Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-04-22

IN your cheers when you saw, a revolution
which we never will acknOwle lge.-
Cheers Why, Sir, have been SO care
full in bringing down with great distinct
ness these distinctions? Because, in my
Judgment, there are certain logical conse
quences following from them rs naccsSa
rily as various corOllaries form Il problem
in Euclid. If we are ut war. as | think
with a foreign country TO all intents and
purposes, how can n man here stand uI
and say he is on the side of that foreign
country and not be AN enemy. Cheers.
A man must be either for his country oI
AGAINST his country. (Cheers.) lie can
l.Dt be throwing impediments all the time
in the way of the progress of his country
under pretense that he is helping some
other portion of his country. If a man
thinks that he must do something tc
bring back his erring brethren, if he likes
that form of phrase, at the South, let him
take his musket and 90 down and try il
in that way. (CheeIs.) IL he is still OF
a different opinion, and thinks that it Is
not the best way to bring them back, let
him 90 down with me to Louisiana, and
will set him over to Mississippi, and il the
rebels do not feel for his heartstrings,
but not in love, | will bring him back
| CHEERS, loud and prolonged. - Send
| Wood down first?") Let US say to him :
Choose We this day whom We will serve.
II the Lord thy God be Col, serve him
if Blal be God, serve We him. Cheers.
But no man can serve two masters,
God and Mammon. (''That's SOL
Again, there are other logical conse-
quences to How from this view which
70 tat of al
that il with regard 10 past political action.
If they are now alien enemies | am
bound to them by no ties of party fealty.
They have passed out of that, and think
We ought to go back "a moment and eX-
anime and see if all ties of party allie
glance and party fealty as regards them
are not brohen and that | am now to
look simply to my country and its service,
and leave them to look to the country
they aIe attempting to erect and to its
service. and then let us try the conclusion
between us. Mark, by this | gave up no
territory of the United States. Every
foot that was ever circumScribed on the
map 10y the lines around the United
States belongs to Us. "(Applause.l None
the less because bad men have attempted
TO organize worse governments upon var
ious portions of it. And it is to be drawn
in under our laws and our Government
as soon as the power of the United States
can be exerted for that purpose, and
therefore, my friends You see the next
set of logical consequences that must fol-
low : that we have no occasion to carry
ON the fight for the Constitution as it was.
(Cheers.) | beg your pardon, the Consti-
tuition as il is. Who Is interfering with
the Constitution as it IS? Who makes
any attacks upon the Constitution =
Who are fighting with those who have
gone out and repudiated the Constitu-
ton? (Cheers.) And now, my friends,
do not know but shall use some here
sy, but as Democrat, as an Andrew
jackson Democrat, am not for the Tn
ion as it was. (Great cheering. Good
Good n') | say as Democrat, and a
jackson Democrat, am not for the I'm
ion to be again as it was Understand
me; | was for the Union IS it was, be-
cause | saw, or thought saw, the trou-
bles in the future which have burst upon
US but having undergone those roubles,
having spent all this blood, and this trel-
sure, do not mean to go back and be
cheek by iowl with South Carolina as |
WIS bClOIt IL CdIi II. lSuNNIS.--
You're rightly Mark me now, let no
man misunderstood me, and | repeat lest
| may be misunderstood-ther are none
so slow to understand as those who do /
not want to-mark me, say | do not
mean to give up a single inch of the soil
of South Carolina. If | had been alive [
lt that time, and had had the position |
the will and the ability, | would have |
dealt with South Carolina as jackson did, |
and kept her in the Union at all hazards, /
but now she has gone out, and will take |
care that when she comes in again she |
shall come in better behaved; (cheers; |
that she shall no longer be the fire-brand /
Of the Union; aye, land that she shall enjoy |
what her people have never yet enjoyed, /
the blessings of republican form of gov
Applause. And, therefore,
N that view. am not for the reconstruc-
ion of the Union as it was. Yet l have
spent blood and treasure enough upon it,
n conjunction with my fellow-citizens, to
make it little better. Cheers. 1t was
,ood enough if it had been left alone
The old house was good enough for me.
Dut as they have pulled down all the l.
part, propose, when we build ii up, to
,uild it up with all the modern improve
nents. Prolonged laughter and ap-
,lause. Another of the logical conse
Iuences, it seems to me, that follow with
nexorable and ot-to-be-shunned course
lpon this proposition that we are dealing
With alien enemies, is in our duties with
egard to the confiscation of their prop
rty, and that would seem to me to be /
asy of settlement under the Constitu-
ion, and without any discussion, if my
inst proposition is right. Has it not
'een held from the beginning OF the
Torld down to this day, from the time
he Israelites took possession of the land {
f Canaan, which they got from alien en-
mics, has it not been held that the prop 4;
rty of those alien enemies belonged to |
he conqueror, and that it has been at
lis mercy and his clemency what should {
'e done with it? For one, / would take ;
and give the loyal man who was loyal
n the heart of the South, enough to !
make him as well as he was before, and |
would take the balance and distribute {
among the volunteer soldiers who have !
one the remainder of the sentence [
-as drowned in a tremendous burst of !
pplause.) And so far as | know them, 6
we should settle South Carolina with [
hem, IN the course OF few years {
hould be quite willing to receive her {
ack into the Union. Renewed ap- a
lause. That leads us to another prop {
sition: What shall be done with the
aves? Here again the laws of war have G
,Rg settled, with clearness and exact 1
ess, that it is for the conqueror, for the !
Overnment which has maintained or eX- I
ended its jurisdiction over the territory
} deal with the slaves rs it pleases, to t
zee them or not as it chooses. 1t is not f
" the conquered to make terms upon d
nat subject. Applause. Another cor |
Ilary follows from the proposition that L
e are fighting with alien enemies which 7
elieves from another difficulty that e
,ems to trouble some of my old Demo q
,atic friends; and that is in relation to e
ming the negro slaves. If the States .
len enemies, is there any objection that "
on know of, and if so state tito our ar P
ling one portion of the foreign country b
,ainst the other, while they are fighting b