The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-09-05

| Wncn we nave n constitution, ana whel
they acknowledge its force, | have no doub
but every just citizen will he for seeing i
it complied with. Now, | have Just n,
much confidence in the masses of the South
| ern people as in the masses of the Northern
people. Both are alike. The masses are
honest. To be sure, their institutions, thci,
means of communication, render them more
cxcitable more easily led, more relying up
on their leaders for public information, and
| therefore more liable to he mislcd than the
Northern people. Nevertheless, | have con.
| fidcnce in the Southern people f; and the
| result of the great conflict in Kentucky as
sures 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 in the South | am
well satisfied that the question of Union or
Disunon were submitted to the people to.
day, an overwhelming vote would be given
for the Union and the Stars and Stripes.
Applause.l Every indication has shown
that whenever there has been an election in
any Southern State, and fair opportunity
given, you have seen that the Union senti-
mcnt has prevailed. You will see that it is
by military power, by threats, intimidation,
destruction, murder and arson that thcv
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 Il
base humbug of Davis, Cobb & Co. to place
themselves in power. The election of a po-
litical opponent is never cause of Seces-
sion or for disturbance and if those Seces-
sion leaders had opposed Mr.. Lincoln's
election from the time of the Charleston
Convention with half tho pcrtnacity and
force that did, he never would have been
elected. | charge in all my public speeches
that they conniVcd at that election and the
same has been charged home upon them by
their own people in the South. Their timo
had come. 1t must go, or they would be
ruined. They remind one of little boys who
want to ride a horse. Those in the city get
them hobby horse, and they can ride that.
Country boys get astrde of stick, and
ride that. This knot Of Office seekers, fail
ing to get a horse to ride, or even hobby
have mounted this poor stick of a Southern
Conicdcracy, and are riding that. ltis Just
such ambition as coused the angels in Hcav-
EN- to rebel. 1t was not because we had not
good Government, but because they could
not rule it, Call them Democrats, or entitled
to the sympathy of Democrats, with arms
i'll their hands against their Government,
and their hands red with the blood of our
murdered citizens! They are enemies of
their country they arc traitors against the
flag and the Constitution, and as such ar
raign them in the name of the Const-
tuition aud the Union. arraign them in the
name of civilization; | arraign them in the
name of Christianity; | arraign them in the
name of the fathers of the Revolution, who
poured out their blood to gain the Liberty
transmitted to u.s. arraign them in the name
OF the soldiers, who marched barefoot to
secure our blood bought Liberty | arraigr
them III the name of the holy memories of
the women of the Revolution, whose pure
and gentle hearts were crushed and broken.
In the great day of Accounts, the savage
Brant and more savage Butler, that deluged
the beautiful valley of Wyoming with blood.
will stand up and whiten their crimes in
comparison with the periidy of the men
who now attempt to divide and destroy
this Union.
The ferocous instincts of the savage
taught him he might be doing a duty to his
people; but these men were born in a land
of civilization, and baptised in the name of
the Trinity, and they should be held to an
account for the abuse of the trust which has
been coniided to them. Who are these men
i'll arms against the Govcrnment-in arms
against the Union? They are men who have
been educated at its eXpense-been laden
with its honor-been pampered at its treas
ury. If we perish we may say with the
poet over the stricken eagle:
Keen were his pangs, yet kecner far to feel,
He nursed the pnion which impelled the steel,
While tn same plumage that had warm'd his breast
Drank the last lite-drop of his bleeding heart.
If the Union is stung to the heart, it must
be melancholy reelection that we have
reared the men to do it, and like the dement,
ed Lear, we shall learn
How sharper than a serpent's tooth il is,
To have thankless child;
that we have nourshed and brought up
and they have rebelled against the
of their country. We have seen
by the action of the Border Southern States
that it is not their intention to permit this
Government to be subverted. Every crime
known in the catalogue of depravity from
treason to larceny, has been committed in
to drive them into secession
How can these men be sustained by any
1ne, with hands dripping with blood-not
only with the blood of Northern, but Of
Southern citizens; and why? Because
Northern candidate was elected, who had
.our years to serve, whose election they
at, they will hazard whole etern-
ty, so far as temporal existence is concern
ed; to crafty present personal piquc and
iced mean ambition. Whoever sustains
-hem, will not. Whoever cries peace will
lot. Whoever cries compromise with them, |
will not Great cheering. am for
peace, but | am for making peace with the
oyal citizens of the South-the loyal cit-
.ehs Of Kentucky and Missouri too, who
nave sent that modern Nebuchadnezzar,
Claiborne f. jackson, to grass. [Great
aughter. They ask in repetition can you
,oerce a State? l say no; you cannot. You
night as we'll coerce the sun to shine or the |
stars to twinkle. Can you coerce neigh |
Dor to be honest? No; but you may punish |
is criminals. No one can Justify armed re-
Dellion in opposition to the Union and the |
Constitution OF his country. But Mr.. Lin |
,oln it is said, forsooth, has violated the
Constitution in conducting his Administra-
ion! Very well; there is day of reckon
ng to come with him and his advisers
But it is one thing to violate the Consttu-
ion III defense of your country, and quite |
mother to violate ii in endeavoring to sub
Icrt it. When my Democratic or Republi- |
'an friends, "or any other man" are dispos-
I'd to call the President to account and am |
lot his defender, | merely beg, when they |
get through with him, they will merely in
luire whether Jefferson Davis & Co. have |
gone strictly according to the Constitution |
If tho United States? Cheers and laugh |
er.I have the impression that institut- !
ng a pretended government within the
boundaries of the United States; that steal |
ng the treasures of our Government, its !
ships; betraying its commands; firing upon