I' 1 , IA .1.::.11.T1 .-'....• ' _._ - s a :;!,1 fir: 4 -BTOKES, -fore the _Allegheny County Dehteerattle;CAub, on • TuRSDAY EVENING, APRIL _ _ 1111 .. . , salute you, fellow citizens,. with .fra,, uta emotion, for we are bound together aembera of thegrest Democratic fain. *tied of polhacel - affection, - - -, and id I f who levee his country; can behold 414 • Be r :h ve e pg ''n e ei r a ti n: b w e r i o e t . ip Pre d se o n n te e . , - fie yon year faces—the fire of ,patriot ic g leaming - from your , eye—strong assemblage of 'the indomitable and' Art ified, with resolutions of reparation. cite—Coh on mOther, 'the Republic ; . stamped ' -111 70 r ea dy ter;aby emergency which may age , or'..any Atity to which year ceentry -ma all.you, whether to defendthe Union age Bettie traitors of the Sou th 'or the . ,' : ...__00 titption against the tyrants ..or the' .No —no man can behold such a scene , . JIB a and not feel reinspired in dove , ' lion)lreintanred in hope. • For myself, let nie 'rebate* :that 'While I rejoice in , this avid ca otetomin g goed, lam appalled by t e task before me. He who, in tim ' like these, ventures to address the _Pe ;impel on thew topics of overwhelming t -' ia taiiib'e*hich now agitate the nation '--iwb h indee ' - dr,- everywhere convulse so 7 -...-, r erietiL, should not, may, cannot .be un ' mindffil Of the responsibility he assumes. Of course I do not allude to the peril of beinii - dnapped by military _power and ft inetir rata in Federal dungeons _ a fate neith m e to be sought nor avoided—not ii mine now. because already the tortures wants ly - inflicted by the myrmidons of c•••.•flowluiv.e enaged them to recoil aghast Worn t eir hellish work, have reinvigora • ted thpatriotism of the people, arid' arouse the land from the lethargy of false s curity. It is the Divine decree that sit ation shall be by suffering. It is in thel re of a ffl iction that the soul is ` Purged Li nd purified. The dark hours of fe l i, disapp' ' tine. and defeat chasten the mind the reception of truth. The cour age of iertue rises ander the pressure of misfortikbe. The pure ore is produced from th hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt LS elicited from the darkest ''' storm. hese are the consolations of the martyrs f liberty. No, low citizens , the responsibility to which! 'allude lies in the obligation to condem the errors of friends and to ex tend ch arit y to Anendes, to speak frßnkly and:fair. ; not as a partizan - advocate, but • r t• as an in pendent freeman—nothing ex tenuate n' j r set down aught in malice—to do igt - P ' ial justice between contending / - - Pardee, t - easoit calmly in order to coo= viace, an even to court mildness for the sake of 0 e. I know not whether I can • conform my - own rule, for I confess. that pom imda my perigees are groused, - . .;40:1' ISA d ear Wronged - and ravaged country_, e ruin impending over hec— the unnurd ered cold and bloody corneas : .of her slat' Nerve cap:nen—An enormous ;public 4 t÷..burthen's "-Of ' taxation too ' ) grievous be borne—the national honor Bullied— 3a assassins of liberty sharpen ing their daggers for the fatal stab. The country Ohm* under the vilest wrongs which tyran ny, in its worst frenzy, can in act. De lation and destruction have become so &mi ll er , by perpetual repeti tion_ , that !th ey no ' longer strike the soul with 'herr r. . The agonizing accents - of i 'despair. ae, : often heard above the clash of arms, and e loud denunciations of hos tile partie I convulsed, maddened, by in .testine strife. Surely Petinsylveana should not sufferrself to be dragged into this i Vortex of o at perilous confdsion. No*, as in past es, she should Stand constant to her constative character— fi rm as her own nioun ' s--unmoved by the tempest that P•round her—resolved to defend , • the cause of conatitutionalfreedom and na tinitional un against - all assaults, - from - - every qua r. Oar State occepies a lie • ouliar peg on, and, if we ever consent to dissolution of the Union, of inevitable and extre peril. The States North and East of tie e protected by her geograph icafinterpo ition between them, and the South, wh - the Ohio :Hier river forms a ruifil bou dary for the Western States, .easily def ded, lint - the i- line between . Virginia an Pennsylvania is artificial and imaginary. Recognize the:Stnithern Gov r' fed ...eroy, to ' orrillswltiathi next da ywill i n `'-''' - begin abo, er war, of - Which - yeti, Peen- F sylyaniant,3t past :bear:. the brunt:lllre : ; tiii)t4aleyelliwill seek refugeon oar soil— ' they will belmarsued and recaptured—our people will resist this outrage on the rights of a government foreign to and indepen dent of t i li .confederacy—conflicts will ensue da l more numerous and exten• Sive—the itia will. be called out on both sides--pea ' elsewhere will be at the price of perpetug ar for Pennsylvania. Look to your too. I waive the disputed question of t [ , rotection ; but for revenue, , Itinresort duty upon imports is abso 'lntely neces . Lay direct taxes topity the interest I the public debt, and they, cannot, and 1' 1. not .collected.: .cellected. Ac knowledge t e Confederacy, and the tariff ' lawkare, in ' ffect, repealed., and the mer ilwil 1: cant& marl `e is destroyed. Smuggling ' cannot be pravented along a line of thote sands of ait. Ships will not ententhe ,fetetiors.of it York,.Philadelphia, -and 1 ' Tioston,.to y enormous duties. on their caritfing,,w A 'they tati - enter" th ole of ...Norfollt f .C h leston and .New Orleans, ' - ' - ' --- Wi'' am:trolleysuch exaction. •- So, too, in I regard tothe ississippi, in which Western j Pennetkapt ' and . .all who live. beternen the. - 4.11{0e ' i.and the Riackyldountifina, i ilAlik4 Septic •and vital interest. Stir- - s'atiderrothe rt' r' ippii and you, in'effect, 'dfartilip all to - streams which find their j w a y to_ 14.... t i, tlifitt e tWo, through the channel fait.? t river. • Make what treat. ier you pleas- 1 they cannot prevent half a dozen men,. th ono. ..pgamt, troutc#trest• iNaatztheir ; ealtatV- 4 aW.Witisel 3 Whioti may attempt /. navigate a scream running more than at r oesand mike, through ter * ritory 'inhabqed by an 'exasperated and impulsive peeple. These streams, hun dreds in nugber, and hundreds of ' then sands.bf tenet in aggregate length, the; great eater ighways of a vast empire,; ' are the gifts o God for the promotion of rAftnitatibiteo unse;-of civilization, of e el - itrA=fiftra dar not surrender them—hu ntatiNenda, ve, . no ris4 to Kuptureithis . higfelitihntlio -- ry Which Providence-tail . boned tooi . i all' the people of Ihrf.vai lerbt:the ‘. :•-------------- --- i* 6 a' -4 tti sl.c M f 'ike - unions nontuder • dour,, . y. Ell Pennsylvanians, wheth yon-asu ever '... sent to separation fro yettraieter'S r .8 ; Belli beg also to Wask „you'aitother.lipiestion, more thought .4 than talked of, in such event Idlers are wi to Vol PenOlylvania,_ in coming into the Federal Union, agreed to a government which includt all the States, both North. and' - South. lie ' withdieival of either seems to be e destruction of the- Union • for every Sta which formed part `of, it i .„ for the am tof the Constitution ern , ibraces the w le. If the Atiiiglity iheeldi • for oar man; Id sins, curie us. with thi Cillati . 4.Ti it be for- thepeople et Penn: Rom a& to. rmine what shall be their - us* positiotg They have the right to ri . . . • r .' P- :,' ;• - - -' F.4. ',•.. - , , • ..,:l i. i 1,.. c:F. -. T.:: . P ... . . t..:tft. tia;ft; , 4o--.... , -1 .. . , . • I" ! • .1-, .. . .-..... ( 1 1 " 1 C,..... ' ''..',''. -. - , •-, . . • - . - 1' . Id , '-_, .- ••': - -.1::. , ..r. _. . . -4 ,...1.: : :,, f_ , " i . ;1 ; 1 1 .- ---. ' .. . •• , - , i' -• • .• ••• ,• .7:. •• '.l ''' s' i ' '.) ''' ' 4 ''' ' . '' . l , :•S _ ..• . - , 1 , - i , , f . l Ar . , . A . . , . _. .... .. , 4 • .• 41 :4 ci.:44•' - \•1 - _ . . . ~ .. rp . Editor & Proprietor. :. ~ . . ~ THIJIFtSD A V WifirkW_Dl‘Tr7.,,... _ POST. jil4g, - e-gi tliiitzkilie4 - jand :they have the power to defend,themselves. themselves.. Here nature haa lavished, with.generons,profueica, her richest - gift af•cancentrating t in high degree, ever ystitiree•Opindiyiditarprrisperity and national wiiilth.:Hera is an Empire, coin. plebs - within:Waft self-sustaining, inde pendent;, a country equally adapted for agriculture i manufacture, and, commerce, abounding in mineral treasures ; a climate neither warm enough to enervate, nor so' cold ais to prevent A l l CAltivation suited to a l e alteratarftipo,camtaanding alike the communications of the Atlantic and the MissiksWinhabited by patriotic, indus trious• and virtuous citizens. The great heart of such a people spontaneously re