Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-09-10

ana nOtnlng less, II Oy any Poso'"i'''S
if not then for SO much Of it as yet can De rescued
and preserved; and in any event and under all cir,
cumstances for the Union which God ordained, OF
the Mississippi Valley and all of which may cling to
II under the old name the old Constitution and the
old fac. with all their precious memories, with bat.
stle.6eds of the past and the songs and the proud
history of the past-w:th the birth place and the
burial place of Washington, the founder, and JACK,
SON. the preserver of the Constitution as it is and
of the Union as it is was. [Great applause
But this correspondent again proceeds:
'If the sympathzers with treason and traitors
mediate to carry out their plans in this quarter
What plans? just such as to-day have been the
business of this Convention the plans OF that old
Union party, laying down a platform and nomina-
ting Democrats to fill the offices and control the
policy of the Government to the end that the Con-
/ stitution may be again maintained, and the Union
restored and peace, prosperity and happiness once
more drop healing from their wings.
> "Plans," the fellow proceeds, 'in this quarter
they will doubtless find the work quite as hot as
they bargained for" And tell the cowardiy mis-
creant who elegraphed the threat that ne ana tnose
behind him will find the work fifty fold hotter when
they begin it than they had rcckoned on ooen mere
and in Indiana. =,
"Ten thousand stand of arms ne ADDS, nave
been ordered for the State troops.
For what? To put down the Democratic party
Sir tb;s is a work which cannot be done by ten, or
twenty or fifty thousand stand Of arms IL the hands
of any such dastards in office or out of it. Ii so
FIJI of vaor and so thirsty for blood let them enlist
under the call lust issued for troops in Ohio and In
diana Let them go down and fight the armies OF
the "rebels" in the South, and'let Democrats hgnt
the unarmed but more insidious and dangerous 40
clifton rebels of the North and West, through the
ballot-box. Forty thousand additional troops, l
estimate it. are called for in the proclamation OF yes
terday, from the State of Ohio. Where are the
| forty thousand Wide-Awakes of 1860, armed win
their portable lamp-posts and drilled to the music
of the Chicago platform? Sir, propose that soooo
of them be conscrip,ed forthwith. They will never
enlist; they never do They are :" Home GUARDS:
They sdon't CO." but stay vigorously at home to
| SANDER and abuse and threaten Democrats whose
fathers or brothers or sons in the Union armies
or have fallen in battle. l speak generally-cer'
tainly there are exceptions. But will engage that
if the records of the old Wide-Awake clubs in the
several cities and towns of Ohio shall be procured
and the Republic will detail or draft 80, 600 from
the lists, will find 200 strong armed, stout-hear-
ted, brave and loyal Democrats to go down ana sec
that they don't run away at the hrst hEe' lufea'
| laughter.
Sympathzers with treason and traitors !-Seces-
sionists! Sir, it is about time that we had heard
the last of this. The Democracy of Ohio, and OF the
United States are resolved that an end shall DE put
to this sort of SANDER and abuse But do not pro-
pose to discuss this particular subject just now
go on, go on."]
Well then, from that which concerns the Demo-
cratic party to word, single word, about what
rclstes to myself; and beg pardon for the dgres-
| SION | am rejoiced that it has been permitted me
to be here present to-day In person before you
| Had you believed the reports Of the Republican
press, you would, no DOUBT, have expected to see
| probably the most extraordinary compound of iep-
rous and unsightly flesh and blood ever exhibited.
Laughter) Well, my friends, you see that am
not quite 'monsuous" at least and bear no es-
pecal resemblance to the beast of the Apocalypse,
either in head or horns but am man OF like fash
| ion with yourselves.
To the Republican party alone ard its press, and
its orators, am indebted no doubt for large part
of the curiosity" which am sorry to say, seem
to have excited, and which has brought out even
some of them as if to 'see the elephant" They
have never meant to be friendly towards me, know,
but as see some of them now within my vision,
let me whisper in their ears that never had better
friends and no man ever had since the world began
They have advertised ME free Of COST for the las,
fifteen months; yes, may say for five years past
all over the United States. Why, sir, Republican
editor without "the undersigned for a text, would
be the most unhappy mortal IN the world. Every
little "prnters devil " in the office would be hol
lowing for copy, and no copy to be had. know
that they are friends, by the usual sign the re
marks they make" Gentlemen, | have holy o.!
with which the Democratic priesthood has always
been annointed Islander. detracton, and calumny
without stint. Really, I am not sure that with me
it has not reached extreme unction,' though am
not ready, and do not mean, to depart yet. Well
| will not complain. 1t has cost me not single
nights loss Of sleep from the beginning. My ap
petite if you will pardon the reference If you viii
allow me, as Lincoln would say, to blab upon sc
delicate subject-has been in no degree impaired
by it. Others before me, and with me, have en-
dured the same. Here il my excellent friend neal
laughter and applause.) For one and sixty years
the storms of partisan persecution and malignity
in every FORM have beaten upon his head, bu
though time and toll have made it gray, the hear
beneath beats still to day as sound and true to it
instinct Of Democracy and patriotism, and Of hu
manity too when he laid his first offerings upol
the altar of his country, just forty years ago. VIVA
can endure. We are ALL indeed, still i'll the mids
of trials.
Here, before me, is the gentleman of whom
have just spoken whom you have honored with tn
Presidency of this noble Convention, for forty year
Democratic editor-for forty years devoted to tn
Constitution and the Union of these States -a ma
who, through evil and through good report has &C
hered with the faith of devotee and the firmnes
of martyr to the principles and policy CT ths
rosts of three score years have descended and VIII
tened his head-he, say, has lived to see the p'
! per to which he gives the labor and the wisdom {
t his declining years prohibited from circulato
, through a part of the mails, as "disloyal" to til
Government! (Cries of mo, no, shame.") San
t uel Medary disloyal and Wendell Phillips a patr
OF! Sir, it is not many months since, that in tt
. city of Washington, in that magnificent buildir
, erected by the charity of an Engishman who love
America wish there were more like him, tn
art and science might the more widely flourish
this country-the Smithsonian Institute-W ende
Phillips addressed an assemblage Of men as false
the Union and the Constitution as himself Upt
), the platform was the Speaker of the House Of Re
n resentatives, the third officer in the Government
by his side the Vice President of the United State
\ and between these two, in proportions long draw
3 out, the form of Honest Old Abraham Lincoln
J. Am mistaken, and was it at another and earli
3 abolition lecture by that other disunionist, Hora
r Greedy, in the same place-there have been mar
j. OF them-that Lincoln attended2 The Speaker al
l. Vice-President, know were there; and with the
g two or three witnesses before hirn and in presen