RATES OF ADVERTISING-.
Your lines or less constitute half a square. Ten lines
more than four, constitute a vci - uare.
aq., one day.— $-) 30 One ,q., use $0 60
one week.. 1 '2O ! osq. cek 200
" one month.. 303 I " one month.. 600
" three mouths 5 0 " three moat ha 10 00
" six m mths.. 800 " six months.. 15 00
" one year..... —l2 00 one year —2O 00
Business notices inserted in the LOCAL COLUMN,
or bet „e marriages and deaths, TEN CENTS PER LINE for
each iasertion. To merchants and others advertising
by the year, liberal terms will be offered.
10 — The number of insertions must be designated on
he advertisement.
It 7 Marriages and Deaths will be inserted at the flame
tea as regular advertisements.
Busincas ttarbs.
sILAS WAILD.
NO. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBITRO.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
MELODEONS, VIOLINS, GUITARS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drums, Accord:darns
STRINOS, swim AND BOOK NUM, &C., &0.,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. ALBUMS,
Large Pier and Mantle Mirrors, Square and Oval Pram.
of every description made to order. Regnilding dons.
Agency for Howells Sewing Machines.
tEr Sheet Masie eent by Man. eetl-3
JOHN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an assort.
meet of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he offers to his customers ant the public
u9,22_.) • MODERATE PRICES. dtt
VAT HARRY WILLIAMS,
CL.ALIIVE AGENT,
402 WALNUT BTRNIST.
PHILADELPHIA.
General Claims for Soldiers promptly collected, State
Claims adjusted, &c., &c. - mar2o-dlm
SNITH & EWING,
- ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
THIRD STREET, Harrisburg,
,Practice in the several Courts of Dauphin county. Col
lections made promptly. A. C. SMITH,
J. B. EWING-.
T COOK, Merchant Tailor,
ti
• ra URISBNITI' ST., between Second awl Front,
Vas jturt returned from the city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES AND VESTINGS,
Which will be sold at moderate prices and made up to
'order; and, also, an assortment of READY MADE ,
Clothing and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods.
nov2l-Iyd
B E N T I S T . R, Y.
L GILDEA, D. 11. S.,
NO. 119 MARKET STREET,
EBY & KIMMEL'S BUILDING, UP STAIRS.
jang-tf
R ELIGIOUS BOOS STORE,
TRACT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORY,
E. S. GERMAN,
ST mint SECOND STBEEt 3 ADOYI 0111113N17T,
I,I22IASIVIG, PA.
Depot fortke sale of Stereoscopes Atereoscopielflews,
lensio and Ifsudeal Instruments. Also, subscriptions
taken for religions publications. n0.30-dy
JOHN G. W. MARTIN,
FASHIONABLE
WRITER.
OAR])
HERR'S HOTEL, HARRISBURG, PA.
Allmanner of VISITING - , WEDDING AND BUSI
NESS CARDS executed in the moat artistic styles and
most reasonable terms. declt-dtf
UNION HOTEL,
Ridge Avenue, corner of Broad street,
HARRISBURG, PA.
The undersigned informs the public that he has re
canny renovated and refitted hie well-known v Union
Hotel" on Ridge avenue, near the Round Rouge, and is
/prepared to accommodate citizens, strangers and travel
ere is the best style, at moderate rates.
His table will be supplied with the best the markets
afford, and at his bar wid be found superior brands of
Clemens and malt beverages. The very best accommo.
dations for railroaders employed at the shops in this
[aid dtfi HENRY BOSTGEN.
FRANKLIN HOUSE,
BALTIMORN,
This pleasant and commodious Hotel has been tho
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
situated on North-Wed corner of Howard and Franklin
streets, a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. leery attention paid to the comfort of hie
guests. G. LNISZNRING ) Proprietor,
.
jeL%-tf (Late of Se lina Grove. Ps.)
THEO. F. SCHEFFER,
BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTER,
NO. 18 MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG.
Particular attention paid to printing, ruling and
binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifests, Insurance Poli
cies, Checks, Bill- Heads, &c.
Wedding, 'Visiting and Business Cards printed at very
tow prices and in the beat style. jan7l
T F. WATSON,
MASTIC WORKER
PRACTICAL CEMENTER,
Is prepared to Cement the exterior of Buildings with
he New York Improved
Water-Proof Mastic Cement.
This Material is different from all other Cements.
rt forms a solid, durable adhesiveness to any surface,
imperishable by the action of water or frost. Every
good bedding should be coated with this Cement ; it is
a perfect preserver to the walls, and wakes a beautiful,
fine finish, equal to Eastern brown sandstone, or any
color desired.
Among others for whom I have applied the Mastic
Cement, I refer to the following gentlemen:
J. Bissell, residence, Penn street, Pittsburg, finished
eve yearn.
7. H. fihoeuberger, residence, Lawrenceville, finished
fivevyears.
James M'Candlass, residence, Allegheny City,finished
eve years.
Calvin Adams, residence, Third st eet, finished four
years.
