; Mi Vit arrrrt. BY S. J. ROW. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY, 31, 1861. VOL. 7.-NO. 48. THE WAR FOR THEUNION. IHI GREAT BATTLE NEAR MANASSAS. DETAILS Or TH1 E-VOAflEMEXT. TVe have gathered the following particulars of the battle of the 21st July, near Manassas Junction. It seems that oar loss is compara tively small; first reports Having exaggerated ihe number of killed and wounded. The Reb 'l loss can only be conjectured. SCENE OF THE UATTLE. Ccntrerille is a small village about four miles from Bull's Run, and within seven or cigbt miles of Manassas Gap Junction, the centre of General Beauregard's position as commander-in-chief of the rebel forces. It commands a magnificent view one seldom een in the eastern part of Virginia. The ap proach lrom rairlax Court House is through a succession ol mils, covered in many parts with .dense forests of timber, and occasionally show ing evidences of civilization in large wheat fields, small, aristocratic mansions, and un gathered crops of new mown hay. The plain beyond OentreviIIe is an extensive one, and will be memorable in history as the scene of the greatest battle ever fought on the Ameri din continent. It is bounded by the Blue Judge, whose shelving and uneven summit faintly lines the horizon: It is watered by streams which rise in the mountain and flow into the Potomac, and is divided into fields of grain, pasture, and meadow. At almost regn lit intervals the plain itself ascends into gradu- aiiy-sioping unlocks, most of winch are cover ed with timber. Towards Occoquan especially tne country is densely wooded, and we can but occasionally see a road or a field, even with the aid of the most powerful glass. In this romantic and beaut if ol district, the it-be is had determined to show their first or a inized opposition to the Federal Government. Fairfax, Alexandria, and the intervening points were but mere picket stations, as it were, intended only as a menace and a nioni tor. Their occupation by tbe Government forces was but weakly contested, and they were illy defended. Tho great body of the S outhern levies have been centered ai Manas sas, skirting Bull's Run, Brcntsville, Butler's ford, (Jentreville, and the Occoquan River. .Nature has been lavish in strengthening this district as a defensive position. Immediately befoie Manasas there is a succession of equi distant hills, in front of which there is said to be a ravine so deep and so thickly wooded that it is passable to an army only at two points, And those two, gorges which a company of men con Id almost defend against a whole ar- wr. Months of preparation have enabled Gen eral Beauregard to add to these natural defen ces others of a more important nature. These it-fences were said, by Southern journals, to be a liue of forts, two miles in extent, zig-zag in form, with angles, salients, bastions, case mates, and everything properly belonging to the art of fortifications. In addition to this, the country is admirably adapted to tho sub sistenoo and entrenchment of troops in num bers as large as they can easily be manceuverd on the battle-field. To drive the rebels from this position has ifen tbe intention of the Government in all iU operations along the Potomac shore. Such a course has been a necessity, as at Manssss the commanding officer holds the key to tbe surrounding country, and so long as the rebel tug is floating over it, the n ig of the Union could Lever be respected in western Virginia The duty of driving these traitors from this position had been assigned to General McDow ell; and, in pursuance of this purpose, Gen cral McDowell has extended bis base line of operations toJCentreville. The assault on Bull's Kun was a part of his plan, and a prelude to the great engagement ol Sunday. Bull's Run is nothing more than a small stream which crosses the road from Centrcville, constituting a kind of ravine, and is buried between dense Masses of forest and shrubbery. In this wood land a powerful battery bad been constructed to oppose any attempt of tbe Government for ces to tbreateu Manassas. It was the advanced battery of the great line of rebel batteries ex tending to the Junction. The action onFri- day did not succeed in its capture, and in or der to avoid tbe great and unnecessary loss of jiie wnicn tne success or such an eflort would entail, it was determined, in the operations of Sunday, to avoid It as much as possible to extend the line against Manassas by a more northerly route from Centreville, and to take it by a flank movement, or compel the enemy to auanuon ms position. PLAX OF THE ATTACK. It appears that on Saturday night a council of war was held, when it was determined to make a combined attack on the Rebel lines at cull s Run on Sunday morning. In accor fiance with this decision, tho troops were put in motion at z o'clock A. M. from about Cen treville, where they had all previously concen trated. This point appears to be seven miles to the northward from Manassas Junction, itti Bull's Run, a narrow and shallow stream, coursing through a