Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-08-27


would not coeroe State--frsi because il
= lmpracticable because you cannot coerce
4 STATE Second, because il would be unjust I
/, cOerce stRte in its domestic policy If il coul
be done. But you may coerce rebellion in
, State until you give that State an opportunit,
to act through its loyal citizens in its duties Il
I The Union. And | would coerce rebellion
where'er could find it. You may not coerce
, community hut you may cOeree its thieves AM
murderers You may eoerce State criminals
and thus enable the State and iis loyal citizens
10 luhl their relations to the Government of the
Union. If We can sustain our Uuion, il we cau
uphold our constitution, it is not By compro-
missing with rebellion it is by. putting down
rebellion and making our compromise with idel
ny. Applause, and voice--"There is your
Democracy."l And all men living a Democrat
Is the last man who can take a stand against the
constitution Of his country. Cheers A De-
mocrat lives, ind moves, and has his being il
the Constitution. lie cannot live outside Of OIL
in opposition to tie Constitution. He mus
stand by the Constitution in all its parts 1t wa
that doctrine that gave the Democratic party it,
power and aseendeucy in the times of Jefferson,
Of Madison, and of that old hero Andrew Jack.
son. Just in proposition as the Democracy has
wandered from the Constitution just in the same
proportion have they gone down. And if they
had been faithful, and stood fully up to their
own doctrines, all the Abolition parties of the
earth, and all the combined powers Of the earth
could never have put down the old Democratic
party. [Crles of "That is So" and cheers
have ever believed in the justice of Democracy,
and believe in it to-day as much as ever. And
believe it to be my duty to stand upon the
ramparts Of the Constitution anu defend it from
all foes, whether they come from the North, the
South, the Fast. or th' West 1Cheers.
My fellow Democrats, supposing there are
any such in my hearing Cries OF There are"
There are" suppose Beckinridge had been
elected, and Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and
the aboltionists of the New England States
generally, had started rebellion against the
authority of the United States, what would have
been done? would have done as | am doing
now. l would have tried to animate my country.
men to put them down by force of arms.
Cheers, and cries of 'good'J New, we may
treat Southern rebellion just as you would have
treated Northern rebellion, Eastern rebellion as
you would Western rebellion, and, wherever
rebellion comes from, put it down forever
[Cheers.]
That is my doctrine. have stood upon that
doctrine in olden tWes and | will stand by II
now and if that doctine goes down, | go down
with it. There were causes Of irritation between
the sections l admit | deprecated them, and
labored long and earnestly to get rid of them
but it was not done. Those causes of irritation,
although they may have suggested to Southern
States 10 request becoming guarantees, they
never justified armed rebellion in any shape or
manner
And what were those causes of irritation
The only real, practical cause of irritation was
the non-execution of the fugitive slave law
But that did not affect the Cotton States, so
called but Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Ma
ryland, and Delaware, and perhaps one or two
other States, were the only ones ever injured by
IN. Gnttou
fugitive slave from the time of their existence to
this day. To be sure, they had question about
Territories, but it was so entirely ideal, a mere
abstraction, and so practically not a real grie-
vance. But ifithad been, they had the Supreme
Court and both branches of Congress, and prac
tically had control Of the question, therefore,
which annoyed them and that question was not
the cause of the rebellion.
What State first seeded? South Carolina
began to soraFe lint before the votes wer
counted Laughter. She had no practical
GRIEVANCE whatever. Look at Virginia. Though
politicians c0joled, cheated, and defrauded, and
bullies held bowie knives at the throats of her
citizens to coerce rebellion, it was a long time
before they could compel that State into any
thing like secession. And when they did SO
nominally, the State Government was revolu-
tionized, one purt flew away from the other and
organized their government, rather than allow ii
to go into the bottomless pit of secession.
Maryland, when che gets chance, votes against
it. Alissouri-her citizens are pouring out their
blood like water and their treasure without stint
rather than be drawn into secession Look at
good old Kentucky where her Governor ard
Senators have lhbored to bring her out Of the
Union-after all attempts to seduce her from
her fidelity to the Constitution, she gives more
than sixty thousand majority for the Union.
[Cheers Now, inquire of all citizens in the
Free States, especially my Democratic fellow
citizens, whether they are troubled about the
integrity of Kentucky whether they think il |
is necessary to stay up the hands of rebellion in
Kentucky, so emphatically condemned there?
repeat that the only practical cause Of dis.
sention was the fugitive slave question; and
that appertained to States that could only be
drawn or dragooned into tue folly of secession
Gen. Butler has had this question on bis hands.
As long US the Constitution was acknowledged
oil conservative citizens admitted that il was the
duty of the Free States to restore the fugitive
who was fleeing from the service of his master
Gen. Butler has found the restoration of the
fugitive impracticabie in many cases. The
master had thrown off the Constitution. What
was the result ? He was obliged to receive hum
dreds of contrabands, and retain them. l do
not know what he is going TO do with the ques-
tion. When we have a Constitution and when
they acknowledge its force, have no doubt but
every just citizen will be for seeing it complied
with.
l have just as much confidence in the masses
of the Southern people us in the masses of the
Northern people. Both are alike. The masses
are honest. To be sure their instructions, their
means of Communication render them more ex-
citable, more easily lead, and more relying upon
their leaders for public information, and there
fore more liable TO be misled than Northern
people Nevertheless, have confidence in the
Southern people; and the result of the great
conflict in Kentucky assures me that the South
ern heart is with the people sound TO the core |
Though terrified into seeming secession, with |
the exception of one or two States in the South, |
/ am well Satisfied that if the question of Union |
or DisuniOn was submitted to the people to-day |
an overwhelming vote would be given for |
the Union and its Stars and Stripes TAppause. |
Every indication has shown that whenever there |
has been an election in any Southern State. and |
q fair opportunity given, you have seen the Union |
sentiment has prevailed You will see that it is |
by military power, by threats, intimidation, |
destruction, murder, and arson that they have |
succeeded in getting in advance the cause Of |
SECESSION 10 some States, as for instance
Louisiana, they never submitted the question to
the people at all. 1t is base humbug of Davis, |
Cobb, aud Co. to place themselves in power.
The election Of political opponent never cause Of
secession for disturbances and If those secession lead
had opposed Mr.. Lineon's election from the time Of
the Charleston Convention with half the pernacity and
force that did, he never would have been elected. /
charge in all my public speeches that they connyed at
that eecton and the hns 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
mind Of little boys who to ride horse Those
In the city get them hObyofse and they ride that
Country boys get asride Of stick and ride TINT This
knot OF oceseekers failing get horse to ride,
hobby have mounted this poor stick Of Southern Con-
fedeacy, and ridug that II just such ambition
this that caused the angels In heaven to rebel II
not because had gopd Government, but because
they could rule il, Call them Democrats entitled
to sympathy Of Democrats, with arms in their hands
against their Government and their hands rel with tho
blood Of our murdered citizens They enemies OF
their country they traitors against the Flag and the
Constitution, and such ariagn them in the Of
the Constitution and the Unun; arrlgu them in the
name Of civilization; arriigu them in the of Chris
tanity; arraign them in the OF the fathers ofhc