Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-14
THE REBELL1oN PORTRAYED.


of some supernatural power, present to those
| left behind the scene upon which l now
gaze, and bring back the answer when
springs in every heart that throbs with loyal
feeling YOU would be thanked as alone would
be fitting for this overpowering welcome. l
remember well, as | entered your magnificent
harbor but a few days past, for the hrst Tune
in NV life could but be impressed with the
evidence before me Of the magnitude the
progress and the greatness OF our country. as
represented upon but one single spot oi ITO
country. But there was connected WIN IL
nainfui throb. and it arose from the reflection
that all that was now being imperiled; and
whatever YOU. fellow citizens, may have sup
posed with regard to the progress OF TINS re-
bellion. or the extent, so far as territory Is
concerned. or the integrity Of the people OF
any section of the country, satisfied as you
may be in yonr own minds that 1t could not
90 beyond the states of the south, L entertain
different opinion.
mean to be understood, if it is to succeed
where it is already attempted, in my humble
Judgment, it will not stop there; in short, that
if the government of the United States as it
existed before the rebellion is not maintained
in all its integrity, we may look forward to
period, perhaps not so remote that some here
present will not see it, when it will give way
here also. Mr.. Hamilton proceeded to inves-
tigate the cause of the rebellion. Had the
theory now advanced throughout the south,
that republicanism was a failure, been put
forth at the commencement Of the rebellion,
it would have been nipped in the bud. But
when the arms and the powder and lead were
all concentrated in the hands Of the govern
ment, they raised the cry: Democracy is
failure. You perceive it is a failure, because
the United States government has failed. We
must get rid of the people Of the north be-
cause they are democratic. Slavery and de-
mocracy cannot live together. cloud and
prolonged applause.) The only reply which
he made, so long as he could make any, to
these statements as to the weakness of de-
mocracy, was: Gentlemen, by the time you
have got through with Uncle Sam, you will
find it strong enough for common use" cloud
cheers.)
He had been what was called loyal man
to the institution of slavery. but the moment
the old flag was torn down, he had told them
that they would make him not only an abol-
ton sympathizer, but an active practical abo-
litonist. Enthusiastic cheering.) He feared
that there were those here who still fancied
that by some concilhatory measures the south
could be brought back to the old government.
There could be no greater fallacy. Gap
plause.) Tho loyal men of the south were
praying to get back into the Union without
any condition or Cancellation. w Ould any
loyal man consent that jeff. Davis should ev
er be president Of the United States. (No,
no.) Mr.. Hamilton continued: / do want to
see the old government when it shall have as
serted its power, make a wise and Just dis
elimination between the guilty and the dclud-
ed. (Cheers.) | want the really responsible
traitors punished. (Applause.) l want the
down-trodden, the suffering, the ignorant to
be allowed to come back like the prodigal son
and be forgiven. (Cheers.) If we cannot
conciliate these men, what can we do? Shall
history record it that twenty-seyen millions of
free men, and women and children, have not
the moral and physical power to strangle trea-
son in fifteen hundred thousand? Is republic
canism to fail upon this continent because that
twenty millions are not sufficiently con-
scious Of their duty to themselves, to the gov
eminent of their fathers, to humanity the
world over, to realize the fact that this re-
bellion can alone be crushed out by physical
force?
l have not doubt but peace propositions
will come from the confederate government
bat they will not come in the shape Of an un.
conditional proposition to assume the Union
as it was, leaving the elective franchise as il
was. We have already seen some of the con-
ditions, or what would probably be the condi-
tons if hostilities were to cease. | do not
thir k that they even would emanate from the
/ cabinel-if | may be allowed the expression
! at Richmond. They know that if the gov
ernment of the United States should, IN its
mercy, pardon their offences, and restore
them to their rights under the constitution,
their own fellow citizens who have been their
victims, would spurn them away, and they
J nfftaptunilV off ,at,f.
they had been convicted OF high treason. The
very desperation with which they are strug-
Cling, ought to prove to you and the world
that they will never stop while they can get
men to bleed; they will never cease to fight
as long as there is hope of success, because
it is the only hope of salvation to them.
They do not feel for the sufferngs of the wives
and the children that are made widows and
orphans by this unholy war; it never has en-
! tered the mind Of one man in this rebellion
who understood its objects to shed tear for
all the bloodshed, misery and woe, which it
I involved. The war must be put down by bay
onets by powder ahd ball, by brave hearts and
strong arms. (Cheers.)
l do not say this because | have suffered
it is because thousands of brave men are suf-
fering now. 1t is true, had l not suffered and
witnessed suffering, l might not, and probably
ings. We are all sufficiently selfish, and
am no exception. If secession is an accom-
plished fact, and the government that has re-
suited from it is an established government
among the nations of the earth, do you believe
that secession would stop there? Are there
no men even in the empire state, in your,
goodly city who would listen to treason.
(Wood, Wood. Wood.) There may be no
such men in all New York, but, fellow-citi-
zens, | would like exceedingly to think that
my hopes of the future depended upon the
fact Of there being no such men. Daughter
| say that | do not question the loyalty Of the
great heart of New York. l mean that man
has not, even here in New York, attained to
human perfectability. There are men doubt
less here who would be willing to be the great
particular magnate here in New York at the
expense of the government at Washington.
(Cheers.)
There is safety for us and fallen humanity
throughout the world in the preservation Of
the government of our fathers. cloud cheers
We have confidence in the flag which floats
over the soil of New York to-day, but when
the one shall have been destroyed and the 9TH
er be trailing in the dust, what confidence
shall we have in equal success? l at home
felt that was a degraded man because | was
son OF the south, and the people with whom
had lived SO long had forfeited their birth
right, and turned away from me, and | was
too big coward to make myself a martyr.
was compelled to leave my home under cir
cumstances painful at any time The angel
OF death had just passed over my house. But
why should | be allowed to remain and weep
with my wife over the tomb of a little daugh-