The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-09-23

TlUnU has bilt NOftl aSouilCuG w nds
interest of the South has been inva
ded ? What justice has been denied
or what claim founded in Justice and
right has been withheldp Can any
of you to-day name one government
tai act Of wrong deliberately aud pur
posely done by the Government al
Washington, of which the South has
right to complainS i challenge the
answer.
On the other hand, let me show the
facts Of which l wish you to judge,
/ will only state facts which are clear
and undeuiable, and which now stand
rs records authentic in the history OF
our country. When we OF the Soutl,
demanded the slave trade or the i'm
portation Of Africans for the cultiva-
ton of our lsnds, did they not yield
the right for twenty years2 When we
asked for three -hfths representation
in Congress for our slaves, was 1t not
granted? When we demanded the
return Of any fugitive from jnslice, or
the recovery OF those persons owing
labor or allegiance, was IL not incor-
porated in the Constitution, anl again
ratitiel aud strengthened in the fugi-
tive slave law of 1850? When we
asked that more territory should he
added that we might spread the in3
stitntion Of slavery, have they not
vic lel to our demands, ia giving
Louisiana, Florida and Texas, ont OF
which four States have been carved,
and ample territory for forr moro to
be added in due time, If you, by this
unwise and impolitic act, do not des.
troy this co lie. and perhaps by it lose
all, and have yonr last slave wrenched
from yoi by stern military rule, rs
South America and Mexico we e, OF
bc the vinlictive decree of universal
emlnciprtion, which may reasonably
he expected TO follow.
BIT what have we TO gain by this
proposed change Of our relation to
the General Government We have
always hal tic control OF il, and can
vet. il we remain III Il, and are united
:, W, have bocu. We have had y
majority of the Presidents chosen
from the SO itb. AZ well as the control
AMI management of n'st of those
chosen fro n the North. We have
had Sixty years OF Southren Prasi-
dents TO their twenty-four, thus c'n-
trolling the Executive Department.
So Of the Judges of the Supreme
Court, we have lial eighteen from the
South. and hut eleven from the North.
Although nearly fonr-liiths OF the ju'
Il cial business has arisen in the free
States. vet 4 majority of the court
has always been from the South. Thi;
we have required so rs to guard n
sainst any interpretation OF the Con
stitution unfavo able to us. In lili'
manner we have been equal watchfn
to guard our interests in the legisla
tive branch Of government. In choos
ling the presiding presidents (pro
TEN of the Senate, we had twenty
four I their eleven. Speakers OF thu
House we have had twenty three an'
and they twelve. While the majority
of representatives, from heir create
population, have always been from
the North, yet we have so general,
secured the Speaker, because he, to
great extent, shapes and controls thu
legislation of the country.
Nor have we had less control In
every other department OF the Gen
eral Government OF Attorney Gen
erals we have had fourteen, while tn
North have had but five. or foreigl
Minister'S we have had eighty six, ant
they had but fifty four. While three
iourths ofthe business which demand
diplomatic agents abroad Is clcarl
from the free States, from their grea,
er commercial interst, yet we have til
principal embassies, so as to secur
the worlds markets for our cotton
, tobtcco, aud sugar on the best posi-
bic terms. We have had vast ma
iority of the higher officers of bot
army and navy. while n large proper
ton OF the sol,liers and sailors wer
drawn from the North. Equally 8
of clerks. auditors, and comptroller
, filing the Executive departments -
The record shows for the last fit
years that OF the three thousand TIM
employed we have had more than tw'
: thirds OF the same. while we haze b'
one third of the white population
the republic. Again, look at anoth'
item, in which VIC have great al
: vital interest, that of revenue, {
means os supporting Government
From otIl cial documents we learn thi
a fraction over three-fonrths of u
) revenue collected for the support I
Government has uniformly been raj
ed from the North.
Pause now while You can. and CO,
template carefully and candidly thc'
important items. Leaving ont OF vie
fnr the present the countless m'lliol
of dollars yol must expend in W
with the Moth, with tens ofthousan'
/, o" your sons and brothers slain
: battle and offered up as sacrihc'
npon the alter of your ambitlon--ar
: for what? Is it for the overthrow
the American Government, establis
ed bv onr common ancestry cement'
> and built up by their sweat and bloc
and founded ON the broad priucipl
: of right, jnstice, aud humanity? Al
as such, must declare here, as 1 ha'
i often done before, aud which has be'
/, repeated by the greatest and wise