Year: 1863

On Friday evening week, Col. Dunham
] spoke at Lafayette TO q crowded audience.
The journal says that after an introduction
by Col. j. S. Wiliams, in few appro-
pirate remarks. he commenced by saying
that he, was glad he had not been announ-
ced in any other manner except as war
Dem ocrat: ~ sei2-


He had always put in Democratic tick
ct, but he had been Democrat from prin
ciple, because he thought Democratic meas
ures, &c., would best subserye the inter.
csts Of our country When these troubles
came he gave willingly his aid to the-Gov-
srnment. without taking time to inquire
who or which party caused it. We who
are born in the sunlight of American free
dom do not realize its vaue-only those
who have been subjected to tyranny and
enjoyed oar liberty, have due apprecia-
ton of its worth. Liberty and Union are
inseperable as the body and soul on earth
liberty being the soul, using Union as
the body. The Union is to be valued as
property is valued-by the happiness it
coniers upon us in the world. The A
merican banner speaks liberty on every
mountain on the globe. and every sea re-
juices at the prosperity carried by our Star
Spangled Banner.


The American flag has scattered the
flowers of happiness and the fruit of pros.
perity up the Alleghanies, through the
valley of the Mississippi, over the Rocky
Mountains, till the Atlantic and the Pa
cific clap hands in Joy. Men talk of the
expense of this war when so much is in
peril-liberty and general prosperity
Our fathers fought for the world, not for
themselves.


Secret political organizations are per-
nicious to the welfare of our country, and
should be denounced and discountena need
by all good citizens; and trouble all over
the country will follow if these are not
destroyed. ag


Opposition to the Government on &C.
count Of dislike to the Administration, and
attempting to destroy it, is like a man
burning his barn to get rid of the rats
Violation of the Constitution-where was
it violated? The Proclamation does not
harm us. and Violating the constitutional
rights of our Southern brethren was absurd,
as all the constitutional rights they have
between heaven and hell is, to be hung
He was in favor of conscripting the man
who was anxious to plead the rights of the
South while they were shooting our broth
ers.


The nigger question he answered by
saying the government was made by and
for white men: and he didn't care what
became of the nigger (if nothing iuhuman
was done with him. In the South one
class was afraid they would descend TO the
level of the niggsr, while we in the North
were afraid the niger would become equal
to us. II the negro was made to be equa!
to rs he would become so, and the man
that was particularly anxious lest the mig
ger wo nd become.his equal might lay a.
side his anxiety. as the negro in all proba.
bility in such cases had the start. The
niggers were treated as property by the
laws of the South, and rs such could, by
rules of war, be confiscatej, and If we CO. d
use them in digging. and even fighting,
why give them guns and let them shoot.
and whenever you can't carry off property
in warfare you destroy it, and so if we
could not take away the niggers turn them
loose and let them run to the swamps, or
wherever they may GO. F l1 ees


All we have to do is to stand together
like our fathers did, and this rebellion will
melt away as ice under the summer SUM-
Compromise and armistice was absurd. as
the rebels would never yield until they
were fully conquered and could not fight
any longer. The President was response.
ble for his administration and acted &C.
cording to his best judgment: if we differed
with him. support the government and
country until we could constitutionally
change the administration. as our country,
the liberty and happiness it conferred were
paramount to everything.