deep ravine, almost paral lel to the railroad, lying about halfway be tween it and tue entrenchments of the enemy t the J unction. The route of our army lay a cross this stream and ravine, all the crossings, Whether by bridge or by ford, being obstruc-ty-J by the destruction of the bridges, or by concealed batteries, so posted as to enfilade &3d rake all the approaches. But it had to bo passed in order to attack or turn tho fortified position of the Rebels at Manassas. This was "ie work to be done : now for the plan. The army was ordered forward in three divisions general Tyler's to advance straight along the Viarrenton turnpike to the bridge by which that road crossed Bull's Run Col. Heintzle roan's to move somewhat to the left of this, directly towards Manassas Junction and Col onel Hunter's division was to move by flank "'e r'ght to cross the run about three miles th stream aQd thence get to the rear cf lie Kebei batteries, and between them and the wuroad. The first two of these raovemcuts "We feints to engage tbe attention of the ene- y while Colonel Hunter, who was command ID8 the real attack, should get far enough for to attack the Ball's Run batteries in the io as to enable both Tyler and Helntzle 4I to cross. All three divisions were then .'"jfte and march down between the Run nathe railroad, sweeping the field before .aa aa they advanced. This plan teems to j"e eerf laid in .ignorance of the fact that ODoton bad come down from Winchester. . ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE. on J "ecution of the order of the day, Col cr. 5unter'' Division moved to tho right, rtw? Bul,'a Run ab"ut threo miIcs t0 lh0 ,l of tru 7arrT)tn Rod- completely out flanked the left wing of tbe enemy, and drove him back towards Manassas nntil be arrived at the Warrenton Road, at a point about two miles south of the Run. In the meantime General Tyler had moved forward on tbe War renton Road until he got to the bridge over the Run, where ho was informed of the exis tence of the concealed batteries. He threw some shells to uncover them, without getting a response, but ho prudently held back for a more favorable moment. Not so, however with General Schenck, who was in comman of a brigade of this division. He was order ed forward, but a little to the left of the War renton road, and arriving at Bull's Run, he al so threw a few shells to discover any conceal ed batteries, and getting no response, conclu ded-none were there, when he rushed forward but only to fall into an ambuscade as he did at Vienna. We have now arrived at the point where Colonel Hunter's division, having successful ly turned the left of the euemy's position, was ariving him before him towards Manassas, and wnen lyler, under cover of this manceuver was to cross to the south of Bull's Run bv the Warrenton road to join Hunter. To do thi be was obliged to storm the batteries guarding tne pass at this point. Here it was that the gallant charges were made bv the New York Sixty-ninth, Seventy-nineth, Seventy-first and mirteenth. I he batteries were taken. Hun ter was sweeping on, and everv part of the or der of battle appeared to be in successful! pro gress, and triumph certain. This was about two or three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and u was at tins time that the couriers of the press correspondents were sent to Washing ion, announcing the victory at Bull's Run. Now, however, the tide of battle turned Gen. Johnston though this is not absolutely clear seems to have come out from his posi tion on the railroad, still further west than Hunter had gone, and attacked that officer's victorious column in the rear. This of course changed the whole face of tho conflict, and made it necessary for Hunter to extricate himself, instead of allowing him to open the way for Tyler and Ueintzleman's Divisions. Then reinforcements from the Junction forced Tyler's troops from the captured batte ries, and drove them back then, also, or a bout the same time, General Schenck fell into the ambuscade before mentioned, and his brigade being very roughly handled, turned and fled. Here and a little way to the right was the scene of the bloodiest work of this fearful day here were made those desperate charges which Russell, the correspondent of the London limes, says surpassed anything he saw at Solterino or in the Crimea and here, (the pen almost refuses to do its office as wo write it,) victory was turned with disas ter and defeat. ANOTHER. ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE. By daybreak Bull's Run was reached. The batteries were placed in position, and our guns opened on tne enemy's works. The firing was responded to by three batteries, and was kept np on ootn sides till 11 a. m. The enemy's ore then slackened, and afterwards entirely ceased. It was supposed, therefore, that their guns had been silenced, and a charge was or dered to carry the batteries. Tbe charge was made at a run. I here was a little, though not much, resistance made by the musketry of the toe, and, in a lew minutes the batteries were ours, the few gunners were bavonuted at their guus, tbe Confederate rag torn down, and the Stars and Stripes raised. It was then that M' uowen seni uie despatch to lieu. Scott an nouncing a glorious victory and the batteries in our possession. But our triumph was of short duration. The enemy had abandoned these batteries in order to lead us into a snare. In half an hour after we had taken the batte ries, and while the men were resting from their fatigue, a terrific fire was opened upon them with musketry and cannon. The latter were in other masked batteries, the very existence of which was unknown. The riflemen who were firing at us were also unseen. Ihe fire was so hot that our men found it impossible to stand it, and were compelled re luctantly to abandon the batteries. 1'hey re tired in good order, however, under cover of our artillery, which now again began to open upon the enemy, throwing shells towards their masked batteries, but without effect. Colonel Cameron and Col. S locum had been killed. General Schenck and Col. Hunter wounded. Many other of our officers had been killed and regiments decimated. The enemy had not once showed himself up to this time. At three, however, having silenced many of our guns, the enemy charged upon ns in an over whelming force. Ihe troops stood gallantly, but the charge was irresistible, and we were compelled to retire. The artillerists spiked their guns. Uur troops retreated to Centre ville, pursued by the enemy. At Centievillo the army made a stand, tho pursuit ceased, and the enemy retired out of range. The reb els had most decidedly tho -advantage in po sition and guns, and they used it with fearful effect. The bravery of our troops was super human, but what bravery could meet the un erring and unceasing cannon which came sweeping lrom almost every tree or heap of brush ? Uur men unmasked them, battery upon battery, only to find their lessened ranks were unequal to the task. A retreat was com menced by a New York regiment, and very soon became general. In vain Gen. McDow ell endeavored to rally his forces. They re treated up the Centreville road in good order until charged upon by the Secession cavalry and artillery, when they broke their lines and pushed towards Fairfax Court House in a dis orderly column. Tbe disaster was not near so great as report- ported at first. Our loss is estimated at from 1,000 to X.UOO killed and wounded : in fact, some say it will not reach 1,000. The num ber of Union troops, actually in the battle, was only about 30,000, whilst the rebels had at least 70,000 in the engagement. With such odds, it is surprising that the result was not still more disastrous to the Union forces. Four months since the sloop of war Wyo ming left tbe Pacific station for tbe east. Since her departure nothing has been heard of her. , It has been decided by government that no fugitive slaves be allowed in our camp. Howell Cobb is organizing a regiment in Georgia for tbe Confederate army. . The salary of tho Assistant Secretary of War is to be $3000 Ohio hai now fn the fild oypr 2fi,000 men. Another Broadside for the Union. SPEECH OF HON. JOSEPH HOLT, (SIR. BUCnAlf ax's secret ary-of-war.) Delivered at Louisville, Ky., on July 13th, 1S01. A welcome was extended to Mr. Holt on his arrival at Louisville. Judge Pirtle in a few brief, pithy and pointed remarks, greeted Mr. II. in the name of Kentucky, who then arose and addressed his neighbors as follows : J I'dge Pirtle : I beg you to be assured that I am most thankful for this distinguished and flattering welcome, and for every one of the kind words which have just fallen from your lips, as I am.for the hearty response they have received. Spoken by anybody and anywhere, these words would have been cherished by me; but spoken by yourself, and in the pres ence and on behalf of those in whose midst 1 commenced the battle of life, whose friend ship I have ever labored to deserve, and in whose fortunes I have ever felt the liveliest sympathy, tney are doubly grateful to my leehngs. 1 take no credit to myself for lov ing and being faithful to such a government as this, or for uttering, as I do, wilh every throb ol my existence, a prayer for its preser vation. In regard to my official conduct, to which you have alluded with such earnest and generous commendation, i must sav that no merit can be accorded to me beyond that of having humbly but sincerely struggled to per form a public duty, amid embarrassments which the world can never fully know. In re viewing wnat is past, I have and shall ever have a bitter sorrow, that, while I was enabled to accomplish so little in behalf of our be trayed and sufleiing country, others wereena bled to accomplish so much against it. You do me exceeding honor in associating me in your remembrance with the hero of Fort Sum ter. I here is about bis name an atmosphere oi ngni mat can never grow dim. Surround ed with bis little band, by batteries of treason and by infuriated thousands of traitors, the fires upon the altar of patriotism at which be ministered