Ti VitsS. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1888 A Lesson from the Loyal North. 'The issues in the loyal States are being closely and clearly presented. The men who supposed that disloyalty and treason would become the controlling sentiment of the North will find that they have mistaken the spirit of the American people and the true purpose of the -contest , we are now fighting. Many of us were disposed to think the clamor of the Democratic leaders a true test of Northern sentiment, and loyal men were found lamenting over what they considered national apathy and defection. The mistakes of feeble generals ; the vacil lation of mililary policy ; disasters and de to tia Mid la all wha "{Tlibt the uncertain chance cl war i tlae depreciation of the currency, and the Selfish efforts of speculators in gold and silver ; necessary taxation and tariffs— all combined to predispose the weak and faint-hearted to despair of the country. Their despair strengthened the Democratic organization, and contributed to its triumph in some of the loyal States, and the enemies of the became defiant and joyful. But the great people of this country were not to become the defenders or the allies of treason,. and 'when they saw that every triumph of the Democratic party gladdened the rebels, and that every word uttered against the Administration was repeated by the enemies of the Union, they paused. They saw the deceit of their false leaders, and they are spurning their fellowship. We coS the evidences of this reaction in the recent meeting in New York—the earnest devotion of VAN 'BUREN, BRADY, and DALY to the Union—the election in ' New Hampshire—and more particularly in IF-1-1 P.-1 ./t is mere wee-1411y Wick TercrcniCe to that meeting that we write these words. Not many days ago a representative from Ohio, who, having been spurned by his constituents for persistent enmity to the Government and the war, was honored by citizens who boast .of their enmity to the Union. It was a large demonstration ; de • Rant speeches:were made; rockets rent the air, and rebel music was played to a shout ing multitude. The forbearance of loyal men, and their devotion to peace and har ' molly, permitted these scenes to pass unre buked. That rebuke was administered last evening. Such a meeting has seldoni been seen in Philadelphia. For numbers, re spectability, enthusiasm, and, above all, for firm and dignified devotion to the country, it has never been equalled. Let it be remembered that no mere election canvass called'this multitude together. The attrac tions of party meetings were absent—the . noise, glitter, show, and pomp, that call men together and excite their feelings, were neglected. It was nothing more than a <4 l . rtiripolopma to ;meal , their tICY O FIV II w 449 Union without diitinetion of party—to wel come here some of the most eminent states men of the day—and to honor the leaders of the true and untainted Democracy. It was, besides this, a magnificent. expressiOn of the contempt and scorn of the . loyal men of Philadelphia for. the traitors in their ut idst, and more particularly for those who . were base enough to do honors to VALLAN DIGRAM, BURR, and CARRIGAN. On an inclement night in this insidious and treach erous mouth: of March, thousands were found to stand in the open air and respond with Shouts to the loyal and eloquent ad dresses of the men, whose speeches we print this morning. It was a meeting of the friends of the Union. The Governor of :Pennsylvania presided. and by his - presence, his ability, and,. above Sill, - W his have siaisklAwtsq— and chose over whom he presided. It was not a meeting of Democrati nor Republicans; it was not called by men of ' any organization ; it rose above partisanship =zl. LaTv by iß43tilitOß with 611 i -every party, They now meet together, and join -hands in favdr of the party of the Union. We. had a leading Republican statesman, in the person of the distinguished Senator from • Wisconsin,- •Mr: Doduarrt.P. He has just returned from a Senate which he adorned by his courage and Ability, by hisi con sistency to trite principles, and his candor to all. He is a liberal and sagacious man, . and in his speech presented a platform broad enough for all men to occupy. ANDREW JOEINSON, the Governor of Tennessee, a leading Democrat, a friend of jonx C. 'l3itsEcKilluiDoE—a Southern man, and the Governor of a Southern State 7--a man of the people, and in every way identified with them—was another of the speakers. Him self a life-long Democrat—a Democrat by choice, and education, and temper—he, of all men could speak for union, and ask the Democracy of Philadelphia to sustain • the war for the Union. JOSEPh A. Wmarir, of Indiana, another Democrat ; a statesman whom the Democracy have at all times de lighted to honor i a representative of the Wen i an oluquenri conservative, and loyal Senator, seconded his appanla, and coming from the mighty West, over a path which haS been an ovation, he could fitly ask the Democracy of his native State to stand by Indiana in allegiance to the Union 1 and the war. Then we had our own fellow-citizens to second these appeals. HENDRICK B. WEIGHT, the intrepid repre sentetiTe from Luzerne—a Democrat of the Jacxsow type, and a supporter of Dotr oLAs ; BENJAMIN H. BREWSTER, our elo quent townsman, who has been a Democrat of the strictest school, devoted to the organi zation, to the discipline, to the most rigid tenets of the faith—a Democrat with South ern sympathies, and a supporter of BRECK nuaDGE—united on the same . platform in appeals to the Democracy which every De mocrat could be glad to endorse. And now, in view of the great cause in which we are fighting, its importance, its glory, its necessity, and its effect upon us and upon our country—in view of the demands-made Upon us by an Administra tion of'our'clioiec.und affection L-in view of the font that via have lITIRIFIKI avast us a Miedi, WALMSCIFAIIIC(I, and Viadie- Lin rebellion, why cannot nil men 'who love the country, and who hope for peace and safety, unite on the platform pre sented to us by this meeting ? Why cannot all men be patriots and friends of the country ? The issue is before us ; we must be for the Union or against the Union ;• we must be patriots or traitors. The memories of the past, the demands of-the.presont, the hopes of the future, the teachings of the Illustrious dead, and the. desire that our children should have a nationality that means freedom and pdwer—all appeal to us to join hands and unite in defence of the Republic. We think we speak for the peo ple of Philadelphia when we say that their appeals will not be made in vain Great Dletress In Ireland. The consequences of ill-doing often press heavily upon the innocent. It is not for mortals to inquire into the motives of the all-good and all-wise Providence which per mits this. To suffer, and also to believe and hope, is the duty and, we will add, the pri vilege of humanity. The revolt of the South, certainly most unprovoked, has caused millions to suffer, not only hero, ,but in other countries. In Belgium, Ger many, Prussia, Saxony, Switzerland, and even in Russia, the scarcity of cotton has more or less caused distress among the ope .ratives. It has been still severer in 17rance, and heaviest of all in Lancashire and Lan :arkshire. It may be news to many that it has also afflicted industrial activity in the Worth of Ireland. At the beginning of the present century extensive business in hand-loom weaving of cotton was carried on, chiefly at Belfast and Lisburn, and twenty,.thousand hands wore emphiyed. Up to 1823, when Mr. Hums sox', the champion of free trade, removed' it; there ivas a piohibitive chity of fifteen per cent: upon the importation of British eottori goods and yarns: This protection removed 11101111111fIlillIO fl 0010100; anti pllll6ll pally fell into the hands of neighboring cot ton manufacturers in Scotland. Still, these Glasgow and Paisley houses had a goed part of their weaving done in Belfast and Lis burn. All through, from the very commence ment of the trade, over eighty years ago, the Scotch havo monopolized the manu facture of book, mull, and lino muslins, and of jaconets, sewed and tamboured muslins. As early as 1807, machinery was invented to 'embroider muslin; but, though a few Scotch houses used it, the result was a failure, and the muslins, on which the pat terns are stamped in Glasgow and Paisley, are sent over to be worked by female hands in the Nolth of Ireland. In 1853, a very prosperous season in the sewed muslin trade, over 100,000 persons wore employed, and, in nine months of that year, 0,750,000 was paid, as wages, chiefly among the Irish peasant girls. One Glasgow house paid $2,500. • The fancy trade of embroidered Pell off iftthh, but so far linpfti'tal uttvr titot, to, the close of 1800, as many as 20,000 per sons were employed in weaving, and 80,000 in sewing muslins. The South rebelled. The supply of cotton failed. Most of the persons engaged in this particular branch of trade; chiefly in Lisburn 'and Belfast, were deprived of employment. Eight manufac turers in Lisburn, who employed 10,000 regu lar hands in 1860, have not now 1,000 looms at work. Many have quitted the country. Some still cling, when they can get work, to the loom, the sewing-hoop, and the -tam bour-frame, but the wages have fallen so low that fourteen hours' work per day pro duces only a dollar Per week, and it is some times from 20 to 40 per cent. lower than this. The natural result of such a condition of affairs was ' ably and clearly stated in two letters to the London Times,. by Mr. Rusin ItIcCALL ; a gentleman connected with: the Belfast Newsletter, who- is acting as secretary of the Lisburn Relief. Fund, that has been 1 mi 1..11 1 on MS Belfast papers, and was Milner corn nntnicated; in private letters, from Mr. McCAm, to Mr. THOMAS O'NEILL, a MOM her of the Corn Exchange- in this city, a body which, with characteristic promptitude and generosity, has taken cognizance of the state of destitution now prevailing in Lis 'burn and Belfast, and has appointed a com mittee to obtain subscriptions, its own mem bers, as will be seen, liberally commencing it. They hope that the ladies of Philadel phia will aid them in this benevolent pur poie. If necessary, they will be appealed to by a public meeting. That they may have some idea of the nature and extent of the distress (to which the attention of the English public was drawn in a letter from RICUMIDSON, SPENCE, & CO., of Liverpool, in the Daily Post. of January 15th), we shall add a few facts : The distress which has now lasted over two years has affected two thousand persons in Lisburn, or a fourth of the whole popu lation of that borough, besides a large num her in Belfast and the neighborhood of both 12...thtlaw •wori operuslvos now is boiled turnips, with a variation gruel made of India meal twice a day, or boiled cabbage sprinkled with oatmeal. Bread they rarely can .proctu - e. There is a whole sale deficiency of wearing apparel. The beds are usually made of straw, covered with ragged quilts or blankets. Local . cha rity has endeavored to aid these wretched people, and. much good has been done by ladies' committees. But assistance from other sources is needed, to prevent star vation, and in a community like ours, where the Irish element strongly exists, there is scarcely a doubt that. this assistance will be given. The members 'of the Corn Exchange Committee just appointed, - and the principal newspaper offices; will receive donations. I,ETTVL_liSitaal.—ekocso&qT/L , Wasnix Grow, March 11, 1803. A good way to attain a strong , realizing sense of private and- public duties in • this emergency, is to go back for five or six from thitt Moiled lii gsagath. , upeiltlin then tx common thing for politicians to tits-. cuss the subject of the dissolution of the Union. It had becomet habit of the South to threaten it whenever any one of her de :mends was refused, and she generally got what she wanted by maintaining this eter nal pother. 