Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-09-24

sword finally and forever. Great cheering.
As / have said that slavery should not stand
IN the way of the Union, so say that States
should not stand in the way, because the ma
tional integrity is essential to our peace The
| more you think of this the clearer it will be-
come. If pupillage is necessary before these
reVolted States can return into the Union as
States, give them pupillage. (Cries of
| Good! !" "Good!~ l don't want this war
patched up so that it will break out again in
eight or ten years. I want it settled on a
basis of eternal peace. (Applause.) don't
want these States brought back into the
Union in way that win permit traitors to
overawe the loyal people and renew the old
difficulties again within brief period Zap
| plause.)
The speaker showed the futility of the at
| tempted Crittenden compromise. There was
no party in favor of it. 1t clashed with the
Republican free soil policy. It clashed with
| the Douglas Democratic non-intervention pol
! icy. 1t clashed with the Breckenridge view
of the immaculateness and universally of
| slavery. 1t was the old Missouri Compromise
over again. There had never been a time
since the beginning of this difficulty that the
| Crlttenden compromise would have satisfied
any considerable portion of any party in the
| country.
The Butternut Democracy were now pro-
posing to change the Constitution in order to
induce the revolted States to return to their
allegiance. The Constitution that was good
enough for loyal men was good enough for
rebels. (Cheers.} He was opposed to any
ehangeto accommodate traitors.
| The speaker concluded with an appeal to
| the loyal Democrats to go on in the path
they had taken to-day. Stand by the old
flag. Perish under it if need be. He had
seen the brave sons of Illinois and Wiscon-
sin die gloriously and willingly under it
| You must be actuated by the same spirit
His estimate of the Government was such,
that in his view we had all better give up our
lives than to see it fail. We were fighting
the battles of liberty in the world Press
on until the glorious old flag, from ocean to
ocean, from the lakes to the Gulf, shall wave
over every inch of our rightful domain
| GEO. 81. WALKER-Three cheers for Gen.
MCCLERNAND and our glorious army. The
proposition was executed with great enthusi-
asm and with the addition of "tiger."
MAT. H. CARPENTERS SPEECH.
MAT. Fl. CARPENTER was loudly called for
and took the stand.
| Mr.. CARPENTER. The rain falls on the Just
and unjust He was little discouraged this
morning, when he awoke and heard the pour
ing rain and bowling wind. But he had been
thankful since, for if this day had opened as
propitiously in respect to weather, as it had
| for the Loyal Democracy, we should have
| been squeezed to death. (Cheers.) He wish
ed to say something with special reference to
the political situation here in Wisconsin. He
thanked God for having lived to see this day.
| He spoke of the everlasting obligations of
the Democracy of the Northwest to Douglas
| for the inspiration of his last speech, made
at Springfield. He spoke of it's influence on
! the party. For time after that speech was
| made, a Democrat was not endorsed because
he was patriotic. Of late there had been a
change. We have kept right on talking as
we begun. Others had abandoned the course.
And they had sneered at us as not amounting
to anything, They had said there was hardly
any of US. But after this meeting we shall
| hear no more of this. Why, look at this old
| fellow, Qaying his hand on the head of Geo.
II. Walker) and he is only one of us. Great
laughter.) Who can say we are small party
after this. (Renewed laughter.) Our cop
perhead friends, who came here to report this
meeting as a izzle, for the newspapers, had
been sorely disappointed. Not till he saw
the face of Pump Carpenter elongate this af-
ternoon, had he begun to feel that we had
gone little too far. Naughter.)
THE speaker then INDUCED in some pleas
! antry in regard to Sat. Clark, who was seated
close by the platform, calling him the bravest
| and most honorable copperhead in the State,
who had been thrown overheard by the Dem
ocratic convention, because he was honest
enough frankly to avow his principles.]
Mr.. G. referred to his own course antece-
dent to the war. Up to the election of Lin
coin he had been strict adherent of the De-
| mocracy, supporting the doctrine of Cass'
Nicholson letter, and Douglas squatter sover-
eighty doctrine. Under the same circum-
stances he should again pursue the same
course.
In all wars hitherto the Democrats had
happened to be in power This time, very
| unpleasantly fer US, we were not in power. He
then went on to show that the copperhead
ments as those employed b. the Hartford
Convention Federalists, while Republicans
were urg ing the same argum ats then used by
Democrats. The tables were completely
turned. The men now running the Demo-
cratic party are making the same mistake as
the Federalists of that day.
The Democratic Convention that recently
met in Madison was under the influence of
two tremendous emotions: love of office and
fear Of the draft. [Great Laughter.l The
fear of the draft was the chief tie that bound
them together.
The speaker then spoke of the manner in
which the Democracy of the North had stood
by the South. He said they went with them
in defence of their institutions clear to the
thin ice of Constitutional construction and
until it fairly cracked We did it not be-
cause we loved slavery, but because we
thought it duty. He had himself when
speaking on this subject been charged with
being Shareholder. If to save this Union
we went so far in defence of slavery, may we
not for the same purpose free slaves? (Cries
of Yes! YesD Will we not to save the
Union, destroy slavery. The change was not
in us but in circumstances. He was no abo-
litionist, he doubted whether the slaves if all
set free would be better off than now, and it
was not from any philanthropic motives that
he sustained and approved the Presidents
proclamation of emancipation but solely as a
war measure.
Mr.. G. continued at some length, giving
his views as to the war power of the Presi-
dent and the sound policy of the emancipa-
ton proclamation. We regret that our space
does not admit a further sketch of his re-
marks which were characterized by his ac-
customed force and clearncss.
Judge Macarthur was loudly called for, but
excused himself on the ground of extreme
horseness.
EX-SENATOR WALKERS REMARKS
Elk. q. S. Senator Walker was then called
out, and expressed his entire appreciation of
the proceedings to-day. He had profoundly