The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-03

know me; they have tried me; and your
little innuendoes and your little indirectons
will not scare them, even If infuriate ted seced-
ing southern men dare to intimate that am
an ally of Mr.. Wade. The senator charges
me with being IAN ally" while he and the
leaders of abolitionism are uniting all their
energies to break this glorious Union. l an
ally Thank God am not in alliance with
Giddings with Phillips, with Garrison, and
the long list of those who are engaged in the
work of destruction, and IN violating the con.
stitution of the United States.
III THE QUESTION COULD BE GOT TO THE PEOPLE
THEY WOULD SETTLE 1T.
In conclusion Mr.. President make an ap.
peal to the conservative men of both parties.
You see tho posture of pubic affairs; you see
the condition Of the country you see along
the line of battle the various points OF con
f1ict; you see the struggle which the Union
men have TO maintain in many OF the states.
You ought TO know and feel what is necessa
ry to sustain those who,in their hearts, desire
the preservation of this UHion of states. Will
you sit with stoic Indifference and see those
who are willing to stand by the constitution
and uphold the pillars of the govern ment
driven away by the raging surges that are
now sweeping over some portions oil the coun-
try? As conservative men, as patriots. as
men who desire the preservation OF this
great, this good, this unparalleled govern
ment, l ask you to save the country; or let
| the propositions be submitted to the people,
that the heart of the people may respond 10
them. | have abiding confidence In the
intelligence, the patriotism, and the integrity
| of the great macs Of the people; and feel In
my own heart that, If this subject could he
| got before them, they would settle the ques
| ton, and the Union of these states would be
| preserved.
| Applause In the galleries.
THE ABoLITIoNIsTs DIsUNIoNIsTs.
In most that / shall say ON this occasion,
shall not differ very essentially from my
southern friends. The difference will consist,
as think. from what have heard and what
/ see published in the various periodicals. OF
the day, in the mode and manner by which
this great end is to be accomplished. Some
of our southern friends think that secession ID
the mode by which these ends can be accom-
plished that If the Union canhot be preserved
in its spirit. by secession they will get those
rights secured and perpetrated that they have
failed to obtain within the Union. l am op
posed to secession. believe il no remedy
for the evils complained Of Instead of act
ing with that division ofsouthern friends who
take grounds for secession / shall take
other grounds while | try 10 accomplish the
same end.
think that this battle ought 20 be fought
not outside, but inside Of the Union, and upon
the battlements of the constitution itself.
am unwilling. Of my own vOlitiou, ~ walk
outside of the Union which las been the re-
suit of a constitution made by the patriots OF
the revolution. They formed the constitu.
ton and this Union that is so much spoken
of. and which all Of us are 80 DESTROYS to
preserve, grows out of the constitution and,
| repeat. l ain not willing 10 walk out OF the
UHlon growing out of the constitution. that
was formed hy the patriots. and, l nay say.
by the soldiers of the revolution. So far a.
I'M concerned. and / believe | may speak
with some degree of confidence for the people
of my state, we joined to fight that battle in
side and not outside Of the Union. 1t must
be tbose who violate it. We do not intend to
go out. 1t is cur constitution /; 1t is our
union, growing out of the constitution and
we do not intend to be driven from it or ont
of the Union. Those who have violated the
constitution either in the passage of what are
denominated personal liberty bills. or by their
refusal to execute the fugitive slave law
they have violated the instrument that binds
US together-must 60 out and not We.
If SLAVERY is ABOLISHED THE NON sLAv EHoLD-
ERs WILL UNITE IN sUBJUGATING TIE SLAVES
have said, in speaking on that subject,
that in 1856 had seen a spirit and feeling
manifested In he country that / had never
seen before, which convinced ms clearly aud
con -lusiyely what the abolition agitation
would eventuate in when it was pressed to
its final ultmatum. / say that when the
day ever does come when the effort Is MADE
to emaDcipate the slaves. TO abolish slavery,
and turn them loose upon the country, the
non Shareholders of the south will be the
! first men to unite with the STAKEHOLDER TO
reduce them 10 subjugation again and. if
one would lie more ready 70 do so than the
other il would be tho non STAKEHOLDER. |
have said that; and that if their resistance
to subiugatiOn were obstinate and stubborn,
the non-slaveholder would unite with the
stakeholder and all this abolition philan.
thropy. all this abolition sympathy, when
pressed to it's ultimatum. would result in the
extirpatiOn of the negro race. This is what
| / said IL il what felt and what i saw, and
| what L know TO be the feeling of the nom
| shareholders in the slavehOldir & states to-
| day Press this question to it's ultmatum
and the non shareholder will unite, heart and
hand, in subjugating the African, and, if
resistance be made, in extirpating the negro
race and that is where this question will
end, notwithstanding all the sympathy and
all the philanthropy that may be erinced, if
the agitation be carried out successfully to
| it's contamination.
If said any thing in the presence or hear
ing of nybody on that point, that is what
did say; and repeat now. that the idea of
| there being any difference between the feel
Ings of the Shareholders and non -s.avshold-
ers OF the south on this question is mistaken
one. false one. the demonstrations ut
Ha'per's Ferry proved most conclusively -
When there was agitation in Tennessee, in
1856. saw that the non STAKEHOLDER was the