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i Kevins of the Jlililary hnd Politic! Situatio®
i --Vtasterly Exposition of the Niagara an"
■ and Chicago *."onspiracy-"The Safety the
j Peril of the Republic.
I [From the Auburn I mo. i, Sept 5.]
j Saturday was a gala day in Auburn, over the
i splendid victor}' of General Sherman in the capture '
lof Atlanta. At an early hour all the flaps in the j
j city were run lip, giving it a very gay and patriotic
j appearance. At 5 o'clock P. M. all the bells struck ,
; up a merry peal, and about the same hour a salute
iof one hundred guns was tired. Immediately a j
I large crowd, including several hundred volunteers
j who were waiting to be mustered in, assembled in
| front of the western Exchange, and were briefly
addressed by Hon Christopher Morgan and Pro
vost Marshal Knapp, After the speeches it was
j proposed that the assemblage fnim in procession
I ami march to the residence of Governor Seward.
I The 1 and led off with a lively tune, and the line df
j march was immediately taken up. Oti arriving in
front of Governor Seward's residence the ssscni
| blage became so large that it was found necessary
to continue the march to the park adjoining Gov
ernor Seward's grounds.
After the processsion had halted, Governor
j Seward was called for, and came forward and ad
dressed the crowd in one of his most earnest and
effective speeches, which was received with un
bounded enthusiasm. After he concluded, three
cheers were called for and given A will, for
the following persons : Sherman. Grant. Sheri
dan. Meade, Stanton, Farragut, Lincoln and Sew
ard. Three more rousing ones were given for the
soldier,? and the Union. The crowd then separa
ted. tn the Evening Governor Seward was sere
naded by the Auburn band, and responded to the
compliment in a brief speech.
The following is the speech of Governei Seward
delivered in the Park :
Mv DEAR FRIENDS : It is so that I like to see
voii come —marching to the time of national airs,
under the folds of the old national flag. I thank
you for the hospitable and patriotic welcome. It
proves that though you deal rigorously with your
public servants, exacting reasons for their policy,
energy in their conduct of affairs, and explanations
! for Failures and disappointments in their adminis
; tration. yet yon are nevertheless, just, beeauseyou
willingly allow them to rejoice with you when you
have .U'*ves, victories, and triumphs, to cele
i brate. The news that brings us together is authen
tic. [A Voice : l)b you think it is reliable.';
| Yes. Here is a telegram which 1 reetivbd this
morning from the Secretary of \\ ar:
i Van Duzer reports that Sherman's advance en
tered Atlanta about noon today PartietiHrs not
yet received. EDWIN M. STANTON.
[Three cheers were given for Atlanta.]
rvnnAorT AND SHERMAS.
Now, this new.-; comes in a good shape. It i
te bate j,'"®' and it
protracts the interest of ths thing to ha *■
lars coming in Afterwards. ! Ye-. ye.-, we can w ait
■ for the particulars, j This victory comes ita the
j right connection. 11 falls in with the echoes of
the capture of Fort- Gaiues and Morgan. which 1
understand to be the jHtrticitfan ot Farnigut s
j glorious naval battle in the bay of Mctiuk—a bat
tle equalled by no other in American history but
the naval achievements o*' the -nine veteran ■admi
ral at New OrlekUs ad Port Hudson ; and ail
these have no parallel in naval war hire but the
i battles of the Nile and Trafalgar. [A voici': I
wish we were all Farraguts !"] Well my friend
I know the Admiral well, and I confess that we all
can't be Farraguts. Indeed very few of us can.
