Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-10-02
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Remarkable Speech by General Francis
r. Blair, OF Missouri, at Library Hal
Tie Kadicals Of Missouri Must 60 "a
the Galiows-GeneraI Blair wants "a
Try tsThe rssue'' with them -secr retary
Chase Denounced as no Better than
JET. Davis-Secretary Chase ssA Row.
dy and a Blackguard,e etc.
Dsvcred the night OF the s8th Of sept and publish
9Glp cd BY the Missouri Republlcan.l
THE RADICALS MUST 90 TO THE aALLows.
It's no argument to say that he has made
bad appointments, that hs has done this, thai
and The other, that 10 wrong and Improper; thai
is no argument for breaking down this Govern
ment In an Illegal and unconstitutional manner
II, my friends, the Government OF the State
can be displaced Rt the will of q set of poli-
ticians, otherwise than by the forms Of law, We
ehall sacrifice our Republican institutions and
run down into q sort of Mexican Republic
where Presidents, Judges, etc., are made b,
Pronunciamentoes. The people Of this Slate
are not prepared to degrade themselves to this
standard Of Governments. We are people Who
desire that there shall be stability, dignity and
respectability In our Government. We are ali
OF race Of people to fight It out rather than
submit. All these men who were entering upon
this career Of rebellion, all these men who make
our great contest iof our National existence
degenerate Into 0 revolution like that which
amlcted France IN the last century, these men
VINO are Following In the footsteps Of the Jacobina
the guillotine-who constitute themselves Jude.
es, witnesses and exeoutioners alike-I tell
them to beware! They will not find submis-
eive people. They will find Glrondists Of a
dltierent stamp-a Rooespierre will never live.
Cheers, .. y..'V Tx ~
Inc kobespieTes and Dantons will never live
ID exercise the authority which they ooyet, to
immolate people who differ from them In
opinions. But they will find themselves travel.
ing the road to the galloWa. There Ia no vav
10 zeal with such people. 10 is idle to discuss
shis question with men constituted as these mer
are. Why, 10 was related to me by gentleman
whom ! know as thoroughly reliable, that be
held conversation the other day with a man
who belongs now TO this Jacobln faction, that
once know to be one of the most temperate,
wise and sagacious men In this State, but that
man bad become 80 imbued with this spirit
this Jacobinical and revolutionary spirlt--that
he declared to this gentleman that "the Oh.
posers Of radicals In this State must 70 out
Of the State-that they conld rot live in
the State together" He said, also, that
''he did moi care so much about the negro;'
the factis, he wanted to get ride Of the negro
and the negro question; but the opposers of
the radical party, their opponents--their ene-
miles, as no described them-must go out Of the
State. .'h ID. VI a'. '''
Now, my friends, Il 10 about timo to see how
~ IN NJ 2kaka
| my part, when they commence that overt act
OF expelliDg those men who are opposed to their
tanatlcal and revolutionary doctrines, ehall
feel inclined, wherever may be upon the face
Of this earth, shall feel inclined to come back
TO this State aud try the issue with them.
[Applause.
GENERAL EWfRo's ORDER DENOUNCED As THE "euB
TEAyuoE or An IMBEcILE."
Why, certainly, my friends. And havlug been
90 long absent from Missouri, I can not omit
on this occasion, to express my astonishment
that, because the commander Of this department.
could not provive against that hellish and dia--
ooicsl scheme Of Quantrill to destroy the peo-
pie Oh Lawrence, Kansas, IL should have entered
Into the head of man to devote one entire alice
OF the State Of Missouri, thirty-iiye miles deem.
TO devastation, raplne and murder, that mai
calling himself military man, could have al.
lowed himself to become 60 excited and unnau.
neled as to depopulate tract of thirty Eve
miles deep, the whole breadth Of Missouri, be-
cause he had not the force, and the hsrdihood
and the courage to fellow Qusntrill and his
brigands. Il is the subterfuge Of an imbeciIe.
Applause. Our innocent pe0ple--tWenty thou.
sand OF them-With their women AID children,
are to be punished because they can not hunt
out and fine Quantrill. And then this other
man--no better than Quantrllt--Lsne [ereat
applausel, 10 he to be allowed to come into
Missouri and do deeds which, according 10 bls
own account, backen him as black as the deeds
which Quantrill did al Lswcnce2 lApplause
and hlsses. .......,.''
have seen speech delivered BY him since
he came back from his search after Quan,rIlI,
In WHICH he took very good pains not to and
him; but he followed them into the State of
Missouri, pillaging and destroying; and he came
across man BY the name Of Hook, who pro-
fessed TO be the best Union man in jackson
county. This man Hook, upon being interro-
gated, admitted that no had seen some Of the |
guerrlllas; and then u 10 reported that some |
one inquired OF Lane what became Of this man
Hook, and he replied: "In hell; left him IN |
the hands OF the exeoutioners." 1t tis not pre-.
tended that Hook had any thing to do with the
Lawrence affair; that Ia no, pretended, even by
his murderer, and yet he was inundated. He
was put Into the hands Of the executioners,
according to Jim Lanes story, and the only
palllaion can ever find for Jim Lane is, that
be Is such an internal liar that no one believes
that story as he told II. Laughter and ap-
plause,l And there is q suspicion even thas be
is debased and degraded enough to beast of a |
murder committed when he even did not have
the sudaclty TO attempt IT, (Applause1 I'd
But my friends, there are those In this fac |
tlon In Missouri who justify this desolatlon Of
Q large portion Of the State-snd that, too, In |
the most fertile portion Of it--and look upon n
&c just retribution. lido not believe there IA |
q military commander, who, because band of
men, four, or Eve, or eight hundred strong, In
Tested region Of oountry-men who are out.
lave and murderers-- find Il nece ssary
10 destroy the whole people and their property,
and drive the people abroad and strip them Of
their territory. can find no excuse for IT.
none whatever In the imbeoility Of the
man who makes the order, and who visits up.
on poor and helpless people the penalties be
had not either the power or ability 10 visit up.
on the real perpetrators Of the outrage at Law
renee. gl-i !c,9 tra-ts
SECRETARY CHASE no BETTER THAN JEFF. DAVIS,
There are still other points, my friends, upon
which had intended to touch. One among
the most important (And which i do not feel al
liberty to omit tc.nIght) ls O question which has