The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-21


Green, in Augusta Georgia, Of whom large number
were ladies'
Mr. sunrarss was escorted to his seat BY Mayor ny
and number Of gentlemen. Judge StearnA presided
and introduced the orator who spoke as follows
Dir. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN or HI~A-om
CouryI appear before you to-day In the discharge a
duty assigned to by the Confederate Congress. An
rejoced to many persons oupefsons OF AN cssss
subjects upon which am to address you to-day
mostiy-most directythe men and particular class q
men at thatI mean the cotton plantersnteres%ing Ill
alike The questions involved questions which concern
all alike They involve the peace Of the countryher po
tca and social existence ALL therefore, do well 10 b
nere. We are involved in waffle most rap0rtane
war that the country has ever been involved ia snos
the Revolution Of fathers-snce American ndepsn-
aepce was declared. We have had many wars SINCE We
nave MAD Indian wars with the different tribes; had
sinai french war, We have had second with The
mother on country Many perhaps who hear mo today
sceading every other in magnitude consequence
the consequences that will result from H.
REBEL soLDRFs MUST IN fRp CLOTHED AND ARMED.
My business day u,sd TO you the ex,oencies Of
this war and It's no Congress il is known 70
you provided for raising hundred Thousand men No.
bly, calamity and patroticay has that cali been pespond
cd TO, and Is now being responded to- Thousands and
tens Of thoasands-the exac, number now abba
To state TO you-have gone to the battle field These men,
however, must be clothed; they be fed they musi
be armed they must be equipped Wars be sustain
cd not by men aloaethey require men and money. Ths
gallant volunteers have responded their part. Tbs
questions upon which am to address to-day relate 70
the Importance Of raising the necessary amounts Of
ney 70 meet these acquisitions
WANTS FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS.
Upon tho adjournment Of the Congress from Montgomery
TO Richmond the estimate was for ono hundred thousand
for the first fiscal year. The amount estimated by
the Secretary Of the Treasury 70 meet the requirements
support army of this number was fifty millions Of
doliars-a large amount This amount must be raised
How to do 1t Ia the question. But since that ADJOURN
nent--since that esti,nate-this war has assumed .
wider and b oader range IL has taken iargcr and
more gigantic proportions and instead Of hundred
thousand men We may have to send two hundred thou
sand men " meet tho enemy; instead Of ity millions Il
dollars, may have the probability il that shall
have TO raise one hundred millions; and it may be- IL Y
gots Gu and Increases that shall have to raise
The estimate however, of the Secretary Of the Treasury
atty millions Of dollars, and whatever number at
men and whatever amount of money shall be necessary
must DO raised We do not intend to be subj Mr. Lin
coin has increased his call from seventy five thousand to
four hundred thousand mon He has increased his do
mand for money from the five millions first asked for
he amount do not exactly recoeeD and asks his Con-
grcss in session. for four hundred millions ef dollars
Whether he will raise his his money know nos.
All have to say about ii is that he raises his four hum
dred thousand men, VIC must raise enough to meet him,
and he raises his four hundred millions Of money,
must raise enough to meet IL.
EVERY MAN, DUTY.
war Of political and social existence and unieas
intend u be oyerriddea aad beaten down and SUBJ
ugated and TO become the vases Of his mercenares and
myrmdons, we must every one Of us-every man. every
boy and every womaDbe prepared TO do our duty Our
means in men and money ample to sustain indie
peadence. We have upon reasonable estimate, at
least seven hundred thousand lighting Whether al
these will be required to drive back his armed mymi
dons, know not bat, IL they are every must 60
the battle field e may think and doubtless does that
four hundred thousand will ntiudate, sub2ate
He should recollec however, should,
and reverentay too, that the race not to the swift,
the battle 70 the strong, but that it is God that gives
the victory.
roUn HUNDRED THOUSAND a FORMIDABLE ARxy.
