by it. The cotton states, 80
Ic, lied. never lost fugitive slave
from tho time Of their existence to
the present day. To be cure they
had g question about territories, but
it was so entirely ideal, a mere ab
straction, and SO practically not a
real grievance. But if it had been,
they had the Supreme Court AMI both
branches Of Congress, and practically
had control Of the question. The
fugitive slave question was the only
practical question, therefore, which
annoyed them, aud that question was
not the cause of the rebellion
What state first secededl South
Carolina began to scrape lint before
the votes were counted. Laughter.
She had no practical grievance what
sover Look at Virginia. Though
politicians cajoled, cheated and de,
frauded, AMI bullies held bowie
knives at the ,hroats of her citiz,ns,
to coerce rebellion, it was q long
t me before they could compel that
state into anything like secession.-
And when they did so nominally the
state government was revolutioniZed,
one part few away from the other,
aud organized their government,
rather than allow it to 90 into the
bottomless pi, Of secession. Mary.
land, when she gets a chance, votes
against l.. Missouri citiz,ns
are pouring out their blood like water
and their treasure without stint, rath.
er than be drawn into secession -
Look at good old Kentucky, where
her Governor and Senators have la.
bored to bring her ont OF the Union;
after oil attempts to seduce her from
her fidelity to the Constitution, she
gives more than sixty thousand ma.
iority for the Union. [Cheers. l.
Now, | enquire OF all citizens in the
ireo states. especially y my Democratic
fellow citizens, whether they are
troubled about tie integrity Of Ken
tucky-whether they think 1t is nee.
cssury to stay..up the hands OF rebel
lion in Kentucky, so emphatically
L"denncd = thcr,? Anu now repeat
tnat the only practical cause of dis.
scntinn was the fugitive slave ques.
ton; and that only apperlained to
q atcs that could only be drawn or
dra.ooned into secession. General
Batter has had this question on his
hands Az long rs the Constitution
was acknowledged all conservative
citizens admitted that it WAS the duty
ui the free states to restore the ingi-
tive who was fleeing nom the service
of his master. General Butler has
found the T., storation OF the iugitives
ilDpraclicable in many cases. The
master had thrown off the Constitu-
ton. What was the resultl lie
wss obliged to receive hundreds Of
contrabands, and retain them. do
not know what he is going to do with
the question; but suppose he is
going to do with them something as
tho lrishman was going to do with
the Widow mHlone's pig "nid you
steal the Widow M alone's pig, Pat
rickl' asked the Priest. THAT |
did" What made you! Think
when you will stand, you hereto, in
the great day, when shall be there,
and you will be there, and the Wild.
ow Malone will be there, and the
pig will be there" And will your
reverence be thcre?" Eyes" sand
the Widow Malone thercl' "Yes.' ~
And the pig there1' Yes -
well, Shoul' say, Widow Malone,
take your pig" Now, DO not know
but General Butler is going to take
a. long a credit as dil the lrishman
| But, when we have a Constitution,
and when they acknowledge its force,
| have no doubt but every just citizen
will be fer seeing It complied with.
Now, have just rs much coniiiencr
| in The masses of the Southern people
40 in the masses of the Northern poo
ple. Both are alike. The MASSES S
arc honest. To be sure, their insti'
| tutions, their means OF communicn-
ton, render them more cxcltable,
more easily led, and more relying
npon the leaders for public iniorma'
|, tion, and therefore more liable to be
mi.led than Northern people. New
, erthelcss, | have confidence in tn,
, Southern people; and the result o
, tho great conflict in Kentucky as
, surcs me that the Southern heart il
with the people sound to the core
, Though terrified into seeming seces
sion, with the exception Of one ol
| two states in the South, am wei
? satisfied that if the question OF UnioI
or disunion were submitted to the
people to-day, an overwhelming vote
? wonld be given for the Union anc
, it's stars and stripes. Applause,
2 Every indication has shown tina
, whenever there has boen an election
6 in any Southern state, and a iai