A. Hoeveler, residence, Lawrenceville, finished four
years.
J. D. M'Coril, Penn street, finished four years.
Hon. Thomas Irwin, Diamond, street, finished four
gears_
fit Charles Hetel and Girard House, finished five
years.
Kittanning Court House and Bank, for Barr & Moser,
Architects, Pittsburg, finished five years.
Orders received at the c flee of It Witidowney, Paint
Shop, 20 Seventh street, or please address
T. F. WATSON,
P. O. Box 13A. Pittsburg, Pa.
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MEBBRB. CIIICKEILING & CO.
KAYE AGAIN QBTAINE D TEII3
GOLD
AT MB
MECHANICS' - FAIR, BOSTON,
MD THE NMI:I'SI)I3SG RZSIC
OVER SIXTY COMPRiITOR.BI
Wereroem ler the CRIOKXRING PIANOS, at Harris
burg, at 82 Market street,
ee22-tf W_ itNOMIWS MUSIC
TADIES 'I YOU KNOW WERE YOU
I can get fine Note * Paper, Envelopes, Visiti ng and
Wedding Cards ? At SCHRIPTER'S BOOKSTORE.
ZUPEKIOR STOCK OF .L.IQU I ).1t6.--
Li WM. DOCK, Ja., dr, CO., are now able to offer to
their custom= and tee public at large, a stock of the
rcrtrat /ignore ever imported into this market, oompri
wag he part the following varieties :
Wll LSK x —IRISH, SCOTCH, OLD BOURBON.
WINE—PORT, SHERRY, OLD MADEIRA.
OTARD, DUPEY & CO. PALE %RANDY.
JAMICA SPIRITS.
PRIME NEW ENGLAND RUM:
DRAKE'S PLANTATION BITTERS.
These &piers can all be warranted; and in addition to
these, Bock do Co. have on hand a large variety of
Wines, Whisk" and Brandy, to which they invite the
riartitalaa , attention of the public.
- VOTIONS.—Quite a variety of useful
.11 and entertaining articles—cheep—at
RoIiEFFEIVEI BOOKSTORII.
BLACKING! !-MASON'S "CHALLENGD
BLAOrilie."-160 GROSS. assorted She , just re
calved and for sale, teleotesate ased reta il .
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VOL. 5.-NO. 266
Bank Notices.
T.EGISLATIVB BANK NOTICE.-
Notire le hereby given that anplioetion will ba
made to the legislative authority of Pennsylvania, at
the next session of the General assembly thereof. corn.
mencirg the Drat Tuesday of January, A. D, 1864. for
the incorporation of a Bank having anking and die
counting privileges, with a capital of One Million Dol
lar., by the name and style of it The Oil City Bank, ,,
and to be located ;at Oil City, Venango county, Penn
sylvania. C. V. CULVER.
June 29th, 1883-6 m
NOTlOE.—Notice is hereby given that
"The Commercial Bank of Pennaylvania, ,, intend
to apply to the Legislature of Pennsylvania at their new
session_ for a renewal of their charter. Said bank is lo
cated in the city of Philadelphia, with an authorized
capital of one million of dollars, a renewal of which
will be asked for, with the usual banking privileges.—
By order of the Board_ S. O. PALMER, Cashier.
PHILADELPHIA, June 29,1863-6 m
NOTlCE.—Notice is hereby given that
application will be made to the Legislature of
Pennsylvania at their next session, for a renewal of the
Charter of The Farmers' Bank of Schuylkill County,
leeated in Pottsville, in the county of Schuylkill, with
the present capital of one hundred thetiSaid dollars,
and with the usual banking privileges.
J. W. CAKE, Cashier.
Arne 16, 1863.-7 m
BANK NOTlCE.—Notiee is hereby
given that the undersigned have formed an associa
tion and prepared a certificate for the purpose of estab
lishing a Bank of Issue, Discount and Deposit, under
the provisions of the act entitled "A supplement to an
sot to establish a system of Free Berthing in „Pennsyl
vania, and to secure the public against loss from Insol
vent Banks," approved the first day of May, Anno Domini
eighteen hundred and sixty-one. The said Bank to be
called THE FARMERS' BANK OF MOUNT JOY, to
be located in the borough of Mount Joy, to consist of a
capital stock of One Hundred Thousand Dollars in
shares of Fifty Dollars each, with the privilege o f ? in
creasing the same to any amount not exceeding Three
Hundred Thousand Dollars in all.
J. Hoffman Hershey, John M. Her - Mier,
Martin B. Feller, Jacob M. Stauffer,
Reuben Gerber, John M. Bear.
jan2B-dBmoaw*
NOTlOE.—Notice is hereby given of an
iv intention to establish a Bank of Discotnt, Deposit
and Circulation, under the provisions of an act entitled
"An Act to establish a system of free banking in Penn
sylvania," &c., and the supplement thereto; said Bank
to be called "THE MANUFACTURERS' BANK," to
be located in the borough of Columbia, Lancaster
county, Pa., with a capital of One Hundred Thousand
Dallas, to be divided into two thousand shares of Fifty
Dollars each_ deol•Omd
ALLENTOWN , BANK.