'Curiously enough, while the slaVe-drivers Were howling and bullying, not one NorthenVinan in ten Supposed them tote in earnest, or tolerated the idea that such a thing as disunion would ever be at tempted. And I firmly believe that the same feeling, almost in the same ratio, pre vailed in the South less than ten years ago. Suppose that, even as late as 1850, any man had predicted the Rebellion. which we are now engaged, would he not have been set down as a lunatic ? And when, ad vancing upon his prediction, he had pointed out the horrors of the war, the cruelty of the rebels, their utter want of excuse or defence in beginning the conflict, would not they,have made an object for pity; as one sunk into abject idiocy, fit only for close confinement in, an insane asylum ? Bat ft after nil hiS perSunsiva parsaearanes j and his determination to make his propbeey seem reasonable, he had succeeded in impressing upon his hearers that such a thing as an as sault upon the Constitution and laws would happen, all his arguments would have failed if he had attempted to abuse their credulity •by adding that men of intelligence could be found in the free States ready to sympa thize with the traitors, and to embarrass and obstruct the Government in a war for its Preservation. They would not have believed him, if lie lied declared that. the people of the South themselves could be 'united in such,a contest. For had not these people flourished under the old :Union? *ere they not protected,. by laws passed espe cially for their protection ? Were they not the creatures of the Government 2 Did they not held a majority of, its offices, from the Supreme Court down? Did they not con trol and shape legislation and parties to suit themselves ' So far from aiding in such a rebellion, they would rise" against the men who dared to ask their assistance in further ance of so wild and' devastating a Scheme. But if the legend of Hifi Van Winkle could be menu practiau, ann en mignon attlibn .who bed slept *MI the year 1938 to the year 1808, suddenly awoke in the midst of this fearful I war, he would find abundant material for indignant amazement. He would doubt his identity, when he beheld men whom 'he had habitually regarded as patriotic and intelligent, synipathizing with, and assisting and applauding the armed as sailants of the Republic. He would find that James Buchanan, who had voluntarily pledged himself that the people of Kansas should be permitted to control their own institutions in their own way, and who had been elected upon the distinct understanding that he would make this pJedge the con trolling elethent of his Administration, re . - joicing over the reverses of his country, organizing a party against the Govern ment, contributing his money to . send rebel sympathizers to Congress, and de ploring every success of the American ar mies. He would see the name of Democracy used and abused as a cover for the rankest treason, and would read with horror the de bates of the National Legislature, in which the President was called a dictator for having resorted to energetic measures for putting down the rebellion. He would see the rebel South united against the Constitution which had protected it, and those who had assumed the championship of that instrument work ing for its destruction. In looking around for the cause of this monstrous hallucina tion, he would soon realize not onlythat the war had been commenced without reason, without justification, or without pretext; by the Southern aristocracy, but that those who act in concert with them in the free States were rejecting all the inducements to patriotic action; were refusing to be guided by the admonitions of the past and the hopes of the future. But, above all, he could not fail to come to the conclusion that the antagonistic principles in this great struegle were the aristocracy of slavery and the democracy of freedom. Such a man, in lilt) ming Of MO fielfi9l6ffilatillll - HMI grim; would also perceive that, as the war pro_ gresecd, one or the other of these, principles must triumph, and that those voters in the loyal States, excepting the party lead ers, 'who had allowed themselves to be mis led into encouragement of the' rebellion, would finally recognize the true path and walk in it unfalteringly and fearlessly to the end. This reaction is as certain to trans pire as any event in nature. The New Hampshire election is the last and best symptom of it. It shows that the violence of the traitors in the South, and the despe ration and madness of their friends in the North, are beginning to open the eyes of. the people, are separating the wheat from the chaff, and are 'convincing even the most 'obdurate partisans than their duty is to op pose all who act in concert with the rebels, and to support and strengthen the Govern ment of their fathers. Not all the money subscribed and raised in New York—not all the italeclaoods:fekbAcattecl .312-o.ll.si.ea In that Mato — not all lac fired orators Mat in to traduce the constituted authorities, and to delude the masses—have availed against the eternal and irresistible principle of sound Democracy. What is now needed is, that this example should be improved upon. EVery other eleeliOn must be made a victory for the good cause. Unity of ac tion among those who am sincere lovers of their country must be the watchword every where. Leagues between loyal men, dis cussions upon the truths involved in this struggle for self-preservation, social meet ings in every community, great and small ; the administration of the oath to ourselves, our sons, and even our wives and daugh ters ; the organization of the loyal clergy into compact and vigilant societies ; the preparation and publication of short, ner vous, and inspiring appeals to men of all creeds, opinions, and professions through out the civilized world—these should be made the basis of immediate and extended combinations. so that ? before the fourth of giiin Stilt fawn' May Fit 55 9lliBYiltir lit favor of their country as they are conscien• tious in their faith in a superintending Pro 'dence. OCCASIONAL. ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. BRAGG'S ARMY LARGELY REINFORCED. Preparations to Invade Kentucky. Suppression of "Sympathizing" Journals. FORT DONELSON AGAIN THREATENED, (Special Despatch to The Press.) Ditirch' : 11, 1863 BRAGG'S RBINFORCEDIENTS A Union gentleman, direct from Shelbyville, of the utmost reliability, and who has made himself very intimate with the rebel army, assures me that Bragg's army has been reinforced by eleven bri gades, averaging about two thousand men to the brigade. lie conversed with Early, who informed him that as lcient assistance had been received from the Richmond army to resist Rosecransl forces OUHinligilit Tag Dcligyo That tat Army of 111111 Ulllllll#llllllll noon rmnfonaml 11110111 twnn .20 irtfarnmt, wise is MIA of tha most thorough patriots in the State, says the army at Shelbyville and Tullahoma is very large, and is receiving new arms and new clothes daily. As usual, Bragg deals with deserters severely. ANOTHER RAID TO_BRAADE INTO KEN EMM From the same gentleman, and from newly-arrived East Tennesseans, I learn that the rebel authorities contemplate another expedition into Kentucky. There are at Knoxville and other East Tennessee towns already fifteen regiments of cavalry and mounted infantry, under marching orders. As a confirmation of these rumors, In My estimation, the departure of George D. Prentice, Esq., for Europe,. is not Insignificant. In all probability his eon has apprised Mm of the anticipated rebel excursion, as it is well known that letters have passed between the two persons unopened, and since the blockade of last fall, Mrs. George D. Prentice has passed through our lines to the,_...S.ruith_sie two or three “meffall I can see and hear. f - ancrineu to believe that an invasion ,of Kentucky will take place within a short time of this date. Whether the expedition will wait until the river falls, or go through the Gap, remains to be seen. THE REBEL SYMPATHIZING JOURNALS, — """1 PIM 'O6 Miff yvir map promoiting The 13{ilo or otrooimuoir or the Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Times, and Columbus Crisis, but General Mitchell refused his approval, and the order could not be enforced. Gens. Negley, Stedman, and Stanley, have pro. }Milted the sale of the Louisville Journal in their divisions. PERSONAL Maj. General Gordon Granger will take command here in a day or two. lie is one of the beat fighting men in the United States army, and entertains very little regard for the life or death of .a soldier. The speeches of Governor Johnson in the North have produced the most unbounded enthusiasm here among the uncontdiional loyalists. MISCELLANEOUS... t• large fleet of transports arrived last night, es corted by gunboats. - • It is rumored that Fort Donelson is again threat ened. B. C. T. War News from the Southwest. CI:WIN - NATI, March 11.—A despatch from .Mem phis says the city is full of rumors of an engagement at Port Hudson. General Pemberton has been removed from the command of the rebel army in the Department of the Mississippi. Gen. Bragg is hie successor, and has °IP.IPTISA Ginn. I.ongratriwt will netittlifletti 0&11.. 104 gt. old alviaion In Aiiddie tenneintec. Gen. Price hen returned from Richmond, inveated with all the power he naked for, and willgo to :die sOuri. General Holmes is to be removed, and Gen. Hind man sent east of the Mississippi. • Gen. Kirby Smith will take command in Arkamme. • WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to ci The Press.” WASHINGTON. March 11, 1863. Extra Session of the United States henate. The Senate considered the resolution of Mr. DAVIS, of Kentucky, which was offered yesterday, requesting the President to furnish at the com mencement of the next session a statement of the aggregate number for each Stateland Territory and the District of Columbia, of all officers and em ployees in the civil servic eof the United States, subject to removal by the President and by other officers, with their perquisites, etc. Mr. ANTHONY, of Rhode Island, and Mr. Tnou nnz.r., of Illinois, thought that all this information would be found in the Blue Book, and hence could see no necessity for the adoption of the resolution. Mr. Davis explained that it was hie intention at the next session to submit amendments to the Con stitution, regulating the appointment of officers, and he desired this information in order to iihultrate his proposition. /dr. gilimE!3t of .12178) 111/ BM@rnhnEnt to lon innoißtion hy IU tIOg Ills words »IR Indus th show in what capacity such civil officers have acted," and in Ibis form the resolution was adopted. • The Senate then went into executive session. The Senate will close its extraordinary session this week—pro bably to-morrow.. Delivery of Packages to the Soldiers. • •To the great gratification ,of the soldiery, the Adams Express has delivered, during the last ten days, an immense quantity of boxes and bundles to the army, and general HOOKER, solicitous for the welfare and comfort of his men, has made ample provision for the speedy distribution to the various camps of all articles hereafter sent. General Fremont. General Fnemoyr has not, as •stated recently, been examined by the Committee on the Conduct of the War, Capture of Union Troops in Tennessee. Onicirn , TATl, March 11.—A special despatch to the Commercial, from Jackson, Tennessee, says that two hundred men, with two pieces of artillery, of Gen. 'Sullivan's divisiou, were surrounded by a body of rebel cavalry and captured. New Hampshire Election. CONConD, N. H., March-10—Noon.—The' election returns are still very close. If Judge Eastman, the Democratic candidate, is not elected Governor by a majority, he will only want a few hundred votes. His plurality over Gilmore, the Republican candi date, will be from 4,000 to 6,000. In the First Congressional district, after making the necessary corrections In the morning returns, it is probable, that hinny (Dem.) is elected by from 200 to ate majority. It will be necessary to have the official count to decide the Second and Third districts. The Democrats carried - the following counties: Merrimac, Grafton, Ooos, Carroll,' and Belknap. The Republican and Bell Everett ticket united has a majority in Rockingham, Strafford,. Hillsbo. rough, Oheahert , and (probably) Sullivan counties: In the House, the Republican. will have nearly as large a majority as last year. The Senate will stand six to six ' but perhaps the opposition to the Democratic party may have secured seven or eight of the twelve members. Pennsylvania Politics. BEDFORD, Pa,, March 11.—At a meeting of the Democratic conferees held to-day for the district composed of Huntingdon, Bedford, and Somerset, Major R. Bruce Petriken was unanimously elected a Senatorial delegate to -the Democratic state Con vention, with instructions to support the claim" of Don. John Cessna for Governor. -7- Arrival of Steamers at New York. Naw YORK, March 11—Midnight.—The steamer Kangaroo, from Liverpool on the 2let ult., and the City of Baltimore on the 25th, and the steamer Eagle, have been signalled below. • THE PRESS. -- = . PIRLADELPHLA: THURSDAY. MARCH 12. 1863 UNION FOR THE NAIR OP THH OXINt IMMENSE MEETING IN FAVOR OF THE WAR. No Party but the Party of the Country, Treason and Spaupaihy with Treason Re buked In Philadelphia. GOVERNOR OURTIN PRESIDES OVER:THE Speeches by Ilon. J. U. Doolittle, Senator from 'Wisconsin-Hon. Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tenn essee-Hon..T. A. Wright, ex-Senator from Indiana-Hon. S. C. Cow per, of Virginia-Hon. H. B. Wright, ca lif e. rob e r from Pen n syl van la - Benjamin H. Itre,water, Esq., and others. One of the largest meetings ever held in the city of Philadelphia took. place last evening in Musical Fund Hall. It was called under the auspices of an organization known as -The National Union Olub, and Was intended to prepare the way for a union of an Aii,pes n P 12 1 141.14,,61., ...inikoet • dirt' 00l too or rarity, in ellggert Al . the Tull:. Z./ I. ~-,...- —,...,.0 to the libtialhft of the loyal men In Mew tiori..mi elsewhere. The night was chill and damp, and the heavy snowstorm of the preceding day still covered the highways and pavements. Notwithstanding these disadvantages, at a few minutes past seven o'clock, Musical Fund Hall was filled to its utmost capacity by an intelligent and respectable audience containing men of all parties, and men who gene rally take no part in politics. The display was very plain and simple-a flag being suspended over the stage, but beyond this there were no tranaparen cies, mottoes, flags, or lanterns. Birgfeld's band oc cupied a position upon the platform, and played a number of national airs; "Dixie's Land" was not among the number-that being now confined to De mocratic clubs and the rebel army. Long before the commencement of the proceedings the hall was filled to Its utmost capacity, and a large meeting bad gathered in front of the hall. • As the distinguished gentlemen named - severally appeared on the platform, they were greeted with loud shouts of applause, and ;when Governor John son, of Tennessee, made his appearance, the en thusiasm was unbounded, the audience rising to its' feet and cheering him, vociferously for ;several minutes, while the band-played "Hail to the Chief." The meeting was called to order by Horton McMichael, Eeq., who made a brief address. fir Firifiti 111' 1111111Tttli ilifiTtllfilia_ribi Fitt! ]lift- rannmintii 111 fallillll IRO Illtillnal TO MP, bolt occasion to gate She objects that had sailed them together. The National Union Club was an organization which had its origin in the purest patriotism, and it promised to be one of the greatest instrumentalities in crushing out the rebellion which now exists. [Cheers.] -He was proud and happy to say the first word in its behalf, and he was only asked to join in this meeting by calling upon the Governor of Pennsylvania. [Loud cheering.] He bad now to move that the meeting be organized by the appointment for its chairman the Governor, one who has done his whole duty. He would not call for the ayes and noes-no one would dare to say no -.and he would not ask it. [Three cheers for Gover nor Curtin.] • THE SPEECH OP GOVERNOR CURTIN. It is a high privilege to be permitted to preside over so large a meeting of true citizens of this Com monwealth, and it is especially an honor to be invited thus to participate in the deliberations:of an assem blage called for the express purpose of passing upon aeons of vital importance to all the people of the Republic. [Great cheering.] • This meeting of mem beta of the National Union. League is an evidence to the world that the fires of ancient patriotism have not gone out; that neither armed resistance to con stituted authority, appeals to partisan prejudice from those In sympathy with our internal enemies, nor any- other base appliance, have availed to stifle the utterance of the loyal American citizen. It is no `. small honor to you, citizens of Philadelphia, that the idea of banding together all true and loyal men in the hour of our national trial should have originated in your midst. You have happily designated your association as the National Union 1-...