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SPEECH OF EX-RESIDENT—PIERCE
The following speec i was de livered bv ex
I ieiueiit Frank in Puree, on the occasion of
his presiding a' the gteat Democratic mass
meeting at Concord, N 11., on the Fourth :
Ml FRIENDS AND I'ELLOW COUNTRYMEN T
while I have come to preside at th s meeting,
at your bidding, premit me 'o say that no
command I -sa imperative than -your wish on
such ao occasion w mid h ve brought me heie:
and I trust that in view of the great aggrega
tion of personal relations which thirty years
of manhood life have formed bet wen us, you
will recognize in ttiis fact a wtr a reciproca
tion, on n.v part, of the respect and affection
whi ill, in all that time, I have never failed
to find on yours. \\ e meet on the anniver
sary o! a day halo,red by solemn memories,
an ! sand iti d as that of the birth of the
American Union. The Declaration of Inde
pendence Iml the foundation of our political
greatness in the two fu >l.uncut 1 i leis of the
ab.-o uie ii.de. e uienc-of tiie Americ n people,
and of the M veie'guiy of their respective
sta'es. I oder that standard our wise and
iu roe forefathers b.uglit the battle of the
Revolution ; under that they conquered.
iti this ,-prrit the}' established the Union,
having the conservative thought ever pres
entto their moids, of the origul sovereig.itv
and indepeiideuce of the several S'atcS, all
!i <e.*s institutions, interist, opinions and
halitts, to he maintaiue i intact and secure,
by the reciprocal stipulations and mutual
cotnpromi-es of tie constituiion. They were
master builders, who reared up the grand
ruciur# of the Union, that august temple
oei.eatli w !io?e do no th ee generations have
i : j wed such blessings of civil liberty as were
never before vouchsafed by Providence to
man that ten pie hi ( re whose altars you
til l I have not only bowed wnh devout and
grateful hearts, but were, with pan-tie vow>
i"d s-icr.ii -e, we have *o quni ly consecra
id < urwiVi'B to the j roiection and lnairte
u oiccof those 1 fty c ifumos of the Constitu
tion by which t was nel I. N > visionary en
t iii siast wore they, d;earning va'tily of the itn
p-- l- un f 'no tv of sme wild Umpiaufrhe 4 '
•.vii un g n iti-cis. N • I'spTit" reformers
wore tiioy, madly hint n; on schemes which
i! c msiiui • I, c -li i only res tilt in gone raj
c .iiiu-:on , :.i otrl-y, and cha s Ob, no ! high
hear'e I, but vagaci >us an I practical stae-mion
-11. \ wer.-, who saw society as a iivu g fact
not as a trouble I vision; who knew that
national p- wir consists ir the reconcilement
of Vet si sties . I in-' itn' ions and interests
n t .iir eonti ct an 1 obliteration : and who
a v th.it varietv an 1 a lijitmn of parts are
i lie i:e-- irv elements of all there is sub
lime <-r beautiful in ihe works of art or of na
'ore M j-'stic were the sohd foundation ß , the
m:is>ive masonry, the columned loftiness o'
that magnificent structure of the Union. G!o
t-ions was the career of prosperity and p ace
to 1 power t-pon which, fr m its very birth
■ lav, the American Union entered, as with
-hea-s tre l march of the c-msious off-pring
f tli -se giants ot the i! ;v lutiou. Such was
ii • L" i " i, -is c m -j vi 1 i i 1 a 1 n'-oistore I b y
Washington an 1 A lams by Jefferson and
II i li- .a in I i icks >•!. Snob, 1 say, was the
Union, ere the evil time- Befell us ; ere the
madness of sec'ional hatreds anrn MMes pos
s--se ! ii-. ; ere the third generation, the all
comprehensive pitriiß's nof Fathers had
died tut and givui place to the passionate
emotions of narrow an I agtrcssive sec ioii.il
sin. Tue Eastern States covered the s i
with their ships, the land with the r farms
and manufactures ; s did tio m IDo At in
tic States with albfin of their mineral
wealth of c->al and iron ; while the S- uth err
States, with heir tich, sift ch mite an I fion
genial mih rai-cd up those great staples o'
cotton, t "hacco. sugar, rice and corn, which
are the life of commerce and manufactures,
and the vast regions of ihe West grew to he
the granaries of Eur qoe and Americi ; and
siiD fnrta-r on was revealed the land . f gold
and silver, on the tctii"te shore of the Pacific
, hese were tlie material elements of our