ALLENTOWN MOM tune 20, 1863
Notice is hereby given, that application will be road.
to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, at its next session,
for an increase of the capital of said Bank to the amount
of $200,000 in addition to that authorized by the present
Charter; and also for an extension of the Charter of
said Bank for twenty years from the expiration of the
present Charter.
By order of the Board of Directors.
je2o-dtml CHARLES W. COOPER, Cashier.
BANK NOTICE !—The Stockholders
of the FARMERS' AND DROVERS' BANK OF
WAYNESBURG, In Green county, Pa., will apply to
the next Legislature or the State, for an extension of
Charter, for the term of fifteen years from the expire
tion of its present term The location, corporate name
and privileges, and amount of capital stock, to wit:
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be the same
as under its present charter ,
By order of the Board
Waynesburg, Green co., Pa., Attie 15,1863—jek.0-dtml
NOTlCE.—Notice is hereby given, in
conformity with the act of Assembly, that the
stockholders or the Bank of Montgomery County will
make an application to the neat Legislature of Penn
sylvania for a renewal of the Charter of said Bank, with
the same amount of capital (Four Hundred Thousand
Dollars) as under the present Charter, to continue its
present name and location.
By order of the Board of Directors.
W. H. FILINGLUFF, Cashier.
Norristown. Pa., June 20, 1863.-6 m
*TV OTICE.—The Miners' Bank of Potts
ville, in the county of Schuylkill, hereby give
notice that they intend to apply to the Legislature of
Pennsylvania at their next session for a renewal of their
charter. Said Bank is located in the borough of Potts
ville, in the county of Schuylkill, with an authorized
capital of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars—a renewal of
which will be asked without any extension of privileges.
By order of the Board.
ORA- LOESER, Cashier.
Pottsville, June 20, 1863.-6md
XTOTICE is hereby given, that appliea
tion will be made at the next annual session of the
Legislature of Pennsylvania, for a renewal of the charter
of the HARRISBURG BANK, with its present name and
style, loe ttion, privileges, and capital of Three Hundred
Thousand Dollars. By order of the Board of Directors.
J. W. WEIR.
jeBo-dtml. Cashier.
TRADESMEN'S BANK,
11 PHILADELPHIA, dune 24, 1863.
Notice is hereby given. in conformity with the laws
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that the Trades
men's Bank, of Philadelphia, located in the city of
Philadelphia, created with banking and discounting
privileges,
with a capital of One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars, that application will be made by the
said Bank to the next Legislature for authority to in
crease the capital One Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Dollars.
By order of the Board of Directors.
JOHN CASTNBR,
jy6-tml Cashier
THE BEST FAMILY SEWING
MACHINE IS
WHEELER & WILSON'S.
NEW OFFICE, Market Square, slat to Colder's
Office.
V Call and see them in operation
A general assortment of machinery and needles con.
stoutly on han&.
MISS MARGARgIC mrcer
Will exhibit and sell them, and also do all tiods
machine sewing on these me chines in the best manner.
The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited.
apl3-6m
HA M S!11
Newbold's celebrated,
Michener's Excelsior,
Evans & Swift's superior,
Jersey Plain very line.
Also, Dried Beef, Tongues and Bologna. Sausage. For
sale by apl4 WM. DUCK, jr. & Cu.
INDEPENDENCE _ISLAND.
Messrs. BECHER & FALK, Proprietors, announce to
the citizens of Harrisburg that this cool and delightful
Bummer retreat is now oven for visitors. Accommoda
tions will be furnished to parties and pie-nics at reason
able terms, &dancing platform haring been erected f ,
their special use. Hen= "Haste for familiesi good fur
one year, $l.OO
No improper characters admitted, and no intoxicated
person will be permitted to visit the Island.
A Ferry Boat plies constantly between the Island and
the foot of Broad street, West Harrisburg. jel3-Im,
T POKING GLASSES—A Splendid
JLJ Assortment of New Looking Glasses, just received,
at W. KNOWIE'S Music Store, 93 Market street, where
they will be sold cheap. Call and examine. mrl3
Booms, BRUSHES, TUBS AND
BASKETS of all descriptions, qualities and prices,
for sale by WM. DOCK, Jll., & CO.
CHARLES F. VOLLMEB,
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut street. four doors above Second,
(OPPOSITE WASHINGTON HOSE ROUSE,)
Is prepared to furnish to order, in the very best style of
workmanship, Spring and Hair Mattresses, Window Cur
tains, Lounges, and all other articles of Furniture in his
line, on short notice and moderate terms. Having ex
perience in the business, he feels warranted in asking
sbare of Public patronage, confident of his ability to give
satisfaction. janl7-dtf
TAPANESE TEA.—A choice lot of
J this celebrated Teajust received. It is of the first
cargo ever imp orte d, iay_
ulit and Is Md m
Ch superior to the u.
nese Toms instrength antrtragrance, and in aloe
entirely free of adulteration, coloring or mixture of any
kind.
