Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-13
Eloquent Review Of the Rebellion.


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ncr Of warfare on thu stump in the North
and that used at the South; and if in what
l shall say Of the authors OF this infamous
rebellion and their most contemptibIe
synpathizers, in the North. l, shall deal
win them roughly snd handle them with
out gloves. the audience will crelit il
to my manner and. education. In the
North. understand. when in q speech q
man meets q false statement in speaker
or writer. he says "that statement is not
in accordance with the facts but in the
country in which l, was raised we were in
the habit of using different phrase: we
brand the statement as . vile calumny and
the man who makes it is an unmitigatcd
liar.nor a. nov ,',s.s I..ros r..-.s.ra
| "a believe, ! have believed from the first.
that we, are in the midst Of a war inaugu-
rated by the Southern conspirators.
deny that this Is an abolition war. inaugu-
rated by Abolitionists. But the men oi
South Carolina. Alabama, Mississippi.
Georgia and all the powers Of hell inaugu-
rated this hellish war. 1t originated in
the South. with the worst men that God
Almighty ever permitted to breath the air
Of Heaven. and if You have states prison
in Illinois declare in the fear of God to-
night. that one half. yes two.,hirds of the
men in the Illinois penitentiary are better
than the leaders of the rebellion at the
South. and If were not afraid. to-morrow
being Sunday. Of bringing upon my head
controversy with some of the clergymen. .
many of whom have no doubt are in this
large assembly. would give it as my hon.
est conviction, that there are better men in
hell tonight than the leaders Of this rebel.
lion. ID v
Then. gentlemen, | take the gronui that
we are in the mitlst of wicked rebellion.
for which there is. and never was. any jus,
or aufficent cause AMI l 20 farther than
this; l make my statement still stronger
and more emphat;c-we ale in the mids,
Of rebellion for which, there is not, and
never has existed, even the shallow of a
pretext. Lad. r
This Government of ours in its present
form, aud under our most excellent consti
tuition. has existed little over seventy
five years. During that time we have
held nineteen presidential elections. Ia
that period, we at the South with half the
States and territories you have atthe North
with half the population, with half the
electoral! votes in the presidential contest,
have elected the president thirteen times
you elect six times. Not only so. bat
we reelected. to Gil second term. five OF
our men at the South. Those FIVE men
occupied the chair a. long a. forty years.
With down at the South. il has been a
settled policy during all this time. never
to permit man nurth of Mason Il Dix
on's line to fill the Office = second time.
Not content with occupying the presiden-
tiat chair twice to your once--not content
with having controlled the patronage AMI
power Of the Government twice To your
once. seized upon, appropriated and used
for the meancst and dirticst OF purposes,
two or three of the six you elected. who
turned ont to be Northern men with
Southern principles"
The last one Of these that was made q
cats-paw Of, and the meanest one of the
whole crowd. by AM odds, was the Old
Public Functiopary of fPennsylvania. IN
old msn whose hra-t is with the rebellion
tonight. have canvassed the State OF
Pennsylvania. have been in Lancaster,
and all over that country. have nottalked
with him. personally. / have not got Sc
low yet. But conversed with reliable
and intelligent Pennsylvanians of high
standing and integrity. who had conversed
with him. to whom he said, This war is
ton ,x L.
ought TO stop it. We can never subdue
this people. They are not the people tc
be conquered" and SO on; evidently show
ling by the tenor and tone Of his con versa
tion, that he is with the enemy. You aud
| admit that it ought to be stopped; that
it is all wrong; but who inaugurated. who
forced it upon the people! Not the Gov
ernment who is now prosecuting this war
but those against whom the Government i,
prosecuting it with renewed strength and
vigor. am not here to. reflect on any oI
Iyou Tor having supported in the presidcn
tial contest OF 1856. James Buchanan
My skirts are clear of that. But all thes,
ladies know that you did wrong in giving
him your votes. Ladies. you know that
mn who has lived so years on this eartl
OF ours without court;ng woman or mar
lying wife. is not fit for wolf bait.
But we alledse at the Southland i fnt
. number Of men all through the Nortl
where have gone. who uso the same ar
lgument and back us up. and help us t.
sustain this tottering pretention of onrs q
best we can: we allie gs that you are deny
ing us our rights; that we went into tn,
war to secure our rights. What rights
"The right TO carry our slaves into tn
territories. You had excluded them from
the territorirs.''o This is all humbug.-
Every sensible man. and every well infomec
lpolitician in the United States knows YER,
well that slavery was secured to US unde
the Constitution. By that Constitution
we could. go with onr negroes into ell tn,
territories aud occupy every rood tha
God furnished with q soil and climate il
which slave labor would pay; and we wer,
fonIy excluded from those portions wher,
IGoj had given US such soil and cIimat,
that slavery was not worth taking there
That is the trnth Of is. .st.
When jeff Davis made kis first levy o
Troops. l was editing paper at Knoxville
East Tennessee--a paper they crushed on
twelve months ago. That makes this mi
anniversary you know. On the 25th o
| October last they crushed the most widely
lcirculsted paper in JEFF Davis ungodl.