The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-14
GREAT SPEECH BY DANIEL s
DICKINSON.
Views Of Breckinridge Democrat
On the Tory Organizations.

There was great Union meeting at
New York On Wednesday evening, which
was addressed by the Hon Daniel S.
Dickinson, lifelong Democrat We
commend this great speech to the care
full attention of the people of Ohio and
Indiana:
SPEECH OF HON. DANIEL S. DICKINSON.
Mr.. Dickinson commenced with an ell
oquent picture of the atrocity of the re-
bellion, and of the patriotism of General
Wadsworth in rushing to the defense of
his country Of Mr. sSeymour's late
speech, he said:
Though abounding with flimsy dis
guiscs and sophistical generalities, it con-
tanned one point worthy of not only no
tice, but Of the seyerest apprehension,
and here it is:
eff it is true that Slavery must be
abolished to save the Union, then the
people of the South should be allowed to
withdraw themselves from that Govern
ment which cannot give them the protec-
ton guaranteed by its terms.
What place this glorious Union-this
heritage of human hope-this asylum for
the worlds weary pilgrim-this refuge
for the oppressed of earth, in the scale of
being beneath the black and bloated and
bloody-the corrupt and corrupting-the
stultified and stultifying institution of
Slaveryl No! Sooner than see the Union
severed, let not only the institution per-
ish wherever it can be found, but let the
habitations that have known it perish
with it and be known no more forever.
And yet this returning fugitive from pat
riotism proclaims as his creed, in effect
if not in terms, that if either Slavery or
the Union must be destroyed, it should
be the Union! And the name of this
man is Horatio SEYMOUR Kisses and
cries of shameP1
Mr.. Dickinson kept the house in roar
oflaughter by ridicnling Mr. Seymour's S
skedaddle to Wisconsin, and his assump-
ton to represent the Democracy of the
Empire State.
OF the party which sustains Mr.. Sey-
mour, Mr. Dickinson said:
The Democratic party, forsoothl A
knot of men with some stray accidental
honest clements; with here and there an
honest Democrat who supposes this is a
Ndl WIN dOOtlllOil VIII ACeeNl-
ers composed of Freesoilers and Aboli-
tionists of lS4S; chronic fossilized Wings
of l84S looking for re-charter of a
United States Bank; crippled Democrats
who have been carried for life in the am
balances of the party; struggling Know
Nothings not inaptly named Hards, SO
hard that they cracked in seasoning;
Sofs and shysters ofall shades and peri
ods; aud the Ninth Resolution men Of
1861, who proposed to poultice the rebel
lion to death by propositions of peace,
are now the Democratic party which is
to save the countryl Roars of laugh
ter. "What can you expect of peo
pie" said philosopher, "when a mon
KEY is their GodF' Shade of jefferson
where hast thou fown Spirit Of Jack
sonl | almost hear you exclaim, " By the
Eternalr' Applause. Mr.. Seymour
speaking apparently er cGthedrd, intormt
the people what this faction, the self
styled Democratic party, proposes to do
The burden of their song is, that the,
propose to restore the Constitution anC
obey all constitutional authority, and de
fend the liberty of speech, and he launch
es into a hornily about observances o
law, and invokes the names of early ant
eminent jurists, as though it had SOM
possible relation to the question, when
has no more application than the farewell
| address of John Rogers to his children
| Laughter. This rebellion cannot wei
be sued by summons and complaint, no
brought to trial before a Justice of th
Peace, or referees under the code, no
silenced by Grand Jury, nor be cor
quered at the County Court, nor he'll
to bail b. Judge, nor tried at the Gin
cult, nor have an effectual sentence 0
judgment, affirmed by the Supreme Cou
or Court of Appeals. Laughter and al
plause.
As TO Mr. Seymour's quotation of Lor
Mansfeld's s words in relation to the Go
don riots, Mr.. Dickinson said; 1T
easy to indulge in rhapsodies over, or
sentimentalize on, the beauties of th
common law, and such efforts appea
we'll enough in juvenile law schools, {
with beginners at the bar; but when ii
voked as means of conquering such
rebellion, they are as ridiculous as woul
be homily on moonshine to arrest a
earthquake laughter, an apostrophe
the dews of evening amid a hurricar
. llaughter1, or prescription of Mr.
Winslow's soothing syrup for the Asiat
: cholera" Renewed merriment
Il Constitution, law, freedom of speec
liberty of the Press-usurpation, tyra
ny, &C., are words easily prated, al
even parrots can be taught them. B
men should know that the instincts of
Government as of an individual when a
saulted, are selfdefense Applause
The father and protector of a. depende
v family who should fail to employ all h
energies when assailed by murderer
bandit, and instead thereof proceed
9 recite from law book, would, if slai
lo rank with suicides in the sight of Gt
and man; and Chief Magistrate w
should fail to protect his Governme
. against foreign or domestic foes, arm
or uRarmed-whether avowed or sile
1t whether welding openly the imp
ments Of death, or insidiously acting
70 the advocate and apologist of rebellion
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