The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-08-28
WILLIAM ALIENS RECORD.
What the Cheerful Old YalIandIgham-
or Was Saying Ten Years Ago.
charaetsrisIIe Views or The Man who
Wants 10 be Governor.


charaefsrisiIe views or The Man Hh,
Wants 10 be Governor.
Extracts from the Hamilton speech q
, 10Th, 1857 =
The speaker began thus:
Three years ago this country was
ireei the country was prosperous, and
over every acre Of its soil there pre-.
vailed law and order, peace and hap
piness. And then after a few more
Introductory remarks in keeping with
the flrst sentence uttered, he eOntin-
ued:l Instead of the security which
TINS tpeace) gave, and which was en-
lJoyed by every citizen, we are now
endangered for no other crime than
Tor our 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 a militia
~ lnquisition, and for the crime OF
thinking and condemned to exile.
Now what do they the NoFthl want
TO do! They want to bring the ne
tgroes back to the North, to make
room for him, to send SIS many white
men Of our people as they can to the
war to be killed. Now my friends,
l never justified this rebellion, ReF did
4 ever Justify the intermeddling spirit
that gave being to this rebellion.
These abolitionists say slavery is the
cause Of the war; say Il Is not. They
say slavery ought to be exterminated;
I say 1t ought not. [Cheers.]
Now, my friends, 1 tell you that L
never justified this resort to arms, be-
cause have believed that If one more
appeal had been made to the public
sense, the Democratic party would
have acquired sufficient strength to
have prevented this terrible disaster.
The Chicago platform was a decla-
ration of war and hostility to the peo-
pie of the South, as being the owners
of slaves. That platform was the true
origin of the war. When they adj
vaneed 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
fifteen States voted in a solid body
against him. Now, Mr.. Lincoln, be
it remem bered, came in as the first
President upon sectional question.
What could the South do? The
North had shown that it not only had
the power of seiZing 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 il Lincoln and his gang chose to
pass laws to abolish slavery? What
use would it be for the South to say,
"Oh, here's the Constitution ?D Mr..
Lincoln had nothing to do but TO say,
81 don't so construe the Constitution;
i, A. Lincoln, being elected by the
Northern States, have a right to do
what / please with the Southern
States" What could the South do T?
There it was. Now, who ever heard
of q man willing to hold his rights
and interests subject to the will, ca
price, and good pleasure of another
man? l put that question to you in
regard to your own private affairs.
We put down South Carolina nuIli-
fieation, and how? By calling out
seventy-five thousand men? No. By
numbering seven or eight hundred
thousand men? By making a mill
ion and half of orphans in this coun-
try? That's not the work that DEM
ocrats have done. These bloody
scenes were reserved for the abolition
lists to produce.
Lincoln has shed blood enough to
float the Great Eastern, and how
much nearer the end does he get. His
cry is still for blood. The administra-
ton stands ON tiptOe every day, with
its eyes distended, and its arms
stretched forth calling on the Ameri.
can people for more blood and more
money. And their preachers-thOse
fl>kaago priests that went to Detroit
10 get Lincoln to bite the forbidden
fruit, to commit the first act, the ini-
tial sin, by the publication of an act
emancipating the slaves. These
priests,-I would not like to have met
these fellows; they went down can't
ing and whining, their mouths ALT the
way watering for the blood Of the peO-
pie. Every one of them thought that
God had made it his special business
to go and beg Lincoln to commence
the business of numbering the Ameri-
can people. --yst-
One of two things must happen. If
these abOlitionists succeed, they can
only do so by destroying the State
governments Of the South, and there
by destroy, III fact, the whole State
governments of the North; they can
only succeed by establishing despot-
ism, garrisoning the whole Of the
South with men seven or eight hun
;dred thousand strong, the cost, nay,
the interest of which would take the
best farms from under your feet. And
this would not be the greatest evil
should they succeed. Here are four
millions of negroes, they have hither-
merely because they couldn't come on
this side of it. Ii the Abolition party
succeeds, all we have TO do will be TO
make our preparations to go where
breadstuffs are cheap, and go from the
region towards which the negro gravi-
tates. These negroes will come flock
ing over our river by the hundred
thousand. Now what do you want
with them? They will occupy the
place left vacant by the murdered
white men; men who have been muir
dered in order that these negroes
should get q chance of settling here.
They commence bringing in the mig
ger to push of the Irishman and the
Dutchman, not because they are alto
gether angry with those people for
voting the Democratic ticket, though
that Is q great reason; but tell you,
my friends, II this abolition party sue
ceeds in breaking up our government,
in breaking up the State governments
and trampling on the Constitution,
the next thing they viii do will be to
| inaugurate religious war. They
will appeal TO the religious prejudices
of the country; they will band the
disciples Of Knox and Wesley against
the followers of the head of the Cath
oIic Church; they will say, 1--WE have
succeeded in one crusade; we have
succeeded in sending our legions TO
emancipate the negroes of the South
when we had no right; we sent our
army to Syria to fight for the Holy
Land; now let the Peter the Hermit
make another crusade against the
Church of Rome"
Icy.
! Tho Ohio nanaoorotia oftu0fior, IL