na'ional power—each state with i-s difference
of intercuts, cooperating with the others to
constiti'e one hartno nious whole. And so
ihe various European races cm xisting here,
thou '.i differing in blood, religion, temper,
the Protestant and the CVliwlic, the Puritan
and the Cavalier, yet, bv their very d.ffer
enccs of chiracter a.f-rhl the un it al and
moral e'ement s of the power of the Union
Glorious, sublime above all that history rec
ords of national greatness. was the sjieCai'le
which the Union exhibited to the world, so
lung as the true spirit < f the Constitution
lived in the hearts of ihe pe >p'e, and the
goverumen' was a government of men recip
roc ally respecting one an other's rights, and
of sta'es, each moving, plant-like, in the or
bit of its proper place in the firmament of the
Union. Then we were the model repndfic of
the tyorhj, honored, loved, or feared where we
were not loved, respected abroad, peaceful
and happy at home. N<> American citizen
was then subject to be driven into exile for
opinions sake, or arbitrarily arrested and in
carcerated in military bastiles—even as he
may now be—not for acts or words of impu
ted treason but if lie do but tnotinr in silent
sorrow over the dessolat ion of his country ;
no embattle d b"Stsof Americans were then
wasting their lives and resources in sangui
j nary civil strife ; no suicidal and parricidal
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S fIIGIIT/'-Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1863.
civil war then swept, like a racing tempest of
deith over the stricken hoij)e*teads ( nnd wail
ing cities nf the Union. Oh, a
change should have come over our country
in a day, as it were—as if all men in every
state of the Union, North and South, East
and West, were suddenly smitten with hom
icidal madness, and "the custom of tell deeds "
rendered as familiar as if it were a part of
our inborn nature ;as if an avenging angel
had been suffered by Providenc s to wave a
sword of flaming fire above our heads, to
convert so many million of good men, living
togethr in brotherly love;into insenate be
ings, savagely bent on the destruction of
themselves and of each other, and leaving
but a smouldering ruin of conflagration and
of blood in the place of our once blessed Un
ion. I endeavor sometimes to close my ears
to the sounds, and my eyes to the sight of
w.x>, and to ask myself whether all this can
he—to inquire which is true, whether the
past happiness an 1 prosperity of my Coun
try are but the flattering visn n of a happy
edeep, or its preseut misery and dessolation
hi'ppi'y the delu-i n of s< m • disturbed dr. an.
One or the other sees incredible and impossi
ble ; hut ala. ! the stern truth cannot thus
be dispelled Iroin our minds. Can you* for
get, ought I especially to be expected to for
get, those not r> mi te days in the history of
our country, when its greatness and glory
>hed in rtthclionat least of their rays up
on all our lives, and thus enabled us to read
the lessons of the fathers, and of their
Constitution in the light of their principles
and tl e r deeds ? Then war was conducted
only against ihe foreign enemy, and not in
the spirt and purpose of persecuting non
combatant populations nor of burning unde
fended towns or private dwellings, and was
'ing the li. Ids of the husbandmen, of the
workshops of the artisan, but of subduing
armed hosts in the Held. Then the Congress
oftheUiftid Sinus was the great coun
nl of ihe whole Union and all its parts,
fhen the executive administration looked
vith on a till eye ovr the whole domain
our the Un itoi, at xiotis to j u mote ihe in
terests and c insult the tion or an 1 ju-t pride
of all the s ales, se.-ing no power beyond
t lie law. and devoutly obedient to the de
mauds "f tlie Constitution. IE wis all this
changed ! And why ? Have we not been
mid, in this very place, not two weeks ago,
by the voice of a i authoritative ex postor j
d< we not ail kn nv th it the ciu eof our ca
I unities ts the Vicious iiitermeddlciilg of too
many of the citizens of the Northern States
with tlie c institutional rights of the South
ern States. cooperating wnh the discon
tents of the people states ? Do we not know
i hat the disregur 1 of the Constitution, and of
