The mountain Democrat., 1863-06-13

opportunity OF giving credit Tor 1t where
it belongs.
During the canvass which resulted in
Mr.. Lincoln's election, there were some
very remarkable speeches made, the MEM
ory of which it is now not very conve-
nient to retain, even though facts are ver-
flying them. Among them, of course,
was Mr.. Lincoln's, that a nation could
not be part free and part slave, which, in
more ways than one, he is doing his best
to verify. But there were others from
men who A>>e o>IpNosed TO measure SneIr
words more accurately. Two ! will recall
Senator Seward spoke at Lansing, in
Michigan, in October 1860; and, then it
was, be uttered and emphasized the re.
markable opinion that the Army and Ma
Wy of the United States-tbe regular ar
my-was a nuisance. a deformity, an ex-
crescence, that ought to be got rid Of
That army, which alone has protected
Secretary Seward in his snug office at
Washington, was TO be cut down, reduced,
diSbanded, because, said he, lit had only
been used to protect slavery and capture
fugitives." This was bad enough. But
the compliment of the suggestion is to be
found in another speech made about the
same time, in Philadelphia, by Mr.. Fran
els P. Blar--then a member Of Congress,
now Major General by Mr.. Lincoln's
appointment, and brother of Mr.. Lincoln's
Postmaster-General. Adopting the same
idea Of getting rid of the regular army,
he proposed substitute, and suggested
that the regulars-the enlisted soldiers
hereafter should be found in the emanci-
pated negroes Of the South. In other
words, he recommended Sepoy army
And this, too, is being verified. Gentle
men, | can recall the horror with which
read this Infamous suggestion at the time
it was made. 1t has not abated yet. |
had just returned from regions where this
mode Of mercenary employment of an
alien race--alien in color, in passions, in
instincts, in intelligence-had brought
forth its natural fruits. left America
for the far East in the summer of 1867,
and returned in 1859. When | left my
own country, the whole world, except at
one spot in China, was at peace; but as
reached that continent about whose breed
the fanatics of our day care so much, (for
heard Of it at the Cape of Good Hope
there came up a wall of agony from the
Eastern World, of white men and women
murdered and mutilated and ravished by
black men in uniforms-from Cawnpore
and Delhi-that fingers yet in my ears
and haunts my dreams. And such is or
will be the negro army which is to super
cede our regular soldiers and to aid to
conquer the South. This is the army
which Mr.. Lincoln's Secretary of State
and his Major General think is to suhju-
gate our brethren. saw a printed letter
a day or two ago from Mr.. w. ID. Kelley
to Blockley negro, in which he says:
The field of operations for this class of
troops negroes will be chiefly in the Gulf
States, where they will in few months consti-
tute the great bulk, if not the whole of our
army"
And this is conquest-this is the awful
success which the Administration promi-
Ses US, if We will only give them money
and men enough to carry on this war.
But | am mistaken. They don't ask US
to give them money and men. They find
the good old rule more convenient,
-" The simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.'
Congress not only taxes heavily the
whole community as to which, being the
exercise of lawful power, don't con-
plan-but, by its legal tender device, it
vitialeS the currency and disturbs every
relation of society, destroying public as
well as private credit, and by its new con-
law enters every house in the
land, and enrolls and forcibly enlists to
fight in this weary war every adult man
who has been left at home. This is cen.
tralization and the application of Federal
power TO individuals in the green. What,
| ask, will it be in the dry ?-and what
becomes of the reserved rights Of the
States what becomes of their capacity
to protect themselves against danger, for
eign and domestic, when every man and
every dollar are absorbed elsewhere?
1t is in view of this absorption Of power
at Washington, that have no more doubt
than | have that tonight will succeed to-
day, that there is settled, well-conSider-
Land, according to my views, most pest
ilent design to establish in the fragmenta-
ry North, a poor consolidated nationality,
operating, by its legislation, directly on
without regard to State rela
tons and duties. The acts of the recent
Congress are tentative--arc experimental
on the endurance of the citizens OF the
States, and if they are accepted as within
the Constitution, or obeyed through with
out it, you may call the form of govern
ment what you plcase--it is de facto rev.
Mr.. John Van Buren,, in one
of his late speeches, said, with character
istic levity, though more than ordinary
discretion, that though he did not know
enough Of the measures of the late Con
gress to express an opinion about them,
he supposed "they were all right" and
that they did make Mr. Lincoln "some-
thing like a Dictator" But he knows,
and if he don't, l know, and every man in
the land knows, who reads newspaper,
that Congress has tried to nationalize
everything--haS issued legal tender notes
emitted Continental currency for the
first time since the formation of the Fed
eral Government, in the face of all author
ity, Legislative and judicial, and enabled
and instigated every dishonest debtor in
the land to use it to defraud his creditors
-tainting the very credit which it repre-
sents, by aboriginal fraud, end foreshad-
owing the reputation which such indebt-
edneSs renders inevitable. 1t makes you
and me take the paper and refuses to re.
ceive it itself. 1t pays the poor soldier
his thirteen dollars in paper, and if with
those paper dollars he wants to buy little
tea or coffee, it won't take paper from him
for duties. This is one exorbitant act.
This is not all. Congress has virtually
stricken down all State Banks, and is try
ing to build on the ruin huge system Of
what it calls free banking, by which credit