only waxed the brighter for the gloom that enveloped him, and history will never forget that it was from these fires that was kindled that conflagration that now blazes throughout the length and breadth of the land. Brave among the bravest, incorrupti ble and unconquerable in his loyalty, amid all the perplexities and trials and sore humilia tions that beset him, he well deserves that ex alted position in tbe affections and confidence ot the people that he now enjovs ; and while none have had better opportunities of know ing this than myself, so 1 am sure that none could have a prouder joy in bearing testimony io u man i nave to-night. x eli,ow-ijitizen8 : A lew weeks since, in T., n - another form, I ventured freely to expres-i ray views upon those tragic events which have brought sorrow to every hearthstone and to every heart in our distracted country, and it is now my purpose on this occasion to repeat these views, or to engage in anv extended discusion of the questions then examined. It s not necessary that I should do so, since the argument is exhausted, and the pupular mind is perfectly familiar with it in all its bearings. will, however, with your permission, sub mit a few brief observations upon the absorb ing topics of the day, and if I do so with an earnestness and emphasis due alike to the sincerity of my convictions and to the magni tude of tho interests involved, it is trusted that none will be offended, not even those who may most widely differ from me Could one, an entire stranger to our history. now look down upon the South and see there hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand men marching in hostile array, threatening tbe capture of the Capital, and the dismem berment of the territory of the Republic ; and could he look again and sue that this army is marshaled and directed by officers recently occupying distinguished places in the civil ana military service of the country, and fur tlier, that the States from which this army has been drawn appear to be one vast, seething cauldron of ferocious passion, be would very naturally conclude that tbe Government of the United States had committed some great crime against its people, and that this upri sing was in resistance to wrongs and outrages which had been borne until their endurance ws no longer possible. And yet, no conclu sion could be further from the truth than this. The Government of the United States has been faithful to its constitutional obligations. For eighty years it has maintained the national honor at home and abroad, and by its prow ess, its wisdom, and its justice has given to the title of an American citizen an elevation among the nations of the earth which the cit- zens of no republic has enjoyed since Rome was mistress of the world. Under its admin istration tho national domain has stretched away to the racihc, and that constellation which announced our birth as a people has expanded from thirteen to thirty-four stars, all. until recently moving undisturbed and un dimmed in their orbs of light and grandeur. The rights of no State have been invaded j no man's property has been despoiled, no man's liberty abridged, no man's life oppressively eopardized by the action of this Government. Under its benign influences the rills of pub ic and private property have swelled into riv ulets and from rivulets into rivers ever brim- Luing in their fullness, and everywhere, and at 11 periods of its History, its ministrations have fallen as gently' on the fJeople of the United States as do the dews of a Summer's night on the flowers and grass of the gardens and fields. Whence, then, this revolutionary outbreak ? Whence the secret spring of this gigantic con spiracy, which, like some huge boa, had com pletely coiled itself around the limbs and body t the Republic, before a single band was lif ted to resist it 1 Strange, and indeed start ling as the announcement must appear when it falls upon the cars of tbe next generation, the national tragedy in whose shadow we stand to-night, has come upon us because, in November last, John C. Breckinridge was not elected President of tbe United States, and Abraham Lincoln was. This is the whole sto ry. - And I would pray now to know on what was John C. Breckinridge fed that he has grown so great, that a Republic founded by Washington, and cemented by the best blood that has ever coursed in human veins, is to be overthrown because, forsooth, he cannot be its President 1 Had he been chosen, we well know that we should not have beard of this rebellion, for tbe lever with which it is being moved would have been wanting to the hands of the conspirators. Even after his defeat, could it . havo been guaranteed, beyond all peradventure, that Jefferson Pavis, or some other kindred spirit, would be the successor of Mr. Lincoln, I presume, we hazard nothing in assuming t'uat this atrocious movement a gainst tbe Government would not have been set on foot. So much for the principle in volved in it. This great crime, then, with which we are grappling, sprang from that "sin