The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-08-27
General Dumont at indianapolis

General Dumont nt Indianapolis
General Dumont made a speech at mass
meeting, held at indianapolis, Saturday
evening, to obtain recruits. We quote
passages
MRS. GENERAL FOLK.
When the widow of ex-President Polk
was visited by number of officers belong
ing to the Federal army who paid her that
compliment on account of her relation to
one who had formerly been the chief Mag
istratc Of the nation, although her feelings
were known to be with the other party,
she said to them " Gentlemen. if you will
only acknowledge our independence. this
unhappy dispute will be settled forever
the two nations will be friends again and
although no longer belonging to the Gov
ernment, yet this terrible. soul narrowing
strife will he ended"
One of the gentlemen responded" a." Mad
am, you have no independence to acknowl-
edge" The North and South are bound to-
gether by tho same cords--they have one
common interest, one common history-theii
union is cemented by the same blood and
bequeathed 10y the same glorious ancestry.
The North has no independence of the
South, and the South no independence of
the North At the time of this conversa-
ion Mrs. Polk was q bitter Secessionists.
1t was not long afterward that her brother
was arrested for some trivial act of disloy-
atty. | happened to be acting as High
Constable in Nashville about that time
Mrs. Polk came to sec me to intercede for
her brother. She said her brother had
taken no active part III the rebellion--that
he was no public man-had never held an
office in his life--that he cultivated his
farm in quiet way, and had no disposition
to be troublesome at the same time how
ever, she could not deny that he had been
somewhat affected with the preUdiling
sentiment Of the c0untry'
MADAM, said I," am aware that not
cnly your brother, but also yourself, are
somewhat affected by the prevailing senti-
ment of the country : | heard in your man.
sion the other day. You are to day under
greater obligations to be devoted and loyal
to your country than any other woman
under heaven.
There was another lady present during
the interview--a neighbor of Mrs. Polk
and she siezed upon the opportunity to SO
off into what the boys sometimes call the
"high strikes. Mrs. Polk however, did
not lose her self control, but straightway be.
| gan to explain--she had been unfortunate
in expressing herself, and she hoped
would overlook it. then took up the same
strain, and explained and apologzed as pro
fusely as she had done. And SO it went OF
she taking all the blaine to herself, and
taking all the blame to myself, until every,
thing was most satisfactorily arranged, and
the lady took her leave. She went away
and in less than an hour, had the glorious
privilege of looking upon the stars and
stripes of the Republic floating proudly
81, rl, f,f l,.,. a Sbo hoe
been staunch Union woman ever since
| Loud cheers.)
ABOUT ENLIsTING AND BEnG \ DEMOCRAT.
Assertions that this is an unholy, ag
gressive and abolition war, and arguments
| that the rebellion is of such dimensions that
| that it cannot be put down, and that the
longer the war is protractcd the more blood
will be shed, and similar statements wher
made TO men who don't take the time nol
| pains to look closely into these questions
has the effect to discourage them from en-
listing in the army of the Union. And YET
some men have the assurance to tell us this
is Democratic doctrine. Great God Has
not the Democracy wonderfully degenerated
since the days OF Andrew jackson!
Well, have been Democrat for the last
Twenty-Five years-have always voted g
else in my life-I will not be called q" blind
advocate of Lincon's Administration.
have intimately more respect for the Admin
istratiou of Stephen A. Douglas than have
for Abraham Lincoln, but do not think
should he in haste to recognize the like o
that as Democratic doctrine.
wHANGpooDLE vALLANDIGTAM AND HIS WAY OF
LYING.
The charge has been made great many
times that the object of the North in prose
cutting this war was conquest and subjuga
ton. Such men as this vagabond Nallandig
ham - Whangdoodle Vallandigham - sayi
So He processes TO be n most exemplary
patriot and he says: " Millions for defense
but not one cent for aggressive warfare.
Now there is not n man i'll this audience
who cannot see by a moments reflection how
utterly absurd that is" Millions for de
fense but not one cent for an aggressive
warfare Did ever any one hear of wal
that was not aggressive upon one side o.
the other. There must be aggression. |
we do not assume the aggressive our enc
mics will, if we do uot invade their country
they will ours and if we can only keep til,
J desolating tide of war from our own lertil,
fields and from our own beautiful towns anC
villages, we have half won the victory
even though we shall not win a complete
victory at all. 1t is a very vulgar thing t,
mention, and | am sorry TO be compelled t
say it. but it is neverless true untortrnasly
that men women and children, too, mus
, live by eating When few months ago
was in Virginia, and saw that army of thirt1
thousand men advancing along one of thos
beautiful valleys, and stripping the eartl
Of everything that was eatable as they went
this thing came 10 my mind with tremen
dous force | saw before me forcible il
} lustration of the inoalculable Importance q
keeping the war out of our own territories
If at the commencement of this struggle
we had contented ourselves with acting o
; the defensive--if New York, and Pennsyl
vania, and Ohio, and Indiana, and patriot
, Illinois, had not marched promptly into tn
border States, how long do you think
would have been until the border State
would have marched into them?
am reminded of what an old comrade i
arms once said on one of the battle zelda G
+ Mexico. 1t was General 10. Lane. ar
e sarry 10 know that lie is upon the wron
' side at the present time. but lie was on tn
4 right side then. The General in comman
. of us saw the MeNicans coming and remarh
ed. They are charging US, y Dbl i
General says Lame, Lei 3 crarSe them
: That is the true policy and the only one i
" this wal, as it is in every other. Mr. Va
landighamand Mr.. Bright, and others of tha
stripe" Tray, Blanch and Sweetheart p
should have sense enough to understan
!. this before they prate about the horrors
this aggressive warfare, Why, even no.
, at this very moment, after our enemies hay
! been so often defeated-after we have dri,
! ELI them from town to town, from fort I
! fort, In manner that is almost unparallele
. even now they boast that they intend b.
:. fore long to overrun and devastate the ia
!, and turtle fields Indiana, Ohio and Illinoi
4 And yet Mr.. Valandigham and his soho,
!. have the assurance to tell us it is now
lats 10 think of reconstructing the Unio