the security it affords to the rights of states
and of individuals, lias been the ciuseof the
calain tv which our con ntrv is calkd to un
dergo ? and no-v, war! war, in its direst
shape— war such a it makes the blood run
o Id to read of in tiie history of other nations
and of otlie" times—war, on the scale of a
million of men in arms—war, horrid as that
••{ barbaric ages rages in several of the states
nf the Union, as its more immediate fit-Id
to 1 ci-ts the lurid shadow of its death and>
lamentation athwart the whole expanse, and
i nto every nook and corner of our vast do
main. Nor is that all ; for in those of the
>tates which are exempt from the actual rav
ages of war, in whic.it the roar of the cannon,
and the rattle of the musketry, and the
groins of the dying, are heard but as a faint
i coo of terr >r from other lands, even here in
ihe loal states, the model hand of military
usurpation strikes down the liberties of tin;
people, and it foot tramples on a desecrated
Constitution. Aye, in this land of free
thought, free speech and free writing—in
tnis republic of free suffrage, with liberty
of thought, and expression as tin very es
-ence of republican institutions—even here,
in these free states it it is made criminal for a
citizen soldier, like gallant Edgcrly of New
Hampshire, to vote according to his con
science, or, like that noble martyr of free
speech, Mr. Vallantlingham, to discuss pub
lic aliairs in Ohio, aye, even here, the tem
porary agents of tlie sovereign people, the
transitory administrators of the government
tell us that in time of war the mere arbitrary
will of the President takes the place of the
Constitution, and the President himself an
ounoes to us that it is treasnable to speak or
to write otherwise than as he may prescribe:
nay, that il is tr asonable even to be silent,
though we be struck dumb by the shock of
the calamities with which evil counsels, in
competency and corruption have overwhelmed
our country ! I will not say this without re
ferring t > the authority upon which I rely.
In his letter of June 12. 18G3, a dressed to j
E.'istns Corning and other citizens of the |
State of New-yolk, the President makes use i
oi the following extraordinary language: " In j
deed, arrests by process of courts and arrests |
in cases of rebellion, do not proceedaltogeth- !
er upon the same basis, the former is direct
ed at the small percentage of ordinary and
continuous perpetration of crime, while the
latter is directed at sudden and extensive
uprisings against the government, which, at
most, will succeed or fail in no great length
of time. In the latter ease arrests are made,
not so much for what has been done, as for
what probably would be done. The latter
is more for the preventive and loss for the
vindictive then the former. In such cases
the purposes of men are much more easily
understood than in cases of ordinary crime.
The man who stands by and says nothing
when the peril of his government is discuss
ed, cannot be misunderstood. If not hinder
ed, he is sure to help the enemy; much raore>
if I e talks ambiguously— talks for his coun
try with " buis and " ifs " and " ands."
it is seen by this letter, at least, that there
is no longer donbt as to where the responsi
bility for those unconstitutional acts of the
last two years, perpetrated by subdornate
officers of the federal government, both civil
and military, properly attaches ; but who I
ask, has clothed the President with power to
dictate to any one of us when we must or
we may speak, or be silent upon any subject,
and especially in relation to the conduct of
any public servant ? By that right does he,
presume to prescribe a formula of language
for your lips or mine ? It seems incredible
even wiih this authenticated paper before us
is amazing, that any such sentiment should
have found utterance from the elected repre
sentative of a free government like that of
the Liiiicl States. My friends, let those
obey such honest who will; yuu and I have
been nurtured here the granite hills
and undtr the clear skies of New Hampshire
into no such servile temperament. True it
is, that any of v<>u, that I my sely, may be
the next victim of unconstitiuonal, arbitrary,
irresponsible power.
