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- VOL. 8.-NO. 37.
Virtss.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1864.
NATIONAL UNION
RATIFICATION- MEETING.
NIIEIWIDENUIt KIIUABE ALIVE win( FREEMEN.
Lincoln, Johnson, and Victory.
BEAUTIFUL DIBPLAY OF PYRIO FIRES,
The Union - Mast and Shall be Preserved.
Hon. SIMON CAMERON,
Hon. JOHN CESSNA,
Professor E. W. DUNBAR,
Hon. CHARLES oiNgILL,
Hon, LEONARD MYERS,
A. B. SLOANAKER, Esq.,
kn. JAMES M. SOOVEL;
BENJAMIN H. BREWSTER, Esq.,
JOHN E. LATTA, Esq., , •
Colonel THOMAS-FTrZGERALD,
Lieutenant LEMUEL CS. REEVES,
And others.
Under the Call of the National Union Executive
Committee of the city of Philadelphia, a general
meeting was held on Saturday evening, in Inde
pendence Square, to ratify the National Union
nominations. The Committee issqod the call only
four days before the demonstration, and, considering
the short notice, the outpouring of the loyal people
may be considered a spontaneous response to the call
of the country. It may be safe to say that a larger
meeting was never held in or about the Square.
There was no time to prepare the arrangements for
a grand procession, no time to arrange new banners
with striking mottoes, indicating the spirit-stirring
scenes in which we live, consequently the old Wide-
Awake torches of 1860 wore brought into requisition,
atlbanners or transparencies that had seen service
o- many °condom were in the line. - The ward
processions came singly, and, with few exceptions,
entered the Square through the south gateway,
until the enclosure would hold no - more. The
first association that appeared on the ground was
that of the Twenty-fourth ward. It was . nine o'clock .
when this procession entered the Squwe. By this
time there were at least thirty thousaNemen within
the enclosure, as solid a"body of hurrah beings as
ever assembled on any occasion. At !kits period the.
different ward associations were on the n ear approach
to the grand centre of demonstration, and, amid the
blazing of pyric suns, rockets, Roman candles, and
cheers of thousands, the mighty eddying flowing on
of the great human tide, with banners and 'MUEIO,
soon tilled the square to overflowing. The scene at
this timciwas grand beyond description. Red, white,
and blue fires shot up through the stately elms in
the Square, and flags and handkerchiefs were waved
from the t windows of surrounding dwellings. Every
body seemed to be in .the most excellent humor.
From the general expression that fell from the lips
of many. in all parts of the meeting, everybody must
have-been surprised at the vast extent of the num
bers. 'Enthusiasm is what tells In a pOpular
meeting.. The present demonstration surpassed in .
this essential any that ever preceded it.
Taking a stand at the main gateway of entrance,
our reporters noted the following mottoes on tho
principal banners : •
" No compromise with traitors."
"No peace with traitors. Death bofore disunion."
• " Our army and navy."
"No armistice with traitors in arms."
: 66 Uncle Abo, wo will not fcirget you."
"Copperheads and traitors must and shall be put
down.,,
"Bally 'round:olo flag, boys."
"We love our liborty. No despotic government
for in.,' . •
" Workingmen's interests must be protected."
$‘ No party but our country."• -
"Lincoln, Johnson, and victory."
In -the Tenth ward .banners representing all the
States of the Federal Union, Including South Caro
lina, were carried by members.
" We will take care of the Copperheads."
"Our ballots support the soldler,lwhile the soldier
fights to sustain the ballot."
jsliouser Cadets. Our argument with traitors—
A:Dgel.ll
An eagle clawing a man. Motto, " Uncle, I have
him." "Let me alone."
""Vermont 0.
," Our couttry shall be one country."
" We don't take Mac-aboy."
"Old Abe, like wine, improves with ago."
These were some of the principal mottoes 'that
were carried in the different ward associations.
The general tune played by the bands upon onter•
frig the square was, "Rally 'Round the Flag,
Boys," many hundreds, we may say thousands,
joining in the ohorus'of "Down with the traitors."
DISPLAX OP PYRIC FIRES
During the proceedings of the meeting rockets
with red, white, and blue fires were set off in the
southwestern side of the square, but in the centre a
very elaborate specimen of pyroteohny was dis
played, that, for beauty and effect, has never been
excelled in - this city: It brought vividly to the
mind the thrilling scones that once enlivened Mc-
Aran's Garden, many years since. The piece com
menced with the firing of an Italian sun, almost ri
valling in brilliancy the great centre of all light,
gradually changing Into Persian fires, with gold
rain, spears, and emerald. Then suddenly, by
means of a quick match, the superstructure, in the
form of an arch, was Illuminated in red, white, and
blue colors, and amid the explosion of thirteen
bombs, tbat sent a shower of parti-colored stars up.
ward, there appeared in letters of silver fire the
motto
LINCOLN, JOHNSON, AND VICTORY."
• This display of fire .works was received with uni
versal applause, not less than seventy thousand
loyal men joining in the lively demonstration.
THE MEETING.
The main stand was brilliantly illuminated, and
gaily Bedecked With the American flag and national
shields. Above all was a large white screen, intend
ed for stereoscopic views of battle scenes and other
pictures; but the crowd of people was so great that it
was entirely impossible to get the apparatus into
'good working order. The artistic work was, there
fore, abandoned. • . .. •
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Mark Hassler's Orchestral Band was stationed at
the - main stage. The music was, of course, excellent
At S o'clock tte meeting was called to order by
Mr. John G. Butler, chairman of the City Executive
Committee, and the following organization was
made amid the greatest enthusiasm :
PRESIDENT.
HON. SIMON OA.MERON.
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Wards.
1. John W. Lynn. •
2. Titus. Buckley.
3. :Tarots Moore.
4. Date] B. Murphey,Sr.
5, -Edward C. Knight.
O. Jesse Godley. ,
7. John Haaeltine.
8. Henry . C. Carey.
'9: Joseph M. Cowell.
10. John H. Sonthworth.
11. Jacob Walker.
12.* Chap. M. Wagner. •
13. Edward H. Filler. •
SIICRE
Wards.
1. Chas. Sr Close.
2. Wm. D. Moore.
B. Thos. S. Bead, Nl. ^ lf
4. Thomas Smyth.
5. (Mules Murphy.
6. Isaac li.•o l .ll.arra.
7. Geo. W. Myers, Jr..
U. Wm. Bucknell.
9. George Bullock. •
10. Sterling Bonsall.
11. John Shreeve:
12. Hall M. Stanton.
13. Charles blcholson. 26. Samuel Johnson.
Speech of HMI. Simon Cameron.
Gyarra.max : It is a very high honor, Indeed, to
be called upon to preside over such a meeting as
this. Such a Sea of patriotic heads I never saw be
fore. [Cheers.] Thousands and tens of thousands
seem to be here to .do honor to their country, or
rather to save their country from destruction. This
le a time for all good men to come together and help
save the Union. [Cheers.] I thought, gentlemen,
that at my time ot. life I should not be called upon
to enter into the strife of politics. If this were
a mere. difference between partisans, between
officeseekers, I should go my way, and let
them fight It out themselves. But I be
lieve non that the election . of Mr. I - Amin will
decide whether we have a country or not. [Cheers.]
It will decide not only whether the country is to be
divided into two Governments, but whether it Is to
Be divided into innumerable fragments. Therefore,
I have come from my home to aid with you the great
contest before us. believe it is the duty of every,
man to give not only his time, but his talents, his
labor, and, if it is possible, his money, to prevent
bad men from getting possessionofthiseountry.l
only rose, gentlemen, to thank you,
and
introduce
to you others who will address you much better than
I can. [Applause.] •
Speechef Benjamin A. Brewster, Esq.
Now, gentlemen I have been Invited to read
these resolution!. '[Applausel Before I begin I
went to say one and only one word. lam for Abra
ham Lincoln now, and I would rather be whipped
with him than be succesSfUl with any otter man, for
the take of the:principle involved—that's it:
Resolved, That we heartily endorse thenomination
of A braliam Lincoln for re-election as President of
the 'Unit( d States. We honor and love him for his
many ; vent and good qualities, for his strah:htfor
ward Lonesty, for his devoted love for our whole
count, y, fur his noble magnanimity, for his manly
implicity,*and for the 'untiring industry, the indo
mitable energy, and the enlightened statesmanship
-with Ti Meth be has so successfully striven to perpe
tuate cur alorious Union, and to secure the bless
lags of hberty to ourselves and our posterity. , ' We
do well to love him; for all our country's enemies
Reselrcd, That we hail with heartfelt joy the no
mination for the Vice Presidency of Andrew Johh
son, of Tennessee, because he is upright and incor
ruptible ; because of his tried and distinguished
Sbiltty ; because of. his extensive aad practical
hnowleilge of public affairs; because, whim traitors
were preparit g to assail our Government and our
Union, he was found faithful among the faithless, a
rock of Limit in a sea of falsehood, and because he
hesitated not to offer up all that se a Man he held
most dear—fame, fortune, family,"'and friends
. a
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MOTTOES.
Wards. •
14. Joseph Rittenhouse.
15. Wm. Mann.
tl6. Joseph S. Keen.
17. James Bell. • - '
118. Wm. Cramp. •
119. J. Fletcher Budd.
20. George 0. Evans.
121. Benj. A. Mitchell.
22: Enoch Taylor.
!M. Samuel 0. Willet.
124. N. B. Browne. . •
;25. James House.
20. Wm: Barnett.
ARIES.
Wards.
14. Francis R. Gatohell.
15.. John J. Kersey.
16. Chas. S. Riley.
17. H. A. B. Brown.
18. Joseph S. Allen.
19. James Tagert.
20. Geo. W. *Looney. -
21. John F. Preston.
22. Robert H. Gratz. .
23. Jesse H, Cottman.
24. John A. Brown. ,
25. Barton H. Jenki.
rtssoLuTidifs
bless him! the one Southern Senator who remained
true to our country in the hour of her greatest trial.
Resolved That we approve and ratify the nomina
tions for C -l ongreEs, for the Stato Legislature, and for
city and county offices. just completed by the various
Conventions of the National Union party of this
city. The gentlemen who have received these nomi
nations are worthy and competent, as the principles
which they represent are just and patriotic.
Resolved, That the great National Union party is
the true Peace petty of our country, and that those
who constructed and who uphold the °bingo plat
form are well named the Armistice Party.
Resolved, That we confidently anticipate that an
honorable and permanent peace will immediately
follow the re-election of Abral am Lincoln, the only
present hope of the rebels being the success of the
Chicago nominees.