It is the natural leaf of the Tapenese Tea Plant.
For sale by WM. DOCK, jr., & Co.
SOLDIER'S CAMP COMPANION.-
A very convenient Writing Desk; also, Portfolios,
Memorandum Books, Portmonnsies, &e., at
KIIEPPDB.I3 BOOKSTORB
.1. LAZNA.B. Cashier
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 10. 1863
atria tt.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 10:1,1808.
SPEECH
0 I'
HON. DANIEL W. VOORHEES,
OF INDIANA,
Delivered at the Great Democratic Mass Meeting, at
Concord, New Hampshire, July 4, 1883.
Mr. VOORHEES said
MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
stand for the first time on the soil of New En
gland. I lobk for the first time on the majesty
of her mountains and the beautiful face of her
valleys. I feel for the first time fanning my
cheek the winds that arise from the breathing
ocean at her feet. I have beheld for the first
time those blooming achievements of art, sci
ence and industry, which long since filled the
world with her fame. I have pondered for the
first time over the sacred spots of our national
history, contained in her bosom, and made
classic shrines of liberty to every age and to
every people. The scenes which filled the
hours of my boyhood with a burning devotion
to the memory of the great dead, and which
have inspired the maturer years of my man
hood with an unalterable reverence for their
principles and conduct have for the first time
saluted my eye. This to me is a land of his
tory. Every step in your midst calls to my
mind the imperishable lustre of the past., the
dear memories of a more fortunate, more
blessed day than this. And with my face rev
erently bent towards the antiquity of New En
gland, I pray the august shades of 1776 to
pardon the feeble though sincere utterances of
a distant and humble stranger. I invoke, too,
the charitable judgment of my present .au
dience, and appeal to the calm verdict of a not
distant future for the integrity of my views,
against the blind injustice of partisan rage.
We celebrate to-day, citizens of New Hamp
shire, one of the great anniversaries in the
annals of the world, Events give importance
to dates. The progress of humanity is marked
and measured on the map of history by sacred
days of common congratulation and national
festivity. Every people have them, but whose
anniversary of joy and pride has been so full
of glory as this birthday of Constitutional
Liberty ? Swelling periods of stately elo
quence, inspiring song and ambitious art have
all laid their richest offerings on the altar of
its ,praise. The ringing bell, the booming
cannon, rejoicing multitudes have ushered it
in. We have vaunted ourselves in the face of
all nations. We have gloried in the flowing
cup of our prosperity. We stood upon the top
of the mountain and claimed kindred with the
stare, We coursed the pathway of national
greatness with the fleetness of the eagle in his
aerial home. Where others crawled we flew.
That which other nations reached by slow and
painful steps we attained at a single bound.
We disdained the measured gait and plain ex
perience of other people and other ages. We
struck boldly and at once while in the very
infancy of years for the dazzling and danger
ous heights of national supremacy. We bore
rivalry with impatience and tolerated no su
periority in any department of human thought
or action. Nature seconded our national pride.
Our country, vast, various and prolific as an
Eastern sable, presented and still presents
such a theatre for industrial and scientific en
terprise as was never before the heritage of
any of the children of men. The sweeping
rivers, the inland seas, the illimitable plains of
unwonted fertility, the sheltering harbors of
commerce, all proclaim the munificence of the
Creator to this Western world. The govern
ment formed in the happy days of our national
pdrity stimulated these elements of physical
greatness into marvellous activity. Develop
ment followed development With the air of
magic. The imagination was bewildered in
keeping pace with the reality. Fancy paused
on a tired pinion far abort of the lofty peak on
which fact sat securely perched.
This is but a feeble and faint picture of the
emotions and sentiments which have inspired
occasions like this in former years. There
were no spots then on the sun. Themnbroken
theme of every tongue was the boundless hap
piness, individual and national, which filled
our borders. I would gladly prolong this
pleasing theme to-day. I would gladly take
up the accustomed strain of congratulation.
I would gladly surround this occasion with the
bright omens which have cheered similar as
semblages in former times. But we stand in
the presence of a sad and mutilated picture.
The bright dream of the nation's youth is over.
The enchanter's spell, under which we rove so
high, is broken. The illusion that we were
invincible against evil fortune, and invulnera•
ble to the shafts of malevolent disaster, has
been rudely dispelled. We stand naked this
day to the biting winds of terrible adversity.
The noise of our grief fills the whole earth.
It we are asked to sing the songs of our pros
perous days we will be silent and weep as did
the daughters of Israel when they remembered
Jerusalem in their captivity, and hung their
harps upon the willows, and mingled their
tears with the waters of Babylon. Our Eden
has been smitten with a curse. Its sky is
darkened with a raging tempest. The light
nings glare upon us in hate. American soil
is drunk with fraternal blood, and enriched
with a sinister and ghastly fertility by the
commingled bones of brethren. Bobbiug sor
row is in every gale. The mother weeps with
in her widowed home. The cry of the father
less goes up strong to the face of the Almighty.
