Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-03-03
SPEECH OF A AIssiPPIAN AT MADISON
WIS,
Tie War-Denaocracy-Nig gers--A5o.
litiouiSne.

gomery, late editor of the VicksLurgI
Whag, and exiled from the State Of Mis-
Sissippi for being a union man, spoke t
one Of the largest audiences that ever me
at Ma ison, Wis. The part which We
copy from the Madison Journal, is d
specimen of southern style. He is dem
ocrat-though slightly varies in his prin-
ciples from those we meet every day. He
said:
am democrat, and my ancestors have
been ever since Satan was kicked out OF
Paradise; but the democratic party that
got up the rebellion in our country and
aids it in yours | do not belong to, end, il
| know myself, l think | never sail.
Cheers. The emancipation proclama-
ton and the blockade have sealed the
doom Of the rebellion, the democratic par
ty to the contrary Notwithstanding.
If Mr. John Morgan was to come into
your country when you were gathering
your harvest, and should see your ma
chinery at work on every hand, he would
collect it all, and make oft bonfire that
would illuminate the whole heavens. Now
our machinery is the niger, and if i is
constitutional to capture a train carrying
corn to the armies of the rebellion, it is
constitutional to gobble up niger while
he is at work at bill Of corn. Great
applause. The constitution authorizes
both the government anu the administra-
ton to put down this rebellion. Never
heard that a man could love the former so
much as to bate the latter till he came up
North. If Abraham Lincoln fails to use
all the means that God and the laws of
warfare place in his hands to put down
this rebellion, he ought TO be impeached.
TIE heaviest, mightiest blow which he
can hurl against the rebellion is emancipa-
ton, and the people Of the South have
known il, feared il, and dreaded it all
along.
| have no hesitation in talking little
| about abolition. In our country they give
the cattle nothing but a little salt, the sheep
nothing but little salt. 1t is country
where three months labor will support a
man and bis family for year. Our sum
mers are but little warmer than yours and
our winters are but little cooler than our
summers. Nature has exhausted ersef
in adding richness TO the soil and geniality
to the climate. What has man done for
that country? Take any railroad map,
aud you will find net work of roads GOV.
ering comparatively narrow northern belt
Of the territory of the United States, with
only hete and there one extending down
into the south. If the map were full
enough to show school houses, you would
see them depicted all over the north, while
at the south there would only now and then
be poor. little, miserable scratch to rep
resent school house. Laughter Now
the reason for these differences cannot be
found in the natural resources Of the two
sections of the country. Why, up here it
requires thirteen months of hard labor for
you to keep yourselves year, and your
farmers are only boarding house keepers
for cattle Rene,ved laughter We ask
the ifference-civi cation and settlement
with you all over tb . land; with us they
are the exception. The plantation looks
like a village. but after leaving one you
will travel Ten miles in just as much of a
wilderness as DeSoto saw when he first
stood upon the banks of the Mississippi.
You ride in railroad car upon velvet
cushion. Our people pack their saddle
bags and start across the country on the
hurricane deck of mule. Roars Of
sughter.l The man who follwos plough
in your country, is heaping up for himself
and bis family, dignity, respect and honor.
The man who follows plough in our
country is a slave, SO despised that we
brand him and his posterity after him, so
so Iongas time shall endure. Labor with
us is despise1 by everybody high and low,
with you it is honored by everybody nigh
and low. The great drawback to the fn-
ture and presen, prosperity Of our country
is that it is cursed six feet deep with slave
ry. If the constitution cannot bring us
relief the proclamation can, and We need
it, want it, and must have it.
One reason why there is such intense
hatred Of the South towards the North
manifested in the bayonettng Of dead
Union soldiers--was tue seryility & the
North. Before the war broke out, the
Southern people all believed that any Yam
kee could be bought for four bits. Laugh
ter. took up paper the other day,
published at Madison, Dane County and
State of Wisconsin. and read that late
fifteen minute politician in your Legisla-
ture had said that slavery was a part OF
the economy Of Gods a part of Deity.
Did you ever see such living proof Ct ser
Witty as that !--utte ed by man by the
name Of Sanborn, and it is great pity
that he was ever born at ali. Q you lit
tie wire-puIlers offs hour, you think you
comprehend the forces that underlie this
rebellion! Here You come. little puny
EricksteFs, telling about what you can do.
jeff Davis, when he hears about peace.
considers the low position which these men
occupy, and spurns them with contempt
and says that sooner than associate with