by which the angels fell" an unmastered and profligate ambition an ambition that "would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven" that would rather rule supremely over a shat tered fragment of the Republic than run the chances ot sharing with others the honors of the whole. The-conspirators of the South read in th election of Mr. Lincoln a declaration that the democratic party has been prostrated, if not finally destroyed, by the selfish intrigues and corruptions of its leaders ; thev read. too. that me vicious, emaciated, and spavined hobbv of oiavery airuauon, on wnicn inev had so olten rode into power, could no longer carrv them beyond a given geographical line of our territory, and that in truth this factious and treasonable agitation, on which so many them had grown great by debauching and de nationalizing tLe mind of a people naturally generous and patriotic, had run its course, and hence that from the national disgust for this aomagoging, and from the inexorable law o population, the time had come when all those wao had no other political capital than this would have to prepare for retirement to. pri vate life, so far at least as the highest offices oi tne country were concerned. Under the influence of these grim discouragements, they resolved to consummate at once what our political history shows to have been with them a long cherished purpose the dismember mentof tbe Government. They said to them selves : "Since we can no longer monopolize the great offices of the Republic as we have been accustomed to do, we will destroy it, and build upon its rums an empire that shall be all our own, and whose spoils neither the North nor the East nor the West shall share with us." Deplorable and humiliating as this certainty is, it is but a rehearsal cf the sad sal story of the past. We had. indeed, sun posed that under our Christian civilization we had reached a point in human progress, when a republic could exist without having its life sought by its own offspring ; but the Catalines of the South have proved that we were mis taken. Let no man imagine that baeause this rebellion has been made by men renowned in our civil and military history, that it is there fore the loss guilty or the less courageously to bo resisted. It ia precisely this class of men wto have subverted the best governments that have ever existed. The purest spirits that have lived in tbe tide of times, the noblest institutions that have arisen to bless our race, have found among those in whom they . bad most honored, men wicked enough, either se cretly to betray them unto death, or openly to seek their overthrow by lawless violence. The republic of England had its Monk; the republic of x ranee had its Bonaparte ; the re public of Rome had its Ctesar and its Cataline, aim the Savior of the world had his Judas I scariot. It cannot be necessary that I should declare to you, for you know them well, who they are whoso parricidal swords are now un sheathed against the republic of tho United States. Their names are inscribed upon a scroll ot infamy that can never perish. The most distinguished of them were educated by me cnanty ot the Government on which they are now making war. For long years they were led from its table, and clothed from its wardrobe, and had their brows garlanded by its honors. They are the ungrateful sous of a fond mother who dandled them upon her knee, who lavished upon them tbe gushing love of her noble and devoted nature, and who nurtured them from the very bosom of her life ; and now, in the frenzied excesses of licentious and baffled ambition, tbey are stabbing at that bosom with the ferocity with which the tiger springs upon his prey. The President of fhe United States is heroically and patriotically struggling to baffle the ma chinations of these most wicked men. I have unbounded gratification in knowing that be has the courage to look traitors in the face. and that, in discharging tbe duties of his great office, he takes no counsel of bis fears. He is entitled to the zealous support of the whole country, and, may I not add without offense, that he will receive the support of all who justly appreciate tho boundless blessings of our free institutions I If this rebellion succeeds it will involve ne cessarily the destruction of our .nationality, the division of our territory , tho permanent disruption of the Republic. It must rapidly dry up tbe sources of our material prosperity, and year by year we shall grow more inipover- shed, more and more revolutionary, enfeebled. and debased. Each returning election will bring with it grounds for new civil commotions, and traitors, prepared to strike at the country that has rejected their claims to power, will spring up on every side. Disunion once begun will go on and on indefinitely, and under tbe nuuence of the fatal doctrine of Secession not only will States secede from States, but counties will secede from States also, and towns and cities from counties, until universal an archy will be consummated in each individual who can make