jectia the idea7of the surrender of the I blood' bon h t heritage of liberty and i Union whic htheir fathers bequeathed to them, and which they are bound by the most sacred duty to transmit unimparied to posterity . . • Fellow. citizens, :1.. deny the right of se. ceision—l deny that the C6nstitution of the Erhited States reserves the right to i eackßtate to withdraw from the Union at any time, on its own mere motion: On the Contrar.s, Phold that the Federal Go e ertiment, though of limited powers. is a legitimate government for the purposes of its creation, perfect in all its parts, Execn- Ltive; Legielative and Judicial, self -sustain ing, independent, --making, construing and executingita own laws, by virtue of its own inherent force: Reason revolts from the idea of politi 1 cal suicide—of-a contract to bind nobody —of an agreement for dissgreement—of a union for disunion. This queitiop was anticipated and deter initied by the unamimone action of the `Convention that framed the Conetitution. GENERAL Wasnixorox; the President - of ~that body, having-, by their authority, de , dared in his official letter to Congress submitting the Constitution: It is obvi ously impracticable in the Federal Govern ment of these States to secure all rights of independent sorereignity to each and yet provide for the interest and safety of till.' Individuals , entering into society must give up apartionot libery to preserve the rest." - * * "It is at all times difficult to draw rights, that must be surrendered, and those rights that must he surrendered, and those which mast he reserved ' * "In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which ap pears to us - the greatest interest to every tate - Anierican, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperi ty, felicity, safety and perhaps our national existence." .. ~.. But the question now presented by the attitude of the seceding States, is one not subject to the tests of the technical lawyer, or the results - of abstract philoso; phical speculati - on,oreven of historical au thority. We-stand in a momentous time, in the presence of appalling mere. Are we equal to the time and its duties—can we comprehend these facts and their conse quences? If we are not—the death knell of the Repibblic is already rung—the great experiment has failed—the demonstration government' , -, - despotism has forever tri unijilied ov er liberty. Denying,the doctrine of secession, I ad• wit the right of revolution. It is a right reserved by every people in every govern ment-without it tyrannywould be eternal. Its exercise is in the sole judgment of those who assert it.' Its vindication •is in the result of war. But resort is only- to be had to thitr - extreme remedy, as Mr. Jeffer son well said, when tyranny becomes over whelming, not ' for light and transient causes, and only when all_other means of redress have - failed. It is. the •desperate and tardy remedy for accumulated, intol erable anditOpeless wrongs. Its declare tiou'of waris in the thunder tones of a people united by the external pre•sure of a crushing oppression, an& nerved to re• sistence by, the extremity of a common suffering. It is not on this ground, however, that the confederacy rests its case, though, in fact ) , both sides, by appealing to organized military force, soon placed themselves, substantially, in this attitude—revolu tion on the one side and coercion on the other. And now, my friends we come to the all importact question, tokatis to be done— I pass by the causes Which led to the con• flict. -Neither side is retipongible for ,:the extreires of malice and Madness into which unreasoning fanaticti on tiath sides often went, except so far as they may have adiipted the cruel counsels of those in fatuated andfurious wretches, of whom SPEECH OP cue antagonistic types are to bo found in Sumner and Yancey. I repeat the ques tion what IS to be' done ? Recognition and just application of the familiar_r_Mmxint - in union — there hi strength," will answer this question. The South is now substantially united, the North divided. It was not so in the be ginning of the present contest. Then loy alty prevailed in the hearts, of the ma jority of the people of nearly all" the 'Southern State's,' and the Vase leaders of the secession movement were compelled to' resort to force and fraud, in violation of the wishes of