Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-06
ANOTHER SPEECH FROM HON.
JOSEPH HOLT.
He Denounces Traitors, and Speaks
for Kentucky and the Union.

He Denounces Traitors, and Speaks
for Kentucky and the Union.
A great mass meeting was held at Irving
Hall, New York, on Tuesday evening, which
WAS addressed by ex-Secrctary Holt and
other distinguished speakers. We extract
from Mr.. Holt's speech:
Mr.. Holt came forward and was received
with immense cheering. He said:
Fnllow-citizens: 1t is to me source Of
bOuudless rejoicing that the frcemen of
Kentucky are still permitted to call the
freemen of New York thei- fellow citizens.
. GApplausc; "Three cheers for Kentucky
Traitors within and traitors without have
striven increasingly to break that noble old
! Commonwealth away from the mOorings of
her loyalty, and to send her adrilt upon
the stormy sea of rebellion and treason,
where so many of our States are now be-
ing wrecked. But, thank God, neither
their seductions nor their Vaccinations,
nor their threatenings have proved of any
avail. In spite of all their violence, and
all their efforts to rend them asunder, New
York and kentucky stand forward this
night as sisters. The frcemen of Kentucky
are still brethren of the frcemen of New
| York, united by the same blessed mem
ories, kindled by the same transporting
/ hopes, and animated by the same stern, in
, flexible resolves to maintain this Union,
whatever the expenditure of life the strug
gle may require. She has not now, she
never has had, sympathy with the purpose
of those conspirators who, at the head of
armies, and in the mad pursuit of power,
are now reddening their hands in a ma
tion's blood. [Applause.l She abhors
them rs Rome did C"taline, as the Ameri-
can people abhor Benedict Arnold, rs
Christians abhOr the memory of Judas Is
CARROT The adherence was fully express
cd in the last election; AMI yet, in the very
face of that popular expression, and in de-
fiance and contempt of it, the public papers
now assure us that the secessionists are
preparing to precipitate that State into the
horrors of civil war, simply and solely be-
cause she had refused to sell herselfto the
devil TCbeers. Yet, if like the political
bandit OF South America and Mexico, they
traitorousIy presst in appealing from the
popular vote to the sword, then | venture
4 to predict that it will be found that the
Union men of Kentucky, with their love of
/ peace, still carry bullets as we'll as ballots
i'll their pockets.
This struggle is intensely n struggle for
national existence, ana so hallOwed in all
its purposes, and in its spirit, that the
flock and the pastor, those who worship
around, and those who minister at the al
tar, may contribute their blood and treas
ure in its support, and feel that in doing so
they only come up to the requirements of
! Christian and patriotic love. 1t is war
/ of duty, because, under the light of our
Christian civilization, no nation can COM
nit suicide without the perpetration of
n cowardly and atrocious crime, and that
nation does commit suicide which surren-
ders its life up to an enemy from which
manhood and courage could save it. APP
plause.l 1t is war of daty, because we
have no right to bear our fathers names,
and insult and degrade their memories by
giving up the institutions, won by their
blood, TO be trodden under the feet of trail
tors 1t is war of duty, because we
have no right to bestow our names upon
our children stripped of that grand iuher-
itance which rightly belongs to them, and
Tor the transmission of which we are but
the appointed agents of those illustrious
men who won is by the sword, and with
their lives. [Applause.l 1t is war of
duty, because, devoted, us we pretend to he,
to law and order, and all tho highest in
tereSts of civilization, there presses upon
US an urgent obligation to rebuke and
chastise this enormous crime which is be-
ing committed-because it is u rebellion
not only against US but against the race to
which we belong. 1t is, finally, war of
duty because we have assumed to ourselves
as people the special championship not
only of the right, but of the capacity of the
race for self-government: and that assump-
ton has been accepted by the lovers OF
freedom everywhere. and now, with the
nations of the world looking down upon
us, as from the seats of some vast amphi
theatre, we have no right to suffer this sa-
cred and sublime canse to be stricken
down, and crushed upon the battle-felds of
the South, and to perish there, amid the
SCOTS and jeers of kings and despots. APP
plause.
Fellow-citizens, know there are some,
for it is true, who do sincerely believe that
this Rcpubic-the question of public hon.
or out OF question, out of view-that this
Republic could be separated, and that
peace could be patched up, and that the
two governments thereafter could live on
prosperously, peaceably as before. No
more false or fatal thought ever crept, SER
pcut-like, into an American BOSOM
! Great cheeriug.l You might as we'll tell
me that the boat which has been turned
| adrift above the cataract of Niagara will
have tranquil voyage. ECheers. If
YOU will 20 and stand, as many of US have
done, amid the ruins OF crnmbling empires
in the old world-ask them, they will all
tell you it is delusion if you will go
! into the cemetery of nations, and hold
your ear to the sepulchre of7those young
aud generous and high-spirited nations
that have perished through the cOnvul
sions of civil strife, they will answer in ac-
cents of broken heartedness, it is a delu-
sion. And if you will not listen to the
voices of the past, go into. Mexico and
South America, and ask the inhabitants of