The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1863-09-16
SPEECH OF SENATOR CHANDLER.

Senator ChaEGier vas present a. the grea
Union mass meeting al Springfield, and made
speech. tie following report of Which IS from
the Chicago Trib1ne
Il vas good 10 be there. When he saw be
fore him mo-; acres Of men, hut sections Of meB
after all who had gone TO the var he could hoic
I'D both hands and swear that the Union wa:
safe. Il sas not well while the Government wa:
engaged in the most cruel war that ever was
enacted against a pc pie who had rebelled
against thar GOverument-it was not, perhaps
well 20 euter into the cause OF the rebellion
The frat set in the drams, if house were on
fire, would be 20 rush 20 the buckets and pat out
the FIRE aud theH there would be time enough
to ask about the cause Of it There could be
but two parties during this war There was no
room for neutrals; 40 ground for any one to
stand on, between patriots aud traitors. They
were either tor the Administration or against i.
But be did not want 10 stop tree discussion. He
had been a grumber himself, ard did not ex-
pect them 10 agree 70 every act Of Abraham
Lincoln's administration. He offered the right
hand OF fellowship 10 the men who stood by the
GOvernment-and be who did not help il was
accursed, and a trator-a traitor before God
and man and he would 10 more take his hand
than he would that OF murderer or a thief
When this great continent was settled, il vas
by diverse races. The Northern and Middle
States were populated by the labOriug classes OF
the world, who focked 10 this continent TO bet
ter their condition. The South was settled, as
they claim, by the efets offspring OF al efs ar
istocracy. Consisting Of what: Why, Of gam
blers and blacklegs, who were bankrupt in char
acter, and waited tor something 10 turn up TO
help them They never thought to help them
hv iaba haf
ton. The institution of slavery was il was true.
thrust upon them and they complained of this
to the mother country. 1t never took root in
the Northern States, aud was never intended TO
take root even ia the South. But slaves increas-
ed in the South then the revolution came, the
Confederacv was framed and then our fathers
tried 10 make confederacy of the States. They
in their wisdom, made a Constitution, of which
the preamble was as follows: He then read
the preamble, which every body OF course knows,
and said if such a thing as a Copperhesd were
present he hoped he would listen 70 it, and di-
eest it, and come out a better fellow for il I
After he had read the preamble he asked how
the Copperheads liked its Pretty good. he (the
speaker) thought il for the Union side. But the
South thought otherwise. They did not want
equal right for all nor equal happiness They
dreamed of great Gull COnfederacy That
was their dream day and night, and this Conied-
eracy was to be based, not on the preamble, but
on slavery. But they were not ready for it un
I'll 1882. although thev had tried il on in 1920
10 1882 South Carolina thought the time had
come to dissolve the Union. The tariff bill was
unconstitutional, she said, and she would resist
t to the death She armed and drilled her peo-
pe-but then, luckily James Buchanan was not
President Immense cheers and laughter }
But General jackson was and he said to them /:
Dare to lit your finger against the United
States Government, and by God, | will hang
you :" Scott was called 10 counsel by Jackson,
aud a compromise was subsequently tried TO be
made for South Carolina Old Jackson said,
Let South Carolina obey the lawsp That was
his answer.
But they said "there are Calhoun and Mac
Duffy - they are honorable men, can't their
feelings be spareds" The old hero said, "Gen-
tlemeu, there is the warrant for the arrest of
John Z. Calhoun" When, subsequently, these
friends went to John c. Calhoun and told him
that jackson said he would hang him if drop
of blood was shed in South Carolina, be replied,
Then, By God he will do it Aud so be
would. They might thank God that Buchanan
vas not President at that time. "A voice,
That's So y But from that period downward,
revOlu tion has been rife in that State. In l856
v
ginia, proclaimed that if Fremont we're elected
President be would seize Harpers Ferry and dis
solve the Union In other words, he promised
to do the very thing for which two years after
wards he hanged John Brown for doingl (At
this point a vast body OF delegates came up and
the Senator bad to stop talking }
Buchanan and his traitors were then elected
Floyd, who has now gone to his account, wa;
the Judas of the Cabinet There was, indeed
but one patriot in it, and his name was Lewis
Cass, of Michigan Ali the rest were traitors
Howell Cobb found government securities 1872 in
the market. He tried TO destroy the Govern.
ment. He bought mp its securities, with thi:
object in view Floyd robbed the Treasury o
the rest, and we had no money 10 pay the civi
expenses before the war broke out That,
how Cobb did his share so far, in the destruc
ton of the government He told the New Y OrE
brokers that the government credit was gone
and its securities not worth q centl-and wheI
/ be had done his worst TO destroy the Union anC
the Republic, he went South and joined IN,
rebels. Floyd's history was well known. Ii
the fall of 1860 the conspirators, to whom he haC
alluded, thought the time lad come TO break uE
( the Union, in deadly earnest. They went tC
/ the Charleston Convention TO accomplish thei
purpose, and sacrificed Douglas at that time
they all knew how, and what for South Caro-
lima never came into the Congress Of 1861 anC
'62 He and his friend, Senator Dooittle, wer,
compelled TO sit BY these Southern scOundrel
/ day by day and week by week, and hear then
declare that the Union was gone forever. Nhs
ought to have been done with these men
! Hang EN-, hang EN- Yes that is what Ough
to have been done TO them. But Bucbana
was in with the traitors He said that Treason
was a bad thing-but then it could not b
helped. A voice Poor devil. D-n Buchan
an. Hang the old rascal) So they were put a
liberty TO inaugurate this rebellion. They trie
hard to encompass the life of Abe Lincoln
! There were 700 muskets ready to do this servic
for the conspirators But they failed, becaus
God WAS on old Abe's side. There we're dificu
ties in Mr.. Lincoln's government which the
could not appreciate which 10 one could ap
preciate; and they might-as be did-than
God and Abe Lincoln, that We had Unite
States Government to-day. Then came the ex
temporzing of our armies at Bull Run. Their
the CRY, - On TO Richmond but God, VII
knew better about war than We did, prevente
rs from going there. II We had gone on {
Richmond We might have crushed the rebellion
but We should not have crushed the cause of ID
rebellion. Now, We had our bands al the throa
the cause But it took Us long while TO
this For eigh cen months We had conservs
tive policy. The rebels were our dear brother
and we had to protect their niggersl We wer
now at war with them in earnest What va
the result Of these eighteen mOn;bsi We ioun
ourselves not 80 well of as We we're at the O'
ginning. Our armies had been driven by taeI
across the Rappahannock. That's where y