, 1861-09-19

cuSatlOn ana SuIIlclenJ IOr WarTunI Ol eAccublOu,
abolitionists." Books for the young to circu-
late south of Mason and Dixon's line, must be
expurgated of every sentiment that might nur-
ture the natural aspirations Of youth Gor liberty.
Literature must be exercised Of its free spirit
The newspaper press must be taught that the
limits Of its freedom were to be determined by
the alleged necessities Of slavery. Every right
of speech and locomotion although guaranteed
throughout our entire domain by our consttu-
tional right Of q national citizenship-must be
made subservient to the party who maintained
negro slavery throughout the southern portion
Of the republic They must strew the highways
and byways Of the nation with the peculiarly
explosive gunpowder Of their domestic insti-
tuition" and every citizen whose domicil hap
pened to be in the North must walk the national
highways barefooted, lest he should be charged
with an attempt to fire the southern magazine, at
the same time keeping his mouth closed, lest
southern negro should happen to have his ears
open. Ignorance, violence and tyranny must
become the rule Of the region covered BY the
plan Of the conspiracy; while etfeminacy, tim
idity and spirit Of humiliation, under the name
Of compromise, must become general In the
North and govern in our national councils. We
must become the Sldues Of slarery.
Our history during the last thirty years shows
what consolidated interest, directed unscrupu-
ously towards an object constantly in view, may
accomplish. The thorough transformation and
demoraliza ion Of our people and government was,
by the aid Of party machinery and the corrup-
tons Of place, nearly accomplished in our gen
Grafton. All was accomplished except the ex-
tinction Of northern courage and devoted loyalty
to the constitution. And these only appeared in
this last extremity Of danger, when the conspir
atOrs stood in arms at the gates Of the capital
As to the surviving Of those qualities, the con.
spirators were evidently misled. They supposed
even those dead. And certainly, many Of our
public men stood like monuments marking the
corrupted habitations Of departed spirit and
principles, in attestation Of the truth Of their
supposition. When we had suffered quite every
thing to be lost that the constitution was founded
to preserve; when we had made war on Mexico,
IL not for the purpose, at least with the effect Of
aggrandizing the power that was secretly seek
ing the overthrow Of our free institutions; when
we had submitted to the repeal Of settlements
that had acquired by time character akin to
the constitution; when we had been quietly
coupled in the leash with the southern blood
hound to catch their fugitive negroes, and lose
IN the race our own manhood when We bad
permitted for many years the government to be
administered by those whose traditional policy
was to weaken its foundations why should the
conspirators fear that We would arouse from our
Indifference when they should proceed to the
last act, and with an army Of ffty thousand men
in the field, declare the overthrow Of the gov
ernment and the demolition Of the constitution
Had we not been apparently Indifferent to all
their preliminary movements IN concert, masked
under the name Of southern commercial con-
ventons and plans for direct trade with Europe
Had we not known from Yancey's private letter
to Colonel Slaughter, inconsiderately made pub
lie, that the drit Of the conspiracy was to in
struct and train the southern people to act IN
concert, and at some iavoring moment to tire
the southern heart and precipitate the cotton
states into reyolutionw Had we not learned,
upon the high authority Of Judge Bailey, Of
Georgia, made at Union meeting in Knoxville,
Tennessee, that In 1886 "Governor Wise Of
Virginia addressed letters to ell the southern
Governors, and that the one to the Governor
Of Florida had been shown to him, in which
Wise said that he had an army In readiness 10
prevent Fremont from taking as Scai, If N.ded,
and asking the cooperation of those 70 whom
he wrote?" And yet we permitted our certainly
loyal states to remain unarned, our fortresses 70
continue unoccupied, our arsenals undeended,
our capital unprotected. Newaited TO hear not
only Calhoun's disciple and eompcer, Rhett,
when be signed In the South Carolina Conyen-
ton the ordinance Of secession, boast that he
that day saw the realization Of that for which
he had labored for thirty years" We waited
for the guns Of Monltrie to open on the three
score famished United States soldiers who sup
ported our flag on the walls Of Fort SUMTER
waited to see that Gag which Washington had
horne IN triumph on the sultry plains Of Mon
mouth, and prayed for amid the SHOWS Of Valley
Forge, fall under the fire Of rebels, and 10 hear
the exultant yell Of treason which rang from
Charleston harbor to the Rio Grande.
While history may record L to our shame that,
having the ability to prevent, we yet permitted,
without resentment, the indignites and outrages
Of years; charity may kindly suggest that, con-
scious Of our ultimate power, we hesitated long
to exercise il, and the page which follows that Of
our humiliation will be iliunined by the display
OF the most enthusiastic and glorious exhibition
Of devoted patriotism and loyalty to constitu-
tional principles that the World ever witnessed.
What though the conspirators filed even the
cabinet Of our government with their conleder-
ates, and an the departments At home and abroad
with their tools, while a weak old man held
the presidency; what though they cumulated
crimes till the perjured traitors exhausted the
enumeration Of the decalogue; what Though
they stole our national treasnre-robUed our ar
senals Of their arms, seized fhe guns Of our un-
occupied Qualifications, and turned them upon
the flag Of our country-yeA, stole from the na-
ton the very soil. from the Atlantic coast Of
Florida to the regions beyond the Mississippi,
bought by the national goyeFnment from icreign
powers, for national defence, on which they o "
stand 70 proclaim their treeson What Of all
thatp With al their plundef they are still poor
while we, though robbed, are still rich and pow
ful-riclI In the accmDuated results Of our null
tilarious industry; rich IN our capabilities 10
create again what the waste Of wtr may destroy
rich in all those elements that command conf
dsnee and Il necessary, secure credit; for We are
rich in varied resources and that integrity Of pr-
vate and public purp0se upon which conhdenee
and credit must ultimately fvst. Our power 3
that Of twenty millions Of people, uulcttcred m
this struggle by the shaekles Of any whom We
have ehsiaVed; while about the lraitors nov cliHs