„;..z., IL.. ---- 1.. -,,........1...%:.:i .u.... -;,.1 , --;. ,-- 11.5U0 in UMW. Whin ill ie. ARAAIDARI PIO litAlki4 1111014110 M MO 1111111 in their struggles 117.81111 h, political inndelity, and thus, by your concurrent action, secure the perpetuity et our national life. Feat assured that the people Of the interior are equally alive to the importance of • similar combina tions in the support of the Government, and are taking active measures to form kindred associations; and, as evidence that the people of other States are not insensible to your example. you can point with pride and .pleasure ,to the recent demonstration in the city of New York, where patriotism and fidelity attracted to the same platform (Julien Bryant and James F. Brady, Dudley Field and John Van Buren, hlayor Opdyke and Judge Daley-all representative men who had hitherto been separated by their politi cal eitinities-there Speaking together . . In such har monythat their words might be taken as the emana tion of one mind. The news from New England indicates that the descendant of the Pnritan ie. still faithful to the Government, and true to the teaching -.of his - noble ancestry. The granite hills .of New Hampshire are brilliant in the light of yesterday's . achievements. New England will not be left out In the cold, and Plymouth Rock,' and Concord, and Lexington, with all their sacred memories, will still be dearto..us as within our nationality:fr It is full time that the peolile f Of Pennsylvania and other loyal States should eatimate'the value of. this Government. It now trembles in the balance; it is assaulterl-by an armed force; by a rebellion the most causelers and gigantic that history has had to record. It to atranreihat the people_of airy part of this great country enoutteeu.a.,a_eorget,ful alike,of our history and traditions, and of the benetktence and perfectness of our form of government, whlckpts secured to us. all rights of person and of proper ty ; whose authority ` has been almost parental, and whale operations have fallen upon us so gently, that, like the air we breathe, it has scarcely been teat, and yet, like it, is necessary to out Cribilenet NI a notioth'. Dot le le 1.(...........5....:::..1.;.J...i. 1.-4-.1 _ :1-. ;1........ ..i.r,s r t. , :As Thell 11111Mhydi Ott Whit, ihhhik AA{ itiiiiiiiil l• • • lima, Fall To cor dially Ailllitill thus _gone Governmont, and who are ao recreant to their duty and negligent Of their real interests as even to sympathize with those who are in arms against it. They profess loyalty to the Government, and yet counsel and advise the people to refrain in the support of the - President, its visible heud, and-those who in its various'depart• menta are charged with its administration. If such counsels should prevail, the President would be without the , means of carrying on the war which has been thrust upon him; our exhausted armies could not be replenished, and the fabric of our Go vernment would at length fall before the rude and persistent assaults of those who are avowedly their enemies as well as ours. [Loud - cheering.] Those who are in rebellion against the Govern ment have themselves the power, this day, to stop this bloody Ivor by a submission to the - law and a return to their allegiance. -Then the Constitution, with all its guarantees - and compromisei would continue to them its protection and blessigs ; and if there be any defects in that matchless instrument, it contains within itself the means for its own amendment. Having banded together and set up Government forme within tha States of this Na tional Union, and having forseiorn the Constitution, whilst they stand in rebellion to its authority, they can claim no rights nor protection under it. Its only clause which especially applies to them is that one which provides that "Treason shall consist in levying war - against the United States:" And whilst those in the loyal States who sympathize with them. claim for them the rights-which peace able citizens would enjoy under the Constitution, they seem to be forgetful that those with whom they sympathize claim no such rights for themselves. It is our Government that is in peril, and in this the darkest hour of its peril we strike hand* to sus tain it, and we can make no distinction between an active, zealous and constant suppprt of our Freed /leg And fidelity to the Constitution which he is iliffej le RIO DISLI WINS, lie our 011OMM nwresantan tire, sworn to defend. Let us not be turned from this great question by false issues. We must lay upon the .aitar of our country whatever sacrifice the occasion demands; all that is dear to us In cherished opinion, in politi cal associations, in doctrines of expediency-indeed, everythibg of a personal or selfish ngture must be subordinated to the unity of this great. Government. Any institution, privilege, or Internet, which stands in the way of the national life, whatever it be, must fall ; and so for those who are at war with the Go vernment, they and their interests and privileges • will be crushed beneath its mighty triumph. This is the Inexorable logic of events, and the inevitable consequence of their own wickedness and folly. We are, as I have said, at war ; engaged in a war forced upon his from necessity to preserve our na tionality. We have developed resources which have astonished the world, and have put in the field larger armies than any nation of modern times ; we have surrounded the coasts of the rebellious States with a cordon of vessels of war,- and have, under the law of nations, proclaimed a blockade whlgh is respect ed by the civilized world. This Is all recognized as proper, and if the labor of the South was performed by tree white men, we would be perfectlypistthatde, even before the judgment of the refined benevolence of this age, to cripple and destroy their labor as one of the means of success. Can it be . possible, then, that by any process of reasoning, by any sentimen tality, or false humanitarianism, the are to enjoy this tabor, and so be enabled to ad Inne thin war, because it is owned and slave? - rue it was a j i light of property regulated' by municipa l law, covered and protected by that Constitution which they now repudiate with contempt:-bunt is bard to understand why Norther= arramthy should seek to afibrd them the protectien'of the Constitu tion for the - security of any propertg which stasAds in - the way of the Clovernmenti•andsvow, too, When their piratical vessels are deitroying 21.27 mow .:,.:. -;-&-,--- r ::.eirr, i asiiiseifieg the creih oiour merchant met:L . :ban it. be possible that the.dratruetion of their lateivertit, ahatiLl be ' ,le nie d to us by those who profess to be loyal to the Government I Appeals, too, are .made to the prejudices of our pebple 'on the suhject of negro immigration into the State, and it is persistently alleged In some quarters, that as the war pro gimes our State will be overrun, and our labor crippled by their presence amongst us. I believe it is well settled, . my friends, that the free negro does not seek a Northern climate: There are comparatively few in our midst, although there are thousands in every Southern State ; indeed, in every Southern city there are many who could come to the North; and it la equally true, my friends, that the admixture of the races is relatively rare in the North, with that in the Southern Stake. It would be just as likely that the masses of the;people in Pennsylvania should move into a Southern cli mate, as that the free negro should incline to seek a more. Northern latitude. He is constrained by a law of nature, and If this rebellion is persisted in; and it be a trial ' of the strength of the Government with the institution of slavery, the negro will notOrdy remain in; but go to the South, when he becomei a paid laborer there, as its climate is adapted%to his physical conformation, his tastes, and his habits, for In ouch a contest, as God is j ust, the Govern ment will surely prevail. Wo all wish for the termination of this unhappy strife . ; blood enough has been abed ; treasure enough has been ex pended; and, this hour, those in rebellion - have the power to stop it. But the same cause which justified the sacrifice of the first life, and the expenditure of the first dollar, impels us to go on until the Government is re-established all over till" great country, and everything within it and ,under it, and protected by it, has yielded to the aurorae of law and order. It involves fidelity to the .0.:3 our hopes for the future, and, above all, our nation and personal honor. - • ' ..'e- ' There are not many in the State who sympathize with the mad - .ambition and insane treason* ot-the people in rebellion-I think there are few-I Wish there were none. The people of Pennsylvania are loyal to, the Government; it is a sentiment inter woven With their pursuits and their prosperityot is all they hope for in the glory and power of the,Go- • vernment; and their individual happiness in the fu= - ture. And, as they were the lirat to obey the oall of the country, they. will be the last to abandon this struggle. ate Government has made. no call 'on this State that has not- been answered-no relit:don t:fon that has !Sot been promptly fired, Two hundred thousand of oqr people have taken up arms for, the preservation of our national integrity-thousands of our sons have fallen in-the States in rebellion-the rich blood of 'our freemen has sunk deep into ,the roil,. and our people have sworn, by the covenant thus sealed, that Ude Union shall not be distiolyedi and that generation after generation, in the futtu - e, shall enjoy the precious legacy of freedom given to us by the founders of the Republia. We have nothing to fear, my fellow-citizens; from: thosewho sympathize with the rebellion, ar who. - desire, from other motives equally wicked and cor- - . rupt, to break up the unity of our Government. If there ate such, leave them to their folly; their- ex ample and their fate will be a warning to our chi*• dren. As the dninken helot, by the exhibition of his debauchery, taught virtue and sobriety to the SPari • tan youth, en the rand conduct of such. men' will: teach to the body of our people loyalty and fideliti:' 1 pray you, my fellow-citizens, let us be united, MEETING tar - IL ern In the world's hietory Let uti this night *.i►eh one pleOge himself totilligence in Me allotted epbere for the accomplishment of the great purpose of this League ; and here declare that we will use all hu man agencies to preserve our Government, and trotting in God, we may be firm in our hope for the triumph of light and truth. The Governor sat down amid loud cheering. The list of officers was then read by Wm. 11. Rent. DA., as follows, and adopted : riti:BII>LCICT : Ilia Excellency Governor CURT/R. VICE PRESIDENT 9 John Baird. William Sellers, Mahlon 11. Dickinson, James Bell, William K. Tiers, Richard Wildey, Marcus 0. Buckley, Isaac Ash mead, Thee. S. Darling, Thcs. W. Beane, jabez Gates, Richard Garside, :Henry C. Townsend, Jos. S. Riley, Jr., John R. Savage. Thomas T. Teelter, Paul J. Field, Dr. T. S. Reed, William Livezey, Horace Binney, Samuel Thepham, John Derbyshire, Thomas Webster, Jr., William R. White, Saniuel S. Moore, E. Tracy, Thos. J. Potts, 13. B. andrets, C. F. Elwert, Peter Rovoudt, John M. Ogden, si.enaT • Wm. H. Barnes, Theo: ICell t Bpi . oppropi oa non. a. Pr.. PK. •-- - • Ihu) Hon. I. R. ne.lifd. Senator . ffiem'i,he State of WinnDein, wee introduced amid the .MOgt enthusiastic and lively deinonetratione of welcome,- • widen baying subsided, the honorable gentleman commenced his ad dress by alluding to the time when the great founder of Pennsylvinia, William Penn, landed upon the hanks of the river Delaware, who founded a colony bailed upon the principle of mimeo capacity to govern himself. In after ye era, the American Congress Resembled in this city end put -forth that immortal Declaration of ludo pendeuce, conteining that great [ nation truh quiy and human 'motherhood, which .procla has become the gotpel in the political world. In ouch a city us Plilladelphitts7the first to. ready° the footprints of Penn—the fret to send forth to the world the doe' rise of nine's capability to govern himself—ought to be the last one, indeed, to become disloyal. [Groat cheer ing. Cries of •.