Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-03-04


ae or voted down no provoking question
1t was opened at the word of comman
al and closed at the word of command
'e Loud laughter and cheers.) And VIII,
Ie the business was through they were {
N dered to go, and they did not stand lpC
e the order of their going.
e l Ike such meetings as that, and hoI
o they wall be held in every county i'm Ke
= lucky; and there is only one thing mo
Y l ask, and that is to send Colonel Gilbe
o TO preside. Loud laughter and cheers
t My friends, in a time of profound peac
when the laws have their full operation
I why If single freeman in the Unite
= States had been arrested by the order ,
I the President, if he had been taken
e Fort Lafayette, or any other fort,
would have cut every one of us to tl
: bone; yet we have seen without indign,
ton, and as far as | am concerned. wit
a great deal of satisfaction, great man
} traitors arrested, and prevented from dc
ing any further mischief. Cheers
am lawyer, and have been STUDYING la,
all my life. have read statute book
upon the laws from Magma Charta to tn
present time; | have talked about ha
beas corpus long time, but ! never hay,
shed any tears upon the imprisonment o
Or. Olds, or any other traitor. | have
more tears to shed for one poor soldier
who has fallen in this conflict, than 70,
all the traitors who have been shut up in
prison. Loud cheers And here lei
me say, II Is because we are in a state OF
war, It Is because upon the issue of this
conflict rests the salvation of our country
that the Constitution may be broken
that the country may be saved. ICheers. J
Lhat Is the great questionable safety of
the republic. Why sir, suppose the Con-
stltutlon has been broken by this Admin
lstratlon-I do not say it has-what of
that! About two years from this time
we can turn them all out. Two wears
from this time we can carry on the Con-
stltutlon as we Ike it to be carried on
1T 1t has been broken we can patch il.
and make it all right, and you will scarce
ly be able to tell where the seams were
but if the national existence be DESTROY
ed if the republic be discovered: where
Is the medicine tlIat will cure that. where
the glue, made by Spaulding or or any
other man, that will restore thats Bnt
they tell us-these Constitution-loving
Democrats-that the Constitution must
be carried with the war, and that the war
must be carried on just as the Constitu- |
ton provides. Now give it to YOU for
which you may use in talking
10 those who say that if the war cannot
De carried on according to the Constitu-
ION, It shall not be carried on at all, even
the country is lost. The Constitution
ays that every man found in arms against
ne United States, every one that levies
var, and every one that gives aid and sus-
enanoe TO its enemies, shall be hung
Tremendous cheering.) | wonder ifI
hese Constitution-loving Democrats
would consent to the hanging of all the
,outhern rebels, and perhaps some of
heir own number along with them9 II,
Tonder if they blame Mr.. Lincoln in
hat he had not followed out the consti-
ntional injunction to hang all the rebels? E?
tut honest Abraham has not hung them. s
instead OF hanging them he shuts them {
P IN place Of security, and these tax
n with arms in their hands he exchang- !
5 for honest and true men. That is how '
'e pledged to carry on the war for the
constitution and the preservation of the G
mon. Anle Of the most prafuUnd phil If
SopReES al modern times says that there i
not nation on earth but has, at some G
me or other, in order to preserve itself. | t
cen found to violate its fundamental j
.Ws. (Ories OF 'tgood, "and cheers. 1T
hen again, these peace Democrats tell Ey
that they do not want to carry on this
ar, because it is costing 100 nacp mon /
2; u Is going TO take too much money ty
} save this Republic; it is not worth / i
hat it costs..' And great many weak "
need Union men seem 10 think that we ly
e all tending to universal bankruptcy, d
1d that pncle Sam never viii be able TO Il
aY, and they de everything they can to f
ePreelate the gFeenbacks, and every
,rm of credit which the GOVERNMENT Aas
cen obliged to resort to. Bat it dee= y
OF scare me. ! haze hyed TOO long in Ii
hio, and seen too much Of its prosperity, C
, be frightened. Our Secretary of War e
Iys it reaches S600,000,OO0. But taking q
at one thousand MILLION of dolIars-and {
! the course of two years it may run up '
} two thousand million of dollars-what i
that? Look at the statistics of" the v
nited States, and notice the increase of @
ealth. We increased from twenty thou q
nd millions to twenty nine thousand 5
illions in period of ten years; and we t
e earning every year surplus wealth, n
to our statistical tables. at least b
Thousand million of dollars a year,
hich is as much as carried or this var b
r two years. What are these thousand IN
lillion dollars, that a nation like ours c
iould be afraid Of? In a few days, !
ould undertake to pick out, In the Y
nlted States, without going to the South b
n Confederacy, two thousand men, out
the twenty-three millions, who can L
ny the whole debt of this country ST
cheers. Let me tell you fact, of the o
ate of affairs here in Ohio, that | veri- o
I'd myself on Saturday last. | took up b
le report Of our Auditor for the year P
ia, and what do you suppose the whole n
Tepue was IN 1915 1t was exactly a
200, all told. What is it now q Il
ore than 100000. We are receiving, lie
the way of revenue, $50 where we re- fc
lived 81 in 1915, and the rate of increase IL
the revenue of Ahia, in less than fifty b
'ars, Is such that 1t is more than 5000 B
II cent than it was in 1916. So much II
r this data. But then they say, I'VE
n never conquer the South" What
they conquer us 2
They say you can never conquer eight
illions Of people; why then, eight mill =,
ms can not conquer tWenty-three mill =
rs. But we can conquer them we are 81
st conquering them. But they tell us, 10
ii they never live with us; they are Il n
stinct race. The South distinct race /.
I'm US? They belong to higher order =,
human nature Laughter they won't Z,
e with US. How is it they have lived q
tn US for so years land have never q
en- a rich belle in the North who was .,
derstood to be in the market. that 1e
ere were not a dozen of the Southern
livalry after her. Loud laughter. We is
: one people, more alike than many of h,
e people of the different countries of Z
gland; we are homogeneous and so
from hating us with this mortal, un- in
nquerable hatred they tell US of, they nj
Il come back, for we do not conquer Ie
am to subjugate them we ask them to m
le seat af the same table with US II
a. a d - -. r