Year: 1863

NorthWestern otateS the load lcruShe
lu ont the Democratic party. When the
y piled on an additional amount, DEM
e Gratis protested, and then the Souther
e conspirators turned round and said, 81
N IS either that, or we will secede from til
Il Union" | stood upon the streets of Cir
u elnnati and heard that threat from tn
u lips OF Southern nabob-'you are boun
y to take this thing or we will secede."-
y What was the result? They patched u


another compromise and nominated Nj


Buchanan. He would have been a wis
II man who could have foretold the effect
1t OF that. Four years of another Demo
is cratic Administration rolled on ; South
t ern men had got bond and security 70
- the next four years, but they were prettr
il sure 1t could not be done again, for ther,
It was nobody 10 give it. (Laughter.)
n will say nothing of the head of the Blu
: chanan Administration, but it is notori
+ Gus fact that men went into that Cabine
D from the South who made themselves as
= busy as bees for the conflict that ha.
: come. The Secretary of the Navy sent
t the Government ships into distant seas
= The Secretary of War was employed for
e four years in filling Southern forts with
: arms and ammunition, and taking arms
: away from the Northern people and put
ting them into the hands of the South
: ern, who had been trained TO use them
And yet, in the face of all these facts, it
lss aid that they seeded only because Mr.


Lincoln was elected! Well, if they did,


all l have to say is, that they made an al


mighty good preparation for that event


Laughter and cheers.) More than that
after Mr.. Lincoln was elected, they went


to the existing Administration and asked
How far are you going to let us go in


our peaceful measures before You bring


to bear all the power of the Govern


ment?" Don't you wish that question


had been asked of Old Hickory He


would have drawn himself up, and tax


ing the pipe out of mouth, exclaimed =


''If you go foot, by Heaven, will hang


every one of youl" Applause. say


to you fellow-citizens, land right sorry am
L., that when the pen of the historian


fills this page of our history, then will be
found a record over which the patriot


will shed many a tear of shame, and it


will not be in the power of the Record


ing Angel to blot the record out


THE CONSPIRACY AGAIN UNMAsKED.


Suppose we admit they had not made


preparation. Let US prove our point
from other circumstances. When Mr..
Lincoln came to take the Executive
chair, what reason was there still for
Southern men to raise hand against the
nation-what was there for any prudent
man to raise hand against the Govern
ment? "Why," they said, "you have
been sacrificing and trampling on our
rights" What had we done? We had |
elected man President under the Con-
stitution and in the same lawful manner,
as we had ever done before. What else 1
Had we repealed any Fugitive Slave Law? 1
Not one. For week after the election /
of Mr.. Lincoln slave could have been |
taken to his master as well and peacea-
bly, as before. Had we enacted any OBJ
noxious laws interfering with their rights
of commerce Not one. But they said
you are just going to do it. Laughter.


You have brought the Abolitionists into
power. A very small body of men they


have been for long time. Years ago, 4
used to fight them hard, but | afterwards
found out | had been fighting a wind
mill


They said, :,;We are compelled to Sc
cede now in order to protect our rights
in the future" Why Z? You have got


the President of the United States. -
What else {? You hare got the Abolition
istS." Have we the Senate No. Be-
sides the Houses of Congress, they had
two-thirds of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the United states. What was
there to justify rebellion under such a
state of things? Nothing more than that
they had determined on il beforehand
Let US see if they had determined on re-
bellion beforehand,
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC


PARTY.


There was held in 1860, after the usa-
ges of the Democratic party, Conven-
ton, in the city of Charleston. There
were great many men who knew be-
forehand what was coming to pass, who
were not very sagacious for all that, tho
it did come to pass, There were men
who had determined TO create division,
in order to effect their purpose. But
there was an obstacle in the way there
stood between them and their object the
great Democratic party. They could I
send away ships and rob arssnals, but
there still stood between them and their
object power which they must strike
down and grind to powder. For a quar- {
ter of a century the Democratic party Z
had stood as bulwark in their way, but !
at Charleston they struck it down. Ey- c
erybody knew that if that Convention c
had nominated Stephen A. Douglas or I
James Guthrie, and given him an honor l
able support in the South, he would have c
been elected. Therefore they struck I
them down by offering them terms they v
could not submit to, terms which no hon. t
orable man North could accept terms c
you would not submit to to-day as terms &
IF peace terms if your delegates had t
submitted to, you would have risen 7
against them and massacred them on
heir return. They split the party in
vain and adjourned to Baltimore. They
hid that to get pretext to organ .
re rebellion. a man who denies this is
entirely without reason.


THE INAUGURATION OF THE CONTEST. a


Following this state of things as inevi- /
ably as event follows cause, we have the !
ull Inauguration of this contest. In the I
however, the extraordinary v
lesire of the Northern people for peace, L
what is known as the peace a
Congress" Twill not weary you with de- I
ails of its barren sessions. Suffice it to a
az, that no terms could be made there, t
nd no proposition was entertained that I
vas not hupniliating in its character even a
o the border States, and humiliating and '
to the peace of the Free P
itates, and which, even if adopted, could 2
AVE postponed but for a limited period b
he conflict. Now, who that has examin- o
d this thing, does not say that the first t
luty of every man in the North is to the a
and the country until this p
onhict is brought to an end? Ap- l
lause. T


Why do we argue this point? One


Tould think the whole people would be


f one mind upon this subject, and that =
here could be no necessity for argument
r appeal to the people of the land. a


OPPOSITION TO THE WAR. %


But the sad and humiliating truth is, a
hat even in the Northern States there is v