• Never can be disloyal.") It ought to be the las , one to became disloyal to the declaration sent lack to England by the founder of your State, reaffirmed by en American Congress, after seven long years of toil aud blood—the power of man to govern him eolf. They demonstrated in the Revolution—in the sbeddinglof blood and tears for years—the truth of the great principle. (Cheers.] Not quite a century after this epoch 'ln the - history of this country we bud ourselves called upon, he hoped for the lest time, to still further maintain the same great principle. and stamp on it the eternal troth that men can meet as one common brother hood, and govern himself for the good of himself, his fellows and his posterity. [Tremendous, long-continued cheers.? It is our duty to meet the Mime, and to.detar • mine we can maintain that great principle amiinst traitors at home. UN newed cheering. j We are in' the midst of a most fearful trial; we are testing it to the mucible of Inith, which tiles it to its utmost depths; are we equal to the contest? [Loud shouts of " Yes," we front all parts of the room.) He believed we shall go through the trial with honor, and de monstrute to the world that, for the last time, and for all time to come, that man, enlightened by the D obi..principlee of Chriettruitty and science, that he is Ealli 8 inigyaannitic iribuird out to DtzuC s l:. El t4v. Is the present content, WO (mut shadow forth he interest : at one bass in maintaining the Goverumene for ourselves and for those to come after us. If our Go vernment fails, then do free institutions fade from before the world, and we go backward to snore than a century ago. Theo, indeed, may we bid adieu to political liberty for man, white or black ; then, indeed, may we s a y that our great principle of self-government is nothing but a dream,, melting into eternal oblivion. (Rounds of ap pleuae. I • Fellow-citizens, we shall not fail. (Cries of "No.. never.") We each prOve ourselves worthy deacendants elpatriotic ancestors, who lived in times , when were tried the souls of men. (Great applause.) Flare we endu rance? [Cries of Yes.] In the darkness have we faith to hold out until the e.oming light shell dawn upon us with renewed brilliancy ? [Shouts of Yes.] It did him good to hoar that shout coining up from the hearts of honest, patriotic men, for ho felt sure that we will hold out and light this battle to the bitter end. [Thunders of applause for several minutes.] We have given our sons, our brothers, aye, even our fathers, to the country, and we are ready to go our selves. [Cheers." There is scarcely a house but what has been shrouded la mourning because of this most causeless rebellion. • The victims have come to our ' own homes, to our neighbors', and there are more yet to come. lie led been made to feel as only a father can feel when that father Fireside oldest son stretched in death and laid in the cold grave as one of the martyrs to his country's cause, one of the victims of a most infernal [ebellion. When he saw the body of his sea, em braced in the sleep of death; when he saw his life's blood-stains upon his manly brow, then, oh I theni 'could be pronounce a curse upon the lenders of this un holy rebellion against the Government transmitted to us by our fathers; then could-he curse them as the greatest criutitals before high 'leaven, that ever trod tlio eartb, for there are none to compare with them. (Great applause.) He was rather inclined to be a plain-spoken man, and he thought be could not speak • too strongly in condemnation of the lead ers of the great rebelliou. He verily believed that it has not - had its equal since the rebellion in Heaven, when that leader was hurled into perdition. 111114110.] 'Wad all hitttesti fad vets. agar_ ' lam [t littlish el 11 11 IliOlUfj 5Mt figlinatb M eing deprieed of u thele political. liberty, because cif having no - voice in Government. But have the Southerners been deprived of any of their rights? If so, where, when. by whom? Why, fellow-citizens; tats Government never rested on any - other basis than that of peace. No section of the country was deprived of any right; the South was equal with the North; they shared with us the blessings of proeperity and happiness; the laws Poll upon them its upon us, like the air of Heaven ; - we could nut see it, but we could feel its effects; then, why should they rebel? What cause had they to rebel? (Griefs Of None.) Some years since they introduced the fugitive-slave law, as one of the levers to move the Government. the ulterior ' object being the final overthrow. He well remembered • h converentlon he had on the subject, with Mr. Mason; of Virginia, who complained that the slaved were ' escaping to the North. In reply to a questioupropounda cis by the :quaker. Mr. Mason replied that he thonght a thousand slaves escaped every year. How much, said the speaker, iseach els voworth ? Why, eight han dl ed dollars , replied Mr. Mason. Well, how many slaves have yon? Four hundred thousand. Well, let me-see, replied the speaker; then the loss would be about the one-fortieth-of one per cent. upon the whole amount, or the one quarter of a mill on the dollar. Mr. IN bawl Was buret-teed when he made the eaten lation himself, and frum that day he never once, to the know -ledge of the speaker, blenched the subject of the fugt live-slave law, (Laughter and cheers.) There is not, an insurance company anywhere that would not. lie glad to insure property at so small a risk as that. Where, my fellow-citizens, (continued the speaker) Is there any property that does not have even legs, that ever lost so little? .[Applause and laughter.] My f,tiends, from that day they have not seriously disclaimed the operations of the fugitive slave la wajnit they have used it among their people to inflame- the - mind with_ pepularTneludice, end lead them into a rev/mutton. [Ap- Mama] There are some who charge this rebellion to the . election of - Abraham Lincoln. Those who assert this' cannot do so seriously, for the mite who believes it must ha eft very little knowledge of history. This re hellion commenced more than thirty years ago—twenty fire years before the Beeublivan party eras formed; it commenced with Min (J. Gallium Of h2lllll cargail 1111 IlVilliTßO4 lid li4/1 thus sit 9 R I I Ctill ilia WE IhJhAlnUtft WIIIG ISO 6010101015 tircuned the eposher'o' voice that Ito had to atop- -- th 9 'name or that great man electrified the audience I Gene ral Jack'son was in the chair as President of the United . Stales. There was a great difference between him and James Buchanan. General Jackson was in favor of • ccercion, [applause;] James Buchanan was in tavor .of Ito coercion; that is the difference between the two men. [Applaum, and cry of 'Big difference. When lobe C. Calhoun attempted - a -rebellion, (lona rut .Jackson sent a thousand mata .to South Carolina, and a couple of vessels-of-war appeared in the harbor, 'And the South.Carollulans dare not commit the overt act• Had a thousand men been sent to Fort Sumpter, and a couple of west Is entered the hurler of Charleston.. - there would have boon no convention there to pass the • ordinance of Secession. Do you think they: would; my. - follow-citirens ? (Tremendous shouts of 'Zio, from every part of tile mem.] The honorable speaker now proceeded to read extracts of a letter 'written by General. Jackson on 3Ley I, 18$3, . a friend in the Slate of Georgia, in which that great man warned his friend to take care of the leullieenaand I hen, with almost prophetic Inspiration, he wrote at that ills taet dav the " next pretext will be negro :taint's." The honorable speaker now paid aglowing tribute of re spect to the memory of thagreat Jeckson, and very fitly introduced a teem et the - death -bed of the patriot hero. There seemed to be something .weighing heavily on his mind, and, after Much solicitation on the parte( friends, that good old man, in thoughtful contemplation. said : " If posterity condemns, me it will he because I did not hae g John C. Calhoun as a traitor. They may condemn me mole for this than any other act °troy Administra tion."' Bad Calhoun been hung thirtyyears ego, there would be no - rebellion now. I Jrent applause. The speaker desired to deeply inmate:a upon the inlet's of his hearers the importance of one fact—that the re bellion 'was not-the work-of the present time. It is the . result of the action obits leaders yeare ago. In support of this be would beg leave to read a few extracts of the proceedings of the Convention held at Charleston Hutt pa!ied tbe oedina nee of secession Equally significant are the declarations made in the open session of the ' Sovereign Cenventiou.' now as. bled at South C...arollra- & few extnuntx from the debates hod on the paseade of the erdtaasee of Recession, and siliss ~111 ' ,lot in us clear 111.1 th . " Mr, Parker, Mr. President, It appears to me, with great deference to the opinions that have beets expressed, that the public mind is:fully made np to the mar4ocea- Men that now awaits us. It is 91.0 spasmodic effort that has come sudden/a upon us, but it has been gradually r,u l nrinaltni for a long series of years, until at lost it AO* 011ie Is that point when we may 8111/ the matter 18 int (rely right. "31r Inglish. -Mr. President, if there is any gentle man present who wishes to debate this matter. of course this body will hear burn; but as to delay for the purpose of a iliecussion, I for one am opposed toil. As my friend . (Mr. Parker) has said, moat of us hatic„had Ude matter wetter considerati,m for the teal twenty wars, and I presume tee have by this timearrived at a decision upon the subject. "Mr. Relit. Slr, we are performing a great act, which Involves not only the stirring -present, but embraces the whole great furore semi to come. I have been engaged • in this morentent ever since I entered political life. lain content with what has been done to-day, and con test with what will hike place to-morrow. Wo have carried the body of this Union to its last resting place, end now we will drop the flag over its grave. After that is done, I am ready to adjourn, and leave the remaining cer" emonies for to-morrow - Mr. Rhett. The Secession of South Carolina is not an event of a day. It [snot anything produced by Nr. Lincoln's election, or by a nun-execution of the fugi tire-slave law. It has by a matter which has been 'gathering headfor thirty wars. The' election of Lin coln and Hamlin 'was the last straw on the back of the camel. Bnt it was • not the only one. The back was nsnrty broken before. The point upon- which I differ from my friend it this; He says he thought it expedient for 1w to put this great question -before the world upon this simple ma tter.of wrongs on the question." The men In the days of Calhoun tried the tariff cane- Dom but they found this would not do, because it in terfered with the sugar-growing State of Louisiana. It was abandoned. Then the pretext alluded to with pro phetic accuracy by General Jackson, was resorted to, and we lied the nation convulsed with a great rebellion. It is the suicide ofslavery 'on this continent. [Applause.) Let It die. [ApplawwJ Those who mourn let them go to the funeral. [Cries of "Tharsiso."J He would not be there Vatitahter, zon stay the' ri loous re-presentative of Tonne...se. ((Great C *art for Gov. Johnson, during which that gentionmn mood erect and.'gracerully acknowledged the compli ment by bowing his eilver-covered head.] said the speaker; that man has stood like a solid rock amid the sea of Southern secession the stood amid the waves of rebellion, and they lashed around him in vain; he hurled them back more effectually than any other Man south-of the Potomac. [Great and enthusiastic cheers.] The speaker, in concluding, paid some attention to Preece and Br:land, and merely reminded these, and all other foreign Powers, that we may change our rulers, but the Union never can be altered. [Tremend ous shouts of approval:] -He also alluded to the great •Ifostbwestern. Territory, who know their rights; and were bound to have the free use-of the Mieelesippi, for ever—even if they had to cut every levee on its borders. [Thunders of applause.] . After a few_ more remarks on the duty of every man, in this trying hour , to sustain the Union, the honorable gentlemen from the State of Wisconsin took his seat amid the must enthusiastic ap plause. . _ At the conclusion of the distinguished Sonator'esiateCh, Charles Gibbons, Esq., came forward and read the following resolutions: . • RESOLUTIONS. Resolved, That the Government of the United States le founded on the union of the States, which constitutes us one people. and la the main pillar in the edifies of our independence. the only support of our tranquillity at 'bonne and our peace abroad; of our aafety, Prosperity, and liberty. Revoked, That no calamity could betel the American people so terrible in its resnite as the 'breaking np 01 the foundations of the Government of the United States; and, under a solemn' sense of duty to God and our country, we, therefore, pledge to each other our sacred honor to sustain the President, and its other constituted authorities, in their efforts to overwhelm and subjugate its eneinieeiby 'force of arms,. and all tho appliances of wig, no tee only means of restoring its sovereign autho rity under the Constitution,. seeming the blessings of peace, sod preeervin,, ,, the liberties of the people. Resolved, That in the atrocious war now waged against the National Government,. by which its exigence is im perilled it Is the plain duty of the American citizen to sustain it with all his heart and might,_ not only for Its own oaks but in return for the protection which 'it ex tends to his property, his labor, bin liberty, and life; and all those who seek to hinder, delay, or embarrass I. s movements against the enemy, while they claim and enjoy the protection of its lawn, stand self-contmitted before the world of treason to their conetry, to liberty, and mankind, and should be made to feel, fa their inter course with their fellow-citizens, [not neither treason nor traitors can be tolerated by honorable Men. . • Resolzsa. net in thivmomentoua struggle in which the ration is now engaged, we have a common and un divided inter.eat with our petriotarinlos in the held, and all who vulue the proud title of " Amerisan ettirens," in mats mining the honor of its flag and the unity of its Government; and we greet all such citizens. or every tongue, kindred, and persuasion, throughout the land as our fileude and brethren in a righteous cense; anti we earnestly invoke their stern rebuke of every trea sonable ouggestme to abandon the cent:nit, and their Fictive aid irk proclaiming to foreign Pow eje and domestic foes the irrevocable will of the Ameitonin people that "The Union mast end shall be preserved," The resolutions were adopted mold loud 'anti long. continued cheering. When the reeolutlone had been adopted. the chair introduced the feiri. Andrew Johnson, ,Go vernal- on Tennence, who was receivediwith lend applause. SPRHCH OF GOVERNOR. 