The weekly Butte record., 1862-09-27


Comes the loud summons; too long you have slum
bered,
Hear the last Angeltrump-Neyer or Now
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Charles Sumner and the Emancipation
League.
The Hon. Wm. Duer, IN late speech al
the great Union meeting in New y ork, thus
referred to the " Emancipation League; =
What, he asked, were their views? They
say no State shall be permitted to return into
the Union until it shall abolish slavery. That
is conspiracy to destroy our Government and
our Constitution. We have had Senators and
members Of Congress-men who have sworn
to defend the Consitulion-add this
Emancipation League. These men can not be
sworn to do anything The honorable gentle
man who has just spoken said that they should
be sworn every day. Why if they were sworn
every hour and every halfhour, they would
not remember their oaths. Laughter.
Z" In regard to the rebels themselves, he must
say that many of them deserved severe punish
ment. and death in some cases. He would
Danish many of them; take the life of but few
of them He would deal SO with the leaders
but when we come to the masses Of the people,
he was for pardon and for mercy. Loud ap-
plause No emancipation and turning loose
upon them hordes of uncivilized and ignorant
Africans as is proposed by the Emancipation
League and Confscation Bill. No tyrant in
history has ever made his name execrated by
measures more despicable than such as those
proposed by the abolitionists for the humilia
tion and destruction of the Soath. The South
ern people have been deluded by their leaders
in the same way as the Northern people, and
in his opinion, the next man who walked up
the scafold after Jefferson Davis should be
Chas. Sumner. Loud and long-continued ap-
pause, mingled with hooting and groans for
Sumner. Some person in the meeting attempt
ed to say a word in his favor but his voice
was quickly drowned in loud shouts of put
him out. You can not take away man 5
property without trial. Never, in all the his
tory Of England, with all its bills Of attainder
were ever such acts promulgated as those OF
which we now complain. They tell US there
is no Constitution in time of war. Did our
fathers commit such blunder? We got along
with the last war with England and Constitu-
tion at the same time. Why not now? This
Confscation Bill, if carried into law, would
result in the deprival of every man of his free
dom. They are also opposed to the common
principles of humanity. In the Scottish revo-
luton that threatened the existence of the
British Empire, the leaders were punished, but
the great masses of the people who formed the
rebels, were pardoned. Their property was
not eonfscated As he said before, no despot
nor tyrant every attempted 10 enforce such an
edict and for the best reason, that they could
never enforce them. And neither can we ever
enforce such iuhuman laws. Applause. +
Many OF those who shout for the Union-ii
asked to submit 10 the Constitution-woud
answer with Greedy missing = We obey the
Constitution so far as it suits Us ; and vet
/ those men call US traitors, and say they are the
true Union men. Such men may well be in
structed by Jim Lane. the uncivilized back
woods-man whose hands are stained with his
brothers blood. And yet this was the mau
introduced to this League by clergyman o.
New York, the Rev, Dr.. Tying. We mus
counteract this Emancipation League by 6
Union Constitutional League. League agains
League. This is the only remedy. We mus
join heart and hand in one effort for the ever
throw of fanaticism. and the restoration o
union and peace to our beloved country"
A GREEK maiden. being asked what fortune
she would bring her husband, replied, in th
following beautiful language: Il will briu.
him what gold cannot purchase heart IN
spotted and virtue without a stain-which j
all that descended TO me from my parents"
\ VERY fat man for the purpose of quizzin
Dr - asked him IN n-eSrriha for his com