The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-09-23
TEaE SPEECHES OF
Col. Anderson and Gov. Dennison
At the Rauenna Mass Meeting September II.

The speaker began, without preface, to
show our sacred and bounden duty to support
the so-called Union party--in reality no party
at aIl-but gathering of true hearts banded
to save our countrysfrom peril such as never
menaced it before, and such as God grant may
never menace it again. What is this peril !?
A nation of unparalleled prosperity and the
highest eiyihzation is now divided, not mere
" by feeling the most rancorous, but by civil
war assisted by every appliance that veno-
nous hatered can devise What is the cause?
To answer this question we must go back to
the record of former conspiracies aud conduct.
These men are waging desperate war with our
fathers, brothers, sons. We must look back
and e-read their history. +
They didn't revolt because of any morbid
resentment against the vituperation of por-
ton of the North The rebellion is no tu-
multuous popular excitement under, any pre-
text 1t was calmly and cody plotted. We
must understand this and then when the lea
der of the British democracy comes to Nou
with peace propositions you will know their
purpose and effect 1t was their deliberate
purpose to change our form of government,
to break down our popular government be-
cause it interferes with slavery, their all in ALL
and establish despotlsm at once more dark,
deep and cruel than any that the pages of his
tory have uuIolded. Such was their frequent
avowal to me. The X. G. C.'s wanted a
monarchy, a nobility and an established
church, claiming that we must go back to the
"normal institution of mankind. The CO.
adjuturs of Vallandigham wanted to preserve
the form of arepublie but to dehase our gov
ernment into an oligarchy. They were de-
feated hy their own insane ambition and not
content with the substance of power which
they had held for eighty years, they wanted
its shadows and shows, aud attempted, like
Cataline, to gain by sword and torch wha,
the wiles of politics did not afford them.
Their gov ernment is founded on Slavery
So their greatest mar, Vice President Ste
phens,, frankly tells US. Ii is indeed an oil
garehy-the ruling of the many by the few.
/ IL is an oligarchy founded on property-the
most cruel, dark and flithless of all oli@ar-
chies, and, worst of all, it is founded on only
one kind of property, to the exclusion of all
others-the very dupilable property in the
/ blood, flesh, bone, sinew, breath, soul, life o.
/ fellow men-callcd slavery.
The speaker here referred to his own per
sonal experience and situation in the South
where-'' breeder Of another kind of ami
mals-of horscs'-he was forced TO yield hi,
social aud political claims to the Slave oligar
I chy, and see his State DISTINGUISHED, or fly
North.
The rebels hold that our fathers were mis-
t taken. This was the teaching of Brooks
/ now gone to his long and hot account
/ laughter with Floyd and Yacey. I i'm
ag Satan below there stirring up the Goals
/ for them. Laughter They think ou
fathers and Washington and Jefferson yer,
weak. They know better down ii, Charles
| tori called it Sodom yesterday hy mistake
but the mistake wasn't great, for Charleston il
worse than Sodom. Applausc. Gilmor
has has 1T in his power now [ApplaGse] and
hope soon to hear that he has RACED it,
want Charleston to be as Sodom has been 70
twenty-five hundred years. Cheers.]
wait each brick reduced to- sand 1 want tn
! city leveled and sown with salt so that theme
there shall never grow grass nor rise humani
ty again. Great Applause. am an oil
school Presbyterian now. 1 believe in th
place of which Calvin TALKS. Laughter. +
Z My only fear is that it will notbc long enough
or hot enough to do justice to these traitors
/ Cheers and Laughter.
The speaker then went into an able an
thorough historical review of Calhoun's com
plants against the ordinance of 1887, show
ing their utter absurClity. He then reviewe
the clause in the Montgomery Constitution
H
Congress, showing what IA tremendous powe
it gave to slaveowners and large slaveheldin
States He went on to stare that motion
were made, and We're certain of passage in h
; rebel Congress for amendments 10 their Cor
stitution, giving full representations for a
slaves, prohibiting the admission of any bu
slave States, and forbidding any State I
change It's Constitution so as to forbid slave
ry. This is State Sovereignty with veDgt
auce! The speaker stated some surprsin
and startling facts in respect to the open bribe
rv in elections at the South. He showed tn
. insuperabe Obstacles in the way of peac
which would result in continual jealousy an
watchiulncss ard in the maintenance of stanc
ing armies which would be fatal to our libel
ties. Rather than tlla-. let US fight till thel
is 10 slave left, nor any man. woman, or chill
to oppose our government. Applause.
The speaker then proceeded to demonstra
that if slavery were abolished the slav,
would never come North, as they are onl
driven here by slavery, and that, if we sep
rate, the Nloie tendency of things will dril
The restless and freedom loving to the Mort
thus showing the utter folly of the cry again
3 emancipation because it will oversoek OF
f market with negro labor. He defined his p
| sition on the slavery question. He had e
dtt1ed slavery and not loved If, ard TOW tn
: it was out from under constitutional irote
tion he was willing to fight it TO the death.
Gov. Dennison was introduced by Jud;
Day with few felieitous reinarks, and gree
!, ed by cheers, after which he spoke as fo
: lows: @
My FELLow-CITIzENs wllnot attem
to express the feelings which your kind r
ception has created within me- | came he
less to make a speech than to see assemtl,
so many of the loyal people Of Portage cou
4 ty. | congra ulate. you on behalf of yo
t country, that You have assembled here to-ds
: in such immense numbers I need not S;
}, that you have Performed a duty lly less in
e portant than that of the soldiers in the fiel
h who stand between you and the hosts of yo
: enemies While, they are protecting Il
e country against the enemy in front and fightil
: for your benefit, it is emphatically your du
: to project the soldiers as well as the count
!, from the enemy in the rear
Y It was my privilege in 1859 to address
n portion of the citizens of, the Reserve on p
It litical topics. | came then as a party ma
: representing the Republican party. But
d have the satisfaction of coming before you t
it day in the name of my country, and not
party, representing no doctrine Of party,
a There is now no party that receives my su
d port but the party of the Union, the party
If the Government and of the Constitution.
most cordially strike hands with every o.
e who will stand by the army and the Cover
If mei1t. But have no fellowship with al
e one who would withhold support, and tn
g break up the army that is now defending co
i stitutional liberty / agree fully with n
d Douglas, when he said that, in a contest Ii
II this, there can be but two partes-patric
II and traitors. I care not by what name tr,
.. tors call themselves. If they are not stan