A crime without a name, and without a paral
lel has been committed against humanity in
North America. Let us reckon with our dark
sued prospects and shattered hopee as becomes
the descendants of an unfaltering and laden,-
it able race. Let us keep the book of events
fairly and honestly recorded as we move for
ward on the stream of time. Let us attach
responsibility for our woes where it belongs,
in aid of impartial history. Let us look firmly
in the face of the thick coming evils of the
present hour, in order to overcome and escape
them. Let us, too, if such power may be
given us, penetrate the sombre and shrouded
future and determine to' some extent, at least,
what fate there awaits the American Republic.
It is said, by those who are now in power,
and with angry emphasis, that no inquiry
should be made at this time into the causes of
our distress as a nation. I fail to perceive the
propriety of this position. A close investiga
tion into the circumstances which have lost us
our high estate is one of the principal means
by which it is to be regained. This is especi
ally true if it shall be found that the same
causes which brought calamity, and put the
sun, which shines on this anniversary, in
eclipse, continue to exist and increase in in
tensified and aggravated forms. How plain
and simple, my fellow-citizens, seem the les
eons of the past on this subject! How boldly
cause and effect there stand out to the eye of
the candid student of history! Obedience to
the written, supreme law is necessary to the
peace and stability of any government. With
out this, government cannot exist. The ne
cessity for a clearly defined fundamental,
organic law by which to redeem society from
chaos has been recognized in every period of
civilization. And this would be an idle achieve
ment unless it obtained obedience. There must
be a standard to which all render allegiance.
It may be repugnant to some. It may not be
entirely harmonious in all its parts with the
views of any. But such sacrifices are com
pensated by the blessings of order, law and se
curity. In this spirit the American Constitu
tion was made. It was the work of the wisest
and purest body of men known to history in
connection with civil affairs. It was made in
view of peculiar institutions and varied inte
rests 'which existed then and exist now. It
was not, perhaps, what any one member of
that immortal convention would have framed
if left eitigly to himself; but each State, each
section and every interest laid something on
the altar of compromise, and the angel of con
cord hovering over the scene accepted the
grateful sacrifice, and cemented the Union.—
This Constitution, thus obtained, became at
once entitled to the obedience of the citizen.
The early days of the Republic present a
glorious uniformity of affeotionate attaehment
to the bond of our Union and the charter of
our liberties. But at a later period there arose
a generation wiser and purer in their own con
ceit than the fathers. They discovered such
defects in the Constitution as sorely touched
their consciences. They were not content with
its provisions on a subject which at the time of
its adoption was common to every State in the
Union. They were not satisfied with the stip
ulations which it originally made to obtain a
Union. and without which they well knew no
Union would ever have been formed. They de
clared disobedience to the Constitution a Chris
tian virtue. They commenced a determined,
deadly and unending war against its authority
and integrity. The truth of what I Bay lejinown
of all men. The germ of that party which now
administers the affairs of this government first
appeared more than a quarter of a century ago
filling the world with its clamor against the
alleged wickedness of the American Constitu
tion. Its phrenzied face confronted the public
at all seasons and places. It seized upon the
engine of the press. It stalked into the forum.
It rushed into the pulpit and repudiated alike
the Bible and the Constitution. The courts
were its derision and mockery. It had no law
that was visible to mortal eye. There was an
unseen, unknown, intangible higher law to
which it avowed its allegiance. The great
chief of the Northern sectional party, William
H. Seward, adopted this heresy, and by doing
so prolonged and dignified, so far as dignity
can be given to crime, the original element of
disobedience to law which has culminated in
funereal sorrows to the land.
The doctrine of a higher law than the Con
stitution in civil affairs is the doctrine of civil
war. It is:a fountain of blood. No govern
ment can survive in peace the ascendency of
such a principle. To this cause, to this spirit
or rancorous disobedience, to this introduction
into public affairs of a principle at war with
all governments, rendering kindred heresies in
other sections and entailing a wide spread
brood of pernicious dogmas in the country, is
to he attributed, in my solemn judgment, as I
shall answer to Gad for the rectitude of my
motives, the long train of bitterness, agitation,
sectional hatred and alienation culminating in
a civil war whose lurid and inflamed visage
now appals the nations of the earth. Will it
be said that this persistent defiance of the
Constitution in the North was harmless ? His
tory will not so make the reoord. It bore the
fruits of discord in a horrible abundance. It
did not content itself with empty denunciation.
It resisted the laws of Congress enacted within
the plain provisions of the Constitution. State
governments were turned against the Federal
government. The courts were defied. The
Union was divided and spurned as in the way
of enlightened progress. All these things are
familiar, nor do I recite them in your hearing
for their novelty, but in these days of savage
reproaches for disloyalty certain features in
the history of American politics cannot be too
frequently presented to the public. It would
perhaps be a more grateful task on this and
all other occasions to spend our time in load
ing the heavy burthens of our national awes
on distant sections. It gratifies the love of
self to banish from our own door• steps, all
complicity with the causes which have led to
our cruel condition. We would gladly pro
claim to God and pOsterity that we are without
sin—that we have been the patient, meek and
enduring victims of a ferocious and aggressive
spirit on the part of the Southern States
throughout all our past history. lam aware
that such language is alone adjudged to be
loyal now by those who have always heretofore
held that the blessings and glories of the
American Union were covenanted with the dis
mal pains and dark aboaes of hell. But at the
risk of their denunciation I shall at all times
endeavor first to deal justly with our 'own
faults and crimes before I go wandering in
quest of the faults and crimes of others to cor
rect.
