Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-27
The 81. Andrew. Society in walhinEtop-

speech OF Secretary Cameron.
AT recent meeting of the st. Andrews
Society in Washington, Secretary Cameron,
in response to toast, made the following
remarks:
The deluded people down South have
strangely reckoned without their host, when
they determined to tear down and dishon0r
the American flag. They have propered,
they have grown fat and powerful under
that flag, but at last they have become fool
ish. They believed that the North and the
West would be divided upon the question of
supporting the nationality of the United
States. How sadly mistaken they have been
all reasonable men must now see. Gentle
men, we have now in the field two hundred
and Fifty thousand men. 1t has been said
Justly, that nowhere in the history of the
world is recorded so sublime an uprising of
a free people. Never was such an army
raised in so short time. [Applause.
There has been much talk Of the hosts
gathered in Christendom to rescue from the
infidel the sepulcher Of the Son of the Liv-
ing God, but they were nothing 70 those in
creasng armies which threaten just punish
ment upon the authors of an unprovoked
and unholy rebellion. [Great applause In
less than three months quarter of million
of armed men have been put into the field,
| in response to the call of the President, to
preserve the integrity of our free institu.
tions, and before six months have rolled
around, have no doubt half million en-
| listed in the same movement will be at the
| command of the Government. Great ap-
| plause.l Thus, those who have been de-
| ceived by their ambitious politicians will
| either wisely repent their follies, or will
have to be swept before the Indignant and
| overwhelming army that will soon be upon
them. [Applause.l We have patiently for
borne the inso ence and the tyranny of the
Southern monarchists for more than a gen.
Grafton. The American people will bear ii
no longer. [Great applause.] Observe that
when a Scotchman, or an lrishman, or q
German comes to the United States, he
merges his own nationality into the country
that adopts him as son; and So when the
revolt is suppressed and this war is ended
our benefcent Government will no longer bt
perplexed by doubtful questions. There will
then be 30 more talk of Virginians, Mary
landers, Pennsylvanians or Mississippians
No, gentlemen, thank God we shall then bt
all Americans. [Great applause.l
Then there will be no fealty but that Il
the Union and the Constitution of the United
States; no miserable casuistry about tht
doctrine of States Rights, and no attempt h
incorporate the heresy of Secession into ou
system. l will say nothing of the Admins
tration beyond this: that as was said mo
ment ago, 1t has at its head q President a
honest and upright q man as ever lived; an
believe that this war will not end, with hi
consent until there will be no cause left 70
war. Applause .E'
Talk about the weakness of this Govern
J ment after all these manifestations of tn
! spirit of the peoplel Why, it is the strongei
Government to-day in the world 1t is III
| Government of the people. Every man
here sovereign, and every man is acting
t defense of his own rights, while obedient
the great bond which unites US in eommo
: brotherhood, and makes every inch
, American soil sacred TO the whole peopl
8 This army which has been gathered, repr
!, cents such people; and when GeaSynass NEE
s | am confident they will gladly raJify ever
y thing that has been done by the Preside
y and the Cabinet, under the extraordina
/ emergencies in which they have found thei
d selves. [Applausel
On@he other hand, the Government of Il
monsrchists of the South ignores the peopI
G and is already seeking for examples amOl
the despotisms of the Old World to condu
and complete its experiment of demoraliz
IS ton. They have no sympathy with the
dustrious and laboriDg masses of our peopl
q They live by the sweat Of other men
a brows-the sinews and muscles of other mt
e feed them, and their misfortune is that thu
g have done nothing but govern. Here, in Il
e grand army of the Republic, you find Il
r tailor and the lawyer, the merchant Il
J, clergyman, and the professori all classes al
| trades mingle together, and are moved
|. the same influence, and resolved to prote
O and preserve the country which protects al
q preserves them. Such people can not on
|. not be conquered but will always conqu
d when they resolve to do so.