the people, to take them out of the Union, to whose flag, hallowed bye tkousand sacred memories, they are ready to spilt with rapture, at the earliest Practicable moment ; while in the North, patty was. forgotten in the unamimons . eagerness of _all men to sustain the gov enamerit in what areasserted and believed to be its legitimate objects. No need then for militia draft or ruthless conscrip tion. The ranks of volunteer regiments were crowd*, alike, with Democrats an d Republicans,.' whose • patty predilictions were forgotten in all-absorbing patriotism —he only was unhappy who was excluded from the army—the government was em barrassed by the multitudes who sought to serve' is the field. All this is changed; and why? Because the administration has abandoned its original notition; be cause the executive and Congress have proved recreant to the principles which thekprofessed; because the objects of the war have utterly, changed. When Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated President he de clared, under the solemn sanction of the constitutional oath of office which he had *kith:keit,. that he had no design, desire rorTPOitiii. to interfere with slavery or to invade, in any manner, he rights of States or people. eftetwards appeared Mr. Beward'sAiloulatidcircular,strength eraig and expanding the President's dec laration. A few months later Congress, by, nearly tc=ona,resplutiou n folloired 1T1,V113 same , ageolemulyeetionnc• g that the of 44„.. wen Pail to setae the an promad to' WlMere ) Sf the Constitutionesaa "the . .41*_ being the avowed iMrtioseelif thtc.;goyernment, it4eceired-the united 'aiiiittirt of all the 0o le of all the loyal Statft- 8R1L1444 Naetund TiOtweiftil body - le - 10 Sontii: pyttferpl,t,hus erected hic.13 1 4.01i , cans -,; was Iva* one: crt Which Dettiocratti; both North and' South, could stand, and did' stand, because it was the platform of the Constitution. So ittititm tite,Administra-- _VAI Anwee',.ffdtbYinlefelsepetext4; '; lll ;44 6 'ninji incto,,the the army saueMlilemdieslitlicittiend DemeeratsEarkij tEdt.thoimitelreestren g enough to defy the source of all power, they commenced a systematic GOWNS of perjary and tresses • C y b •repeated and• avowed violations of t onstitution,and of their oaths to suppo he uphold and defend it. In this horrid ex igency the duty of the Democracy was 'dabs, arid was performed. The liberty of the Citizen is the life of the State. They set themielves to vindicete: the violated Con stitution. They accepted the gage of bat tle thrown down by its enemies, the' bed• eral Administration. This war of rulers against people, of servants against masters, is now being waged with a reeiless and savage ferocity which violates law; defies justice, denies truth and tramples Upon right. The government, :thus far, 'has succeeded only iu dividing the- 'North and uniting the South, in slaughtering heca-, tombs of victims, in creating an enormous national, debt, in imposing burthens of taation too grievione to be borne in gorg ipg the maws of rapaelbustplunderers, and in makinethe very name of Republic a by-word eif disgrace throughout the world. Proof of theie facteis needless,inasninch as 'they are often adnai4l. No candid and intelligent Republican will, deny that Mr. Seward's proclamation of thejrre pressible conflict, eagerly adopted by the mass of his party, alienated one portion of the Union from the other, by organizing a vast political body . , based on a geograph ical line, hostile to orie — hf of the Union, and pledged to the destruction of .their State institutions—that, to give effect to ' this pledge, they placed their wicked and visionary schemes above the Constitution and the Union, and refused all propositions of adjustment and pacification offered and urged by patriots, North and South. Pro gressing to the practical, application of these theories, they besieged the President, until, worn out by ceaseless importunity, he surrendered principles which he had publicly professed, abdicating hie constitu tional power to become the passive iestrn ment of a vast abolition society. The re snit was soon found in the abolition pro clamation, in the suspension of the Habeas Corpus, in arrests without accusation, proof, hearing or warrant, in confiscation of property without notice or trial, in the conscription, which laid every State and