Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-03
NEWPORT NEWS.


cisely at two o'clock Captain Swsine, Grand
Marshal for the occasion, caused the process
sion TO move in the following order:
Pioneers with Axes
Barrpcks Band
Home Guards, captain Artzman.
Union Club, numbering Egh,ee Hundred.
Rolling mill Compaby, m y Gsptaip j. M B,oomsli.
Taylos Home Gusros, Captain Callahan.
msTshal y Rqipe.
seednd German German 9SS%pSSy Q9Gtan
Ihird Serman GSomPai p1y :, ,ps Captain Hanselman.
Horsemen from Alexandr and vicinity.
Cars and Vehicles. ,a
After marching through the announced
line OF march, the entire procession proceeded
to the Courthouse Square, 70 listen TO the
orators of the day. Here were gathered a
large. number of ladies, seated on benches
which the Committee of Arrangements had
kindly prepared for them.
Upon motion of Mayor Hawkins, Judge
Irwin, of Campbell County, was called TO the
Chair, and, in a few words, informed the
assembly why the meeting had been called.
Mayor Hawkins then presented the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
"Resolved: l. The existing war was forced
upon the country by the disunionists of the
South.
80. As our fathers pledged their lives,
fortunes, and sacred honor to the founda-
ton Of our Union, it is as little as we, their
Sons, can do to make the same pledge to
maintain and defend it.
"3 In the language of General Jackson
Our Union must and by the Eternal shall be
preserved.
-. The Mississippi River, its mouth and
all its fountains, the country which lies be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific, the Lakes
and the Gulf must all belong to one and the
same people; and that too under the Govern
ment OF the United States, or in our judg-
ment, war with all its solemn and untold
horrors will hang upon US and our children
to the latest generation.
"5. The Government which does not pun
lsh treason, and can not suppress rebellion is
not worthy of the name
&c On the subject of sacred soil,' we
wovld say that the soil of Kentucky is only
sacred when foated over by the Stars and
Stripes, and as to neutrality with the
highest respect to every body, and intending
no shock to delicate and sensitive nerves,
we will say that according to our judgment,
armed neutrality is just armed nonsense
Our Legislature, which meets to. day,
should promptly meet the war tax of $780,
600; should disbsnd the State Guards ;
should refer the case of Governor Magoffin
to the Committee on treason; should resolve
Breckenridge and Powell out of their seats :
cbOuIu AululSu ~ Iut NONeT0meOL ner quota
of men; put our loyal men upon an i'm
pregpable war footing, and, tipping her
proud hat to General Anderson, say to him,
Walk in my own Old Sumter
"8 We are for peace; every good Union
man deprecating war; and we demand that
this war shall cease at the earliest possible
moment: that is to say, so soon as it can be
obtained with American honor; so soon as
all rebels lay down their arms and treason is
properly punished, and our old flag floats
over every foot of our soil The last dodge
of the Secessionists in this city for peace is
trap too transparent to catch even the
weak and simple.
80. We welcome to our meeting our dis
tingulshed guest, the Hon. Andrew John
son, of Tenn, Low torn and sundeIed from
bic dear wife and swe ct children, by wicked
and traitorous hands We Kentuckians, in
this vast presence assembled, promise him
that be shall be returned to their arms; we
promise it here, under that pure shining
Heaven, by the sacred honor of Kentuckians,
and by every drop of her rich Union
blood
The Chairman then introduced Hon. An
drew johnson, of Tennessee, whom the vast
assemblsge welcomed with three cheers. Mr..
johnson, after bowiug to them, said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: l am here to. day
by invitation, for The purpose Of addressing
you upon the issues now growing out of our
country. 1t is not necessary for me to tell
! you we are in the midst OF revolution-a
civil war.
IF there are any here who came TO hear a
speech with rounded sentences, eloquent
rhetoric ard grand lourishes, | must tell
them their expectation must be let down,
for deal Ill facts and arguments. He said
10 State had the right to assume the preroga-
tive to withdraw herself from these United
States-that the people must fight Secession
and stand By the Union and Constitution.
He referred to times past, when the old
political parties, Wings and Democrats, on
! occasions turned out To advocate their differ
ent doctrines, when they came to the plat
Tm they bore the glorious Stars and
! Stripes, the Wings planting their flag on
! one End the Democrats on the other, face
! to face, toe TO toe, fought tbe fight of the
| day. But now party comes forth reared
and nuItured under tine glorious flag which
! they have trsmpled under foot, aud, assum-
ing another banner, seek to overpower US
and assert the rights or so called rights
| which have been torn from them. Hence
he eloqUently alluded TO our countTy's flaG
when borne by Washington and his com
peers, asserting that no one had lost righ
under its folds; no one could point out {
right ever existing on the face of our coun
try where the Stars and Stripes foateG
DuJ WuhJ Ddu Deen prOLeCl6u.
He said that Secession meant to separate
to resolve things back 10 their former posi-
tiOn, TO disintegrate-tbat Secession begar
in the garden of Eden when after Adam anC
Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, and theil
Master came forth and called for them, they
| were ashamed at what they had done, and
seeded from His sight. Cain, after Staying
his brother Abel, seeded into the land Of
Nod, and that Btelzebub wished to secede
! from heaven, but was not allowed by having
! been expelled.
In referring TO the resolutions of the day,
/ he said he approved of every sentiment
When a son of Tennessee, years ago said,
| by the Eternal the Union must and shall
be preserved he was upheld by Kentucky,
| Congress, men aud Senators, who stretched
| forth their arms in defense of the gallant
! Jack son, and had we had similar man, in
stead of James Buchanan, Secession would
| have been in the start trampled under foot.
He said 1.-THE van State, South Carolina, af-
| ter her declaration of seeding from the
| United States, hoisted the Palmetto flag
that Louisiana displayed the Pelican flag
emblematical OF bird with great swallow,
an appropriate insignia of Secession, as they
| have from the start evinced disposition to
! swallow up all the property and funds OF
| our Government under their control; that
| Alabama raised the rattle-snak flag, fit
| emblem OF the poisonous venom of Seces-
| sion.
"The advocates of secession cried out
Rights, IighIs;' and again he would ask,
what rights had any one lost under the Con-
stitution? He sneered at this plea and
would defy any Southern man TO name a
, right they ever lost. Some will say slavery,
but II IS only pretext. Did not Mr.. Sew
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