Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1861-09-05

gong 10 DO with the WIDOW maioue
pig. "Did you steal the Widow Ma
lone's pig. Patrick" asked the priest.
"That / did," "What made you!
Think, when you will stand, you her
etc, on the Great Day, when / shall be
There, and you will be there. and the
Widow Malone will be there, and the
mig will be there?" "And will your
ri1erence be tbere?" "Yes." sand
the pig there?" Eyes" "weIl, 1
should say, Widow Malone, take your
pig" Laughter.] "Now. I do not
know but Gen. Butler is going to take
as long q credit as did the Irishman.
But, when we have Constitution. and
when they acknowledge its force, have
no doubt but every Just citizen will be
for seeing it complied with.
No cause for Secession:
Now, / have Just as much confidence
in the masses Of the Southern people
as in the masses of the Northern peo-
pie. Both are alike. The masses are
honest. To be sure, their institutions,
their means of communication, render
them more excitable, more easily led.
and more relying upon their leaders for
public information, and therefore more
liable to be misled than Northern peo-
rle. Nevertheless, have confidence
in the Southern people; and the result
Of the great conflict in Kentucky assures
me that the Southern heart is with the
people sound to the core. Though
terrified into seeming Secession, with
the exception of one or two States 10
the South, am well satisfied that If
the question OF Union or Disunion were
submitted to the people to-day, an over
wbelming vote would be given for the
Union and its Stars and Stripes. Ap-
plause. Every indication has shown
that whenever there has been an cleo
ton in any Southern State, and a fair
opportunity given, you have seen that
the Union sentiment has prevailed
You will see that it is by military pow
er, by threats, intimidation, destruc-
ton, murder, and arson that they have
succeeded in getting in advance the
cause of Secession. In some States,
as, for instance, Louisiana, they never
submitted the question TO the people at
all. 1t is a base humbug of Davis,
Cobb & Co., to place themselves in
power. The election Of political op-
ponent is never a cause for Secession or
for disturbance; and if these Secession
leaders had opposed Mr.. Lincoln's elec-
ton from the time of the Charleston
Convention with half the pertinacity
and force that l did, he never would
have been elected. charge in all my
public speeches that they connived at
that election; and the same has been
charged home upon them by their own
people in the South. Their time had
come. 1t must go, or they would be
ruined. They remind one Of little boys
who want to ride horse. Those in
the city get them hobby horse, and
they can ride that. Country boys get
astride of stick, and ride that. This
knot of Office seekers failing to get a
horse to ride, or even hobby, have
mounted this poor stick Of Southern
Confederacy, and are riding that. 1t
is Just such ambition as caused the an
gels in heaven to rebel. it was not be-
cause we had not a good Government,
but because they could not rule it.
Call them Democrats, or entitled to the
sympathy of Democrats, with arms in
their hands against their Government,
and their hands red with the blood Of
our murdered citizens! They are enc
mics of their country; they are traitors
against the flag and the Constitution,
and as such srraign them in the name
of the Constitution and the Union. l
arraign them in the name Of civiliza-
ton; / arraign them in the name Of
Christianity; I arraign them in the
name of the fathers Of the Revolution,
who poured out their blood to gain the
Liberty transmitted to us; l arraign
them in the name of the soldiers who
marched barefoot to secure our blood
bought Liberty; 1 arraiga them in the
name of the holy memories of the wo-
men of the Revolution, whose pure and
gentle hearts were crushed and broken.
In the great day of Accounts, the saw
age Brant and more savage Butler, that
deluged the beautiful valley of the
Wyoming with blood, will stand up and
whiten their crimes in comparison with
the per6dy of the men who now at
tempt to divide and destroy this Union.
Mr.. Lincoln violating the Constitu-
ton:
But Mr.. Lincoln it is said, forsooth,
has violated the Constitution in con-
ducting his Administration! Very
well; there is a day of reckoning to
come with him and his advisers. But
it is one thing to violate the Constitu-
ton in defense of your country, and
quite another TO violate it in endeavor-
ing to subvert it. When my Demo
cratic or Republican friends, "or any
other man," are disposed to call the
President to account, and / am not his
defender, merely beg. when they get
through with him, they will merely in
quire whether Mr.. Jefferson Davis &
Co. have gone strictly according to the
Constitution of the United States?--
Cheers and laughter. l have the i'm
preston that instituting a pretended
government within the boundaries oI
! the limited States. that stealing the