Resolved, That the so-called Democrats exhibit in
their professions and practices some strange phe
nomena; they declare for an armistice, and nomi
nate a war candidate; they put up for the Presiden
cy a man who is for peace only on condition of
Union, and for the "Vice Presidency one who is for
peace on any terms; they denounce the' draft, and
huzza for the man who first urged a draft ; they
mourn over arbitrary arrests, and cheer for him
who arrested one-half of the Maryland Legislature ;
they claim to be Union men, but have nothing to
say against the rebellion ; they love oursoldiers, and
are sad When our soldiers are victorious; they op
pose the soldiers having a right to, vote, and yet in
vite those soldiers to vote for them ; they profess to
be for the Union as it was, and oppose appropria
tions for the army and navy; they indulge, with im
punity, in the most intemperate and treasonable
language, privately and publicly, in speeches and
in newspapers, and yet proclaim that freedom of
speech and of the press arc tyrannically suppressed ;
they blow hot and cold with the same brenth.•
Resolved, Tina the politicians and party leaders,
whose hopes of success rise upon rumors of defeat
to the Union armies and fall upon intelligence of
Union victories, are unworthy of confidencaor trust.
Those who do not rejoice over the capture of At
lanta and the forts of Mobile bay cannot' be wholly
loyal.
'Resolved, That we discard and disclaim the per
nioious do:latrine of State rights and State supre
macy, which, in conjunction with the' tyrannical
and aristocratic sentiments engendered by slave
holding, .ca.used, and have sustained, the unholy
rebellion which is now .desolatiug a portion of
,our
country.
Resolved, That while we venerate - the dear old
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania., and cheerfully
obey her laws, we owe a higher duty to the Consti
tution and • Government of the. United States, and
OUT bosoms throb with patriotic. pride not that we
are.Pennsylvanians,' but that we are American Ma.'
ZCXIB.
Resolved, That our country owes an enduring
debt of gratitude and affection to the braveaoldiers
and sailors; officers and mon, who have so long bat
tled determinedly with her foes, and encountered
danger, disease, and death in her behalf. The debt
is so immense that it can never be paid, but our Go
vernment and our people will be always ready to
show their appreciation of its justice by earnestly
striving, in every possible way, to make comforta
ble their future lives, and •to honor their names for
ever. • -
Speech of Hon. John Cessna. -
The Hon. John Cessna was then'introdueed
the chairman, and welcomed with heartY cheerit.
Re spoke as follows :
Mr. President and fellow-citizens : Since thepells ..
wore closed on the first Tuesday of November, 1960;
I have very rarely-appeared before my fellow-citi
zens as a political speaker. Nor do I expect to
change that habit to-night, because, although this
is to a great extent a political meeting, yet in what
little 1 shall say to my fellow-citizens, no matter.
what others may say on the subject, I-do not wish
to be understood as making a atrial .litical ad
dress.- 'So far, however, as what I • •if:lk say here
, i te-night may partake of apolitical er, I shall
ask A t ha' indulgence of those wh. r me, to
bell reme when I say that it will . te vary-'
in principle from the politi UM I
have delivered within the 1. at any
former Lib : lam fully se • er, of Are
fact the night I appear ; • fly of my fel
low-citiz with whom I have never heretofore po
litically acted in harmony. _lily position in appearing
before you, so far as relates to my personal feelings,
and so far as relates to the attachments of friends,
is one of a Somewhat painful character &yet I hold
that these are times when -no man is justified in`.
yielding to the EOM% considerations of 'polities!
position Zit personal feeling. It is but natural to
desire the good opinion of all our fellow-citizens,
and to regret when we are compelled to differ with
those with whom we have long acted; but, as
have already said, there are duties devolving upon
us which are of far more weight and influence, than:
the mere considerations ofpersonal comfort, and it
is the Influence of those duties upon my mind, upon,
my conscience, and upon my judgment which has
brought me here to-night. [Applause.] Although
there are many painful considerations in connection
with-my appearance before you, there are those of a
different nature. In the first place, those men and
those political journalists with whom I formerly
acted, and who, if they notice our proceeding to
night, will doubtless most rudely and extensively
denounce me, are those who, for the last four years,
have been the loudest, most eloquent, and most per
sistent inadvocacy - of the right of free speebh and
the enunciation of individual opinion. In the next
place, these men and these papers who will perhaps
'denounce me as a renegade and a traitor for what -I
may say to you, may be improved thereby, for
know that I have not, and I believe • you have • not,
heard many of them say anything about the lenti l
gades and traitors that live in another part of the
country. [Applause.] If, - when' they get their
hands in, they should tire of abusing and denouncing
me and others who have been Democrats all our
lives, but who haye beenunahle to swallow the plat
form lately erected at Chicago, and will then turn
tier attention for a short time to Jeff Davis and, •
his fellow rebels, I think we will have acoomplished
something in 'the interest of our common cause.
And if any one of them, whether he, he a public
'speaker or a public writer, should be bold enough
and patriotic enough to speak out against. the ene
mies of our country, I think that Barnum will be
I able to make a fortune by transporting hidi around
I -the country eaa , kiiscl-of-ouriosityn., , [Langhter and
applause.] • -• '
Now, my fellow-citizens, I have said that what
little I may say .to you to-night will not differ in its
pelitical'character from anything I have ever said
before the people of my native State. I ataxia here
to-night as the partisan of any man, or the advocate
of any party. lam here in no such capacity. I
have•for two, three, or four years past earnestly de
sired to stand by the Demogratic party, and whtlo it
was possible, have done so to the best of my judg- -
meat and ability. lam not hero to denounce that
party nor any of my friends who differ with me on
the present issue, but I am here because I believe
that the best men of that party, and the best men of
all parties, are, called upon by the condition of our
country,' by the exigencies of the times, and the
probability of the overthrow of 'civil and religious
riberty in this land and throughout all, the- nations
of the earth, to rise above party andto.starid by the
country, the country's cause, and the country's flag..
[Cheers.] I have always been taught to -.trejleve it '
to he a part of the creed of the great party to whioh
I have 'always been proud to • belong to-stand
by the Union, to stand-by the Constitution, and to
uphold that flag But at the National Convention
of' that party, held at Charleston there were men
who came there determined to divide and distract
the party. They came there, and with the 'aid of
men in the .Pennsylvania delegation, and in many
other Northern delegations, they succeeded too well
in their nefarious purposes. If the election of
Abraham Lincoln, - in 1860, was a national calamity,
I charge it home that they are the men who did it.
We stood there -patiently for days and for weeks.
We went to Baltimore. They followed us, some of
them, and some of them went to Richmond, where
they established their own platform. We came
home ; and those of us, although in a majority in
our own, party, who stood by the regular national
nominees, were ridiculed, abused, denounced, In
sulted, and driven into the rear ranks of the Demo
cratic party. This merely because 'we would
not follow the beck of such leaders. We stood
it then, in 1861, when the Democratic party took
ground in favor of a prosecution of the war. In
1862 they did the same, and I stood by • them.
I was with them in .the campaign, and supported
their ticket because I believed them to be honest in
their professions. In 1863 they ignored-the war po
licy of the country. I entreated thorn to reflect
upon the consequences of their unwise position, and
to adhere to their former policy in favor of a vigo
rous prosecution of the war ' 'as sustained by them
in 1861 and 1862. I told them, and others of us told
them, that so sure as they repudiated that policy
and adopted the doctrine of Vallaudighaut and his
co-laborers of the Northwest, just so sure' the people
would rise in their might, and the party would De
overwhelmed at the ballotebox. [Great cheering.]
Per this reason, I wont home from the convention
at Harrisburg in sadness and in' silence, and re
mained silent, during the campaign. The people, of
Ohio ; by' more than 90,000 majority, verified and ful
filled the prediction that I had made to the Demo
- cratic leaders at the convention of :1863. Still we
remained silent, hoping almost against hope, that
our Democratic leaders at Chicago would return to
the faith of our fathers, and to the true dootrines of
the Democratic party, as proclaimed by Jefferson,
Jackson, and.all the best' men of that party from
that day to this.
My fellow-citizens, no man in Pennsylvania more
anxiously or more earnestly hoped, even against
hope, that he might be able to sustain the nominees
of the Chicago Convention than did the individual
who now stands beans-you. I waited even until the
Convention had concluded its labors; and the pro
ceedings were facially proclaimed and sent forth to
the world, and I stand here to-night to say to you
that if that Convention had endorsed the true doc
trine of the Democratic party,and hafldeclared for
the Union, the Constitution, the prosecution of the
war—against secession and in favor of suppressing,
the rebellion—and had placed before the people. ism
tional candidates, in whom we might have,coetl
dente, I would have supported .the.neminees • "of:
that Convention.. But. the same men,that went to''
Charleston, and broke up the ConventiOn there, the
same - men that went to Baltimore to continue,the •
business, the same Men that 'have been trying to"
break up the Union and the party, both togetture n
went to Chicago, and unfortunately obtained Slr
controlling influence ' of that Convention.. They •
have sent forth to the country a platform which
I shall not !describe, for I *have not time, - and
besides ; you all understand its I
Contents, but
will say here, before the world, . : I would rather
that my right arm should full. from my shoulder,
that any calamity should befall ate, the loss of
friends, party associates, property, all that I am,
and all that 1 hope to be, in this lite—that all these
shall perish before 1 will support the Chicago plat
lorm er any man that stands upon it. [Long and
continued cheering.] I take this stand because I
believe my country demands that sacrifice.. My
fellow-citizens sacrifice their lives upon the battle
field, and why should I not sacrifice my political
position, my personal standing, my prospects before
the country, and with my friends rather than', that
i
flag should go down, as 1 believe t will, if the petal-;
nations and platform at Chicago are sustained' by
the American people. [Great cheering] I believe
that the only sale remedy for, all true Demo
crats is to unite in defeating the nominees br
the Chicago Convention, in rebuking those who
destroyed the party in 1860, and who continue
to keep it in a false position before the na
tion and before, the world in 1861. If they will
not listen to our advice, nor heed our entreaties, we
must, in sett: defence, and in the discharge of, our
duties, assist in teaching them that they cannot,
and shall not, use us as instruments for the accent.
plishment of their unworthy purposes. If we sue
ceed In convincing them that they cannot bo sue'.
Cessful in foisting raise doctrines upon the American
people they will, perhaps, in the future listen to our
5 PPea Is. l'or the present, they have taken from us
every hope and every remedy but this one—to open
ly oppose them In their enceavers. The American
people have solemnly determined that this nation
shall not be divided. ,Ty have resolved this upon
their Meta and in their closets, and if the rebels in
arms will not submit to their decision the military
power of the rebellion must and will be overthrown.