But we, nevertheless, are freemen, and we
resolve to live, or if it must be to die, such-
Falter who may, we will never cease to hold
up on high tiie Constitution of the Union,
though torn to shreds bj' the sacnligeous
hands of its enemies. llow strikingly sig
nificant, how suggestive to us. on this occa.
sion, is the contemplation of that august spec
tacle of the recent convention at Indianapolis,
of seventy-five thousand citizens calmly and
bravely participating in the discussion of the
great principles underlying their sacred rights
as freemen—neither awed by cannon frown
ing upon their liberties nor provoked bv
threats into retaliatory violence. I would sav
to you fellow-citizens, emulate that exhibition
of wisdom and patriotism. Be patient, but
resolute. Yield nothing of your rights, but
hear and forbea t. Let your action show to
the wot Id that with courage to confront des
potism you have also the discretion to avoid
hiconsiderate action in resi.-ting its advances.
George Washington and Samuel Adams.,
Matliew Thornton and Charles Carroll
George R- ed and Roger Sherman, PhilUp Liv
ingston and William II oper, Benjamin Frank
li ii and Edward Rutlege, George Walton and
Richard Stockton, with their associates of all
the thirteen then Independent sovereign
states, stood eighty-seven years ago to-day,
in that simple hut most memorable room'
where the Declaration was signed, like the
people of the states whom they represented ,
with the solemn grandeur of high resolve, if
pparer-tly weak, yet with their armor on and
heir hearts strung fur the great contest of
l-.tcir. I. we cannot be joyous and ex
ultant on thi* anniversary of that day, it may
do us good to remember that j >y and exulta
tion were far from the hearts of the hrave
m n who sanctioned the Doclara'io.i of Inde
pendence, anl then fought, .-even years to
maintain it. No ! they were not joyous, but
determined. They felt the inspiration of a
great object; and they sought its accomplish
ment with a stern, devote!, self-sacrificing
spirit. They were animated by that deter- ,
inination which in a righteous cause of self
vindication is invincible. They knew the
condition of the provinces in point of men
and munitions, and they had a clear percep
tion of the colossal power which they were to
confront. But neither one nor the other
consideration, nor both combined, shook ei
ther their faith or their courage. They com
pensated for the want of numbers, arms, and
all which u ider ordinary circa nuances goes
to constitute the sinews of war, by the glow
of their patriotism anil the strength of then
purpose. T<r be sure they fought for their
rights, but their endurance and energy were
quickened by an incalculable power; they
fought for their homes, their hearthstones,
their wives and children behind them. I
trust it may be profitable on this occasion, as
the call of your meeting suggests, to revive
the memories of that heroic epoch of the re
public, even though they come laden with re
grets. and hold up that period of our history
in contrast with the present. Though they
come to remind us of what were our relations
during the Revolution, and in later years,
prior to 1801, to that great commonwealth
which we were accustomed to refer to by the
name of ,k the Mother of Statesmen and ol
States and of what those relations now are.
Can it be that we are never to think again of
the land where the dust of Washington and
Patrick of Jefferson and Maddison
I repose, w<tn emotions of gratitude, admua
i tion and fillial regard? Is hate for all that
i Virginia ha* taught, all tiiat Virginia has
! done, rdl that Virginia now is, to take the
! place of sentiments which we have cherished
j all our lives ? Other men may be asked to
\do this, but it is in v?.in to appeal to me, So
far as my beart is concerned it is uot a sub
ject of volition. While there tnay be those
in whose breasts such sentiments as these
awaken no responsive feeling. I feel assured
as I look over this vast assemblage, that the
grateful emotions which have sigualized this
~ ir* 'l nnr TJ*'' '- >r n
less yours than they are mine to-day. Let
us be thankful, at least, that we li ive ever
enjoyed them : that nothing can take from us
the pride and exultation we have felt as we
saw the old flag unfold over us, and realized
its glorious accretion of stars from the origi
nal thirteen to thirty-four; that wc say much
when we say, in the language of New Hamp
shire's greatest son. If we can with assur
ance say no more, The past at least is se
cure." But if we cannot be joyous, my
friends, as we have been on this anniversary 5
let us show that it is our privlege, with the
blessing of God, to be considerate, brave, and
wise. If there be anything of the great in
heritance, tinder existing circumstances, to
save, may we not in ar humble, earnest way
contribute to that salvation ! If we cannot
do all for which our hearts 3*earn, may we
not at leat approach its consummation in
that spirit of devoted loyalty to the Consti
tution and the Union which we feel ? Let
the disregard of others for what the Revolu
tionary fathers achieved, and for the compact
which they made, subdued as they were in
all things bu* a sense of honor and right by
tin stiff -rings of seven year's war. now st'iid
out before us. Let the people realize what
this constant ringing in their ears of the
charge that "the Constitution is a covenant
with Death and a League with hell" has
brought about. And then let them see and
feel what we had in eighty years of unexam