every citizen prostrate at the feet of _EI single man. The excuse for all this is an allegeiblie qessity, judged only by those who indite the plea. The arraig led criminals pre' 'tend to justify themselves by their own judgments, defying the impartial- verdict of the people now, and the historic sen tence of condemnation in the future. Let me address you, my Republican friends, who have honored us by your presence to night, and in whom we recognize intelli gence, integrity, and patriotism—do you not tolerate all these excesses, because you think that exigency of national peril gives the government a right to disregard the organic law ? Now, let me appeal to you'r candor--does not the history of all usnrpation prove that it is in times of pub• lie peril that the government, regardless of law, absorbs all the powers of the nation, giving as justification for their crimes, this very peril. From Caisar to Napoleon this has been the usurpers' argument. A tlcile man, like Mr. Lincoln, yielding to bad ad liirmarelater, the irrepa ' ilibTeT t "zurbrlfl3 country, as well as a successful soldier, whose genius enables him to see before- the fatal consequences of his con duct.. Imbecility is no excuse for guilt.— Liberty consists in the equality of all citi zens before the law. The President is as subject to law as any other citizen. How can wewage a war for the re establishment of the ascendency of the Constitution in every State r if the government is syste matically violating it. The Constitution is our right--enr properly—purchased by the blood of our forefathers. If Mr. Lin coln robs us :of a line of it, even for an hour, he may be impeached, tried and convicted. Let Felix tremble. He will yet find that justice doesknot steer forever. How monstrous is the miserablepretext of defending the Constitution by destroying it The general government is not an ori ginal sovereignty, but the creature of the Constitution, by which the people of the States delegated to it a portion of the per fect political power which they possessed. That instrument, therefore, is a grant stud necessarily limited by its terms. That which is there found, and that alone con stitates the power which the Federal os7v ernment may lawfully exercise. That which is not therein found is reserved to the grantors. One of its own clauses ex pressly declares ' that the powers not there in granted are reserved to the. States re epectively, or to the people. The hest commentary on the Constitution is the Constitution itself. It follows, therefore, inevitably, that inasmuch as in the careful ly elaborated declaration of the powers of the President there is no authority for any of the acts to which I have referred, but, on the contrary, an express prohibi• tion, in that clause of the Constitution which provides that all the powers not therein granted, are reserved to the States or people, all those acts are null and void. They are not the legitimate acts of the President of the United States, but the usurpations of Abraham Lincoln and "his advisers. Even unconstitutional acts, however, which have the form of law, should not be resisted by force, but by appeal to judicial tribunals, or by the ex• same, in extreme cases, of the personal *fight of self-defence. Besides, this plea of necessity rests Wholly on the fact that we are• at war. During the war with England, all New En g land was 'an organized conspiracy against the government. Their Puritan pulpits were converted into political bat teries, from which the Republic was at; tacked; they held Conventions in which they declared the war te be cruel, bloody, and unjest; they obstructed naval and mil itary.opirations, they gave. aid and com forttb the, enemy. In the face of all this, le. net Single -arbitrary arrest teak made. Then nonian dreamed thettheConatitution was binding only in times ofperiee: That bold fallacy was invented by the sons of the English sympathisers of 1812. Why, if the Constitution is suspended during the war, so also is the President, Congress, and. the Courts for they all live, move, and - have their being, only by, and under the Ctinstitution During the war with England, James Madison:dully called "the father of the 4'o ii ' atitutton, was , President. I have Chown:that hiscondnat was the reverse of that now pnicied. Let me call your at tentipn to•the language which he used in