'ANDREW JOHNSON, OF . ;IE:INESSER . lzia.V•nerrizallo — for I duple° to call you, aneh-feel - mat , beiteeing tliet I ata yet a eitiseu of the United ; Stated, (applause...) I vanities at least to Adam, you as "Tay fellow-citizen& 1 iegrOC at thi saute llute, la ad ARIAS: F. Blackburne, Jr., A)bert li. Foerlog. otlx-pr..111, 31111111.;e1 , 011S 1,11031 C At the conclusion of Governor Johnson's smooch. Hon. H. B. WI ight. late member of Congress Iran Lucerne, was introduced, and was received with lend Cheers. SPEECH OF HON. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT. De. PRESIDENT AND PILLOW-C Tinrsa OP PIIILADELPRrA: I am an unflinching, unyielding, and unconditional Union loan. [Cheers.] There are no bats or ifs stand ing in my way. I am not In favor of snatalning my government and my country with a proviso. [Ap nlanse--criee of "good- 7 .0t course you are.") I love loyal men, and I hate traitors. lam not one-of those who apologize for treason, and sympathize with the men who are now in open rebellion against the Federal Union. They are the enemies of my country. and lam theirs. I have been an active Democrat for a third of a century. 1 am a Democrat now, and will continue so during my life. One of its cherished principles as I learned, was love of country, and obedience to Abe Constitution and laws—to maintain liberty, and if needs be, tight for it. [Lona continued acestanteJ ani one of those, too, who believe that patriotism is Pove itnitiD.l4 ilett ie , the del of &It new . " MIT untie Viril rte nen atmsoul. an _out down. at the painter the bayonet. most Cool. men and eattaelara re b e llion that the - none ever taw. The time has not yet COMO, /dr. President, when the loyal men of the North have made up their minds to sit down with folded arms and eurreneer their liberties. It maybe the case with dema gogues, but not with the masses;—it may be so with sym pathizing Secession traitors, but not with patriots. Our liberties cost too much to be so easily surrendered. Our ancestors were seven tong years in establishing the American Union, and degenerateindeed tire we if we cannot devote twice that number of years In nutlet:tin- Mg and perpetuating it. They sealed it in a covenant with their heart's blood—it is hardly yet cool; and yet do I hear men everywhere doubting if the Union can be saved. Is it because they would see it destroyed ? Dave they a relish for agrarianism? Would they wel cone the guillotine? fLawhter.). Under the pretext that this is an Abolition Avkir," they, say "let Abo litionists fight it. " They cry 'peace, , 'when there is no peace. • Now. sir. I am no Abolitionist., and yet lam in laver of fighting this war to the bitter end—till rebel lion is crushed out, and the bleeding Union restored. I BM es anxious, too, for peace as any man living. but it must be a peace with one Upton, ones Constitution, and one Aug. It mast be a pease alike bontirable to the courage of the North. as well as the honor of the coun try. Not that kind of peace, which Northern symoa t hirers Nil th so u thorn treascn would have—a peace which v mild destroy the lust vestige and hope of htittutu liberty. but, sir, how idle and delusive to talk 15f peace while armed rebellion is in the ascendant. The rt bc.l press say that "if the whole Yankee nation will lay themselves at oar feet, and become oar Abyss, we will spurn them from us. We will reunite• upon r o terms, upon no eJediriou, with them." The steal trader of this bogus, bastard confedenicy, in a speech). cent ty delivered by him to the Mississippi Le gislature, wondered, in utter amazement, • how he could have had any love or regard fur the old Union, conyiesed of the descendants et men from the bogs and fens of Ireland and Szotimad. of low and vulgar origin. With such vulgar creatures he would never again unite." fLatzghter.) With such sentiments from the rebel press and the great unchained leader of rebel hordes, who In his messes at the North can ptalk stpsnes? The evidencee, to my Dated. are that the msu who does so is a traitor himself. and SO I mutt regard him, despite Lie declarations tothe contrary. Self-pride wcaild at least make me re s en 'ithat tool and defiant Insolence ut tereo by Jett. Davis and his abject and wicked coadju tors. When have rebels intimated the least desire. Mani their parts, to reunite the Government? CA voice, never.") At no time or place to coy knowledge. Tney sie:r.s insolent telloy as they were the day they tired into [be reentry's flag en Fort Sampler. Theo aronreed mission late kill and murder. They are moved and in stigated by the devil, sad with him only wild they make Urals.. With the vulgar Yankees et the North (and . they denominate all loyal men Yankees.) the descend ants' of men who emigrated from the bogs and feint of Ireland and Scotland. they will make no pence. They will never reunite with we. If petite cannot be had ou honorable terms. what ellernntiVe• -.Nave we left but to fight for en honorable peace? Nu ,Revolutionary rattlers were -suet at every corner- by Cowbors and Tories, but they fought on and foofiltt through bumbled the (- nen/Tor liberty abroad, and conquoreui nail subdued himlit home. [Applause.] -What nobler example can him_ follow 2 Hallowed he the pre.. vetteni. It is worthy of all imitation. Vista. impb lug, dishonorable petteesihnjekers at the Nentixam the twin brothers of the Cowboys of Revolutioebry me leery, d e'il"Y and phase an damnable andoverVorw ering NW nits them. Can thesaetut TV of that HIRAI - Ivo %The stabs his country in her hour of trial and danger?. The fame of Arnold shall be the. fame of that man--the mines of tinhorn millions are his heritage. Let all' sueh iota their dearly beloved brethren in arias against their country; let theta kiss their hairdo imbrued in the blood of'hiyal thousands, slain upon tho bottle field in,defonce •efbuma n liberty. Alt! 110 W gthri • Ni. wouill it be to hove - pence with a 'whole country ? but how delusive the hope -till the proud beatl of rehab. is bumbled? Then we tau here prtiCe. (Voices, 'Ye.,"7 They Who Eon err ern. nes roe on truth, that K a han do to under uttfaveta- Lie circumstances. Thera are many reason, whr [lonia feel embarrassed on tile occasion. lam suffer ing from an intitepoaitionAnd hoarseness* which ever/- one will perceive who hears my voice. New, I notify you in advance, that if you have come here for the put , pose of being highly entertained by me, by any display of ilielorie or.oratory. you will be mistaken, and I ad vise you to 'let yvursolves down." CLaughter..l In ant lent times there were various kinds of speakers that wore called forth to Redress the people. Cicero ada dressed hie audience,, amid never failed to• Please thew by gesticulations, imonattotus of voice, and handsomely roundt d periods Such was the power of hie eloquence, that we are told he was occasionally interrupted by cries of "That'll good," 'A spleudlct sentiment," and sti on. The Grecians had orators of a different Main% but who moved the People as forcibly and as unitver sally. When Philip um ertook to invade the Grecian States, la_mostlienem addressed himself to their good and eretondiug. His sencimen to always seen red elution:mai it, the minds of his audience, who, its they tuned, had their hearts filled with the patriotism that be impired, and exclaimed "let us fieht Philip." I trust iu God's name, that when this audience shall have discersed from here to-night each man Will have his limit lined with the importance of the OCCaShM, add his lips exclaiming " we wilt fight Jeff. Oasis, and Will nt down the rebellion and all (ho rebel conspirators. (Applause.] I shell. in addressing you to-night. use the hooguage of Bobo ness and troth. I feel that we are ea gaged in a great cause I leel that that cause to j ust end might to be bllfillithed [A spatulas. ) What are t hr. clr- CUMBt2.IICCR under which we assemble to-night ? We are in the mid tot a rebeillou, to the wickedness aud cease lessness of which history can furnish no pantile!. birauge as it may stem, this rebellion has been pro vided for in the Constitution of the United Slates When we examine that instrument we and that our rsth Ors, in illeirpOUlll, Magi it ht z.l , ~ Lomita mar be SligigiUtifil In tulle df robsillea n the public necessity requires it. (Applause,] We find that the Co" sta w ution cowers power upon the Government of the United s tales to itupprest ineur rections nd to repel in vasiona, domestic or foreign, ileum, Irepeat, our forefathers provided for a con thigeacy, iu which the Lite of the nation might be put to risk. Then, in coining before you to-night by invi tation—mid I need not say that I should have done so by inclination-1 do so not for the purpose or appealing In behalf of a down-trodden people. Idu not come before you to enlist your sympathies for an oppressed na tionality. I come in the name of the Constitution to uphold the Government, mid to inspire you with hope for Its final success, That Constitution prov to es that the Coiled `elites shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. [appiime. ) Our forefathers saw the importance of finch a provision as this in the national Constitution. We, therefore, must insist on carrying out this as we insist on carrying out every other provision of that Constitution. Pro ceeding an the idea that no State has a right to secede, and that uo State has seceded, we are its AOOO citizens culled upon to re-establish a republican form of government in every State, where it has been os trthrown. lapplause.) Certain bad men hare at tempted to carry out of the Union several States, in &s -pite of the Constitution and the teethed of the people. A bend of conspirators, gain) , of a crime worse than that of Cattline, appeared in the United States Senate, and boldly preached treason iu the face of the milieu. They clothed their treason in honeyed worde,and argued that secession Nittf. a constitutional privilege, and in demand iag it they were but asking for that to which they were entitled. Have you ever been struck w•t h the great fallacy of this doctrine of secession It is a doctrine destructive of all government. 1t is a sort of nuiversal dtssoivent, that neutralizes all it touches. When ad mitted as a principle, you admit a dialutegrent. No Govel =cut can exist that tolerates such doctrine. It originated in the Garden of Eli n, with the devil and aim !accession is no modern doctrine in American twiltiee. I have the ctectunento to prove that it took root in Lb:e riaino fora voala am I minimum I I) r r.rinTeuri . IlUllfilOat I sini 61 for [be wk. oven, has boon only the prat* for the execution of what loin In eau temp - lan.. They now In that the South mil be irrevocably separated from the Borth, and that two Confederacies shall exist for Americans. It is for the Government to answer the conspirators in unmistakable and emphatic terms. In addressing this large, this intelligent, this re= epectable audience here to-eight. I do not intend to de ceive you. 'by whole coarse of life bits been plain and blunt. I stand before you' to-night, a Democrat. CAp blanse.l lem a Democrat, as that term has twee de ited hero to-night. I have, in the whole course of my public life, maintained nitin's capacity for self-govern ment. I have always taken the position that the world was my home, and every honest man my brother. [Ap platat.o.) I am a Democrat upon the principles of the Constitu tion. 1 know, and you know, there is too much intelli gence hero not to know that the design of the South Is to change the genius of the Government. I have fought the Southern conspiratom with this apprehension. They contend for an aristocracy, and au aristocracy without brains has my contempt. [Applause.] I stand before you the advocate of an aristocracy of virtue, intelli gence, and of that dignity which flows from nature's God. I am for an aristocracy of labor, [applause], and for the amelioration of those who perform It. My De mocracy I leurned in the school of Thomas Jefferson. [Applause.] I learned it in that school which punished treason when Burr attempted to Overthrow tne Govern ment. Burr cowl/10nm that he was arrested without process. [applause. - ] I do not intend to say much of arbitrary arrests. All I nerd say is, that there have not been ihtthigh of. them. [atvians.] Does any loyal men complain of illegal arrests? We are mid that the President has no power to make themrrests. It is said Congress only has the right. Now, it is clear that the right exists eornewheie. In .my estimation, the President has not only the power, but it is his duty to ext rcise that power. [lmmense cheering.] When the buttle of New Orleans was about to be fought, there were a few people there who were disloyal:Jackson had them at rested :Judge Ball leaned a habeas corpne, and General Jackson arrested the Judge. f applause.] Do you think that. the coon tvr sallert WM friim thlh poi'Epp ll§ lira tlult 1 lutn A MM. 10 iillgEPL Hilt fill ',Map,. hoc C. 1 .I.Le al r ,"?.l" , natt P ,r,4t11,-...Ctririec-eet relice. • I hold In my hand the original paper written in the old man's handwriting, Bad I feel as if I had taken It front his coffin. [Sensatiou.] Were it possible that Jackson could now witness the sad scenes enacting from the doctrine that be attempted to bury forever, the old man 'would turn In his coffin. Were it possible to communicateintelligence to the deed, ho would rise from the tomb and reiterate that immortal sentiment of his: "The Federal Union—it must and shall be pre served. I understand that you to-night are inaugurating a National Union Club, and to give it a corner stone I should like to present to you this letter of the Immortal ' Jackson, that that letter should be the corner stone of [our club. [Applause.] W lll.you accept of this relic ? Cries 'We will.") I nresout it to yon, then, in the ope that you will make its sentiments the basis of your organization. [Cheers.] . lien. Jackson has told us that the disunionists of the South would one day use the negro question as a pre text for breaking op the Union. You are told, at this late day, that that pretext could have been removed. You were told that the Crittenden Compromise would have eavtd the country. Nothiug could be more false. When that compromise was before the Senate Mr. Clark olfered an amendment substantially otferiug the Con stitution itself as a basis of settlement. It Um South could have got the compromise there would have been pence. The amendment passed ; the compromise was lost. but how? . Six Southern men retread to record their votes. They wanted no compromise. In truth, they wanted the compromise defeated, and its defeat they could have made a .pretext to eo . before their : consti tuents. I said io Mr. 13:enjamin, ' Vote like: an . honest man for this meeter . [Applause.] He told me he wanted 110 lecture from me, sect insisted on retaining hie...date himself. