Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-04-05


AS long as shei can he the one, she /,
contented, just as husbands are. And now
the idea (and said before You we're in a
state OF rebellionl, the idea rebels. The
North rebels to-day. We tried the issue
/ don't accept, In the inIlness Of its mean.
ing, the taunt Of The London Times that
Democracy is on trial know well, and
pity the spleen from which il proceeded -
can well conceive how our mother coun
try, boasting herself a strong Government
the strength of Monarchy, with her hap
floating to the breeze thousand years, and
looking across TO the broken bubble of De
mocracy-I can well recognize, while rnn.
ming back a year or two and remembering
how France started to utmost rivalry 10
the Crimean war, and this strong, compact
Government put forth her utm, g. strength
and pressed 10000 soldiers into the field; (;
l say. | can well understand how it may
feel little speenish, talk little ra,h,
when it looks across the water aud sees the
bursted bubble of democracy sending
100 600 volunteers. Loud applause.
But when The London Times says dem
oeraey is on trial, as New Englander, born
and raised in the Northern States, having
never before set my foo, on Slave soil,
wish to God your Senate had hurried mat.
ters up. Laughter and prolonged ap-
plause
The applause having subsided the speak
er paused momeut aud then remarked:
Now l have forgotten what was going
to say. Laughter
DR.. Pierpont, in his usual good humored
manner, observed that he hoped that those
present would bear with the speaker, aud
he would soon recover, as he was rather
unarcustomed to applause. Renewed ap
plause
Mr. PHILLIPs-I don't know I was burn.
ed in efiigy within fortnight. The speak
er then resumed. was saying that did
not believe that democracy was on trial
| believe that Massachusetts and the
North is democracy, pure and unalloyed
l believe that we will test them, whether it
be BY the acquisition OF property or the
preservation Of il, by the preservation Of
the right by the culture of morals or by the
protection of liberty-that the democratic
institutions Of the north have proved them.
selves after seventy years success No
KING in Europe can stand up and say we
have secured better than you have the ends
Of Government As New-Englander, /
scorn the imputation; such democracy is an
experiment Loud applause
What | believe is on trial to-day is the
effort of our fathers to have arist ocracy aud
democracy dwell together in the United
States. l believe they tried to mold iuto
Que democracy an alien institutions, aud for
one thank God that 1861 comes up 10 the
record aud says it is a failure! lapplausel
that the slave clauses of the Constitution
arc buried beyond resurrection. l do not
believe however. that it is an experiment,
believe it is done and settled Applause. ]
| Friends let me say one thing further Crie,
of go on. go onl"] You may ask N,
what | demand of Government. Well, ]
will tell you.
l am not going to criticisc; it does not
belong to me. would not criticise the
various schemes by which yonder Senate,
means to meet the ultimate result. They
are all indifferent TO me; whether the elab
crate, and as think, sound system of Mr.
Senator Sumner loud applausr1, or thu
profound philosophical analysis Of our situ
alton which Mr.. Conway of Kansas hal
given US be adopted by Government, (anC
they are identical in many respects), dom
care And it seems TO me, as Slavery be
gun this wa--for without Slavery it coulc
never have been-the Government has d
right through the rebellion, to smite Slave
ry to the dust. | want it done. | dom,
care what is the method Loud applause.
l think God he created Beauregard (if
he did). Laughter and prolonged ap
plause. l thank every South Carolinian
who has come up to the Southern bank of
the Potomac, because in my view they have
given the Government right to abolish
Slavery by law [Applause.
Abraham Lincoln sits to-day surrounded
by thunder boIs which South Caroina has
forged for him. He has but to lift one and
hurl it at the system, and il is Victory
to-day and Peace forever.
Now, therefore, if you will allow me
few minutes, ! desire TO tell you aow |, one
Of the people. arrive at that conclusion.
believe, with John Quincy Adams, that the
G overnWent has the power aud authority,
to abolish Slavery by the Constitution,
-aside--I swear by the Constitution now,
! cling TO the Constitution TO day laugh.
ter |, because it has got into that position
that il means Justice. 1t cannot live, in
my opiuion. unless il does mean Justice
[Applause.
1t has no other source of life but justice.
II is a neck-and.neck race between Abra.
ham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis which
shall get the negroes ON his side. That's
so. Davis is on the other side of the
ocean. uttering his words, and the Presid
ent is on this side--in Washington.
think Congress has the right 10 abolish
Slavery. While Congress has done away
or the Government, for do not wish tc
make any distinction, any odious distinct
iOn-I say. while the Government has done
away With my right of hebeas corpus,
could be sent TO Fort Warren for making
this speech, and you for listening to it,
The Government has put it's hands into
our pockets, and by the legal-tender clause
has taken out $40 in every 100 Of the val
ne of every acre in New-England. Tia
is very despotic measure, bui it lisa gooo
| naa In sauas tha TTnion rha