The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-03-06

IL Gu that OccasIpn an old jackson Demo.
crat remarked BY the Eternal God ex.
| pected to see Jackson jump out of his
gravel" Though he now sleeps in the
grave, il it were possible to communicate
) with the dead. and if he could foresee the
, condition Of to-day, i Lave sometimes though,
he would turn over III his tomb, burst i, as.
sunder, and extending that long arm and
that long finger. declare The Federal
Union-i, must be preserved - Immense
i applauseJ
ments on the schemes of Calhoun, in which
he proved that the very tariff which was
made pretext for nulli6cation was protec-
tive to the coarse wools nf the South, and
was a mere pretext. and closed with this
prophecy The next pretexs will be the
negroes. or the slavery question:
Have we not come to it j.? Is the Cons,i.
tuition changeda think not. What rights
have the South lost f" None RI Who
can tell! Do you not see that the estab.
| Iishment OF Southern C1nfederacy was
their real object? Jackson's prophesy has
bsen followed out 10 the very letter.
| Who comme need the war--lhis damnable
struggle to destroy the peoples rights p
/ The South. Who struck the firs, blow,
| fired the frs. gun. shed the first blood I? 1t
is matter ct history that a delegation from
Virginia urged the attack upon the Federal
| forts az Charleston, a spur for Virginia
t. revolt. They knew that in fifteen days
Anderson and his gallant band in Fort Sum-
ter would be out of food. Bat so fearful
were they that these men would not be
starved to death. or into surrender, they
opened fire on Foit Simter, on this wretch
ed garrison. and kept it up for three days
SO incess 4ntly that they were compelled TO
fall on their faces and wet ,h-ir blankets to
keep from sutfo ;aion. The surrender was
com municated to Jeff Davis at Montgomery.
He could not speak in response to the news.
but his Secretary did. II was in substance:
g The first blow has been struck. Who
can tel where it will -ndl Before May the
Confederate fl g shall be h1atiog on the
Cipitol at Washington and on Congress
Ii all at Pnilsdelphia."
They at once raised men and levied taxes.
Mr.. L'ncoln cams into power. administer
ing the Constitution like an honest man, and,
loving m country, determined to sustain
hun. Because he called for men to defend
the Constitution and the laws, he had been
denounced as a usurper and a despot. Ii
he had not called on you when your coun
try was in peril would not the same armies
have been raised by the Sou,h, and lhs
olution gone on ? What sort OF Govern
ment would you have had tod dayl Would
it not have been a military despotism p
You complain of the great wrong he has
done, OF arrests. DC. Ii | have any com
plant to make, it is that President Lincoln
has not done m ,re 10 crush the rebellion
Has Lincoln violated the Constitution aud
trampled the law und-r foot? Who COM
menced the WARP Did not the South p
Somehow thess sympat aizers forget that
Davis ard his pira,ical crew have violated
the Constitution. They can see only the
blunders of the party in power, but they
have not word of disapproval for the total
annihlatiou of the Constitution at the South.
They can't see any wrong there. but it is all
here. hey are attemp ing 10 build up a
patty on the blunders and impated crimes
Of the present Administration. Let me say
here, if ypu want to build up party on the
ruins of the Administration party, you build
upon a foundation of sand, which will be
washed from under IT, You rnus, re es,ab
lish the Democracy in power on the basis of
the restoration of the Union and the enforce
ment of the laws. That is what intend
to do
1t has been called high crime to subju-
gate State and to enforce the laws. With
out law you can have no legislature, no
State. Has a Stale rgt,, to secede St
tie the question. they say. by peaceable
secession and reconstruction. This is i'm
possible. This government canao. be di
vided without bloodshed. Where will you
divide it Where will you draw the liue
Who shall have the territories Such are
the questions which arise when you attemp.
to divide the Uaion. 1t cannot be DONE
e ta
that it should bs perpetual. That instru.
ment contains it's principles which are tuu-
damental to all government, immutable,
emanating from Deity himself. We are
engaged 10 a long war. but we shall come
out triumphant Neither this nor succeed
ing generations shall destroy our lights
Tney had their origin in a seven years war.
in whicl, our ia hers spent their treasure and
offered up ,teir lives So now. brave men
of Indiana, your sorrow, will return like
bread cast upon the waters.
Governor johnson then referred 10 the
hi tory of the Cousii uion, as following
alter the Article, OF Confederation which
were to form perpetual Union. and the
Cons tuition in lis preamble ses forth that
it is % 10 form a more p-r'ect Union" l.
couli be adapted to any change 10 the con
Jltion OF man. by amendments to he Con
ssi;ution, and was adapted to all comini
time.
Let the ilea be kept in mind. We hav-
civil war and revolution. Way not have
sought their remedy in the mode pointed
out IN the Constitution But no. that must
be destroy ell. and tie destruction Of this
Government must 60 with it. They want
Ell a separation of the Sta,es, and then re-
construction They knew that reconsiruc
ton could not follow separation. hold TO
the theory that no State can secede. The
Union vas to be perpetual. Separation
dissolves all bonds, and restores the Union
tc its original elements. What State. what
Government, could stand thi result? To /
illustrate: you form q State government, |
pass laws, and impose penalties for crime.
Each man assents TO it. But suppose some |
one commits murder. aud is s.raigued fori il.
md shouli then notify you that he had /