Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-08
AUGUST 81 1863. Il

ally strong. But 1 beg YOU to recolIect
there is yet ih Heaven a God of Justice,
who rules the destinies of men, and before
whom the race is not always to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong. Before his
tribunal you must answer for the penalty
of the violated bond. And when you of
the North shall be summoned there to meet
the accusation of haoing forced the bonds OF
thts ,Gnion qsatnder, srecollectlII pray you,
recollect, that your sires will be there
that the compact they made for You will be
there-=-tfiatt the proof Of its vtolation will be
there-and that the avenging arm of JUS
tee will be, there. ,,-.;f,.tT -
Talk not to me about the ,urong that you
say yonr fathers; did to the cause OF
humanity, when they made this compact.
They did no wrong, and you asperse their
memory by the charge against them that
they did. They Gid an act which for sub
lime grandeur was never eqnailed amongst
the governments of the world. They gath
cred together the atoms that were fioatiag g
through ~ political chaos andss moulded
them lnto 9 form of government the most
beautiful that the. world ever saw. They
trusted In Divine Providence, who directed
the work OF their hands, and when that
workowas finished, God looked out upon it
and / saw that itrCwas gpod.noI i beseech
you that yon do, not mar its beauty, that
you let it stand, as it has stood since the
days of your fathers. with its pillars deeply
planted In ouEr soil--every Where, n both
North and South-that the world, by our
example, may yet be led to throw off the
shackles of political oppression n9iiB o.
EiBat you say that the rSoath threatens to
go out of the Union, and If she will go,
let her 60. The South loves the Union
asSuwelli as the North. She has, more
than, once. and upon many O. battle field,
mingled her blood with the blood of the
North, ,Iln defense of the Union, and If an
allen foe to its integrity shall eyer assail 1t,
while 1t exists, she will do so again. She
will forget her own wrongs, if she has
them, to defend, with the life of her best
sons, the common. honor of the whole
country, She does not, desire to go ont of
the Union. But she comes into it upon
terms OF political eQudlity y-and when you sect
to degrade her--to mock her Installations which
you of the North helped her to create-to ds7
sail her honor and her inteqrity, which are
as dear to her as life-when you seek to
place her in dependence on ao,tr po,ce,. and
bounty, IN violation of your constitutional
compact, shall she stand still and submit to
the. degradation without murmur or COM
plant! She would be fdithless to the ad-
monitions of her great statesmen If she
did. The North would not do it. The
North would not remain in Union where
she had to be disgraced and degraded. The
North would not submit to dignity, and
TO contumely and reproach. ~ e
WHAT THE SPEAKER THINKS OF THE RADICAL
iHf 10 REPUBLICAN, PARTY. -I Z1i-s3lt
This newly organized party is opposed
to letting these things alone. They will
talk about them. They will get up public
Thar I5olnvis - too,i ~, II, ao;t,S ei,i
aroused that Won NAV mt bu enU Sort arSf ns
possibilinv- he able tn soc things cooIIv 'o,,d
dispassionateIv. as Won once ssxv than, hnt
only while under the influence of passion
fore they. put that into the ton middle
bottom and sides of their niattnrmi The,
have. nethino else there, it is ,U slavery
And then to preyent the nossihijitv IF
their being founa in the NortS anv bc5sn
who is hardy enough to Question them MI or
their policy. thew denonnce every man .s'a
slough facsn who refuses to stultify himself
how the thing, works M. wilson. of Mas.
sachusetts, (Senator WILSON, the great drill
sergeant of the, Massachusettss ,,n,lifers.
who came out here lately as a poliIicai
missionary to us, in his speech at Indiana
polls, and by virtue of the authority de-
puted to him from the headouarters of
Eastern Aboltionisna, Commanded ,his' d1ti-
fn1 followers in this State that ssthe breed of
doughfdces" should be "exter7ninated. And
forthwith the whole artillery of Abolition
ism was opened upon every man who
dared to utter national sentiments,
or to claim that the South had any share In
the government of: the Union a. Extermi-
nate them How? By-not letting them
have any offices, of course-that is what
they mean. They have no idea above
SLAVERY and o1ice. If they can only extermi-
nate slavery and all the national men in the
North, then they'll have all the o5fcesx That
Is the summit of their ambition high
est point OF their hopes. Office that's it.
tell you that the thirst for office In this
country Is the greatest curse with whiehit
mas yet been afflicted. When this passion
oncei seizes upon a certain class Of men,
they move Heaven and earth to crafty
it: There is nothing they win not dol
They will lawn and cringe at the feet of
power like spaniel dogs and lick the very
foot that kicks them. They will say any
thing or DO any thing they are commanded
and throw them by again with as little
concern as If they were old clothes. This is
the class of men who are engaged In ex-
terminating national men In the North. AS
they think that, no man can1ohave
q higher motive than to qet an ONCE,
go they threaten that nobody shall
have the Offices but themselves Now, L
profess to be q national man-neither afraid
or ashamed to stand up here, or anywhere
else, and speak what L believe to be the
truth of hfstory-to1 defend the South when
/ believe she is wroneed, and to 'reb,,kef tbe
North for designing to wrong her. I dare
to do ali this, and more if il shall he neces.
sarv,and bava tba nowar IN tba yer,r go
of their threats nd their dennnci atin1s
care not what thew call me. so long ass i
have tha annrovaI of INV ou,S oanon;anoa
and feel that am rioht AZ for t6a;r nffsoes
I deshise them Tben os JiNs sn,
mt RI he one nf the y;ct;,,,s of tb;s a,.ta,l gu
,,nnatnral consniraoa aooiust The asoce of The
U,ion in such terms SS nav e%nioG oono ~'o
sistentlv with nv own seitNrasnant GA III tha
respcct have for those to whom address add sse