The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-08-16
! ALEXANDRIA,, LOUISIANA, AUGUST II, 1860

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:ryinp to obtain on the part of the nom
States, a compliance win VIII inc
,nirit and letter of the. Constitution and ali |
Is IS guarantees; and when this shall have !
oeen done, and the States now in open RED
belion against the laws of the United States,]
n refusing to execute the Fugitive Slave
NV. shall persist in their present uneonst'
Eutional course, and the Federal Govern
meat shall fail to execute the laws in good |
(aith II (the Government will not have ac-
compiished the great design Of its creation
and will, therefore, in fact, be practical ale,a
dissolution, and all the states, as parties be
released from the compact which formed
the ,Uuion.
n commenting on the foregoing basis
] said it proved that you did then deeply
svmmthize with our sister Southern States
that YOU particularly alluded to South Car
DINA, whose reasonable representatives
we're then assembled, and who, one day after,
inaugurated the rebellion; that you did then
and there 'slreely admit good cause tor
dissatisfaction and complaint" because o.
the election Of Your illustrious predecessor
and the Hon. Hannibal Hampln, who the
Rev. MIR. Brownlow represented as Tree
necro. / said, also, tbatyou were then on
" q conditional Unionist; that you declared
Yourself, "not for seeding or breaking up
The Union of these States until every fair
and honorable means had been exhausted in
trying to obtain on the part OF the non1slave-
holding States compliance with the spirit
and letter Of the Constitution and all Its.
guarantees md further stated that
YOU at the same time, had assured your rebe7
friends. with whom you did so deeply SYM
pathize" that "when this shall have been
done and the States now III Omen rebellion
1meaning Vermont and Massaehnsetts)
.sagaiust the laws Of the United States
M shall persist 10 their present ,uneon-
st,tntional course, it, x 1.-THE Govern
rneni) will not have accomplished the great
design of its creation, and will therefore, in
| fact be d practical dissolution of the Union"
| / repeat, I told the people that this speech,
so made as aforesaid by you assisted by
4 Senator Latham, who was kind enough TO
4 read for you). was designed by you to 70.
. u,snt rebellion among your constituents. i
/ selected certain passages from that speech
i to prove ;hc above general statement. ] re
| ferred to tina part in which you said "thert
| is no power conferred upon the Congress q
| the United States. BY the Constitution, tc
coerce 6 State !. ] pointed to your de
Inands for additional securities for slavery
4 to YOUR statement that Vermont was, a
that time, guilty of !" notification" Of IRE
s;stance to the laws Of the United States,
which you pronounced sopen rebellion,
commented upon your statement lhat IN
conduct Of Vermont had been sucn tina
{ & The Government was ut an end Nordl'
] omit to tell the people that you then an
there flSth and 18th Of, December, 1860
: had submitted an opinion in regard to yuu
! general complaint" did not, like Bteei
er, pronounce you drunk, nor did |, Ink
Wilkes say you had been poisoned. ] PEI
! mitted you to speak for yourself by readin
q the following from. your speech:
q eve have complained that their inter
I ton is to hem slavery ii, SO that, like tn
{ scorpion when surrounded by fire, if i d.
nat die from the intense heat Of srorchin
/ flames. it would perish from its own polso
If insisting. TyHa asiis VI
8 You further promised your rebel fri ss,
i'll what Tennessee should do, ifsnew guar1a
! tees for slavery were refused. You sal
4 !. Tennessee will be found standing as hr
ri and upyieiding in her demands for thu thu
ii guarantees ~ y as any other State IN 7
+. J,onfederacy.H4 Ii asserted. also that y
:. had declared the election Of Lincoln OF
a Hamlin sectional" that you avowed 70
if purposelI to s'sput down Mr.. Lincoln a.
d. drive back his advances upon Southern
1T stitutions;S that you promised not to aba
y. donyour G Northern Democratic friends q
Is. leave all to Lincon's cohorts" that y
he solemnly pledged yourself not TO 4 PER-
,al Mr.. Lincoln to come Wild his cohorts. as
10 | consider them, from the North, to carry
ID everything All the foregoing, and my ~
NV more, / charged upon you ard proved
OF your speechYo 18th and 10Th Of Decent emf
The 1860. eafgtis b ,sfig I 81
ofI Continuing my address, ! sad that if !
me were a credible, witness--I beg you TO
en-. Ilieye 1 so regard yoa--I could prove
!, III every political supporter and. adm DIN
the IIyonr9 Excellency, and every follower Of Of
en-. sanity sBrownow then and there pres
you was q disanionist. In doing this, 4 4 !
nov |from speech made by you at Colam
.ese Tennessee, on the I'd of J uuef 862. Y
H. revised by yourself, and published lin
to Nashville Union of June g. 1862, then ed
,ch. BY your friend Mercer, who is best KIP
,ple as..quinine Mercer" because Of his syn
i've. thy with the rebel sick, TO whom.
d al alleged, he kindly smuggIed that invalu
Itch medicine while he sejourned within the
hat eral lines. ~. Is .issS .8
ince i read the following II, MA
Z ap s NOV ] will prove very briefly th
ION; secessionist is as great On Abolitionl
emf Sumner, Both the secessionist and
, de. unioaist are for breaking up this Union
then will state the argument in q syllosism t
Itten An Abolitionist is a disupiorist. a
NAL ahionist is a secessionist, A secession
attle a disunionist. A disunionist is an A
zionist, Therefore, a secessionist ]
thize Abolitiopist. THERE'S not 2 particle
RELY ference between Them a1 ases
satis. i repeat, | read the foregoing, after
d &C was so irrevetent as: to say, in reggal
ionat your syllogism, that | could find the sill
Vice Iuot the gism; but you, were distinc
we, positive 10 the allegatiesa that ian
ding fieerr;s-. , i aisuuionists All this and