The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-08-13

of it as having merit in it, because it
was no more than we should have done.
We carried hundreds and thousands Of
tuns (and so do other railroads) of the
collections that were made by the SOL
diers societies and sanitary commits
sions. We carried them free, and
more than that, we negotiated at the
end of our road for their conveyance
to Cairo, st. Louis, and other points
of destination. They were carried
free, and there was no merit in it, be-
cause the men for whom the contribu-
tions were intended, were protecting
our property from the inroads of Van
dals, who would have destroyed it if
permitted to invade us. Applause.
X X :; 4 X 4
WHO THREW THE FIRST BRICK IN
THE WAR.
! tell you, my friends, that here in
this city in 1856 was gravely and de-
liberately settled the question that it
was better for them to take four years
more, and to have a President and Cab
: met that they could use to weaken the
Government, and to break down the
Democratic party. Because my i'm
pressions on that subject at that time
amounted to convictions I could not
disregard, l would not vote for James
Buchanan. The history of that four
years shows that Just what these men
determined should come to pass did
F come to pass. You were plundered Of
, all the means OF defense which these
men could lay their hands on. The
arms were taken from your arsenal,
and not shot was left in your locker,
as the sailors say. 10 the extent that
they could get into your treasury they
stole, took and carried away to the ut
y most Of their capacity When they
had done all that, there was moro than
! one man who knew as he wended his
! way to Charleston, that there remained
, no hope Of anything but the disrup-
!. ton of the Democratic party. They
7 met you there. What did they ask ?
= They came forward and said we pre-
, sent you here a platform. What was
, it? That the old flag should carry sla-
very wherever it went-into all the
. territories, where slavery had never
7 gone beforehand where, by Gods help
1 it shall never come hereafter They
o wanted to carry slavery wherever the
y flag floated, without regard to whether
v it was State or territory; and moro
y. than that, that the right of transit
| should be secured-that through the
| State of Ohio they might lead whole
" troops of slaves. They claimed the
; right of transit through your free State
n n and even the right Of livingfor lin
" tied time here and holding their slaves
. in bondage They piled the agony toe
"a high. They had gone too far. They
" had been for fifteen years loading the
II Democratic party until its knees bent
Il and groaned under the load. They
;s had loaded us in Ohio until we nearly
~ - sank in the water. They had gone OF
y piling these things on us till we coult
I carry them no longer When they sale
q to the gentlemen in that convention
;s This is what we require of you, ther
" arose gallant man from the State o
., Ohio, who threw the gauntlet into thci
a teeth and told them you want us to pu
- our hands on our mouths and ou
70 mouths in the dust, but gentlemen W
in in will not do it. A voice, "that wa
o. o. Pugh."] Yes that was Mr., Pugh.-
,d In the most able and eloquent speecl
~ ~ of his life-one which started my bloo
I'd thrilling through my veins when rea
or m it-he told them ''lhus far shalt tho
N come and no farther" If there be on
7 T thing that more than another can b
ot marked as the first step that produce
to discord and led to this rebellion it wa
q. when my gallant young friend thrcN
Nv ~ the slogan of our Douglas into the ca
~ of these hotspurs. In common phrase
- my friend Pugh threw the first brio
~ in this war. What misfortune it
nn that one so brilliant so eloquent, an
w. so powerful should run the race he
", ~ running at this time. How bright an
~ green might have been his laurel
he m which by and by must fade away
q Applause,
ito These gentlemen turned on the
'ro heels on that declaration Of Northcr
al independence. They went away trol
10 that OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES it--becau'
i'd there had to be a pretext for this robe
aJ I lion. This rebellion was then in IL
m ~. very process of Inauguration. Thel
~ had to be a pretext for it. They sa
NO but one preteXt: that was to divide tt
w. Democratic party and by that divisic
.ed m compel the Northern States to elect
IN man by the electoral votesof the Mort
o1 ern States and put him in the PRESIDED
his tial chair. Then they would have ii
81; cry of sectional election to raise as
9so S pretoxt for the rebellion. Cody at
Tol T deliberately was that planned,
10 Charleston we must break down th
Ibo t Democratic party, we must dissolve
,ar we must 60 before the people with {
~ vided candidates and let them elect M
We Seward-for they all thought he wou
,ch be the man. .,..I
';er lar So it came to pass. Itcould not OF
nod nod erwise than come to pass. They foul
did did the opportunity. They knew t
aid Northern Democracy could not res
ved it. They knew-Geo E. Pugh knt
ant that it would not do for man re
md resenting the Northern Democracy
n take that platform at Charleston.
an. They knew it would not do to be