Year: 1861

anu hoie IelyIuS upon CHelT leaueTS lOf /
public information, and therefore more
liable TO be misled than Northern people
Nevertheless, have confidence in the
Southern people; and the result of the |
great conflict in Kentucky assures me
that the Southern heart is with the people
sound to the core. Though terrified in
TO seeming Secession, with the exception
of one or two States in the South, am
wei. satisfied .hat'if the question of I'm
ion or Disunion was submitted to the
people to-day an overwhelming vote
would be given for the Union and its
Stars and Stripes, [Applause.] Every
; indication has shown that whenever there
has been an election in any Southern
State, and fair opportunity given, you
have seen that the Union sentiment has
prevailed. You will see that it is by
military power, threats, intimidation. de-
structioa, murder, and arson that they
have succeeded in getting in advance of
the cause OF Secession. In some States,
as for instance Louisiana. they never
submitted the question to the people at all
1t is base humbug of Davis, Cobb and
Co. to place themselves in power. The
election of political opponent is never
cause OF Secession or for disturbance;
and if those Secession leaders ad oppo-
sed the election of Mr.. Lincoln from the
time of the Charleston Convention with
half the pertinacity and force that I did,
he never would have been elected. /
charge in all my public speeches that
they connived al that election; and the
same has been charged ONE upon them
by their own people in the South. Their
time had come, 1t must go, or they


would be ruined. They remind me of


a little boy who wants to ride horse.


Those in the city get them a hobby


horse and they ride that. Country
boys get astride of a stick, and they


ride that. This knot of office-seekers


failing to get horse to ride, or even a


hobby. have mounted this poor stick of q


Southern Confederacy ,and are riding tha.
1t is Just such ambition as caused the


angels in heaven to rebel 1t was moi
because we had not good Government


but because they could no: rule it. Cal


them Democrats. or entitled to sympa-


of-Democrats, with arms in their hands


against their Government, and their hands


red with the blood of our murdered cli-


zens! They are enemies of their coun.


try; they are traitors against the Flag


and the Constitution, and as such I ar
raign them in the name of Christianity


| arrai gn them in name of the fathers o.
the Revolution, who poured out thei,


blood to gain tire Liberty transmitted te


US. l arraign them in the name of the


soldiers who marched barefoot to secure


our blood bought Liberty. l arraigr
them il the name of the holy memories
of the women of the Revolution, whose
pure and gentle hearts were crushed ant


broken. In the great Day of Accounts


the savage Brant and more savage But


Ter, that deluged the beautiful valley D
the Wyoming with blood, will stand W
and whiten their crimes in comparison
with the perfidy of the men who nov
attempt to divide and destroy this Unior


The ferocious instincts Of the savage
taught him that he might be doing du


ty to his people; but these men were
dorm in land of civilization, and bap
tized in the name cf the holy Trinity and
they should be held to an account fol
the abuse of the trust which has baer


confded to them. Who are these mer
in arms against the Governmental


arms against the Union? They are mer
who have been educated at its expense
been laden with its honor-been pamper
ed at its Treasury. If we perish we may
say with the poet over the stricken ca


gle:


keener were the pang yet keener far to
feel,


He nursed the pinion which impelled
the srce),


While the same plumage that had war


med bis breast,


) Drank the last lfe'drop of his bee ding
2 heart.


II the Union is stung to the heart, i
must be melancholy reflection that We
d. reared the men to do it, and like the de-
mented Lear, we shall learn


GLOW sharper than serpent tooth i
e is,


q To have a thankless child


1 that we have nourished and brought VI
, children. and they have rebelled againt
. the institutions of their country. W
!, have seen, by the actions of the borde
r Slave States that it is not their intention
# TO permit this Government TO be subver
S ted Every crime known in the cata
n logue of dcpravity, from treason to Ian