The Chicago platform contains no such docia
ration—not one word against -the. dootine of
Secession, or against the rebellion, and, nothing/
in favor of its suppression. For this., reason -
theories
wf f
o r hr o o m ao p
et
Democratich
n e iySaodu advocated
v m a
ip a e y ida s
the American people will not endorse it. Pretended
ut
pl peae ja c g P eTa lui ti s ie je g o n r r
members of Cong be ress who
huonneiodn•thuerrinebieesi
defeated, and " v 3r iet S ri e o e u e r i a c a n d
other Members of Congress who assisted in retain-
.lag those members In their seats may go to Chicago
and submit to the dictation of such peace comuils: , `
sioners—the prooeedings of the Convention may.be
• endorsed in Nova Scotia—Richmond traitors may
ling for ; the triumpher the theories thus expounded
—foreign enemies of the American Republic may re.
echo the hope--;Lindsey, Roebuck, and their friends
in England,- Louis . Napoleon and. John Slidell in
France, and the enemies of civil and religious Hirer-.
ty everywhere may joie in the issue, but the Ameri
can people will rise in their might and evertihelm
them all in one common ruin. The . 'friends of this
t ukg ro h r e nl h a— :
platform cannot reasonably hope ter its success: The
•
candidate nominated upon it for the ,highest
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1864.
office in the gift of the people has been
unable to stand upon or endorse it without material
alterations, corrections, and additions. This being
the fact, it 1E asking too much to expect that the
American people shall do that which the candidate
cannot do - himself. We sincerely believe that the .
people will overthrow it at the ballot-box. It has
already received sevol alheavy loads. The first was
a large supply of shot and shell from the army of
General Sherman. The next was a cargo of earth
from the Green Mountains of Vermont. The next
will be a layer of lumber from the forests of Maine.
And so it will continue until the second Tuesday of
October, when P.ennaylvania will tumble upon it
such a large cargo of iron and coal as will sln!c it so
deep that the hand of resurrection will never be
able to reach it. The people of the nation will re
inforce the victorious armies of Grant and Sher
man. They will continue the fight until the rebel
horde of Lee and the flying remnants of Rood shall
be overthrown. The unity and integlitycf. the na
tion shall he preserved, and peace shall be restored
throughout her borders. [Renewed cheers.]
1113 fellow-citizens,allow me to call your attention
to the issues of the present .crisis; They are Most
momentous—none greater have ever stood forth in
the history of the country. Is man eapable - of self
government :1 To establish this proposition was the.
great object of the American. Revolution. At that
time there were many Unbelievers in the doctrine,
ant, notwithstanding the result of that revolution .
and our remarkable and unexampled prosperity sa
a nation, there are and have always been among us
men who have nofaith in the doctrine, and who con
stantly predict the ultimate success of the present
rebellion. In this they are heartily joined by the
tyrants and the aristocracy of tho old world. The
unprecedented progress of our, nation has created
an intense interest throughout the world. If we can
survive the present shock, suppress the rebellion,
and return to our former path -of progress, the ex
ainple cannot and will not long be resisted by the
other nations of the earth. The success, or rather.
the continuance of civil . and • religions liberty, not
only in our own country, but .throughout the,world,
depends upon the result of the present conflict. Our
failure now would rejoice.the enemies of liberty and
make glad the hearts of tyrants in every land, and
bring additional grief and sorrow to the down-trodden •
and oppressed of every clime. ~The destruction of. our.
Republic) would do more to perpetuate despotism,
to roll back the tide of progress, and check the ad•.
vance of civilization than any event which has ever
occurred in the history of the human race. Words
cannot describe nor language measure the import;
ance and .magnitude of the ,present struggle. IV
becomes, therefore, the paramount duty of every
patriot to use his utmost exertions to- secure its
fskyprable termination. The present civil war was.
IMigurated by those who maintain the doctrine of
secession. -It requires no argument to show that the
admission 'of this principle in. any one- case leads
inevitably to dissolution,disintegration , and final
anarchy. Admit' the possibility.of Northern and
Southern Confederacies, and you thereby concede
the establishment of. an Eastern and Western or
a New England and Border• State; an Atlantic and
a Pacific, a Mississippi Valley, or any other Con
federaey, or. number of Confederacies which thedis
tiontent or athbition of individuals may require to
suit their unworthy purposes.
Thu history of our country during the Revolution
is too well known to require repetition. The Arti
cles Of Confederation and their-inadequacy to sub-'
Serve the ends and pyrposes of the nation are mat
tore of history knownto all. Our forefathers—those
,to whom we owe our existence as an independent
nation, and our continuance, as a Government—;
speedily superseded those Articles of Confederation
by a written Constitution, in order to prevent, for.
all time to come, the practice of secession, and to
strengthen the arm - ot the central power. This
doctrine of secession is not,only without warrant in•
the Constitution, but most lead to the wildest con
fusion in the working of our political system-a
system without a model in all the ages of the past}--
a perfect structure, distributing the powers of the
Government in such a way as to make, them a check
upon each other while working in unity and har
mony in the promotion of all the great objects of its
creation. The separate States. may become great
in territory, great in population, great in resources,.
but the germ of their greatness consists in their
being parts of a greater whole--members of one
great family. Our nation can only live and
accomplish the purposes Of its creation, and
protect and .uphold the cause of civil and re
ligious, liberty on, this continent and throughout
the world, by adhering to one Constitution,
one Union, one Government, one set of laws,
one destiny. One flag, and that the stars and stripes,
should over be permitted to float over any portion
of our land ; and silent be the tongue and palsied
the arm of him who would dare to utter a word
against or attempt to lower from itsproud position
the flag-of our country.. [Cheers.] To preserve
'our unity as a nation, to, prevent dissolution, ' disin
tegration, [and final 'anarchy may, and no doubt
will, require many and fearful,eacrifices in addition
to those already made ; but the more that flag is
crimsoned with the blood. of heroes, the dearer it
becomes to the hearts of patriots.
The right of self-preservation on the part of the Go
vernment has at all times in its history been clearly
maintained by the ablest statesmen. George Wash.
ington.did not hesitate to enforce the law against
those who attempted to resist it in the collection of
taxes on whisky: In his message to Congress, soon
'after the occurrence, the Fatherlof his. Country says:
1 . Thus the painful alternative could not be . d Warded.
I ordered the militia to march after ouco more 'ad
monishing the insurgents, in my proclamation of
the 20th of September last. While there Islcause •
to lament. that occurrences of this nature "should
have disgraced'.the name or interrupted the tran
quillity of any part of our community, or should have
diverted to a new application any portion'of the
public resources, there are not wanting real and'
substantial consolations. for the misfortune. It has
'demonstrated that our prosperity rests on solid
foundations by furnishing an' additional proof that
noy iellow citizens understand the true principles of
government and liberty ; that they feel their insepaa
rable union ; that notwithstanding all the devices
which have keen used. to away them five their in
terest and duty, they are now as ready to.maintain
the authority . ol the laws against licentious dui ksions
as they were to defend their rights against usurpa.
tion. it has been a, spectacle displaying to the
highest advantage the value of republican govern
ment, to behold the most andthe least wealthy of
our citizens standing inlthe same-ranks as private.
soldiers, • pre-eminently distinguished by being the
army of the Constitution, undeterred by a march of
three hundred miles over rugged, mountains, by the
approach of an inclement . season s or by any other'
discouragement. ,, •
These are the words of the first President of the
Republic. Had his penetrating eyescanned the fu..
turn and beheld the present condition of his native
land, ho could act have used language more. coin
pletely and conclusively establishMg the right and
duty of self preservation existing in the Govern
ment.
As -early as 1786, Mr. Jefferson, in a letter
to Mr. Monroe, deolared "there never will be
money in the treasury Mahe Confederacy shows
its teeth, The States must see the rod,, per
haps it must be felt by some of them. I am
persuaded that all of them would rejoice to see
every one obliged to furnish their contributions."
In another letter, written in 1787, Mr. Jefferson says:
"But with all the imperfections of our present Go
vernment. it is, without comparison, the best exist
ing, or that ever did exist. Its greatest defect is the
imperfect manner in which matters of
_commerce
have been provided for. It Ms been so often said as
to be generally believed, that Congress have no .
power, by the Confederation, to enforce anything,
for example—centributions of money. It was not
necessary to give them that power expressly; they
have it by the law of nature. When two parties
make a, contract there results In eaoh a power of
compelling the other to execute it."
Thus spoke the author of the . Deolaration'of
Inde
pendence and the father of Democracy. Had all of
his pretended followers and admirers in the South
obeyed his teacitingwand practiced his theories, the
present crisis, mould not now be upon the nation.
In 1832, Sautes Madison, in speaking of the Vir
ginia Resolutions, written by himself, used the fol
lowing language: "The .essential difference be
tween a free government and a government not
free is, that the former is founded in compact,
the parties to which are mutually and equally bound
by it. Neither of them, therefore, can have a greater
right to break off from• the bargain than the other
or others have to hold him to it ; and certainly there
is nothing in the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 ad
verse to this principle which is that of common
sense and common justice." • •
it is remarkable that the nullifiers, who make the
name of Mr.. Jefferson the, pedestal for their colos
sal heresy, closely shut their eyes and lips whenever
his authority is clearly and emphatically against
them. hills letters to Monroe and Carrington he
speaks of the power of the old Congress to coerce
oelinquent. States, and states his reason for pre
ferring for the purpose a naval to 'a military force,
also remarking that it was not' necessary to find a
right to coerce in the Federal Articles, that being
inherent in the nature of a compact.
In 1882 the State of South Carolina attempted to
inaugurate the heresy of secession. At that time
Andrew; Jackson occupied the Executive chair of
the nation. His views and opinions are frilly and
clearly set forth in his proclamation of that date, in
which, among other truths, he declares that "the
Constitution of the United States forms a °overfl
y:wit, not a league; and whether it be formed by com
pact' between the' States or in any other manner,
As character, hilt° same. It is a _Government in
which all the people are represented, which ope
rates directly on the people individually, not upon
the States ; they retained all, the power they did not
grant. But each State having expressly parted
with so many powers as.te Constitute, jointly with
the other States, a single nation, cannot, from that
period, possess any - right to secede, because such
secession does not break a league but destroys, the
unity of a nation, and any injury to that unity is
not onlyrt, breach which would result from the c9n
travention of a compact, but it is an offence against
the whole Union."
Thus speaks Andrew Jackson In 1832: 'His ac
tions corresponded with his words and it was fortu
nate for the nation and for mankind that. General
Jackson then occupied. the .ExcimtlYe, 911filf
7.United States. The views entertained by
statesmen have been fully endorsed and affirmed on
'repeated occasions by the' Supreme Court of the
- Tintted States.: I might refer partioularly .to the
opinion of. Chief. Justice Marshall on the subject,
but I.have riot now time to do so. ~ The, same voice
comes to us from theaorabs of Meant Vernon, Moro
men° the Hermitage, and the grave of Madison.
Ashland and Marshfield poured forth their unsur
passed elequence in defcuce, Of the same vital prin
ciplest and all the great men of our land, of all par
ties, have at all times, in the Cabinet, in Congress,
and on the bench, agreed upon this question.