But we may take this comfort to ourselves, div
as a whole people, we can appreciate the vete
rans We can also apprisciate General .Sherman,
who has performed the most successful and splen
did march through a mountainous and hu-jite
country recoidt-d iu modern history* &n<l in * li
this we show ourselves inferior iu virtue to no
other nation. By the war, everybody admired
Farragut* heroism in climbing the topmast to i i
reet the bat tie. But there was another "pa
lar" of that contest t hat no lras forcibly illustrates
his heroic - haracter. 'Admiral.' -aid one of his
officers, the night before the battle, "won t you
consent tb give duck a glass cf grog in the morn
ing—not enough to make him drunk, but just
enough to wake him tight cheerfully t" "V\ ell."
replied the Admiral, -*1 have been t<s sea eSii-idera
ble. and have seen a battle or two, but 1 ncv . i
found that 1 wanted mm to enable me to do my
duty I will order two cups of good coffe toea h
man at 2 o'clock and at 8 o'clock, I will pipe all
hands to breakfast iu Mobile Bay." [Hurrah lor
Farragut ] And he did give Jack the coffee, and
then he went np to the masthead and >t V it.
The victory at Atlanta comes at the right place.
The rebellious district is iu the shape ot an egg.-
It presents equal resistance on its whole surface.
But if you could break the shell of either of the
two ends. Richmond and Atlanta, the Whole
must crumble to piece?. While Sherman, under
Grant, has been striking the big end. Meade tinder
Grant, has been striking just- as hard blows upon
the lesser end. The whole shell will now be easily
crushed, for it has grown brittle with the exhaus
tion of vitality within.
THE CLIFTON HOUSE CABAL AND THE RTKPOSE '
RESISTANCE TO THE DRAFT.
This glorious victory comes in good time for all
other reasons. Just now we are calling u]>on you
f.>r 300,U00 more volunteers, it y<.u will drafted
men if we must—to end the war. You were get
ting a little tired of long delays and disappointed
expectations. In Indiana, a portion ot the peo
ple. instigated by rebel plotters, at the ( liftoti
House, in Canada, were importing British revolv
ers in boxes, which passed the custom-house as
-tationarv, under pretence of arming to defend
themselves, but really to, resist the drtfV, and
bring the Government down u5 rum, througu a
subordinate and auxiliary civil war. True, no
arms have been imported here. Yet delegates
went out from among you and .-at down tn council
Chicago with those Indiana conspirators, and
agreed with them not only that that importation of
Juis should be defended iu the election canvass,
but also to demand ibe cessation of the war
upon the ground tuat success in restoring the
Uuion is unattainable. Already, under the influ
ence of the cheering news hvrn Atlanta, all tin?
discontent and this despondency have disappear
t
BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1864.
j ed. We shall have no draft because the army is j
being reinforced a# the rate of five to ten thou !
! sand men per day by volunteers. (Hurrah for the j
volunteers. ] May I nor, add that this victory at j
I Atlanta comes in good time as the victory iu Mo j
bile bay does, to vindicate the wisdom and the eh j
ergy of the war Administration. Farrftgut s fleet :
, did not make itself, nor did he make it. It was j
prejiared by the Secretary of the Navy, and he j
that shall record the history of this war truthful
ly, and impartially, will wiite that since the days j
of t.'arrtot, no man has organized war with the a- j
bility of Stanton. {Cheers for Stanton, cheers
for the Secretary of the Navy. ]
THE MALCONTENT SPIRIT.
But. anspieiOtts as the occasion is, it has never
erless failed to bring ont some whom we might
have exjiccted liere. Why are they not here to
rejoice iu the victories that Will thrill the hearts
of the lovers of freedom throughout the world —
Alas, that it must be confessed, it is party spirit
that holds them aloof. All of theui are partisans.
Some art 1 Republicans who cannot rejo : ee in the j
national victories because this war. for the life of]
the nation is not. iri all respects, conducted ac- j
cording to their own peculiar radical ideas and
theories. They want guarantees for swift, and
universal, and complete emancipation, or they do
not want the nation -aved. Others stay away be- ;
cause they want to be assured thrt. in coming out j
of the revolutionary storm, the Ship,of State will ;
be found exactly in the same condition as when j
the tempest assailed it. or they do not want the ;
ship saved at all, as if anybody eduM give such ]
guarantees in the name of the people of thirty !
millions. ' )thers are Democrats. They received .
from their fathers the axiom that only Democrats j
could save the country, and they must save it by j
• Democratic formulas and combinations which the j
i progress of the age has forever exploded. They
i cannot come up to celebrate achievements which j
1 condemn their narrow and herditary bigotry
Others, of lioth the Republican and Democrat-;
i ie parties, arc wilting that the nation shall lie sav- ..
ed. provided it is done by some one of their chos
en and idolized chiefs, which chief they mutually ]
denounce arid revile. Tfiey cannot- hodor Grant,
and Sherman. &nd Fanngut, and Porter, bcedaso 1
by such homage they fear that Fremont and Me- ;
Clei inn's fa eve may l>e eclipsed.
