St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-01-22

,M, 1905.
to 60 out. Pryor telegr.phed to his con
stituents, at the time Of the session Of tht
peace Congress ia Washington, that Nv.
can get the CritteDden compromise if vi
want it; Int We do not want it. We in
tend to break up this internal government
anyhow /; and, 10 matter what the Nortt
may concede to us, or agree to do, we Dc
Enot intend to be satisfied With anything
The South will leave" '@,'
7 jndge Douglas: the gallant little Sena:
tor overheard Southern member say
that they intended to break up the gov.
ernment and. he exposed him by name
from his Seat, and the Southerner darei
not dsry it. He overwhelmed him. Who
was that Southerner' will tell you
II was that notorious bypocrite, that chiel
Of villains, that old, glandered, Daughter
ldistempered, passionate sway -oacked
whisky-rotten jeems NJ. Mason, Of the
State Of Virginia. 7 know him we'll
have known him long !; and I declare him
before you, the butt cut of original sin.
Qaughter) the upper crust Of all political
nastiness; and; had l boen the govern.
ment Of the United States at the time bic
and John Slidell were placed on board 4
British ship, to be taken to Europe as
Ambassadors of the Southern bogus con-
federacy, 1 would have tied grind.stone
around each Of their internal necks, and
cast them overheard, as John, Hancock
did tho tea, into Boston harbor.
We-have intended to break up the gov:
ernment-1 tell you, We have intended it
for thirty years, and this trouble had to
come. Had John C. Breckinridge been
elected. instead Of: Abraham Lincoln, We
should have had none of this trouble, not
q bit of it. The programme Of that party
was to quietly administer the government
while they manufactured all the rifles and
muskets they could in all the mauufacto-
ries ofthe United States. They intended
to make all the ships and transports at
the navy yards: aud, at the end, Of, the
four years, they would have seized all the
Tes7 have sad s1Gwea s EPn nSk ha tag,
their programme: and, if it. had been car
ried out; you would hsye. been without
arms, without ships, without money, aud
with nothing huts mem when: tiis war
broke out; and you >may thhank your God, ),
upon these Fair Grounds; and 7 thank
Him for You; that The: war has been in
augurated under, . more patriotic, smore
hi Oh minded mar than John G. Breckin-
rid dge ever. Or; could be, unless his God
should n.ake him over again; and God
Almighty will rever undertake such q
job al that. (Laughter.J
A great deal has been said, aud they
desire me to say a word or two upon the
emancipation proclamation of the Presi-
dent. Now, I set out by saying that am
Southern man. As the Breckinridge
papers in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New
jersey, have stated that sm not say
plainly that I am Southren man out and
out, aud have been mixed up with; the in
stitution Of slavery all my life, and never
had any conscientious scruples about it
either. l stand before you to say that the
proclamation, though it can have no i'm
mediate effect at the South, because We
cannot even enforce a revenue or postal
law the,e-but the proclamation endorse.
I am here to-day for the purpose Of endor-
sing Lincoln's emancipation proclamation,
[applause,] ] for this reason-that it will
unite the North; and you haven't been
united and the rebels have because the
rebels have no principle at stake and,
when you put them to the wall, they in
tended to have issued proclamation Of
universal emancipation, and demanded the
protection of England aud France; aud I
am glad that Old Abe has taken the wind
out Of their sails. CApplause.] Slavery
is gone up institution: This war will
make it so. There cannst be man with
thimble full Of brains laughter] who
don't know that it will put down the in
stitution of slavery. That will 90 down.
l can better illustrate it by giving a homely
auecdote from the West. Two of my
ueighbors went out hunting, and one Of
them took dog; aud be hadn't gone far
when he found \ skunk. He ran the
skunk into hollow log. He WINS igno-
rant Of the properties Of the essence ped
Ter. He soon had to evacuate: The 9TH
CT neighbor came up; and, from the state
of the atmosphere, knew how matters
stood. Said he. "Neighbor, have you
killed it :" "Kiiled the devil! Let the
id thing alone, and it will stink itself
to death" [Laushter.] b the time
this war is over, slavery will have stunk
itself to death. .-'",.~.. -.,
Gentlemen, you have no conception, in
this country, from all the newspaper read
ing, and other information you get-ycu
still have no just conception Of the hor-
rors of this war down South. You are
pursuing your avocations as usual TITS
true you begin torealize that you lose your
cons, and husbands; and friends but,
gentlemen, allow me to say g you, not by
Ny Of reproach, that it is ~ easy matter
70 live here 10 Michigan, and be q Union
man but Z tell you it costs s man his
nank hia life: and his propertv, and all,