Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-09-06

pendence to this hour. And are Americans now to
offer themselves up servile sacrifice upon that
altar of arbitrary power? Sir, have misread the
signs of the times and the temper OF the people II
there is not already spirit in the land which is
about to speak in thunder tones to those who stretch
forth still the strong arm of despotic power Thus
far shalt thou come and no farther. We made you:
you are our servants" That sir, was the language
which was taught to apply to men IN once, wnen
8 was youth, or in first manhood and private
citizen and afterwards when holding ONCE as tle
gift of the people, to hear applied to me- and bore
the title proudly. And asked then as ask now,
no other or better reward than ell done, gooo
and faithful servant" [Cries OF, /" You shall have
it you deserve it'll But to-day, they who are our
servants, creatures made outof nothing by the power
of the people, whose little brief authority breath
ed into their nosrils by the people, would now, for
sooth become the masters of the people; while the
organs and instruments of the people-the Press
and public assemblages-are to be suppressed, and
the Constitution with its right of petition, and of
due process of law and trial by jury, and the laws
and all else which makes life worth possessing-are
to be sacrificed upon the tyrants plea that it is
necessary to save the Government and the Union.-
Sir, we did save the Union for years-yes, we did
We were the Unon-sayers," not eighteen months
ago. Then there not an epithet in the whole
vocabulary of political bngsgate so opprobrious
in the eyes of a Republican when applied to the
Democratic party as Union-shriekers," or the
"Union-sayers."
1 remember in my own city, on the day of the
Presidential election, in 1861 remember it well,
for had that day travelled several hundred miest
vote for Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency
that in a ward where the Wide-Awakes strutting
in unctuous uniform came up hour after hour
thrusting their Lincoln tickets, twIxt thumb and
finger, at the judges, with the taunt and sneer,
"saue the Union: Sape the Union !" And yet now,
forsooth, are TRAITORS" and "secessionists p
Ind or hoor lol and aAaI uin
lived and voted in the times of Jefferson and Madison
and Monroe, and Jackson-men who have fought
and bled upon the battle field, and who fondy in
dulged the delusion for forty years that they
patriots, wake up suddenly to-day to find them
selves traitors -sneered at reyiled and insulted
by striplings "whose fathers they would have dis
dained to have set with the dogs of their hocks."-
Of all these things an nquistion searching and
terrible will yet be made sure, as sudden too, it
may be, as the day of judgment We Of the loyal
party of the country, the Democratic, party-we
the loyal citizens of the United States the editors
of loyal newspapers-we who gather together in
loyal asSembages, like this, and are addressed by
truly loyal and Union men as know you are to-day
and at this moment :" that's so, that's the truth" "
forsooth are to be now denied privileges and our
rights as Americans and freemen We are to be
threatened with bayonets at the ballot box, and
bayonets to dispense Democratic meetings. Again
| ask, why do they not take up their muskets and
march to the South, and, like brave men, meet the
embattled hosts of the Confederates in open arms,
instead of threatening craven-like to fight unarmed
Democrats at home-possibly unarmed, and possibly
not? Laughter and applause and a remark
That was well put in" Ifso begerent, so eager
to shed that last drop of blood let them volunteer
to reinforce the broken and shattered columns of
Mcclellan in front of Richmond sacrificed as he has
been by The deVish Vaccinations of Abotionism,
and there minge their blood with the blood of the
thousands who have already persisted on those fatal
battle-felds. But no, the whistle of the bullet and
the song Of the shell are not the sor: Of music to
fall pleasantly upon the ears of this Home Guard
Republican soldiery.
With reason, therefore, felowcitizens, congratu-
late you to-day upon the victory which you have
achieved, A great poet had said
"Peace hath her victories we'll as War"
To-day the cause of free Government has tr-
umphed a victory Of the Constitution, victory Of
the Union, has been won, but is yet to be made
complete by the men who go forth from this the
first political battlefield of the campaign bearing
upon their banners that noble legend that grand
inScription-The Constitution 10 u.s. and the Union
as itteas. Great cheering. In that sign shall you
conquer. Let it be inscribed upon every ballot
emblazoned upon every banner flung abroad to every
breeze, whispered in the zephyr and Numbered in
the tempest till the echoes shall arouse the fAntiBg
spirit o. every patriot and freeman in the land 1t
is the creed Of the truly loyal Democracy of the
United States. In behalf of this great cause it is
that We are now, if need be- to do and to suffer in
political warfare whatever may be demanded Of free
men who know their rights, and knowing, dare
maintain them. Is there any one man in all this
assemblsge afraid to meet all the responsibilities
which an earnest and memorable discharge of duty
may require at his hands in the before US
I" No, no not one"l If but one, let him 60 home
and hide his head for very shame.
"Who would be traitor kEave,
Who would fill u towards grave,
Who 50 base as be a slave,
Let him turn 1ee."
1t is no contest of arms to which you are invited
Your fathers, your brothers, your sons, already
by thousands and hundreds of thousands on the
battlefield To-day their bones lie bleaching upon
the soil of every Southern State from South Caro-
lima to Missouri. 1t is to another conflict men of
Ohio, that you are summoned, but conflict, never
theless, which will demand Vi you some portion, at
least of that same determined courage that same
unconquerable will, that same memorable spirit of
endurance, which make the hero upon the military
battlefield. have mistaken the temper of the men
who are here to-day, have msread the firm pur-
pose that speaks from every eye and beams from
every countenance, which stiffens every sinew and
throbs in every breast tt have msread it ALL ifyou
not resolved to go home and there maintain, at
all haz ards and by every sacrifice, the principles,
the policy, and the organization of that party to
which again and yet again l declare unto you this
Government and country are indebted for all that
have made them grand, glorious and great. CHEERS
and great applause.