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

SureS me that The SOU; hern heart Is with
the people sound to the core. Though ter
rified into seeming Secession, wish the ex-
cepiion of one or two States in t. South,
! am well satisfied that if the question Of
Union or Di:union were submitted TO the
pcop'e to-day an overwhelming vote would
be given for The Union and its Sta.s and
Stripes. (Applausc) Every indication
has shown that whenever there has been
an election in any southern STATE, AMI n
fair opportunity given, you have seen that
the Union sentiment has prevailed. You
will see that il is by militry power, by
threats, intimidation, murder and arson that
they have succeeded in getting in advance
the cause of secession. In some states, as
for instance Loujsina, they never submitted
the question to the people at all. 1t is a
base humbug of Davis, Cobb ard Co. to
to place themselves in power. The election
of political opponent is never cause Of
secession or for disturbance and If those
secession leaders had opposed Mr.. Lin
coins election from the time of The Charles
ton convention with half the pertinacity
and force that did, he never would have
beel elected. / charge in all my public
speeches that they connived at that election
and the same has been charged hom. upon
them hy their own people in the SOUTH
! Their time had come. 1t must 20, or they
would be ruined. They remind one of
/ little boys who want TO ride horse. Those
in the city get them hobby-horse, and
they can ride that Country boys get astride
of stick, and ride that. This knot of Of
fice-seekers failing TO get a horse to ride, or
even a hobby, have mounted this poor stick
of southern confederacy, and are riding
that. Ii is just such ambition as caust
the angels in heaven TO rebel. 1t was not
because we had not a good government but
because they could not rule it. Call them
democrats, or entitled 10 sympathy Of dem
ocrats, with arms in their hands against
I their government, and their hands red with
the blood of our murdered citizens They
are traitors against the flag and the consti-
tuition, and as such | arraign them in the
name of the constitution and the Union /
arraign them in the name of civilization l
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 us. ar
raign them in the name of the soldiers who
marched barefoot TO secure our blood-5ought
1 liberty. | arraign them in the name of the
/ holy memories Of the women Of the revolu-
| lion. whose pure and gentle hearts were
crushed and broken. In the great day of
accounts, the savage Brant and more saw
age Butler that deluged the beautiful val
ley of the Wyoming with blood, viii stand
up and whien their crimes in comparison
with the perfdy of the men who now at
tempt TO divide and destroy this Union.--
/ The ferocious instincts of the savage taught
him that he might be doing a duty TO bis
| people; but these men we're born in a land
of civilization, and baptsed in the name of
the Trinity, and they should be held to an
account for the abuse Of the trust which
/ has been confded TO them. Who are these
men in arms against the government--in
arms against the Union' They are men
who have been educated at its expense
been laden with lis honor-been pampered
at IFS treasury. If we perish we may say
with the poet over the stricken eagles -
'Kcen his pangc, yet keener far to feel
He nursed the piuion which inipelled the steel
While the same pumage, that had warmed his breast
Drank tho last lfe-drop Of his bleeding heart.n
/ If the Union is stung TO the heart, il
must be melancholy reflection that we
have reared the men to do it, and ike the
demenied Lear, we shall learn
y ,.IIov sharper than serpcnt's tooth tits,
To have thaukless child -
that we have nourished and brought up
children, and they have rebelled against
The institutions of their country.
We have seen by the action of the bor-
der southern states that it is not their in
tention TO permit this government to be
subverted. Every crime known in the cat
aloguc of depravity from treason to larceny,
has been committed in attempting to drive
them into secession. How can these men
be sustained by any one, with hands drip
| ping with blood-not only with the blood
of northern, but of southern citizens and
why! Because a northern candidate was
elected, who had four years to serve, whose
election they might have revented-whcse
election they connived at, they viii hazard
a whole eternity, so far as temporal exist
ence is concerned, to crafty present per-
sonal pique and feed mean ambiiou.-
Whoever sustains Them, will not. Who
ever cries peace, will not. Whoever cries
compromise with them. / will not. (Great
cheering) am for peace, but am for
making peace with the loyal citizens of the
south-fhe loyal citizens of Kentucky and
of Missouri too, who have sent that modern
Nebuchadnezzar Calborne f. jackson to
grass. (Great laughter) They ask in
repetition can you coerce a state? say