Now, my know-citizens, our enemies attempt to
dishearten the people by: pOrtra,y lug to them the
magnitude of our national debt. This debt has been
verionsly estimated, but it is now officially declared'
to be less than two thousand million of dollars, and
no well-inforn ed man will calculate a greater in
crease than ono thousand millions per year. Bat
figures cannot estimate the value of the• Union—it
is .beyond all price. However, for the,benetit of
`those who worship the almighty dollar,and those
• who are too mean to pay their taxes if they can
'escape their.payment, I will occupy your attention
-for one moment on tl is subject. At the end of the
Peninsula war the debt of YgiglalM was about five
thousand millions of dollars. It Is new a little lese
than four thou Sand millions of dollars. Her last:
war loan in that war was sold at fifty.three cents
on the dollar, payable in depreciated paper. But
not a single bond of the United States 18 belOW,pOS,
end nearly all command a premium. The income
of our treasury for the past year, in the very midst
of the war, was nearly three'hundred millions of
dollars. The increase in the value of our real and
personal property from 1840 to 1850 was sixty-four
• per cent.; from 1850 to 18a0 it was one hundred and
mein peeven per cent. :The income of our produc
tive labor for 1800 was nearly two thousand millions
of dollars.
We have rich public lands, and almost
these alone, at one dollar per acre, to pa
at the end of the war. We have more ta
miles of railroad, finished at a cost of 84
Fifty thousand vessels of the Republic wtu
ocean. The increase in the tonnage on or
waters in eight years, was 320 per coal
I;orts orrain have reached, in a single
000,00. Agriculture gave the nation, k
00,000 050; and when our fertile lands art
tivated, this sum will be multiplied a but
our territory is nearly WS large as all Eu.
its' forty different empires. The increase Of our
prpulation since 1790 has been six times greater
than that of England, and ten times greater than
that of France ; therefore the burden of our debt
will sit but lightly upon a nation whose home is a
continent; whose soil embraces the products of
every land, whose people, by their industry, thrift
and skill,multiply their resources an hundred fold,
and whose population glows with a rapidity which
is without a parallel in history. As I said before, it
la the purpose of our enemies to dishearten the pee
pie with rumorfrof our inability to pay the National
debt; but theyhave not examined the question, and
do not wish to examine it; they only desire to draw
away from their allegiance the friends of the Union,
and induce them to accept an igaominpus peace
Upon the terms of dissolution.
'But the hour is growing late, my fellow-citizens,
and Lund myself compelled to curtail ray remarks,
When the proud old Sag of our fathers shall: again
float in triumph over the walls of Fort Sumpter,
and over every inoh of territory belonging to dour
ancient inheritance ; and when all the people of the
land shall live in peace and amity, and treason shall
no more raise its winked head, then will the most
skeptical and timid be constrained to admit that this
noble old Clovernihent'of our fathers is not destined
for premature decay, but that the noble old Repub
lic still lives, and shall live forever. [Long-con
tinued cheering.]
Music—" Hall Columbia," by Hassler's Band.
Speech of Setivel, of New
' FELLOW . CTTIZENS OF Tan STATE OP PENNSYL
VANIA : The words which I shall address to you to
night shall be brief. lam an' humble Jersey man.
I am not here to speak, thank God, for " tardy'
George," sometimes called McClellan, or as some •
-times said of him, a man who' bears the banner of
every disloyal man in the United*States. He would
make a capital engineer for a stationary power.
[Laughter.] But he is not the man to take the seat
of honest,. patriotic Abraham Lincoln, a states
man in everysense of the word.. [Load cheering.]
Somebody hall said; suppose McClellan had died
and been buried In Virginia, what flower would
sprung from 'his gravel ' The Virginia creeper.
['Uproarious • laughter.] A 'Yankee down Last'
said he tried to capture Richmond with his
base in Washington, and he is , trying to 'cap
ture Washington.wlth his base In :RichMond.
Horatio Seymour and.Vallandigham cannotcapture
Washington in that way. I have no political reeerd
that I will'not read before - my fellow-eitheas. When
I am ashamed of it I hope to sink Into the obscurity
of private life. •I speak. in behalf of the rights of
my !Now -citizens. I speak the sentiments of the
man who said that in times like this none Can be
neutral, and had he lived he would have said - "No
comprise with traitors P , . Rebellion cannot be put--
down by speechmaking, but it is well for us
to-night to pay our tribute.. of tears for those
who died for liberty. Of .those we may say
they died. in :'defence of liberty, fighting - the
battles which ytltt and .I are willing to fight when
the time comes:- We do not mean to settle this mat
ter ex the MeCiellanplatform, or the Seymour. plat
form. . We, mean to put down this- rebellion-!-we
mean to put it 'down in the best - way we know how.
• Fellow-Citizer4 there one thing in this' cam
.paign which is curious : McClellan was nominated
on the 29th of August ; nine days after that he came
out withhis, letter c and ,it cannot be, more than a
4 inine:dayti , . [Laughter.] 'lt took me
nine, years to getiny eyes open, and, by the grace 'of
God, Imo . = to keep them open. You and I moan to
see this battltiought out - stubbornly on this line,. if
,it takes itil whiter. We mean the flag whioh floats
over us' noW,"God willing, shall float over our
graves. you and • I would' rather to-night 'lay in
our graves, where our- sons and brotheralie, than
see the rebel rag - of 'Jeff Davis float over the soil of
YennsylVania. 'Not 'while we 'have the arms of
men—not while we have the• tongues of freemen,
shall" it ever lie. [Applause.]. Let you. and I
do our 'duty, ,even if we have to lie beside
the brave men who have made 'the ' fight for .us.
There are many things that are worse than war it
self, and these things ate 'slavery and the dishonor
of the nation. • [Cheers.] 1. say we had better sacri
fice the last , man r and the last dollar rather than
that we ehohld:le,ashamed to maintain that Decla
ration of Independence which says that all mensare
-born equal, maitre entitled to certain inalienable
rights, which are.life and the pursuit of happiness. ,
Vie do not understand the Declaration.of Indepen
dence as a glittering generality; we do not look at
that hag and write over it—" Whitt 'is all this
worthill No.! we write over the words—" Liberty
and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable "
" Forevertioat that standard sheet,•
• Where breathes the foe, but falls before us; • '
With.fzeedorn's roil beneath onr feet, ''
And freedom's banner waving o'er us.
We need not be afraid of these Copperhead en&
Jules of God and man. We are not afraid of them
in Jersey,,ivbere they are three to one. A man
whose arm Is nerved .fighting -for his country need
not fear the devil nor Jeff:Davis.. -We do not say,
"Our country right or wrong ;” we, say our country
:when she's right when she's Wrong we intend:
to make her right.' McClellan, instead' of fighting
the battle for you and I; instead of fighting for that
flag which is the symbol of nationality and liberty,
wrote a , sneaking- letter. to Judge Woodward, the,
man Who said that ' slavery is a blessing ; who said
that, to interfere with it was a crime, and who said
that soldiers had not a right to_ vote: [Groans for
Woodward.]"' I was told - ta day by a soldier, "Mr.
Seovell,.do not let thee-grasi grow under your feet.
The Army of" the Potomac will vote to a man
for * Abraham Lincoln." [Cheers.]., The
c opper-,
heads' 'cannot Tote after the 31st of August. When
Mr. >McClellan put on his kid gloves to write that
rosy letter of acceptance, which ought to bo read•in
a woman's boudoir,' he' thought he would catch a
few Republican votes. He has only succeeded in
losing a great many Copperhead-ones. [Applause.]
We understand this light • • means a fight tor
Abraham Lincoln against ' the devil and Jeff Davis,
and we know which is going 'to win. With your
help we do not even mean that poor God. forsaken Jer
sey shall go-for McClellan. We mean that even
New Jersey shall keep step to the music of-the
Union. There ' is nothibg that loyal men on God's
side and their country's side cannot accomplish.' '
The gentleman closed 'with a few additional re•
marks on the prospects of the coming election.
Speech of Ex•l4overnor Pollock.
I • cannot appear before this immense assembly
without giving my voice in support of its objects; I
see it has but.one 'and that is all—it is my country, -
first, last, and alfthetime. - I am, likeyon, for the,
maintenance of that country in its integrity. [Ap
plause]. When I see here before me this outpour
ing,,,this outhunting of the loyal men of Pennsylva
nia and of America, lam just as certain as the sun
rises and sets that the destiny of the country is in
flexibly determined by , the . people. I am certain
tht y-will, as they did four years ago, declare'Lin
aoln and Johnson President and Vice President of
the ~United States. Do we net yet consider Abra
ham Lincoln lit for the exalted position? Whathas he
done to lose the confidence of the American People 1
The Copperheads will tell you that he instigated'
this war. [Shouts' from the audience "They are
liars.a] Yee, fellow-citizens, it is a lie t a cowardly
lie I The liar wasforeed upon him by traitors and
knaves, and he mot it with the manhood that should
-alww-befeawato-a-Paesident of-the United-s . tatesa,„
-Ile has 'marshalled •his brave, andtrue, and - loyal
sons in numbers -sucyas the world never before
heard-OD-He hasgain , d victories through Generals
whose fame theaiages of history will vie in record—
ing.: And:Panight, upon the banks of the Potomac, •
no doubt, agrand victory has been gained,hringing
back under the flag of.our Union,territory that has
too long owned the despots and the trailer's rule.
And, away , oll.to Ate South, those noble men, Ear
raglit and Sherman, riaal'Gra.nt. in the ii lender of
their achievements. 'Prom Richufond to Mobile the
poweeal an " outraged nation 'is. felt, for military
leaders are the best peace commissioners. They
nail make for us a peace and' a compromise worthy
Of OUT.manhood.• They will make our Union once
again perpetual, once again a. nationality, one and
undivieible. [Applause.] To me the peace man is
-but a-coward. In what, does the peace cry and
treason differ? Let us look for it to the Chicago
platform. See what peace it would bring? l Not
.such peace, I am sure, •as that which repre
sents lawful authority—such peace! comes only
through war? . Shall the blood of hundreds
and thousands, as they propose, be shed in vain I,
Shall the money we have spent be for naught, be
cause the - Chicago platform prates peace in the
langbage of cowardly traitors Never, in the world !
No, no ! I have no words to.characterme that Con
vention or its platform. It in neither heart nor
soul is (Or the .Union; it never felt even the prompt
ings of love of country, and: believes nationality is
but a figment. He who observes it is ashamed of his
manhood; Is. ashamed of his 'country. That man
who can put faith in the candidates or the platform
of such' a convention and supportthem stubbornly
and steadfastly, striving to win for them the popular
approval, can be scarcely short of infamous. Now,
what can be said " of the position of Lincoln' and
Johnson? • Both of them are men, true and"
tried, for I know them' both, intimately and well.,
The 'country in their hands will be in the hands
of men honest, 'trustworthy, and able. • I-served
with Johnson for years in Congress. He is a
noble, self made, honorable, hardlisted man, who
has ised 'himself from the ranks of the .peca
pie, is stamped with their approval,, and bears
a love, a life.long loVe, to he cause of the
Union: Ho is a man who is known as one can
did, firm, and just, and the Union men of the
country have proved by the nomination of Abraham
.Lincoln and Andrew Johnson their desire to Oro
us a capable and true Executive. Who is McClel
lan Who is Pendleton? - I have no time to say a
word against the latter,.bu I do , desire to say a word
against the former. He is the hero of an armistice.
