Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-09-26
Hen. Joseph Holt i'm New York.
His ADDRESS ot AVing Hall. Tuesday Ere
q ming Sept. Sd, lS6I.7dsia1ni ytEgH

Fellow CITIZENS: Il is to me a source
of boundless rejoicing, that the freemen of
Kentucky are still permitted to call the
frecmen of New York their fellow citizens.
Great applause. Three cheers for the
speaker. Three cheers for Kentucky. l..
Traitors within and traitors without have
striven increasingly to drag that noble old
commonwealth from the ,moorings of her
loyalty and to send her adrift upon that
stormy and Bloody sea Of rebellion and
treason, where so many OF orr states are
now being wrecked -butthank God, neith-
CT their seductions. nor their Vaccinations
nor their threatenings have proved OF any
avail. / Applause. Fer despite all their
violence. and all their efforts to renl them
assunder. NewY ork and Kentucky this
night stand before the world as sisters
Great applause The freemen of Ken
tucky arc still the brethren Of the freemen
of New York-united by the same blessed
memories-kindlel by the same transport
ing hopes and animated by the same stern
and inhexible resolve to maintain this Un-
ion whatever expenditure of life or treasure
the patriotic struggle may cost. APP.
plause.I Fellow citizens. kentucky has
not now-she never has had--she never
can have sympathy with either. the spirit
or the purpose those of conspirators who at
the head of armies in the mad pursuit of
power, now reddening their hands in a na-
tion'S blood; it abhors them, as Rene alb
hored Cataline-as the American people
abhor Benedict Arnold-as Christians. alb
hor the memory of Judas Iscariot. That
adherence was expressed in a recent cleo
ton, aud yet in the very presence of that
overwhelming popular demonstration. and
III defiance aud contempt Of it, the public
papers now assure us that the secessionists
are preparing to precipitate that state into
the horrors of civil war simply and solely
because she has refused to follow the ex-
ample, of the man in the legend, and sell
herself to the devil. Applause. And if
like the political bandits, of South America
and Mexico they atrocionsly persist in ap-
pealing from the popular vote to the sword
then venture to predict that. it will be
found that the Union men of kentucky,
with all their sincere love of peace will
carry bullets as well as ballots in their
pockets. Applause. wish that | had
language adequate to convey to you my
grateful sense of the warmth and kindness
of your greeting. and my thanks to the
distinguished gentlemen who SO courteous
ly and gracefully presented me. The very
slight services which it. has been my for
tune to render 10 our common country are
altogether unworthy the generous approci-
alton they have received. Had done in
|fnitely more should only have done my
duty, and should have been abased in
my own conscience and utterly infamous
before the world had I-done anything less.
Applause. When L accepted the dis
tinguished honor f.on the Chamber of
Commerce of presenting myself before you
to night, it was with the distinct under
standing on my part. that would not in
aict upon you studied political harrangue.
A labored discussion Of those topics which
now SO painfully occupy the popular mind
is not necessary before the loyal men OF
New York. The fearful importance of cur
rent events, and the serious duties which
those events impose upon us all. are too
well understood. by yourselves to make i,
necessary that should strive either to ex.
plain them or t, impress them upon your
conscicnces. A few woids, however,
will submit, somewhat in connection with
the journey that 1 have made thr ough sever.
al Of the loyal States. have everywhere
found the most healthy and the most en-
couraging state of public opinion in refer.
encc to the prosecution of the war. APP
| pla Use. have nowhere found any exas-
peration against the people of the South
| Strong and brave men. while speaking to
me of our unhappy distractions. have wep'
in my presence. and l have honored them
for il: for, if brave man cannot weep owe,
the overturn and ruinr Of such country
aud such government as this. when is
there catastrophe that can touch his
heart! . Applause. i Allsseem now tc
realize that this is not war upon the peo.
pie of the South. bntl O. war in their dc.
That's it,'and applause. Hit WERE in
deed. a war against them. we might lay
our faces in the dnst and confess that ouI
glorious institutions were Q faillre, But
it is a war against a band Of conspirators
who have possessed themselves Of the gov
[ernment Of that distracted country. and
twho have established over, it . military
tdcspotism. and who are Initiating the ex.
ample Of the worst of those proffigate men
| whom other ages Of the world have, dis
Itbrbcd the ,repose Of nations. The public
mind no longer occupies itself in discnssion
US to the causes Of this war;. II no Longer
wastes its logic in exposing the nnonstrosi-
| ties of the doctrine of secession, in the
1 light Of Christianity and of; reason. We
now know we'll what secession was intend
ed to accomplish, and bnt too literally we
| know. what it has accomplished; and we
would no more think now ofanalyzins the
cause of this rebellion, than we would think
al. anal lykipg the kiss of Judas. TO, prove
|, that it was full Of the poison, Of treachery
Equally settled is the public mind as to the
Consequence that would flow. from the sue
cess N, this rebellion. The proyidences o.
/ God and the most sacredeompacts Of man
Ihaye lpadsps ,pneO people, and the expert
lepeeo of reerauarters Of 4, century has de.
onatEsted that in The unity Of the conn'
dtty, and Of the government and Of the peo'
pie consists at once our greatness and oul
hsppiness.-To -dismenhcr these states
now. and. caststhein miserable fragments
ppop1 tho bloody eaa waa torrent Of revo-