The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-04-17

tempted TO organize worse Government upon
various portions OF II. And Il is to be drawn
10 under our laws and our Government as
soon as tho power Of tho United States can
DC exerted for that purpose, and therefore,
my friends, you see the next sot of logical
consequences that must follow that we
bavo 10 occasion to carry on the fight for
tho Constitution as !, was. tcheers.l lbcg
your pardon, tho Constitution as Il is. Who
is Interfering with tho Constitution as it Is {?
VINO Is interfering with the Constitution /?
Who makes any attacks upon the Constitu.
tion' Who arc fighting with those who
bave gone out and repudiated tho Consti,u.
tiOu. tCbeors.l And now, my friends, do
not know but shall use some heresy, but.
as Democrat. am uot for the Union as il
was. lGreat cheering. "Good /" "Good ri
/ say as Democrat, and Jackson Demo.
crat, am not for the Union to be again as
it was. Understand me / was for the
Union as il was. because saw, or thought I
saw, the troubles in tho future which have
burst upon us; but, having undergone those
troubles, having spent all this blood, and
this treasure. | do not mean to 90 back
again and be cheek by jovl with South Ca-.
oIina, as was bo?oro, if can holp it,
! tCheors. you're right."] Mark mo, now,
lot no man misunderstood me, and repeat
lest may be misunderstond--there are
none so slow to understand as those who do
not want to; mark, say do not near to
give up a single inch of tho soil of South
Carolina. IL had been alive at that time,
and had had the position, the will and the
ability, would have dealt with South Caro-.
lima as jackson did, and kept her in the
Union at all hazards, but now sho has gone
out, and I will take care that when sho
| comes in again she comes in better behaved (;
[cheers j that she shall 10 longer be the
fire-brand of tho Union aye, and that she
shall enjoy what her people never yet have
enjoyed. tho blessings Of a Republican form
of Government. [Applause.l And there
fore, 10 that view, am not for tho recon-
struction Of the Union as 1t wac. Yet ]
have spent treasure and blood enough upon
il. in conjunction with my fellow-citizens, tc
mako it little better. Cheers. It wat
good enough il it had been left alone The
old house was good enough for mo, but. as
they have pulled down all tho l. part, pro-
pose, whom we build II up, to build II or
with all the modern Improvements. PRO
ionged laughter and applause] Another
Of the logical consequences. Il seoms to me-
that follow with inexorable and not-to-b be.
shnnnod course upon this proposition tina,
we arc dealing with alien enomies, is in our
duties with regard TO the confscation o.
their property, and that would seem to m,
to. be easy Of settlement under the Cous,i
tuition, apd without any discussion, if m
first proposition is right. Has it not bee
held from the beginning Of the world dow
to this day, from the time the Israei'es too
possession of the Land of Canaan, whic
they got from alien enemies, has il not beer
held that tho property of those alien enc
mics belonged to the conquoror. and that Il
has been at his mercy ard bis clemency what
should be done with IL For one, I would
take Il and give the loyal man who was
loyal 10 the heart Of the South, enough TO
to make him as we'll as he was before, and I
would take the balance of il and distribute
itamong the volunteer soldiers Who have
gone--[the remainder of tho sentence was
drowned in tremenduous burst of ap.
plause.] And. so far as know them, il we
should settie SoGth Carolina with them, 10
the course of few years should be quite
willing to receive her back into the Union.
[Reneweo applause That leads US to an
other proposition: What shall be done
with the slaves Hero again tho laws Of
war have long settled, With clearuess and
exaetness, that il is for the conqueror, for
tho government which has maintained or
extended its jurisdiction over the territory,
to deal with slaves as IL pleases, to free them
or not as it chooses. II is not for the oon.
quered to mako or to send their friends into
the conqnering country to make torms upon
that subject. [Applause.1 Another coroi.
larry follows from the proposition that we
are fighting with alien enemies, which re
lieves us from another difficulty which seems
to trouble some of my old Democratic
friends aud that is in relation to the ques-
ton of arming tho negro slaves. If the
States arc alien enemies, is there any OBJ.
lection that you know Of and, If so, state 1t,
to our arming one portion of the foreign
country against the other. while they are
fighting us? Applause. and cries of "No !
nor'l Suppose that We were at war with
England. Who would get up here In Now
York, and say that We must not arm the
Irish, lest they should hurt some of the
English ! (Applause) At one time not
very far gone. all those Engisbmen were
our grandfathers' brothers. But we are
now separate nations. There can be no OBJ
jeotiOn, for another reason, because there is
no international Law or any other law of
governmental sotion tia. know Of, which
prevents the country from armiug any por-
tion of its citizens, and, Il the.s slaves do not