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, subse quently (Afire,' an..arnendment to the Constitution, so that Congress could never interfere with the system of slavery. What became of that amendment? Can any thing be more permanent than that ? It was lost; The South would not accept Mr. Corwin's .amsndment. but itish.ted on a separation. total and absolute. Comoro- IIIiOPR arc ail In vain. ^We must meet the roulltorn con ktilritlOrt OK the most uto Ws. must u.st 7-ssmit Itlrrrttfilf FyIWYTII MITS I IIIIIIIII9I II 10111(1111 f•Ea As. tp v.. KZ., . 1 - vinue. q )lepa Ito Way to ComororoL vela. 1110 leaders, except to put theln to the sword. [Ap p itiate.) I um for tho" Union and the Constitution, If bank monopolies or negroes get in the way or tee Government, they must be. overturned. ( Great aP- I louse.) am for the Government, with slavery; lam for it, without slavery; in either event, give me my Go vernment, and let all other institutions go. What have we without government? What is property worth with out the protection of a good Government? Though we way surer in the prosecution or the war, let it go on. I would see all the negroes of the United States sent back to their fatherland, rather than this Government should not go on. I would rather see Africa distinct from this earth, as a planet, out of the world's orbit , rather than any injury elimild 'happen to the Government. [Laugh ter, and applause.] It is bad enough f .1* a man in the South.to be a traitor and sympathizer; but for a man' in the 'NOrtli;,' who scarcely knows that there yea war going on, there is no excuse. Were it not for Vallandighein and Bright [hisses] our armies would have long since advanced to the heart of the rebellion. 'iters was a time when treason was a thing to be shun ned,as abominable and wicked. Bob Toombs said that a lien traitors became plenty,, treason became respecta ble. /hat is probably the noctrine of the sympathizers. But they must La. informed that treason is despicable, and that only loyalty ran be respectable. There is only one way to meet t mitors,s nd that is to meet them at the tin eshold, and if nothing else will do, to 0/route and hang them. CApplaurej The Government has passed through two great ordeals to obtain and retain its na tionality. Those two ordeals exhibited a strength that gives assurance that the third will be successtully en countered. Thengli we have a large territory, we have not an inch to give up to traitors. Lot. trai tors South be punished, and then traitors North. [Applause.] If the sacrifice to put down .ths rebellion bee net been large enonsh, lot the price be named, and it shall be paid. A, e you witting to give up the South ern States to the traitors of the land? Shall you give up the graves of our forefathers to be desecrated by un worthy sons? Are yon prepared to surrender up the tomb of him who was tho first in war, first iu ponce, and nrat in the hearts at his countrymen? Aro YouPrePtrud to 101 111100011 WOO beneath Om hero of the traitor bon• deraoy r Should WA MAMA to such baseness. *o=l &milt WOulil 11l HT Ellin to 1111100 M the graves of Jackson and wasutngtou. , We must sus hi% Mk Geirornment. If kit. ,4 a minzatration tatters, It is our duty to inspire it with the importance of its duty, I did not help to place Mr. Lincoln in power. Bnt he is the lawful President, and must he supported, and sustained. .(Applause. And let me say to the men who are trying to found a party upon the faults of the Ad ministration, that when the winds come, aed the storms descend, that that party will be - swept from the earth. This is no time for the formation otparties: If there is no Government, what is the use of party? When the war ts over, it will be time to hold every one re sponsible for any fanlts committed. [Applause.] Let us have only one cOlnpromitse—the Constitution of the United States. if the South fails some of the traitors must be linng; If the South succeeds some of you must be hung. [Laughter and enplanse.] Let me. my friends, conclude, for there are other able speakers to add Ives you. r have only, to urge you to standby the Government in adversity as im.prosperity, and transmit this glorious Union to posterity with none of its glory tarnished, nor its influence lessened among the nations of the earth. Peace. and Would pt et upon the aiememberfl Ifilleetifilk 6f Mit greet lieptildie. are worse anemia.. o;* ghe Union than those who bear acme against it: be muse one is an open enemy, that may Actaeon and met; the other a aeoret viper concealed, but biting with more deadslY venom. [Applause.) • This terrible war did not originate in the ;oval. North. For its terrible come- QUeIICISI we are not accountable. It is no work of ours. A autism bankrupt—a people demoralized—a vast corn martial • and manufacturing Intend destroyed-cities decimated of their peaceful: induetrions inhabitants— /wend' ed.' of thoneruids ci our bizithere and eons slain in battle—these are no trophies of cure This has all been done to appease the dark, evil spirit of Secessionism-Is mime that has no atonement,. antitin of blood that all the waters of the ocean cannot efface,. Amd these are our beloved brothers, whom. Northern sympathizers would hug, all covired with' bloody - Ore of their own household, to their bosom L' a- species of sympathy which sharpens the appetite or She crocodile' to devour its own young. 3f there ever semi atehour *Mee this re bellion began when loyal men should stand together, It is now, now while I speak. Peacrwith'a whsle coun try is denied to us, aid we must flight like true men. We must ngbt far our Constitution we must fight for our homes end our firesides. (Applause be safety of the Union is worthy of our best and boileet fetfoi fa It in our country, it is our Constitu tion, it is our liberty that traitors are making a terrible effort to overthrow and destroy. To prevoat this 1 ap peal to every manly sentiment of the human heart; to the unsullied memories of your brave and patriotic an cestors; to the privileges which yon enjoy under wise end humane laws; to your liberty conferred in a do ee uuknown• and u,aenrpassed by the people of any other nation; to those inestimable laws whits guaran tee to you the liberty of speech, and the holiest liberty of ell—to worship Almighty God according to the din latea of your. own evnactience• to the comforts which surrouud your clomeastlc heart h; to Elio graves of your faint rilj to all riot tnorythlna hat annoh lo t s YOUs ninman t! , A n l ll 1; .. • L. d-. 1 ;my may deacrud c to your Oh ildre.n. f ItPl/Be UI Pia ...ow to stood firmly together and ',wear by Heaven and earth that we w ill notpermit our liberty to be destroyed. (Applause.) There are many [hinge connected with the administration of the Government and of the war that do net meet my approbation. In my Congressional course in the past two years, I have differed widely lin many measures of policy with the Government. But as to all those which were deeigned to put down rebellion, I gave it my hoinst mid unytelding support. I differed with it on its onianclaatton measure, and those which were of a political character. But because of Ole difference, and because of the bad manner in which (Air cempaigns were conducted, it none the less •abated nay artier to save the country and nave the MAUD. The Administration was of the B.epnbil can school to politics; I wits Democratic. This gave me no reason to embrace treason or sympathize with traitors. If it had, 1 should have degraded my name and di, honored my country. I think it wits had policy to do many things connected especially with the slave tot stion ; but because of this, no man can throw it into my teeth that I committed, in word, thous lit, or deed, an act of disloyalty. Aud I challenge the tuition tomtit me to an official act which leaned towarde treason. I had, I have, no sympathy with those vile men who, in their mod nets, not only level their ghat at the Union, but iit the heart of every loyal limn in it. My sympathies are all with and for my country. [Applause. 3 Th Is is the doctrine which must ultimately prevail throughout the North. The influences of bad men will daily grow less, and in a few months you will hardly see the maa bold enough and widred enough to siay that he was ever on the side of the rebellion. It may not be Rafe for him to say em if he have the moral depravity to think so. Gentlemen, it is your duty, in these times, to encour age and strengthen public opinion. Our brave soldiers are undergoing the dangers of the field; they are doing battle like men for the cause of American liberty. Let the voice from the whole North pour daily into the camp. and let it be the voice of encouragement, of honor, of praise. Let the soldier , when he retires at night upon. io straw pullet, feel that, notwith.standing the storm n"."B"witheuti end PIE !tug filial - la fro id at th: ;„-. sympathising aorta Tor him at home, who pray for the atm.:Beef the hely ;muse which called him Ihrth, and that t here art hem the" e a leo leaping in exultation:it the bolas. of saviug a bleeding and almost prostrate country. This shell servo him up to his great task. This shall are his heart, and put strength in his good right arm. This shall lead hint to the hattie.uuder the belief that, if he falls, a nation shall mourn atlits grave. (Appltuso.) And this sentiment, spread broadcast over the land, shall drive to their hiding places. In confusion and shame, the creetni en, canoe moo, wh °stand ready now to shoat over the enemy's victory, and laugh over the dead and the dying who gloriously fell upon Freedom% batik-field. Ono would think that the deep-cut gashes of our soldiers, sending forth their hearts' blood, would blanche the hardened cheek of treason! It does not. Their dear brethren who make . them "are a chival rous people. They have sustained great wrongs, and they.are the very salt of the earth. It is an Abolition war—lst Abolitionists fight it out I" And this is liberty of speech! And for the suppressiou of the utterance of curb heresy a great conetitnttoual principle is vio lated. May men talk and execute treason with impuni ty. / If they prefer the despotism of Jell. Davis, let them seek refuge under his arm. [Applause.) I have made up my mind that I will stand last by the old flag, and when it goes down I have no other object to live for. For I would prefer death to despotism and chaos. And this aseuredly will follow the downfitll of the Repablia. With the loyal States the question now is, shall the war be craned on with all the power of the nation—or shall we surrender the Government and country into the heads of traitors? That is the question... One or the other of these alternatives is inevitable, .There is no reason for a wise and good man to doubt. In fact, he who stops to doubt is half way over to the enemy. I zetorn you my thanks. gentlemen, for your attention, and I feat that the sentiments I have uttered meet your hearty approbation. Ilk. Brewster was the next speaker. He spoke as follows: SPEECH. OF B. IL BREWSTER, ESQ Mn. CNA 110 IAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS OP PIIIDADELPIITA: Nettling but a conviction that 1 had a serious duty to 110k1flkill Muhl kat , 1:7••• - Lt -** -.1 Vffi INT 1111,11triontin fit Niratiii (dant - limn iffifiny erius . lv 334.,..11, 5, Ye Erenerie, tieffilled I would sot foe purposes o f: the one or the ends of the other. The orga nization that convened this Large assembly, and the aim you have in view. aro not open to such reSections. For some time past I have believed that just ouch an ite soviation was needed, and that in. t such a gathering was indispensable to rouse the public to a conscious ness of the danger into which traitors and thenbet tors of treason were hurrying the destinies of our. beloved country. (Applause 3 bloat gladly, then. I have come here to meet you, and consult with you about the means best suited to frustrate these evil designs. Many such meetings must be held, and the mind - and heart of the public made to feel the peril of tte eosition. [Applause.) Last fall. on my return from Europe, I was amazed and shocked to see how daringly the advocates and spologists for traitors and their base deeds were snatchiug at the reins of authority, with' the avowed rairixe.e of surrendering the honor of their coun try, and the rights of the human race, to traitors and the enemies of mankind. Oh! gentlemen, you cannot well feel the sting of this rebellion until you have seen, as I have seen, and heard, as I have heard, the exul batons of our rivals and natural foes who live across the water. Here you may be excited by the outrages you know ol,by the sufferings of our army, by the resistance to the law, by the avowed hatred or Northern men and' Northern institutions that is constantly proclaimed by the'rebele and their leaders. But then you Pei the greatest wrong of all le, that from this rebellion our free institutions have been scoffed at as a failure, and we are now derided as a race of . vulgar plebeians, rushing in a downward course of ruin through anarchy to despotism. How this unholy strife Las palsied tho heart of trusting, hoping mil l ions who hare looked 'with joy at the bright rays of our glory its it came streaming across the stormy Atlantic, guiding them out a star to happier homes ! (Applause..] Oh! what a &stnt crime has this been against the dignity ot mankind ! Low basely have these men testified in favor of despotism and against the holy cause of human rights ! (Applause. A few days since, wheu reading the adioirable letters of Mr. Dayton, our Minister to France, I Paw, with a sense of paM that was increased by the recollection that he was describing all that 1. had suffered when be all itiled to the de.nondency exprewsd 1,11111 . (q117 . 