Year: 1863

| SquedlS. Applause. uOn KNOW
whether there are men in the North who
would like To see France have part of
tn s county or not. But. for the reasons
/ have named, we ought Ia have this large
army. | believe we have men enough in
the field to whip the rebels, but we ought


to have Il large army. Whenever we have
You viii see that the rebels will begin to
lay down their guns. Toomb-, Yancey.
and the leaders of the conspiracy, will be-
gin to make for some other country, for
their own personal safety.


THE NORTHWESTERN coNFEDERAcr.


But my friends, there is another side


to this question, that many of you have
not thought about. There is nobody
wanting to arm men prospectively for a


thing of that kind; but there is some
thing else going on. Do you know that
at the time this rebellion broke out in


the South, there was regular oreaniza-


ton to extend the rebellion a little fur
ther than the South There were men at
the time who were deep enough stepped
In villainy to at least consent that if the
South succeeded in establishing her indie
pendence, then they would establish a
Northwestern Confederacy,- and unite
with the South, if not as one Government
in sympathy and feeling. to arrange their
commercial relations so as to crush out 4
certain interest in another portion of the
Government. Have you never heard
men talk in this country about a North
western COnlederacy? Have you never
heard people say they believe it would be
best to cut loose from the Yankee States?
Have you never heard people say that we
would have to cut loose, because the Yam
KEGS taxed us too much to send our pro-
duce to New York; that the imposition
the tariff was such that we could not stand
1t in the Northwest. Have you never
| heard that? If you have not, let me tell
you about Let me tell you what it means
1t means this: That they would at
least some of the leaders, for | don't
think the MASSES of the people ever en-
tered into such Il thing, or ever would
if they could only hold out the induce
ment and could only make the people be-
! lleve that these rebels could not be put
down, and could keep the Mississippi riv-
er blocked up so that our produce could
not get down the Mississippi; then if the
rebellion succeeded, it would be very
easy to convince the people of the North
west of the necessity for a Northwestern
Coniederacy. The people of the South
would have passed an act declaring the
Mississippi river free to the North Wes-
tern States, provided they would secede
| from the Yankee States. That would
have been the programme. The opening
OF the Mississippi would be the induce
ment, and the high tariff that would have
J to be paid on produce by railroad to the
East would be such an inducement also
| that it is possible the men of the North
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vortex OF ruin by such sOphistry and such
Illusions. That was the programme
When the rebellion had succeeded in sep
arating the North from the South, a howl
would have gone out in the Northwestern
States, started by this set of gentlemen,
''let us cut loose from New England; we
cannot afford to send our produce in this
way through that country: let us 20
South; the people of the South will open
the great artery of the nation to us if we
will only cut loose from the Yankees. -
With a certain candidate for Governor of
Ohio as leader of that faction. this would
have been attempted in the Northwest,
am sure. | do not say that he was i'll any
conspiracy, nothing of that kind; nor do
| propose to name the names of any body.
| only name him because he would be
fit man and would have accepted the
leadership without the least remorse of
conscience. When | was in Congress my
self great many men talked to me and
told me that we would be bound to es-
tablish Northwestern COniederacy-that
there was an absolute necessity for ii; that
we could not stand it any longer. |
thought it was a joke. | could not be-
lieve there were such fools and fanatics
living. But what | have heard from
Southern men, what have seen in South
ern papers and the conduct of certain
men in the Northwest, has satisfied me
that there was perfect understanding in
reference to this thing. Why it is that
proposition was made in Congress-not in
our Congress, but in the so called Con- /
gress of the Confederate States-why Is
1t that a proposition was introduced there
saying to the Northwest that ii they /
would only desist from the war, they /
would open the Mississippi river to the !
Northwest? That was done in the COnfed- |
crate Congress. Some gentlemen in our
country are in favor of il too. 1t only 1
shows the programme that was laid down /
TO be carried out And these things are 4
perfectly plain. If men will examine. !
they will See for themselves.


LINCOLN BASTILES.


Some men in this country say that they /
have been incarcated in-I forgot the .
name they call the thing, but l believe it .
is Lincoln bastiles. l never heard of .
Lincoln bastile before. They say this is a
reign of terror. l have nothing to say
about them, only this: If they were i'm
properly put i'll the bastile, am very sor-
ry for 1t; if they were properly put there,
81, / IL.
Applause. They ought TO know wheth-
er they were put there rightfully or not.
Whenever you hear a man get up and
make speech, and tell the crowd he is
afraid he will be arrested by some Lincoln
soldiers, you may be sure there is some
thing wrong about him. If he is good
Union man, and talks Union talk, thera
is no danger of his being arrested. II he
is for his Government, for his country,
and shows it by his conversation and by
his conduct, there is no danger of his be-
ing put in prison-not a particle, not
country afraid Of being put in jail if he
will make good Union speech. What
kind of a speech ought q man to make in
this country? Does he want to make a
JEFF. Davis speech? There are only two





the Government or against it. He can't
be half way for the Union-no such thing
as that. He is either a Union man or a
traitor-he is for his Government or
against it. He can't be against the I'm
ion and against JEFF. Davis. He is either
a Union man and for his country, or else
he is traitor TO the country. If
these men are so fond of the Constitution
as it is, and the L ion as it was, that they
want the Constit' ION in such condition
that the Congress of the United States
will not prohibit JEFF. Davis, Toombs and
that crowd of traitors from holding seats
in the Congress of the United States, so
that they can again break up the Govern
ment. l am not for it. [Applause.l II
am not for their holding seats in Congress
again, in order to 90 into conspiracy to
break up the Government. The leaders