Year: 1862

include the negro IN that declaration. if they in
! tended that the negro should stand shoulder to
shoulder with the white man at the ballot box,
they were the greatest set OF fools in the world
/ that they did not say so. Why did not they then
declare that the slaves in Massachusetts, and in
Virginia and Maryland, and in New York, free,
I if they belieyed that they were so created? Did
they do sol Not one word of il. Ii was the
white man who was their equal, and who then
engaged their attention, and for whose welfare
they we're concerned.


But now the thing is changed. The negro
now engages the thoughts OF these righteous
men, and they are ready to sacrifice the Govern
ment if they can not free the negro, and turn
four millions of blacks loose upon the country.
Away with such talk When you hear Love
JOY preaching such doctrine. tell him to go and
preach is to the negro. and let white men alone.
call upon all who have watched the course of
these men to say for which they have shown, by
their acts and by their votes in Congress, the
greatest anxiety, the Constitution or the negro?


Let me say few words in regard to our friend,
| Mr.. Chase. He is our banker, you know. When
our army had invaded the Southern States, and
captured few nets and islands along the coast,
Mr.. Chase, not having enough 20 do, took it into
his head to commence raising cotton at the pub
lie expense, and to supply the whole country with
the staple in that way He employed some forty
one agents to assist him in his enterprise; and
among these agents was one man from the State
of Ohio by the name of Pierce, or Price think
it was, and recollect seeing a report made by
the man to Secretary Chase.


Gen. Hunter, the commandant of our forces,
conceived the grand idea, contrary to law, and
contrary to the feelings of every honest man in
the country, of armng and drilling the ne
groes for service against their masters He issu-
ed proclamation declaring all the negroes free.
He set himself to work to raise regiment of
"lOyal citizens as he termed the blacks. He
drummed about for considerable time, aud got
ttosnfy, ,fue? In the next place, finding that tina
would not do, he sent soldiers out to Chases colt
ton plantation. to raise negro recruits by force
So the soldiers came out and hunted the negroes.
down. They drove them out of the houses, and
from under the beds, and from every secret hi
ding place where they had taken refuge, saying,
with tears in their eyes-Would that our old mas
tiers would come back. Our masters never treat
ed so badly as that


They were uniformed with white trowsers and
striped jackets-and Hunter raised his regiment.
but Chase's cotton plantation was broken up


Now, sirs, if you white men of the loyal States
are not able to maintiin the authority of the
Government and restore the Union without the
help of the negroes, you are not worthy the name
your fathers gave you. | say TO these men, take
your negroes to Lowell with you-take them
away. and get out of the army yourselves. Let
loyal, honest patriotic men take your places, and
In less than six months we will have the Union
restored


What right has the Federal Government to in
terfere with the slaves of Virginia of Ken
tucky? | will not take time to read the publish
ell declaration of the President himself that he
had no right under the Constitution to interfere
with slavery. But, our country having become
involved in war through the injustice and viii
lainv of Abolitionists and Secessionists the case
is altered wonderfully. They say now that they
have a right to take my slave and make him evi-
dence against me- They have already made him
a competent witness in Washington City, and |
do not know how long it will be until he will be
sitting by my side in Congress. if should ever
be foolish enough to go Iqere again, or my fell
low citizens foolish enough to send me.


The Constitution, in its restrictions upon the
representatives of the people, is no more regarded
by the party now in power in that Congress than
you regard your last years almanac. | say the
party nov in power. There is but one party
there. They call themselves Republican, but |
can not conscienliously recognize them as dong
any thing else than Carrying out the principles of
the old Abolition party. These men sent for
Greeley to come to Washington he came, and
lectured upon what the Government ought to do
in the crisis. After Greeley came Wendell





the United States is "an agreement with death
and a covenant with hell, the man who said in
Congress and in the hearing of the military of
this nation, that he had been nineteen years stri
wing to take nineteen States out of the Union.
Thank God, it was now at length accomplished,
and all that was wanting for his complete salts
faction was the freedom of all the slaves.


Fellow citizens, what are you to do if the war
is conducted upon the principles which your adj
rOcdtes of the<syittenden resolutions uoted for ?
How do you expect this Union TO be reinstated
l have said the leaders should be punished-when
you catch them; but YOU know you must catch
the rabbit before you cook him. This party has
already proclaimed the confiscation of the entire
estate of six different classes of citizens, and
when you come to look into the matter you will
find that within those six classes is embraced ev-
cry grown man and woman in the eleven States
The bill lately passed by Congress authorizes the
President take their properly and confscate il,
to the last dollar. Now when you have taken
all the mans property and confiscated it and
turned his family out of doors, who will then
keep house? Who is then to enjoy the good
things that abound there? The negro. Will
you support such war as that? No, never
You are for war to restore the Union and the
Constitution, but you will never yield your sup
port to such infamous measures as these.


Now, what is to become of these negroes? Do
you want them in Indiana?


How many of these negroes are now clothed
and fed by the money which you voted to feed
your and brothers and neighbors in the
armyl Not less than thirty thousand. | recol-
lect seeing one company of these creatures that
had been captured by Major General Mcdowell,
consisting mainly of old women with babies in
their arms While Mcclellan was in need of an
army to sustain his right wing, Mcdowell was
catching negroes away upon the Rappahannock.
That is what has thrown us back in this war a
whole year. 1t is that that has compelled the
Government to call for three hundred thousand
additional volunteers to retrieve the falling for
tunes of our arms. hope that if the President
wants that army for the purpose of sustaining
the Constitution and the Union, he will get it.


Fellow Citizeas-I have one more word to say
in parting with you. 1t is in regard to your fu-
ture course in view of the great issue before you
Let me say to you. maintain your principles as
men, but let all your actions be governed by the
principle that this Union must be preserved and
let the negro take care of himself


And when this battle is over-when the Union
shall be restored, as | hope it will be. then, fel-
low citizens, if this Abolition party shall still
continue to distract the peace and quiet of the
country, | trust we will have a Fort Warren to
put them in.


At the close of Mr.. WIoKLIFFE's speech, three
cheers were given for Kentucky, and then three
for the venerable speaker, when


Mr.. HEsDRIcKs said, last April one year ago,
the war commenced at Fort Sumter. State after
State went out, and among the others Virginia
Under the leadership of gallant young states
man. a new State was formed out of Western
Virginia. That gallant young statesman. JoHs
5. CAELlLE. now have the honor of introducing
TO you.