Nevertheless, there are enongli here of the j
right sort, [ ''Yes, tKit's true,"] enough of men
. who once wen: Republicans but who, taking that :
■ won! iu a partisan settle, are Republicans no long- {
er. and nien who once were Democrats, but Who. j
, taking that word in its narrow Application. are j
Democrats no longer, all of whom are now 1 nioti ,
men. because they found out at the beginning ot
this tremendous eivi! war. or at some period iu j
j its progress, that no man. no party, no formula, j
no creed, could save the Union, but that only the j
people could save it, and they could save it only j
by ceasing to become partisans and becoming pa
triots and Union men. (Cheer; for the Union. ] !
Yes. my friends, when this war shall be ended in
the restoration of the I nion. no man then living j
will exult in ■p.^ uU "''y i
t 1 nuance he was either a radical or a LonsenatK-,,
a Republican or a Democrat but every man Will
claim to have been throughout an unreserved and
j unconditional I niou man.
But why should party spirit, especially at this
i juncture, divide the American jieople. And why
should I. a member of the Executive Auininis- ]
lion, allude to it on such an occasion as this? The !
answer is at hand. The Constitution ofourcoun- i
i trv commands that Administration to surrender
its powers to the people, and the jieople to desig- t
| nate agents to assume and exercise them four ;
years. You receive the Executive < hmrnment in
a condition very different ahd highly improved. j
We found it practically expelled from the whole
country south of the Delaware, the Ohio, and the
i Missouri, with uio-t of the army and navy betray
ed er fallen into the hands of insurgents, and a
i no* and treasonable Confederacy, with indirect
bet* effective co-Operation ot foreign Powers, es
tablishing itself on tHe Gulf ot M-xk-o. We
cheerfuiiV give the Government back to you. with
large and eout|uering armies, and a triumphant
navy, with the hateful Confederacy falling into
pieces, and the rebeSious States, one alter ai'.oth
er, returning to their ai.egiance.
Regardihg myself now. therefore, riot as a See
i rctu.y. but siinpiy ;t> oticoi the people. 1, iikeyotl.
am called b. my vote to determine into whose
hands the precious trust shall now be confided.—
We might wv-h to avobl, or. at least. po<tpbn
i that duty uu il the pres. m tearful crisi-is pa>scdj
But it cannot aud it ought not to be avoided tui
1 adjourned. It is a constitutional t:i!ii. and the ba-j
tion must go through it de.ioe;ateb and brawiv. j
I shall, therefore, eheeriuiiy submit for youicom
sideration the codrse which I have concluded H
adopt, and the reasons for it. rj
THE PRESENT NO COMMON" P Rfis' D tNTI.fL EI,KO (
Tlu \ —lIOW NATIONS ABE Kt INEf> BY PARTIES; t
First. I b> gy-'U t-> remember tint th- pr—tit
no common or customary Pre iieii.ia. election. |
It 0,-curs in the midst of civil War. arising out of _
disputed succession P) the Executive jfower. I>t -
puted successions are the most frequent causes i J
civil wars, not only ;n republic,-, but even iu rnoi
archies. A dispute about the succession of tl -
President periodically begets an abortive or a re
revolution in each one of the Spanish' and Aiuc >
can Republics, So the disputed succession of 11
Spanish throne begot that memorable tKirty-yej ii
War which convdlsed all Europe. A dispute Whej 1
h Juarez was the lawful President; bought .e
the present civil war, with' the cou-cifucnce . I
French intervention iu Mexico. A dispute who; t
er the present King of Denmark. Who WtaxSni *
to the throne last w inter, is lawful heir to :
Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, brought ah
the civil war in that country, which, through • :
man interverttiofi, has just now ended with 1
dismemberment ot the Danish Kingdom. I
remarkable, fclwi, that civil wars, produced by
puted succesridrts, invariably begin with resist?
