The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-08-30
Speech Of Hon. j. A. Bingham.
(coScLupED FROM FIRST PAGE.)

SUPPOSED cREDULIrY OF THE PEOPLE.
They must calculate largely upon
the credulity AID ignorance, if may
be pardoned the word, of the Amer
lean people, when they dare TO init
mate that secession from this Union,
and confederation between one anoth-
er, is constitutional remedy. And.
my conntrymen, might add, in this
connection, another word, which is,
that these gents must calculate large
upon the credality and upon the ig
norance of the American peOple,
when, after the role that they have
played inthe name of the Democra
cy, and States rights, and State soy
ereignty, they dare come before the
American people, and ask that peo
Pile to intrust them with the great
powers of civil administration again.
only to betray the trust, and drench
the land again IN blood.-' If there be
another rebellion in this land of ours
-if these heavens shall again be GOV
cred with darkness-if this land shall
again be rid, ed all over with the
graves of the young manhood of the
nation, fallen in an unmatched strug
gle to maintain the Government and
institutions which our fathers gave
US. it will be the fault OF the people
of this country, who WELD to the ON
nipotent power OF the ballot in the
coming election. 1t requires no pro
phetic vision to foresee 1t. The elec-
tions of 1867 and 1868 determine the
future peace of the republic. Let
the men who saved the nation through
four years of unprecedented strug
gle, sending million and halt of
armed men away from the quiet and
enjoyment of home, TO perish upon
the field of deadly conflict that the
nation might live, rally in their
might. from Maine to California, from
the lakes to the gulf, and by their
ballots declare that none but these
who are faithful to the flag and to-
the Upion, who were for the supre- |
macy of the laws, and for the triumph
of the arms of the republic, shall be
intrusted With power in the coming
contest, and you will hear no more
of rebellion, in the name and by the
authority of State sovereignty, dur
ing the present century. Let men
falter and take up some fossilated
Democrat and elect him to the Leg
islature of the State, and to the Ma
tional Legislature. and select a simi
lar character and elect HIM President
of the United States, and you will
have the terrible drama of blood re-
enacted. Elect such man, and the
moment South Carolins secedes
again, and calls upon her sister States
to secede, you will have Democrat
ic President whining through his
nose like one of Dean Swift sniff
tiers, after the manner of that crook
ed necked, crooked sOuled leader OF
the Democratic party. Jeemes Bu-
that it is unconstitutional
to coerce seeded States. Elect such
d man as Pendletou or Vallandigham
10 your Congress, and the moment
rebellion lifts its unholy hand against
the sanctity of your Constitution and
of your laws, you whl
have the one, as he declared upon
the opening of This rebellion, pro-
secession an accomplished ,
fact; and the other, as he declared ;
upon the opening of this rebellion,
declaring it unconstitutional TO raise
men In defense of national life. That,
you know, and every other intelli- ,
gent man knows, is their record. ,
SUDDEN REGARD eFoR THE NATIONS s
5a -fi CREDIT 1o.ls'e-nf's <
They have Of late manifested great
anxiety for the finances of this coun
try. One of the strangest and most
performances that these
gentlemen who are in the cause oi
the organization kpOwn as the Dem
Dcratlc party in the State OF Ohio, is
that high marked anxiety manifested
by Mr. Pendleton about the redemp
lion of the fve-twenty bonds. Ia 8
his speech, which Is being scattered Z
like TIE leaves of autumn all over the
country, he is telling the people that 5
it is all important that there should |
be issued at once a sufficient amount q
Of legal tender notes Tor the REDEEM :
Lion of all the iye-twenty bonds is
sued by the Government for the {
of law and the preserva- {
lion of the Union, and that the Gov Il
ernment should require their imme 9
date exiting guishment in that curren a
cy. -s1sl sved -~v rrct- Il.
Now, my countrynen, I desire to
say to you, that the gentleman in the t
same speech is telling the people to
stand by their Constitution; and /
wish to drop in a word here from t
his own month, as an answer to his t
for the Constitution, and I
IS an indication of the amount OF q
Importance that should be attached t
TO his suggestion on this subject, and d
that is this: When you had your ar 5
my of three hundred thousand men t
Or more. in the field, in the winter of Q
1862, and you could not command |;
enough of the currency then known p
10 the commercial world TO sustain a
that army thirty days; when your d
bonds which You had issued on the d
credit of the nation were rejected in a
State street, Boston, and Wall street, S
New York, SIS collateral security, and n
The attempt was made by law in the q
Congress of the United States to fur t
1ish the necessary supplies to that D
army, to furnish the necessary shell Il
.er, clothing, transportation, mum: n
ions of war, to give opportunity at
east of achieving victory il the field, f
and saving the Constitution and b
American nationality. and every in b
,titution that you and +, and every O
other man in this land, hold dear on n
his side Of the grave. this same Geo. q
4. Pendleton arose in his place, un- Il
Ter the obligations OF his oath as a n
representative of the people of Ohio, Ill
md declared that to isssne your legal b
enders was unconstitutional. be- a
ievs the Constitution in that behalf is
las not been changed from that day v
20 this; and horg4 comes it that to- q
isy he asks the American people to al
make Gu issue Of Aepsn hundred mit. u