21) joy@ Fun tint s . vain. far any fril IL • - 1-1.1 ourb UM. brililliPll on .11..11,1 liggisa room andlionnily unations of fugitive Mittens who lied lied their homes to find a refuge abroad film the doom of the treason they encouraged and upheld. No one who bad ever felt the sharp sorrow of each reproaches can help but resent the lawless combina tions of Northern men to stimulate traitors in the field by hopes of divided councils at the North. For any part, 1 care not with whom I act, or where I am found. so that 1 act wit). those who will sustain the law, and stand by those who were lawfully chosen to adminis ter it, and so that I am found with those 'who will, as Northern men, born on Northern soil, bred and cherished by a Northern community, spurn those who spurn them, end spit on those who betray their birthright and defame their fellowk, whilst they live under the protection of a Government that guards too well their worthless bodies, and protects their property thatehonld lie confiscated for sympathy .with treason, (Long-con tinned &opiate e. ] At flint, when the Republicans entered the gates of office, with the exultant shouts of a triumphing party. when some al its zealots, in their wild excitement, pro claimed opinions that were opposed to the coustitutional compromises, men attached to the Democratic party might reasonably hesitate tenet with them, and dread to give countenance to covenant breakers. [a plane. ] Their old party obligations might well restrain them from acknowledging the supremacy of new officers, who were supposed to represent men with whom and measures with which they had been in open conflict for years. [ap planae.] They might hesitate, and bravely hesitate, to follow in the crowd of au excited and indignant Northern public, hoping that. by their refusal to act, they could still maintain a party allegiance and a party action, that would shown good purptise, to doter rash action by their old allies and associates in the Routh. [Applause.] But when that day had gone by .• when they had followed Southern men to the edge of the law, for the sake of the law when they saw that the wrath of the Northern public WaS not a partisan rage, but was the just senti ment of outraged men ; then to hesitate. was meat: to oppose and organize opposition; to traduce officials acting in .^ood faith under trying circurastancee, and to preach of 'mace, peace, when there was no ymace: was r.essen and unmaulp . surrender of tlie noblest urine:ries Bat ever men bravely stood by, and in which were con-. /veros of the Unseen re.. c, rf ... 3 am a ihirthern man—hone oe any bone—fl WAL of my flesh, 1 alit from them-and I would be a dastard and a deg if I -consorted 'with those WM) defame and revile them. I come of a race of men who proudly boast a pedigree that has been honored by historical association with every straggle in klngland for the cause of popular liberty.. [Cries of "That's so.] Ancestors of mine were conspicuous ill the uprising of the Loilards, and followed the immortal Wickliffe in his struggle for .the right of private judgment and theliberty of conecience.and when Charles expiated his falsehood and treachery upon the block, my kinsmen sat in the Parliament of Bnitland,de seep dents of Franklin's, vindicating for all the freedom they had inherited as it special property. Tears before that, driven by religious persecution and political tyran ny across t 1 e dark and stormy Atlantic, came that band of pilgrims from whose head and leader I proudly trace my lineage. Ccheere.3 The firat act of that band of sages, heroes, usual minter was by eoleinu league and covenant, to M ;cud thou ud theirs to obey the law. True to say blood, I have kept their covenant. When slavery was the law, I stood by the law. [Cheers.] And when treason absorbed that law. I stood rip as I now stand tip to-night, for that higher law, the law of self-preserva tion, the law of obedience to constituted authority, the law of loyalty to the Constitution, and love for my land and its people. [Cheers.] Breathes there a Mau with soul so dead That never to himself bath said. This is my own, my native land ?" lam a Yankee of Yankees, and I glory in it; and the man who reviles them reviles the best blood and the best men that have made illustrious the history of his coun try and the CRUM of popithir liberty. [Deafening cheers.] I would have the country as it was if I could have had it so; but since rebellion has reared its horrid front, and struck down the law that sheltered ns all and sheltered it, I ant fur striking slavery dead, as it is the pretext for this great wrong. [Loud al/diens-continued applause.] There hi not a principle of the Government that I would not deliver over to instant death if it wore the LIMO of such foul treason as this principle of involnn tory servitude has been. fApplanee.l Who have these rebels wronged? Their country ? Yes. Human rights? Yes. Northern men? Yes. But, of all others, Abell. wrong to ITorthern Democrats wan the meanest and the foulest. 'With a majority in both beaches of Congress az^ .1411 - - -O.! • Ratriling DiMgarib. (ffigy mint tticirin, gel;Y: bandedi Went, and.why shalt we Meiling° thaw, the daysod Cu arms Imolai:v. the +State tusett'S From the day that. thin Government wan formed, they have, with but one exception, ruled and coutiolled the official power of our nation, slid that exception was the Administration of the elder Adams. With that exception they have directly controlled anti guided Clintpolicy of the Government. The very changes have from time to time taken place have been the result of their own changes of opinion, legislated by their own majorities, and executed by chicials 'who represented their wishes; and yet with all this, when, for the that time for full half century, they lost the patronage of the Government. rind still had full sway over the legislative branchoe 'with which they could check, control, and hinder the Execu tive, they abaudoned their trust, and basely struck a blow at the liberties of their country, abandoned their Political allies, and made the principles of republican democracy - a scandal and reproach. [Applause.] Are these the men that we shall act with, or have never!") or excuse, or justify [Cries of "No, never! Never I I would prosecute this war to re does. rebellion and punish traitors, and I never, never will consent to see our great republic and its valet terri tory divided to este td•sh a second rate and hostile power that, by treaties with our enemies abroad, shall control the navigation of the Gulf of Mexico, close up rte mouth 'of the Mississippi and shut us out from intercouree with our Pacific theta, where we are now just about t t compete in triumphant rivalrywith England for the commerce of the litil:flS, the source of all her wealth and all her. 2/10- dern power, as It bait been the treasury of 'wealth to all mail ns that hove enjoyed lie commerce. [APidanse Peace! Never ! btu with submission to the laws. The day we make snob epee= will be a day of dark dishonor that will shadow every mnn'a door, and,spread lamenta tion and shame throughout the land. .As we concurred our common is rrttory from a common enemy—is we jollied in a common covenant for our common good—we m not net en break our faith with the pug or with poste rity by eorrendering 40 inch of that territory, or relea sing one manbound - by the common covenant dour no. .ble Constitution. At the oonclnsion of Mr. Brewsten's speech a motion: was made be adiourn,which was carried, after there had! been me ny 'cheers given for the Union, the Adminiatra, Bon, and the war. Tire crowd then dispersed in an. orderly manner, and the utmost eatisfactiou was felt by every one, iii tbo auspicious manner with which the National Tinton Club had been Inaugurated. THE DIEETISIGI OUTSIDE. In cassettuencc of the i 1111119038 cbaracter of thoduside andienee. a meeting was orzaxised outside the building. This *as done Mat at threonamencement of the speech " of Governor Johnson. Thieentside assemblagewns fully - Genet in dimension to tha inside. The crowd extended him Eighth and L.eset half - the distance up to Ninth street. Morton Schilabest, Pie.. presided.... and intro-: tinted Governor of Indiana. Govaenor Wright •vres received with the utmost enthusluga and furors. Ills speech is as fehiPws: MAGI{ OF liam. 3. A. WRIGHT, EX•SSNATOR FROM INDIANA YY.I.LOW-C/714E/41 , : / come 11CM /f)ME4/, to tendee.yo Th ruy hearties% arknow)edgments. A native son or Penn sylvania, vrameloyalty was hops, and where loyalty has liourisled t connected with OM West, whore the tassures of the Republic's box; are im rleit n tholr gent's' Pi f) eedom as in the et/i.M.ring .0e the Mil. hail Yon Oda evening.,To ciatirntont lhts hour the pleat. p'eo et right discrmination i Co dlstinguish between Do ver, meat sod the tempomry ruler tor the bone, should bt' ear alto. No trne.Demoorot will ha mini the ohanoti et such a distinction, :Arnhem Lincoln is a temporary ruler. soon to mem sway. This country must not Inver it is cs.pecially the duty Of loyals en to stand by thete nuthority. Disloyal y to 4ritutin laneojet so sietioyalty to the VoVernMelth Re is ti • poenr s ror the hour. and wo are not to harard ate country Another principle which is to guide us is that that Government is higher than any institution inside th e Government. Banks and railroads, and ell like imeatutione, meet succumb to Government. There are a Geoueand things involved in the 14.ne01, Nations, like fee nines, go through their stages of being. Their. independmase mute be Rot np. That father of a rawily is fortunate' who does not go through a second stage of experience . Al) that stands in tee way of a family, as in [hernia , ' GI a nation, 111114 be thrust from ante, is Hithe r who etas ne the path. Fortunate! ' Government a Buns childr Te father must as on the earth. In the Revo command them. Wheat ri for itself, the natiou Passed true of all the Govertnieel yearn, in the war of lution that set up the nail* through its Nest stage. Ala er a raw 7 , 312, the nation „ wa d gag ough its second stage , in whoh it threshed John mat t moat dietinctly. New we are missing throngh the third • Tett crisis o f ear national t down oar traitor foes— form Are we able Ice pre form-without and foes withem? The corner-atone of the Government was laid in Pailatitt'elphia , in 1776, and we et a have now entered upon the Ird stage of our ex faience. We showed more ts *1 mere equality in , our contest with Great firttairk It is welt to talk, says the ;Meld, of tbe'Revoltrther. of your f wehaltera• of the war of MM. lint can yOnt sot:vq rho third great crisis? (Cries of " 017 e-have, wie hews,') All the labor of 17i6-3e, and 1812—all mooed of ip nom •t be blotted out unless we prove to th e dawn -trodelete of. the old wae that there le inherent life in a Repetition-Ithat a Republic has power in Iteelf to settle aright all the 01 neeeoas rota ting to its policy which ever can arise Be,' what ie the preeent controversy? It was sot 1 . 