bv some one or inorc,pf the States Or provits
which constitute the Kingdom, empire, or re|-
lic which is disturbed. It was so wilh the Uid
States of Mexibo. It was so in the United St> |
of Columbia, and the case was the same inc j
United States of Venezuela. Now, it is eein j
that in 11*60 we elected Abraham Lincoln lawly
and constitutionally to be President of the we
United States of America. Seven of the Ses
immediately thereon rushed into disunion, ad
summoning eight more to their ailiauoe, thoyet
;up a revolutionary Government. They levied war
i against us to effect a separation and establish a
; distinct sovereignty and independence,
j RE-ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN A VINDICA
TION* OF THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS
We accepted the war in defence of the Union,
j The only grievance of the insurgents was that their
choice of John C. Breckinridge for pfeident was
constitutionally overruled by the election of Lincoln
j They rejected Lincoln Hnd set up a usurper. The
j Executive power of the United States is now there
| fore, by force practically suspended; between the
usurper Jefferson Davis and that constitutional
President Abrtham Lincoln. The war is waged
by the usurper to expel {hat constitutional Presi
] dent Front the capital, which, in some sort, is con
i stantly held in siege, and to conquer the States
j which loyally adhere to him. The war is main
j tained on our s'de to suppress the usuper, and to
: bring the insurgent States hack under the author
ity of the constitutional Piesiderit. The war is
at its crisis. It is clear therefore that we are
' fighting to make Abraham Lincoln President of
the whole United States under the election of
j 1 sou, to continue until the 4th of March 1865. —
I In voting for it President of the United States,
can we wisely and safely v©:e out the identi al per
i son Thorn, with force and arms, we are fighting
. into the Presidency? ["No no!"} You justly
say '"ilo." It would tie nothing less than to give
up the very object of the war at the ballot box.—
The moral strength which makes our loyal posi
! tion impregnable would pass from us; and ffhen
! that moral strength has passed iway material for
j ees are no longer effective, or even available. By
such a proceeding we shall have agreed with the
enemy, and shall have given him the victory.—
But in that agreement the Constitution and the
Union will have perished, because when it shall
have oncq been proveu that a minority can. by
force or circumvention defeat the Poll accession of
at constitutionally chosen.President, no President
thereafter, though elected by ever so large a ma
jority. cut hope to exercise the Executive powers
unopposed througout the whole country. One of
i two things must follow that fatal error. Either a
contest between your newly-elected compromise
i President, and the same usurper, in which the u
i siirper must prevail , or else a combination be
' twecn them through which the dsurper or his suc
cessor, subverting your Constitution and substitu
ting his own. will become President, King, or Em
peror of the United States with foreign aid, if he
j can ; with foreign intervention if necessary.—
j { That's so.] To 1* sure it is so; nothing Is more
| certain than that either the United States tpid
their constitutional President, or the so-caJled
Confederate States and their usurping President.
; mast rule within the limits of this Republic. I
! therefore regard the pending Presidential election
j as involving the question wheter hereafter we shall
: have a Constitution and a country left us. flow
shall we vote, then, to save our country from
this fearful danger? (Vote Lincoln iu again.!—
1 You have hit it exactly, my friend. YVe must
ate Lincoln in again, and fight him iu at the
| same time If we do this the rebellion will, perish
lv ! fwe dootherwi3e Wc have on
usurpation or of entering an endless scccession of
| eml ami social wars. Upon these grounds, eu
i tirely irrespective of platform .and candidate, 1
consider the recommendations ol the Convention
at Chicago as tending to subvert the Republic.—
| fit's so ; that ss. fact.)