-Four hundred thousand may be formidable aimy
against US; but II not formidable the six hundred
thousand led by Darius against the Grecian states; and
there have the example of muchfewer numbers thaA
lighting battle for right for justice, for indie
pendcpce and for liberty We have example worthy
Of imitation Six hundred thousand Persans invaded
Greece. These small States could bring against then
the hosts Of Persia not the six hundred thousand but a
that could be brougb, against them, the common plaa
The eleven thousand with vslosous hearts, fighting fur
home, fighting for country fighting for everything dear
to freencn put to flight the hosts Of Persia leaving sxty
Thousand slain upon the field Men of the South there-
fore 10. this war assume its most gigantic proportions
Its most threatening prospects nervng our hearts with
the spirit Of our Revolutionary fathers when they were
but three mlion and COPIED with Great Britain the most
powerful nation in the world Eliminated by these seDti
aents lighting for thing dear to fear not tha
quarrel just and fathers, in the bloody conflict
Of the Revolutionary appealed to the God OF Battles
consciousness in auy event, that this is Of
rIx REBELS WANT TO In LET ALONE"
We simply wish 10 govern ourselves please. We
simply stand where Revolutionary fathers stood In ia
We stand upon the great fundamental principle announced
the ah OF JAY 1776 and incorporated in the Declara
ton Of lndcpcndencehat great principle that announced
that the government derive their just powers from thu
consent OF the governed In the announcement of thi
principle the delegates from Massachusetts, and from
Rhode lsland and from Connecticut, and from all the
Nor States united with the delegates from the Old
pomion and from the Palmetto State, and from Georgia.
the youngest and last Of the colonies then numbering
than fifty Thousand Of the popuation-they united
Colonies aud for the enance of it they pledged their
lives their fortunes and their sacred
side by side with Georgia, John Hancock at their head,
and strange say day the people Of Massachusetts
and the Northern States reversing the position Of
fathers and arc demanding to rule to govern to coercs
to snbgate US against our consent We wish no quarrs'
with them.
STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND THE CONSTITUTION
After the establishment of the great principle after the
Acknowledgment of it by Great Britain, in the treaty 0
1888, when each separate State recognized indie
pendent recognized by Great Britain
tonalty but the independence Of each Colony State
recognized by EMBELLISHMENTS and Rhode Island
and Connecticut and Virginia. each one by ITSELF each ons
separate sovereign and independent. They made q
common to achieve individual and separate
reign existence. After the Revolutionary they
tered constitutional compacttat constitution tha4
have aored-that constitution to the mainte-s
of which have devoted much Of my life We en-
tered into that constitution with this people. Almost from
the beginning large party in the North against IL;
and IS Southern man, in passing, may be excused for
claiming, do, that the constitution Of the United
States mainly the work OF Southern hands. Il n
true the delegates from the Northern States Joined
US in the Convention Of 1881 that made 1t; but
the first programme the outline Of the constitution q
we have it, was proposed by the distn-
guisbcd member from Carolina, Mr.. Pnckney. Anothe-
prog which was said to be the basis Of the conssf
tuition, WAS introduced by Mr. Randolph, Of virginia Tns
Northern men with few exceptions, did net favor thAs
form Of The constitution, therefore,
ing sovereignty to the people, constituting limit
ed government with executive bound by law.
with a legislature bound by law, with State soys-
U
bound by fundamental law, with every officer from tho
highest to the lowest bound by awthis great bulwask
OF constitutional liberty the work mainly Of Souhera
hands Madison is styled the father of IT, Not single
pillar in the temple not single arch in this grand build
ing was laid or reared or constructed by Northern
They had able members in the Convention. detract
thing from their merits They show forth great lights
in the Revolutionary name but two-Frankn and
Hamton-men Of transcendent talents, men Of genius;
bu. neither of them contributed anything the lorna
ton Of the constitution. Mr.. Hamilton for
q different model of government; he aganss
the form adopted, and actually quit the Convea-
before it made. II Is that afterwards when
the Convention agreed upon and submitted the pso
pie he lent all the power Of his gigantic intellect and al
the fervor Of his pure and lofty patriotism TO the
adjustment OF the government but he differed In theory
from the work that done, and afterwards attempted
to incorporate by construction, many his original
ideas But what claim before you Southern
is and am proud of it, that the constitution that made
the old United States what they were under which they
prospered other nation ever has prospersd,
and under which they run the rapid and high c.
rcer In national glory-this constitution was the
work of Southern hands mainly. Aud during the
time OF political existence the administration
of the government mostly under Southern hands
and southern policy but after it was adopted reservnS
State rights State sovereignty reserving popu
lar sovereignty upon the idea that all power POLITICAL
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