Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-16
spcech Of Gov. Orr, If South Caro-
linn.

al Guards Hall, Philadelphia, on Monday
evening. August 18th, and speeches were
made by Montgomery Blair and Cover
nor Orr, who spoke in substance as fol-
lows:
The Governor said it had been ten long
years since he had the pleasure Of address.
ing a Pennsylvania audience in lndepen-
dence Square, and since that tint the
North and South had been separated by a
wide gulf; but that gulf was now closed,
and he, for one, wished to thoroughly OBJ
~literate all traces of it. He said that he
would not now refer to the last four years
of war, but merely intended to call up
one or two incidents connected with It, OF
which he wanted to speak. He and his
audience had been brought up in q widely
different political school; he had been
taught that the States were supreme, and
that the General Government was not SUI
preme. His section had demanded its
supposed privileges. The North had de.
MED them; the South claimed the right OF
secession; the North denied the existence
of any such right; the South seeded,
and with the North appealed to arms. and
finally both sections threw down the
gauntlet to settle their dispute upon the
field of battle. The fight was long and
desperate and bloody, but it ended in the
defeat of the South, which had appealed
to arms, the last and highest earthly re-
sort, and the decision had been against
them-a decision, he would say, far more
complete and final than any which could
come from the highest judicial tribu-
nal. The question Of the right OF seces.
sion had been settled completely and
forever, and the results of the war had
decided that the General Government was
supreme. To this decision the Southern
people, and he among them, acquiesced in
all sincerity, and he came here on this OPP
p~ortunity to say it to a Northern audience,
and to declare that the South
the right Of secession, and accepted in
good faith its allegiance to the General
Goyernment. They claimed tn hn nn"a
citizens under that Government, and as
such sincerely wished for the welfare Of
their common country, and the Union OF
all the States; it's reputation abroad ana
It's prosperity at home, in common with
the people Of the North. This is u
country, said Mr.. Orr, az well as yours,
and we are again fellow citizens, again
brothers, and I, q participator in the re-
bellion, come here tonight to tell you
that I renounc the right Of secession, the
right to appeal to arms, and to acknowl-
edge the supremacy over me of the Gov
eminent of this Union. The South, now
that is once more q part Of the common
country, has an interest in the National
debt. The debt was created by war +; but
it was created by this country, and
the country Of those whom he addressed.
He, as q citizen Of the Union, had an in
terest in that payment equal to that OF
other citizens ; and he could say in hehalf
Of the Southern people that on their part
there was. no intention to repudiate it.
They recognized it in all its force, and
nothing was further from their intention
than to repudiate the debt of the common
country. One other point to which he
would refer was, that the South had been
impoverished by the war. Its banks, its
money and its resources were all gone.
Its people were without the means Of re-
storing the prosperity Of their section, and
without credit. But one road was open
to them, and that was to conciliate North
ern capitalists and promote peace by
sincere loyalty to the General Gov
eminent and cordial support Of the Union.
Their interests, equally with their wishes
tended in that direction. Without union
they could hope for no restoration OF their
prosperity, and therefore this additional
and strong reason was added to the many
others whythey should be believed when
they proposed to support the general
Government. Notwithstanding the South
ern people had elected their best men,
their loyal men, for representation in Con-
gress, they had been for eight long months
knocking at the door and had been refused
admittance. Mr.. Orr asked il this was
lust. GCries OF No! mol! He con-
tinued These Representatives are denied
admission, although there lies at every
foundation Of Government the great prin-
ciple, for which nj fathers fought, that
there shall be no tax without representa-
ton. The South is a part Of the country,
and should have its just share in Con-
gress; yet their representatives had been
for eight months knocking at the door Of
Congress, and BY the ruling of that power
had been refused admittance. He asked
that privilege for none but loyal men but
contended that loyal men should have II.
These Representatives, said he, do not go
to Washington to employ any Trojan
horse ~s,ratagem. Do they profess loyalty
merely to obtain admittance to this great
Convention so that afterwards they can
throw of the mask and endeavor to i'm.
peril or overthrow the Government
They do not ask admission merely to
create disturbance ; they came and knock
ed, and asked it in order, in oil sincerity,
TO aid in legislation for their common
country Z; to enjoy that right the Consti-
tuition grants them-the right to help
make laws for a Union they love equally