Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-08-16

PEELED as an honest man to pay the men for their
property thus taken improperly, and there is no an
swer 10 this argument. But this is not the first step
The first is the payment of their clams-al their
loss. Next is the pension of their soldiers, wild
ows, and orphans. Pension all or pension none,
aud the next is the slaves Aud perhaps next
Will come the rebel war debt.
DOCTRINE OF THE REBELLION STILL TAUGHT.
In the South they are to-day teaching in every
school, academy and college, the doctrine Of
State sovereignty and State rights the same
doctrine that they taught before the war. IL Is
taught in every democratic newspaper in the SOUTH
IN every book that they publish OF political
character, more industrlously than ever before.
That alarms nobody, and don't bear fruit to-day
or tomorrow but ii bears fruit in generation
or Two. The alarm and the dangers are, that the
south are now being taught these doctrines that
brought on the Rebellion. 1t is part Of every
young mans education. What are these doctrines :
That the States are sovereign and independent;
that each State is a nation, that our Government
Is a confederacy Is at the same time a combina-
ton OF collection OF states bound together by
treaty. Every State is a nation, indedendent and
sovereign, and are simply held together by
written agreement called compact. That was
the doctrine of Calhoun and is the doctrine of
Alexander ii. Stephens to-day, and IS that of
every leader of the Democratec party to-day in
the whole South. That made Rebellion possible;
it was seized upon by slavery. The idea is that
New York is one nation, and South Corolna is
another, Just the same as France and England,
having entered into treaty, and that instead of
having one nation We have thirty-elght nations;
il the Constitution should be suspended, we have
Thirty eight independent nations, just as indepen-
dent France and England When the rebel
lion came on they determined to secede; they in
sisted they had the right to withdraw at pleasure;
that they came voluntarily and could go out vol
unfairly. South Carolina could 20 out by the
same process that she came in. Virginia could
do the same thing. That doctrine is beng taught
in the South to-day. We cannot tell, no man
can tell, what may be before us.
THE NATIONAL DOCTRINE.
The Republican doctrine Is just the opposite of
this. With them il is one instead of thirty eight
nations That we are one people, inseparabe
and indlyisbe; that Oregon Is a part of this ma
ton. Just as Indiana is part of the same great
people, subdivided into States for local and do
nestle proposes, and these States have their lights
under the Constitution, sacred, inviolable and
mpregnable. We have no right to violate them.
They were given by the Constitution when
Oregon was admitted in to the Union. Congress
might have kept you out for q century. You
were made a state by an act of Congress. Every
night YOU have rs State is given to YOU by the
Constitution OF the United States. You agree to
this doctrine soon as you become a sovereign
State. We teach the doctrine OF nationality. 1t
is the only doctrine, my friends that can keep the
people together in the far future. Wherever we
are, wherever we go we are Americans. whether in
w
the sane rights, we belong to one people, and no
State has right to withdraw from the Union.
We teach the doctrine because it is safe to the
States. And because it is the only one upon
which the union can be preserved.
THE NEW POLITICAL STRUGGLE.
My friends, have spoken longer than intend
ed to. NV remarks have been desultory, aud
had no prear1anged speech. ] want TO say, in
conclusion, that the harmony and preservation OF
the Republican party is indispensable to the
prosperity and safety Of the L Mon. This is now
more so than ever before. There is solid South
against us. How long it will last do not know,
but.understand this is the situation to- day, and
that the South expects to WELD her sentiment us
one voice in the approaching political contest. 1t
is important therefore, that the North should
stand together; that you should stand together in
the great struggle that we shall not lose all we
have won. We must preserve the constitutional
amendments; we must preserve the fruits of the
war; all our interests both Democrats and Repub-
licans, are alike. If the people of the South
struggling for their own recuperation, they care
not zig for the Democracy of the North. Moth
ing has happened showing that they a whit
for them. They have not forgotten that the
Democracy of the North encouraged them to 20
into the rebellion, and made them believe they
would not permit the government to coerce
them to remain in the Union. But
they act with the Democratic. party of the
North, because they have an object The peo-
pie of the South have their own policy to carry
out, then own wrongs 20 redress, their own losses
to pay OIL. And they want to make the Northern
Democrats and Republicans pay for their losses,
and if We have TO pay them, the Northern Demo-
Gratis will have to pay their share. That will be
some consolation. The South-we have forgiven
them They cost half million of lives and six
thousand millions of dollars by their crimes.
There is scarcely a family in all this land in
which there is not vacant chair. But we forgave
them all that. All we ask is that they shall be
good citizens. We claim the rIUht there
live and have our opinions and access to
every privilege that give them when they
come here. With that we will be satisfied, and
with nothing else.