As we are dealing in bitter and vengeful
wrath with the rebellion sectionalism of the
South we can certainly afford to considerjust
ly our own. Let us, in some measure at least,
anticipate the cool verdict of history. In some
distant age, when the roar and tumult of the
present are heard no more, when the moss is
growing on the tombstones of all the attars of
this bloody and baleful hour, when broken
hearts are at rest, when the gentle evening
breeze is no longer filled with the voice of
tears, when wounds and heart aches cease to
be remembered, when the fires of passion and
revenge have gone out, then from the serene
and undisturbed heights of reason and politi
cal philosophy the judgment of the world will
be announced. Northern disobedience is the
supreme law. Northern discontent and North
ern agitation of the question of slavery will
be recognized as the cause, and Southern se
cession and armed rebellion as the effect. This
great truth should be girded about us like tt,
humiliating shirt of sackcloth at every step
we take in the struggle now before us. It will
enable us to discharge our duties in the spirit
of ohristian charity. He who goes through
the world with his self-righteous head in the
clouds, unwilling or unable to see his own con
spicuous deformities while waging a war of
extermination against the crimes and follies of
others, is a being offensive to God and man.
Shall we as a government continue through all
time to exhibit this miserable spectacle to the
disgust and derision of impartial mankind; or
shall we not rather endeavor to train the pub
lic mind back into the channels of even-handed
justice and restore the administration of our
affairs to the equal and benignant precepts of
the fathers? Let us first settle honestly with
ourselves and purge our national councils of
those offences against the institutions of the
Republic which we seek to punish in others,
and then we may confidently invoke the arm
of a just God in aid of our efforts to restore
national unity and peace. Let us make open
Atonement for the bloody drama enacted by
red-handed fanaticism on the coil of Virginia
in 1850 in pursuance of the teachings of a
now dominant political party.
It is doubtless easy and convenient now to
forget that public honors were paid in nearly
every State in the North to the memory of
those who fired the first gun in the mortal
strife which is now raging. But these facts
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are locked and bolted in the vaults of the in
exorable past, there awaiting the use which
posterity will make of them. And that ab
rupt chasm in the mountains which binds
together different sections, that gaping rent in
the design of nature, that broken ridge at
Harper's Ferry, will hold a place in the his
tory of the great civil war of America as a
forerunner and a prophesy. The raven has
croaked the hoarse and boding notes of war
and disaster to the cause of the Union from
its fatal battlements in every stage of the
unnatural and revolting tragedy which there
enacted its first scene. Shall we turn away
affrighted on this occasion from the appalling
spectres which the wand of truth summons
from the bosom of the past ? Do we dread to
gaze steadily and earnestly at imperishable
facts which underlie this great convulsion and
rock this continent and the world to-day like
the uneasy giant imprisoned beneath the vol
canic mountain ? If we do, we are not worthy
to aspire to the control of a nation's welfare.
If we do we would be found incompetent to
the task of correcting those evils Which we
deplore.
One more leaf allow me turn in this chap
ter of disobedience to law as the cause of
our national humiliation and suffering. Sec
tional hostility to the Constitution culminated,
after years of storm and discussion, in the ele
vation of a man to the Chief M%istracy of the
nation whose claims upon his party to that
distinction consisted in his bold avowal of
revolutionary principle. I appeal to the spirit
of truth, and demand that the American peo
ple shall deal sincerely with themselves. The
President of the United States, a brief space
prior to his election, announced to his fellow
countrymen as the deliberate result of his re
flections and experience, that the whole domes
tic economy of the Btates, the whole frame
work of the,internal policy of the government,
must undergo a stupendous change or the
Union must submit to overthrow. He was not
content with the Constitution. Over the graves
of our ancestors he reviled their wisdom and
sought to weaken public confidence in the re
sult of their labors, and to bring into disrepute
the government as they made it. These
Northern States, these granite bills, there
smiling plains, this constellation of New En
gland States clustering around the cold, bright
north star, were all to take back to their to
tms that system of slavery which they had
long since expelled ; or else, on thet'other hand,
the land of cotton and of cane was to revolu
tionize its social and indnetrisl system in obe
dience to the distant and ungracious demands
of tim alt rth; or in the event of the failure of
both these startling propositions, then the
American Union was to "fall like Lucifer, the
bright son of the morning, never to hope again."
This was the logic of the President of the
United States, and with these views unre
tracted, he entered upon the duties of his high
office_ He was not content with the Constitu
tion. States, part slave and part free, moved
in harmony and fraternity under its control.
