Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-07
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Alexander III. stephens at Augusta,

Georgia.
From spec Ia delivered on the lth of Jaly
by Alexander H. Stephens, to large audience
assembled on the College Green, Augusta, Ca.
we make the following extracts:
Mr.. Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen of Rich
Blond CouHty:-I appear before you to day in
the discharge of duty assigned to me by the
Confederate Congress.
NV business today is to unfold to YOU the ext
gences of this war and its requirements. The
Congress- it is known to you, provided for raising
one hundred Thousand men. Nobly. calamity,
and patriotic.llly has that call been responded
and is now being responded to. Thousands and
tens of thOusands-the exact number | am not
now able to state to yOu-have gone to the bat
tie field. These men, however. must be clothed;
they must be fed; they must be armed; they must
be equipped.
The amount estimated by the Secretary of the
Treasury to meet the requirements to support an
army of this number was fifty millions of dollars
"a large amount. This amount must be raised.
How to do it is the question. But since that ad-
journment-snce that e;timate-.his war has as
sumed a wider aad broader range. IL has taken
on larger and more gigantic proportions, and in
stead of one hundred thousand mtn, We may
have to send two hundred thousand men to meet
the enemy; instead of fifty millions of dollars,
We NAV have. and the probability is that we shsll
have to raise one hundred millions of dollars, and
it may be- ii il goes OH and increases, that we
shall have to raise more. The estimate how
ever Of the Secretary OF the Treasury was 6itv
millions of dollars and whatever number of men
and whatever amount of money will be necessary
must be raised. We do not intend to be subiuea-
ted. Mr.. Lincoln has increased his call from
$4,000 men to 400, 900 men. He has increased
his demand iOr money from the five millions first
asked for (the amount do not exactly recollect)
and asks his Congress, now in session, for four
hundred millions of dollars. Whether he viii
raise his men or his money | know not. All
have say about it is, that it he raises his four
hundred thousand men, We must raise enough to
meet him. and if he raises his four hundred
millions of money, We must raise enough to
meet it,
Our means in men and money are ample to
sustain our Independence We have, upon rea-
sOnable estimate. at least seven hundred thousand
fighting men. Whether all these will be required,
/ know not; but, if they are, every man must go
To the battle field.
Four hundred thousand NAV be formidable
army against US; but II is not as formidable as
the six hundred thousand led by Darius against
the Greciau States; and there have the ex-
ample OF much fewer numbers than We are, fight
ing battle for right for Justice for independence
and for liberty. Men of tn South therefore. let
this war assume its most gigantic proportions, It's
most threatening prospects (nerving our helrts
with the spirit of our Revolutionary fathers when
they were but three million, and coped with
Great Britain, the most powerful nation in the
world)-anmated by these sentiments, Sighting
for everything dear to US, fear not the result,
recollectng that thrice armed is he who hath
his quarrel just" and our fathers. in the bloody
conflict of the Revolutionary war, appealed to the
God of Battles for success in their cause, so NAV
We. since we have the consciousness, in any event
that this is no war of our seeking
We simply wish to govern ourselves as We
please. We simply stand where our Revolution
arv fathers stood in 76. We stand upon the
great Fundamental principle announced on the 4,h
ofJuly, l776, and Incorporated ia the Declara-
ton of Independence-tlat gIeat principle that
announced that the Government derive their Just
powers from the consent Of the governed
After the establishment Of the great principle
after the Acknowledgements of it by Great
Britain in the treaty of 1873. when each separate
State was recognized as Independent, we were not
recognized by Great Braitain nationality. but
the Independence Of each Colony State was
recognized by itself-Massachuset and Rhode
Island, and Connecticut and Virginia, elch one
by itself; eIch one was separate. sovereign and
Independent. They made common ctuse TO
achieve individual and separate sovereign exist
ance After the Revolutionary var they entered
int, a constitutional compact-.hat Constitution
Tint we have ever adored-that Constitution 70
the maintenance OF which / have devoted so
muc!, of my life. We entered into that Consti-
tuition with the people.
But soon after that Constitution was formed. a
large party in the North commenced. as | have
said by construction to torture aud twist the Con-
sttution from It's proper and legitimate meaning.
10 gain power Indirectly. have not time to go
Through, the history Of the country Itis enough
To Nv il ripened within the last few years, and
came 10 maturity uuder the organization of that
purity now in power-that party which now has
the destiny Of the. Unitel States in its hand
known rs the Republican party. Seven States of
the North finally utterly rePudiated the most i'm
portant feature ofit-a feature without which, ]
am told in the language Of Judge Story. the Con-
stitution never would have been made mean that
obligation the NOfthern States entered into TO re
turn fugitive slaves from our country Seven
States arrayed dthemselves-perhaps more-seven
at least, arrayed themselves in open, palpable vi
olation Of this known portion of the compact We