The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-03-06

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memorshle declaration OF Paul
Jones, mo, | do not su,render--I
am Just getting ready to fight" SO
let our motto be, "We are just get
ting to fight "
Tho speaker then read extracts
from Southern papers, showing that
they depended more on divisions in
the North, from the efforts OF Rich
ardson and Vallandigham, than their
own armies. He showed that it
only required perseverance, on our
part to crown our efforts with sue
cess. To do this we must not listen
to the deceitiul voices Of sympathiz.
els now crying peace and an arm-
stice. Open the Mississippi, blockade
Galveston and take possession Of
East tennessee, and then the rebel.
lion is crushed,
Then, alluding again to the inten-
tion of the conspirators to establish
an aristocracy, Gov. johnson re
marked: God did not create the
being to be my master Let NE tell
you now in view OF the etfJrts being
made 10 divide you in the North
the time has arrived when the ty
rants rod should be broken and the
captive act free. This Endorsement
of the proclamation caused tremen
dous applause And let me tell
you to-day that because som 81 oiy
lives in tho South, there il no reas
on that somebody in the North
should be opposed to him. | have
always liyod in the South. | have
picked cotton with my own hauls,
and | never saw negro boy who
could pick more cotton than | cCu' Il
| have owued negroes which the
Southern Confaderacy so generous
OF individual rights, has confiscated,
turning my family unprotected into
tbs streets, and seizing my house
tor q hospital for buiteruuls. II
such are 10 be the ri9hts guaranteed,
ny prayer 10, that yours and my
children may be free oi them. But
| can speak from knowledge Of the
negro.
How these sympathizers carp
about employing the negro. Do
not their Southern Coniederacy
friends employ negroeni But bc
that az it may, is that any reason
you should 20 against the Govern
meu., and 60 croaking about the
country, appealing to . squsamish
sympathy. l have lived in the
midst Of negroes oil my life. There
is one thing | want understood.
am .or the Government with the in
stitution Of Slavery under the Con-
stitution as it 10 il it can bs saved.
am for this Government without
negroes ii 1t can be saved. Cheers.
am ior this Government nnier any
and all circumstances. rremon
dous applause 1t negroes get in
tue way, let them be crushed, On
the other hand, If they do not get in
the way, let them remain whore
they are. am Tor the Government
and ell tho meaus and instruments
that will 90 to maintain the Gov
erument. Is this Government, tn i
great bulwark Of human liberty, ic
De compared with Slayery' Wha'
is King Cotton compared with it!-
1t ia AZ dust in the balance. Some
OF the sympathizers have got thu
! idea that without cotton they csnno
> sell corn Tor quite Is much. Why
, the world had existed:and prosper
, ed for 6.000 years without the ai
4, OF cotton rs an article OF commerce
and without this our Governmon
will 90 on. When we come t,
, think OF il, by producing a littl
= more wool, u little more fax, and
. little more hemp Voicss-hemr
= hemp, hemp for jeff Davis, -yoj
4 can dispense with cotton wi'hou
. creating a ripple. This Govern
t ment, this magnificent structure
n will continue to go on. whether cot
!, ton continues in the United Stete
t or not. repeat again, | am for tn
o Government my fathers hande
Q down to me with negroes. | am fc
/. it without negroes. leather than Sc
{ this Government destroyed | wonl
see tue whole negro race back II
i Africa, and Africa itse in o empt
Y space. | have eulisted in Til
!. cause OF free Government not as
/; six months man but during my na
t ural existence. | am for this GJy
II ernmcnt upon tho principle 1t h
y been banded down TO us. o.
Il thing must be done; traitors mu
o be made odious, treason must ;
punished. This work should b
S commenced in time. This Cover
}; msnt must exert its power in sustain
d ing and enforcing the Constitution
h Tho Government is nos passin
G through its third ordeal. Tue fir
ordeal was the revolution. w
q were purified by blood and fire.
If The next WAS the war OF 1912, whe
IT we were required 10 give evidenc'
!. to the world that we were cipab
% of sustaining ourselves. We wei
p through the war trumphsntly. w
;. are now in tho third ordeal. W
d are in a struggle with Intern
1t weakness, with treason aud traito
rs at home, and If it is a Governnel