Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-09-10

pendence to this hour And are Americans now 20 I
offer themselves up servile sacritce upon '.as
altar Of arbitrary ppoS aha tsper the people
there is not already spirit in the land wnicn Is
ht IN sneak in thunder tones to those who stretch
forth stil the strong arm ofdespotic power. Thus
far shalt thou come, and no farther. We made you:
Won are our servants" That, sir, was the language
which was taught to apply to men in Office, when
was youth, or IN trst mannooa ang . Pllsale
citizen and afterwards when holding office as the
gift Of the people, to hear applied to nae, and bore
the title proudly. And asked then, as ask now,
no other or better reward than, swell done, good
and faithful servant" Cries of, "You shall have
It you deserve it"] But to-day, they who are our
servants creatures made outof nothing by the power
of the people, whose little brief authority was breath
ed into their nostrs by the people, would now, for
sooth, become the masters Of the people; while the
organs and instruments of the people-the Press
and public acknowledgements to be suppressed, and
the Constitution with its right of petition, and OF
due process Of law and trial by jury, and the laws
and all else which makes life worth possessing
to be sacrificed now upon the tyrants plea that 1t is
necessary to save the Government and the Union
Sir, we did save the Union for years-yes, we did.
We were the Unionsavers u not eighteen months
ago. Then there was not an epithet in the whole
vocabulary of political billingsgate so opprobrous
in the eyes of Republican when applied to the
Democratic party as Unionshriekers," or the
"Union-savers."
remember in my own city, on the day of the
Presidential election, in 1861 remember it well,
for had that day travelled several hundred miles to
vote for Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency
that in a ward where the Wide-Awakes, strutting
in unctuous uniform, came up hour after hour
thrusting their Lincoln tickets, twlxt thumb and
finger, at the judges, with the taunt and sheer,
.saue the Union: SAGE the Union" And yet now,
forsooth, We are TRAITORS" and ''secessionstsl p
And old gray-bearded and gray-headed men whe
lived ard voted in the times of Jefferson and Madison
and Monroe, and Jackson-men who have fought
and bled upon the battle field, and who fondy in
obliged the deluson for forty years that they were
patriots wake up suddenly to-day to lind them
selves TRAITORS -sneered at, reviled and insulted
by strplings "whose fathers they would have dis
dained to have set with the dogs of their focks y
OF all these things an inquisition searching and
terrible Will yet be made sure, as sudden too, it
may be, as the day of judgment. We of the loyal
party of the country, the Democratic. party-we,
the loyal citizens of the United States the editors
of loyal newspapers-we who gather together in
loyal assemblages, like this and are addressed by
truly loyal and Union men as know you are to-day
and at this moment [" that's so, that's the truth,
forsooth are to be denied privileges and our
rights as Americans and as freemen We are to be
threatened with bayonets at the ballot-box, and
bayonets to dispense Democratic meetings! Again
| ask, why do they not take up their muskets and
march to the South, and, like brave men, meet the
embattled hosts of the Confederates in open arms,
instead of threatening cravenlike, to fight unarned
Democrats at home-possibly unarned, and possibly
not? Laughter and applause, and remark
THAT was well put in" If so belligerent so eager
to shed that last drop Of blood let them volunteer
to reinforce the broken and shattered columns of
Mcclellan in front of Richmond sacrificed as he has
been by the devilsh Vaccinations of Abolltionsm,
and there minge their blood with the blood of the
thousands who have already persisted on those fatal
battle fields. But no. the whistle of the bullet and
the song Of the shell are not the sor: OF music to
fall pleasantly upon the ears Of this Home Guard
Republican soldery.
With reason, therefore, fellow citizens, congratu-
late you to-day upon the victory which you have
achieved, 4 great poet had said
"Peace hath her victories we'll as War"
To-day the cause of free Government has trl
umphed victory of the Constitution, a victory of
the Union, has been won, but is yet to be made
complete by the men who so forth from this the
first political battlefield OF the campaign bearing
| upon their banners that noble legend, that grand
inscription-The Constitution as u.s. and the Union
| as it aeas [Great cheering. In that sign shall you
conquer Let it he inscribed upon every ballot
emblazoued upon every banner, flung abroad to every
breeze, whispered in the zephyr and Numbered IN
the tempest till the echoes shall arouse the alntlns
shirt o. every patriot ana freeman III t!ie l3!lu IL
is the creed of the truly loyal Democracy OF the
United States In behalf Of this great cause it is
that We are now if need be, to do and to suffer in
political warfare whatever may be demanded OF free
men who know their rights, and knowing, dare
maintain them. Is there any one man IN all this
vast assembage afraid to meet all the responsibilities
which an earnest and memorable discharge OF duty
NAV require at his hands in the canvass before US
| mo no not one. Ii but one, let MIN 60 nome
and hide his head for very shame.
| "Who would be traitor kcave,
| Who would fill a coward grave,
Who SO base Us be slave,
| Let him turn and dee."
It'll no contest of arms to which you are invited
Your fathers, your brothers, your sons are already
nv thousands and hundreds of thousands on the
battlefield. To-day their bones lie bleaching upon
the soil of every Southern State, from South.Caro-
lima to Missouri 1t is to another conflict, men oil
Ohio that YOU are summoned, but conflict, never
thecss, which will demand vf you some portion, at
least of that same determined courage, that same
uncomfortable will, that same memorable spirit Of
endurance which make the hero upon the military
! battle field have mistaken the temper ofthe men
who are here to-day, have misread the firm pur
pose that speaks from every eye and beams from
every countenance, which stiffens every snew ano
throbs in every breast,-I have misread it all, fyou
are not resolved to 90 home and there maintain al
all hazards and by every sacrifice the principles
the policy, and the organization of that party tc
which again and yet again declare unto you this
Government and country are indebted for all thai
have made them grand, glorious, and great [Cheers
and great applause.
For the Standard.
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