The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-09-06

'hotity VI Vic Oultcu OtdttS, Wudt NOulu
have been done ? would have done as
| am doing dow. l would have tried to
animate my countrymen to put them
down by force of arms. (Cheers, and
cries of "Good.") NV why not treat
Southern rebellion just as you would
have treated Northern rebelion-just as
you would have treated Eastern rebel
lion-]ust as you would have treated
Western rel ellion-and wherever rebei-
lion comes from put it down forever
(Cheers.) That is the doctrine. Ihave
stood upon that doctrine in olden times
and | will stand upon it now, aud if that
doctrine goes down, 1 will go down with
it. There were causes of irritation be-
tween the sections l admit. I deprecated
them, and labored hard, long and earn
estly to get rid of them. But it was not
done. Those causes Of irritation, al
though they may have suggested to
Southern States to request becoming
guarantees, they never justified armed re.
bellion in any shape or manner. And
what were those causes of irritation .
The only real, practical cause of irritation
was the non>execution of the fugitive
slave law. But that did not affect the
Cotton States so called. But Missouri,
Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, and Del
aware, and perhaps one Or two others
were the only States ever injured by it.
But the Cotton States so called never
lost fugitive slave from the time of their
existence to this day. 10 be sure they
had question about territories, bnt it
was SO entirely ideal, a mere abstraction,
and SO practically not real grievance
But if it had been, they had the su.
preme Court, and both branches of Con,
grcss, and SO practically Lad control oI
the question. The fugitive slave ques-
tion was the only real practical question
which annoyed them, and that question
and that question was not the cause o
the rebellion, What State first seeded!
South Carolina began to scrape lint be.
fore the votes were counted. (Laugh
ter.) She had no practical cause o.
grievance whatever.
Look at Virginia. Though politicians
cajoled, cheated, and defrauded, and bu,
lies beld bowie-knives at the throats O
her citizens to coerce rebellion. it was a
long time before they could compel tha
State into anything like Secession. Ant
when they did SO nominally, the State
Government was revolutionized, one par
flew away from the other, and organized
their government, rather than allow it tt
go into the bottomless PIT of Secession
Maryland, when she gets a chance, vote:
against it. Missouri-her citizens arr
pouring cut their blood like water ane
their treasure without stint, rather thar
be drawn into Secession. Look at goot
old Kentucky, where her Governor anl
Senators have labored to bring her GU
of the Union-after all attempts to Sc
duce her from her fidelity to the Consti
tuition, she gives more than sixty thous
and majority for the Union, Cheers.
Now, I inquire of all citizens in the Ere,
States, especially my Democratic fellow
citizens, whether they are troubled abou
the integrity of Kentucky-whether the,
think it is necessary to stay up the hand
of rebellion in Kentucky, SO emphatically
condemned there? And now 1 repea
that the only practical cause of dissensiol
was the fugitive slave question; and tina
appertained to states that only could b.
drawn or dragooned into the folly OF Sc
cession. Gen. Butler has had this ques
tion on his hands. AS long as the Con
stitution was acknowledged, all conserv
alive citizens admitted that the duty O
the Free States to restore the fugitiv,
who was fleeing from the service of hi
master. Gen. Butler has found the res
toration of the fugitive impracticable i,
many cases. The master had thrown of
the Constitution. What was the result
He was obliged to receive hundreds o
contrabands, and retain them. l do NO
know what be is going to do with them
, but suppose he is going to do like th
: Irishman was with the Widow Malone
pig. "Did you steal the Widow Ma
. lone's pig. Patrick" asked the priest
l "That did," "What made you? Thin
] when you will stand, in the Great Day
e when l will be there, and you will b
| there, and the Widow Malone will b
there, and the pig will be there" 'An
will your riverance be there?' Yes
And the Widow Malone there?' ,Yesi
And the pig be there?' Yes" Wei
1 should say, Widow Malone, take you
l pig" Laughter Now, 1 do nc
know but Gen. Butler is going to lake a
: lonu a credit as the Irishman. but Wbe