good his position by force of arms, claiming the right to defy the power of the ijovernnient. Thus we should have brought back to us the daysot the robber Bar ons with their moated castles and marauding retainers. This doctrine, when analyzed, is simply a declaration that no physical force shall ever be employed in executing the laws or upholding the Government, and a Govern ment into whose practical administration such a principle has been introduced, could no more continue to exist than a man could live with an angered cobra in his bosom. . If you would know what are the legitimate fruits of Seces sion, look at Virginia and Tennessee, which have so lately given themselves up to the em brace of this monster. There tbe schools are deserted ; tbe courts of justice closed, public ana private credit destroyed ; commerce an nihilated ; debts repudiated : confiscations and spoliations everywhere prevailing; every cheek blanched with fear, and every heart frozen with despair ; and all over that desola ted land tbe band, of infuriated passion and crime is waving, with a vulture s scream for blood, tbe sword of civil war. And this is tbe andemoniuni which some would have trans ferred to Kentucky. ' But I am not here to discuss this proposition to-night. I wish solmnly, to declare before you and tbe world that I am for this Union without . conditions, and indivisible, now and forever. - I am for its preservation at aDy and every cost of blood and treasure against all its assailants. I know no neutrality be tween mycountry and its foes, whether they be foreign or domestic ; no neutrality between that glorious flag which now floats over us and the ingrates and traitors who would trample it in the dust. My prayer is for victory, com plete, enduring, and overwhelming, to the ar mies of the Republic over all its enemies. I am against any and every compromise that way be proposed to be made under the guns of the rebels, while at the same time I am de cidedly In favor of affording every reasonable guarantee for the safety of Southern institu tions which the honest convictions of the pea- pie not the conspirators of the South may demand, whenever thev shnU lav dotcn their arms, but not until then. The arbitrament of the sword has been defiantly thrust into the face of the Government and country, and there is no honorable escape from it. All guaranties and all attempts at adjustment by amendments to the Constitution are now scornfully rejected, and the leaders of the re bellion openly proclaim that they are fighting for their independence. In this contemptu ous rejection of guaranties, and in this avowal of the objects of the rebellion now so auda ciously made, we have a complete exposure of that fraud which through tbe Slavery agita tion has been practiced upon the public cre dulity for the last fifteen or twenty years. In the light of this revelation, we feel as one a waKened from tho sutlocatlng tortures or a nightmare, and realize what a baseless dream our apprehensions nave been, and ot what a traitorous swindle we have been made the vie tims. They are fighting for their indepen dence ! Independence of what 1 Indepen dence of those laws which they themselves have aided in enacting; independence of that Constitution which their fathers framed, and to which they are parties and subject by in heritance ; independence of that beneficent Government on whose treasury and honors they have grown strong and illustrious When a man commits a robbery on the high way, or a murder in tbe dark, he thereby de clares his independence of the laws under which he lives, and of the society of which he is a member. Should he when arraigned a vow, and justify the oHence, he thereby be comes the advocate of the independence be has thus declared ; and, if he resists by force of arms the office when dragging him to the pris- on,the penitentiary, or the gallows,he is thereby fighting for the independence he has thus de clared and advocated ; and such is tbe condi tion or the South at this moment. It is no longer a question of Southern rights, which have never been violated, nor of security of Southern institutions, which we know perfect ly well have never been interfered witb by the General Government, but it is purely with us a question of national existence. In meeting this terrible issues which rebellion has made up with the loyal men of the country, we stand upon ground infinitely above all party lines and party platforms ground as sublime as that on which our fathers stood when they fought the battles or the Revolution. I am for throwing into the contest thus forced up on us all the material and moral resources and energies of the nation, in order that the struggle may be brief and as little sanguinary as possible, it is hoped that we shall soon see in the field half a million of patriotic vol untecrs, marching in columns which will be perfectly irresistible, and borne in their hands for no purpose of conquest or subjugation, but of protection only we may expect with in nine months to see the Stars and Stripes