The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-04-24
never before were treated to a sight Of a
thoroughly frightened coutraIand. There is
little doubt the darkcy is running yet! 30
A Contrast.

We take tho following striking passage
from u mastery speech, by tho Hon. Rich-
ard II. Dana. Jr., Of Boston, delivered on
March oath, in Providence.
But let me invite you to tho council board
of James Buchanan, in January and Fobru.
ary, 1861. They are oil Democrats, and
they are in possession OF tho government
The President is an old man. and infirm -
Ho is pressed by traitors. There sit Floyd.
Cobb. and Thompson and the Vice-Presidcnt
is Breckinridgc, and the chairman OF tho
great Senate Committees are Jefferson Davis,
Mason and Hunter. The Good Providence
of God has brought into that cabinet three
loyal Democrats, Dix. Stanton and Joseph
Holt, and tho same good Providence has mado
Gen. Scott the General.in.Chcf OF the army.
Tho country does not know how much IL
owes to those mon. The President has through
life looked to tho slave power to furnish him
light, guidance and support. lie finds It
suddenly taken from him. What can ho do?
He is too oldand too iniirm TO begin life anew.
He would yield to them. he would give them
all. lie would surrender to them tho worry
capitol. Tc is kept back, and stimulated TO
something like duty bythese three loyal Dem.
Ocrats, and the country is saved. lf
But there was another member OF that
cabinet-a native of New England. your
ncchbor, Mr.. Touccy of Connecticut.-
Where was he? DO not ask. me. Do not
ask any Republican. Ask those loyal Dem
ocrats. He was just as much of a traitor as
q he dared to be. Ho was ready to yield half
the republic to the traitors, and to buy them
back on any terms. ...,
Remember. there was no Republican admin
istration then. There had been no suspen.
sions of habeas corpus, no bills Of c0nfsca.
tion, no negro soldiers, no Fort Warrens and
Lalaycttes, and no conscriptiOns and no rev.
cnuc tax. Hc was as disloyal then rs he is
now. 't'
Mr.. Toucey was not alone. Hc was buta
representative man. Thousands had deter
mined that no blow should he struck for the
Union against secession. They had promised
the rebels that not q soldier should march
from the free States. They meant to allow
secession full sway, and then-to reconstruct
on such terms us they could. The uprising
of the great mars Of people TO defend tho
great cause, astounded and silenced them.-
Some affected zeal until the storm blew over,
and others had not even the grace TO do that,
whilo others gave every MD TO the rebels they
could, and /. northern Senator writes TO JeG'
.Dsyp recQ,nmqnding MIN, . suitnhle man 90
furnish materials pf war. Ili itliJb' 1a
When tho war broke upon us, where were
the loyal Democrats. Dix, Stanton and Holt?
They were sustaining the government in the
prosecution of tho war. Where were Butler
and Kelley, where were Bancroft, Halleck,
where all those loyal Democratic soldiers and
civilians? They were with tho people, with
out regard to party. sect or race. native
and foreign born, Wing, Democrat, Repub-
lican. Catholic and Protestant, all as ono man.
And when the soil Of secession trembled un.
der the tramp OF our hosts, and soldiers march.
cd from every hcarth.stone, and prayers
went up from every alter, and old men bless
cd them. and little Children wrought with
the needle. and widows sent their last mites to
the treasury. and their only sons to battle
where then were Touccy and Thomas IL Sey-
mour, u soldier by profession, and Vallan.
digham, and Fernando Wood, and Fnnklin
Pierce, and tho thousands OF whom they nre
but the types? When Mr.. Touccy walked
tho streets or Hartford. tho very boys shun.
ned him and would not let his shadow fall on
them; and tho Legislature of Connecticut
took his portrait from the frame in tho gallery
of her Governors. From all these men thcro
came up not one word or act Of loyalty
There were no arrests, no proclamations Of
emancipation, no war taxes, no conscriptions,
then. They were us false to freedom md to
the constitution and the Union then as thcy
arc now.