Show UNION IN ALABAMA at a union nion I 1 meeting recently held at huntsville alabama hon jere demons clemons a southern union man made a stirring speech in ill which he said falsehood False bood fraud and crime took us out of the union they told us that secession was necessary to save slavery during the ten years preceding the rebellion the state of alabama had not lost ten slaves a year we had a rebellion and the consequence now is that there is not a man in the state of alabama who can say that lie he has the title to a noall not all of us have a title to anything the practical result is emancipation cotton they said was king would secure us recognition and independence the result is confederate money is worth f fivas cents on the dollar they said that civil liberty and state rights would be secure by secession the first act of the confederate congress deprived the people of the right to select their own president if a ill man an owned twenty negroes lie he was excused from military duty if a man had ten starving children ho be was not the man who owned the negroes could stay at home with his bealh the man with starving children must leave them and go to the battle field you and I 1 may have had bad some fears of the success of the confederacy thank god there is now no prospect of its success |