floating in every Southern breeze, and bear going up, wild as the storm, the exultant shout of that emancipated people over their deliverance from the revolutionary terror and despotism by which they are now tormented and oppressed. The war, conducted on such scale will not cost exceeding four or Ave hundred million of dollars ; and none need be startled at the vastness of this expenditure. Ihe debt thus created will press but slightly upon ns; it will be paid and gladly paid by posterity, who will make the best bargain which has been made since the world began if they can secure to themselves in its integri ty and blessings such a government as this at such a cost. But if, in this anticipation we are doomed to disappointment : if the people of theU.States have already becmae so degenerate may I not say so craven in the presence of their foes as to surrender up this Republic to be dismembered and subverted by the traitors who have reared the standard of revolt against t, then I trust the volume of American his tory will be closed and sealed up forever, and that those who shall survive this national hu miliation will take unto themselves some oth er name some name having no relation to the past, no relation to our great ancestors, no relation to those monuments and battle fields which commemorate alike their heroism, their loyalty, and their glory. But with the curled lip of scorn we are told by the disunionists, that in supporting a Re publican Administration in its endeavors to uphold the Constitution and laws, we are 'subnnssionists," and when they have pro nounced this word tbey suppose they have imputed to us the sum of all abasement. Well, let it be confessed ; we are "submission ists," and weak and spiritless as it may be deemed by some, we glory in the position we ocenpy. For example : the law says "Thou shalt not steal ;" we submit to this law. and would not for the world's.worth rob our neigh bor of his forts, his arsenals, his munitions of war, his hospital stores, or anything that is his. Indeed so impressed are we with the ob ligations of this law, that we would no more think of plundering from our neighbor half a million of dollars because found in one of bis unprotected mints, than, we would think of filching a purse from his pocket in a crowded thoroughfare. Write us down therefore "sub missionists." Again : The law says "thou shalt not swear falsely ;" we submit to this law, and while in tho civil or military service of tbe country, with an oath to support the Constitution of the United States resting up on our consciences, we would not for any earthly consideration engage in the formation or execution of a conspiracy to subvert that very constitution, aDd with it the Government to which it has given birth. Write us down therefore "submissionisls." But again : When a President has been elected in strict accordance with the forms and spirit of the Constitution,' and has been regularly installed into office, and is honestly striving to discharge his duty by snatching the Republic from the Jaws of a gigantie treason wbicb threatens to crash it, we care not what his name may be or what the designation of bis political party, or ......... wbat the platform on which he stood during the Presidential canvass ; we believe we fulfill in sight of earth and heaven our highest obli gations to our couutry, in giving to bitn an earnest and loyal ttupport ia the struggle In which he is engaged. Nor are all disturbed by the flippant taunt that in thus submitting to tho authority of our Government wo arc necessarily cowards. Wo know whence this taunt comes, and wo esti mate it at its true value. We bold that there is a higher courage in the performance of duty than in the commission of clime. Tho tiger of tbe jungle and the cannibal of the South Sea Islands have that courage in which the revo lutionists of the day make their especial boast ; the angels of God and tbe spirits of just men made perfect have bad, and have that courage which submits to the laws. Lucifer was a non-submissionist, and the first secessionist of whom history has given any account, and the chains which he wears fitly express the fate due to all who openly defy the laws of their Creator and of their country. He rebelled be cause the Almighty would not yield to hici the throne of Heaven; the principle of tbe Southern rebellion is the same. Indeed, in this submission to the laws is found the chief distinction between good men and devils. A good man obeys the lawa of truth, of honesty, of morality, and all those laws which have been enacted by competent authority for the government and protection of the country in which be lives ; a devil obejs only his own fe roucious and profligate passions. The princi ple on which this rebellion proceeds, that laws have in themselves no sanctions, no binding force upon the conscience, and that every man, under the promptings of interest, or passron, or caprice, may at will, and honorably, too, strike at the Government that shelters him, is one of utter demoralization, and