The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-03-10
BOLD EXPRESSIONS.

| Alta recent meeting of the Democratic Cub of
Philadelphia the Rev. G. G. Burr, formerly editor
of the New York Daily News, was one of the
speakers, and denounced the Administration of
Lincoln in the most bitter terms. lie said it a
drunken Administration, besoted with its violation
of the Constitution, and had never had one honest
pulsation for the good of the country: 1t was a
set of rascals He had lately been to Washing
ton, and his soul was filed with shame when he
saw the streets of that city filled with lunatics and
persons looking as fthey had come from Bedlam,
or some Free Love Association. The members of
the Administration, the speaker sad were not fit
to be boot blacks for his honorable auditors Cap
planse) Abraham Lincoln is a greater traitor
than Jefferson Davis. What has Jefferson Davis
done? He has merely infringed upon our terri
torial jurisdictioR he has not struck at the Con-
stituton.
On State rights, Burr ascoursed at length
He believed that we would have to come back to
the good old doctrine of State rights to save the
Republic, and said that the United States have
rights, and were merely rested on the solid ba-
sis of State rights. Suppose that State should
refuse to elect a Senator or a Representative,
where would your United States be? Congress is
nothing but the representatives Of the States, and
this is the only doctrine that can save US. What
| We want is pluck
''No we DON'T" interposed voice, 'we want
| money
eyes, sir" continued the speaker, 1--WE want
muscle Garry the pluck which you have display
ed this evening with you into the street. If you
do SO, the Provost Marshal of this city will be more
afraid of being, ridden suddenly rail than you
will be of any injury which he can do to your con-
stitutional liberties" Applause, and, in loud
tones, awe wilf We willv'] After the applause
had subsidized; the speaker said, "When the soul of
this Government is dead, for one care not what
becomes gifts body" [Applause.] "Ifa plot
which is proposed should succeed, that one
of our soldiers should go to Richmond and assassi
nate Jefferson Davis, and bring back his head
he hoped it would be put on Abe Lincoln's shout
.ders." Loud and long continued cheering I
Air. Burr reiterated that Mr. Lincoln was a greater
traitor than jeff Davis, and if his Abolition policy
was permitted to GO on, he Mr. b. maintained that
Jefferson Davis was fighting for his liberties In the
North, we'll as those of his fellow citizens in the
South. "Why not stop this war now? Why,
my friends, you will ask, 'How can We do so with,
out disgrace?' Why, if you are diseraced no W,
whatwill your dishonor amount to six months
hence, if you go on making dead men and public
debt 1T this Abolition programme was to be
carried out, and negroes were to be put in forts
as garrison troops, he, as peace man, thought it
would be his time to turn soldier: He eontem pla-
tea the new compromise line with pleasure 1t
would run East of New Jersey, and would there
tore include that State and Pennsylvania AS for
New England, he cared very little whether it came
IN or not. these States might be tolerated in the
new. Union as sort of ulcer, which could not be
taken out until it was perfectly ripe"