Year: 1863


sides spies, we should have sent the
Sheriff of the county, and, if the Sheriff
is not strong enough, he calls the farm.
ers OF the county to help him, and if the
man be Jew, infdel, atheist, or the devil
himself they will take him. If q man
knock out the brains of another, he can
not escape by saying that the man whose
brains he knocked out was Catholic,
and that this is a Protestant country
No matter whose brains he knocked out,
be had no right TO knock them out, and
the man who lost them had right to
keep them. If he should come before a
Judge with such plea, the Judge would
reply, ut is no reason, because you are
in Protestant country that you should
kill Catholic. The law knows moth
ing of ProtestantS and Catholics; it
knows only citizens,n But the prison.
er's attorney might reply, But the man
who murdered this fellow is most ex.
cellent Protestant, and your Honor be
ing Deacon Of Protestant Church,
hope you will take these things into con.
Sideration and let this man off," The
Judge would cry, "Silence, what right
have you to talk Of religion, when the
question is the rights of mani" If this
man was Catholic, he had right tc
his opinion, and to live in free coun.
try. over which the Constitution of the
United States prevails, and by it bis
right to be Catholic is solemnly guar.
anteed. Now suppose we say that this
mans religion is the cause of the war
therefore exterminate it. ......


The Rights OF States and the


..... People.


say religion is not the cause of the
war; but the cause of the war has
always been the attempt of one set
of men to coerce and browbeat an.
other out of their rights. Did you
ever hear of any mischief occurring
in your neighborhoodS, among your
farmers? Did your ever 6nd yourselves
in law suits of any other kind, without
there being some mischief making at the
bottom of it? Did you ever hear Of
people having fight without there hav-
Ing been an attempt of one man to tread
upon the toes of anotherY This law Of
personal right is one of the first terms
our children are taught to pronounce -
fhey come into existence in o country
where they hear of the rights of man,
oil the rights of States, and rights Of
the people, repeated over and over again,
as tho gh it was the intention of the
trainers of the Constitution to sink il
deep into the heart of every one of their
poSterity. Why, sir, this word has be.
come strongly imprinted upon the hearts
and brains of the people, that it is like
ON Instance have heard of where three
men were to be hung on the same scaf.
fold. The hour came, and they were al
arranged in due order to meet their
doom. One was finely dressed, was oil
good blood, being born of good family;
one was more of a common. place man
and but i'll clad; while the third was a
poor, uneducated fellow, who had spent
all his life iu driving dray. The hour
arrived, and in arrayng themselves on
the scatfold, the poor fellow with dirty
clothes got too near the fue gentleman,
and rubbed against him, upon which the
fine gentleman linched, aud demanded
why he thus disconnected him? 81
will stand where | please" replied the
poor man, ~ have as much right to be
here as you have" Loud laughter.


say, then, that it was not religion, il
was not slavery that was the cause of the
war, but the intermeddIing of one set of
men with another; it was the intermed.
dlug of the Northern fanatics with the
rights and opinions and property of the
people of the South. Cries of That
is So Now, my friends, l tell you
that | never justified this resort to arms,
because ] have believed that if one more
appeal had been made to the public
sense, the Democratic party would have
acquired sufficient strength to have pre-
vented this terrible disaster. Since the
beginning of the world no greater mis-.
fortune has occurred to mankind, than
letting these rogucs and piferers into
the Administration of the country. -
While the Democratic party stood firm
and united, it had succeeded iD resisting
this attempt to localize the strife of the
country for forty years from its first in.
troduction into the counsels of this coun.
try. The Abolition party seized upon
the breach made in the Democratic par
ty to acquire power. will not under,
take to detain you By going into all the
the minute forms aud iIftrigues which
they employed to attain command Of
those who stood in opposition to our
Democratic party. You will, remark
that the ancestors had always cautioned
us against sectional strife, because they
foresaw that all such strife tended to ar
ray one section of the Union against an
other, and to precipitate the country in,
to civil war. 's"saG' n5 .aI'


Fyds seciiO6aIAgitatiOI. r''
Nov, my friends, when ths Demo.
cratic party for years before denounc-
ed the Abolition agitation in the
North-wheno they warned the gcoun,
try of the dangers which this agitation
was likelyt prodace in the country,
they were answered by being called
"Uhion Savers" in the way of derision;
they we're scolfcd at; they were denounc.
ed as men who wanted to create false
alarm In the country in order to carry
the Presidential election. uYou see
what happened. TEe'Abolitionists came
into power-and how2 BY vote Of q
majority of the American people? No,