The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-05
ALIENS RECORD.
What the Cheerful Old Vallandig-
hamer was Saying Ten Years Ago.

EXTRACTS from the Hamilton Speech of Col. Wn
Allen, delivered September 10, 1868.
Three years ago this country wa
free; the country was prosperous
and over every acre of its soil ther,
prevailed law and order, peace anC
happiness. And then after few
more Introductory remarks in keep
ling with the first sentence uttered
he continued. Instead of the Sc
curity which this (peaee) gave, an6
which was enjoyed by every citizen
we are endangered for no other crime
than for opinions to have our houses
entered at midnight by armed men
and our people taken off to be tried
NOT before a jury, but before q
military inquisition, and for the
crime of thinking and condemned to
exile.
Now, what do they (the North J
want to do? They want to bring the
negroes back to the North, to make
room for him, to send as many white
men of our people as they can to the
war, to be killed. Now, my friends,
/ never justified this rebellion, nor
did ever justify the intermeddling
spirit that gave rise to this rebellion.
These abolitionists say slavery is
the cause Of the war; / say it was
not. They say slavery ought to be
exterminated; l say it ought not.
Cheers.
Nov, my friends, I tell you that
! never justified this resort to arms,
because l have believed that if one
more appeal had been made to the
public sence, the Democratic party
would have acquired sufficient
strength to have prevented this ter
terrible disaster.
The Chicago platform was a dec
laration Of war and hostility to the
people of the South, as being the
owners of slaves. That platform
acGs the origin of this qodr. When
they advanced that platform and
placed their candidate upon it, the
South saw that their safety consisted
In resisting his election at the polls,
and the whole nineteen States voted
in solid body against him. Now,
Mr.. Lincoln, be it remembered, came
in as the first President upon a sec
tional question.
What could the South do? The
North had shown that it not only had
the power Of selzing on the whole
country, but the government, and
the South barely stood by, knowing
what they had to expect at the hands
of their masters. What could the
South do If Lincoln and his gang
chose to pass laws 20 abolish slave
ry? What use would.it be for the
South to say, "Oh, here's the Consti-
tutionp Mr. Lincoln had nothing
to do but to say,''I don't so construe
the Constitution; ], A. Lincoln, be- |
ing elected by the Northern States, |
have a right to do what 1 please with |
the Southern States" What could |
the South do? There it was. Now, !
who ever heard of man willing to |
hold his rights and interests subject |
to the will, caprice, and good plea
sure Of another man2 I put that
question to you in regard to your
own private affairs.
We put down South Carolina
nullifeation, and how? By calling
put 10000 men? No. By murder
ing seven or eight thousand men2
By making a million and a half of
orphans in this country? That's
lot the work that Democrats have
lone. These bloody scenes were
reserved for the abolitionists to pro-
luce.
Lincoln has shed enough blood
20 float the Great Eastern, and how
much nearer the end does be get.
His cry is still for blood. The adj
stands on tip toe every
lay, with its eyes distended and its
lrms stretched forth, calling to the
American people for more blood and
more money. And their preachers
those Chicago priests, who went
o Detroit to get Lincoln to bite the
orbidden fruit, to commit the first
.ct, the initial sin, by the publica-
ion of an act emancipating the
laves. These priests.
Iwould not like to have met those
elbows; they went down, canting
nd whining, their mouths all
for the blood of the people.
Every one of them thought that
Sod had made it his special bust
ess to go and beg Lincoln to COM
lence the business of numbering
he American people.
One of two things must happen. ..
f these abolitionists succeed, they !,
an only do so by destroying the
tate Governments of the South,
nd thereby destroy, ia fact, the
yhole State Governments, of the /:
forth. They can only succeed by
q despOtism, garrison :
lg the whole of the South, seven :
+ eight hundred thousand strong,
be cost, nay, the interest of which
rould take the best farms from un-
e- your feet. And this would not
e the greatest evil should they sue
eed. Here are four millions of ne !
roes; they have hitherto been kept :
n that side of the line, merely be-
ause they couldn't come this side
f it. If the Abolition party sue
eeds, all we have to do will be to :
lake our preparations to go from I
he region towards which the negro :
ravitates. These negroes will y
ONE flocking over our river by the L
undred thousand. Now what do
on want with them? They will 7
ccupy the place left vacant by the 9
murdered white men, who have been =
murdered in order that these negroes +
lould get a chance of settling here. T
They commence bringing in the
igger to push off the Irishman and
not because they are al i
ogether angry with those people for I
oting the Democratic ticket, though I
lat is a great reason, but 1 will a
Ill you, my friends if this abolition l
arty succeed in breaking up our Y