Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-10-23
GREAT SPEECH
or
HON. DANIEL 8. DICKINSON,
DELIVERED IN rHl:coopER INsrrU rEi n. ",
OirrOllIH srIi. Ial2. |.
Mr.. Dickinson said /:

OCTOBER Srii, t5D2."
Mr.. Dickinson said
We have been called togetherSmy friends,
to ratify or disnfflfm the nominations made
by the recent Union Convention at Syracuse
and to discuss tho fitness OF the candidates
for the stations for which they have been
proposed, and the principles upon which
they stand before the people, positively, and
in contrast with the opposing forces. 1t is
n0itifne for circumlocution, AMI the more
ditActly the subject is approached the better
The issues will be understood.
When the most atrOciUus conspiracy which
EYER icsecfatef Earth found development in
an assault upon0ur National flag at Sumter,
and in efforts to massacre q half.starved gar
rison, placed there. 10 time of profound
peace, according TO uniform usage, for no
other offense than asserting the supremacy
Of their country's Constitution, and giving
to the breeze as emblematical thereof. the
glorious Stars and Stripes of their fathers
when the brave volunteers who were hur-
rying to the defense Of our nation ca pital,
to save it from mob rule and rebellion and
coniagration, we're bleeding by traitorous
hands-when strong men trembled, when
women wept, and children instinctively clung
closer to the maternal bosom-when all COM
munication between the loyal States and
the capital was cut off BY rebellious forces
when the President elect of the United
States had then recently reached the seat of
Government, where duty called him, by a
circuitous and an unusual route, aud in dis
guise, to escape the dagger of the assassin,
and when our land was filed with excite
mont and CONSERVATION and alarm-when
"shrieked the timid and stood still the
brave" and the 'confding masses looked
about to see who were the men for the crisis,
among the citizens of the Empire State,
who had borne part in public affairs and
we're naturally looked up to US exemplars in
such crisis, there we're two whom subse-
quent events have made conspicuous in do.
inestic history. They did not, like the two
characterized by the prophet Nathan, live
in one city laughter j nor was the one rich
and the other poor; but neither was far
from the central regions of this great State.
Both were in the full maturity of natural
life both had been honored by marks OF
popular confidence; both had been educated
by that care known only to a fathers solici-
tude and father hope; both were blessed
with ample wealth-the fruits of industrious
and enterprising progenitors, and both were
qualified by circumstances and fortune to
exercise an important Influence upon public
affairs in moments Of peril. In this, theil
country's evil day, both left the State o
their birth and residence, aud their honl1
OF comfort and plenty, about the same tiulc
and went abroad. One bid adieu TO his wife
aud children, turned his back upon hi
broad and fertile acres, and his extensive
business pursuits, and with his sons and as
sistants repaired to the thcater of strife ant
danger [cheers]; while yot the arm of Gov
ernnent was paralyzed BY trdachery, ant
destilutiun reigned in the camp, and ordered
forward cargoes of subsistence for famish
ing soldiers, and with his own hands, AM
BY the aid Of his sons, apportioned then
among the needy upon the rebellious border
lie gave, too, three sons to the cause of tn,
Constitution; he volunteered his own ser
vices, to the Government for the field, in All.
capacity where be could be most serviceabl
in crushing the rebellion [applause], wa
(entirely unsolicited by himl appointed
Brigadier General of Volunteers, acceptc,
o commission, and has since devoted hi
time and energies and ample means to hi
country's cause, aud is at this hour doin
service. This mans name is JAMES s
WADswoRTH. Tremendous applause.
| About the same the other individual d.
signated, left his family and rcsidsncs.sg
repose, but not for the seat of war. Laugf
ter He hied himself away upon tn
double quick in the opposite directio
4 [laughterl, |, and for nearly halt a year hi
himself among the lakes and rivers and r.
mantle woodlands and inland towns Of. Wi
consin, and his tongue was as silent on II
subject of denouncing the Rebellion as tho'
Of the, murdered volunteers whose .ghos
walked unrevenged amongst US. = 'a Sens
tor. There we may suppose he baske
aud balanced, and watched and waited, al
turned and twisted Laughter until Autumn
when small knot Of defunct, defeato,
: desperate, and despicable politicians, wi
had for years hung upon the subsisten
department of the Democratic party in th
State, came to his relief, by entering Il
.Ifeld. [Laughter]- They borrowed wit
} out leave the honorsd name of, ,Demoorac
: under which to perpetrate their covert tire
, son., as the hypocrite o. ssw .sqnis odi ,
"stole the livery Of the court OF heaven, .s8u
\ To serve the devil ir", e,,l., ,.,.,.. {
Their disgraceful and disloysl reco
5 stands out as the doings Of men too stol
in political depravity to be gifted with
binary instincts, and too regardless Of t
y popular will to be mindful !, Of shame !; "a
E the defeat they experienced at the hands
the people, should serve as q warning
,trimmers and traitors and parricides and
CRATES, through all future tune. ,... M
This movement drew the secluded Q
: from his hiding place, and he came for
with all the courage of him, who in a CT
Hict with his wife, being. driven under
bed, while remaining thus enconssd declal
that whether she consented or not, he wo,
look out through not hole In the clapboar
"a so long as he had he spTh Of a man
[Great and repeated laughter and applans
Z He entered the political canvass, and on
18th Octuber; 1861, a fsw days before
, election, made q speech the burden