Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-08-07
MORNING TRADER.
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lougA, his hrst absence from the oi |
since he Joined it He represented South !
ern Illinois in Congress was lifelong
Democrst, personal friend and supporter |
o. Douglas. Last week he made a great
speech at earbondale, Illinois, to an audi |
ehee Of three thousand, nine-tenths'of them
old Democrats. he spoke three hours,
and vas listened to with unhagging inter
est. BE denounced with eloquenee and
force the traitors and COpperbeads Of the
North. The speech win have great effect.
We present the following extract giving
his views Of mobs, the Proclamation, the
Abolition war, and q the Union as it was.'
Said he:
HIfI was President l would have no
mobs. The first man that raised his hand
to resist the law, would hang 20 the first
tree or lamp-post. 1 don't blame the Pres
ident for being more lenlent; only say
what I would do.
"When the rebel prisoners started cut
Of Vieksburg, after being paroled, they
hsd one and a half days ratiOns. Next
day 1000 of them came back, and said
they were tired Of pea bread, and wanted
to look to the Lord, and be dismissed.
1.-THE creoles we're great men in Vicks-
burg. We used to call them niggersi but
the rebels employed them and called them
creoles. For the lie Of me I couldn't see
the difference. Hair decidedly kinky, and
SO on. i
HIdon't care what the President does, if
ba viii on1v mt down the rebellion. If he
could send elephants TO trample down the
retels, would cay, amen And all OF you,
my friends, would feel as do, if you had
been down there Here men will hurrah
for JEFF. Davis, and revile our Government
If arrested, What do you think would be
done with them if they went down South
and hurrahed for Lincoln or the Union 2
Let me tell you. Sixty men were in jail
in Vicksburg for hurrahing for the Union,
one man, sixty years old, an Irishman,
simply because he said he thought Grant
would take Ficksburg. Some men had
been confined in Jackson Jail more than a
year, nearly rotten with filth and disease,
because they had voted for the Union.
81 want to say something about the
Proclamation. How will it affect the peo-
ple in the South2 By the laws OF war, all
Down there they call horses and niggers
property-all the same-and Of course they
both must be eonhscated. Suppose it is
Unconstitutional to take their properly,
how can it be remedied2 Let the rebels
lsy down their arms, and try the question
in the courts, and al will abide by their
decision. It is question easy to try; and
BY the courts-is the only way in which it
can be tried. If gentlemen are 30 fearful
for the rights of the rebels and won't 90
to the courts, why let them go to-the
devil.
l irFhe rebels have been locking after
their rights for two years, and they seem
to be getting them just now, and he hoped
they would continue to get them in the
SANE l0Gy.
HBut many call this an Abolition war,
because the niggers are all running away
from their masters, and come and stop
with as. But there they are wrong. If
the enemy's horses come over to our side, |
we keep them, as contraband Of Wsr-same |
Of negroes. If the rebels really want to
ssVe their negroes, let them stop fighting. |
This old cry about stealing nergoes is |
played out, and the men in the North who |
talk about it are unmiGgated demagogues
snd Copperheads-no mistake about it.
The negroes. come to us of their own free
will, but the rebels steal and carry them
of, and sell them in Georgia and Texas
and pocket the money. tell you that
the rebel army can steal twenty negroes
where the Federal army would steal one
and more too. That army goes ahead and
steals all that do not escape, and when our
army comes along, a few poor refugees
will come and pray US to take them away
from being sold by the rebel thieves down
in Georgia or Texas, which states all ne
groes fear. We thus act according to law;
the rebels do not. There are not fifteen
negroes in Mississippi, outside the Feder-
al lines, who can eat hard bread. This
is a positive fact and if you were 10 take
8 vote to day of the women and children
in Mississippi and Louisiana, they would
declare emphatically that they want no
more negro property. They were sadly
demoTalized by the rebel army, and our
army has made them-no better That in
Of slavery is utterly worthless,
Ehsther the rebels gain their indspend-
ence or not. II
There is a great change taking place
IN the issues presented to you. The test
men will befound who viii be compelled to
defend their loyalty. 1t was so after the
Revolutionary War, and it always will be
70; fer only men who are true in war can
1e depended on. Some ask Why should we
this war unless we can restore
he Government as it was They say If .
We believed we could get the Government
'sck We would be in favor Of prosecuting
he war. Well who proposed to change
he Constitution Is the srmy2 Are the
,eople2 Is anybody fighting for the Con-
Ititution as it is not ? Well, but we want
{ just as il was, Well, how was that
'outh Carolina belonged to us-was part
4 our country. Laws were made for al,
md all were under the laws. When she is
whipped and comes back, won't we have
he Constitution as it was, and the Govern
lent as it was, except that somebody will
e badly licked May be you want some
hing else. May be you want the people
8 they we're. If you want Davis and
combs, and old Slidell, and all those hell
ounds and traitors back in the Govern
lent, 1 an opposed toit. N
There is where propose to switch
&. So help me God 1 an for hanging
hem as soon as caught.
1T isga deception. We can't make L
aings just as they we're. We can't get the
ountry as it was. viii the lives of our r
oys be restored; and the traitors too;
ouses and railroads rebuilt2 We cannot D
ave erything just as it was, but We can
ave every essential feature. We can n
ave things just as they ought to be. If u
ais wont satisfy you, can't help it.
IOvememt in Behalf Of the Cnprfves ef
the massachusetts 54th.
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