The Hillsborough recorder., 1862-10-29

ine TACT thai Maryland did not Join the Montaomer
Iconederacy, ana YET, with Maryland on our side TO-
night. requires garrison Of 10000 ,ner 10 proec
/ Washington. (Appause) ID
4 =. Collect the duties on foreign goods outside tbs
ports OF which this Government has lost the command
Them. ''Y'"a''
land this, unhapps, wasihe course that was enter.
"S Conquerthe seeded States BY invading armies
no doubt this might be done in two or three wears y
q young andable (ieneral-a Wolfe Desax or d
hoche, with 100000 disciplined men--eslimaline d
MIRO r ga'risons and the loss Of yet greater number
w skrmishes, sieges, battles aud Southern ieyers
The destruction Of life an property on The other side
would be rghtul however perfect the moral discipline
OF the invaders. fs
The conquest completed al that enormous waste 81
human life 10 the North and Northwest, with al least
$25OOOO0 600 added thereto, and esi 6oao? Fifteen
devastated Provinces not 10 be brought into harmony
win Their conquerors, but 10 be held for generations BIZ
neasy galsons at expense quadrupe the net duties
o. aAes which II would he possible to extou from
Them, followed By protector or an emperor.
~. Say 10 the seeded States wayward Sistes de-.
part IN peace.
70 haste, remain very truly, yours,
49, :, WINFIELD SCOTT.
Hon. VIM. H Seward. &C. De, &c.a
Gen. Scott. on the 3d OF March. having
put the President 10 condition to be sworn
io--and being perhaps the only man IN the
United States who could have done that
nDiIfied him that il he entered upon an az
tempt to conquer the seeded States. that. in
'lhe hrst place, he could not do 1t that il
would require young general like Desaix,
toche, or Wolfe that he who had, not
many years before, marched to the capital Of
Mexico with an army Of 10000 men. fight
ing nine pitched battles on the way, meeiipg
no check and conquering an honorable peace,
was unable, with S00,0O0 men, to attempt
10 conquer the seeded States IL two or
three years. He was Informed that il would
require 100000 men, and 10 night, when we
are only half way through in point of time,
we have 100000. lie was, told that It
weuld add 100000 to- the national
debt; and to-day, when We are only year
and one hall through. that debt probably ex-
cpeds s., 100000. 900. The Secretary Of
ihe Treasury reported it last May st $500,
900, 000-double the amount il was then
feared could be required to complete this
conquest. Naw. fellow-citizens, with their
eyes "pvn. 50 far as they could be opened by
ihls great soldier. this attempt was entered
upon 10 eonquer the seeded States.
The Prince proceeded in long speech TO
denoGRce the proclamation Of Lincoln, and
favor the idra u a Convention, 10 which the
South is 10 be invited. We paid high
60 General Mcclellan. which
drew dosn enthusiastic applause. He in-
formed the Republican enemies or Gen. Nc.
Clellan that il they would keep on they
would make him President of the United
States. He denounced Mr. Wadsworth as
bitterly hostile 10 Gen. Mcclellan. aud as
and declared the purpose Of
the Democracy to be TO stand by President
Lincoln as long as he would lei them, and 10
stand by Gen. Mcclellan whether he would
iet them or not. The must contemplate
Government on the face OF the earth he de-
clared 70 be the Republican Government Of
the Northern States; aud after making that
declaration he cried. And now ho for Fort
LafayettrW tie bad been dieting himself
for the last ten months, and thought he could
stand Fort Lafayette for two months. Il
could not hnld more than isr hlndred, sbo
would no, be missed out of the Dcmocrate
majority, and then the fort would be better
glrrisoned than Il ever was before. His plan
vas ,hat Mcclellan should move on 10 Rich
muud. that then convention should be CALI
ed and their Southern brethren invited to il.
iIne Constitution might then b. altered, or
is provisions made more distinct, - that
they should hereafter iIse in peace; and
II The South wnuld not siay, be would say
~ then. 10 ihs language oi Gessral Scor,.
/" Waywaid sisters, depart il peace" lie
progressed his conviction ct tie triumph uf
tie Democracy n, The coming ,lectini, and
.ad that What vi. hrst wanted "a. that New
York should .ee to il thai her votes were ~
posted II the ballot boxcs. They should
not lose Their time N talking, and II people
del call them llallars they must not stop 70
talk. but Just knock ihem down aud 20 20
tie polls. They had been told th.t thel
Snuthern people would nci live, and, 10 his
iaIgnasnt lhry nn4tt mt 10 1--we. under