, 1864-11-04

loyal because we think the white man little
better than the negro. In such a condition !
left my family-the guerillas prowling around,
and they tell US if the goyernmenttakes our ne
groes they have right to take odr horses
Fellow-citizens, address you with the free
dom of an old soldier, and feel that might re-
gard myself as a watchman on your towers -
And l could desire, when you ask me "Watch-
man, what Of the nightP' that | could answer
"Alls well; sleep on; let your babes rest in
quiet" But now, since despotsm has taken
charge of the country, and everything is disre-
garded except the will of one man, if am asked
now, sWntchman what of the night2' must
answer "Alrs ILL.," Yes, sir, l tell you all's i'll
now, unless we arouse ourselves before the
ae wn f2So wS thei defense of the principles of
civil liberty it will be i'll with us, and those sa-
cred principles will be lost forever to US. There
fore it is that come here to speak to you of the
principles of constitutional liberty, and to de-
nounce the advance of despotsm in the admin
stration of one man. More than eighteen hum
dred years ago Rome governed by three
men in the end of that republic.
One was Augustus Caesar another Mark An
thony, and the other a noble Roman. They
were all of noble blood. And we, too, have
now our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Stanton, and
Halleck; but, unfortunately, neither of them can
boast very high descent. | speak with pro-
found respect of the powers that be. (Laugh-
ceeded to Rome an Emperor that could fiddle
and dance when their city was burning We
have also our Emperor, Lincoln, that can tell
his stale Jokes whilst the land is running red
with the blood of our brothers and sons
And must this be received CLEAN of glory
in the future of our country2 We read in an
cent history of the siege of the great city of the
Hebrews, and that whilst Titus was daily bat
tering down their walls, the factious Jews were
quarrelng among themselves every night. Bnt,
for Gods sake, don't let us be like the Jews,
quarrelng among ourselves, and devouring one
another in these times of the extremity of i'm
perilled institutions of freedom. For myself, |
am old-time Henry Clay Wing, Ny father
was Whig; and expect yet to die National
Whg. But at the same time tell you all here,
if you proceed to nominate a Constitutional
Union man for President, though he be Demo-
crat, will vote for him. | am an old Baptist
too, baptised all over in running water, yet, If
you nominate a Sprinkler, and he be otherwise
Constitutional Union man, will vote for him
for all that. daughter and applause. Shall |
tell you, gentlemen, what further we have had
in Kentucky to make us tired of military rule.
1t was but two days before our late August cleo
ton that a military commander in our State is
sued an order that of or candidates for
Judge of the Court of Appeals 1--WE had but
two candidates. should not be a candidate, and
we submitted under the stress of bayonets
But we rallied and nominated another gentle
man and succeeded. and elected him over the
negro candidate. (Applause.) l mention this
in view of the fact that we have another cleo
ton next November, and will vote then-as we
did in August and carry our candidate by all
our thousands. Sir, | am freeman. j will
vote. Why not2 1t is my right. Do not think
| will fail to exercise my right | will vote or
die. And Kentucky viii vote next November,
aud will carry the nominee of next Monday
4 ~. IT,
bounded applause.) We will do it, and report
ourselves at the national headquarters in
good order. And those men who have been op-
pressing and running the country will be driven
TO their mountains, and they will call upon the
mountains to- fall upon them and hide them
from the fierce indignation of the people,
Gentlemen, cannot but warn you against
their negro enamel patton policy. If they free
the slaves, you will have to feed them. You
are bound to take them here in Illinois. l want
to send my share of them into Illinois to Mr..
Lincoln to support. They won't work, they
will eat and do nothing else. And at the same
time you will be bound to pay taxes You will
be taxed upon everything pertaining to life and
business. You cannot draw or pay out money,
but you will have to pay tax for it. You will
be overwhelmed with taxation, besides the care
of the negroes and what time you will have of
it, for they winnot work, or if they do, it will
be for half the compensation of the white man,
and he in the shade half the time.
Gentlemen, when was invited to speak here
tonight, l felt that could not, and you per-
ceive we'll enough that with this wind in my
face, have no voice for so large hearing, l
have done what | could. This is great con-
federacy of States, and it is your part, gentle
men, to see that under laws, each State shall be
kept in its own sphere. Let each man kiss his
own wife, and nobody ese's wife, and let each
woman whip her own children. l will close
what have to say in old couplet, changing
two words rr
'Far more joy Mcclellan exiled feels,
Than Lincoln with Senate at his heels"