The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-03-08

Offering little He wants breed this very civil
war which am here to-day to warn you against. He
wants to up a government within the government
of North Carolina composed of tenth of popu-
lation Our voting population is about one hundred
Thousand. They want to set up government of ten
thousand perjured scoundrels who unworthy to
lick the dust off the feet Of the poorest soldier
army and to support it with the bayonet, and to set
the people to saughering each other. You are not
fools enough fall into that trap You do not need
warning upon that subject although have given it.
After protraying the evils that would befall the
Southern people if the is stopped short of Sc
paration, the Governor says:
Il tell you now candidy, there is more pos
sibility of reconstructing the old Union and re-
Installing things as they were four years ago, than
there is for you gather up the scattered bones of
YOUR sons who have fallen in this struggle from
one end of the country to the other, reclothing
them with flesh, filling their veins with blood they
have SO generously shed, aud their lungs with the
same breath with which they breathed out their
last prayer for their country's' triumph and indie
peudence. Immense applause.
There is another aspect Of the question to which
I wish to call your attention. and which de-
serves much consideration. | desire you to mark
MY prediction. There never can be peace on the
| Continent of North America until the North and
| South are independent and distinct nations
There might be temporary peace, such peace
as you have seen effected by overpowering gal
liant man, putting n.anaees upon his limbs and
| throwing him into dungeon. Such peace
exists until be wrenches the bars, scales the walls
and strikes terror into the hearts Of his enemies
whenthey dreamed they were most secure. You
would have such peace Poland has to-day. She
has obtained peace again and again, but SO clearly
has God drawn distinction between the Poles
and :he conquerors, that they refuse to MIX aud
| have retained their inherent nationality, though
every quarter of a century demands for it sacri-
! flee of blood For a while peace would reign in
| Warsaw, but some act Of oppression-the whipping
Of delicate ladies on the bare back in the public
streets, for instance, would the people to boil
over in fresh ebuliton of indignation, and tor
| rent of blood to flow until "peace" Was again re-
stored. Just SO with Ireland. 1t did not, like
Scotland, hold out to the bitter end, but obtained
''peace," and ever SINCE one of the nobest races
on the face of the earth has been engaged except
| when fighting their oppressors, in fattening suck
ling pigs for the delicate palate of their foreign
masters, while their children cried for bread; and
at length their magnificent country is being de-
populated by the policy of the enlightened con-
querors who find that sheep more valuable
than men. Like the Yankees, they propose to
supply "better race" DO you suppose the chiv-
| arous people Of the South whose distinct moral
nationality has long since been recognized, would
submit to see all their proud cities garlisoned with
negro soldiers to the lands Of their friends
divided up aud parcelled out among the foreign
mercenaries! DO you suppose the blood of the
Southern youth would run quietly in his veins
when he saw negro officer walking the streets
and making his sister give way Tor him, or insult
ing her by his very presence? Do you suppose
this kind Of peace would long endure? No, insur-
rection after Instruction, revolution upon revolu-
| tiun after would burst upon the country,
end for year after year, century after century,
i,,E ~ A., l,l
and blood flow in torrents, compared to which
drop would have at first won independence and
permanent peace The only way to obtain
tlnued peace-and l want no other-ls to fight 1t
| out noe-(applause) ito fight it out now, whilst
we have government, and great and glorious ar
mies in the field IF we do not we will leave war
as an inheritance to our children's children. We
will leave this terrible question for little boys
to settle when we have passed away, and under
circumstances far different and advantages far less
than We possess for asserting their rights,
their race and nationality.
In regard to the law of Congress requiring ser
vice of those who had hired substitutes, the Gov
ernor says
You hear great deal said about the tendency
of the military authorities to overslaugh the civil !;
about the fragrant violations of faith on the part Of
the Confederate Government in conscribing the
principals OF substitutes, &c. Could you answer
to God for the peace you had broken on this
ground? You say it is great outrage. 1t may
be So But who pronouuces upon violation of
law? Your judges. 1t is not for you to say, it is
not for to say, it is not for the legislature to
say, Convention cannot determine; it is for the
Courts to decide. There being Supreme Court
of the Contederacy, $50 much the better for you)
the Interpretation of the laws of Congress is left
to your own judges, men of your own choice If
it is violation of your rights let your judges say
so, aud not single solitary man who has put in
Carolina if your Governor can help it. Cap
plause) But if it is decided according to law, be
Shall 60 if compel him. But let how
much consistency there would be in the proposed
action on this substitute question. Why, gentle
men, as early as two years ago the conscrip- law
came along and seized the poor fellow who had
nine chiIdren-the eldest hardly able to pull the
youngest out of the fle-living On rented land in
leaky cabin. He had money and was forced
to 60. Did any body propose to raise revolution
for him? Not single solitary man thought of
such thing. But his neghbor, on whose land
this poor conscript was living, had his pockets
stuffed with money, bought his carcass out of dan
ser and put in substitute. Two years had rolled
around, meanwhile the poor conscript worn down
with anxiety, thinking about his wife and helpless
little ones, has nevertheless fought, and bled aud
suffered to ptotect, among others at home, his rich
neighbor, Who In the interim, has dressed in pur-
pie and fine linen, Jared sumptuously every day,
and made SO much money by specializing that he
don't know what to do with it. Congress says the