Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-10-21

thst she feb,iliou Itself was Unconstitutional
LApPlause. Did they yer argue to YOU tllstfI,e
ASSASSINATION by armed traitors OF your neigh
/ '.otS' your trends, youF near aad dear r1I.
t4tss, Ms contrary 10 Tic constitution as 4
| - Their ncerTty nay fe Judged bv their
] acts They taxi about this war as should.
/ II, @ulle Your 8f4ndrRother's clothes were on
[ fire, and while you were wbfDT,ino me Err
! out. bundling her in blanket and ,;,roN.7ney
/ her on the ground to exting1isll the hIaze 7
! Should szy, See that scxecrabIe cuss he :
I STR hlnss zliIs erandni other. El.auchtel and
I applause. While for a iEurderous wretch.
/ who lad got his grandmother to make her
/ viii ia his favor, and had then eat her throat
anI minced her bod}z into small pieces, and
/ buried them IN Il dung heap, / should have 10
word OF blame or detestitien Against the
/ rebellion, they Alle nothing to say. Against
/ the meals used to crush the rebellion, they
are redundant la iItve Stisss We fight
+ ing to preserve Jhe constitution. Against
those who, WITH murdcrous intent and bloody
hands, ass sled ii, levied and all wage ex-
! terminating Ar. lApplause.l We viii pro-
/ rcct il We VIII defeat the efforts - destroy
! H. To revert to the 5candnother again. We
! may. IN the attempt, lac o9tlSed 10 tumble the
/ cid lady about little roughly; laughter, but
+ If vii be with such rou-huesS only ~ the
! hands OF tenderness and mercy may use, IN the
+ dIrest extremity. uader the impuIsiye die
/ Jates OF uRdyiug love and devotion. ZAP
/ plause-
THE rNIoN As II WAS.
And | am IN favor of the Union As IL VS..
/ If, ny that, they mean a Union OF free ard
/ sovereign states, the same in interests, tie
same IN institutions; their laws, their people,
/ their elements of power homogeneous
/ treadng the same pathway to greatness
thrilled by the same watchful, constant and
! unWaSerlng adhesion to the government
/ (ApD'ause) But as for a Union with JEFF
/ Davis and Benjamin in 1t again. beg TO be
| excused. With what viii you have the
Union il was: VIII YOU have Union
with those with whom you crossed bayonets
yesterday They invoked this war 10 destroy
tine Union. Their hands red with the
blood of half Il million lives Murder Is in
| their hearts, and hatred Is on their tongues.
They won't have Union as il was, or any
other Union, it they can help it; and they
uetest YOU 4 httlc more cordially tor sneak
ing around and asking it, than they Go any
body else The old Union would have an
swered, II these folks had let il alone. ZAP
piause.t l would not have tried To destroy 1t.
/ would have been satisfied 70 have endured
it with all its impertectous and all the sacri-
fees that il required 10 its JealouSies, to see
tional rivalry, 70 local disatlections, TO Earring
interests, 10 incompatible institutions-with
gauce, their tyranny But they broke IL By
them the offense came To seek now to re
! store the = mon as il was, Is like the man
who went into i cooper shop 10 get a barrel
. repaired, saving he had part Of IT. " hat
part have y0u got; asked the cooper. la
replied that he had tie Lsat9-hoye." loud
laughter.4 And his proposition 10 get his
barrel " a. it was (renewed laughter was
about Is sensible Is this idea To have the
Union as il was. the way the phrase l. under
stood. Between Us and such Union Is II
was, barriers have been erected high as the
hopes of freedom, and strong the hate of
/. slavery loud applause But through this
bloody mist OF war, and beyond the clouds
that obscure it. We can see Il Union OF Amtri-
can States, strong in unity, vigorous N the
strength created by unity, iuseparably bound
together 10y the constitution which our fathers
. made and which i the charter of it, free
dom; and the tooJstep of $40 slave ppllutcs Its
soil (applause) ami against II no traitor viii
dare rebel, for 1t Is protected by the love oi
. its people, and by the power Of Its detense-
ana its pathway TO greatness and glory j.
broad before it, and on its future there rests
| the peuumbra Of no eclipse, nor the Shadow
Of any night OF darkness forever fried b.
> unbounded prosperity. tried by the sorest ad
versity-thrOugh the very valley Of the
shadow of ieath-each fircside Il dcSolation
each home house OF nourning-througll
bitter waters and over desert solitudes, Qua
people viii emerge. 10 the perfect brightness
of their new glory, and the full proportions OF
; / their perpetual greatness. prolonged ap-
plause.)
rHE REAL CoPPERHEAD policy
And now TO come to the exact point Il i
I the direction in which the Vallaudisham par
tv and the Palmer party are drifting that Is
! / the cause for greatest alarm. Opposed %
the war measures now, they viii oppose tue
, war itsSlf next. Their destination l. to a
: peace on the basis of disunion- That Is what
/ / they driving ut and, if successful in their
: . present attitude they viii a. once openly AS
= sumo the other. And that Is a subject upon
T. which l feel delicate about talking much
If the people Of the North want peace | dc
= | not believe there is "a soldier but what viii
r I peel of his uniform readily and once But
such a desire has not been indicated. Till 1t
Is, / shall support the party IN whose success
p | shall see the assurance that the war viii be
r most effectuallv prosecuted for the defeat OF
: the rebellion. (Applause-l That Is not the
p Palmer party, this year They wish the waI
t. / ended, are for peace and disunlon. Or else
they are guilty of hypocrisy equally de
i testable as treasOn-they are embarrassing
the prosecution Of the that they may VIII
a factionaI triumph. In either case, they
shall not have my voice, nor my vote. FoI
u this, thev NAV call me false to my party, but
, they shall not call me false 70 ny country
ID / Men may call me false in all things; evil
tongues may load NE With intamy and shame
{ but they shall not call me false To the haE
, that have sworn 10 protect, which has wavee
over me on mariy fields and my last aspira
:. tiou sill be for its glory, should it be my 10
to fall in this gigantic struggle to preserve IL
Il emblazoned folds from the pollution OF dis
u honor. Prolonged applause.)
sGRIliLHRE.
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