Year: 1862

Speech OF Daniel .. Dlckenson.


This eloquent and patriotic Democrat made


speech at Brooklyn, N. Y, on last Friday night.


Below We give the principal portion Of it a. We
find it reported in the Tribune:


All was quiet on the Potomac this morning


lUprorious laughter saw all the authorities
at Washington, but / speak BY no authority,
DO not profess to-but will tell you, my fellow
citizens, that which you have right to know,
that which you ought to know, that you win
ind those waters ruf1ed at very early day.
lCheera ~ ~ r as.sss


have every reason to believe that the Ad-
ministration are arising to the full necessities
OF the occasion, that they comprehend this
matter and intend to graspit with an iron hand,
ana at very early moment. The audience at
this moment rose to their feet and cheered with
the widest enthusiasm. And trust We shall
all learn at very early day that some move
ments have taken place which will give salts
faction to every loyal man and make the knees
OF every Belshazzer tremble 10 did the one of
old. [Cheers It is complained that We accuse
our opponents Of being disloyal. They say they
are the Democratic party! I deny that they


are the Democratic or any fraction of the Dem.
ocrasic party. [" Good" and cheers follow


principles, not men events and not names.-


Names prove nothing. The little boy as soon


as ne can run alone wants horse and he sets


stride Of stick, and whips it up, and calls it


horse. But it is not horse, after all. The
little girl has doll, and calls it baby Well,
it isn't baby. In the city, they have one dress.
ed in style in high finish in the country, they
are made of rude cotton, and features put on


with ink or charcoal. They are called babies,


but they are not babies. They call this the
Democratic party; but it is not the Democratic
party. It answers as mere hobby for the little
politicians to ride and call it Democratic party,
1t answers for those who are more juvenile Just
to dandle upon their knee and call it q Demo
cratic party. But it is MOTT is not anything.
The masses Of the people are the Democratic
Republican party. lCheers And the masses
occupy today the position of the old Democratic
party of Andrew Jackson. lCheers And these
men, knotted together for base purposes I insist
are the Democratic party in no sense whatever.
It is feeble, diluted, weak, dwarfed imitation
Of the Federalism OF 1912, [laughterl, with all
its mischief and none Of its respectabllity-
tically, mean. We have been cursed North
and South with politics. [Cheers and laughter
This rebellion is an ofice-holders' and Office.
seekers rebellion In the loyal States, when
this rebellion was inaugurated, politics were
driven out; but these persons found tenement
empty, swept and garnished, and they took
'even other spirits more wicked than themselves
md entered into it and dwelt there [Cheers
md laughter. And the last state of these peo-
pie shall be worse than the first. [Great laugh
'er. They are loyal, they tell u.s. Mr.. Sey.
nour says he is accused Of being disloyal. I
have not accused him-I do not think so but
will tell you what do think. There was q
clergyman in Northern Pennsylvania, who was
accused of some improprities and it was mat
ter of grave concern, referred to Committee,
who investigated for two weeks, and reported on
the subject, in the presence of the church and q
large audience, that they did not believe
Brother Smith guilty of any improperly in the
matter, but they thought his conduct was fast
leading tot


Tne keDelIlon has three elements upon wnlcn
it relies One is foreign Intervention and their
own military prowess; one is yellow fever at the
South, and the other is this spurious Democra-
tic party at the North. Laughter These are
the elements upon which they rely, and they
are acting together to-day. This pretended
Democratic party acting in concert with tho
worst elements of the malignant monarchies of
the earth, railing and grinning ghastly and
horrible smile, like Milton's devil, over their
success and prosperity in this country. A De.
mocracy is rising up to aid foreign intervention,
and loyal States in their efforts to crush out
this internal rebellion. [Applause.l A more
Infamous and strocious rebellion never existed
since Satan made war in heaven. 1t must be
met with all the material of war; it is a crime
against God and man, and he is an honester man
in the sight of God who murders and robs than
he who aids this atrocious Rebellion, and who
murders States, peoples, posterities as well as
men. arraign at the bar of the world that man
who dares to palter with this thing in double
sense. Here is great conflict, two great inter.
ests at war, both cannot be right; can any one
doubt which is wrong? This thing is no more Q
Democratic party, and has no more right to
claim to be one, than Lucifer has q right to
claim that he is an angel of heaven. lApplause.1
I have labored for the South that they might
have all their rights under the Constitution; but
when they cast away this Constitution, and
made war upon it, then said they had no right
to protection under it. Having played the ply.
sician for years to attempt to cure this limb,
now will play the surgeon to cut it off (Great
applause Slavery is an unnatural state Of
things, and the worlds progress is against it
l am no party Abolitionist; but as an exercise
of the war power, am for taking the thing out
by the roots lApplause. am for employ
ing every element which will strengthen loyalty
aud crush this rebellion. [Applause.] set no
bounds to the determination to put this rebel
lion down; there is nothing in all the bounds
res of heaven and earth that would not do,
and you'd stretch the letter of both to do it.
1t is better that whole generations OF men sho'd
pass away than that this great tree of liberty
should be plucked out by the roots. How many
have fled here from the oppression OF earth to
take shelter under this great, genial tree of lib.
eriy which las shot It's roots far down into the
center earth and extended its branches up to
where the children play amid the beams of the
and of the setting sun. Oh. this great
constitution of liberty on freedoms soil On free.
dom's holy land! and he is parricide who shall
attempt to destroy it. and on the great day of
account when the murderers of earth shall draw
near. their crimes shall whiten in comparison
with those who shall raise their hands against
the country's Constitution. [Great applause +
I invoke you to put forth your strength in this
coming contest, and although it is mere local
struggle, yet it is of great Importance to the life
Of this great nation. believe the fate of this
mighty nation depends in great degree on the
result Of this election. If this nation must 60
down in tears of blood, in the name of Heaven,


let US not speed the shaft which shall be driven