No discordant, arring souuds issued from their
respective orbits. The law of their political
gravitation was perfect. It was the result of
ages of experience, wisdom and suffering, ap
plied with matchless skill to our peculiar in
terests as a nation. But he was not content
with the Constitution. It had weathered many
storms, and , vindicated its power to meet all
the demands of our unexampled growth. It
was as elastic as our far-reaching boundaries,
and as contracted as the smallest right of the
humblest citizen. 11 had listened to the voice
of the cannon in time of war, and proved itself
sufficient for every military necessity. The
Union was the child of its fostering love. It
nursed its infancy, and shielded its gigantic
manhood from every assault. But, disregard
ing its sacred origin, overlooking its beautiful
workmanship, blind to its mighty achievements
in behalf of Union, liberty and human progress,
and seeing nothing but what appeared to them
as a defect, the party now in power boldly
proclaimed, by their support of Mr. Lincoln,
the necessity for its change or its destruction.
I here aver, that in the whole range of history
no contest short of actual armed revolt was
ever waged in more open and avowed contempt
and defiance of existing institutions, of judicial
decisions, of sacred traditions, and of funda
mental organic law, than the political contest
which triumphed in the ascendency of the pre
sent administratiore ? To what principle or de
partment of theegovernment was obedience paid
by the disciples of this destructive school of po
litics ? Was it to the Constitution itself? They
had a higher law than it on the subject of sla
very; which gave them the liberty of disobedi
ence to civil magistrates. Was it to the legis
lation of Congress ? They brought it also to
be tried at the bar of fanaticism, and if found
repugnant to some thin and shadowy dogma
existing in the realms of an impractical trans
cendentalism, it too was rejected with that cool
disdain or that hot indignation which so well
becomes superior virtue. Was it to the Bible,
the rock of ages, tower of truth, the lighthouse
of wisdom and mercy shining forever over the
stormy waters ? Did they yield it their obe
dience as the foundation of all civil govern
ment ? Not so. It too was brought to the
standard of preconceived and presumptuous
notions and prejudices, and the providence and
policy of God himself was there arraigned and
condemned.
I dwell upon these recent facts of American
history with pain. I am quite aware of the
awful circumstances which now surround us
and engross every anxious thought. I am
quite aware that a million of American citizens
are in arms against each other. I need not
be reminded that issues are now suspended in
the balance, on whose decision will depend the
future map of nations. I would be silent in
the presence of these great events, on all save
their solution, if the party now in power had
been content when once in control of affairs,
to look to restoration and not destruction—the
restoration of constitutional supremacy, and
not its further abasement—the restoration of
the Union and not its irretrievable overthrow
—the restoration of peace and not the pro
longation of the horrors of war for its profits
and spoils. We might cover up former crimes
though they were freighted with our country's
calamities, if some atonement had been made.
I have not dwelt upon the pernicious issues of
a former period as a justiffbation for the fear
ful scenes which surround us, but rather by
their light to interpret the meaning of strange
and alarming doctrines now for the first time
put forth in this government, and also to guide
us in our conduct in relation to the revolted
States. Let us pause here on this 87th anni
versary of American liberty and investigate
the principles on which the government is now
conducted. Into what perilous and• tempestu
ous latitude have we drifted, under the
pilAt
age of a discontented and revolutionary party ?
Guided by no respect for the Constitution. in
its efforts to obtain power, it has simply used
its elevation and possession of of f icial station
as a means of giving increased force to ids as
saults upon the. established institutions and
principles of the country. A war upon the
South has not been sufficient to gratify its san
guinary purposes. The present administra
tion seem intent on conducting two wars at the
same time. An open conflict has been waged
from the commencement of hostilities in the
South to the present hour, on a large majority
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of the citizens of the Northern States. Why
do wise and prudent men now everywhere
dread and predict civil war in the loyal
States? Would peaceful citizens, engaged in
the happy scenes of domestic life, with the ap
palling spectacle of civil war in fall view.
transfer its desolating tread to their own corn
fields and hearth-stones, without some cause
as deeply moving' on the public mind as the
fierce hurricane that agitates the lowest depths
of the ocean ? Is the fault of a divided and
restless public sentiment due to a IridollB and
depraved people failing to appreciate the glory
and honor of their country, and inspired with
no patriotic grief for its deep affliction's; or is
it not rather due to the weakness and wicked
ness of incompetent and corrupt Mors I
We stand t o-disy at the end of more than two
years of desperate and gigantic war. No peo
ple ever made more sacrifice. Blood has been
cheaper than water, and the wealth of the int
t ion has been sported with as the player rattles
his dice. Great promises have from time' to
time inflamed anew expiring public confidence,
but the people now no longer amuse themselves
with the illusions of hope. They demand with
out further delay to know for what purpose,
and in what cause they sweat, and bleed, and
die. And first they demand to know whether
this war cannot be waged without a correspon
ding war for the suppression and overthrow of
civil liberty in the North. If it cannot, then
it must stop for that, if for no other reason.—
Extended boundaries are desirable, the integ
rity of the Union is worthy of national ardor
and devotion—but the inalienable and inde
structible rights of man, declared in the de
claration of our independendenee and secured
in the Constitution, can be bartered away in
exchange for no object within the scope of hu
man conception. Boundaries will grow again
by the inspiring force of our youthful blood;
time,tarts great physician for national as well
is individual misfortune, will pour its oblivi
ous balm into the gaping and gory wounds
Which sectional hate has inflicted in this mod;
ern strife between Cain and Abel. The rains
will descend and the fields will Worn again
under the hand of the husbandman. The gol
den haired Goddess of the harvest will preside
over the'fruits of mid-summer and autumn,
wasted commerce will revive and flap its glad
wings with a newness of life, in' all the four
quarters of the globe. Tire flag, the beautiful
flag of the free heart's only home, will still be
known and honored throughout the earth—all
this, and more, of renewed prosperity and na
tional life we will behold if thevital powers of
personal liberty, older upon earth than Plata,
or Marathon, and radiant as an emanation of
Divinity, shall be preserved, anti emerge at
the close of the conflict unharmed by the
flames. It will be the angel of our resurection.
