Year: 1863

Pursuant to notice speeches were de-
livered in this city on the 4th inst. by
Messrs Cole and Raynor The building
selected for the meeting (Ball & Stone's)
was large and commodious and was well
Hlled by citizens of the town and country.


Mr.. Cole took the stand and addressed
the audience in a speech of an hour and
quarter in length, discussing the principles
advocated by the Democratic party and
showing the false and untenable position
occupied by his opponent (RaynOr) and
the abolition party. Mr.. Cole showed
that the democracy vera in favor of the
Union Internationally, and that they are
opposed to perverting the object of the
present struggle to suit the radical princi-
pie of emancipation or for any other pur-
pose whatever. He pronounced the eman-
cipation proclamation to be unconstitution-
al, and denounced it, with measures of a
kindred nature, as creating disafectiop
among the people and tending directly to
disunion. He expressed himself as opposed
to any violation of the Constitution of the
United States and said he was firm in
the belief that if the rebellion could not be
conquered and the Union preserved by ad-
herring to it that it could not be accom-
Plished by setting it or any portion of it
aside-Constitutional nfrac,ions only served
to divide the people in the North while the
people of the South were encouraged by
these dissensions among us, to greater ex-
ertions in behalf of the Southern Confed-
eracy. He quoted the counsel of Wash
ington as the best authority that could be
adduced to sustain the principles of adhe-
ring to the Constitution, guarding against
usurpations and opposing the consolidating
of the powers of the general government
as tending toward despotism. He ex-
pressed himself as bitterly opposed to a
centralized form of government. The PEo-
PIE, he said, are the rulers of our govern
ment, and the ofice-holders are but the
agents, or servants of the people, to exc
cute the laws made by their SANCTION
Mr.. Cole said if it were true Jas charged
by "Quimby' through the Portland Tines
that he Cole] "thought the only stable
form of government was that kind which
took the power out of the hands of the
people and lodged it with the rulers" he
t0Ould get the united support Of the Abo-
Htion party. That party, he said, were
in favor Of centralizatio and the democra-
cy were opposed to it. He never enter
tanned such sentiments as was attributed to
him by Mr. Quimby. Quimby-a weak
minded man-had misunderstood what he
said upon the subject Mr.. Cole explained
to the meeting what he had said in the
presence of Quimby and his statement put
an entirely different face on the matter,
and was received as entirely satisfactory by
his friends.


Mr.. Coles speech was full of solid plain
facts and was received by the audience with
hearty applause.


Mr.. Raynor took the stand and made a
speech full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing in particular He worked himself
up to high pitch on the war topic, but his
effort at patriotic eloquence did not hide
the deceit with which he was so fully en-
numbered. He endeavored to prove him
self Democrat, but didn't succeed. He
next asserted that be was not an abolition
ist, nor never was. Great applause. At
ter making few unimportant random re-
marks he sought to prove, and did prope
himself an Abolitionist. He endorsed the
emancipation proclamation, and said he
thought it was "t0ise and just measure


Immense applause by big buck niger
in the cOrner-RaynOr friends chap-fall-
en-. In answer to Mr.. Cole, as to whether
he would be willing to let North Carolina
come back into the Union with her slave
property he would not make any direct
answer. He would wait till he got to a
hill before he would undertake to 90 up it..
Mr. Cole stated that Peyror b,J talzeo The