Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-07-08
SPEECH OF
HON. JOHN BROUGH
AT MARIETTA.


-, al this time Is expected to discuss, al
that is, the condition of the countI
which Is now struggling for the maini
nance of its integrity in the face of a !
= belllon, more fragrant than any of whi
history has given record. And, in ent,
E ing upon discussion of the questions i
volved, in order TO save myself trouble
any misapprehension on the part of al
one else, | desire at once TO define n
own position.
- THE SPEAKER WAR DEMOCRAT.
1t Is scarcely necessary for me TO te
this vas. audience here assembled, tn
from the days of my boyhood up to tn
l hour, have been ranked with that poll
: zeal party known as The Democracy.
and that from my entrance into it unit
now, l have never wavered in its suppol
or been false to it. ICheers. | am
! party distinctions, and in all things pc
tanning TO the general policy of the cour
try, Democrat to-day as have ever bee
and as hope to remain. Applause /
But in a crisis of this kind, it is a prime
pie OF my democracy, that the first grea
duty every man owes Is TO his country
And although there is a President in til
chair. 10 whom | have ever been politiC
ally opposed, and for whom did not vot
yet | recognize him not as the head of
! political party, but as the head of tn,
! Government-c cheers and, as a gooC
soldier who Is fighting in the ranks, it i
my duty to obey him as Commander-in
Chief, without halting to ask questions il
regard to this great contest. Renewed
cheering. By and by may have some
thing to say of what is being done, but a
present l have nothing to utter against it
| have differed from Mr.. Lincoln on many
questions, but this Is no time for cavil. II
Is not whether this mans rights or that
mans rights have been infringed upon.
but the question IS, what Is the duty of
every man to his country in this crisis? 1t
Is first, put an end to this rebellion, and
then, when that is accomplished if we
have anything to settle with these men at
home and in power, we will take hold of
it. [Applause.
TIE SLAVERY oUESTIoN-ITs DOMESTIC RE-
LATIoNs.
| have no more delicacy in approaching
the Question of Slavery than any other
topic that enters into this rebellion: but
IN doing so | shall be under the necessity
OF defining my position again. With Sla-
very IN its domestic attitude have moth
ing whatever to do; | have no care in re-
gard to It. Whatever have been my pre-
vious opinions of the relation of master
and servant in the South is entirely i'm
does not enter into this con-
test. l have always been willing to leave
them entirely free in their enjoyment of
Is their curse, and let them
II f.a tba-r hn-o,,,e i . Il
lation of servant and master, l have been
to believe that, between the
two, the servant had decidedly the best
Of the game. Laughter. l have held
that the Southern people should have all
the laws necessary to the government and
control of the institution of Slavery, and
10 aid in recovering servants escaped from
heir masters. am so willing now. / do
not wish to disturb the relation between
hem If they keep that relation to themselves,
md a,gay from tie people ofthc North. 1t has
,ast blight and a mIldew over their whole
but has cast none here; nor
10 we desire that it should.
ITS POLITICAL CHARACTER.
There is another character of the insti-
ution of Slavery, the political character,
md that is the element with which the
Northern people are contending to-day.
80 long as the STAKEHOLDER was content to
lold the slave in his own hand, and keep
Slavery at home, it did not become an ell.
-ment of alarm to either section, or to
he country in the aggregate. But the |
question came up as early as the nullifca- |
ion times of Calhoun; that Slavery was
% be made a balance in the political pow !
,r of this country; that therefore no free |
State was to be admitted into the Union |
Without a slave State accompanying it,
n other words, instead of being satisfied |
With the Constitution, and political con-
lItiOn Of the country under it, they pitch |
n their slaves for balance Remember |
hat | spoke of slavery as a political, and /
lot a domestic institution. And now we !
ONE to the inquiry, What Is the great
ause and controlling spirit of this rebeIl- |
on with which the country is now con-
erned? For if we look to the end, we
nust first find the beginning.
CAUSES OF REBELLION.
Two causes have produced this state of
hings, and if any gentleman imagines
hese causes have been suddenly sprung
pom this country, he has not been DO
tical student of the times in which he
wed.
The first of these causes was the inor-
innate thirst for political power and dom
nation on the part OF the Southern lead
rs.
The second of these causes was the eff
ort to make thepolitical character of Sla-
cry, the balancing power in the Union.
These two things have precipitated this
ebellion. They have been the causes
7orking for a long period of time. If a
IAN of ordinary capacity had stood on
be pavements of Cincinnati during the
ttings of the Convention that nomina-
I'd Mr.. Buchanan for the Presidency,
nd failed to see these elements working
, their full fruition, he would have been Il
lind as a mole. +,
At that time and years before it was de- Il
ermined upon; it was no sudden move ,
lent OF the Southerners. Their first lead
~ motive was an ascendency in the con-
'ol of the Government of the country
Iith their subordinates they made the
lstitution of Slavery the means by which
secure it. We are told that sectional
ections have produced these results
" friends, we have not had an election
this country that has not been section
in its character, with one exception per-
APPS, that of 1910. For know to my
7ep chagrin, that in every instance where
lie Democrats have taken a successful
irt in the elections of this country, they
ave gone to Southern State for their :
an, or taken man the Southernors had )
ound in bonds before hewas put in nom- !
alton. Now, when you come down to
lie election of 1861, l will show you that {
le success of Mr.. Lincoln had nothing :
ore 10 do with the inception of this
ovement than would have had an act of
lie Chinese Emperor. daughter. That /
was used as a pretext for precipitating
will admit, but that it was the moving
tuse deny. The Southern men saw 9
hat others had seen must be an inevit- |
Die result, that the political power of the Q
overnment was passing out of their
'nds. They found out long ago what
lie world could have told them ages ago, t
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