The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-10-01

Soft palm or hard hand, 1T matters not-never ;
Give ME the grasp that is friendly forever
Speech OF Senator Chandler, al Springfield.
1t was good to be there. When he
saw before him not acres of men, but
sections of men, after all who hs@;a, gone
to the war he could hold up both bands
;i;iid swear ;bat the Union was safe. 1t
was NOT well whilst the Government
engaged IN. the most eluel war that ever
was enacted against a peqple who had
rebelled against q Governmeni-itw was
not, perhaps well tolenter into the causes
of tie rebellion. The first act i'll The
drama, If a house were on fire, would
be to rush to the buckets and put out
the fire ); and then there would be time
enough to ask about the cause of it.
There could be but two parties during
the, war, There was ne. room for neu,
trails /; no gyoupd, for any one to stand
on, between patrlqts and traitors. They
We're either for the Administration or
against it. But he did not want to
stop free discussion. He had been a
grnmhler himself, aud did not expect
them 10 agree il every act of Abraham
LincOln's administration. He offered
the right hand of fellowshipto the man
who stood by the Government-andI he
who did not help it was accursed, and
Il traItor-a traitor before God and
man and he would no more take his
hand than he would that OF murderer
or thief! t
When this great continent was set
tied, it was by divine races. The
Northern and Middle States were pop
nlated by the laboriDg classes of The
world, who focked to this continent to
better their conditions. The South was
settled, as they claim, by The efete of:
spring of an efete aristocracy. Con-
sisting of what? Why of gamblers
and blacklegs, who were bankrupt in
character, and waited for something to
turn up to help them They never
thought to help themselves by labor
that was too mean an occupation.
The institution of slavery was, it was
true, thrust upon them and they com
planned of this to the mother country.
1t never took root in the Northern
States, and was never intended to take
root even in the South But slaves in
creased in the South; then the reyolu.
tion came, the Confederacy was framed,
aud then our fathers tried TO make a
Confederacy of the States. They, in
their wisdom, made a Constitution, of
which the preamble was as follows:
He then read the preamble, which
everybody of course knows, and said
If such thing as Copperhead were
present he hoped he would listen to it,
and digest it, and come out a better fell
low for it. After he had read the
preamble lie asked how the Copper.
heads liked it Pretty good, he (lhe
speaker thought for the Union side.
But the South thought otherwise.
They did not want equal rights, for all !;
nor equal happiness. They dreamed
of a great Gulf Confederacy That
was their dream, day and night, and
this Confederacy was TO be based, not
on the preamble, but on slavery. But
they were not ready for it until 1892,
although they had tried it on in 1920.
In 1882 South Carolina thought the
time had come to dissolve the Union.
The tariff bill was unconstitutional, she
said, and she would resist it to the
death. She armed and drilled her peo-
ple-bnt then, luckily, James Buchanan
was not President! Immense cheers
and laughter. But General jackson
was ! and he said to them, &c Dare to
lift your finger against the United States
Government, and by God, l will hang
you !" Scott was called to counsel by
Jackson, and a compromise was subse-
ouently tried to be made for South Car
olina. Old Jackson said, Let South
Carolina obey the laws! y Immense
cheers That was his answer.
But they said "there are sCaihoun
and McDuffy-they are honorable men,
can't their feelings be spared?, The
old hero said, !" Gentlemen there is the
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