The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-16

1859, without even drawing a sword
How many men, would like to ask, were
murdered, and how long did the civil war
last, in putting down the Hartford Con-
veh'ion [Applause.l Mr.. MADISON was
then in power. Where are the thousands
and hundreds of thousands who by his
order lost their lives in putting that in
surrection down? Why, sir, be never in
jured even pumpkin. Laughter and
cheers How was it in South Carolina,
that State which threatened to secede from
the Union in 1868? Andrew jackson
was tleu in power as President. Dbl he
murder hundreds of thousands of citizens
10 order to get rid of that local difficulty :?
There was not word of it; but gu the CON
trary he appealed in great proclamation
to the reason and sense of the people 10
maintain the Union and the country -
He did what every Democrat had done
before him, and will do afterwards-he
assumed the proposition that mankind
was ca pable Of self-government, and that
reason was sufficient to maintain it with
out powder aud steel. Loud and enthu-
sastIc cheering emit 49,.
The ilustrious and eminent gentleman
who presides over the deliberations of this
body threw out some remarks the other
day, in bis inaugural address, which, in
my Judgment, where eminently proper to
be considered and acted upon by every
Democrat. Ore of the difficulties which
you will have will be in getting all the
votes you want, and the way you can get
them is by adopting the idea of our illus
trious President in this Convention; and
that is, to proclaim that we are not seek.
ing power to massacre our enemies. Not
at all. The men of the South were new
er as well protected as we used to protect
them, and they never will be protected as
we'll as we will protect them if they will
come back States as we'll as individuals
will be regarded, for our administration, if
elected by the Democratic party, will
thereby be placed under the wholesome
restraint and direction of Democratic ill.,
stincts [Applause.] That administra-
ton, instead of becoming the enemy and
prosecutor of any part of our people, will
act like that celebrated woman in modern
history the first Catharine Of Russia, a
peasant girl born, by marriage with
Peter the Great and upon the death of her
husband, became the sole sovereign OF the
Russian Empire. The first act of her pow
er was to order that all the gallows and
gibbets Of the country should be pulled
down, and that all the instruments of
human torture should be broken to pieces
Renewed cheering That is the spirit
in which we commence this contest. We
will have no Bastiles put up, but we will
have the present Bastiles opened and
cleaned out. Tremendous cheering. /
Our president will be the friend and guar
dian and protector, in obedience to and
within the limits of the constitution, of ev-
cry State, aud of every man, woman and
child within the sweep of our flag. Zap
plause. In this spirit we will go into
this contest. In this spirit we will pre-
sent ourselves with fascination so great
that the timid Republicans, who are now
afraid that We will be down upon them for
more blood and more taxes, will come to
our camp and sit in protection under the
broad egis of the Constitution and the law,
as administered by the faithful interpre-
tets of that Constitution, the Democratic
nominees. AS matters stand we have
been in somewhat of a predicament for the
last three or four years. The Democratic
party during that time has been without
any organized representation. With the
exception of the State of New York and
the smaller State of New Jersey, there
was not an organic thing on this continent
that was not against US. The Federal
government, including the army aud navy,
was in the hands of Mr.. Lincoln. State
governments, with the two'sxceptious men
toned, were all against US; and yet, with
all this organic power opposed to US, what
do we. behold? Why, we behold rising
power from among the body of the people,
IA spontaneous current made up of the
contributions of individual wills, and indi
vidual feelings and that power is SO great
as to make Mr.. Lincoln aud his people in
Washington tremble in their boots
[Cheers,1 We have not muskct we
dou't waut any-we don't need any. We
have the ballot-box, we have tickets, We
have human reason, aud all we ask of Mr..
Lincoln is that he will keep the ruad to the
ballot-box unrestricted by fraud or force;
that he will make that road open to the
people; give US clean ticket and fair
count out. Laughter and applause. l.
That is all We want. We do not care
how many revolvers he has so that he will
just keep them away from the people
We want him to do that. Mark you -
We don't want him to interfere, and |
don't think he will try it after this demon.
stratiou.
Now, my friends, l know how anxious
you all are to get through with the glorious
doings of this day. | am not going to say
that | will support the ticket. Great
God | never did anything else
[Cheers.] | will not only support it but
l will do SO with all my heart, with all
my might, and with all cheerfulness |
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