The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-13
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nesseean, since he made his escape from
the rebels, was the one delivered at Chi
cago few days since. We make room
for few extracts
Gentlemen. l take the ground that we
are in the midst of a wicked rebellion, for
which there Is not and never has been.
any just or sufficient cause. And | 90
further than this: L make my statement
still stronger and more emphatic-we are
in the midst Of a rebellion for which there
is not, and never has existed, even the
shadow Of a pretext Why do l say so !?
This Government Of ours, in lis present
form, and under our most excellent Con-
stitution, has existed little over seventy
five years. During that time we have
held in this country nineteen Presldential
elections. IN that period, we at the South
don't forget my figures and don't forget
my tacts-we at the South, with half the
States and Territories you have at the
North, with hall your population, with
halt the electoral votes you have cast in
Presidential contest, have elected the Pres
ident thirteen times We have gracious
ly condescended to allow you to elect six
times. Not only so, but we reelected, to
fill a second term, five of our men at the
South Those five men occupied the
Presidential chair twice to your once
not content with having controlled the
patronage and power Of the Government
twice to your once, we seized upon, appro-
priated and used, for the meanest and
dirtiest of purposes, two or three Of the
six you had elected, who turned out to be
Northern men with Southern principles
The last one of those that was made the
cats-p paw of, and the meanest one of the
whole crowd, by any odds, was the Old
Public Functionary of Pennsylvania
Laughter An old man whose heart
and soul is with the rebellion. T'Thats
Pennsylvania. [ have been in Lancaster,
and all about over that country. l have
not talked with him. l have not got so
low yet But | conversed with reliable
aud intelligent Pennsylvanians of high
standing and integrity, who had conversed
with him, TO whom he said, This war is
all wrong; it ought to be stopped. We
ought to stop it. We can never subdue
this people. They are not the people to
be conquer L." And SO on, evidently
showing, by the tenor and tone of his
conversation, that he is with the enemy
The truth is, these leaders at the South
are and have been for years sick and tired
of Republican form of Government. L
know it, | have known it all the time,
in fact. A Republican Government never
did exist in South Carolina. If the letter
and spilit Of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States had been adhered to, she never
could have been admitted in the Federal
Union as a member thereof, for she never
had Constitution that was In letter, spir-
it or form Republican. L have lived in
South Carolina | have travelled extern
sively there for years. Why, in their
Legislative assemblies, the sergeant-at-
and deputy or two, with cooked hats and
swords, retire and bring in the Speaker of
the House, or Speaker of the Senate, who
comes robed in enough black silk to dress
out IN al! the amplitude of fashion any two
ladies' here, even In times of the most eX-
trayagant hoops. The Sheriff accompa-
nying them, with cooked hat and sword,
gives three raps upon the floor and cries,
MAKE way for your Speaker" Then he
marches grandiy il and takes his scat
The same pompous forms are observed
with one OF their circuit judges. He Is
conducted in in the same way. l have
seen old Judge Butler, afterwards Sena-
tor, march in with his sills robe on, pre-
ceded by his Sheriff and deputies, with
cooked hats and swords, crying, "Make
way for the Honorable Court" aud ev-
erybody squatted like 50 many quails when
a hawk is about Laughter.
Do you know that man has to own SO
many negroes in South Carolina before he
can either vote or occupy a seat in the
Legislature The limit is ten. Now, if
you, as South Carolinian, have nine val
uaole negroes worth nine thousand dollars,
you cannot be admitted but if have ten
or eleven little, yellow, ashy piccaninnies,
brought out OF an alligator swamp, and
raised on green perslnlmons, | can take
my seat, while you must stand back =
Almost the last thing that happened to
me before the Rebels crushed out my pa
Per was challenge to fight Il duel from a
sccesssiunist editor in the South, Louis H.
Pope, specimen of humanity who weighs
ninety five yopnds-a worse looking man
than Aleck Stephens. He supposed that,
being a preacher and editor, l wouldn't
fight, but he walked up the wrong passen-
ger accepted his challenge, and wrote
in the letter that being the challenged