Wetiesolations written by him, and adopt. ed:bythtY - Ligislatnre - of :Virginia: Assembly cloth explitiltoly and peremptorily declare, That it views the poWerc-efthe Federal Government, as re sultbwfrom the compact, to which the States are ,parties, as-limited by the plain se_use t tud intention - of 'the instrument :con• ffitutingth*tteompact, ai,ne farther valid than dtey are authorized by the grants enumerated in that, compact." SO alsO the author of the Declaration , of jpdepeadence said : "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated poiters, its acts ar unauthorativeivoid,:and of no forteiflutt to this compaet each 'State acceded` as a State, midis, an integral party; that this Government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the,extent of the powers delegated to itself; sine that would have made its disaretion and not the Constitution, the measure of ,flii people may find final repose under the its powers; but, that as in all other cases protecting branches of the tree of liberty. of compact, among parties having no Not for ourselves alone, but for our race commoi. judge, each party has an equal —not for the present only, but for all right to judge for itself, as well of infrae- time, the great question is p l ow to' be aolv-. tions as of the mode antl.eneasure of re- ed of the possibility of sustaining the gov dress." ernment.by moral means—of the , fitness The administration, discarding the doe- of man for freedom. Dissolve the Union, trines of our fathers, and ciiSsegarding the and Democratic liberty is dead--discord constitution, seek to dazzle par eyes and rules until despotism succeeds, God pre oar judgment by the meretricious glare serve our beloved country from either of a magnificent consolidated -Empire, to evil—from the cruel arms of conflicting. be raised on the ruins of the constitution. powers, strong in hatted, but too feeble Fax more true honor would be awarded to far effective defence, or from the' cold the President, both now and,hereafter, if silence of subjection to irresponsible he kept his oath and did hie duty, and tyranny I Heaven to our keeping has are we not to say so ? Evin dering the entrusted the sacred fire of freedom 4 Let despotism of Louie XIV, the Chancellor us be true to our trust, that oar children.. D'Agueeseau boldly said to the Monarch, may enjoy the heritage of liberty, th4t the "Respect the empire of the law. Kings, uaiona may rejoice in the lifkt and light the noblest images of Dilinity, are never of republican truth. greater than when they submit all their greatness to justice, and unite to the title of masters of the world that of slaves of L._ the law." Undoubtedly, deSpo'ISM is more splendid than Democracy; but the people prefer happiness to glory, freedom to oppression, and the rights of man to the will of tyrants. Therefore, it is that at the polls, in their public meeting, in their newspapers and in social eonversation, they defend themselves by denouncing the errors of the administratioh,and this is falsely called opposing the government. The government—what is the gOvern ment ! It is constitutional, political or ganization, of which we are the defend ers. It is not the administration hor the wen who compose it. Nay, to the extent to which the administration violates the constitution, which creates the govern. ment, it is the enemf of the government. Mr. Seward well said in his letter last November to Mr. Adams, our minister to England : "In 'this country especially, It is silabit not only entirely consistent with ,he Con stitution, but eeen essential to itrstability, to regard the Administration, at any time existing, as - distinct and separate from the Government itself, and to canvas - a - rife pro ceedings of th s. one without a thought of disloyalty to the- other." The source of ill our por4.