Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-13


tag and bob.tail aof Southern society,"
J Said Il: "What are you going into nthis
/ war for?"a 1--WE are going in for onr
! rights "ea"What rights have you lost?''
1.-The right, by CD. to carry our negroes
into the territories'--when TO my personal
\ knowledge, for no man at the South
knows more men than do, two-thirds
of the whole army at that time never
owned negro in the world. and never was
related by affinity or consangninity to any
man that ever did or over will own q
negro oif oS % ealsvs i'as - ea
1 may say tonight. honestly. and in
fear of God, before TINS vast audience,
they are not fighting for the negro. They
1 make that their pretext. They have thrust
the negro iorward.o They make that the
bone Of contention. i think it, perfectly
right that the fssieral army should ac-
cept the challenge--takeup the glove they
have thrown down--take uP the nigger
and worry them with the niger until they
| have had their fill of the nigger i shall
have occasion to speak of the President
Proclamation before am done. IT, / do
not forget it. If LIDO forget it. / hope you
will Jog my memory. Ishall have occasion
to speak Of the Proclamation. aud / shall
have occasion to endorse it. ,if h sfsysr
Ihold--and | viii utter it now, lest
forget this part of the subject-that every
thing rebel has on the face of the green
earth, rebel. South or rebel. North. his
land. his horses. his money. his hogs. his
property. including his negroes-all he has
ought to be confscated. and then his infer.
nal neck onght to be coniscated. i deny
tina; the rebel, North or Sontb.. against
this benign government Of ours.v has any
but two rights under the sun. the one is tue
right to be hanged. and the other the right
to be damned. mi .,.rt. s..f -. :. =
The truth is. these leaders at the Soutl
are and have been for years, sick and tired
oI republican form Of government.
know it. have known it ell the time
In fact, Republican government never die
exist IN South Carolina. If the letter ant
spirit of the Constitution of, the United
States had been adhered to, she never co Z
have been admitted into the federal Unior
as . member thereof. tor she never had q
constitution that was in letter. spirit anc
form republican. i have lived in South
Carolina have travelled extensively il
South Carolina for years. Why. in theil
Legislative assemblies, the sergeant -at-afm.
and deputy or two. with cooked hats ant
swords. retire and bring in the speaker o
the house. or the speaker of the senate
who comes roted in enough black silk tt
dress out in all the amplitude of fashion
any two ladies here. even in times Of tn.
most extravagant hoops. The sheriff ac
companying them, with cooked hat anc
sword. gives three raps upon the floor and
cries. Make way for your speskerl"-
Then he marches grsndly in ard takes hi,
seat. The same pompous forms are OBJ.
served with one of their circuit judges
He is conducted in. in the same way. !
have seen old Judge Butler. afterward,
Senator, march in with silk robe on, pre-
ce-ied by his sheriff and deputies in cooked
hats and with swords. crying "Mske way
for the Honorable Court" and everyth:n.
sqnat,ed like SO many quails when hawk
is about. 0 f-. 8G5 s l9
4 Do you know that man has to own sc
many negroes in South Carolina before he
can either vote or occupy . seat in ths
Lsgislaturel The limit is ten. Now, il
you as South Carolinian have nine valu
able negroes worth $4,000. you cannot bs
admitted; but il have ten or eleven little
yellow, ashy piccaniuies, brought out of ar
alligator swamp. raised on green persim
mans can take my seat. while you mus
siand back. ! You recollect. for you are al
reading men, that when South Carolins
voted to secede, for she led the way, hel
leading Reh rose on the floor of the con
ventiun and thanked God with upturnet
eyes like Simeon of old that they at las
beheld what they had so long looked for
and cried: "Now. Oh! Lord, lettest mo,
thy servant depart in peace, for nina eve
have seen thy salvation" Lawrence Keitt
and other members Of Congress-, who sal,
they had been laboring for this end eve
since they mad been in public life, thus pub
licly on the floor Of their own convention
acknowledged themselves purjured scoun
drels. who when they took their seats il
the Housc Of Representatives at Washing
ton and swore to obey the laws and sup
port the Constitution. wsre then, and al
the time they had been in public life. labor
ing to overthrow the laws and destroy tn,
tOonstitution. am in favor to- night o
letting ont as q contract to the Y fankees b,
our government the saving of South Caro-
lima out of this Union and floating her int,
the Atlantic and sinking her into eterna
perdisiop. 1t that cannot be done, 1 An
for reducing Charleston to ashes. leavin,
not one stone upon another. sad then,
hope. those men who are running for Con
gress will pledge themselves to vote for
iaw hat it should never again be rebuil
while God liveih and man serveth. Th,
truth is,l and it is not worth while to dis
guise it from those of you whoare dispos
ed to apologize for US at the South, w,
have intended. this thing at the South fol
thirty years. Wclong since determined {,
break up the government and were satisfie,
with nothing short of that. In 1919:
we got up the raid Of notification, but for
tunaiely there was man in l83I-32, TIN
FIRST letters of whose name were ..Ol,
jackson" never supported him in poll
tics, but would to God he had been livin,
three years ago ~ place Of Buchanan III
4 would haze taksn these vile traitors by til
throat and strengthening himself up sbou
ten feet in his boots. be would have sair
in his old familiar style: "By the God tina
made Moses. fellows. this thing has got t
j stop" and when old jackson said thins