The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-09-09
Sneech OF mr, Holt.

with immense cheering. He said Fellow
| citizens It is to me source of boundless
rejoicing that the freemen of Kentucky are
| still permitted to call the freemen OF New
York their fellow-citizens applause
! Three cheers for Kentucky" Traitors
within and traitors without have strlven
! increasingly to break that noble old Com
monweaith away from the moorings of her
| LOYALTY, and to send her adrift upon that
! stormy sea of rebellion and treason, where
| so many of our states are now being wreck
ed But, thank God, neither their seduc-
tions, nor their Vaccinations, nor their
| threatenings, have proved of any avail In
spite of all their violence and all their eff
forts to rend them asunder, New York and
Kentucky this night stand forward as sis
tiers. The freemen of Kentucky are still
the brethren of the freemen of New York,
united by the same blessed memories, kim
died by the same transporting hopes, and
animated by the same stern. and infexible
resolve to maintain, this Union, whatever
expenditure Of life the struggle may re-
quire. She has not now, she never has had,
sympathy with the purpose of those con-
| spirators who, at the heads of armies, and
in the mad pursuit of power, are now red
dening their hands in a nations blood
| GApplause.1 She abhors them as Rome alb
| hor Benedict Arnold, as Christians abhor
the memory of Judas Iscariot. That alb
florence was fully expressed in our recent
election and yet in the very face OF that
| popular expression, and in defiance and con-
! tempt Of it, the public papers now assure as
that the Secessionists are now preparing to
! precipitate that State into the horrors of
| civil war, simply and solely because she
| had refused to sell herself TO the DEVIL
| Yet if, like the political bandit of Mexico
and South America, they traitorously per-
| sist in appealing from the popular vote to
the sword, then venture to predict that it
will be found that the Union men of Ken
lucky, with their love Of peace, still carry
bullets as we'll as ballots in their pockets.
4 Fellow-eitizens, I wish had language
in which adequately to convey to you my
grateful sense of the reception have re-
ceived, and my thanks to the distinguished
gentleman who has ia terms so fattering
/ referred to me. The very slight services
which it has been my fortune to render to
our common country,are altogether unwor-
thy of the appreciation they have received
Had done infinitely more, | should only
have done my duty, and / would have been,
infamous in my own view had done less
( Cheers. Fellow-citizens, when / accepted
the distinguished honor from the Chamber
of Commerce of presenting myself before
you tonight, it was with distinct under.
standing that would not intlict upon you
a studied political harangue. An elaborate
discussion of those topics which now so
painfully occupy the public mind is not at
all necessary before the loyal men of New
York. The fearful import Of current events,
and the stern duty which those events i'm
pose upon US all, are. too we'll understood
by yeuisF'sfs TO make it necessary that
should attempt either to describe them, or
to impress them upon your. minds. A few
words, however, in connection with Jour
ney which have recently made through
the loyal States. have everywhere found
the most encouraging sentiment in reference
to the prosecution of this war; have no
where found any feeling of evaporation
against the people of the South; no buster,
no threatening, but at every point solemn
determination to uphold this Government,
connected with e sadness " hose depth OF
tenderness l should in vain eudeavor to
assaGEd5BRs na9 fWEspt s ana 8Shof them for
it; for if a strong man cannot weep oyer
the ruin of such country, and of such a
Government as this, where is the catastro-
phe that can touch his hearth All men
everywhere seem to realize that this ia moi
war upon the people of the South. but
a war in their defense, aud for their
deliyerance- Cheers. "That's trae.pl
lit were indeed war against them, we
might lay our faces in the dust. and confess
that our glorious institutions are failure.
But it is a war against band of consDira.
tors who have arrayed themselves against
our country, and have established militia
~ despotisnl, and who, in the selfishness
aud Inconsistencies of their undertaking.
are kindred 10 those traitors who, in other
ages, have disturbed the repose of nations.
Applause. The public mind no longer
I occupies itself with any discussion as to the
causes of this war. 1t no longer wastes lis
/ logic in exposing the monstrosities of the
i doctrine of Secession. In the light of cur
rent. and recent events, we now know well
what, Secession was intended to accom-
4 piish. Too bitterly we know what IL has
accomplished; and we would no more
think now of gravely examining. with a
view of showing its treason, than we would
think of Analysing the kiss of Judas to
prove that it was full of the poison of
treachery. Applause. Equally matured
IS the public mind as 20 the consequences
| which would follow the success of this
rebellion. The providence of God, and the
most sacred compacts of men have made 40
one people, and the experience Of tbree-
quarters of century has demonstrated that
IN this unity of country, of Government
and OF people, consists at once our great |
ness and our happiness. To disnember
these States now, to cast their miserable |
fragments upon the bloody and wild tor
rents OF revolution, to become The prey of |
every sudaclous aspirer would utterly des- |
troy the last hope that belongs to us.-f
Equally is the public mind fixed, in nv
Judgment in regard to the character OF this
war. 1t is nota war of conquest, or of ac-
erosion, or of spoliation, or passion, or re-
venge; but in every light in which it7canl T
be regarded, it is a war of duty. Zap
pluse.J This struggle is intensely strug-
ge for national existence, and SO halIowCd
in all its purposes and I'M its spirit.
that the flock and the. PASTOR those who
worship around and those who minister at
the altar, may contribute their blood and
treasure IN Its support, and feel sure that in
1olng so they only come up to the require
ments OF Christian and patriotic love. 1t is
a war of duty, because, under the light of