1 It will seem a hard thing when I imply that a
i jarty like the Democratic party can either m nli
fcte or blindly adojit measures to overthrow the
lepubiie. All experience, however, shows that it
(; by the malice or madness of great parties that
ree States have been brought down to destitut
ion. You often hear alarms that a party in pow
•r i< subverting the State, and it sometimes hap
tens -o. But nine times out of ten it is a party
1 ut of power that in its impatience or ambition
Iverthrows a Republic.
OW UK DLLS AND COPPERHEADS HAVE GROWN j
: i TOGETHER—THE NEW C.ESAtt ANDPOMPET.
1 i The DenuKtat ie party, of course leaving off the
joyal Union Democrats, opposed the election of
' fkbrabam Lincoln in 1860. In doing so. they di- j
fided and organized in three columns. One, a
:reasonable column of State-rights disunion Dem
ocrats, under Breckinridge. A second, i loyal
' Northern column, itfider Douglas. The third, a
. loneiliatory Hung column, under John Bell, who
ias sihee joified the insurgents. Wc therefore
uvited the two- loyal columns to combine with
' lie Republican party td oppose the disunion
ieinoeraric column. They declined. On the eve
bf the election in IMO I told the followers of
ifougla- and df Bell that when the election
'should Have closed they would find that they had
inadvertently favored disuuiori and rebellion.—
They persisted, and the attempted revolution
Icame. Disunion then presented itself, in the prac
tical form of preventing Abraham Lincoln from
ISssuirfing the Executive authority. Thus the
Democratic party produced that calamity, the
Southern Democrats acting from design, the
Northern Democrats passive through inadvertence.
The disputed succession still remains unadjusted.
A new election has come on. For a time, the
Northern Democrats, with notable exceptions,
gave a more or less liberal support to the Govern
ment. agaitlst the Democratic insurgents of the
South. But the same Democratic fortes which
figured in the election of 1860. noit appear in the
political field, with positions and policy unchang
ed since that tithe, as I think, except for the worse.
The Sdtitheril Democracy is still ill arms under
the ifsifrper at Richmond. The Douglas and Bell
columns, consolidated, arc found it Chicago, arid
al three of the parties ate com passing the rcjee
tbnof the Constitutional President of the United
Sates. They agree not ohly in this attempt, but
trey assign the same reason* for it, namely, that
Jirahiiin Liiieoln is a tvritnt.
They agree, also, that the real usiirper at Rich
lorid is blameless aud pUre ; at least the Rich
mild Democracy affirm it, arid the Chicago De
noOracy do hot gainsay it. To me, therefore the
j bfuocracy at Richmond and the Democracy at
i (jicago, like Casar and Pompey, seem to retain
a their original family resemblance. They are
vy much alike—especially Pompey. But it is
n in mere external- that their similarity lies
>y talk very much alike, as I have already .-Kown
u. When you consider that among the Demo
its at Chicago the Indiana Democrats were pres
. q who have imported arms to resist tjjv nation-
al authority and defeat the national laws, and that
all the Democrats there assembled agreed to jus
| tify that proceeding, I think yoti will agree with
1 me that the Richmond Democrats and the Uhiea
| go Democrats have lately come to act very much
j alike.
j HOW THE CHICAGO CONTENTION' OBETED THE
REBEL PROGRAMME.
t shall now go further and prove to you that
tl.ey not only have a common policy, and a com
mon way of defending it. but they have even a
ddpted that policy in concert with each other. —
' You know that when the Chicago Convention was
1 approachinng in July last. George Sanders, Ciern
| ont C. Clay, and J. P. Holeomb appeared ut the
j Cllftou House, on the Canada bank of the Niaga
ra river, fully invested with the confidence and
acquainted with the purposes of Jefferson Davis
and his Confederates at Richmond. You know,
also, that Chicago Democrats resorted there in
j considerable numbers to confer with these enussa
i ries of Jefferson Davis. Here is the fruit of that
conference, and no one can deny the authenticity
iof my evidence. It is extracted from the London
Time*, the common organ of all the enemies of
the United States. The New York correspond
ent of the Loudon Timet, writing from Niagara
Falls, under date of August 8, says :
"Clifton House has become a centre of negotia
tions between the Northern friends of peace and
Southern agents, which propose a fcitbdrtiwal ol
differences from the arbitrament of the sword."
