Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-16
VOL. XLIII.
great speech of Senator johnson.

nessesee; was one that viii he memorable
We take a few striking passages from the
Globe (oficiaD report:
Since left my home having only one way
te Iez4e the State through two or three passes
coming out through Cumberland Gap, have
been advised that they have even sent their
armies to blockade those passes 10 the noun
tains, as they say, to prevent johnson from
returning with arms and munitions to place
in the hands of the people TO viEdieate their
rights, repel invasion, and put down domestic
insurrection and rebellion. Yes sir, there they
stand in arms environing population Of three
hundred and twenty-five thousand loyal, brave,
patriotic, and ursubdued people; but yet pow
erless, and not 10 condition to vindicate their
rights. Hence / come to the Government
and do not ask it suppIiaut, but | de-
mand it as a constitutional right, that you
give US protection, give is arms and munitions;
and if they cannot be got there any other way,
to take them there in an invading army, and
deliver the people from the oppression to which
they are now subjected. We claim to be the
State. The other division may have seeded
and gone off and if this Government will stand
by and permit those portions Of the State 10
go off and not enforce the laws and protect
the loyal citise 6s there, we cannot help il; but
&e still claim to be the State, and iftwo-thirds
have fallen off, or have been sunk by an earth
quake, it does not change our relations to this
Government. If the Government will let them
60, and not give US protection the fault is not
ours; bat il you viii give US protection tse in
tend to stand as & State, as a part OF this Con
federacy, holding to the flag that was borne by
Washington through a seven years struggle
for independence and separation from the
mother country. We demand it according to
law; we demand it upon the guarantees of the
Constitution. Ytu are bound to guaranty to
US Republican form of Government, and
we ask il as d Constitutional right. We do
not esk you to Interfere as party, as your
feelings or prcjudices may be one way or an
other in reference to the parties Ofthc country;
but we ask you to interfere as a Government
according TO the Constitution. OF course we
want your sympathy and yo0r regard, and
Jour resi- Get; but we ask your interference on
Constitutional grounds.
l am as much for compromise as any one
can be; ard there is no QUE who would desire
rFOre than myself to see peace AMI prosperity
restored TO tie land; but when We look at the
condition of the country we find that rebellion
is rife; that treason has reared It's head. \
distinguished Senator from Georgia once said
when traitors become numerous enough irea-
son becomes respectable" Traitors are get
ting to be so numerous now that ! sIppr e
trlason has almost got to E1 fesprctab.c} bat
God being willing, whether traitors be many
! 1 l. =,
traitors and treason, and in behalf Of he Il "
9rulnent which was cons ructed by our fathers;
| it1tcnc to cont5nue to tie end. .f~pFause
in the galleries.
The President pro t@rerora- 9rtslrt
Mr.. johnson, of Tennessee e-Afr. i'r,,sii N:
We are in the midst OF civil war; bl,ol ..;ls
! been shed; life has been sacrificed. n no com
menced it? OF that We will speak hereafter.
l am speaking now of the talk about compro-
mise. Traitors and rebels are stanling with
| arms in their hands, and it is said that we must
{ go forward and cVrPromise with them. They
arc in the wrong; they are making war upon
The Government; they are trying to upturn and
destroy our free Institutions. L say to them
that the compromise have to make under the
existing circumstances is ground your arms !;
obey the lawss acknowledge the supremacy of
the Constitution; when you d. that | will talk
to you about compromises" All the compro.
mise that have TO make IS the comPromis- Of
the Constitution Of the United States.
Il is Que Of the bs5t COUP gaiIsls That can
! be r.lde. we lived under ii IRON 1889 down
to the 10th of December, 1860, wien Sou h
Carolina undertook to go out of the Union.
We Rrospered; We advanced in wealth, in
commerce, in agriculture, in trade, in manu-
lacturcs, in all the arts and sciences, and in
religion, more than any people upon the face
of Gods earth had ever done before in the
same time. What better compromise do you
want? You lived under it until you got to be
a great and prosperous people. 1t was made
by our fathers, and cemtnted by their blood.
When you talk tc' ns6 about compromise l hold
up TO you the Constitution, under which you
derived all your greatness, and which was
made by the fathers OF yourcountry. 1t will
protect you in all your rights.
But it is said that we had better divide the
country and make treaty and restore peace
If, under the Constitution which was framed
by Washington and Madison and the patriots
of the Revolution, we cannot live as brothers,
as we have in times gone by, l ask can we
live quietly under treaty, separated IS enc
mics? The same causes will exist; our geo
graphical and physical position will remain just
THE same. Suppose you make a treaty OF
peace aud division; if the same causes of irri-
tation, if the same causes Of division continue
to exist, and We carhot live US brothers in fra
ternity, under the Constitution made by our
fathers, aud as friends in the same Govern
lo,, oI3o
enemies under treaty? 1t cannot be done; it
is iryprGctigsble.
The Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Breckin
ridgel was wonderfully alarmed at the idea o
''dictator,'' and replied with much point
as possible to the Senator from Oregon who
made the suggestion. Bat, sir, what do we
!, find in the Richmond Examiner, which is
Z published at the seat of Government of the
} so,called Confederate States?
'In the late debates of the Congress of this
; Conlederacy Mr.. Wright, of Georgia, showed
true appreciation Of the crisis when he ad-
vocated The grant of power to the President
? that would enable him to make immediate de
: fense of Richmond, and to bring the whole
force of the Contederacy to bear on the affair:
4 of Virginia 1t is here that the fate of tht
COnfcderacy is to be decided; and the tint
is too short to permit red tape TO interlsr,
S with public safety. No power in executiv,
: hands can be too great, no discretion too ab
Il selute, OF such moments as these. We neet
a dictator. Let lawyers talk when the work
has time to hear them. Now let the sword d.
its work Usurpations of power by the chel
T for tie preservation Of the people from rob-
= = bers and murderers, will be reckoned as geniu
: and patriotism by all sensible men in tht
It world now, and by every historian that vii
n judge the deed hereafter"
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