should be trodden out, as you would tread out a spark that has fallen on the roof of your dwelling. Its unchecked prevalence would resolve socie ty liito chaos, and leave you without the slight est guaranty for life, liberty, or property. It is time that, m their majesty, the people of the United States should make known to the world that this government, in its dignity and power, is something more than a moot court, and that the citizen who makes war upon it ia a traitor, not only in theory but in fact, and should havo meted out to him a traitor's doom. The country wants no bloody sacrifices, but it must and will have peace, cost wbat it may. Before closing, I desire to say a few words on tbe relations of Kentucky to the pending rebellion ; and, as we are all Kentuckians here together to-night, and as this is purely a fam ily matter, which concerns tbe honor of us all. I hope we may be permitted to speak to each other upon it with entire freedom. I shall not detain you with observations on the bos- tile and defiant position assumed by tbe Gov ernor of your State. In his reply to the re quisition made upon him for volunteers under the proclamation of the President, be has, in my judgment, written and finished his own history, his epitaph included; and it is prob able that in future tbe world will little con cern itself as to what his Excellency may pro pose to do, or as to what he may propose not to do. That response has made for Kentucky a record that has already brought a burning blush to the cheek of many of her sons, and is destined to bring it to the cheek of many more in the years which are tocome. It is a shame. indeed a crying shame, that a State with so illustrious a past should have, written for her. by her own chief magistrate, a page of history so utterly humiliating as this. But your Leg islature have determined that during the pres cnt unhappy war the attitude of the State shall be that ot strict neutrality, and it is upon this determination that I wish respectfully, but frankly to comment. As tbe motives which governed the Legislature were doubtless pat riotic and conservative, the conclusion ar rived at cannot be condemned as dishonorable ; still, in view of tbe manifest duty of tbe State and of possible results, 1 cannot but regard it as mistaken and false, and one which may have fatal consequences. Strictly and legal, ly speaking, Kentucky must go out of the U nion before she can be neutral. Within it she is necessarily either faithful to the Govern ment of the United States, or she is disloyal to it. If this crutch of neutrality upon which her well meaning but ill-judging politicians arc halting, can find any middle ground on which to rest, it has escaped my researches, though I have diligently sought it. .Neutral ity, in the sense of those who now use the term, however patriotically designed, is, in effect, but a snake in tho grass of rebellion, and those who handle it will sooner or later feel its fangs. Said one who spake as man never spake, "he who is not with us is against us ;" and of none of the conflicts which have arisen between men or between nations, could this be more truthfully said, than of that in which we are now involved. Neutrality ne cessarily implies indifference. Is Kentucky indiflerent to the issues of this contest 7 Hat she, indeed, nothing at btake 1 Has she no compact with her sister States to keep, no plighted faith to uphold, no renown to sus tain, no glory to win ? Has she no horror of that crime of crimes now being committed against us by that stupendous rebellion which has arisen like a tempest cloud in the South 7 We rejoice to know that she ia still a member of this Union, and as sucb sho has the same interest m resisting this rebellion, that each limb of the body haa in resisting a poignard whoso point is aimed at the heart. It is her house that is on fire ; has she no interest in extinguishing tbe conflagration ? Will she stand aloof and announce herself neutral be tween the raging flames and the brave men who are periling their lives to subdue them 1 Huudreds of thousands of citizens of other States men of culture and character, of thought and of toil; men who have a deep stake in life and an intense appreciation of its duties and responsibilities; who know the worth of this blessed Government of ours, and do not prizo even their own blood above it say, hundreds of thousands of aucn men navo left their homes, their workshops, their offices, their counting-houses, and their fields, and are now rallying about our flag, freely wffering their all to sustain it, and, since the days that crusading Europe threw its hosts upon the embattled plains of Asia, no deeper or more earnest or grander spirit has stirred the souls of men, than that which now sways those mighty masses whose gleaming banners are destined ere long to make bright again the earth and sky of tbe distracted South. Can Kentucky look upon this sublime pectaclt of patriotism Tiamoved," and then say to herself: St
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