The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-09-14
Hon. Montgomery Bgntr.

Hon. Montgomery BItgtr.
The late speech of this frank and able
member of President Lincoln's Cabinet
is having wide circulation. Wedonot
concurin all his structures upon the public
men of the country, but there is some
thing SO manly, eloquent and statesman
like In the following extracts from It,
that we cannot withhold them from our
readers. Abiding to the late rebellion,
he says:
Like all conspiracies which have led
to civil wars, It was born and dweit
In the capital, Rome, London, Paris,
through successive ages, have been the
centres where the pipes were laid, which
on explosion shook not only their own
governments, but those foreign nations.
The great body Of the people Of the
South had no hand in the concocti0n Of
the plot which has actually convulsed
the country. They were as innocent
as the people of the North yet In every
shape In which wretchedness can be
visited the South has been the victim.
It was the highest CONSTITUTE duty Of
the Government of the United States to
have warded of the blow which has
Frustrated this region. The arm was
raised to strike in it's very presence. The
men in the capital, in both the halls of
Congress, the usurpers themselves an
nounced the fact that they had given
orders that it should be struck. They
formally took their leave of the Govern
ment whose authority they were about
to PROSTATE in the devoted section they
had resolved to rule or ruin and they
were told by the head of the Admins
trati0n going out, go ahead, we will not
scOerce' the usurped State power you
have c0ntrived to get into your hands.
The premier of the incoming Admins
tratiOn says, also, go ahead, we will con-
front your revolutionary movements
with concession, violence with con-
Citation and the right hand of fellow
ship. The fall of Sumter Immediately
followed this, the attempt to succor It
being turned aside by the hand of the
premier, who had engaged that it should
fall. What were the people of the South
to infer from this?
IAN immense majority, some sixty or
seventy thousand of the people of Vir-
ginia had given their voice for the
government of their fathers. In those
States farther South, where the knights
of the Golden Circle exerted all their
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drag the people to vote to throw off the
Union and substitute the COnfederacy, q
majority of voters could nowhere be
BROUGHT sanction it. But when Sumter
fell what could individuals expect who
were every where under the heel of the
usurpers? Would the nations Govern
ment defend them in any loyal effort?
Mr.. Buchanan, the head Of the Govern
ment, said !" it has no right to do it,"
and Mr.. Seward, the premier of the new
Administration, had said: We will not
succOr nor defend even the strOnghOlds
of Recommendation built to
keep rebellion and usurpatiOn in check.
What could loyal men do under such
circumstances but submit?
"They were pressed into the army by
CONSUMPTION. If they fled from their
homes and hid in mOrasses to escape
they were hunted down by blood-hounds
and put In the front Of battle with the
rear. The property of every body was
the utmost zeal to the military power
could hope to have any share In what
belonged to them.
Is It not monstr0us that our Govern.
ment should hold people, put in this
predicament, 1t we may not say by Its
own acts, yet certainly by its supineness
and acqulescence, responsible for the
crimes Of an usurpation thus put over
them.
The following is hisconclusion
The whatsoever. There isno slavery to
make . new one. ThepassiOns connected
with It are subssding. We have great
career heforeus. Oar struggle, bloody and
expensive 1t has BEEN, win impartanew
ii1e 70 the country and new impetus to
aes Us set .f a the OF m
have seemed In the reflections / have
made In this address upon the dis
tinguished men / have named, have
aimed to be animated by different