Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-06-12
aRRR1r SMITHS Speech.

expected from an original abolitionist like
Mr.. Smith:
81 ask. what is this common cause that
has drawn US together, just here give me
your special attention. ask again what is
this common cause Is It TO save the Con-
stitution, Oh z it is inexpressibly more than
that. There are many good, patriotic men,
who don't wish the Constitution saved as IL
is they wish to have it altered l. for one
would not have one word Of it altered have
pleaded for it with lips and pen, more than
any democrat living or dead. ! would not
have one word in it altered. Well, II this
common cause is not 70 save the Constitution,
is it to save the Union; Oh no ! unspeak-
ably more than that There are good men
and wise men, who do not like all terms Of
our Union like them al. / have never
taken in my life, with lips or pen, the slight
est exception 70 any Of themi and probably
never shall. Well (. t then the saving Of
the country that is this common cause; It
is not even that, for there are many good men
who do not iikc The present boundaries Of our
country. They wish it 20 be made smaller
For my own part. every rod Of is dear 20 my
heart. would not have one star pass from
the national flag. Not even poor South Car
olina. ] love her for the memory Of her
noble men who stood by the side Of our rev
olutonary fathers ! love her for another
reason love her for what she will become
again when she shall have come out Of her
present degeneracy and madness. Well, now,
if this common cause which has drawn us to-
gether is not the saving Of the Constitution.
nor the saving Of the Union, nor the saving
of the country, pray what then is it; My
answer VIII be-and it will leap up from all
your hearts to your lips--it is the putting
down Of The accursed and causeless rebellion.
we all stand together at this point, where all
good and Just and patriotic men can do and
stand with us. And that is the very point
where unpatriotic and selfish men refuse TO
stand with u.s.
The putting down Of this rebellion must be
done. come what will 20 the Constitution.
and Union and even country. / hold that our
duty to justice, in putting down this rebel
lion, is infinitely more commanding and abso-
lutte than any duty we owe 10 the Cons titu-
ton or the Union, or even the boundaries Of
our country. | claim that we are to 90 for
putting down the rebellion uuconditionally.
Can you 90 that; You are not to say, we
will consent to put down the rebellion on con-
diton of saving the Constitution, the saving
OF the Union, or the saving of the country
yon are to say. We go for putting down :he
rebellion unconconditionally, and that is just
where these traitorous enemies will not 20
along with us. What some one questions
me, would you 60 for putting down this re-
bellion with all the possible risks tina, the
Uniot, the Constitution aud the country
might go down with il, l answer, would
] answer, make no calculation at all at that
point. Ny only duty been from the first,
the putting down df this rebellion. And
hence. some old sbolitioniats, perhaps, would
ask Do you 60 for putting down this rebel
iiuu, at Oh yOssiDic nsn..a-, th,.s e'-.' . 's'y
survive, and be stronger than eUer2 would.
run that risk have no conditions to
make in behalf Of any Of my hobbies, and
have not had since the day The news reached
me at Peter borough Of the bombardment Of
Sumpter And now let me here say, that in
my philosophy, the putting down OF crime
cannot bring any harm to any good can
not bring any help to any evil. Hence the
putting down Of this rebellion, which is the
crime Of crimes, cannot bring any possible
harm to any good, IN the Constitution, In the
Union, or in the country, or in freedom
none whatever. call it the crime Of crimes.
A DEMocRArIc ToLL-GATE KEEPBR.-A
few weeks since as Messrs Vallandigham and
Pendleton were going in carriage from Ba-
tayia Ohio, to ill an engagement at some
place in Brown County, they drew up TO a
toll-gate. The Hamilton, (Ohio) Telegraph
says;
Mr.. Pendleton, with that amiable condes-
cension which marks his intercourse with the
poor and lowly voters, asked the venerable
gate-keeper how he stood on politics, and was
answered
=" | am Democrat, have voted that ticket
all my life, and expect to as long as live.
That's right, my good man, l'm glad to
find you all right on politics. Now, as an
old Democrat, what do you think of the Hon.
Mr Vallandigham for our next Governor =
" Vallandigham is the worse traitor North
of Mason and Dixon's line, and | would not
help elect him dog-pelter.'
" But stop, man this gentleman with me
is Mr.. v"
Z" don't care who he isl am a Jackson
Democrat, and not Vallandighammer.'
1t is said that the worthy pair drove on,
not particularly refreshed by their conyersa-
ton The above is not only good, but true,
and the evidence can be produced if anybody
wants it.