Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-24


speech during the delvs4 Of which Jeherson
Davis offered you q most unpfovoked insult, the |
effect of which will not attempt to state) l
and that every word Of j; Was designed TO coz !
vince The people Of Tennesses thct they were ca
oppressed people aud you tEeir champion; that
their constitutional rights were IN Imminent dan
ger and that they ought :. TO demand additional
securities" that YOU then aud there submitted
the folloring written =" basis. upcn which you
declared an unaiterable pGrpose " 10 SIGHT the
great battle for our nghts:
RESOLVED, That We deeply sympathze with
our sister Southern States, and freely admit
that there Is good cause for dissatisfaction and
complaint on their part. on account OF the re
cent election of sectional candidates to the
Presidency and Vice Presidency OF the United
States; yet we, as portion of people of a
slave holding Community, arc not for seeding
or breaking up the Union OF these States until
every fair and honorable means has been ex-
! hsusted in trying TO obtain, on the part of the
notwithstanding States, a com pianee With the
spirit and letter OF the Constitution and all its
guarantees; and when this SHAH have becu done,
and the States now IN open rebellion against the
Jaws of the United States. in refusing execute
the fugitive slave law, shall persist IN their pre-
sent unconstitutional course. and the Federal
| Government shall fail TO execute the laws 10
| good faith, IL THE GOVerBmenf) viii not have
accomplished the great design of is creation.
and will, therefore, in fac;. be practical disto
Hutton, and all The States parties, be released
| from the compact which formed the Union"
In commenting on the foregoing basis" I
said il proved that you did then deeply symDa-
1iise with on sister Southern States; = that you
particularly alluded to South Carolina, whose
reasonable representatives we're then assembled,
| and who, one day after, inaugurated the rebel-
! lion; that you did then and there "freely admit
good cause for dissatisfaction, and com
planned because of the election OF your illustrious
predecessor and The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin,
whom the Rev. Mr. Brownlow represented as
/ free negro. / said also, that you were then only
a conditional Unionst; that you declared your
self mot for seeding or breaking up the Union
OF these States UNTIL every fair and honorable
\ means had been exhausted in trying 10 obtain on
4 the part of the non slavehodng States a com
pliance with the spirit and letter of the Constitu
| ton and all its guarantee" Aud ] farther
stated that you, al the same time, had assured
your reoel friends, with whom you did 50 deeply
| sympathize, that when this shall have been
done, and the States now in open rebellion"
! (meaning Vermont and Massachusetts, against
| the laws @. ihe United States = shall persist
| in their present unconstitutional course, it :
! (the Government will not have accomplished
the great design OF It's creation. and will. there
fore. in fact, be practical dissolution Of the
! Union" | repeat, told tile people thar this
|
Senator Latham VINO was kind enough to read
for YOU, designed by you to ioment rebel
lion among your constituents. | selected certain
passages from that speech TO prove the above
! general statement referred to that part in
which you said there is no power conferred
upon the Congress OF the United States, by
the Constitution, TO coeTce a State pointed
! 90 your "demsDd" additional securities .
| for slavery; TO your statement that Vermont
was, at that time, guilty OF Qualification" of
I resistance 10 the laws OF tie United States. ="
which you pronounced open rebellion" | com
mented upon your statement that the conduct of
Vermont had been such that the Government
was at all end" Nor did omit to tell the peo-
pie that you then and there 18th and 18th Of
December, 1861 had submitted an opinion in
i regard to your general complaint" did not,
like BeecheF, pronounce you dfulk, nor did l.,
like Wilkes, say yot had been poisoned. l per
mitted yon 10 speak Tor yourself by reading the
following from your speech:
/ We have complained that their intention is
TO hem slavery in, so that. like tho scorpion
when surrounded by fire, il it did not die from
the intense heat OF the scorching flames, would
perish from its own poisonous sting"
y gu further promised your rebel friends what
Tennessee should do. if new guarantees for
| slavery were refused You said, 4" Tennessee
will be found standing firm and unyielding in
her demands Tor those guarantees as
any other State in the Confederacy." asserted,
also, that you had declared the election o.. Lin
colu and Hamln sectional" that you avowed
| your purpose TO put down Mr.. Lincoln and
drive back his advances upon Southern institu-
tOns;" tn at you promised not 10 abandon your
/" Northern Democratic friends and leave all to
LiDcolns cohorts that YOU sOlemnly pledged
| yourself " not TO permit Mr. Lincoln to come
| with his cohorts, az tce consider them, from the
North, to carry off everything" All the fore
going and much more, / charged upon you, and
proved by your speech of 18th and 18th of De
| cember, 1860.
Continuing my address, said that il YOU were
a credible witness-I beg you to believe re-
guard you'll could prove that every political
supporter and sdmirer of yecr Exceliency, and
every follower OF the sanity Browniow then and
there present, was disunionist. In doing this,
read from a speech made by you. at Columbia.
Tennessee, on the 2i of June. 1862. IL was re-
vised by yourself, and published in your own
organ the Nashville Union, of June 3, 1862.
then edited by Jour friend Mercer. who is best
known as Quinine Mercer" because OF his
sympsthy with the rebel sick, TO whom, it is al
legged, he kindly struggled that invaluable medi-
cine while he soiourned within the Federal
lines. sal
read the following:
, d" Now, will prove. very briefly, thai seces
sioniSt is as great an AoolitOnist as Sumner
breaking up this Union. ] will state the argu
melt in j syi!ogism, thus: An Abolilonist is a
disunionist- disunionist seceszionist: seces
sionis is disunonist: disunionist is an Adolf
zionist Therefore, secessioaist is an Adolf
: tionist There is 40, particle OF difference
between them ---.-
repeat read the foregoing, after which
was so irreverent as to say, in regard to your
syllogism, tina. could ind the syuy but not
the gism; but you we're distinct ana positive in
+ the allegation that "aa Aboliuouisi is cs
unionist." All this, aud much more, did | say,
may il please your Excellency. for the many
J, pouS purposes hereinafter enumerated; chiefly,
with the design OF qnie ing the hearts and con
sciencies OF = few of your old rebel friends,
Office holders and Trade Agents who desire to
, Join you IN your late, but earnest championship
OF The rights OF the col0rcd race. They have
some pride of consistency. Having always been
rebels at heart. they dislike suddenly - become
'Abohtionisss, fearing they may be required, in
following your iustrous example TO deal
harshly With those who, from a false sense OF
shame. are still unwilling 10y turning Abolition
lists, 10 incur the rebel reproach of arostacy
They urge that they dislike 10 be called tuiases:
and vet they wish to be with YOU and az resi- =
Hence the Struggle between their old party and
rebel pride. and their love for vou their dire
necessities and love OF cash With all such |
adopted this mode of reasoning That the
popular Judgment is often wrong. and tradition.
airy or hereditary prejudices rarely right For
example, would take two celebrated cases
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