Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-07-17

and ravlng lnndeIS, who WoUiG- have leVelEed
Calvary itself for place to celebrate their
impious and drunken feastsI. Let them talk
no Raore of liberty, no more of Christianity;
for their liberty and their Christianity viii
forever be kissing and mockery where
virtue prevails and truth resides. EGreat
applause.] Who would. not have preferred
any honorable compromise to tho blasting
and consuming war from which we have Just
emerged z Answer me Pennsylvania and
Virginia, Indiana and Mississippi, Ohio and
heutucky-answer me, sisters and wives of
the slain in battle-fathers and mothers,
whose parting with the last beardless bow has
so prematurely ripened the bloom of eternity
upon your sunken and throbbiDg temples
which would youspreter could you roll back
the tide Of time and make the choice again
The answer leaps from every heart and bursts
from every lip. 1 would not sacrifce one
such noble spirit as McPherson's, or one
such brilliant and intrepid soldier as Stone:
wall Jackson, for Thaddeus Stevens, Charles
Sumner, Henry Wilson, Zaehariah Chandler,
aud all the hell brood of the vicious fanatics,
bigots, and traitors they represent to-day
Tremendous and long continued cheering
THE AUTHORS OF SECESSION AND NULL1F1-
CATION.
Mr.. Hanna charges upon New England the
authorship of both notification and secession.
He says:
Modification was born on the very soil of
the same New England States whose pulpit1
/ are now SO prolific Of anatinemas against Sc
cessl0nists, and whose men and women daily
suppllcate a mighty God for the sweet priv
tleSe OF washing their hands in the blood of
Jefferson Davis. [Voices-s.That's so, that's
So" and cheers The history of the coun-
try bears me out in this statement, and no
man can successfully deny it. Let us turn
over few pages and see how it is.
l hold in my hand the address published
by the famous convention held at Hartford,
Connecticut, on the 18th day of january,
1878. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont were
all represented in that convention. Among
the names Of those who represented Massa-
chusetts | see the name of one Samuel Sum
ner, who most likely at the same time trans
mitted his name and his treason to Charles
Sumner, the present Senator OF that State.-
Laughter and applause But that was
doubtless before the Sumner family had re-
solved to "make treason odious. TGreat
l"u9hter.] If you will indulge me, sir, [ will
read single extract from that address:
"Events may prove that the causes of our
calamities are deep and permanent. They
blindness OF prejudice, pride Of opinion, vio-
lence of party spirit or the con fusion of the
times, but they may be traced to implacable
combinations of individuals, or to States to
monopol1ze power and office, and to trample
without remOrse upon the rights and,interests
OF commercial sections of the Union When
ever 1t shall appear that these causes are rad
icai and permanent, separation by equitable
arrangement will be preferable to an alliance
by constraint, among nominal friends but real
cncmes, int1ancd by mutual hatred and jeal-
ousy, and inviting, by intestine divisions, con-
tempt aud aggresslons from Abroad
Here, sir, the right of a State to secede
from the Federal Union was promulgated in
New England as much as fifty years ago.
MAKING TREASON oD1oUs.
Mr.. Hanna, following up this view, quotes
from laws of the New England States nulii-
flying the fugitive slave law, which Mr. Webs
ster said was as binding as the Constitution
itself upon every officer of every State gov
ernmeut. Mr.. Hanna says:
A portion of the Southern States, it is true,
did put aside the Constitution, and set at
naught the powers of the Federal Govern
ment Now, New England says in doing this
they committed crime which can only be
explated by the hccatombs of thousand VIC
TINS, sacrificed upon thousand smoking al
tars! low many victims does she bring to
tie same altars, to be offered up by the same
priests, in atOnement for the same crimes p
lApplause. How many does she bring, sir
We want to hear no more lectures from that
quarter about constitutional obedience so long
as Charles Sumner lives to spread the tolls Of
their patent mischief; no more of turpitude
and gIbbets, while they themselves make a
mockery OF civilization by their adulations of
the crested criminals they nourish in their
midst-so long as Banks is tolerated, and
Butler runs at large. x y
The Radical party Is in favor of the disfran-
chisement of eleven great States, and of the
utter political extinction Of millions of Amer
lean citizens. The President and the entire
conservative element of the country are
against ft-[applausel against it, sir, because
such policy is antagOnistic to the genius of
the age-against it, because it would be un-
just vindictive, despotic, cruel, and disas-
trous [Cheers. AS | would spear the
wolf that delights to sweeten his tooth with
human blood, so l would hunt from the land
the worse than wild beast of that fanaticism
which has no pleasure above its savage RAJ
pacity, and no Office above the offices of cruel
ty and of death. [Great applause7 Away
with 1t, with its hates, its prosecutions, its
rancor, and its mlscries-away with it forev-
er, sir. Then new dayspring from on high
shall visit us-then the lost days of our pros
perity shall be restored-then the windows
of Heaven shall once more be opened, and
the long exiled minister of peace, shedding
from his white wings the ambrosiaI dews of
hope and joy upon our famished and fruitless
Garth, shall descend to us again and dwell
with US in the midst of increased confidence
and happiness. [Applagse.1
THE TRIUMPH OVER RADIcAL1sM AND THE
RESTORATION.