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FRIEND NORRIS -
| send you an outline Of a speech made
by Mr.. Joseph Campbell, at Peterson's
Mil in Polk Township, on Saturday the
25th inst, as taken at the time by the Rev.
Mrs. Emma Adams of said Township, and
which she informs me is only an imperfect
sketch of what lie said. Believing that the
public should know the reasonable senti-
ments and issues Of falsehood palmed Of on
community for good Democracy. herewith
send it TO you for publication.
W. A. NYE.
Chlllicotbe, July q, 1868.
Mr.. Campbell commenced by trying to
shcw, that the party in power had always
opposed the war policy when the democrats
were in power, that the United were now in
debt % Billions of dollars. And that when
the present party came into power the gov
eminent was out of debt. And that if all
the land and personal property in the Uai.
ted States were sold, it would not pay our
national debt; that it was the object OF
the Republicans to crush out the Democrat
ic party. and not to save the country or
the Union; that Simon Cameron, stole 80
millions of dollars from the government,
and was then sent as Minister to Russia tc
keep him from telling on the party; that
Fremont had acted the rascal, and the ad-
ministration gave him mission to Virgins
to keep him from turning States evidence
against them that the government cannot
borrow dollar any where; that in 1911
Josiah Quincy said that IL Louisiana was
admitted iHto the Union with slavery, i
would devide the Union: that the East hat
Alright to separate peaceab'y if not forcibly
that the Williams of the Hartford Convention
committed treason; that the doctrine of Sc
cession commenced in the North; that Johr
Q. Adams, in 1929 said any State had q
right to secede; and that in 1912, he pre-
sented resolutions to the South for disuniou;
that for an individual or few persons t.
resist the laws or government was rebel
lion, but for State to do so was not rebel
lion butrevolution, and was only making
a change; that the Constitution of JEFF
Davis, was the Constitution of our Fathers
that they had not altered the sense MOI
meaning oft, Ohe Constitution but hat
only changed it so as to convey the mean
ing Ct our Fathers. In other words tina
their meaning could be understood.
For instance in the old Constitution we
read when person held to service in ont
State &C., it reads in the JEFF Davis Consti
ution, Slave, which was their real mean
ing. That it was the object of the opposite
Republican, party to destroy the Govern
ment that old Lincoln had refused to take
Louisiana back into the Union; and tha
Virginia had offered to come back and bring
with her seven other States on the Critten-
den Compromise and they would not re.
ceive them that no arrests had ever been
hhNS oh'y ubuot tHc pTtSclt dum1OlSLrd-
ton; that the writ Of Habeas Corpus had
never been suspended under any other ad.
ministration; that people were put in pris.
on for no crime; that the doctrine of the
Republicans and Abol,tion--(for they were
all the same)-was to free the negroes and
give them equal rights with the whites
il society and politically; in word to make
them equal with the whites in every re-
spect that old Abe Lincoln was traito,
"a voice in your .opinion,) yes in my opin.
ion; and that the whole party supporting
him were rebels; that it was them destroy.
ing the Union; that the ID WAS their
father and they were his children that he
was liar and murderer, and they were
doing his work. ....