The correspondent then goes on to complain that
' 'an effort is to be made to nominate a candidate
for the Presidency ort the ground of an armstice
and a Convention of the .States, and to thwart by
all possible means the effort of Mr. Lincoln For re
election. ''
Mark now. that on the Bth of August. 1864,
Northern Democrats and Richmond agents agree
upon three things to be done at Chicago
Namely: 1. The withdrawal of the differen
| ees betwoeri the Government and the insurgents
j rom the arbitrament of the sword. 2. A nomi- ]
nation for President of the United States on a
: platform of an armstice and ultimately a Conkera- J
; tion of the States. 3. To thwart by ail possible
j means the he-election of Abraham Lincoln,
j Such a conference, held in a neutral country, be
i tween professedly loyal citizens of the United j
j States and the agents of the Richmond traitors in '
j arms, has a very suspicious look. But let that
| pass. Political elections must be free, and Uiere
fore they justly excuse many extravagances. We
i have now seert what the agents of Pompey and
j Caeear agreed at Niagara that Pompey should do
at Chicago. Here is what he actually did :
Unvoiced., That this convention does explicitly j
; declare, as the sense of the Amerieau people, that, \
I after lour years of failure to restore the Union by |
the experiment of war. during which, under the \
pretence of a military necessity ofwar power high- '
er than the Constitution, the Constitution itself"
has been disregarded in every part, and public lib- !
j erty and private right alike triHidcu down, and the !
i material prosperity of the country essentially iiu
i paired, justice, humanity' liberty, and the public
welfare demand that immediate efforts be made
for a oesation of hostilities, with a view to an ulti
' mate convention of all the States, or other peacea
| ble means, to the end that at the earliest practical
, federal t mon of the >tates.
Demvcrcey at t 'htcago did there just what
; had been n{treed upon In, the Richmond agents at
j Niagara, namely, they pronounced for an aban
don nun tof the m Hit a ry, iefencc of the 7 ion against
the insurgents, with a neic to an ultimate X&tmual j
Con rent ion and the tie feat of the election of Abn- j
ham Lincoln. That is to say. they proposed to j
j e .) e £t Abraham Lincoln from the Presidential chair j
i at W ashingtoii on the 4th of March next, and at j
i fhc same time leave *he usurper, Davis unassailed, !
aeeffra and unmolested, in his seat at Richmond. I
wit ha view to an tiltimate convention of States. I
which tliat Usurper's Constitution will allow no ■
one of the iusurgeiit States to enter. What now. |
if there be no Convention at all. or if the Conven- i
tion fail to agree on a submission to the Federal
authority! Jefferson Davis then remains in au
thority. his Confederacy established, and the
I nion. wirh all it- glories, is gone forever. Nay.
more, if such a thing could happeff as that the
Chjcaco candidate, nominated upodsuehan agree
ment, should be elected President of the United
States on the first 1 uesday of November uext, who
can vouch for the safety of the country against
the rebels during the interval which must elapse
before the new Administration can eonstitutionallv
cothe into power? It seems to me that such an e
lection would fend eqally to demoralize the Union
and to invite the insurgents to renew their efforts
for its dest ruction.
REBEL AND COPPERHEAD UNDERSTANDING WITH
THE LONDON TIMES.
It remains forme how only to give you the proof
that, although the way in which the Chicago De
mocracy did what had been agreed upon in ttieir
behalf at Niagara was not altogether satisfactory,
yet. what they actually did was excepted as a full
execution of the previous compact.
:ST. CATHERINE, C. \Y., Sept. 1.
To IJon. D. Wier. Halifax:
Platform and Presidential Hominee unsatisfac
tory. Vice President and speeches satisfactory.
Tefl Philmore not to oppose.
GEORGE N. SANDERS.
