The Portland daily press., 1863-04-17

Congress, said this outburst was most unfor-
tunate. He did not belong to the Democrat
ic or Wing party, but the Uniou party He
had served with his friend, Mr.. Cravens. in
Congress, and truer patriot, hero, or sounder
Union man did not exist. His feelings were
wounded when he saw what Kentuckians had
done, and he did hope his friend would have
an opportunity to explain.
The excitment had now somewhat subsidized,
and while many were opposed to allowing
Mr.. Cravens to speak, some were curious to
hear what he had to say, and he was finally
permitted to speak.
He said, in his illusions to the Democratic
party, he had been unfortunate. He was a
Union man, and loved his country above all
else. He would not have appeared here had
he not been urged to do so by his friend. He
would simply make an apology and retire. He
then went on TO say that he was in favor of
putting down the rebellion first, and settling
other difficulties afterward.
Voices-"You had better have said that be-
FORE"
He referred to what our soldiers had done
and were doing and appealed to the Conyen-
ton in behalf OF the widows and orphans of
those whose bones were bleaching upon
our plains and fields TO crush out the rebellion
and stay this awful bloodshed. He had inten-
ded saying when he first spoke that parties
were nothing compared with the safety OF the
Union. Come together then, in the spirit of
harmony, and make one more effort to restore
the Union as it was under the Constitution.
At this point he subsidized.
His speech created good deal of disgust
among the delegates, for it was evidently in-
sincere. The gentleman mistook the men he
was speaking TO, and the Union feeling was
too strong to stand his copperhead remarks.
Col. Whitaker said he was credibly inform
ed that the hall had crowd Of Butternuts in it.
shns~ Latt hat
and he believed much of the trouble of the
gentleman from Indiana was created by them.
He moved the appointment of Sergeant-at-
Arms to exclude all but delegates. 1t had
been hurled in their teeth that Kentuckians
cannot defend the border. He thought that
the party who made that remark had better
go home and attend TO his own State. There
was more true Union feeling in Kentucky
than in Indiana. There would be no need Of
any conscript law in Kentucky. She would
furnish her quota, as she had done before. In
diana could not say as much. 1t cost kentuck-
ians something TO be loyal. There had been
no differences in the Convention. All was
union and harmony until this man from In
diana threw in that firebrand.
The foregoing furnishes one of the most
hopeful signs of the times. The refusal of the
representatives of the people of slave state
W tOtbpptiutduiShi IL ichSsbihSs
and shows that the world moves" When
the men who make the salvation of the Union
subordinate to the safety of negro slavery,
who think more of protecting the democratic
party organization than of putting down re-
bellion, and who will admit no means Of re-
storing the Union except through the restora-
ton to power of a party under whose admin
4 n.
brought into the very jaws of destruction,-
when such men are no longer tolerated by a
slave state convention, certainly Northern pa
triots may hold up their he ads and take cour-
age.