The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-09-17
From the New York Tiibnue.
ANOTHER PATRIOTIC AND BRIL-.
LIANT SPEECH DY JOSEPH HOLT.

u ID Il JoSEth
Mr.. Holt came forward and was received
with immense cheering. He said: Fellow
citizens: Ii is TO ire source Of boundless re
joicing that the freemen Of Kentucky ar,
still permitted to call the freemen of New
Yors their fellow.ci'izens. Applause: "Threc
cheers for kentucky."l Traitors within and
traitors without have striven increasingly Il
break that noble old Commonwealth away
from the. moorings Of her loyalty, and to send
her airift upou that stormy sea Of rebellion
and treason, where so many Of our States are
now being wrecked. But thank God, Meth
er their seductions ror their Vaccinations
nor their threatenincs, have proved of any
avail. In spite Of all their violence, and all
their efforts to rrnd her assunder, New York
and Kentucky this night stand forward ms sis
ten. The frccmcn of Kentucky are still the
br-tlren Of the fre.men of New York, united
by the sare blessed memories, kjndlcd by
the same transporting hopes, and animated
by the same stern and infexible resolve 10
maintain this Union, whatever expenditure of
life the struggle may require. She has Mt
now, she never has had, sympathy with the
purpose Of those conspiiarors, who, at the
head Of armies, ard in tic mad pursuit of
power, are row reddenipg their hands in a
nations blood. Applause. She abhors
them as Rome abhorred CatiIIine, as the
American people abhor Benedict Arnold, as
Christians abhor the memory Of Judas Isca.
riot. That adherence WAS fully expressed in
our recent election; ana yet, in the ve'y face
OF that popular expression, and in defiance
and contempt of it, the public rapcrs now
assure us that the Secessionists are preparing
TO precipitae that State into the horrors Of
civil war, simply and solely because she had
refused To sell horsolf to the devil lCheers |
Yet, il like the polisi,al bandit Of South
America and Mexico, they traitcrously per
sist in aPrealin. from the popular vote to
the sword, then venture to predict that it
viii! be found that the Union men of Kentucky
with their love Of peace, still carry bullets as
well as ballots in their pockets. Fellow citi.
zcns, wished had language in which ad
equately to convey to YOU ny grateful sense
OF the reception | have received, and my
thanks To the distingui-hed gentletn"n who
has in terms so f,,tcring referred to me -
The very slight service which it has teen my
iortun TO render To our common country are
altogether unworthy of ihe appreciation ;nvy
have received. Had done Infinitely more
| only should have done my duty, and |
would have been Infamous in my own view
had | done less. Chccrs.l Fellow citizens
when | accepted the distinguished honor
from the Chamber Of Commerce of present
ing myself before YOU to night. it Was with "A
distinct understanding that | would cot in
fleet upon studied political harangue. An
elaborate discussion of those topics which n "
so painful y 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 impose
upon us all, are too we'll understood by your
selves to make it necessary that | should at
tempt either to describe them, or to impress
them uprn your minds. A few words how
ever, III connection with journey which |
have recently made through tho loyaI Sta.es.
have every where found the most encourage
Jog sentiment in regard to the prosecution of
this war; have nowhere found Any feeling OF
evaporation agalns' the people of the nth,
no buster, no threatening, tut at every point
"a solemn determination To uphold thls GOV.
crnment CONNECTED with a sadness whose
depth of TENDERNESS, should in vain cndeayor
to describe. Chcers.I Strong aud brave
men, while speaking TO me of our unhappy
dIsscn,ions, have wept and houorcd thcm
for il for if strong man cannot weep over
the ruin of such country, and Of such a
Government AS this, where is the catastrophy
that can touch his heaul All men every.
where seem now 10 realize that this is not a
war upon the people e the South, but a war
IN their defence, aud for their dcverance.-
Cheers. That's true" lfit were indeed
4 war against them, We might lay our faces
in the dust, aad confess that our glorious IN.
stitutlons are failure. But it is - Wal against
r band Of couspirators who have auayec
themselves against our country, aud have es-
tablished military despotsm, and who in
! tue s,lt,hness an remorsees,ncss Of their
undertaking, are kindred to those traitors,
who, in other ages, have disturbed the re
pose Of nations. Applause. The public
mind no longer occupies Itself with any DIS
cus.ious RS to the causes Of this war 1t no
longer wastes It's logic i'll exposing the mon.
strosi,ies Of the doctrine OF Secession. In
the light Of current aud recent events, we
now know well what Secession was intended
to accomplish. Too bitterly We know what
it has accomplished, and We would no more
Il ink now Of graveIy examining, with view
Of showing its treason, than We would think
Of anal wing tie kis, Of Judas to prove that it
was full Of the poison Of treachery. Applause. |
Equally matured is the public mind as TO the
consequences which would follow the success
Of this rebellion. The Providence of God
and the most sac cd compacts Of man have
made no oac people, and the experience Of
tbree.quarters Of y century has demonstrated
that in this unity of country, OF government
and Of people, consists at once our greatness
and our happiness. To di,mcmber these
States now, to cast their miserable fragments
upon the bloody and wild torrents o. revoIu.
ton, to becoming the rcy Of every audacious
aspircr, would utterly destroy the last hope
that belongs to us. Equally is The public
mind fixed, in my judgement, in regard to
the character OF this war. Ii is not "a war
of conquest, or of aggression, or spjilation, or
passion. or revenge, but III every light in
which it can be regarded, it is a war Of duty
/ [Applause This struggle is intensely a
struggle for national existence, aud SO haow.
ed by all its purposes, aud in its spirit thst
the flock aud the pastor, those who worship
around aud those who minister at the altar