The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-20
A VOICE FOR THE UNION.
ELOQUENT ADDRESS OF THE HON JOSEPH
HOLT, OF KENTUCKY.

MI hoit uelEtTeO an ADDRESS TO lne GU"
liens OF New York, at the Chamber Of
Commerce, on the Sd inst. The following are
passages of the eloquent grafton. He said:
The power of the Government can do
much to correct this evil. But how much
more could be done by the crushing
power of public opinion, branding as infa-
nous, socially and politically, disIoyalty,
wherever and whenever it is encountered.
Applause.
In your railroad cars, on your steamboats,,
in your thorOughiares, in every business, iu
every social circle, disloyalty must be brand
ed and blasted as leaprous and loathsome
thing. Enthusiastic applause. When,
fellow citizens, you meet these men, be it on
Change or in the social circle. and they offer
you their hands, look well at them, and if
you have the dscernment that have, you
will see that their hands are red with the
blood of the brave men-your kindred and
your friends, it may be-who persisted, and
are perishing still, on the reeking battle field
of the country. Applause. l know that
there are some men, few, it is true, who do
sincerely believe that, the question of public
honor out of view, this Republic can be
severed; that peace can be patched up; and
hat the two Governments can thereafter
live on prosperously and peacefully as be-
fore. No more false or fatal thought ever
crept serpent.like into an American bosom.
Applause. .-.
If you will 60 to the cemetery of nations,
and lay your ear to the sepulchres of those
young but glorious and hgh-spirited nations
l,4 hox .laIa
civil strife, they will answer you, in accents
of broken heartedness, 1t is a deusion."
But. if you will not listen to the voice of the
past, 60 to Mexico and South America, and
ask the inhabitants of those bright lands,
blessed with the finest climate on earth, oc.
cupying a soil of eXhaustless fertility, and
living amid rivers and lakes and mountains
full of grandeur and inspiration, and they
will lift up their bowed heads, and amid
Generalization, poverty, and dshonor, they
will tell you it is a delusion. Loud ap>
plause. Fellow citizens, rejoice to be-
lieve that the spirit of loyalty at this time
dwells rich and abundant in the popular
heart of the North and West. But | do
beseech you-yOu who have deep stake in
the present aud in the future of our country,
you men of culture and of fortune, and of
moral power-I do implore you that you
will by all means possible add yet to that
power and to the fervor of that loyalty.
What we need is patriotism, which rises
fully to the comprehension of the actual and
awful perils in which our institutions are
placed, and which is eager to devote every
power of body and mind and fortune to
their deliverance-a patriotism which, oblit.
Grating all party lines-I loud hurrahs -
and entombing all party issues-says to the
President of the United States "Here
are our lives and our estates; use them free
ly, use them boldly, but use them success,
fully for, looking on the graves of our
fathers and on the cradles of our children.
we have sworn that though all things else
shall perish, this country and Government
shall live" Loud applause. 1t is such a
patriotism as that, and such only, which
will conduct you to victory. 1 rejoice to
believe that spirit has been every where
awakened throughout the loyal States
The capitalists OF the country have come
nobly forward [cheers and, risking ALL
have exhibited grandeur of devotion to
the people of Europe, has inspired the ad
miration and gratitude of every true Amer
iaan heart. Applause. If, with all our
vast material resources; If, with our known
and acknowledged physical superiority over
the rebels if, with our camorOus and pro.
fuse avowals of devotion to our Institutions,
we suffer that rebellion to triumph over us, |
believe that the American nation would be-.
come stencil ia the nostriIs of the world,
and that an American citizen would not be
permitted to walk the streets of a European
capital without having the finger of scorn
pointed at him. Applause. Fellow citi-
/ zens, would earnestly counsel forbearance
and patience in regard to those who are
charged with the administration of our Gov.
ernment. Cheers. Before criticising their
conduct we should remember that we may
net see all the field of action, and may not
be in condition to judge, to appreciate the
/ difficulties that are to be overcome. No
man can doubt the courage or the loyalty
OF the President of the United States
! loud, long, and enthusiastic cheers for the
President OR his determination to sup>
press this rebellion. To him, under the
Constitution, the popular voice has com
mltted absolutely the fate OF this Republic
His hands are emphatically your hands, and
/ in weakening him you weaken yourselves
and you weaken the struggling country
which we are all striving to save. He is at
this moment overwhelmed with mountains
OF responsibility and CT toll such as have
rested on no public man in our history, and
he is fully entitled to all the support and
all the consolation which generous and
warm hearted patriotism can give him.
| Applause.
Fellow citizens, amid all the discourage
ments that surround US, have still an un-
faltering faith 10 human progress, and in
the capacity of man for sell government. |
+. believe that the blood which the true lovers
of cur race have shed on more than thou
sand battle fields has borne fruit, and that
that fruit is the republic of the United
States. Cheers. 1t came forth on the
world like the morning sun from his cham
Der. lis pathway has been pathway oil
glory. 1t has brought blessing upon its
people 10 the trimming fullness with which
the rivers pour their waters into the sea-
cannot admit to my bosom the crushing
Al. Al A. 4 II