Year: 1862

the South and from the corrupt machins


tons OF Aoolillonists in the North. Th


people must come forth with the Tag of ou


country in one hand, the Constitution i


the other, and say-For this we will spill


our blood, for this we will expend on


treasure but we will not do it it to carr,


out the sect.oral aim Of any party that ma,
seek to aggrandize itself under the name o
the United States and by means of its ar


mics.


1t has been often charged-nay, it ha
been made the very watch word of party
that slavery caused this war, aud tha
slavery must be extinguished before we evel
have peace and quiet under the present
Constitution. When was that position as.
sumed by the party now in power? Was
1t in Jsly, 1861, when by an unanimous
vote of all the Republicans in both Houses
OF Congress il was declared that the war
had been brought on the country by the Sc
cessionists of the South, and that we waged
it IN no spirit of revenge, but to maintain
lhe Constitution and the Government, aud
TO secure the enforcement of the laws, the
'ne restoration or peace, the reduction of
. The rebellion in arms, the protection of
each State when thus conquered in all her
rights under the Constitution and to pro-
tect the cit zens of every State in the en-
joyment of all their personal rights and do
r1esiic institutions bg tbe power of the Gen.
era, Government give you the substance
of the VOTE


With this declaration, after the unfortu-
nate affair az Bull Run, we appealed to
the patriotism of the people for an army to
carry out these principles, with the assur-
ance that when those principles had been
vindieated, the war was to cease. Was not
that the language addressed TO you when
you were called upon to give up your
brothers and sons and neghbors and friends
to go forth with their lives in their hands.
upon the field of battle? Did auy man
then dare to intimate that this war should
not cease until every slave in the United
States was emsncipated? Now we have
that as watchword of the Abolition par
ty. say the abolition party" mean
to do no injury to any man. do not know
how the matter stands with you here, but
in Congress and in the high places of party,
The Abolition party has swallowed the Re.
publican neck aud heels. They may have
come to you and talked about the Critten-
den resolution. 1t is very well to talk. but
however we'll they may have talked, if they
ever had any patriotism they did not keep
the faith, for when called upon to voc
like a flock of genuine sheep they all follow
ed their leader. put them to the record
for the truth of what l say. And when we
who called ourselves conservative men.
loyal Democrats and Wings, Bell men and
Breckenridge men, were called upon to
come to our aid and prosecute the war upon
the principles upon which they had declared
it, like Billy Bopeeps sheep they did not
come up. We lost quite number of our
friends just at this point, and some of them
from the State of Indiana. How very soon
these men forgot the Crittenden resolution
When Mr.. Holman from your own State in
vited these gentlemen to vote upon these
questions, how did they vote? am sorry


Yet these men can come here and incor-
porate these very principles for which they
refused to vote into their platform. They
tell you they ale for the Crittenden resolu-
tion-for fhe carrying on of the war for the
restoration of the Union as it was and the
Constitution as it is, giving their original
rights to each State, and wien that is done
the army is to be dismissed. Yes, ard un-
til the October election they will talk So
until the people in their majority shall
speak and say, we are for the prosecution
of this war to sustain the Constitution, re-
store the Union and invoke the blessing OF
God that the past may be forgotten-that
we may once more embrace each other as
brethren and be once more an united, free
and happy people.


They say, as reason for the position
they take, that slavery was the cause OF this
rebellion. The argument is, that, as slave
~ caused the war we can not have peace
until it is destroyed, and that the war must
necessarily continue unless both of these
two events shall take place. In our COM
muuity where we see our friends and BROTH
ers brought home from the battlefield main.
ed and crippled, many of them to be inferred
in the grave of honor, our feelings are me-
cessarily and easily excited and our con-
demnation of the course of the Nortn is not
upiustly incensed. And for myself, feel
something that, so help me God, if could
| would call forth from the party which
has been the source of this trouble the lead
ers of that party and intiict upon them the
punishment which their offences so richly
merit.


But while was doing that would like
/. TO have for every one of them an Abolition
ist upon the other end of the rope.


But these men say slavery was the cause
of this rebellion. Yes, Sir, it was the cause


lust about as much as the tea which wal


poured into Boston harbor was the cause O


the rebellion of l7T6. 1t was the unhal'


lowed ambition of the representative mer


of the South, who saw the scepter depart


ing from Judah, and the Abolitionists o


the North combined, that brought on thi


rebellion. have the evidence before m


to prove that assertion. Dates and fact


are important things when you want th


truth. l hold in my hand the record an


resolutions passed at the Abolition Conveu


ton in New York in 1859. quote nc
from political paper-it is religious pf


per, and the language was copied from th'
| organ of the Devil-the New York IF1bu'
that paper which proclaimed upon m


leaving Washington, because was laborln


with all my powers to protect the Const
| tution, and TO give this war its legitma
direction, that was dangerous man


the country. "Wicklife must be watched
lIPerhaps. for what am saying here to-da


lam to be watched, and will take this 0
i cssiou now to say that am responsible


what say here, and everywhere, aud at


times. and call Heaven TO witness tie


rity Of my belief in all have said.


| In 1859 these men met in Convention


New York. They passed then and there


following: sH


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