The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-30
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censured in the late Federal House
Representatives for his we'll know
speech in favor of States Rights, and
Peace, has had grand reception
home, in the Cd Congressional Distri
of Ohio--the Cincinnati District I'll
assemblage on the occasion was yer
large, and exhibited u great deal of al
lasasc fer their Representative. M
Long was introduced by the Hon. Wn
Cory in very eloquent address; an
Mr. l.. made to the people, his auditors
one of the boldest, il not the very bold
est, speech yet pronounced on Northern
soil, since the war began. In his speech
in Congress he declared that he had rattle
see the Southern States Independent
than TO see their people, men, womel
and children, eXterminated In hi
speech u his constituents he put tn,
question more pointedly and positively
Sd follows
Ahas tHtir 10 no otIeT alternative IN This
war than sui jpgation and determination @
the Southern people on the one hand, or Thu
recognition OF their Confederacy on iht
other, Is beyond question; and how can an,
sensible, humane, and liberty loving man
hesitate In preferring the latter Every
days bloody experience aud slaughter onl,
serve ID show that there can be no Other
termination Of the contest"
lie declared that those who were sane
snd sincere, who cried out for the exter.
mination of eight millions of Christian
men, women, and children of the South.
were monsters, who would be too high
ly honored by calling them fiends; their
idea was as impossible as it was wicked
and devilish" He added:
1.-TWO friendly republics having a common
ancestry, common glories and recolectitps.
lying side by side-having O laUdable emu
iatlon In RAINING the race OF national tre.
dom, prosperity aad greatness, are iu6D}t.ls
pfeisfaoie 10 one proud aud splendid, but
gloomy despotism, resting like dark shs
uo" uI,on The future OF the American con,
tlnent."
he explained his States rights views
and defended the sovereignty of the
States. They were separate colonies
they threw off the allegiance to Great
Britain as separate States-they were
recognized as independent, separate
States after the war of the Revolution
they had, during the war, been allied
sovereignties under the Articles of Con
federation, and their allegiance as such
was continued under the Constitution 'of
1889. He gave the history of the Con.
sention which framed that instrument to
prove that the power to coerce a State bv
force was proposed to be engrafted upon
it and rejected. lie contended that there
was no such power granted by the States |
to the Federal Government, and that
from the day that Abraham Lincoln
called for 10000 men to be used against
the States that had seeded, the old
Government had ceased TO exist and |
that they of the North had been living
Tor more than three years under a new
Governments Government necessarily
despotic, because the Constitution being
set aside, the man who rules over us
ithem) is absolutely without restraint of
any kind, except that imposed by his
own will"
lie warned the people against central
DID not lead to despotism-
il sees despotism itself Nothing excited
more the anxiety OF our revolutionary
than this fear of centrahZa
ion Of power in the Federal Govern
nent. A powerful despotism might be
splendid; but its splendor was poor
for the degradation Of the
jeople, and 4" for the loss of all their
lberties, all that ennobles life and digni
les manhood"
Mr. Long asserted that the idea that
he Union could be restored by the sword | .
vas the widest Of all vagaries that ever
ffilcted a civilin,d people. That mad :
ess, said he, combined with the I'M ,
.atural idea Of placing the negro upon q
evel with the white man, has deluged :
his land in blood, has Impoverished US ,
With debt and taxation, and DESTROYED | i
he constitutional liberty begueathed to 1
IS by our ancestors" Ia
Mr. Long assailed Linc0ln's admins u
ration, denounced its. eorruptions and >
cleared there was no hope for the North
ut in driving it from the Capitol. He .
eelared that the South could never be
abjugated, and there was no hope of |.
eace but in recognizing its indspen- ,,
ence. lie aVowed his firm purpose to -.
laintain these views, and defied the -
over of Lincoln and his agents. He =;
nus concluded:
From the Administration Of Mr.. Lincoln
D Wisdom or common seuss can be expected
Will continue to tread la the downward |
.reer OF folly aud crime III the hope that
pon the bloody car of revolution which is G.,
ushingtthe MASSES to death, its chiefs can ~
de to positions Of imperial spleudor and bl
cividuA greaintss. In the dark vista nj &
Ie future there is not one single ray Of hone IA
the blessed sun OF peace does mol soon X
ceDd the national horiz ia and shed its J..
talgent rays upon our land. ~
'Do not, my feliow'cltizens follow LONGER sl
us w0lAt than ~ ltt.n' ha. uts ii