D Weir is a Richmond accomplice at Halifax and
Philmore is understood to be the conductor of the
insurgent organ in Lotidou.
Here then we have a nominaton and e j.'iatform
which were made by treaty formally contracted be
tween the democratic traitors at Richmond and the
tHe democratic oppositon at Chicago, signed, sealed,
attested, and deliverd in the presence of the London
Times, and already ratified at Richmond. ( " By
Heaven, we've got 'em!) Got them, to be sure you
've got them, my friends. They say lam always too
sanguine of the success of the national candidates
and of the national arms. But it seems to n>e that
the veriest croaker ina!l our loyal camp will Lake new
courage and become heroic when he sees the last
hope of the rebellion hang upon the ratification oftliis
abomi uable and detestable compact by the American
people.
Yes, you have got them: but how did you get them?
Not by any skill or art of the Administration, or even
through the sagacity or activity ofthe lorsil people, but
through the cunning of the conspirators overreaching
itself, and thns working out their own defeat aud con
fusion. They do sav that the father of evil always
indulges his chosen disciples with such an excess of
subtelty as to render their ultimate ruin aud punish
meut inevitable!
APOLtCT CONCEIVE!) IN TREACItdttY—IDENTITY OP THR
BUCHANAN AXt 'CLEL S tTSAEMB.
And what a time is this to proclaim such a policy,
conceived in treacbenr and brought forth with shame
less effrontery ? A cessation of hostilities on the
heel of decisive naval and land battles : at the very
moment that the rebellion, without aeingle fort in its
possession on the coast, or on either of the great
rivers or lakes, is crumbling to the earth, and at the
I .
| wmc time a dozen new ships of war are going to
complete the investment by sea, suid three hundred
j thousand volunteers are rushing to the lines to com
plete the work of restoration and pacification I
The re is a maxim which thoughtful teachers al
ways carefully inculate: it is that inconstancy i
iirebecility, and that perseverance is necessary to in
sure success. This maxim was set forth in the form
of a copy in the writing-book when I was young.—
"Perseverance always conquers." Even infantile
beginners encountered the instruction in the form o?
a fable in Webster's spelling-book, The story was,
that after using soft words and tufts of grass, the
| fanner tried what virtue there Was in stones, and by
persistence in tliat application he brought the rude
I hoy, who wat stealing apples, down fro in the tree,
| an d ~ade htm ask the farmers pardon. Our Chica-
I go teachers tell us that just as the rods boy is coming
, down, we must lay down the stones and resort again
j to the use of grass, with the consequence, of course,
j that the farmer must beg pardon of the traspasser.-
I But what makes this Chicago policy more contempt
j tible and even ridiculous, is that it is nothing differ
| -nt from the policy with which the same parties now
I contracting actually ushered iu disunion in 18C1,
j in the closing hour of the Administration of James
I Buchanan. \ es, my dear friends, when we of this
Administration came into our places iu March, 1861,
ve found there existing just the system Which is not*
rccomncitded at Chicago. Namely, first a treason
sotiable Confederacy in arms against the Federal au
thority. Second . a truce between the Government
of the Uuited States and ttte rebels, a veritable arm
stiee which was so constructed that while the nation
al ports and forts were thoroughly invested along the
sea coast and rivers by the insurgents-, they could be
neither reinforced nor supplied, even with food, by
the government. Third a languid debate with a view
to an ultimate .National Convention, which the rebel*
haughtiiy despised and contemptuously rejected.—
What were the alternatives left us? Either to surren -
der ourselves and the Government, at discretion, or
to summon the pteople to arms, terminate the armi
tice, adjourn the demoralizing, debate and ''repos
sess" ourselvs of the nationrl forts and posts. And
now has all the treasure that has been spent, and
all the precious blood that har. bc-en poured forth,
gone for nothing e'se but to secure an ignominious
j retreat, and return at the end of four years to the
' hopeless imbecility and rapid process of national
J disolution which existed when Abraham Lincoln
j took into his hands the reins of Government.
