North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-04-08

! itiOuiolS Vi tuc NOi III. ID. OIcIIdn
was MT an Abolitionist and therefore he lrds
not geneTat!!! The remaining history
of that campaign is written in blood disaster.
But sir l will tell you that along the camp
fires of the Potomac at night, no soldier goes
sleep without praying God for blessings upon
the head of his commander and Oh ! sir, if
those in power could summon the resolution
to cast behind them the prejudces and the
passions of those who do not wish to see this
Union restored unless slavery be abolished,
that noble commander would be put al the
head of that army and he would carve out
victory and would bring back to US once
more triumph and peace and Union. I know
| it, they know it, you, gentlemen, know it !;
and II you had the manhood which you should
possess, you would by joint resolutions speak
this truth to the powers that be and make
then hear yow u!
Mr.. Speaker, it may be proper for me at
this time to state what believe to be the
purposes Of the great party with which l
nave tie honor to act. In the words of an
other, VINO from his exalted position has a
right to speak, I will tell you that the Demo
cratic party has never agreed, does net now
agree, and have no intention of agreeing in
future, TO dissolution of the American Un-
ion" anl will say to yen further, that we
propose to accomplish the presery ation of the
government and the Constitution by the
union Of the sword q1ith the olire branch.
For those who will resist the power of
tie government-rot the power Of the ad-
but the power of this government r;ghtful
ly administered under he Constitution
we have the sword. For those Who are
willing to submit to It's benign, its health
fUl and its peaceful sway, we hold out
the olive branch Of peace. And here 7
will say TO you sir, (and in saying it I
feel that I express the opinion of tie great
Democratic party of this State,) that we be-
lieVe, and will ever believe that the laws
which have been passed by the Congress Just
cnded-the contiscatlon and other acts which
nave obSOlcu VIC AoSiLI vi tue PSoplc Vi tHe
South-there is no such thing as a Union
man left in those States now engaged in reb-
eliion, and We tell you that we intend to melt
the heart Of that people by repeating your
unjust, your unconstitutional laws; and when
It is melted we expect cut Of that heart to
bring peace and happiness to the people, un-
le S you have among them allies who are
attached to your cause, devoted to the prin-
ciples of the Constitution and its guarantees,
and desiring its protection that you can
never, exterminate or subiugate them.
But we tell you, sir, that if you viii 90 on
ly what the Constitution snd the principles
springing from it demand, on every hill and
and in every valley there will be raised I'D
allies for our assistance. The leader, vino
desire place and power may be against US, but
when the people of the south, recollecting the
gorie9 Of the past, and looking to those of
the future, feel thar every right is to be guar
anteed, every privilege restored to them. then,
as believe my God, believe that they will
come back to the Constitution of the old gov
ernnent, and the old Union. | tell You now
Mr.. Speaker, that all the blood all the treas
ure you have spent Or may spend, will be in
vain, unless you repeal the unconstitutional,
oppressive, and tyrannical laws which were
enacted by the last Congress and will say
in passing (the Supreme Arbiter being nv
judge.) that if that Congress had never met,
| or it, having met, they had simply voted ap-
preparations and dissolved leaving the whole
question to be settled under the resolution
adopted in July, 1861, this contest would ere
now have been settled, and at this day we
would be enjoying unity, peace and amity.
Upon the heads Of those who prevented such
action--upon the heads Of those men who en-
acted those unconstitutional and damnable
| laws, and did everything in their power to
combine the southern heart against us forev-
er, be the curse of blood and numbering that
fill this land. If the demon of destruction
and of hate-if the father of evil himself could
have been there debating their councils, actu-
ating them to deeds which must result in the
uGtSt vi bulS u OulOH he COutu
not more thoroughly have effected his hellish
purpose than it has been effected by the
dominant majority in the Sen ate and in the
House during the last Congress. And when
the history of these times comes to be writ
ten, (and pray to God that the historian Of
this era may not be obliged to write of the de-
cline and fall of the American Republic, but
that he may only write of its trials past and
present and of its future greatness, he vii.
record the hour when the nation came so near
to desolation and death, and he will ascribe
the disasters of that hour to the unremitted,
persistent, diabolcal Vaccinations of Aboli-
tionists in and out of the last Congress.
Such historian, if he has the philosophy
of Hume-if he has his far seeing penetration
and can trace effects from causes, cannot fail