0111/13;a4 011 Lint grou ad that the South bad , really lost rights. We e en the war commenced, my opinion was formed, ang :has sever altered since- No man throughout. Ge hared aln trvlh f say chat the Government ever tools awe rights 11.0ln Poe thin ao. e. Et beet- ore.. dm] the plaids( Orut moon ' Oil rata 01 =wool Tay n ion nr thin Mann wan. n marrtlire. God )omen Chem together, and "what GOA• bath eelnea•together. fat not man put asunder." Have you considered aaP. toe in le' recta involved, all the results inevitably coneeqtathrl Certain parties ear, "Resolved, that Abolittemistn en Sterasioniem are twintheresiee." (Laughter. ) Row dare this be to'd Shame! an no! No, my frlendee S roes sioniem furnishes tho• plan of uprooting the purest Go vernment on the earth. When Secessionism fit once winked or connived at. there Ls then nothing worth living for but to ceaselessly battle against its percielous influences. To Unite the Slates as they have been. tulted. and then to dissolve the Union at will, Ls like packing' pork, and breaking, it up again the beginning of the Yenrl [Laughter and applauee.] When once a man cameo talking to znethum and coupling such with the word Democracy, I always kick him out of my core- Penn. [Laughter. ] Ido not believe this Govere meat is thus to be diesevered by force. One of the tit st Mitoses said in this controversy. (I want the ear of all the Jack son and Jefferson Democrats present.) " sin: Nei afraid of these arrests?" The President pledges , to support the Constitution. In regard to his duties-be a _ has the right to judge for himself. Jackson was righff - ata in his time, and his doctrine is true now. If a Presi dent niirightly con trues and applies his power, there is at tribunal at which to iudge him. The Power to sus pend the wt it of; hatene corpus in time of war is one of the powers which have been questioned. Many good men say that the Pre ddent has the power to do it, and • many that Congress has that power. When the Su pp me Court becomes the judge of the mutter, I think it will decide that the President has the power to suspend ' the writ ofeebetts comer; and If it does, don't know what will become of ewe of the men in this corne tt - Ye [Laughter and applause.] Congress is only about nine months in session. If Congress hare this (Power, how is it ever to he exerted' when Congress is not In eeesion? Andrew Jackson would have behaved in what some would have thought a lather questionable manner. He would have put the judge himself in jail, and morn that lie had put the key in the other world. [Laughter.] The effect of that pro vision ter, taws. in regard to this power Wan in tompfutat Man of man mks " .• Intl% WU innyur 11(1111d Ul 2.,,1, f ed In tin, bander of Me rnnndent. But. why. don't one YOU v eryh Men? we r e ...:This is a footle], eetioe easy to an The public trial of the ante: toe pnblic exposure and revelations, might defeat the very object Ifor which the man was arrested. There may be a thousand reason.' fur no trial. Is any loyal man in Philadelphia afraid of being disturbed, by Abra ham Lincoln? [No!] My objection to Abraham Lin coln is that he doesn't exercise this power enough. [Ap plaute.] I want to track some of these men beck a little. We may quarrel at ;my time, even in times of peace. and over a tb meandtiestiors, bat at present the Go vernment is at stake. We must not, should not dare to differ. At such a time as this we must be careful how we find fault. When we drink to the drone the cup of treason we break every law in the whale deralogne. hay brotner, in Kentucky. a truly loyal man, misted all his friends, in everything, until entirele reversed. Thin was certainly getting along pretty last. Next time, before twelve months are over, you can't point out a single Democrat in Philadelphia who wont put a gun into the negro's hand, and swear 'lemma always in for it, and prove it tool [Laughter and, applause.] I would put steel toes on mules, and arm rattlesnakes [a voice, "and copperheads "1, in order to quell the rebellion. One thing which bas Mena more in carrying on the war than anything else is taking the mechanics of thocity and State aside, and explaining (7) to them that the war was to free the nigger. IC it warn `tfor the capital you bare in the nigger, you would be nowhere at all ! If there is no other way to stop Secession than to put out slavery, then Abraham Lincoln is willing to do that. If the slaves all . Fo out of this co untry , as Abraham Lincoln would say, it won't jostle''—theta will be so much more elbow room for the white man, I think this country will live either with or without slavery. I. believe that in the order of Pro vidence this war will separate the two races of black and white. In New York the loss is said to amount to ee:200,100,00U of debts owed by the South to the North. The South has made over alfel,ooo,CO3 to emeriti u the rebel government, by property in debts of the South to the North. lam a colonization man myself. You under take to mate capital out of Liberia. We ought to have been the Bret to admit her into the family of nations, but we did not because we halloo aristocracywb,eh dictated la Ike fleemaresat i.;; - _ t.. TO Ingo not pi oror lo4ti tiff inorctb nut tilim tailf. ' s see loose . aitehltuff u troy h rv i o n aff tr!ade of 513,0 1 1'0,001 Not to have acknowledged her WA, cut ting mil our nose to apite your face. When I hear men talk of the Conetitntion being gone. I would like to get those men together, aid bring Jail Davis before them. How has the South got such en army together? Jeff %WM would say because I don't suffer any men to find fault with 'my Government. Did you ever hear of any man being a candidate for Congress against Jeff Davie mea sure, ? No; and non never wilt [Laughter and ap- Plallre.] To choose between that and this Government is to choose between a reign of tenor and despotism and one of beneficent plenty. But my friends may ask what is to be the end of this; what le the prospect or Inter ven- Lion ? We are a people prone to End fault. If wa win nineteen battles, and lose one, we alwaye talk about the one we lime. This treason wa, hatched. according e to Stephen A. Douglas, iu the middle of lin chnnan sAd niinietratiou. I was abroad at the time it broke out. In the bather of Naples, in lei), I saw the Susquehanna aud Richmond. What did they do there? They had been heat Where, then, were, our navy, our cannon, our implements of war? They had all been transferred, through a welt-concocted plan. Aud what have we done in twenty-two months? The stars and etrmes now wave over half the t,laVe grounds... .1 haloes in less than dimly days ace will open the Jfaoarsi pp& and take Charleston, ( Loud applause .) Leave Virgin ia alone, that can 't sprout a black-eyed pea. [Laniehter.] Scripture teaches us that no people can live long where there Le no geese. The question then is only whether they can live , thirty or sixty data. Some are walla of intervention. Wo raised 600,000 men in sixty days. We 'need not fear the nation that could not raise SAW) men in sixty years. I mean John Bull. The bonier line, be. een the free and 'slave Statesis not one hundred ' , lees, it is twenty-live hundred miles. Whenever yen make this a kuerills war England and France will say to the South 'eon are nothing but a set of laud pints;, and yea have got to stop this guerilla war.' What glee It going On? %Ye are detain: =OW of our men into the South ,• 75,000 men from the Sonth are prisoners in th e North. There are at least .eale, get men. in the South who are overawed. When their eyes are opened, then will the rebellion cease. Many of our,, WU Itit §Olll . Viii liarg remain anal intnntirry invidt;..l Lszullay. ' - LILL IL. AAA_ a animas only. alley are sornrlsoa Tiro Irani luieonere that they are fighting Kentucitlitua There are those in the Segal who, when they dud that the war is to raise themeelves as well cm ue, will cease warare. !When we act all together oar, Le:elites will end. One trouble is that we have roe much pros perity. In too Many Parts we do not seem thoronehly to comprehend this controversy. If we cannot bring back the feelings of our fathers we.never eliall be able to remain their institutions. Already have we offered a large number of our men; but I have never yet seen through all this crisis one father, who, having yielded one son, was unwilling to yield the others. Whatever the price we have to Pair for the Government, we give it freely. There are some men who talk about rascality, and plun dering, ae connected with the Goverumeut. Never was a nation upon earth with which this Was not the case. - At the clone of the Yrench war, it was discovered that twenty-tteo per cent, of all the expenditures had been stolen,At the close of the war a cortnin tionnt cat his throe Re had been engaged in speculating to cattle. There are four large forts connected with the Austrian Government. Under the cave, of ono of dies. Napoleon made hi:, contract of Villa Futuna. When they Mule to settle np acconnts,it was discovered that e.,(0.1,000 florins hail been charged for cattle never purchased. If you have au - thing to eat- against each revelations, I will say that I have been a politician for thirtyem . %. Wherever fraud and rascality go they go in pairs— cratic and Ilepublicau. When the war is over, it will, however, probably be discovered that there are two dollars in every Democratic pocket for one In every Be publican—[laughter and app!ause)—because the former predominate. When Is to be the end of this war? Every hour you fight you we aken your enemy. Your condition Is not Like that of the South. The only hope of the death is in the divisions of the North. If we steed together as we ought. all would soon be over. If '22,0aa,000 men cannot pat doter. a 000.030, I hope that no man will survive in the North to witness the shame of it. Our strength is not in our army, navy, soil, numbere, alone it is that we are in the right. [Applause.] I our opposed to aristocracy, North or South, under any pretence. Inside the breve, herott. and parries In lady Johnson_ of Tonnes.e. is Slasakilit At ttNehtY-one ‘iitrit of agehis wife taught laza 11. loiterv. on 11.• ranee v board.Oa: -;c6 Dinc as .,, dune mare for hewuu.lty Is the33,tl.:o,utlboi theYorththau any other people that ever stood upon tiod s earth. The blind, the deal. the dumb, the In sane, arc all alike taken care of. Lear Slay a year to she Vatican at Rome, I saw the fiageOfall .ns I found no hag with the cluster of stare. It was because our forefathers were the first who looked to Heaven for pro tection, and caught from there the idea of the stars. Take the stripe., lamh and thrash evens traitor until he sees the stars! [Laughter and applause.] Yon am about to engage in forming a littlo4 Club. All loyal men should loin it. They call me out Wert a regular-built Democrat, but some how or other I tem out of odor with those who found fault wi h the Government. A genuine Democrat would tell us to love the country. The only part of th e country that really hate is just the six hakes of ground that the disloyal man stencil; on. [Cheer, ] They tell us it is only the Black Republican larty—tho Man who has the most power in the United States is Abraham Lincoln. The next two are Stanton and Halleak. Two of the-e are Douglas Democrats Row dare they. then. bilk thus? Abraham Lincoln is able to save the [futon, be. voice--` and lie will save it." Cheers.] No man has the liberty to weaken the oo :ern meat. If any people deserve credit, it is Phila delphia. If the disloyal man can flnd no means to be loyal, let him at least shut his mouth. Whenever the order of conscription comes it will be obeyed. for *here is moral force in the people. The speaker here read a letter from Frankfort-on-the Main, dated Jan. ankh, end signed by the Consul Gene ral, Mr. Murphy. He Bays that 5,000 pounds °flint add linen bad been tent out to this country. If the Govern ment would permit it, 25,000 men might be sent from this place within thirty days. After a few more brief re marks, the speaker closed amid great cheers. Governor Wright was eucceeded leyGovernor Curtin,. who recapitulated In some measure, the remarks which lie had made a half hour previously, inaide the hall. Ron. Samuel C. Cowper, of Virginia, was then intro duced. and spoke briefly. He alluded to the blood of patriote whkh-bad been shed on disloyal ground, and concluded with on elfainant animal for the nottainmrna or the limon intact HMI Ilifinflinitt MMltilitil then e4jonnatil antid the wittl sot embus/mum, SEJLENADJS TO HON. HENDRICK B. Winoirr.—This evening at 10 o'clock a serenade will be given under the auspices of the Union League to lion. Hendrick E. Wright, ex-member of Congress from the Luzern° district, and one of the speakers at the great meeting last night. Ws are informed that the friends of lion. 3. A. Wright, the distinguished Senator from Indiana, have tendered him the compliment of a serenade, and that it will take place this evening, !'MUST THE Win Go orrl" a pamphlet, by Henry Flanders, 'Esq., published by W. S. & A. Martien, 606 Chestnut street.. Mr. Flanders, although a Democrat of the old school, in thiapamphlet eloquently urges his party to sustain the Administration In the great work to whloh it has been called, eatreating. them "not to be betrayed,:even in appearance, imtompposition to the war, which is the cause of our country, nod for weal or woe involves its fate." The pamphlet is most seaeonable, and is welt adapted to follow in the wake of Mr. Stille's recently-published historical reminiscences. The reader of ens should not fail to peruse the other. Thus fas t no attempt has been made by the advocates oe a humiliating peace to answer Me. Flanders' welt.put questions, for the simple reason, we apprehend, that even to the moat sophisticated "copperhead" they are unanswerable. The pamphlet is a valuable tract for the times, and should be widely circulated. LARGE POSFITV.F. SAL 33. OF DRY GOODS, CLOTIE rNG, &e.—The particular attention of purchasers is requested to the large and extensive assortment of Biltisk, french, German, and American dry goods, clothing, &c., embracing 1,050 lob of choice and de sirable articles in silks, cottons, linens, woolens, and worsteds, (including a stock of goods for cash,) to be peremptorily sold by catalogue, on four months' oredit, commencing this morning at 10 o'clock, to be continued without intermission all day, and part of the evening, by John B. Myers Sc Co., auctionee-w. lgOs. 232 and 234 Market street. Also, 225 balehof twine and baths. AIICTION NOTICR—SALE OF 1,000 CARES SfpoTa AND Snous.—The attention of buyers is ca,lied to the large and attractive sale of 1,000 cases. boots, shoes, brogans, belmorals, &c., to be sail by cgs- , ) 0 8 110 this lamming, by Philip Ford nuoo- tioneers, at Their store Nos. 525 Musket and 522 Commeren streets,, commencing at 40, Woke-3k pre cisely,. Ship Newa. NEW Youn, March 11.—Antsed, ship °lawn, from New Orleans ; brig KanagonO, MOl slhr, Transit, from Manzanillo,
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