Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-07-17

ted my dwelling into hospital and bal
racks. The Southern chivalry hav
been the greatest robbers and enemie
of the rights of the people that th
: country have ever seen. And if thi
: war goes on through the folly and wici
edness Of Southern rebels, Slavery
at an end, for it has no protection, an
no guarantee outside of the Union.-
With the death of the Federal Unio
dies Slavery. The Abolitionist an
Secessionist on this point occupy th
same stand; there is no difference be
tween them. The Abolitionists, sucl
as Wendell Phillips, Garrison and 9th
ers, denounce President Lincoln a
worse than Jeff. Davis. From tn,
hands of these iucendiaries on botl
sides the people must rescue the Union
There is a great middle party between
these two extremes who must maintain
the Government. The work must b,
done by the people. Don't wait fo
your leaders to guide you. / know
the people of Nashville well, and know
the feeling which controls them, anC
l know the men who have been youl
leaders; for I have been with them fol
years as member Of. the Legislature
as Governor OF your State, and as 8
Senator in Congress. You have relied
on these leaders as oracles, whose bid.
ding you must obey. You ask where
are our leaders, the John Bells, Ew-
ings, Neil Browns, and the Union and
Americang You seem to cease to act
and speak for yourselves. Are you in
telligent freemen, dependent on the arm
of leader? Are you incapable of
acting for yourselves? II SO. then you
concede the very thing for which the
tories of the South are contending, and
admit that you are unfit for self-govern-
ment. Cast off this unmanly and de-
grading feeling. This is the peoples
Government, they received it as lega-
cy from Heaven. and they must defend
and preserve it, If it is to be preserved
at all. lam for this Government above
all earthly possessions. and if it perish,
l do not wish to survive il. I am for
it, though Slavery should be struck
from existence and Africa be swept
from the balance OF the world. 1 be-
lieve indeed that the Union is the only
protection Of Slavery-its sole guaran-
tee; but il you persist in forcing the Is
sue of Slavery against the Government,
l say in the face of Heaven, "Give me
my Government, and let the negroes
go!"
These traitors who are perpetually
clamoring about Southern rights and
slave property, as if there were no other
rights or property in existence. mani
fest the utmost bitterness, bigotry, and
narrow-minded sectionalism. They are
perpetually calling out Slavery, AbOli-
tiUnist, Yankee and Lincolnitel How
malicious and invIdious are all these
slang phrasesl Are we not all Ameri-
cans, descended of one blood, and COM
posing one great family? l recognize
no such miserably narrow and selfish
feeling as that which refuses fellowship
to the loyal and just of all sections OF
the Republic. 1 scorn the trammels
and letters of sectional bigotry. Iclaim
this world as my home. and every
honest man as my brother. l love my
country, her Constitution, her laws,
and her free institutions. l love her
history and the memory of her glorious
dead. l love the precepts and teach
iDgs Of her illustrious founders. l love
my State, and pray for her happiness
and prosperity, which must be found in
the laws and under the flag Of the
Union. Looking around me tonight.
l say to the gallant and patriotic SOL
diers who bear this flag: "Welcome,
welcome, thrice welcome, defenders OF
the Union!" On with your glorious
work, and in the face Of all opposition,
even at the point of the sword and bay
onet, and amid the roar and crash OF
battle let the Government Of Washing
ton be defended. We have heard these
troops called Northern invaders and
Hessians, but we have seen and COM
pared the rebel and patriot armies
The first spread horror and desolation
among us, the latter have been law
abiding and orderly. and have been q
protection to the people.
This rebellion is animated and con-
trolled by the worst spirit that ever
filed the bosom Of man. With singu-
lar audacity or ignorance, some persons
pretended to compare the rebellion of
1861 with that OF 1776. How prepos-
ferrous and absurdl There is not the
remotest analogy between them. They
were, on the contrary. the very anti
podes OF each other. The old Revolu-
ton was to establish and perpetuste
freedom, but this one was to subvert
and destroy it, and make us the vassals
Of France or Great Britain. The mod
ern revolution would. if possible, re-
duce US to the very servitude from
which the former delivered us. The
spirit Of rebellion was 6endish, proud,
cruel and lawless. 1t was so from the
day when the Devil raised the standard
Of revolt in heaven and warred with
Michael the Arch-angel for the supre-
macy of the skies. We are told that
the Devil was conquered, aud chained
in the internal pit, but that he was to
be let loose for season. If ever the
devil was let loose in the world, I be-
lieve that now is the time, and that he