The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-08-07

tions everywhere prevailing; every cheek
blanched with fear, and everv heart frozen with
despair; and all over that desolated land the
hand of infuriated passion and crime is waving.
with a vulture's scream for blood the sword of
civil war. And this is the Pandrmonium which
some would have transferred 10 Kentucky.
| But am not here 10 discuss this proposition
I tonight. l wish soiemnly to declare before YOU
and the world, that | am for this Union without
conditions, one and indvsible, now and forever.
: am for its preservation at any and every cost
of blood and treasure against all its assailants
| know no neutrality between my country and
its foes, whether they be foreign or domestic;
no neutrality between that glorious flag which
now floats over US and the ipgrates and traitors
who would trample it in the dust. Ny PRAYER is
for victory, complete, enduring and overwhelm-
ing. ro the armies Of the republic ever all lis
/ enemies. | am against any ard every coniprom-
ise that may be proposed TO he made under the
guns OF the rebels, while at the same time | am
decidedly in favor OF ailorGiug every reasonable
guarantee for the safety OF Southern institutions
1 which the honest cOnvictous of the people-not
the conspiratofs-of the South may demand
cltenerer they shall Iay do,C,. their arms, bat
not until then. The arbitrament of the sword
has been defantly thrust into the face of this
government and country, and there is 10 honor
able escape from it. All guarantees and all at
tempts at adjustment by amendments 10 the con
| stitutiOn now sceniuliy rejected and the
lesd,rs Of the rebellion openly proclaim that
they fighting for their Independence. In
this contemptuCus rejection OF guarantees, and
in this avowal of the rebellion now audacious-
ly made, We have complete exposure Of that
fraud which through the slavery agitation has
been practced upon the public credulity for the
last fifteen or twenty years. In the light Of this
revelation, We feel as one awakened from tie
suffocating tOrtures of nightmare, and realize
what baseless dream our apprehensions have
been, and of what tratorOus ssindle we have
been made the victims Independence of what?
Independence OF those laws which they them
| selves have aided in enacting. independence OF
that constitution which their fathers framed, and
TO which they are parties and subject by inheri-
tance; independence of that beneficent govern
ment on whose treasury and honOrs they have
grown strong and ilustrious. When man COM
mits robbery on the highway, or murder in
the dark, he thereby declares his independence
of the laws under which he lives, and of the SO
ciety of which he is a member. Should he
when arraigned avow and justify the ofiense, he
thereby becomes the advocate of the indepen-
dence he has thus declared, and If he ressts by
force of arms the officer when dragging him to
thereby fighting for the independence he has
thus declared and advocated: and such is the
condition of the cOnspiratOrs Of the South at
this moment. 1t s no longer a question of
Southern rights, which have never been violated,
nor of security of Southern institutions, which
We know perfectly well have never been inter-
fered with by the general government, but it is
purely with US a question of national existence.
In meeting this terrible issue which rebellion has
made up with the loyal men of the country, We
stand upon ground infinitely above all party lines
and party pla,fOrns-grOund as sublime as that
which our fathers stood when they fought the
. battles of the Revolution. am for throwing
into the contest thus forced upon US all the ma
terial and moral resources and energies of the
| nation, in order that the struggle NAV be brei
and as little sanguinary possible. 1t is hoped
that we shall soon in the field hall million
of patriotic volunteers marching in columns
which will be perfectly irresistible, and borne il
their hands-for no purpose of conquest or sub
lugatiOn, out of protection only-we may expec
2 within nine mouths TO see the stars and stripe.
4 floating in every Southern breeze, and hear go
Ing up, Wild aS tho to,i.r, the ono,ant ohout a
D that emancpated people over their deliveranc.
from the revolutionary terror and despotism, b,
2 which they are now tOrmented and oppressed
1 The war conducted on such a scale will not cos
i exceeding four or five hundred millions of dollars
and none need be startled at the vas;ness of thi
:. expenditure. The debt thus created will pres
: but slightly upon Us; j: will be paid and giadl,
. paid by posterity, who will make the best bar
gain which has been made since the world begaI
= if they can secure to themselves in its integrit
= and blessings suc'I government as this, at sue
(; a cost. But il IN this anticipation We are doom
t ed to disappointment; if the people Of the Uni
t tod States have already become 40 degenerate
). may l not say so craver-in the presence c
It their foes to surrender up this republic to b
: dsmembered and subverted by the traitors VIII
# have reared the standard of revolt aga inst il
8 then trust the volume of American history wi
It be closed and sealed up forever, aud that thos
i. who shall survive this national humiliation wi
e take unto themselves some other name-som
!. name having no relation to the past no relatio
n to great ancestors, no relation to those MOI
n uments ard battle fields which cOmmemorat
v alike their heroism, theirsoyalty and their glor,
d But with the curled lip of scorn We are tol
l. by the disuniOnists that in thus supporting r.
i publican administration in its endeavors TO W
is hold the Constitution and laws, We are "submi
| sionists," and when they have pronounced tn
l. word, they suppose they have imputed 10 us III
W sum of all human abasement. Well, let it
d confessed; we are submissionists," and wea
II and spiritless as IL NAV he deemed by some, "
:. SiOrS tIc pcsitiou We OcCupN. IOT
l. the law says "Thou shalt not steal" We subrn
W to this law, and would not for the worlds wort
m rob our neighbor of his forts, lis arsenal
ID his arms, his munitions of war, his hospital store
re or any thingthat is his Indeed, so impressed al
n we with the obligations of this law, that We wou
III no more think of plundering from our neighbc
a. half million Of dollars because found in one
o. his unprotected mints, than we would think
s. filching purse from from his pocket in a GRO,
re ded thoroughfare. Write us down, therefor
tn "submis Again: The law saws "tht
ne shalt not swear falsely :" we submit to this la,
I'd and while in the civil or military service Of Il
rs country, with an oath TO support the Constir
ID ton of the United States resting upon our CO
,e sciences, we would not for any earthly conside
IT. alton engage in the formation or execution OF
no conspiracy to subvert that very Constitution
al with it the government to which i: has Civ.
birth. Write US down, therefore, again, " gu
e. missionists." Yet again When a Prcsid ut b
te been elected in strict accordance with the fcrr
: and spirit of the Constitution, and has been re
IS ulary installed into Office and is honestly st
d. wing to discharge his duty by snatching the
on public from the jaws of gigantic treason viii
he threatens TO crush il, care not what his nar
by may be, or what the designation of his polite
nd party, or what the platform on which he sto
d. during the Presidential canvass; We believe
is fulfill in sight of earth and heaven, Or high.
ed obligations to our country, in giving TO him
cir earnest and loyal support in the struggle in viii
lie. he is engaged
in Nor are We at all disturbed by the fippa
&C. tsunt that in thus submittnr IN tho authority