I might dwell upon the influence of our free
institutions in achieving the past greatness of
the country. I might take up that favorite
line of thought, so familiar to such an occa
sion as this, and show that'popular liberty has
been the majestic soul which has given to the
government its dignity, its grandeur and its
power. Other nations have borne the eagles
of their dominion farther than we have. They
have accumulated more wealth. Their cities
have outshone in dazzling luxury and magnifi
cence any that point their spires towards the
American sky. Their commerce has brought
home more ample spoils from stranger lands.
Their population has been as the leaves of the
forest and as the sands of the seashore. But why
do the attention and interest of mankind turn
from them with a sense of relief and delight to
the Western world? The student of ancient
history drops the book from his hands and
forgets to resume the story in gazing at greater
wonders here than any of which he reads. It
is the spirit of liberty that has worked this
wonder, Your fathers upon the rook of Ply
mouth, with the wilderness and the savage
before them, the ocean and oppression behind
them, and the wintry storm over their heads,
did not reason on the extent of the country
they came to possess. They made no calcula
tions of the wealth it contained. Visions cd/
splendor did not float before their eyes. One
inquiry and one alone engrossed their minds:
~ Can we here be free? Will the shadow of our
vine and fig tree be here unmolested by inquisi
tors into the rights of private conscience ? Will
civil and religious liberty take root and live in
this barren soil? Can man here be the lord of
himself and hold his rights by a well defined
tenure ? • May free thought here .elevate the
soul; may free speech here justify the ways of
men; and may a free press here like the sun
rising out of the sea illuminate the twilight of
the dawn which yet hung' over the world ?"
Thus reasoned the fathers of New England, and
in like manner will reason their children.
I have often gazed long and attentively upon
the assembled group on,the deck of the May
flower as you see that vessel, Al idle as a paig
ted ship upon a painted (mean," upon the can
vas in the rotunda of the Capitol. How small
was their country at that moment, but how
free! They possessed not one foot of grmind.
They had weighed country, home, ancestral
graves, all in the balance against liberty, and
found them light as empty air. How insignifi
cant to them in that hour seemed all the wars
of occupation and possession which from the
beginning of time have defaced thin beautiful
earth and destroyed the image•of God! As
time and its interests and pleasures recede and
disappear from the eye of the dying Christian,
and Heaven and its glories magnify themselves
to his awakening senses, so to the Pilgrims on
the face of the waters the love of liberty rose
with such effulgence in their minds that pll
else became obscured like the stars hiding
their diminished light before the sun of noon
day. That little speck alone on the desolate
bosom of the great deep, animated and im
pelled, however, by a principle indestructible
as matter, eternal, and of equal origin with
the human soul, before whose breath thrones
are blasted and empires fall prostrate, potent
as the elements themselves and triumphing
over them in search of a new theatre of glory,
has ever been to my mind a lesson for the
American statesman. Though a' free cow-,
monwealth be no larger than the deck 'ors
ship cut off from either shore, yet under God
it is a power and a light in the midst of the
earth. The voice of the Messiah cries out to
us from the fountains of inspiration : g. What
shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world
and lose his own souL" A voice, too, comes
up from the tombs of dead Republics of former
ages, saying to the American people: "What
shall it profit you if you maintain by the sword
your extensive possession and lose your own
liberties." No, rather a country on board the
Mayflower again, rather the narrow limits of
Plymouth rock, rather the original boundaries
of the old thirteen colonies, with the undis- -
turbed enjoyment of constitutional liberty,
than the possession of all the lands on , which
the dews of Heaven descend with the unre
strained caprice and unbridled will of one man
for my government. "Compared to the breach
of our Constitution," says Edward Livingston,
" and the establishment of arbitrary power,
every other topic is trifling; arguments of
convenience sink into nothing ; the preserva
tien of wealth, the increase of commerce,
however weighty on other evasions, here lose
their importance, when the fundamental prin
ciples of freedom are in danger."
Will it be said that my observations on this