The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-08-18
HILLsDALE, MICH, TUESDAY, AUGUST ts, 1868.

persons, AMI that you would be authorized by
the constitution to resist them, would you
therefore be justified 10 organizing mob to
rule the country; while blood would flow 10
your streetsf You would fnd the officers of
the law and perhaps portion of the army
sent TO suppress ihe riot. Arms would be
used, and possibly peaceablo citizen would
be shot down BY this army. when il he had
reflected upon his duty 10 bis country, ho
would have been safe. This was the case in
New York. .re YsftsW Ia +.
And what is the origin af this resolution
1t was 10 prevent the soldiers being organized
to put down this rebellion. II these teachings
have caused such resolutions, ask il they are
not the teachings Of disloyal men9. Men who
are doing an Injustice to their country, wher
ever they are-to any country, whoever they
arei [Cheersl
Now, l want to know il any Urion speech
uttered in New York caused that rioti--
Would any such speech have melted iusurrec
tion in that mob but just sucl speeches a.
have been made in this city and ia papers Of
the same stamp--the papers that will publish
statements made by rebel instead of Union
soldiers, papers that will publish the fall Of
Vicksburg written by rebel inside.
AS for my part, I will advocate the interests
OF my country, and will leave no means un-
turned 10 effect her restoration. And then,
after the war is over, We will settle our politi
cal quarrels. And you will do that, and as
sist N encouraging tho cause of tho country,
we will have less politics, more war, and the
Union the sooner. (Thunders of applause J
This Government must be maintained at
all hazards, whether it be by war or 10 any
other manner, it must be lDaintained.-
(Cheers) Some may say that it is uuconsti-
tutiona 10 call out this army and prosecute
this war. These same mon, if they are old
enough, some Of them, at least, recollect
that there was once 10 this country man by
the name of Jackson. (Applause.) If they
DO, they remember that in 1882 j. G. Cal.
houn led party 10 South Carolina that nu !.
liled the laws Of the United States, and they
were about to Get up for themselves an inde
pendent Government.
Jackson was President at that time. On
the 10th Of December, 1882, he issued a
proclamation TO the people, and in bis conver
sations be declared that "by the eternal God
| will hang every traitor in this land unless
from opposition 10 the laws aud le Constitu
tion." (Appause.) This vas the doctrine
of Geo. Jackson, tho doctrine of Democratic
President, man Of nerve, man who would
sustain the constitution of his country. But
that was constitutional for Jackson 10 do. II
was constitutional for him TO proclaim to these
men that lie wou'd suppress the rebellion
aud that if they rebelled, he would compel
them to obey the constitution and law Of The
United States. If they did not, he would
with force Of arms suppress it, anl desolate
the land, or punish each and every one of them
by fitting upa gallows for them. And be
was endorsed as a man who was only carry.
ing out the Constitution of the country when
ho made t!.is declaration. (Cbcers.) What
was constitutional in one man was unconstitu.
tional in another-wbat was Democratic in
one man is the greatest piece of treachery ever
perpetrated on earth, in another. What is
right for one man 10 do is violation of the
good order and the peace of society, an insult
to tn, people and to Heaven, according 10 the
language of some men.
Now, my countrymen, want TO answer
some Of the objections made 10 this war and
10 Its prosecution, and | want 10 do it in this
way: DO you ever hear of any unconslitu
tionality on the part Of jeff. Davisf On the
part of Gen. Leoi (Cres Of "No.") On
the part Of Beauregard at Charleston p
Cries Of ("iu the 7imes;'') CT of any of these
men in the armies Of tho so called Confedcr-
ate Statesl l suppose you do not.
But these same men who are opposed TO
xyns aLa,.k 4 L. ,1.t.
of these proceedings; that we arc invading
their soil, dispoiipg their farms, and that it is
. violation of the constitution 10 do so. But
suppose the converse Of the proposition
will make it constitutional. That is, we are
trying TO enforce the Conscrption aud the Law S
ard bring these States back into the Union.
In trying 10 do that we use every means in
our power.
Ii this war in its prosecution is uncousttu.
tional, then the rebellion against the Govern.
ment is constitution. But we are attempting
to maintain the Constitution in putting down
this rebellion, or else we must maintain that
jeff. Davis and his men are doing so in trying
to destroy the Government. The Govern
Inent is right in prosecuting the war, and.
In using its force and its means in suppres,ing
not only the rebellion, but every rebel in the
land. (Applause) Or else we must agree
ttat the people who arc sustaining this war
are acting wrong, and if SO then they are ter.
ribly in the right. There are but two sides
to this question. Every man is either jeff
Davis man or Union mar. (Cheers.) A
man is either for the Constitution or against
the Constitu ion; for maintaining the laws OF
for mob law, riot and rebellion.
A man is either for the Constitution of the
United States or for the Constitution of JEFF.
Davis. Tremendous applause and cries Of
I" that's it.") Fa
care not what he calls himself, what
names he calls his party or anything else, be
cannot be loyal man, aud at the same time
interfere with the progress Of The Govern
ment in the suppression Of this rebellion
(Cheers.)
We find men in tho Country, and / an
sorry to know it, who cry peace when there
IS no peace. Not only 10 we fnd meu who
use every argument that men can uso who
have such iutellects as they exhibit; but we
ind men that disapprove tho war 10 every
possible manner; first, they traduce the pow
BIS that be; second they attempt at least to
ION nvipca tho v,,inJs IF tha raonIa that zach