St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-01-22

KNOW tuem SIl-PeF0Oualty anu Dy ,c0Stoc-
ter-have fought them for thirty years
aud / have lived in tie South among thor,
IT, 6hy.si11 Jsau., And, isdiss, uslihs
most Of yosr orators, ! amsnot afraid "a
announce ny age. I am tho more. willing
to do - from tho fact that have one xils
aud shs.is likely = oatliye any Of syoaal.-
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I.set ont With tho remark that tho ~
hellion was un.uthprissd. I..go further,
md declare that ws are in The midst Of
this wicked rebellion without even the api-
psasaneS o. an excuse. It's groand3ses
= any TINA, anywhere, ard under my
eiseunsAAceA as >. .....f j. ..r4s IL
Nov, q : llsk man, am bound 10
.aJ that yea bavs few men At the North
they Arc. net numerous-nevsr have
been-who aSitate, agitate, and always
h9ve sxitatcd the 81 etiastiog negro. They
arc IN educated class. They 40 cossci-
entioss and Intelligent: but they cars aaf
Aicted with aa incurable disease, whieh I
designate as nigger on the brain [Lasgh-
ter. It is the most terrible thing ID. the
world-nigger, on the brain. But these
men are not to blsme; il IL Ne Of the
South who are to blame. You must, lin
sist, regard me Is a Southern man. l
nsysr have been anything. else, and never
cansbe. Whist I say, here I have assertsd
at ths South, aad slw.Ss will, to my lat!
oat breath. A. rebellion We would have,
and I, pray God that He may nerve your
hearts till you drive these rebels from the
Peninsula, throush the cotton States, and
into the Gulf, AZ the devils did the hogs
into the sea. Laughter and applause.
I will call your attention to some faets,
figures and statistics, which l desile you
to treasure up when am gone, aud never
forget" Our government has existed, un-
der its present form, for the last seventy
i've yean. During that time. We have
held nineteen presidential elections. We
at the South, with: less than'l ksf. your
population at the, North, with less than
hs}f Jvu1 electoral votes, with half the
number of States-we at the South have
elected thirteen Presidents and you s;x
out of nineteen. re-eleeted Eve OF. our
men to second term-I mean Washing
ton, Madison, Monroe, Jefferson and Jack
sou-flling period Of forty years. We
have made it settled point, at the South
never to let = man north of Mason and
Dixon's line be elected a SECOND time /;
and you cannot point your finger to one.
We seized upon and appropriated some Of
your northern men, and we make mon
key's paws of them and pulled the
chestnuts out of the FIRE. The last
one we appropriated at the South
the last we appropriated, soul, body and
breeches, (laughter) was the immediate
predecessor of Abraham Lincoln, an old
public fanctionary who lives down in
Pennsylvania-the shabbiest, most sorry
and unworthy man of all who have been
elected Now, gentlemen. l know all
about this. II, when the Star of the lest
was fred upon, or if, when Fort Sumpter
was bombarded, he had sent an army: to
Charleston harbor, that would have been
the end of this deviltry. He knew how
things stood, but he dare not act. He
was . cats paw for Floyd and Thompson,
and the thieves who surrounded him. /
am sorry, ladies, that your husbands, and
sweethcarts, and brothers found it in their
hearts to put such 4 man as James Bu-
chanan in the Presidential chair. You
know that man who has lived in this
sorry, sin-strieken' world Of ours for eighty
years and upwards, aud never married :
vile or courted woman is not fit for wolf
bait. (Laughter.) $780,.
But there was no occasion for rlunging
this country into var. The pretext of the
Southerners was that they had been de-
prived of their rights. OF what rights :?
The right to carry their negroes into the
Territories. They always had = right to
carry their negroes into any territorywhere
the soil and climate would make slavery
pay. But they have only been excluded
from the soil that Was not worth their cul-
tivating.
The North came and helped US to make
= fugitive slave law, 30 that Our slaves
might be returned. The North came very
generously, to help annex Texas, out "t
which We expected to carve Eve or six
magnificent slave States. The North,
very generously, but very wrongly, aided
the: South to repeal tho Missouri Com
promise line. I fought it from the word
go and shall always fight it. It was At
tie bottom Of = good deal Of the deviltry
We see now.
;" But, gentlemen, We have intended, At
the South, for moro shau thirty years; to
break up this government. It has not
been the negro, question that has troubled
Us. We have been sick and tired Of a Re-
publican form Of govern ment, and wished
to Introduce Z monarchy !; and l hspe, BY
Gods blessing and the strong arms Of: oar
soldiers, W will give them, monarchy till
they are sick, Of it. (Laughter.)
When South Carolina passed : secession
ordinance, Barnwell Rhett, and the prom
inent men sud tho first men Of the State
annouoced that now their eyes; ike old
Simeon i, had seen The salvation Of the
Lord-what they had been trying for dur