Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-11-29
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rho rebel svmpathizers hereabouis call Parson
y wn,ow an Aboitionist. Why they think so
be discovered in the following extracts from
noecb he lately made in Chicago
WHO HAS RULED THE COUNTRY.
NIL Government of ours. In its present form,
nndpr our most excellent Constitution, has
a,"d little over seventy five years. During
u time we have held in this country nineteen
Xas;dential elections. In that period we at the
,,b fdon't forget my figures. and don't forget
factsN we at the South, with half the States
Territories you have at the North with half
- nonuntion, with half the electoral votes
IN have cast in a Presidential contest, have
X0otpd the President ihi teen timrs. We have
∾on.,v condcscrnJlod ID TO allow you to elect
IN lines. Not only So, hut W. re elected, to fill
-rrond term, five of our men at the South
Tbo.e five men occupied the chair as long as
%rtv wears With Us down at the South it has
He1 settled policy during all this time never
"A hermit or tolerate any man north of Mason
Ia nixon's line in filling the Office second time.
Nm content with having occupied the Presiden-
IN chair twice TO your once--nOt content with
IA wing contr' He'd the patronage aud power of
~ Government twice to your once, we sieZed
mon. appropriated and used, for the meanest
Id diriest of purposes, two or three of the six
an had elected, who turned out to be Northern
men with Southern principles"
a Let me call to your minds Judge Douglas, the
lat lamented Senator from this State. regret
IL death as much as any OF you, for if be were
iiying to night, know enough OF the man to
know he would be in this war with a cooked hat
I'm his head, epaulettes on his shoulders, his
sword by his side, and IA commission in his pocket,
eiened by his old opponent in the law and politics,
Abraham Lincoln. He would be fighting the
battles of this Union, against This internal REBEL
Il
Ind if he could be resurrectrd here tonight, with
what infurate scorn and contempt would he look
upon these Democrats who are sympahZing with
|this Infamous rebellion! Judge Douglas while in
his place in the U. s. Senate, heard remark from
a Southern Senator which he exposed from his
place in the Senate, aud dared denial. But he
never dared deny it, because he knew Douglas
could prove it, and what was that remark =
b No matter what the North may agree to cen
cede to us, the South intends to reject everything
aud anything, because we Intend to 90 out. -
Who was that Senator? 1t was that most cor
rupt and abominable of all demagogues, that Old
spawned, glandered, discmpered, hip-shotten.
sway backed, whisky rotten John NJ. Mason of
Virginia know John NJ. Mason and | have
known him long, and | know him, if he is living
to night, in France aud England, as the embOd
mpnt of original sin He il one of the men whom
associated with John Slidel of Louisiana, our
benign Government took ont of Fort Warren
when we were feeding them on wholesome diet,
nut them on IA British vessel and sent them as
Ministers to the Courts of ST. James aud ST. Cloud,
to represent jeff Davis COufcdrracy If had
hepn the Government | would have tied an
ordinary siz"d grindslone around each one OF
their necks and cast them over into Boston har-
boY where John Hancock. Samuel Adams, or
their friends, "A long time ago, threw some boxes
of tea SldCll is ii " orse man than Mason, because
he has more sense. Sdel has lived thirty years
by forgery, false swearing, lying aud stealing;
Int John Slidcll hears on the side Of his head IA
face that the Almighty put there as an advertise
ment, that no Judge of human nature in Europe
or America might ever mistake him for all honest
man.