He fought the battle of Antietam, with the noble
Sumner, and the, noble general from Rhode Island,
till victory perched on the Union banners: When
the shattered columns of 'the rebels recoiled in de
feat ; when the broad Potomac lay between them
and safety; he anticipated their Chicago platform,
and gi anted Lee an armistice for twenty-four hburs.
Antietam, that field of glory s and of victory to the
nation, saw its splendor-pale under the armistice 'of
twenty-four hours. What were the rebels doing
during all this delay I. "Were they engaged in bury
ing their dead and taking care of their wounded. I
No ; undeethat armistice Lee's army was fiaing.on
the wings of defeat. They were stealing away
from the .grasp of the American soldier; . they
recrossed the Potomac and made ambushes and.
ambuscades on the opposite side. Friends of. the
Corn Exchange Regiment, what say ye ? When
that regiment advanced to cross ."that river into one
of those' ambuscades it fell. Many a brave man
was murdered, and their blood cries for vengeance
upon hint who 'made that armistice. [Loud ap
plause]. Oh,that I could raise my voice this night,
and point out to the 'universe these facts, writtell
upon the broad pages of American hietory 1 They
would tartoh-all, -,and us part:UM - Ay, to have .no
more arinistices and comprotaises with the enemies
of our country this war let us have no more
playinOataatariger or treating with rebellion, but
rather •Mt uvshake the strongholds of treason till
they totterao the round. " Accursed be the villain,
vrt mean coward; the vile traitor, who could stand
up, while the hands of assassins were seeking our
life- and - advise ,submission to outlawa by Crying
peace ! aNeier, never, for the sake of the coun
try ! McClellan; the hero of Antietam and- of
compromises, is the candidate of such men.
While our "battle-fings float o'er many a vie-,
-torlous - field, would that those valiant mol
diers ,could see the groat eight I now 'soc 7 --the
masses assembled outside this hall. And with ain't
a sight before me, we have no fears that their work
shall be undone, for we now know that practically
the American people are aroused. The platform re
pudiates the candidate, tho candidate repudiates
theplatfoim, and the - American people repudiate
both. [Laughter.] If McClellan cannot swallow
that platform, I think it will be a. .difacult matter.
for them to swallow both' candidate and platform.
It is refteshing to know that the minds of patriots
and citisens cannot understand peace, except for the
honor of thei'country, and that they, will' continue
'onward and forward in that path of glory, brilliant
- art bright as the 'sun at midday. Whdoan tell us
where the.hero candidate is for he does not in his
letter on the platform? Is "he looking to the North
.or is he looking , to dare South? Whore does ho
stand? , Not on , the platform. • [A voice : "He is .
under it."] Yes, I suppose the nominee is under it.
When it falls it will crush those who, are before it,
thOsewhO are upon it; and him who is under it.
Now, gentlemen, I desire to be "verybrief.' God
speed all in the cause of my country.' Never before
have I felt myself impressed so deeply as nowan
the presence of the American , people. We, have
our armies teal° battle in the field. They are beat;
ing down armed treason everywhere, and aro re
sit ring the supremacy and unity of our Govern- -
mane We have sneaking traitor sympathizers to
fettle with, who have met in solemn conclave to
select for themselves a candidate: They have secret
-eanizatiens whose end is to menace the existence
"e country and to further the ends of treason.
'mg arms, they threaten war in our country
is issue is determined. I, before Godabe
.l election of McClellan would be the de
s of the American Union. The character
COnvention which - nominated him may
umed when that bell-deserving traitor,
igham, rose and moved, in a way that
it with eternal infamy, that the norm-.
to made unanimous. - But is it unani-
The outburst here to-night,' of ten thou
ee citizens of Philadelphia, will say to
McClellan and Pendleton—" The Union must
and shall be preserved." The Union must be main
tained by war Ifnecessary, but at'all events it shall
be one of freedom, liberty, and truth. You, fellow
citizens, with the rest of the noble men of this
Union, have been always willing to support the Go-
VerDM ent in its stupendous undertaking—to willing
ly agree to its system of taxation—to pay all that
the country demands, and hundreds of, thousands of
others have given their service and even their lives
to preserve this Union for you and for me. There
are others—ne gro soldiers—in, thefield. Two hun;
dred thousand colored men are now in the - uniferm
of the nation, and with strong , hearts end arms are
battling. in, of the 'flag. The colored sol
diers demand the respect ofthe American Republic.
The soldiers are - alinghting the mean traitors .in
the field, while we at home musrcrush the sneaking
Copperhead,: who desecrates the soil upon which he.
treads,' 7 NUN tltOti . golltleilten, before I ava dim I
Jersey.
would wish this immense assembly to ,propane •to
make .a pledge. Shall we still ordain united'
Statesl Shall. our Union be preserved 1 Shall
treason be crushed 1 [" Yes, yes," froth •the audi
ence.] Shall McClellan be elected'? [Cries ofl'No,
no. ll ]
The Governor concluded by proposing 'cheers for
the ticket, tho general officers of the army and:na
vy, and the Union, one and inseparable. • '
The next speaker was Prof. Dunbar.
Speech of Prof. Dunbar.
The speaker was received with much enthusiasiii.
He said that he did not come to make a. speech upon
this occasion, though the temptation was very
strong. It was pleasant to be In the' midst of such
a patriotic and enthusiastic gathering. ' It was one
that he could not forget for, many. months. He
congratulated his audience on the general healthful
condition of the affairs of our beloved country ;
the general health .of Uncle Samuel, and the
prosperity of his children. [Laufhter and ap
plause.] Everywhere, with a few honorable ex
ceptions, the few loyal brethren who are incar
cerated in rebel prisons, our brave boys are doing
well. He congratulated his hearers on the recent
successes of the army, and navy—the gutting of
Mobile bay by old Farragut. [Applause.] The
prospects of the country were never more glorious.
Another subject of congratulation was the Vermont
election. This was especially gratifying as pre
saging a groat victory in November for Lincoln,
Johnson, and Liberty. • • , •
Mr. Dunbar then .sang,with:fine -effect, the new
campaign song called " The 11,nion' t Now and For
ever," which was received with great cheering.:
lie also sang "We are coming; :Father Abraham,
600,000 more," which was' enthusiastically received.
Lieutenant Letnuel F. • Reeves followed in a
spiated speech, and the meeting broke up at a late
hour.
Lettei• from lion. Richard Cobden.
Before the adjournment, Nr. Scovel read a letter
from lion. Richard Cobden, Who is one of our ablest
English 'friends. The letter is dated Medhurst,
Sussex, August,lB, 1864. It concludes as follows:
•
In common with all your friends and well-wishers
to the . Federal
cause in this country, I have been
looking with great solicitude to „the progress of the
war. -
There seems to be something in the modern de- .
velopment of• armaments which favors the defence
over attack. _Whichever eideris ?Irefetas aslant seems'.
to be pretty certain of milliccestfuT _This
must tend to prolong the war and make the issue
depend on the comparative strength of the resources
of the contending parties. In thts,struggle against
exhaustion the North• will be able to hold out the
longer.
My household here, who remember your pleasant'
apparition* a mong them,. join me in beet wishes for
your. welfare, and remain, •
Very truly yours,
• :- R. COBDILN.
THE SOUTHWEST STAND.
.
The ineeting'at• this stand was organized as fol
lows:-At, half past" 8. o'cilbek, 'sometime before the
ward associations • made their appearance in the
Equazo, Mr. J.F. Shelmire called the meeting to
order and nominated the following named officers,
who were accepted" with "great enthuslasin. : •
PRIMIDENT, .
A. 11..SLOANA'KF.12. .
VICK r RSBIDBSi T 6.
William E: Lehman, . I 3: Shrove,
J:
•:J. Orr,
Benneville, M. v.,
N,O. Reid,- M. IL, I ;Dr.H.!Ward. •
A. Hawkins,
..; • -
81101MAIRIES.
&AIM S.-Thomas,'A:l R. Underdown,
James Porter, , D. Shourds.
F. Bickerton, • ,
The President's Speech.
On taking the chair, Mr. Sloanaker, as presiding •
officer, delivered a brief address, as follows :
Far. Low CITIZENS: No ordinary events have no-.
titled you to assemble, nor 'ordinary clitumstances
have convened .you, • nylon this hallowed spot.
Another of the .periods in human affairs which con
stitutes part of our political history has transpired,
and, summoned by.the moral emergency from their
usual vocations, the people Wife congregated here
to-night !upon the eve of another Presidential elec
tion, to take order upon that which so intimately
affectithem and the nation. I shall not detain you
longer, my friends, thanla express my appreciation
of the position conferred upon me of presidency
over a meeting. of 'Unionists, convened to declare
their intention to - uphold the Government, to sus
•tain and support the Constitiition and the flag of
the United States, by re-electing Abraham Lincoln'
to the Presidency. [Loud applause.] We have
fallen, iindeed, on treublous times. Rebellion is
abroad, and still the peace-at-any-price Deinocracy
attempts tq overthrow the GoVernment erns consti
tutional war Measures, and it is for you, for us, to
say by our ballots at the •coming election, as our
brothers are saying by their bullets and bayonets in
the 'field, that the work that has been'made shall
stand. [Renewed applause.] ;Yes, stand it will,,ln
spite of the rebellious traitors and their Northern
53 mpathieers of. the Vallandigham. Wood, and
Reed school - of Democracy. Thank heaven that by
the experience of this rebellion I now look upon a
multitude that knows none of the old or former
party. divisione—no Whigs, Demoerats, er Republi
cans. We are all Americans,- and , for the Union.
[Great applause.] There is no party but the Union.
The 'only distinction now, Until' this contest - shall
be settled, till order shall be established and the
rebellion crushed, is that ofloyal citizen and partisan
traitor. Fellow-eitizenk, , there is a' thought or two
that flashes .through .nry mind, and to Which I now
desire to draw your attention. Previons to this re
bellion there was a. political' power in this country
that ruled with a rod of iron. I was under the Influ
ence of it, I admit, and so were you. 'We never
'dared even to dispute its-supremacy. Slavery, then,
was not a question of political economy, bat a ques
tion of political power, and we all, coward. like,
shrank before it. That day Mut passed in loyal
America. [Cheers.]. The white Men offthe North
:have beememancipated;:and wealth-anew-a:Lyle the
world that this great and. proud Republic, though,
bleeding. and torn, shall come out of thislearful coif
test like a •goddess, disenthralled, with , ti crown of
freedom upon her brow.= My oountrymenoiur path'
of duty is plain; let us finish the work.'We have
so nobly begun, which can only be : done by
electing Lincoln • and Johnson, and • thus 'surely
advance the standard of liberty. ' [applause.] I'
have from the beginning of these troubles held but
one faith, which r hope is in common with yours, it
being the duty of all citizens. I have stood by the
constitutional authorities in the exercise of alt its
constitutional functions. I have given to the Presi
dent all the aid, material and moral, that was in my
humble.povter to do, to enable him to administer the
Government over which he presides, and, preserve it
for his successor with all' its rights and powers un
impaired; and • I shall continue, with the help of
God, in common with you, to do so to the end. Let
us take the Constitution for our guide, and the pre
set vation of the Union, with all its "precious bless
ings, as the end, and we will labor on, and hope on,
trusting and believing that a beneficent Providence
. will yet have mercy and rescue our beloved country
from impending perils, and restore peace and happi
ness to its distressed and suffering people. Fellow
citizens, I again thank yeti for the honor you have
done me, and will now proceed, in conformity with
my duty, to introduce the orators of the evening.
