, 1863-09-07

8. ". Moulton was appointed President Of
the first stand. He introduced the proceed
ings In speech Of considerable ability, after
which the Presidents letter was read to the
immense assemblage. It was cheezed tire.
mendously In some parts; especially in that
where he said: "One alternative for ending
the rebellion was to give up the Union. He,
for one, was not for that. Were they pr
wien the reEponze was perfectly terrific;
vast roar Of voices like the burst Of looseaed
sea, coming from tue amphitheatre and shak-
Ing the very roof.
Mr.. Moulton then introduced Senator
Chandler, Of Michigan, who WIS welcomed
with three cheers.
sFEECn OF SENATOR CHANDLER OF MICHIGAN.
It was good to be there. When he SAW be-
fore him no. acres Of mel, but sections Of
men, sitter Ill who had gone to the WAT, he
could hold up beth hands and swear tha. the
Union was safe, It WAS NOT we'll whilst the
Government WAS engaged In the most cruel
War that ever vas enacted against people
who had sebelled against that Government
1t Was not, perhaps, well TO enter into the
drama, If q house were on fire, would be to
rush TO the, buckets aud put ont the fire;
and then there wonld be time cnough to ask
abort the cause Of It: IT,, There could be but
room for neutrals; no gronnd for any one to
stand on, between pat1iots and traitors. They
Here either for the Administration OF ogainst
it. But he did not want to stop free dIscug-
sion. BE had been g7umbler himself, and
did not expect them to agree to every act Of
Abraham Lincoln's administration. He Of
fesed the right hand Ct fellowship to the man
who stood by the Government-and he who
did not helpit vas accursed, aud traitor
traitor before God and man and he would
no more take his hand than he would that Of
murderer or thietl
When this great continent was settled, It
was by diverse races. The Northern and Mid
die States were populated by the laboripg
classes Of the world, Who focked to this
continent to better thelr. condition. The
e6Ae dripping Of an eCste a1istocracy. Con.
eietipg Of what. Why, Of gamblers ind
b]ackiegs, who were bankrupt in character,
md waited for somethirE to turn up TO help
selves by labor-that was too mean IN occa~
patton. The institution Of slayezy was, It was
| true, thrust ;upon them and they complain
I'd Of this to the mother country 1t never
took root In the Northern stntea, and Was
never intended to take root even in the
| South. But siayes increased In the South !;
| then the revolution came, The Conf-deracy
was framed, ard then our fathers tried to
make Confederacy Of the States. They, in
tteir wisdom, made Constitution, Of which
l LIE ElEA14DiE HNS Aa 4044QHos ldG tA-A 4Ea0
the preamble. which everybody Of course
/ knows, and said II snch thing as Copper
I head we're present he hoped he would listen
to it, and digest 1t, and come out better
fellow fori After he had read the preamble
he asked how the Copperheads liked It.:
Pretty good, he {the epeakcr) thonght it
for tie Union side. But the South thought
otherwise They did not Want equal 1ights
for oil; nor equal haappiness:: They dreamed
ef great Gplt cenfsaeIasyi, H.! Ths1 was thels II
was to be based, not on the preamble. but on
slavery. But they were not ready for it until
1882, although they had tried it on in 1890.
In 1882, South Carolina thought the time had
ceme to dissolve the Union. The taril bill
was urconstitutional, she said, and she would
her people-butthen,l luckily, James Buehan.
an was not President! Immense cheers and
laughter.1 But General Jackson WIS ! ard he
said to them, "Dare to LIT your finger against
Twill hang yon!" Scott was called to conn
sci By jackson, and a conpIomise was snb-
sequept1y tried to be made for South Carroll
Ii. Old Jackson said, tIet South Carolina
obey the laws!" Immense cheeEs'l That
But they said " there arc Calhoun and Mac.
Duffy-thty are honorable men, can't their
feelings be- spared" Tie old hero said, "Gen:
tlemcu, there is the warrant for the arrest OF
John G. Calhoun" [Cheers.l When, subse;
| QVEutlY, these I1enQs Went TO VlluOUn anu
told him that jackson had said he would
hang him If drop of blood was shed iu
South Carolina, he replied, Then. By God
he will do it!'' And SO he would. They
might thank God that Buchanan was not
Preffdent ut that time. A voice, :'That's SO. "
Bnt from that period downward, revolution
had been rife in that State. In 1856, the
Issue Was fairly drawn. Governor Wise, oi
Virginia, proclaimed that If Fremont were
elected President, he would seize Harpers'
Ferry and dissolve the Union! In other
words, he promised to do the very thing fol
which. two years nfterward, he hanged John
Brown for doing! Lat this point vast body
Of delegates came up, and the Senator had to
81 Bpchanaa and his t1aitors we're then cleo.
! ted. Floyd, who has now gone to his &C.
count, was the Judas Of the cabinet There
was indeed but one patriot In it, and bis
name was Lewis Cate, Of Michigan! [Cheers
All the rest were traitors. Howell Cobb
fturd government securities l22 In the mar
ket. lie tried to destroy tho government
lie bought up Its securities, with this object
in viewl Floyd robbed the Treasury OF ths
1est-and we had no money to pay the civil
e1penses before the war broke outl That's
how Cobb. dld his share, 80 lar. IN the de-
SHuctton Of the government. He told the
New York brokers that the government cred
It Was gone, and its securities not worth .
cent!-and when he had done his worst to
d destroy the Union, and the Ropubl1c. he
. l went Enufb md ir5nod 4ba -a1,a1. 49,.