The Nevada journal., 1861-07-05
MccoNNELL,s SPEECH.

the Democratic County Convention of Sat
| urday last. With AcConnelrs Issue with
his party we have nothing to do. Whether
or not he has strayed from the principles
Of the party, or the party itself, is nothing
to US. But Mr.. Mcconnell, with all defer
ence to his hyperion abilities, extensive
reading and honesty, perverts history, and
it is our duty to expose the error, which
of attention to certain facts that ewing 10
his sympathes with certain section,
certain stripe of politicians and certain
principles, his mind is not inclined 20 take
cognizauoe OF. Werespect the learning and
talents of John R. Mcconnell, and the inde-
pendence and honesty with which he repu-
dated platform at the expense of losing a
nomination for an honorable Office. His
action in the Convention will stand to his
credit even with those who have no sympa
thy with his views.
We propose to examine some portions o!
his speech. Hs says the South has been in
suited by the North:
They had been called barbarians and nsulted
by every other offensive epithet, by Republican
leaders, in tho Senate, 1t is true, they
were taunted to make good their threats Of re-
sistance, and menaced with armed coercion and
slave insurreetion. 1t is true their courage was
deriied, and their State pride and love of their
natal soil condemned.
Mr.. Mcconnell complains of abuse forget
ting entirely the provocation. If he will
only refresh his memory it cannot be pos
sible for him to forget that a hatred of
Northern men was expressed at the South
and by southern men at least twenty years
before the Republican party had an exist
ence. When hoy, glowing with enthusi-
ISM for the " Sunny South VIC played tru-
ant to The rea I'm Of the rod and the ferulc,
and visited the charmed spots we had read
of under southern SKIES, AMI we have the
painful recollection Of hearing but rarely
there the intelligent pecple Of the North
called by any other epthet than damneu
Yankees" even in many parts of Mr. MGCon-
went among the Southrons taught to expect
in them all that was noble, generous and
just. We found with regret they cespised
Northern men. We might quote the lan-
guage of Southern orators used years ago
to prove that the courage and character Of
the people of the North was derded by
Aof ha ~,
thought of Except among few fanatics
the South was never spoken of disresprct-
fully but otherwise, every where in the
North. The historians, the statesmen, the
literature of the North teemed with COM
mendations of the South and her people
We found the good opinion was not recip-'
rocated Mr.. Mcconnell has not to go far
back, yet beyond the incipiency of the Re-
publican party, to recall th- time III '"'S
county and in q free State, when No. .,"'' "
men were indscrimnately and without the
shadow of authority charged with atoli-
tionism and slaughtered at the polls on the
false accusation. We can point to men who
have gone into conventions. in this county,
have said nothing against Northern mel as
they were nominated but who declared soon
after the convention adjourned, that they
{" would wipe every ID mackerel catcher
off the ticket We make these statements
in no evil spirit, and we can confidently
point to our record to prove we never acted
in n spirit OF retaliation in consequence OF
such declarations. produce these cases
to show that hatred and abuse tegan not
where Mcconnell wonld place it, and that
what he complains of is the result, the nat
ural result of pIovocation.
We agree with him, that those who have
labored TO set brother against brother are
the worst of disunionists, and the bands of
confederate thieves in the South prove it.
Mr.. Mcconnell further says:
7 state but the conclusions of common sense
and common experience when say. that those
who have brought destruction upon our heads
can never restore peace t. our land, or recon-
struct the fallen fabric of Liberty.
True; we agree TO every word of it. The
Democracy has been in power, has had the
control of the Government for years and the
present difficulties have grown up and burst
upon us under its rule. 1t is folly for Mr..
Mcconnell or any body else to attribute the
disorders of the country TO the Republicans.
| He saws himself there was not sufficient
cause for the step the disunionsts have ta-
ken. How then can he accuse the dominant
party of destroying the Union when he
blames the secessionists as acting against
the Government without cause? Besides,
he knows full well that if the words Of the
leading sccessionists of the South are good
for ANYTHING, that the same difficulties would
have envirored the country had Douglas
been elected in the place of Mr.. Linco,n.-
The fire. eaters threatened to dissolve the
Union if either of the Northern candidates
for the Presidency was elected. 1t is too
much to suppose that they meant whatthey
said in one case and not in the other. 1t is
not unknown to Mr.. Mcconnell, we are dis
possd to believe, (for he is an indefatigable
reader) that for more than thirty years there
has been a large body of men in the South
in times of harmony seeking some pretex'
and plotting to destroy tine Union. They