Mr. Sloanaker retired amid rounds of applause. •
After the President had finished his speech he In
troducedll Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald to the vast audi
ence as a War Democrat, who preferred country to
party. [Applause.]
Mr. Fitzfgerald's Speecl6.,.
Mr. Fitzgerald said he had come to listen, not to
talk, but he would not decline the invitation to say
a few words in behalf of a cause so near his .heart.
Every War Democrat in the land resolutely sup
ported the Administration, because they believed
that Lincoln, and Seivard, and Stanton, and Welles,
and Butler, and Grant. and Sherman,' and' Sheri
dan, and Farragut, were doing all in their power to
keep the glorious old flag aloft, and preserve the in
tegrity of the Union. These great mon had the
confidence of a verylarge majority of the people of
the country, and if they could not put the rebellion
down, mo set of men could. [A. voice—" That's so"]
Judge the Administration. by what. it has accom
plished. Mr. Lincoln found the country beggared
by the thieves and traitors who surrounded. poor
old Buchanan—the weakest and vainest, and mean
est of all our Presidents. That's right, give him
fits !"] The treasury bad been robbed of its last dol
lar—the ships of the navy had been scattered to the
four corners of the earth—all sorts of thefts had
been perpetrated in the name of the War -Depart
ment—the army had been tampered with, and a
majority of 'the officers had broken their oaths and
become traitors to their country—traitors to. the
country which had educated, fed, clothed, and ho
nored them. The history of the world does not' fur
nish instance of blacker turpitude.. [" Good 1 .1 All
the departments of the Government were filled with
traitors. The bottom of the ship of state had fallen
out, and " chaos had come again.” We had not
a plank to stand on. The.-night was dark—the
waves ran high—horrible noises assailed our mas—
a blinding sleet filled our eyes ; indeed, we had 'al
most lost faith in ourselves ; for a: moment we doubt-.
ed the justice of God. Matters were as bad- as bad
could be, when Abraham Lincoln name upon:the
'scene. [" Three cheers for Old Abe !"] That's right,
my friends, cheer him heartily. He Is worthy of
yqur confidence and your love; for a braver, a purer,'
a more single-minded, a more conscientious Demo
crat never presided in the White House. Not many
days have passed - since he Cold me that he would
cheerfully resign his office and go back to his little
home in:Springfield; if, by stndoing, he could brit*
peace to our distracted country. .-[" Ged bless WO
Three cheers for Old Abe. , l Butefellew
as I was saying, when' this man,-so:fairly eleCted,
„entered the White House, the , country was gone,
."hook and iine, root and . branch," There was no
••navy, no treasury, no army; no. guns arid munitions
• U war with which to light treason. The Southern
wing of the Democratic party had plotted for thirty
Fears, and their monstrously wicked scheme had
ripened, and it looked like success. What did these.
Democratic leader's propose to aocomplishi Nothing
leis ;than the overthrow of Liberty, by. destroy
ing the Republic, and foundiog upon its,ruins
a vast slave empire. Now. I, as an old Demo
crat, know something of the Democratic` party, and
I tell yon, my friends, that there is no greater ty
ranny to-day than the lash of that party. Dare to
step out of the ranks, and that lash cuts to the bone.
Dare to question the utility U a certain measure,
and every hound in the party is let loose to hurry
you into subjection and acquiescence. Ask my
friends Dan. Dougherty; or N. B. Browne, or lienf.
IL Brewster, or any of the thousands of honest De
mocrats who dared, in an hour of darkness and.peril,
to•forget party and stand up for their country, If
these things are not so? These men are pursued
with malignity—even little boys are set on' to scoff
and jeer at them in the streets. Well, it was this
Democratic party—the Southern wing of it—aided
by Northern leaders—["Name thenel . Why, any
child can do that. Where are your Seyrnoure 1 One
of, them—he of New York—a false-hearted, disloyal
knave [":true as preaching!"] elected Governor of
the Empire State as a ,war Democrat, yet false to
- every profession from the hour of his election. A
traitor who makes speeches "as false as dices'
oaths.”—epanderer to the scum of New York—zi;
plausible scoundrel, viho calls thieves and murder
erehis "friends:',' Then tehre are the Woods, and
Brooks, of the Express, and that vulgar demagogue
Vallandigham, and Harris, and Long, and .weak
kneed Bigler, and Reed, and Ingersoll, and Whar
ton—eine Democrats, these—and a host of smaller
fry. [" Quite right, nuff oed."} L say this. Demo
cratic party that precipitated the rebellion •and
the leaders-of this party in the" North, are )daily
chargeable with all - the anxiety, • and:. tot
and anguish, and . treasure, and bleed cause
by the rebellion. To" say that the 'Abolition
ists causedthe war is to - utter a lie. = The Abolition'.
fats were in aeontemxtible rnindrity, and !without
power. The slavehol ers were united, strong, and
insolent. When they cracked their . hips not slaves
alone trembled 'and obeyed, but white men in the
free Nortffinoved with alacrity to do their behests.
This state of things had existed for more than half
a century, during all which time the South—the
slave drivers—had goierned the • ; Country, held all
the dikes; dispensed, all the patronage of the Go
vernment; and.these slave-drivers had becothe so .
bold, so exacting, so defiant, that It seemed' as if
riot and anarchy must ensue. They armed them
selves with bludgeons and pistols, and occasionally,
when a Northern man differed from them in opi-
Dion, heNvas shot down in the streets, or beaten al- •
most toldeath in the Senate Chamber.' Well, this
war, brought on us by theleaders of the Democratic
party, is' in its fourth year, and we can congratulate
ourselves that it is pretty near its close. As I have
said, the country was at death's door, 'but the
people took heart. • The North rose as one man,'
and put on its .armor ;honest Democrats came
out IrOM ,the ranks of party_ and.said : "Ootun
tty first , portY afterwards;" new, govertimen':
tal •maebinery. , was .improvised ; Mr. -Lineora ap:
joiritedrakilful and faithinl engineers ; and a
.great financial oyster= we'S devised;:al; ar m y cit
FOUR,. CENTS.
a million of min was raised. MreWells created
• a navy as. if by magic, and, with an apitaidef that
filled the old world with astonishment .and adadra
lion,.the North resolved to make warits business'
until treason and rebellion should be drivereback;
into their native hell! ' [ee voice--" why hell?"].
Because the trat'great rebel now presides in hell,
where he ppatiently but confidently awaits the com
ing of Alf Davis and his Northern friends ! (Laugh.
ter aad applause:] The• job has. been a big one
'very large—but It is nearly over, and it would have
been finiehed two years ago, but for the extent of
tell:lit:4y over which we have been compelled to
fight,:': 'Well, now that this monstrously wicked re
hellion, this Wine which stinks in their-nostrils of
the world, has been punished almost unto death, the
rebels, as their liat hope, undertake, with the aid of
Northern Democrate, to defeat the loyal people of
the North in their choice of President. They otter,
us as their man, running on their eilatform, backed
up by their candidate for the Vice Presidency,elajor .
General George B. McClellan. The General tells. I
us that, his voice is still 'for war! We know thee
Mr. Pendleton, makes it his boast that he never
voted a dollar to the Support of war! The
favors an armistice ! Do they think the people are
fools Wee there ever such Inconsistency Could
absurdity go further? Now, I, like General
McClellan, am . for war a until every . rebel
lays down his arms, an comes again under
the protection of the Constitution and the nag, but
Mr. Lincoln is a good enough-war man for me. He
is extremely obnoxious to the rebels; and that is ar
gument enough. When Gen: McClellan had an
opportunity, with an - army -of _175,060 men, he did
not enter heartily upon the enterpriae-ehis leader.
ship was for the most part a failure, and it is:greatly
to his discredit now that he is , surrounded and con
trolled by the worst men in the countty-eDem o- crats, whose highest ambition is to be metered. eo
place and: power. The traitors at. Niagara Falls,,
wbo arranged the Democratic platform, and pro
cuted the nomination of the General, wsuld not sna.,
ter Mtn to have his own way,'if "he were disposed to
be 'honest and ' patriotic. The 'Anianences. which •
warped and cowed the old Public Functionary would
straightway teke poseession of him, or they Would -
remove him as they removed Harrison and Taylor,
andes they attempted to remove Pennsylvania's fa
vorite son ! If. McClellan should- prove obstinate,
Pendleton would be found subservient and eupple•
enough. Now; the best Way to'prevent all trouble .
on this point is;to rally. for Lincoln and Johnson.
We know those' men • we have tried, them , and can
trust„them. Should ' poison, or disease'and death'
oveithke Mr.- Lincoln, we .have..a. sure Man e ,.
a" soiled • patriot and a noble exemplar
that man of the people—Andrew Johrfson. •
I"Three cheers for, glorious:. Andy MI You can-.
not put faith in McClellan: - Ho has always
, been, and is, a pro-slavery man, a Southern sym.
pathizer. When the •rebellion broke out, he was
classed with the War. Democrats; but, owing to bad
Influences, or to incompetencyehe failed to satisfy..
the judgment and expectations of the country, and
he was removed. Mark you, I do not call him a
traitor, or a coward, but I do ,most religiously be--
neve be would, if elected, assent to a disgraceful •
peace, because, as Lhave said; he is -surrounded by
bad men, whose influence would . lead him astray.
The General is Young, weak, without experience in:
State affairs, and his vanity is. excessive. Witness ;
his letters and his bulletins from the battle-field.
Greatness has been thrust upon him. Ho does not
deserve the. rank he holds. In Western Virginia,.
his victories were won by Rosecrans. lam not sure
that he was ever under tire in his life. When'with
the Army of the Potomac, his career was anything
but fortunate for his reputation and for his Country.
Resolve was defeated by hesitancy, victory was fol
lowed by retreat, opportunity was sacrificed by
ttnildity. 'When he was in command, aye, and long
after he had lost the confidence of the nation, I clung
to Leto, and plead his cause because I believed that
he possessed military merit, but: I am now com
pelled. to, say .that we have never known a
greater failure: ' Balls' 'Bluff Munson's Hill,
Manassas, Yorktown,West Point, Williamsburg,
Chantilly, Malvern, Harrison's Landing, settle
his claim to military renown. He may be a
gcod engineer. I der not say he is not; . but
he cannot command an army to success. At
Antietam he might have demolished and captured
Lee's army, but, as at Malvern, constitutional
timidity overcame him and he grasped nothing.
