The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-08-07
SPEECH OF HON. c. s. wlcKL1FFE.
1T THE
Great Democrat Convention, at Lndianaool
Indiana

| OSut OchOtdut CONCeNLtONp QL xNIlQnQOOLtS.
Indiana.
Mr.. Wickiffe, being introduced bv the
President of the Convention, alluded
briefly to the former relation between
\ Indiana and Kentucky. The words of
the gentleman who had presented him
brought to his memory the events of fifty
years ago. 1t was ther time of war; of a
war waged by the people-by the Demo
cracy, be might say-of the Uaited States
against Great Britain, for free trade and
sailors rights. Indiana ard Kentucky had
no sailors impressed, and then, as now, those
who made our troubles shut tn ems Ives up
like 'erripan in its shell in their New Eng
land States, and left us to Fl 5ht their battles.
God blessed Us then. May God bless US
now. May He bless our efforts in maintain
ing the Constitution it is and restoring the
| Union as 1t was. against the wicked Seces-
sionists Of the South and the still more wick
ed Abolitionists of the North. Kentucky
had authorized him to say that for the Con-
stitution and the Union she would devote
her all Would ever Indiana and Kentucky
consent that the Union should be divided bv
the Ohio River? ["No, uo."I
Indiana will: do as she has done before,
pour out her precious blood defending our
free institutions against all those who are
combined against them. Upon correct prin-
ciples Indiana would do this. For the Un-
ion and the Consttu ion she would % it. but
not to carry out the behests of any sectional
party, or tn e leaders thereof, whether in or
out OF power.
| 1t bad been asserted that slavery must be
extinguished before we could have peace
/ When was this proclaimed? Was it in the
month Of July, 1861 when in both Houses
of Congress, all voted that the war, brought
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maintain the Constitution. restore the Union,
to preserve the institutions of the several
States and to protect the citizens thereof in
the enjoyment of their personal and domes-
tic rights? Was it proclaimed when, after
the unfortunate affair OF Bull Run. we again
appealed to the patriotism ofthe country to
spill its blood for the purpose above declared?
Did any man then say to YOU that this war
should never cease while q slave existed
within the United States?
But they say it now. The Abolition party
had swallowed neck ard heels the Republi-
can party. Like sheep, these Republicans in
Congress followed their leader. When we
Wings of the old school, Douglas men and
Breckinridge men, who had seen the error of
their ways, called upon them to declare that
they would wage the war on the principles .
indicated, as they had in 1861, like Billy
Bo-peep's sheep, they didn't come up -
When Judge Holman, of Indiana, a good
and true man, God bless him, renewed the
Crittenden resolutions as an assurance to the .
army, and invited them to vote upon it, they
refused. Yet they said they were for the
Constitution and for restoration of the I'm
ion. They say they are for it now, and they
will say they for it until after your Oc- /
tober election. Mark thati
W hat was the cause of the war? A voice. +
g. A boli;iOuisru 81 We'll. YOU guessed ii
pretty near, NV friend. Some body must
have told you. That know; so help me
God, it's truei But they say slavery is the
cause of the war. If he had the power he
would visit upon the heads of the leaders of
the rebellion the punishment their wick ed
ness merited. But when it came TO the test
very likely be wonId, like the tory Scotch
man, who told the Revolutionary rebel that
he would he conquered, but that His Majesty
was merciful man and would not descend
in hanging below few atrocious characters
he would not, with regard to rebels now
a-days, descend below few atrociuus char
ters, but he would hang an Abolltiouist on
the other end of every rope.
Slavery was as much the cause Of the war
as the tea thrown into Boston Ilarbor was
the cause of the Revolution. This was con
ceved by designing and ambitious men. In
proof of it, Mr.. Wicklife produced the reso-
lutions passed at tn New York Abolition
Convention in 1859. What did this Con-
vention resolve? Why, that because of the
evil of slavery, they invited a free CORE
spondence with the disunionists ofthe South,
to the end of a dissolution of the United
States. Thank God, but more thanks to the
AbolitioDsts OF the North, the Secessionists
say, for they have enabled US to accom- plish
what we have been trying to do for thirty
years. Hence yon see we have two classes
OF traitors TO fight: the Aboitionists among
us, as well as the rebels Of the South. As
be had told Lovejoy in Congress, who, in
an Abolition harangue. brought out meta
phorically ship full risged and freighted
with SeceSsiouists and Abolitionists, he
would throw overheard the Abolitionists
first So people o: Indiana. you must throw
them overheard. l don't care under what
name they approach you. A leopard is just
as spotted, although you call him bear.
The South wanted a government separate
from The East The East wanted govern
mept separate from the negro. That's what
caused this rebellion. And if the twenty
millions of the North could not conquer the
six millions ofthe South without arming the
niger in Gods name let the bolitionists
! in Congress get out OF the way. and we, the
conservative men, old Wings, Democrats
and Republicans who reverenced the Con-
stitution, for th ere were some such, would
I prosecute the war, restore the Union, ana
maintain the rights OF all under the Consti-
tuition intact.
| Slavery, when the Constitution was adopt
| ed, existed in every Safe but one. ct
| Lovejoy talked away in Washington, trying
| to show that uuder that instrument, and be-
| cause of the Declaration of Independence,
the negro was free and equal with the white
men. Our fathers declared that they-the
white race, the Auglo-Saxon race-were
free and equal. They made this Govern
| -. fo- .h han,salres for the Whife man and