Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-08-30

t'ey come from the North, the South, the
East or the West. (Cheers.) My fellow
Democrats, suPposing there are any such
in my hearing, (Cre-, 4" There are, :"
/" There are,) suppose Dr, ckinrilse had
been elected, Summer, and Garrison. and
/ Wendell Phillips, and The Aboliionists of
the New England States generally had
started a rebellion against The auth ,rity Of
the United States, what would have been
/ done: ! would have done MS am doing
now. would have tried to animate my
countrymea 10 put them down by force Of
arms. (Chrcrs and cries Of Good y
/ Now, why not treat Southern rebellion Just
as you would have treated Northern rebel
lion-Eastern rebellion as you would West
ern rebellion-and wherever rcbellion
comes from, put it down forever (Chcers.)
That is my doctrine. | have stood upon
/ that doctrine in olden times, ard will stand
/ by it now, an if that doctrine gnts down
| will 60 odowu with it. There were causes
Of irritation between the sections ! admit.
| deprecated hem, and labored long and
earnestly TO get rid of them, But it was
not done. Those causes Of irritation, al
though they may have suggested to South
ern States TO request becoming guarantees,
they never justified armed rebellion in any
shape or manner. And what were those
causes of irritation? The Only real, prac-
teal cause Of irritation was the non-execu-
ton of the fu-itive slave law. But that
did not affect the Cotton States so called /;
but Missouri Kentucky, Virginia, Della
/ ware, and perhaps one or two other States
were the only ones ever injured by it. The
/ Cotton States SO called never los; fugitive
/ slave from the time of their existence to
this day. To be sure they had a question
/ about territories, but il was so entirely ideal,
mere abstraction, and so practically not a
real grievance. But if it had been they
had the Supreme Court and both branches
of Congress, and, practically had control of
the question. The fugitive slave question
was the only practical question therefore
which annoyed them, and that question was
not the cause of the rebellion. What State
/ first seeded? Soath Carolina began TO
scrape lint before the votes were counted
| (Laughter.) She had no practical griev-
ance whatsoever. Look at Virginia.
| Though politicians caioled, cheated and de-
frauded and bullies held bowie-knives at
the throats of her citizens 10 coerce rebel
| lion, it was long time before they could
compel that State into anything like Seces-
sion. And when they did so nominally,
4 the State Government was revolutionized,
one part few away from the other, and or
ganized their government, rather than al
low it 10 go into the bottomless pit of Sc
/ cession. Maryland, when she gets chance
votes against it. Missouri-her citizens
are pouring out their blood like water and
/ their treasure without stint rather than be
4 drawn into Secession. Look at good old
Kentucky where, her Governor and Sena-
tors have labored 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, especial
lv my Democratic fellow-citizens, whether
they are troubled about the integrity OF
whether they think it is neces-
sary TO stay up the hands of rebellion in
Kentucky, so emphatically condemned
there And now repeat that the only
practical cause Of dissention was the fugi-
tive slave question and that appertained
to States that could only be drawn or
dragooned into the folly of Secession
Gen. Butler has had this question on his
hands. As long as the Constitution was
acknowledged, all conservative citizens adj
mitted that it was the duty of the Free
States to restore the fugitive who was fee
inc from the service of his master. Gen
Butler has found the restoration of the fu-
gitives mpracticable in many cases. The
master had thrown off the Constitution.
What was the result? He was obliged to
receive hundreds of contrabands and retain
them ] do not know what he is going TO
do with the question but suppose lie is
going to do with them something as the
Irishman was going TO do with the Widow
Malone's pig. Did you steal the Widow
Malone's pig, Patrick Z" asked the priest.
!" That did, What made you Think,
when yon viii stand, you hereto, in the
Great Day, when shall be there, and the
/ Widow Malone will be here, and Tie pig
viii be there" And will your riverence
be there ?" Yes 9. And the Widow
/ Malone there ?" Yes" " And the pig
there ?" "Yes." "Well, | should say,
Widow Malone, take your pig" Qaugh-
ter.) Now, | do not know but Gen. But
Ter is going TO take as long credit as did
the irishman. But, when we have a Con-
s,itution. and when [hey acknowledge its
force. have no doubt but every just citi-
zen will be for seeing it complied with.