The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-02-26
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cold-to use the expressive warning Of
the gentleman from Kentucky7 What
is her crime? Love Of liberty, love Of
Constitution; that she has stood true to
her traditions, true to her teachings, true
to those God given instincts of human
liberty which have always marked tho
Yankee whercsoever you find him?
Why leave New England outy Because,
forsooth, her churches, her school hous-
e., her lyccums, her press, her great
patriotic heart, can never be brought to
/ fraternize with treason or with traitors.
/ Leave New England out of this Confed.
eracy in any reconstruction, and force
! Indiana, the State Of my adoption, into
the foul embraces Of the Southern Con-
federacv! Can that thing ever be ac-
complished? Before Indiana shall be
forced into the Southern confederacy tho
flames of civil war shall sweep that State
from the lakes of the North to the Ohio
river Before that can be accomplished,
her hundred thousand brave volunteers
now in the field will stand as wall of
fire between their cherished institutions.
their lo~ed homes, and the footsteps of
the invader.
Sir, this war has but begun, when gen.
tcmer talk Of a settlement Of boundaries;
of giving Us the navi CATION of the Mis-
sissippi under the guarantee. Of the
Southern constitution and the Southern
confederacy. We have the right to that
navigation now, by higher. far hi igher
right than the confcaeracy can ever
confer upon us, We have it guaranteed
by the physical geography Of the ccuu-
try, one of the great outlines marking
the existence Of united people, laid
down upon the map of the country, and
traced bv the finger Of God himself We
have it in the Constitution Of the United
States. 1t is ours. We ask it as no
boon. We demand it as a right and
more than a million Of free, brave hearts
in the west are ready to die in defense
= of that right Am to be forced, against
my will, upon reconstruction of the
Union, into the Southern coofederacy
Nc, SIR; we will fight and if we may
not find security under the flag, We shall
= at least find immunity from wrong and
oppression in the sacredncss Of the grave.
The contest will be fearful contest -
Whenever an attempt shall be made to
force the people of Indiana into the
Southern coutederacy, and it shall be
succcssful-a catastrophe which hope
God, in His infinite mercy, may avert
from me and mine-l shall seek a resi-.
dcncc still under the old flag, and in the
old Republic. Where liberty is, there
0 is my home will seek residence in
$ the most obscure village in New Eng.
u land where still floats ono shred Of the
c old hag, and there shall leave my bones
dying with the proud onsciousn ess
y that ono ,yraut shall ever trampIe upon
'o my ashes
'e Leave New England out, and why
v Because simply Of her fidelity to the Con
r. stitution and to the Union Another
y argument used to bring about the res ult
was this the people were told confinu-
't ally of cancellation and compromise and
& new guarantees What have we to con-
1 ciiate, and whom have we to concIlate !?
, Traitors in arms with their bayonets at
your throat, ready to destroy the Gov
ernmcnt, extorting from our fears and
> our weakness Cancellation that we refused
to give before the rebellion. Such con-
cilia,ion as this humiliates the North,
, humiliates tho whole people, ignores the
Q manhood Of that brave people whose
u provinces and courage have been illus
q trated upon hundred battle fields -
l. What is there to compromise . What Is
e there to guarantee ? You have already
G the guarantees Of the Constitution. You
e say you desire "thc Constitution as it is,
J. and the Union as it was Nothing can
y save the country, in the language of
" these gentlemen. but the Constitution as
it is and the Union as it was But If
;, you wish guarantees. you wish constltu-
II tiona guarantees. Then you do not want
% the Constitution as it is. You want the
Constitution amended. The Cons,ltu
is tion as it is not, is your medicine for
d, these evils. Sir, away with all talk of
,e cancellation, concession and compromise
rn There is in this day aud hour no way OF
"a permanent and honorable peace except
st through lbody war and deslslve victory
n | accept the way-I travel the path, lead
ii, it wheresoever it may. | have 10 con
a. cessions to make to traitors or to rebels
y | will consent to no compromise which
al changes one l,t,,r of the Constitution
h. will consent to 30 peace which changes
n, the geography of the country in the
ry slightest particular | am for the Con-
b. stitution as it was, and the supremacy o
re- the laws and the supremacy of the tiae
- over the whole country.
IN Gentlemen say we should offer terms
~ What terms Of peace have we to offer
If We ave offered them again and again
to If they would lay down their arms aud
re submit to legal and constitutional au-
'e thority, the war would end, and it can
is end 10 no other way Send your MESA
at gcs of peace and ministers of mercy when
1T they have five hundred thousand soldiers
al ready to destroy the Government