The Portland daily press., 1867-07-26


mn, - r,ooroia but he "lies like Sam
Hill," and it may not be unreasonAD'o " sus-
pect degree of consanSulhi'y !" "ooouh' lor
this moral and intellectual resemblance. we
49,, apon HILL" not affecting an undue famil-
ior;tv but because we find him SO designated
in the Atlanta Intelligencer, from which we
copy certain portions of the honorable gentle-
mans speech delivered in that city on the 10Th
inst. They are the more worthy of note, be-
cause We are assured by a correspondent, that
the speech was delivered before large audi
ence and applauded to the echo. MIR. Hiii
states his theory of the war and its consequent
ces as follows:
We have had war which ragged furiously
four years 1t originated simply in differ
ence Ofopinon as toour rights under tne Con,
stitution. This difference existed from the
Grst IT existed among the trainers of the Con-
st tution.-It could not the settled by argu-
ment. and an appeal was made to the sworu
II ,vos an open manly fight. There was noth-
;no secret or ambiguous in the issue. IL was
w8.ed by men Influenced IN ths inSs:es Wy
e3triotic emotions on both sides; anu IL was
not to destroy the Constitution, Dut 10 assert
ON each side their different views. On our
side it was asserted that the states were sepa-
rate and independent sovereigntles, ana that
the Constitution was compact, which each
Marty was at liberty to dissolve at WILL and so
p .ya Seeded and declared ourselves out of the
Union. On the other hand, it was contended
that we were not out Of the Union-notwith-
standing our secession acts; and that the Con-
stitution was not compact, but a bind
ing law upon the States resulting from
a compact, and Therefore no one of the num-
ber could dissolve the connection at will. Up
on this issue we went to war. The war was
fought till We laid down our arms and agreed
to what our enemies said-that we were in the
Union. 4l-
L shall discharge the obligation of the am
nesty oath. 1t required me to support the
Constitution and the emancipation of the ne
gro, and do. will not bind my soul to a
new slavery, to hell, by violating it. talk
| plainly, but l-simply want to strike through
| the incrustation of the hardened conscience,
| and make men feel and realize their true situ-
| alton. ,t. .,t..t. ...a.sas i. .tr
Now, affirm that these military bills are
not only contrary to the Constitution, but di-
rectly in the face of the amnesty oath you were
| required to take after the surrender 1t is nv
business to support the Constitution, and nv
duty and pleasure to persuade others to do so
Some of you who favor the ACCEPTANCE of the
military bills take an oath to this effect, and
still intend to vote for a convention which
| you admit to be ordered contrary to the Con
| stitution! How is this? Ii you have 4
conscience, 1 have said enough. If you
vote for convention you are per
jured! Tremendous applause.] o! pity
l
| been taught what an oath is, nor what the
| Constitution means. They are drawn up by ;
| selfish conclave of traitors to infiict; death
blow upon the life Of the Republic by swear
ing them to a falsehoOd! They are to begir
their political life by perjury to accomplish
treason! would not visit the penalty upor
them. They are neither legally nor moral,
responsible, but it is yo1-educated, designing
white men-who thus devote yourselves to th,
unholy work-who are the guilty parties
You prate about your loyalty! I look YOU i,
the eye anc denouhce you! lApplause.] Yol
are morally and legally perjured traitorsi Yol
| perjure yourself and periure the Door negro {.
help your treason! Immense applause.
You can escape 1t! You may boast Of it now
while passion is rife, but the time will com
when the very thought will wither YOUR SOU
and Nuke you hide from the face of mankind
Would that the time had never come when
had to stand upon Georgia's soil and thus tall
to Georglans; A struggle is coming. It ma
he long and bloody one, and you who ad
vocate this wicked scheme will perish in il
unless the people now arouse and check it
consummation. Let every true law-Ioyin,
man rally at once to the standard of the Con
s1tu.lon Of ms country lApplause.] Come
Talk for them, and if need be, before God ant
the country fight and die for them TEnthusi
astic and prolonged applause.] Do not talk O
think OF secession or disunion, but come up t,
the good old platform of our fathers-the Con
stitutfon. / advise you to reject this schem
Of force$1raud and deceit which Congress ha
devised. II you ofyour own free will, submit
20 9lt, y9n viii VIII see the consequences oft 30
aayise you TO register There is no dishon
or IN tnat. 1t Is arming yourself with an i'm
portant power to be welded against the nefa
rious scheme, but don't vote for Convention
don't go for anything whatever which is an as
Step Nevesrn ssns%e ao PVT be against it at
compromise with treason or robbers. ffthe1 ~
| hold convention, vote against ratification
vote against all their measures and men, and
!ndlct every one who, under such authority
| lnvades your rights according to existing
State laws. That's my policy. Fight this
scheme all the time. have no more idea O
obeying than John Hampden had of payine
shlp-money, because have taken an oath IL
support the Constitution, and intend to keeI
| it, l.. r t. - Ir-1- - ~
MY colored friends, will you receive word
| OF admoni.ion? OF all the people. Won will
most need the protection of the law You will
most suffer by anarchy and usurpation. DE-
YOU peueve mat the man who is faithless tt
| the ConstiIutloR OF the country will be faithful
to you? LII man wilt take an oath to supDor1
the Consultation and then violate it. can YOU
| rely upon has keeping any promise to Won
NO. eeil you such people are friends to moth.
| ing put Ineir own interest. They are betrayers
OF the Constitution to keep them selves in of
hce' tney desire to use You to help them gel
once, lapplausel and they will betray YOU
Whenever they find it to their interest to do SO
| Iney tell you they are your friends 1t is
false; they are your very worst enemies. They
tell you they set you free. 1t is false These
vie Creatures who come among you and put
themselves on level with you, never went
with the army except to steal spoons, .iewelry
ars and go gold ioS watches e [Great applause They
spawn, cast out from decent society, who come
down here andask to use you to further their
own base purposes. ia' .ff ...l -
Happily this atrocious folly is not universal.
There are the Southern men, late Confederate
soldiers who like Gen. Longstreet accept
the stern verdict of war in different spiritr
who do not pirate about the constitution they
hung away; nor buster about fighting and
dying, after neglecting the excellent opportu-
nifty which for four years was open to them.
One Of these brave men, Judge A. C.. Fielder,
spoke at Opelika,i Alabama, on the Fourth.
Judge Fielder had no carefully written manu-
script for the reporter like Mr.. Hill; so that in
stead of his very words, we are obliged to be
content with his honest thoughts which we
find sketched in the Alabama Sentinel as fol-
lows: ,,., ,4.b ,f,.+oo,s.. .5..-5
%. Judge Fielder then took the stand and said
that he was opposed TO the abolition ofslavery,
that he fought in the rebel my for the
slaves. and although he had been whipped and
struction as the most liberal and magnanimous
terms ever offered to a conquered people,
showed that the Southern people entered into
the ,!1 contest considering that their property,
liberty and life were staked upon the issue.
He claimed that the South did secede
and every man who espoused the cause.
severed his allegiance to the United
States Government and debarred himself
from the privilege of demanding their
constitutional rights-that theylhave no rights
but what may be in mercy given by the Con-
quering seetion. He denies that the Republi-
can piatf&m which he fully approved, necessi-
tates asoeial equality of the races Judge r.
addressed the meeting in speech of about
one hour and half He made an able and
strong argument in favor ofspeedy restoration,
and gave the colored citizens sound advice in
regard to their new relations
MARSHAL O'DoNNELL ON MEx1co.-M.
Theirs, in his recent speech on Mexican affairs
in the French Corps Legislatif, quoted an opin-
ion of Marshal ODonnel, expressed in Jan.