Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-08-06


calmer moments-what reasons can YOU dive
to your fellow-suifers in the calamity that it
) will bring upon us? What reasons can Won
give to the nations of the earth to iustlry if g?
They will be the calm and deliberate iudocs
in the case and to what cause or one overt
act can YOU name or point ON which to rest
the plea of Justification? What right has
the North assaulted? What interested the
South has been invaded? What Justice has
been denied and what claim founded in
Justice aud right has been withheld? Can
either of YOU to day name one governmental
act cf wrong deliberately and purposclv done
tv the government Of WASHINGTON of which
the South has a RIGHT to con plain %? cha-
lcnge the answer While, on the other hand.
let me show the facts land believe me, gen.
tlemen | am not here the adyo ate Of the
] North. but | am here the friend. the firm
lcicnd and lover of tho South AMI her ins,.
tutions. aud for this reason 50 ak us pan
! " and faithfully for yours, niue an every
other man 5 interest, tie words ri truth ana
sobcrncss.) Of which wish Won To- nudge, and
| will only state facts which are clear and
uudcuiablc. and Which now stands as records
authentic in the history OF our country -
When we of the South demanded the slave
cultivation OF our lands. did thcy-not yioll
the right for twenty years? When we asked
thrce-ffths representation in Cougrcss FIR
our slaves, was it not granted q? When we
asked and demanded the return of any Justice
or the recovery of those persons OWING labor
or allegiance; was it not incorporated in the
Constitution. and again ratified and strength
ell in the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850? Bat
i, in, l,nv
olatcd this compact, and have not been faith
ful to their engagements Asindividual and
local communities, they have done So bat
not by the sanction of Government, for that
has awus been true to the Southern interest.
Again, gentlemen, look at another tact
| When we asked that more territory should he
added, that we might spread the institution
of slavery, have they not yielded to our de-
mands in giving lis Louisiana, Florida and
Texas, out of which four States have been
carved and ample territory for four more To
be added in due time, if you, 10y this unwisc
and inlpolitic act do not destroy this hope.
and, perhaps, by ii lose all, and have yonr
last slave wrenched from YOU BY stern Mill
tary rule. as South America and Nj xico
were, or by the vndicitive decree Of a uni
versal emancipation, which may be rcasona-
blv by cynccted to follow. Bat, again gen
tlemen, what have we to cain hy this pro-
posed change of our relation to the general
Government We have awa,s had the con.
troll of it. and can vet if we remain in i.
and are united as we have beck. We have
had Il majority of the Presidents chosen from
the South. as well AS the control an MN
agcmcnt of the most of those chosen from the
North. We have had sixty years ul South
ern Presidents to their twcrty-!our thus con-
trolling tic Executive department. 50 IF the
Judges of the Supreme Court-we lave had
eighteen from the South and but eleven from
the North; although nearly rour-Gl,hs Of the
judicial business has arisen in the free States
vet n majority of the Court has always beca
from the South. This we have reonred 50
as to guard AGAINST any INTERPRETATION of IT,
the Constitution unfayorable TO lis. In like
manner we have been couallv watchrul to
guard our legislative branch of Government.
ln'choosing the presiding Presidents f,ro tenn
of the Senate. we have had twcutw 1oar b.
tl,ir'e'evcu. Sneakers of the Housc ~, have
had twenty three and thcv twelve While
the majority ofthe representatives, from their
greater nnnnlati,n have always boon from
the North vet we have so GENERALLY secured
the Sneaker hecorsn he tn n c,rrot extent
shanes and contr,ls the lop;slation of rho
country, Nor have VIC had less con,ro, in
every other department of the general gov O..
;, crnmcnt Attorney Generals we have had
fourteen, while the North have had but five.
Foreign ministers we have had eighty six.
and they but fifty four. While three iourths
oil the bushes which demands diplomatic
agents abroad is clearly from the free states,
from their greater commercial interest, yet
we have had the principal embassies, SO as to
secure the worlds markets for our cotton, to-
bacco aud sugar on The best possible terms.
We had vast majority of the higher officers
, of both army and navy, while larger pro-
portion of the soldiers end sailors were drawn
from the North Eqally so OF clerks, audi
tors.and comptIo,es filling the Executive
Department, the record shows for the last
fifty years that OF the three thousand thus
t employed, VIC have had more than two thirds
of hf sio,a. Will. wa bovn had Inf ana