Even* one of you knows that but for that accession
| of Abraham Lincoln ju-t at that time, the Union
would in les-' than three months have fallen into
; absolute and irretrievable ruin.
I wilt not dwell long on the complaint which mis
guided but not intentioualiv perverse men bring a
gainst the Administration of Abraham Lincoln—
; They complain of military arrests of spies and lurk
! ing traitors in the loyal States, as it the Government
■ could justify itseli for waiting without preventative
• measures for more States to be invaded or to be car-
I sred off into secession.
j They complain that when we call for volunteers
we present the alternative of a draft, as if when the
ship has been scuttled the captain ought to leave the
sleeping passengers to go to the bottom without call- -
j ing them to take their turns at the pump.
They are not content with plotting sedition in se
; cret places, but they go np and down the public
; streets uttering treason, vainly seeking to provoke
j arrest, jc order that they may complain
o! the liberty of speech. The impunity they cverv- "*
i where enjoy under the protection of constitutional
, debate shows at one and the same time that their
j complaints are groundless, and that the Union, in
the element of moral stability, is stronger than thev
know.
THE CHIEF COMPLAINT IQiIXST THE PRESIDENT—A
SIGNIFICANT AXSFfcR—THE QUESTION OF PEACE.
The chief complaint against the President is that
he wijl not accept peace on the basis of the integrity
of the I nion. without having also the abandonment
of slavery. When and where Have the insurgents of
fered hint peace on the basis of the integrity of the
' nion l Nobody has offered it. The rebels nerer
will offer it. They are detennined and pledged to
rule this Republic or ruin it. I told you here a year
ago that practically slavery was no longer in jues
fion ; Ihat ft was perishing under the operation of
the war. Thai assertion has been confirmed.
Ihe L nion men in all the slave States that we
have delivered are even more anxious than we are to
abolish slavery. Witness Western Virginia, Mary
land, Mzs.-ouri, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkan
sas. Jefferson Davis tells you in effect the sama
thing. lie says that it is not slavery, but independ
ence and sovereignty, for which he is contending.—
There is good reason for this. A hundred dollars in
gold is only a year's purchase of the labor of the
working man in every- part of the United States.—
At less than half that price we could buv all the
slaves in the country. Nevertheless oar opponent*
want a distinct exposition of the President's view*
on the ultimate solution of ths slavery question.
Why do they want it ? For the same reason that
the Pharisees ond Saddncees wanted an authorita
tive resolution ofthe questions of the casuistry which
arose in their day. One of tltose sects believed in a
Kingdom to come, and the other denied the resur
rection of the dead. Nevertheless, they walked to
gether in loving accord in search of icstruction eon
ceruing the spirit-world. -'Master," said they,
•'ther; Was a man of our nation who married a wifa
and died, leaving six brothers. These brothers suc
cessively married the widowed woman, and after
wuzds died : and, last of all the woman died also.—
In the resurrection, which of the seven shall have
this woman to wile ?"
Now, what was it to them whether one or all
should have the woman to wife in Heaven? It coqjd
be nothing to the Sadducees in any case. What wa*
it to any human being on this side of the grave ?
V hat was it to any human being in Heaven except
the woman and her seven husbands ? Absolutely
nothing. \et they would have an answer. And they
received one. The answer was that, while in this
mortal state men and women shall never cease to
marry and to die, there wiil be in the reasurrcctioa
neither death nor marrying, or giving in msurixge.
Although altogether unauthorized to speak for
the President upon hypothetical questions, I think
I can give an answer upon the subject of slavery at
the present day—an answer which will be explifcit,
and I hope not altogether unsatisfactory. While
the rebels continue to wage war against the Govj
ernmeut of the United Stakes, tho military meas
ures effect-rig slavery, which Hive been adopted
from necesity, to bring th war to a speed' and
successful end, will be continued, exocp so tar as
practical experience shall show thai they can be
modified advantageously, with a Jvicw to the same
end. Wheu the insurgents shall have disbanded
their armies spd laid down their arms, tho war w->
instantly cease, and all tho war measure* then
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