The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-23
MAYsv11LE KY, THURSDAY 1862.

does not mean. 1t does not mean subjuga-
tien. Cries No no;' cheers. It does 70
mean utter annihilation. 1t does not mea,
tearing up by the roots the very foundation
Of society in one portion of the nation by
another. It does not mean such a nnion as
the union of Great Britain and Ireland
[Great cheering.]
union forced upon tortured and broken
hearted people from sheer exhaustion-a
union that has sowed the seeds of perpetual
hatred. and from generation to generation
has been opposed by the unavailing ferocity
of despair. [Applause] Is that the kind of
union you want between the North and the
South? [Cries, No, no.'] Do you want
the kind of union between Hungary and
Austria, between Poland and Russia? Such
a union will be curse instead of blessing
"a perpetual cause of weakness and inse-
curity. There have been civil wars in this
world before now, and in many cases, when
the frenzy of the war was over, when lucid
interval came, the separated factions have
come together;h mutually acknowledged
their errors and fused into one nation. And
there have also been civil wars where, by
the misconduct of one or both sides, the
disruption has been complete and eternal.
If you want to restore the Union between
the separated factions of the United States
this is the way to do it: Take the sword
in your right hand and the Constitution in
your left. Tremendous and continued ap-
plause. The one use vigorously, if it be
needed for war; the other use mapfully
and mercfully for reconciliation. fIreat
cheering I am with all my heart oppose ed
to Secession. l see in accomplished Sc
cesson, nothing but disintegration in the
North and disntegration in the South. l
do not want in my lifetime to see broken
into contemplate fragm ents the great dia
mond on which the world for eighty years
has look ed with pride and admiration. ZAP
plause.] Act vgorou ly, but act by and
wish and under the Constitution. How can
you ask men in rebellion to return to an al
legiance which you yourselves have tram
pied under foot. That's so.' Applause J
Fellow citizens, one more remark and
have done. l find in these days that it
seems to be required of all speakers on po-
litical subjects that they should expend some
time and some breath in announcing their
detestation Of the South, its people and its
institutions. For myself, decline to do it..
Applause 1t SO happens, fellow citizens,
that | was not educated to hate any man
that has found life on American soil. To
love the United States and its people, from
Maine to Florida, was the lesson that
learned at my fathers knee. [Applause I
1 then knew no North, no South, no East,
no West. but my love, and hope, and graft.
tude was poured over III the land. [Cheers !
l know the Southern politicians have erred,
and erred grievously-aud great political
error is crime. l believe that, instead of
seeking for the protection of their rights un-
der the Constitution and through the ballot,
they have erred in reverting to the arbitra-
ment of war, and for that error a heca. ON b
of heroic Southern life has been the melau-
choly sacrifice. But for all that 1 won't
attempt the lip-bravery Of vilifyipg them at
distance, of unpacking my heart of words,
of cursng them like a drab. 1 scorn it
it's beneath a man. Cheers.] To them
words. They have sought to have this mat
ter argued by the sword. and it is being ar
gued by the sword. address words to tn ose
who can hear them-I speak to the Aboli-
ton party-I say to them-'don't commit
precisely the same violation of the Consttu-
ton that your declaim mers accuse the Sou tn
Of doing. You have the Constitution, the
ballot. the laws-do not cast these aside and
attempt to carry your point by the lawless
violence of military sway. think that the
conduct OF the war, if left in Abolition hands,
will not lead to any speedy end of the war;
to the vigorous prosecution of the war, or to
any ultimate reconciliation. SICheerlng. |
Abraham Lincoln, think, is very we'll
intentoned but excessively lladvised man,
and | want that he shonld have other ad-
visers. l would have the chief officer of this
great State Democrat. Horatio Seymour.
[Trem endous applause; three cheers for
Seymour [ want that he should be
Democrat, because 1 believe that the Demo
cratic party best expresses and represents
the eternal instincts and hopes and interests
of the American people. Applause By
making this change. by giving. as far as you
can under tn. Constitution and laws, power
into the hands of the Democratic party. l
believe in time the Union can be restored
[cheers restored in reaity-not in name
restored to what it was long ago-free, pros
porous, contented and happy-a union such
as takes places among those who have learn
ed to know one another, not in calm alone,
but in storm and struggle and wreck-thus,
and thus alone, believe we shall emerge
from this crisis and be a naton-one, in
divisible and eternal.
Mr. O'Gorman retired amid enthusiastic
cheering. The meeting of the Club next
Wednesday evening, and the great war
meeting at Cooper Institute next Moad,y
evening were announced, after which an ad
journment was carried.