Year: 1862




to-day that our forefathers made ConSti-
tuition that carried slavery where there was
no law for it. You can never make the
honest, loyal men of this nation believe q
doctrine so monstrously absurd as that
S lavery is the creature Of positive law,
and where there is no such law it can not
exist O moment, and when James Buchsn-
an wrote that message he drove away
thousands Of loyal men in the North who
had been until then Jealous supporters Of
his administration.


Democrats, do you remember 1902
You who are so fond of reading men out
of your party, whom will you read ont
now? Which will be the best to read out,
the 10000 men or the 10000? Now
these Republicans are cunning fellows
While the Presidential campaign was 60
ing on. whenever there was Breckenridge
meeting the Republicans would go in
crowds and cheer until you thought that
every body nearly vas going to vote your
ticket; but when the ballots came to be
counted out. there was nobody there but
the Postmasters and brother in laws
daughter


My fellow citizens. voted in the SEN
ate against the bill making grants Of pub
lie lands for the benefit of colleges and In
stitutions of learning. / Ivoted against the
Pacific Rsilro ad bill. and the reason did
so was that was opposed to any measure
which was calculated TO weaken the arm
Of the Government in an hour like this
This is no time to trihe with the resources
OF the country. differed also from some
of my friends in regard to the division OF
the State of Virginia. voted against
that; but whenever we came to vote upon
any question involving the interests of the
country or any measure looking toward the
suppression of this wicked rebellion, / al
ways said "aye." (Applause.) The rebel
lion-the war is the great subject that
ought TO engage our attention. There are
great many men who are squandering
the nations time in discussing outside
and side issues, who should be in better
business. This country is to be saved by
the conservatives. 1t belongs to them and
not to enthusiastics and disunionists npon
either side.


Now. as TO the army. Let me entreat
you to take this thought home with you
whom can induce to enter the
army? You have the men. You have
the bravo hearts and the stout arms among
you. But at the same time. you have a
class of men who are going around and
trying to make political capital discour-
aging men from enlisting in the service OF
/ their country. II becomes You to do your
| duty BY doing all that is in your power to
counterfeit these influences. do no not
know how soon there may be battle. In
less than week there may be fight be-
i tween Pope and Stonewall jackson. 1t
may be that before ninety days shall have
passed by the the fate of this Government
will be sealed. Let me urge you, there
fore. as loyal men. to do all that is in your
power to fill up the ranks of tho army OF
the Union.


IL is q part of the policy Of Q class Of
men in the North to protract this war and
thus exhaust the resources Of the country
until it shall be compelled to compromise
The Lord knows as for me, have no
compromise to offer. / do not want to
see any such thing. Not a foot of this
land is to be severed from the Union. It
must be country or il must be the land
of the tyrant for the next five hundred
years. and no sacrifice is too great to be
made in order to prevent division Of this
country. would again remind you. that
all your interests are concerned in keeping
this Government one, and l woold urge
upon you. when you 60 to the polls. to
fcto h,-H Hlov L ~
try in her hour of peril. and you will at
least enjoy the conciousness that you have
discharged your duty.


j suppose must have taken by the
! hand to-day in the county of Hancock, no
less than two hundred of the old Demo-
Gratis, whose hearts now beat high in the
cause of the Union. and who expressed
] their willingness to forget every other
cause but the cause of the country / tell
you, my fellow citizens. these politicians
count too much upon the ignorance of the
people in regard to these great questions.
There is more intelligence, more practical
!, information in regard 70 public affairs a.
mong the masses to-day than at any FORM
mer period Of our history. The people
are wide awake. and men who presume up
on their ignorance are sure to find them
selves mistaken.


"But what about Frauds?"


4 My answer Is this: II were 10 vote a.
gainst all men and administrations that are
not pure. ! could scarcely hope to vote for
any of them. Ipurpose being verJ brief
upon this point. and will tell you, mp
Democratic friends, why 1 do not like to
have much to say about frauds. I Iremem-
Der that once, in the past history of my
life. / helped to elect one James Buchan-
an. President of the United States. and
recollecs. also. that during his term of Of
fice. more frauds were committed than at
any former period in the history of the
government. Now. this man Floyd, Mr..
Buchanan's Secretary of War. went into
Office about the 4th of March, and about
that time or few weeks later il was
known that there were in posses zion Of the
government. in one of the public arsenals.
one hundred and thirty-6ve thousand
stand Of Enfield rifles. A few weeks later
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
stands of these were in the South. and on
| " ten thousands in the North. You know
how they plundered our arsenals. and put
al the cannon Just where the rebels could
! get hold Of them with the least possible
trouble. You secollect the peculiar dispo-
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