-s is the dis cord. which necessarily reaflte from the dangerous doctrines and the illegal acts of the administration. If they sincerely de sire the suppression of the rebellion, let , them re unite the bonds which they have raptured, let them re-inaugurate the reign of concord by withdrawing their illegal proclamations, by repealing their uncoil stitntional laws, by respecting the rights of the States -and ceasing to assail the filetr ties of the people. Suppose even we are wrong in these views, they arc those of millions of voters, P' - ley are the declared sentiments of novereii States, they- are entitled to consideratio n and respect: adopt them ai.d the country will be saved: defy them and tt , e present conflict will 1, indeanately proerastinated. Let cairn eousideratiod take the pl a ce of partisan passion. e are all brethren, by whatever Oa we are called, and we have like interests in our common country. Letts be right bstrunififtl peace is to be desired; but to obtain peace war must be vigorously prosecuted, and every Oonstitutional means of coercion used against those who are, at once, our enemies and our brothers. No thought must he, for a rri,nnent, entertained ! , of consenting to a separation: for to restore and preserve the Union is a sacred duty. which we owe, not only to ourselves, but to the memory of o and nr fathers. an tbe rights of our children. UP CUll tint; t! to refute. by our time, at we'llave hitherto done, always and every where, the base and baseless slander that the Democracy is in any degree tainted with disloyalty. We ,have the power—let us net' it. Let us all tinite, party distinctions forgotten in devotion to legitimate government, as or• ganized, defined, and limited by the Con etitation, and we cannot fail. Our troops, no mercenary hordes of semi -barbarians driven to the ranks by despotic power, but citizen soldiers, inspired hy patriotism, to defend with their lives the Union and Liberty of their country—a body of inde• pendent and intelligent freemen, sneh tut was never before assembled under a com mon banner, have exhibited devotion, sol emn and sacrificial. Never in the annals of war, has shone with more resplencLsni glory the heroic gallantry of citizens, be come soldiero, only to save their county. Fortitude, patience, constancy, the highest and rarest military virtues, ennobled and sustained the prolonged and agonized of fering of their mortal and immortal na tures, which they laid on the altar of (hair country. Their sublime sell -sacrifice de mands that country's gratitude. Notwith standing all the neglect and incompetency by which they have been weakened and obatruoted, they have steadily progressed, and at this moment hold the moat impor tant strategic positions. Let the Govern ment strengthen and assgre them, by uni ting the North on the basis of the Consti• Whorl, and they will speedily vindicate the sacred cause which has called them to the field. The high and sacred Mission of the Dem ocratic party, united with the true men of all parties, is to make peace with the South—to restOe the ascendancy of the Constitution, everywhere—to assure the equality of the States, and to vindicate the rights of' man You must never forget that, Pennsylva• nia was among the States that formed and ratified the Constitution of the'Union, and has always been its inflexible defend er akainst all opponents and every attack. Yon will not sully the emblazoned pages in which the world reads of your patriots, and reverences their patriotism, but you will cherish these sacred memories, and emulate these heroes of peace and war— you will vindicate your birthright by pro ving that.yon are worthy of it. Product of patriotic effort, fruit of toils and danger, reward of wisdom and valor, parehitSedilii suffering and blood, crown of the'lievolutiovary contest, is the Con• stitution of the United States. Its con• struction • was a labor of love ; let it be again and perpetually renovated by. the-po•' litical affection of this great national fam• It fortned the 1. - niou and is its sole securi tv. The Union, blessed mother of all.her children ; b ntif it source of the iicat nes' and glory of the Republic ; shield of security ; assurance of prosperity; concert trawl wisdom of its Immortal authors; proof of 'their 'patriotism; lesson for all nations and ages ; thgthappy expedient by which freedom of di:lead° government - is connected with nosier in foreign affairs, each ample,. neither impaired; consoling evidence chit there is in the human son' a divinely inspired spirit of concord, strong. er than arms, capable of political combine. tions for ereeting a gtivernMent more pow erful than despotism commended to our affections by the tenderest recollections of the pastt.,,. ! mingled With our dearest hopes for:ltlfetoruturill t h e sacred legacy Orour: iiat IVF. 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