At'tbe cloeq of the day at Antietam Burnside .went
to him and said, "General, give me 'Fitz John
Porter's reserve of. thirty thousand men and I will
make short work of Lee and" his army." " What do
you think, Fitz 1" interrogated McClellan, White
kidded Fitz who had not smelt powder during the
day, gently shook his perfumed head, and McCled
lan said " no." This is the man that Jeff Davis,
and Lee, and Vallandigham, and Long, and Wood.
' and Reed, and Ingersoll would make President of
the United States. Fellow-citizens, I am a,gainst
him, and I confidently believe that tons of thou
sands of life long Democrats, like myself, are against
him. I have nothing but contempt and loathing for
the men who would pull down 'the seared temple of
liberty, that a. slave empire might be erected in its
stead. In this great struggle I care nothing for
men, excepting as they embody and Illustrate the
beneficent principles of civil' and religious liberty.
The men who are against traitors and slavery, - and
in favor of law and order, shall have my vote and
support. 'We hear a great deal -about military'
arrests, and the -suppression .of free speech, and
the surpension of the habeas corpus, and
lazy Interference with elections, but what does it
amount to? Have any of you been arrested? r; No,
sir-e.e.") Assuredly not; and why? Becanze,you
have not talked treason against the Government
which has so securely protected you. • " We that
have free souls it touches us not: let the galled
jade wince, our withers are unerring." And they .
talk of the frightful expensesof this war againet
- treason, and complain of necessary taxation.
Why, gentlemen, if this war should cost a thousand
millions of lives, and all the real and personal
property in the world, it will still be cheap, if we
keep our country sacred to the cause of freedom.
'Why, these traitorous leaders do not know the peo
ple. How, can they, when they never feel the public
pulse Now, lam of the people ; I mix with them ;
I know their fears, theiroys, habits, tastesedeatres,
and I say with that "noblest Roman of, them all,"
Andrew Jackson, [tumultuous cheers for Jackeon,]
that the people are honest and patriotic. They may
be misled for a time, but give them time to; think,
and the sober• second thought will be, "Union and
-liberty, one andinseparable,nowand forever e e. Sal
an Irishman to me the other day, "I came hero
- peer and friendless. I came from a land of oppres
aion to one of liberty, where I could worship God
'after the manner of my fathers, with no one to
make •me afraid. I have been industrious and
ecoroinical, and I have become rich. . I. own
that house,' and that, and that, and that, and
I have other property; but, as God is my judge, I
Would yield rather than see this country bro
ken-up, as it certainly will be, if treason is not
crushed out by the strong hand of military 'power,
under this Administration. "We must stand up re
solutely," said he, "for Stanton and' Grant. and
Sheridan, and the other great men ' of the nation.
We must them our voices and votes, and men
and money, and all will be well. Why," continued
this'patriotio Irishman, "the Copperheads talk of
the expense of this war, and the debt we are piling
up, as if money could be set up, for a moment,
against the eternal principle 01 freeedom ! After
the war is over we'll astonish. these fellows by the
ease with which we will pay our debt !" So speaks
one of the people,and these sentiments animate
Millions of breasts—men who - have come from all
quarters of the globe to find prosperity and safety
in the land of the tree and the home of the brave.
Let us resolve to do our duty, and the republic will
be safe from pretended friends and open enemies.
[Cheers.] -
Speech of Mir. ThOnsas J. Worrell.
Mr. Thomas J. Worrell was the neat speaker.
He said that on the night previous he had made a
visit to the Continental Theatre, in order to see hoW
the Democrats would reconcile the letter of General
McClellan accepting his nomination with the Chi
cago platform. One'speaker announced that Mc-
Clellan was an unconditional war man, and would
fight the war out to the bitter end, at which the
Democrats cheered vociferously. Soon after another
speaker said that. McClellan would stand on the
Chicago platform, and was a peace man ,• at which
the Democrats also cheered. Mr. Worrell said that
ho was never so disgusted in his life. The Democrats
made a great outcry against arbitrary arrests. He
the speaker, too, thought that they were wrong, fck
instead of-being sent to Fort Lafayette, the Copper
heads ought to have been hung as high as Haman.
The speaker, referring to the present. lights of the
Democracy, said that only the other eek Ingersoll
said that if Judge Woodward had been elected in
October. the States of New York, New. Jersey, and
Pennsylvania would have fallen babg on their State
rights, and set the Government at defiance. And
now this "tyrant," this "despot" Mr. Lincoln, has
not arrested Mr. Ingersoll. He is too small game
for that. The Democratic party threaten, in
case Mr. Lincoln is- reelected, -to revolt. This
is a direct subversion of the popular rule,
that the • majority should govern. If the op
position to - the Republican party had united
four years ago they could easily have defeated Mr.
Lincoln. That was not their object, however. They
wanted to dissolve the Union and set up a separate
government, and desired a pretext for revolt. It is
all very well to say that McClellan is a war Demo
crat. He is bound hand and foot to the Chicago
platform. If elected he would be compelled to recog
nize the political independence of the South. How
long after that, with its • aristocratic associations,
would it take to make a monarchy. of the South'?
But we will never permit our countryto be dividrad
to serve the purposes of despots and tyrants.
The president then introduced CoL
Maurice, who recitedthe following adiniralile poni.
VICTORY
What mean the mighty pealingi dross the Northern
hills?
What means the grand Illisierting, as with electric
As though a million clarions, pent up with thunderous
sound,
h s r , o i l c ir l a t
u hr i o r u o g o l u lhe barrier walls and changed the
4 77214ince all-this grand upris.thr this joy among the
free?
What news' from hill • and valley? what tidings from
the sea ?
Oh wire 3 that with burnings, what message comes
to-day,
To kindle such rejoicings along the nation's way?
See, where. the shadows rested as with a deadly pall,
On city, town, and hamlet, in high and lowly halls.
Now shines a new-born glory, DOW rolls the welcome
cry,
And not a cloud is ling.ering to darken on the sky.
Oh stars that gleam's° brightly, what do ye see solgrand?
Why all this mighty tumult that sweeps across the
land?
The rills down to the rivers go singing with new .joy !
The valleys seem to nestle some boon witlipat alloy.
What answer from the Northern hills ! what smith the
. stir, ing deep?
What' is the giant hand hat wakes a nation from its
• sh SP ?
Who forged this wondrous clamor? What Master of
the keys
Ras poured a mighty choral on every Northern breeze
The mighty tocsin rolls its tide far up the granite hills!
.Vermont shakes at the tidings and sends her answering
• aril:et
Down in the piney forests the lumbermen of Maine .
Lai down the axe and lever and join the mighty strain.
Hark to the:hells of victory ! hark to the chrystal chime!
And all ye people listen—a melody sublime!
The star of ariumph glistens; now.on the golden page
Are valorous deeds recorded—the grandest of the age. •
.
Within our southern borders one hien and. hand tO-diY
To free the world forevermore is welcoming the fray:
How bolds he to the iron wheel! how looks he but be
..
. fore!
Till Victory is the watchword on every hill and shore.
How marsh the serried columns on.to the bloody strife,
Where many a brave, trnehearted one shall leave his
noblelife;•
•
Rot long, shall treason battle, not long their 'ensign
Haunt
For rebel bands 'that dared before Ira palaiti,b):
GRANT !
••
Bow glorious Is the music of Victory's goldeirstrain!
All honor to the chieftain Who fills the land again;.,
A o I,ridoes for rdreating- - our work is all ahead ••!' •
And so the hero pushes on o'er heaps of .5.1an . .1 and
• dead. - '
. • „
A nation's thanks to all the brave—the living and the'
dead
-Who thrill the mighty nation with Victory's golden
tread:
An bail the good old banner, soon glorious ag: of yore!
yes, soon the mighty ensign shall float from. shore to
shore!
_ At the conclusion Colonel Maurice proposed three
cheers for the authoress, which wore loudly given.
Colonel Maurice then gave a poetical sentiment,
the burden_ of which was, "For our Union, right or
wrong." - •
Hon. Leonard Myers' SpelOh;
Hon. Leonard Myers was next introduced. He
said • • • .
MY FELLOW-CITIZENS : It WoUld at alf.ttmee be
difficult for me to be hard by this vast audience,
and I shall especially ask your indulgenoe, having
just come from a sick bed to attend the meeting. I
am not able to, be here, but I felt that whtre the
.cause of, the Union was• advocated there it was my
duty te. be, Fiaye you heard the heel fgeth
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I ca lip Mobile: •I am here for the Chief Magistrate
eir, t , .peo_Ple; Abraham Lincoln, now, as four years
N I
Aii:. e choice'of the people. We are upon the eve
. o r 2 .,
~ n est; important. Presidential contest. Upon
this coMAt Union or Disunion depends. An un
sought a' iStice ought to bring the blush of shame
to our lafest . posteritY. Mr. Seward, in his late
speech, scSti •if you vote out Mr. Lincoln now, you
defeat the '' , 4ry object of the war. They have pre
vented AbritiaM .I.46olnfroln to ti li the President
of the whole American people: We have repos
sessed a itumt\er •of•forts and arsenals, and have
driven them beck acre by acre and State by
State. and we '. are now going to make hint
the President of the whole American. people.
I want to ask you - ',10.N are against Mu. Lincoln and
our cause today . l ne.re are some trite men against
him, and we want to ackwince them they are wrong;
the despots of Enrope - are against him : the London
Times, the organ of tha aristocracy, is 'against him;
.lefferson Davis, the Richmond Examiner, and NAL
landigham'aro against him ; Voorhees is against
bin), as he left his seat in Congress, I trust
Eget - 13'W disgrace it. The twin brothers in iniquity.
Hen andPornando Wood, aro against him, re-echo
.• the Sentiments of the Richmond papers. Who '
else are against General George U. hleClellan,.
who, whin .in the army, was proud' to recol—
lect his 'Satire State and native city, but
now, who is General McClellan of New Jersey!
It Is said he,has partially kicked orer the platform_
While thatmay be so, in words he has accepted the
nomination and runs with Pendleton, who is against
the soldiers, and who, if ever these men should be
elected, and any accident happen to George'lt. Mc- •
Clellan, would be, the President of the United.
States. '
—I had the pleasure of conversing with Old Abe
_Lincoln yesterday about this meeting, and his eye
:kindled us I spoke of,it. Ile has no fears of - Els elec
tion. WIM are in favorof 'Abraham Lincoln? As
I-entered the square saw' a transparency at the
McClellan club, "No-foreiblea,belition of slavery."
