The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-02-07
Speech of Hon. aarret payi,.

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since. in which he handled the Abolition
lists without gloves. We have room only
for one paragraph. He said:
We want to restore this Union as Wash
tington made il, Tut We do not want Con-
gress 10 inaugurate and consummale a
servile revelation. No. Let Congress DO
its duty in this war, faithfully and fearless
lily. as the people are doing theirs. They
have come up TO the rescue Of the govern
ment as no people have ever done before.
From the east and The west especial Y from
The free States they are as one man. Ken
lucky has been Invaded. and the Confed
crates have ayowed that they will have
Kentucky. Maryland and Missouri. They
proclaimed when they invaded Kentucky
that kentucky was necessary to the south
ern confederation. and they would have it
At tie cost Of blood and conquest. am
for meeting them, sir, with the sword, and
/ fighting them even TO exterminalion until
va beat them back. for they have profaned
our soil. Our brothers from the North
west States have come to our Iescue with
= generosity and devotion for which
they deserve and have our gratitude -
Never, never. were more welcome visitors
70 any country. They have come amorg
us aud have seen our institutions We
have become acquainted with each other,
and have learned 10 know each other more
intimately. They lave begun to marry
our daughters, and we have sent our sons
to marry their daughters Let US estab
ish thus union Of hearts aud of hands
and Of hands taat will las, forever Ken
lucky has peopled many Of the Northwes-
tern States, and they are hone of our bone
and flesh Of our flesh, and we wo'd much
rather have a union with those Northwest
tern States than with those far of distant
States. There never was war in the
cailv history of those States in which
| Kentucky has not sent forth her brave
sons, who have poured ont their blood in
defence Of our common country in those
States, and oh how nabiy. and fully. and
truly are they now paving the debt. They
have come to protect the State which had
protected them in bygone years. and Oh
what meetings there were. | have been
in their camps, have mingled with their
officers and their soldiers, and addressed
their regiments, and they have made me
honorary member of those regiments |
know the commanders of those regiments
and As nine to one they have expressed TO
me that their purpose and their only pur>
pose in waging war was the restoration o.
the Union and the vindica:ien of the GOV
n ..
Thus writes one Of them TO me AS an
Indianlan and a member Of the army of
the United States, | cannot fail to express
my satisfaction AT the Just and cnnserva-
tive course You have pursued on the slav-
cry question. Indiana is not fighting for
the emancipation Of slavery, but for the
restoration Of law and order and when f. =
shall he accomplished our mission Is end.
ed. In AL the officers and s.',diers Of the
Tenth Indiana donot know one abolition
ist. If Congress weld legislate for the
white man, and let the negro alone, it
would be bitter Oh how much better
1t would tie, That is the distinction OF
tTnc patriotism Of mind and heart, and
that is The utterance which n ne-t.nths of
the soldiery of the North west speak, and
will speak forever If at the outset YOU
had procia mel that this WAS to be war up
on slavery, you would rot have had one>
fourth of The force in the field that You
now have. You are Senators, End YOU
are supposed TO act, not from passion, but
from reason, patriotism, right, truth and
eternaI justice, you will act upon those
principles, am not afraid to crust you nor
the President. These fanatics, these po-
litical and social demons. your Beechers.
your Cheevers, your phiIiipSes, and Your
Garrisons come here breathing pes Ierce
from Pandernonium, trying to destroy this
Union, so as 20 secure over irs broken fray
n"n;s the emancipation Of slavery. They
oppose Mr.. Lincoln. as honest and pure a
man a. ever lived, because he stands
hy the constitution and is opposed to in
teIfering with slavery
The uiterances they have dared TO put
forth in this city haTe desecra,ed the
Smithsonian Institution. If the secession
lists had dared to give expression to the
same utte7ances they would have been
sent, and properly sen: 10 Fort Lafayette
or Fort Warren. What will you do with
:hese monsters | will tell you what
would do with them. and with that norris
bic monster, Greeley, rs they come sneak
ing around here, like hungry wolves. after
the destruction of slavery. If | had The
power ! would take them and the worst
seceshers and hang them in pairs -
(Langh'er) I wish to God I could in
fict that punishment upon them. I, wod
be Just. They are the disunonisls. They
are the maGmen, who are willing TO call
mp all the passion Of the Internal regions.
and ali the horrors of a seryile war. This
: they would carry out over the disiointed
fragments Of a broken constitution 10 OBJ,
tain their unholy purposes, and | am too
feraful that the honorable Senator from
Massachusetts, (Mr. Sumner) sympatlizss
with them.
RECOGNITION OF TIE SOUTH "A des-
patch from Washington, under date of the
0lst uit., saws private letters received in