pled prosperity and happiness under that Con"
stitutioti. Let them look back upon those
eighty years of civil liberty, of the reign ot
constitutional law ; eight}' years of security
to our homes, of living in our castles, humble
though they may have been, with no power
to invade them by night or by day, except
under the well-defined and exhibited authori
ty of law,—a written, published, law enacted
by themselves for the of crime
and for their own protection,—eighty years
of the great experiment which astonished the
world. If the people will do this, I cannot,
I will not believe, that we are so smitten bv
judicial blindness that the great mass of our
population, North and South, will not some
day resolve that we coma together agm u i
der the old Constitution with the d.i flig. I
will not b-dieve that this experiin nit of man's
capacity for self g ivernment, which was so
successfully illustrated until all the Revolu
tionary men had pa*se<l to their final reward,
is to prove a humHiaring failure. Whatever
others may do, we will never abandon the
hope that the Union is to be restored.
Whatever others may do. wc will cl.ng r 0 it
" as the mariner clings to the last plank when
night and the tempest close around lnm."
No matter what may have ueen done. North
or South, .to produce it, this terrible ordeal t f
blood which has been visited upon us, ought
to be sufficient to bring us all back to con
sciousness of responsibilities and duties.
L'iie emotions of all good men aie those of
soirow and shame and sadness, now, over the
condition of their country, when they retire
at night, and when tliep open their eyes up
on the dawning day, struggle against them
though they may. Why should they attempt
to disguise it ? Solicitu lo which hinges upon
apprehension of personal d mger or pers mil
loss, and that alone, is contemptible, tri
fling men may indulge in trifling word and
thought, while the foundations laid by the
fathers are crumbling beneath their feet ; but
the artificers who laid those foundation
found no time for trifling while engaged in
their grand and serious wotk ; nor can you.
They could lift up their souls in prayer; hut
they had no heart for levity and mirth. My
friends, you have had, most of you have had,
great sorrows, overwhelming personal sor
rows, it may be ; but none like these, none
like these which come welling up, day by
day, from the great fountain of national dis
aster, red with tbe best and bravest blood of
the country, North and S mth—red with the
blood of those in both sections of the Union
whose fathers fought the common buttle of
independence. Nor have these sorrows
brought with tliem any compensation, wheth
er of national pride or of victorious anus.—
For is it not vain to appeal to you to raise a
shout of joy because the men from tiie land of
Washington, Marion, and Suinpter are baring
their breasts to the steel of the men from
the land of Warren, Stark, and Stockton; or
because, if this war is to continue to be wag
ed,one or the other must go to the wall—
must be con igned to humiliating subjugation?
This learfnl, fruitless, fatal civil war has ex
hibited our amazing resources and va-t milt
tary power. It has shown that united, even
ii cirrying out, in its widest interpretation!
the M inroe doctrine, on this continent, we
could, with such protection as 'he broad
ocean whith flows between ourselves and Eu
ropean powers affords, have stood against the
world in arms. I speak of the war as fruit
less y for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the
basis of the proclamations of September 22 I
and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted as I
must nnderstand tho-e proclamations, to say
nothing of the kindred brood which has fol
lowed, upon the theory of emancipation, de
vastation, srhjitgation, it cannot fail to be
fruitless in everything except the harvest of
woe which it is ripening for what was once
the peerless republic. Now, fellow-citizens
after having 6aid thus much, it is right that
you should ask me, what would you do in
this fearful extremity ? I reply, from the
bcrinninc of this struggle to the preseat mo
I TEriMS s SI.GO rEll -A.3STISJTJ3VI:
merit, my hope his been in moral power-
There it reposes still. When, in the spring
of 18G1, I had occasion to address my fellow
citizens of this city, from the balcony of the
hotel before us, I then said I had not blicved;
and did not then believe aggiession by arms
was either a suitable or possible retnedv for
existing evils. All that has occurred since
then, has but strengthened and confirmed my
convictions in this regard. I repeat, then,
my judgment impels tne to rely upon moral
force and not upon any of the coercive instru
mentalities of military power. We have seen
in the experience of the last two years, how
to' ile are all our efforts to maintain the L nion
by force of arms; but even had war been car
ried on by n> successfully, the ruinous result
would exhibit its utter impracticability for
the attainment of the desired end. Through
peaceful agencies alone, can we hope to " form
a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure
domestic tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare and se
cure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
posterity," the great object for which alone
the Constitution was formed. If you turn
round an 1 a-k me, what if these agencies fail ;
what if the passionate anger of both sections
forbids; what if the ballot b>x 13 sealed ?