What do, they mean? • Do they mean to say that
when, yourrelattves and mine are fighting, against
an enemy we shall not take all power away from that
enemy? They,talb about being opposed to the forcible
abolition 'if siavery. Why, not long ago, two-thirds of
thmSenate amended' the Constitution •so 'as to for
- everProhibit'slavery.• In the House of Representaa
tives; when''it was moved to pass this resoluticin,
• Pendleton 'Toorkees; and othersj of these men, pre
thelT• of, this resolution. This was not
b
fezq eigleb tivas peaceable , and these men*
are . opposed* to it. - Thenniffering masses of .down
trodden Europe are in favor of electing Abraham
Lincoln. The masses of this country who believe In
..the great charier of liberty handed down to us; the
lriadsills of the North, If you like to call them so,
they are in favor of electing him. The soldiers are
...in favor' of him. TiMre is a man on the ticket with,
him, true amongst the false, a representative of all
that is true and loyal amongst Southern men, Andy
Johnson. [Great cheering.] Peace on any terms '
"-means an assumption of all the Southern debt, that
they shall have their slaves again. It means, :.
' as Grant says in his letter, that we are to become
•slave-hunters 'again. They Bay we have offered no ,
terms ; let us see : Gen. Jackson, in 1832, said, warn- .
•
ingly, to his fellow citizens of Sauk Carolina, " Dis
union by force of arms means treason." What are
'Lincoln's terms lie has said to them, "Corse
back with all your rights," and slave property was
among them, and they all spurned his invitation.
Time advanced, and money was spent and bloat
was shed, and he said "Come back with compen
sated .emancipation, ,, and they didn't come bank;
and ho then issued that proclamation which stands
next to the Declaration of Indpendence, the great
proclamation of freedom, announcing that that
curse which had brought about this war should be •
wiped out forever; and ' , for one am opposed to al
lowing it to blot our escutcheon again. Jefferson'
'Davis has' reiterated again and again that he will
have no talk or argument except upon the basis of
dismemberment. What does armistice 'mean ? It
means that for the time the blockade shall cease,
that the South will 'have an opportunity of roan
peratimg her exhausted. strength ; that the Ala
bama be seen on . the ocean she shall not be stink.
The South is in the grasp of her rulers. Jefferson
Davis and the other leaders of rebellion could
never take their seats , in the United States Senate,
and they would have to - fly to other countries, and.
men would spit upon them as they passed by them.
They want to be the men who can strut about upon
high salaries, and they will sever agree upon terms.
There is a threat of revolution if we interfere by
military power in the election. 'What does that
'threat mean? It meats that in the border States,
in Maryland, Tennessee, and Kentacky, where.
there are plenty of rebels, yet if knowing a man
going to vote to be a rebel, and we raise our, voice
against it and require' him to take a test oath, that
they will rise in revolution. I would like to sea them
try it. It wouldn't last as long as the riots in Now
York, generated. as they wore, by Seymour, who pre
sided at the Chicago Convention. There is In the (./ hi
cogo platform a 'catch for the soldiers' vote. It is to.
the effect, when we get into power we will be kind
- to the soldier r not much stronger than that. It was
agreed in the Senate of Pennsylvania that men of
thellnion party in Congress should be instructed
to use their efforts to increase the payer the soldiers_
and every. Democrat voted no on the resolution,
and it stands a blot upon their record. It was then
moved to put to a vote of the people the question
of allowing the soldiers to vote, and every Demo
crat except one voted 'against it. When the ques
tion came for the people to vote upon it, who voted
against the amendment? In Berks andother De- ,
*mocratio counties the Democrats voted egain.stahe
soldier who they are going to protect when they net •
'into office. Democracy in our day is a sham. Re
public.anisin means democracY, the right of the peo
ple to express , themselves without fear of threat or
revolution. .
Hopi. F. B. Peniiiienn's Speech.
. .
Hon. Mr. Penniman, of Wayne county, Pa,, WM
next introduced. Hassid: '
- FELLOW-01T12iiliS : In addressing you this eve
ning I shall appeal to the reason rather than to the
passion, to judgment rather than imagination, to
the instinct rather than to self-interest. My apolo
gy, if 'any be needed to-night, must be found in the
gravityof passing events, evens which have desola
ted the fairest portion of the Republic ; which have
. put upon the shoulders of our people a heavy debt,
—and • thrown .thousandß of families, into, mourning....
I will speak to-night of the causes of the rebellion,
and of the means of suppressing it; and first of its
causes.. Who brought it on I For sixty years of my
lifetime, the Democratic party has been the only .
party 'which had control of the destinies of this re
.public, and so far as the condition of the republic
is concerned, every otherparty can put in and prove
an
The old Whig party, to which I Claim to have be
longed, never had control of both legislative and
executive departments of the Government at one
time, and never had it had control of the judiciary.
They never held the Legislature concurrently with
any other branch except upon one occasion, and
that only for about two weeks. They have been.
entirely -excluded by the .Democratic party,
and- whatever right has been impugned of
any citizen or of any State of the Union ' that
right has been impugned by the Democratic party.
Tell me, fellow-citizens, was Jefferson Davis ever
suspected of being a Whig? He belongs to a party
that has for a lifetime controlled the destinies of this
nation, and he was as active as any man in it. The
men who conceived the rebellion are Democrats,
and if they are in revolt on account of any Kriev
ances done by the Administration, they are in re
volt on account of their own actions. Suppose Mr.
Greeley entertained and promulgated sentiments
objectionable to the South, what right had
they to complain of that 1 Had they aay
'right to deny the freedom of speech and the
liberty of the press 1 The Democratic party
hare always deported themselves as though- they
bad a right to win at a-Presidential election, and as ,
though they had a right to 'construe the Constitu
tion.; but I say they Eaves become drunken with their
successes, and they, have said that every man who.
did not agree with them was a traitor, and the'great-
Republican party, four years ago, had a temerity of
the Democratic party. They told us that if we car
ried the election there would be a revolt in the South,
just as they tell you to-day, -that if you. succeed at
the next election there will be a revolt in the North
ern wing of the Democratic party. ~ U p where I
live, all the Democrats, while professing to have
a love for the soldiers, every man of them
voted against the soldiers having the right to vote.
They tell you if you don't let 1110 rebel regiments
from Maryland,. Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennes
see come to the ballot-box unchallenged, and de
posit their votes at the election, they will revolt.
They mean that the soldiers of the Republic shall
be disfranchised, but that every rebel soldier should
have the riaht to express his opinion.
The leaders of the Democratic party. are, mostly,
no foola ; they are men of large experience and great
energy. - -
There are many inlets to anarchy—there is but one.
outlet, and that Is by putting a crown on the head
of a military leader. The history of Europe and of
the Caucassian race all, the world over, demon
strates that fact, and we must be careful how we
allow any headway to he given to anarchy. Four
years ago the American Union challenged the ad
miration of the whole - 'world. We now know how
much we awed birope by our power, and how mach
they feared us. Their fear is the measure of our sae-
MS.
And how as to the means of suppvif;ging the res
bellion and restoring the.Untn. McClellan, it l&
said, hot being able ti.!. sake Richmond with Washing
ton_ as " 141 "',..n0w propose to take Washington with.
'A ierug'.'end as'his base. If Davis could have made a
. piatiorn3 could he not have made just such a platform.
as that made at Chicago I Is the North prepared •
to succumb to the diameniberment of the republic I
What does Jefferson Davis demand? He demands
that we shall withdraw our armies inside our ow
territory, that is this side of Mason and DisO l sr
line; that we shall withdraw our navy from the
points of blockade, occupation, and threatened at
taok; and that then he will treat with us.
,[The speaker was.here interrupted by the arrivals
of-a number of ward delegations, headed by a band
If youlook at the map of the country I evil
that you can find no natural barriers; no divisioa
lines that God has made for the separation of two
governments. Look at our rivers; see how they all
tend to the Gulf. I imagine you would not allow
the keys of the Delawase to pass out of your pOs
sessiOn, and yet. these men propose to cede to Jeff
Davis the keys of the Mississippi. I would as soon
cede to my enemy the keys of the front door of my
house. The idea that the opening of the Mississippi
Should be given to an enemy is just as ridiculous,- I
would as soon oede to Jeff 'Davis our own Alleghe
nies as the Mississippi. There are no Alps, no Ap
penines, no -Rhine, no Amazon. There is no natu
ral barrier. Suppose you divide, what do yon
find 1 Perpetual discord. We are able to settle
this question ; we will settle it. Will we not ? Upon,
what principle 1 [A voice, War ! ,, j Well, gentle
men, war. In my youth I heard a gentleman speak
ing to a peace society upOn the beauties lit' peace.
Be teserdied how improvements in art eV'" - . con- •
sten tly being made, and how all the elements of
national prosperity were developed, ho. When he
had got nearly through, he said, after all, fellow- , -
citizens, it is sometimes necessary to fight. The people
of the mighty North' are just in that - predicament:
,There is no outlet to peace but the battle-field. Ypu.
have, first, General illcOlellan's letter of acceptance,
in which he propounds his idea for the perpetuation
.ofthe Republic, and on the other hand you have the
:Baithnore Convention and the acceptance
'et Abra haul' Lineeln. I look upon rao
ter as an improvement on the Chicago platform.
Be says he proposes to fight it out. I don't propose
to go into ,any.lnquiry of, how long it will take him.
to do: that, judging. from his past career, but I re-
Spect him nevertheless for it.- Ho -Proposes to re
m oro,the 'Union- with slavery, in it. and you don't
want it restored in that way. (Cries of "No,
no WitiL.regard to the emancipation precis.-
niation, -that -is -a matter for the courts to de
terniine ; whatever the court says on the subject,
;I" as . one and you 'as others . will stand -by.
;ball bow to the decision of the court.. The speaker .
`here remarked that while he confessed he had been
-amongst those who were,:by an English paper, just-:
ly styled crazy-haters of the negro, he stood here'
'to stand up for she manliness with which the negro •
:had stood up for the old flag. [Great .cheering.j
There are 200,000 bricks tonight under Old Abe.' by'
there a man here who. would like o t send them beak
to their 'tyrants and oppressors? . The question of
slavery has been the bone of contention between the
two sections, and why not just abolish:the bone F.. 1
see signs on the Southern.horizon, like yolierockets
here to-night, of ?victories . in progress—victories de-
Chive and .coneluelie. Itrust, before we come to the
ballot...box in November' we will stand a. united, free,.
and b.appy people. [Gieat applause.l .
Speech of fpfr-•.fOhio. E. Latta.
,
. • .
Dir. John E. Lattafollowed. He would not ad
dress the assembled multitude, as pat tisans, but' as
patriots. This was no time to talk of polities.. The
time for such discussion has gone by. When st
have again a blessed' peace, it will then . ' be
proper to discuss party measures. Almoitt. with
in the sound of the speaker's voice lived those.
who had spoken treason. on these very sacred.
grounds. The only men In the North who
are opposing the Administration of Mr. Lincoln
ere-.descendents of the Tories of- the Havolution.
The traitor, the alistOctrat, and the rebel are tug