The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-09-16

Mr.. Cox-I will show you, that if he be
honest, he is disunionist. You believe in
Wendell Phillips, sir, don't You
DIR. Bgelow Yes sir, and can handle you
any time.
Mr. Cox-We will see about that when We
1 get through. Judging by the way your fore
head retreats so rapidly, 1 have handled your
betters. IA laugh1 Wendell Phillips said !:
"Until 1916 we thought it possible to kill
slavery, and save the Upion. We then said /:
tOver the ruins of the American Church and
the Union is the only way to freedom. From
'46 to '61 we preached that lesson" BY your
admission to Mr.. Pendleton that you are not
for the old Union you have also been hand in
hand with Wendell Phillips Perhaps you
j were honest in it. You do not want to be
particeps crin,inis with sinners and criminals
! who hold slaves, do you, sir -
i DIR. B-s'Never p
Mr. Cox-Tben you will not commune with
such sinners in Church, nor unite with them
| in States
DIR. B-I would make all men equal before
God.
Mr.. Cox-You therefore would destroy the
Union rather than associate religiously or po-
litically with Shareholders. What are you then
but disunionist. CCheers] You are twin
brother to JEFF Davis [Laughter.] IF you
hail from Oberlin, you no doubt joined with the
other saints in commemorating John Browns
death on the dark and stormy End of Decem.
Der, when Virginia hung him and sent his soul
on the downward march. CLaughter.1 When
Spaulding, Riddle, Bierce, Tilden, Wolcott,
and your Reverend Brewster, and your negro
orator Langston, deifed the horse thief, ma
rauder and murderer, you were there L doubt
not.
DIR. B. assented
Mr.. Cox-You shouted when Langston
"Why preserve the Union, when its only
object is to eternalize slavery Such Un-
ion is not worth perpetuation. With all my
heart, I would say, let it be abolished. I hate
the Union of these States as I hate the devil,
for by it I am bereft of every right citi-
zen, and denied all projection of my personal
liberty"
OH yes, personal liberty was great thing
for negroes, when you deied the Constitution,
but it is poor thing for white man like
Vallandigham, when the Constitution is out
ragged. Lapgston, your disunion negro, is
raising regiments of blacks to fight now, and
Mr.. Vallandigham is exile because he
loved the Union better than even his own per-
sonal freedom. At this same meeting of your
Reserve disunionists-I read from pamphlet
printed by your friends-it was resoved (page
3 that ain such contest and under such
dire calamity, we say, let freedom stand,
though the Union be dissolved" The dire i
necessity was the choking of John Brown
Because Virginia dil-rhat you would not live |
with hes-in TIC Union. 1 submit it to you |
-powz8hether you did not deserve this fate p
(Cheers.] You see sir, that prove all say,
as | go along.
Now to prove you SecessIonist, 1 have
here speech of President Lincoln, printed
by himself, at the Office of J. & G.. S. Gideon,
in reference to the Presidents Message. 1t
was delivered January 18th, 1848. On the
5th page he declares that "any people, any
where, being inclined and having the power,
have the right to rise up and shake off the ex-
lsting Government, and form a new one that
pie may revolutionize and make their own of
such territory as they inhabit." You voted
for Lincoln Did you approve of that doc
rine? l will prove that you did, for you sup I
ported the men who plotted, by violence, to
lullify and overturn the Federal authority in
Ohio. I
The People will remember the Wellington
escue cases. A batch of revolutionists of
]berlin strove to break down the Federal au- |
horiIy right here. This man before me may 8
ave helped to rescue the negro boy John q
rom the United States officers. He is a pref f
y person to call on others to support the Fed c
raj Government. Laughter. There Ober- 4
in rescuers were tried, convicted, and about to &
e sentenced by the United States Court at a
cleveland, when a meeting was called at
cleveland, to revolutionize, and by violence :
D overthrow the Federal authority. They l
ought, like South Carolina, the agency of the 1
tate to do it. The Republican Governor, h
hase, and his attorney helped it on. have b
ne account of that meeting in Republican b
aper. Here it is Here Mr. Cox held up P
ne Ohio State Journal of May 26, 1859, pret- Il
? we'll worn. 1t has seen some service /; this q
aper; little the worse for wear-like the u
,epubiican party. Laughter n
DIR Bigelow-Let me see it if you please. tt
Mr.. Cox handed it to the Doctor. He look W
i it over, wiped his specks and pronounced al
"genuine Z" u
Mr.. Cox-This paper says there were ten al
r twelve thousand Republicans from the Re- v
rive present. No doubt Oberlin was there. W
Laughter.] Perhaps you were there sir. el
DR. B-I was, and am proud of it.
Mr. C-And you approved of their meeting oil
I'D their resolutions g
DIR B-Yes, sir; do and did. "
Mr. C-Now I have you; and if 1 do not h'
rove you to be Secessionists, Revolutionist,
i'd Nullifer, then there is no truth in your te
Tn statements. 1 read further that this
lst meeting marched into Cleveland with dt
lnners, with revolutionary devices and music. ia
ohn Brown had not then been hung, else o
icy would have sung his march, instead of "
aging the "MarsaiIeise." Old men were nut ht
the head OF the procession with flags, i'm la
rinted with "I776." Then came the is
oraine county deleSation-your crowd, sir, Sc
mobocrats against the Union You were D
it. Perhaps you carried the banner in de
ribed "Loraine" on one side, and ON the 9TH te
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Here is the Government,
..f Let tyran:s beware. is
, you remember that? You do? Well, ne
here is the Government 1t was not then ev
the administration-oh no-you had not TO
en- got Lincoln and his Cabinet at Washing In
II "Here is the Government"-in this gr
'b of law haters and higher law revolution un
81 Here is the power to overthrow and M
stroy. What commentary We Demo- Bl
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