New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-03
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a GREAT SPEECH.

At the monster mass meeting of Union men az
the Cooper Institute in New York city--a meeting
Of which it was estimated there were fifty thousand
people present many able and eloquent speeches
were delivered by distinguished orators from al por
tons of the Unions but there was none more able
or more eloquent, or more effective, tnan that ae
| livered by the Hon Henry w. billiard OF Alabama
! Mr.. Hilliard was formerly Wing member OF Con
gress but Tor several years past has aliated with
i the Democracy and supported their candidates for
Office In the present contest, after taking de-
liberate survey OF the field, he has determined to
give his support to the Union ticket and has enter
ed into the canvass with all the earnestness and
enthusiasm of his earlier political career. We can
offer our readers, to-day nothing that would be
more acceptable than the following strikingly
beautiful and eloquent passages from Mr.. billiards.
speech on the occasion above referred to-:
All that the South asks is that the Constitution
be upheld she demands nothing but TINT the Gov
eminent be administered in the spirit Of that nstri-
menf Her enemies are the enemies OF the Constr
tuition, and they reach her institutions only by
trarnpling that under foot. She does not envy the
4 prosperity Of the North. She rejoces in the IN
creasing wealth and power of q kindred people
i she witnesses your rapid advancement, your pow
erfu growth, with just pride, and she bids you on
in your course of expansion and civilization; she
sees your splendid cities with hearty satisfaction,
Il flag of the Republic to the remotest seas OF the
globe; she is content with her own lot; she asks
special legislation for her benefit; all that she
/ demands is full participation in the benefits of
/ common government, full recognition of her
rights, and clear vndication of her honor. Loud
/ applause.] Wronged, degraded, excluded from
| the full benefit of her own Government, she will
never consent to be will she suffer her nstitu-
tons to be brought under the ban Of that Govern
ment. When we survey the wide picture of ma
tional power and glory and happiness that spreads
Nnf hnfn,. 1x,1r
| ton against those wild and wicked agtators who
seek to destroy it and we excaim in the language
4 of Millions nervous and earnest prayer against the
i enemies Of the people of England, !" Leave us not
4 prey to these importunate wolves, that wait and
think long till they devour thy tender iiocks these
| wild bears that have broken into thy vineyards
and loft the print of their polluting hoofs on the
souls of thy servants. OH let them not bring abont
| their wicked designs, that stand now at the en-
trance of the bottomless pit expecting the watch
word to open and let out those dreadful locusts
and scorpions, to reinvove us in that ptchy cloud
Of Internal darkness, where we shall never more
see the of thy truth again. never hope for the
cheerful dawn, never more hear the birds of morn
ing sing T. Loud and repeated applause.l
This is a grand struggle between nationalism and
sectionasm. The very existence, of the Union is
involved in it !, men Of extreme opinions seek to
grasp the rens of government, and they succeed
they will plunge the country into irretrievable ruin.
They must be put down. National men-states-
men---Who stand by the Constitution and love the
Union, and desire to see the laws enforced-they
must be sustained, and to their hands we must COM
init the government. Rash men of sectional views
cannot govern this great country perfect illus
ration of what would follow is found in the classics.
Ph@ton desired but for day to drive the chariot
of the Sun; he seized the reinsin his feeble hands
the wild steeds flew from their accustomed track.
The universe was threatened with destru etion and
not until bolt flew from the uplifted hand of Jupi-
ter, hurting the impetuous driver from his seat,
could order be restored to nature Better, far, to
keep rash, sectional, incompetent men out of the
seat of power than risk the task to the aroused
majesty of the American people Of restoring order
and hurting them from their places. [Applause.]
1t is not the first time, it is true, that the candidates
for the highest offices in the Republic have been
taken from one section of the Union but it must
be remembered that this election is made to |
turn alone on sectional issue; every question of
legitimate national policy is ignored and slavery
is the only question discussed. To take candidates
now from one sectien-to proclaim war against
another section-to denounce the institutions of /
coordinate States--this is the issue before the |
country this the policy exhibited to our view and
it never till now threatened to take control Of the
government. they come into power it will be |
the beginning of the end this government cannot
be administered upon that plan. The day that wit
nesses the election of Mr.. Lincoln, if that calamity
is to be visited upon u.s. will witness convulsion
which will shake the institutions of this country to
their deepest foundations. Tremendous enthu-
sasm.
Public confidence will expire-stocks will 90
down-property of every description fall suddenly
in yalue--commerce will feel the shock as if
mighty ships and this grand republican system
this glorious confederacy of free and powerful
States seated in friendly alliance upon continent
over which the gorgeous ensign of the Republic
streams to-day, the symbol of peace, of nnion and
of strength, will rock IL under the throes Of an
earthquake. The mariner can discover with his |
practiced eye the signs Of the rising tempest and
even far in upon the land bird is sometimes seen
flying before the fury Of the coming storm, which |
threatens to sweep its billowy home; and do not
doubt that men Of experience, sweeping the hor
ION with their glasses, begin even now to read the
signs OF danger in some OF those aspects which the
times Disclose to their view, while they escape the
observation of a casual observer. / have always /
been for the Union-I am for the Union to-day; but
the best friends of the Union may be overwhelmed,
as a faithful helmsman is sometimes driven from
his post by the fury of a resistess tempest. Cen
hemen, let me see you arise like one man, and
give three hearty cheers for our noble Union.
THE whole mass here rose with common impulse
and cleered right lustily.l Let US put down now
and forever sectional men; they exult in the hope
Of victory; they spread their fierce legions all
about us, as Leslie's army shut in Cromwell !: let
u.s. like that grand old Christian soldier rise in our
impetuous strength and cut their lines to pieces.
The Union must be preserved; glorious objects lie
before us; our destiny as a nation is not yet full |
filed loud Applanse.l
Mexico, Cuba-those great problems can only |
be solved by us. Europe is just rising under |
the inspriting teaching Of our example Let US &C.
destiny as nation. Upon you, gentlemen of the
State Of New York, depends every thing at this cri
sis: do not be dismayed by the magnitude Of the
task which lies before you; think Of your vast
strength; think of the glory which will crown you
il, meeting the surging pillows which have Just
broken oyer the State Of Maine, you say to them
: Thus far !. shalt thou come, and no farther, and
here shall thy proud waves be stayedn Renewed |
applanse.l It is glorious to great strength dis
played in the benifcent work of saving, and not OF
destroying. fou can save q nation-you can res
cue republic-you can cover yourselves all over
with glory. The Lacademonians stood at the pass
q Thermopyla, and, dying earned immortality; |
they persisted because they were feeble; they |
mighty-you are inyincible rise to the full gran
deur Of your position. Friends of the Constitution
friends Of Liberty. friends of the Republic rise in
the full majesty Of your strength and crush the en-
emies OF your country. Tremendous applause.l
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