The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-21
SPEECH BY HORACE GREELEY.

On tuesday evening the YOUNG Mons Rarnhli
can Association of New York held their ,yooklv
meeting at their room at the Cooper Instituta -
1t having been announced. that Horace GraaI.v
would deliver lecture on the occasion, the small
debating room of the society was well filled bv the
members long before the lecturer appeared
After the President had called the meeting to
order Mr.. Greeley was introduced.
He said he met them at particular crisis in the
country. Indeed they were famous for crises vet
the crisis had not yet come upon them. Over
thlrd OF the Union the government was de fed and
treated as thing of the past. Treason now was
denned as allegiance and fidelity to the government
federal collector for attempting to collect the
revenues was thrown into prison, and men were put
INTO serious peril If they declared the Union was
not already dissolved, while vet no one was pun-
lshed Tor treason to the federal government The
truth was that they had, according to the charter
OF the government, chosen a President one of
whose opponents IN the contest, in the Senate of
the united States in the month of February last
IN pursuance OF his office, counted the ballots and
proclaimed MIR. Lincoln President not of anv mar
ecuiar portion of the States but of the thirty four
Stt. mat the PRESIDENT was taken from a free
1Cate was mere accident. But it was NOT n new
Cnlng IN the history of the country TO elect pros
luent and Vice President from a particular section
jackson and Calhoun were elected President and
wee President from the slave States themselves |
slave owners. Secessionists to-day were the men
VINO enabled them to elect their candidates The
anceys, Toombses and the Jefferson Dayises were
~ .he men VINO broke up the Democratic party for
tne purpose OF breaking up the Union. These were
the men responsible for the result and now thav
accept that fact as pretext to disrupt the Union
1he democratic party was now a dead partv-
peace 10 Its ashes ! The Republicans who were
the ougbears of secession, had never vet passed n
law, and had the secessionists remained in tbair
Piaces, they could not have passed the tariff law
Whlcn indeed the exigences of the country de- |
manded. With regard to slavery thew had how
AM tha Law b.
slohlsts reoeled against were passed by them |
teiVes. The only duty devolving on the President |
was 10 administer the government according to the
principles of the Constitution.
The South had no reason to fear tn at thav ,ro,,d
pass single law in derogation of their RIGHTS
nat was not the pretext; that could ONLY be taken
% IRON the fact that they had lost the government
and the offices. They had surrendered much Tbay
had formed Territories without a word raIs
i've 10 slavery, and therefore it was said that thew
au surrendered their principles, and to that thsy
naGe no reply. But ii no principle had been sur
rendered, had the government been fairly and
hrmly supported, they would TODAY hear NOTHING
ABOUT the surrender of Fort Sumter 1t was there
soIe , eiear that no concessions they could make
saLsiy the secessionists. The conciliators
demanded u the Crittenden reseution-diyide the
territories, give halt and take half But as a mea
sure sure OF compromise, Republicans looked upon
slavery as moral wrong. Therefore they could
not go on dividing the Territories and deyotinp
one-half to freedom and one-half to slavery TbiSS
was Is, against the great principles of the party.
The only compromise was that each portion of
IN. IN Contederacy carry out their principles accord
ing to their respective strength. Union was not
the main thing. Righteousness was above the
Union. AS to compromise, he would sav that every
man man IN tae Cablnet,in the army and navy who had
betrayed their trust ought to be hung. rEond
cheers. His compromise in this wonjd ba 70 ba
content with hanging reasonable number of the
traitors. Either loyalty treason must govern the
country. TO reconstruct the Union according to
the secessionists would be to nut traitors to the
Government back in their old positions and in
that case would any honorable officer serve under
traitors like these? Reconstruction, according to
the mode of those advocating it, was destruction
II they tampered with treason, if thew reconstruct
ed without asserting the power of the Govern
ment, they would only debauch and destrby the
government. They must make new character
LOT themselves IN the eyes of the world for that
which they had lost
The President anxiousy desired peace-his in
augural was peace; but such peace as was secured
Dy cowardly surrender and submission he did not
see sec now the country could desire. (Applause.] If
the on-coection of the revenue wa to be a basis
OF peace, there could be no peace. The only peace
they could have was that which would be found in
obedience to the laws and fidelity 20 the govern
ment. He did not see how peace could come other
wise without bioodshed. His great hope of peace |
rested on the good sense ofhe seeded States when
freed from the menace of military despotism; then
the people would take the matter into their own
hands, and return to the Union. The leaders of |
the secession movement acted like men who play |
ing for heavy stakes and having lost the game |
selze the stakes and demand new deal They |
dared not even now submit their jefferson Davis |
constitution to the people. Men dare not be Union
ists. The only spirit tolerated in the South was
the violent, rampant, overbearng spirit of dis |
union, OF rebellion and treason, led on by mobs |
1t was the duty Of the people to support and main
tain the government whatever the result might be;
they must go on, trusting in God to uphold the
Constitution and the laws
Thus closed the lecture, after which the song,
"Stand by that Flag" was sung, and the meeting
broke nm