The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-09-23

done, and the States now in open rebellion
against the laws of the United States, in re-
fusiug to execute the Fugitive Slave Law,
shall persist in their present unconstitution.
al course and the Federal Government shall
fail To execute the lava in good faith, it tthe
Goyernmcntl will not have accomplished
the great design of it's creation, and will,
thcrefore, in fact he practical dissolution.
and nll the States, IA parties, bc released
f0m the compact which formed the Union. :
In commenting on the foregoing bo-
siS' | said it proved that you did then
/" 8ceply syDipafdi<e with our sister
Southern States;" that you particularly
alluded To South Carolina. whose treas
enable representatives were then assem-
bled, and who. one day after, Inaugural
ted the rebellion;" that you did then
and there /" freely admit +" good
cause for dissatisfaction and complaint.
because of the election OF your illustrious
predecessor aud the Hon. Hannibal Ham
lin whom the Rev MIR. Brownlow repre-
sented as free negro. | said, alsn that
You were then only u conditional tnion-
ist; that you declared yourself " not for
seeding or breaking up the Union oi'
these States UNTlI. every fair and honor
able means had been exhausted in trying
to obtain on the part of the non-slave-
holding States a compliance with the
spirit and letter of the Constitution and
! all it's guarantees And | further stated
that YOU. at the same time. had asSured
your rebel friends. with whom YOU did 50
. deeply sympa,hize," that "when this
r,.1 L.,
in OPEN REBELLION (meaning Vermont
aud Massachusetts) ''agains, the laws Of
/ the United States shall petsis,
in their present unconstitutional course
/ it Uhe Government will not
have accomplished tho great design Of its
creation. and will, therefore, in fact. be n
practical dissolution of the Union"
repeat told the people that this speech.
~ made as aforesaid by You (assisted by
Senator Latham, who was kind enough
to read for you), was designed by You to
| foment rebellion among your constituents.
selected certain passages from that
speech to prove the above general state
ment referred to that part in which
you said "there is no power conferred
upon the Congress of the United States,
| by the Constitution, to coerce State !"
| pointed TO your demand for addi-
tional securities" for slavery; TO your
statement that Vermont was at that time.
guilty of notification, OF resistance
I to the laws of the United States, which
You pronounced "open rebellion" l
commented upon your statement that the
conduct of Vermont had been such that
the Government was at an end Nor
did / omit to tell the people that you
then and there (lSth and 10Th of Deeem-
Der, 1S60) had submitted an opinion in
regard TO your general complaint" /
did not, ike Beecher, pronounce you
drunk, nor did !, like Wilkes, say you
had been poisoned. / permitted You to
speak for yourself by reading the follow
ing from your speech:
We have complained that their intention
was TO hem slavery in, so that, like the scor-
pion, when surrounded by fire, if it did not
die from the intense heat of the scorchfhg
flames, it would perish from its own poison
ed sting"
j You further promised your rebel friends
what Tennessee shauld do, if new guar
antees for slavery were refused. You
said, & Tennessee will be found standing
as firm and unyielding in her DEMANDS
for those guarantees
as any other in the CoNFEDERAcY."
asserted, also, that you had declared the
election of Lincoln and Hamlin "sec-
tional;" that you avowed your purpose to
PUT DOWN Mr. Lincoln and DRIVE BACK
his advances upon SOUTHERN INsTITU-
TIoNs;" that you had promised not to
abandon your Northern Democratic
/ friends and leave all to Lincoln's cohorts;
that you solemnly pledged yourself "not
to permit Mr.. Lincoln to come with his
cohorts, as ,ce consider them, from, III,
North, to carry of ererYtAiag.' All the
foregoing, and muck more, | charged
upon you, and proved by your speech ot
the 18th and 18th of December, 1850.
i Continuing my address, said that il
you we're credible witness-I beg you
to believe l SO regard you-I could prove
that every political supporter and ad
mirer of your Excellency, and every fol
, lower of the sanity Brownlow then ant
there present, was dtsunionist. In do
ing this read from speech made By
you, at Columbia, Tennessee, on the I'd O
] June, 1862. 1t was revised by yourself
; and published in your own organ, ths
! Nashville Union, of june 8, 1862, ther
edited by your friend Merger, who is hes
known as "Quinine Mercer" because o
: his sympathy with the rebel sick, to whom
: it is alleged, he kindly smuggled that in
! valuable medicine while he sojournet
] within the Federal lines.
t read the following:
" Now, will prove, very briefly, that
: secesssonist is as great an Abolitionist a
/ Summer. Both the seeessionist and disun
ionist are for breaking up this Union.
win state the arguments in a syllogism, thus
: An Abolitienist is a disunionist: disun
: ionist is a secessionist: a secessionist is
. disunionist a adisunionist is an Abolitionist
: Therefore, secessionist is an Abolitionist
: There is not particle of difference between
e them,a
: 1 repeat, l read the foregoing, afte
: which 1 was so irreyerent as to say, il
/, regard to your syllogysm, that | coul,
find the sgtty but not the gisp. but yol
q were distinct and positive in the allega
: ton that e aao Abotitionsst is a disunton
+ ist" All this, and much more did say
may it please your Excellency, for th
o many pious purposes hereinafter enumer
J ated chiefly, however, with the desigl
! of quieting the hearts and consciences Q
! a few of your old rebel friends, Office
I holders and Trade Agents, who desire t
: join you in your late, but earnest ham
! pionship of the rights Of the color race
, Having always been rebels at heart, the