I hen, ail efforts, whether of war or peace,
having I.died, my reply is, you will take euro
of yourselves ; wita or without arms, with or
without leaders, we will, at least, in the effort
t our rights as a free people, build up
a great mm-oieam of hearts to which men
who yearn fur liberty will in after years,
with bowed heads and reverently, resort, as
Christian pilgrims to the sacred shrines of
the Iluly Land.
SPARKLIXC GE3IS.
Repentance hith a purifying power, and
every tear is of cleansing virtue but these
penitential clouds must be still kept dropping;
one shower will uot suffice, for repentance
is not single action but a course.
Genius lays if 3 eggs with ostrich-like care
lessness in the san Is of the world, most of
t.icm to be crushed under the feet of men
and beasts, and some to hatch and furnish
leathers for the cap of mediocrity or dullness,
to plume the shafts aimed at the parent
heart.
The man who needs a law to keep from
abusing an inferior animal' needs a prison to
prevent his violating the law. It ought to
be enough to deter any man from cruelty
that the olj cr.sof it cannot speak for them
selves, cannot bear witness aguust him, aro
dumb.
We have politics and trade, and the daily
dust of life rises with the morning mist and
settles with the dew ; but over all things,
serene and silent and starry, rises she heav
en of a nation's soul its—literature.
There is a class o! people who think that to
he grim-isto be goo 1 ; that piety is a sort of fa
cia! and that a thought to be realv whole
some must be shaped like a coffin.
Many persons think themselves perfectly
virtuous because, being well fed, they have
no temptation to vice. They don 4 t distin
guish between virtue and victuals.
Those nervous folks who are annoyed by
everything that approaches them, annoy
everybody they apprutch.
Every good doctrine leaves behind it an
external furrow ready for planting of seeds
which shall spring up an abundant harvest.
We are to'd to " take care." but it comes
soon enough whether we take it or not.
To lead the forlorn hope on the field of
carnage requires less nerve than to fight no
bly and unshrinkingly the bloodless battle of
life.
We pass for what we are. Character
teaches above our wills. Men imagine that
they communicate their virtue or vice only
by overt actions, and do not see that virtue
or vice emits breath every moment.
The way to be accounted learned is not to
know everything, but to be able to marshal
up what you do know, be it much or little 3
and tell it.
Kinder is the looking glass than the wine
glass, fr the former reveals our defects to
ourselves only, the latter to our friends.
A HOME FOR SALE.
How much we dislike to read so sad an
announcement in the advertising department
of a paper ! Not a house and grounds only,
but along all the cherished memories and
tender associations of the place, th.it
that enrich it with a weath beyond the com
putation of business men, the traders in
home-steads and other classes of real estate.
It is a sorry day for a man—and more so for
a family, when he is obliged to give up his
home and go drifting again over the world.
No experience like this shocks the sensitive
heart. All gone—all deserted ! The lights
shinning no more in the window. The famil
iar faces pressed no longer against the pains.
The lire gone out. The smoke no more curl
ing from the chimneys. The dear voice will
not he heard there again, though the men
piss and repass the h >use daily. Ah, there is
needed no desolation of a sort like this.—
He must he a hard and undeveloped nature
that can contemplate such a scene witout the
I deepest emotion. To lose one's home is to
lose nearly all that eaith has to ctter of Lap-
J piness to man.
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