The national Republican., 1862-08-09
THE WAR MEETING.

THE WAR MEETING.
Speech Of Governor Shsplsy, Of New Orleans.
The following ID the admirable speech dellv-
ered N our late war meeting BY the Military
Governor Of New Orleans:
SPEECH OF GENERAL sHEPLEY.
Fellow.citizens Of the United Staets: shall
Ing stranger to you, because In times like
these know but one distinction In this Re.
publio-he that IL for my country Is my friend;
he that ID against my country is my enemy, and
I am bis. IApplause.l Therefore. In an %.
sembly like this, all patriots who have met to
counsel together, and to work together TO sus.
tain their country and their Constitution, are
no strangers. We are friends In common
cause and linked to common destiny. (Cries
Of good."l We must stand or fall together,
and We must stand or fall ~ our country stands
or falls You have been asked here what has
been done to suppress this rebellIony have
heard words addressed to you here tonight as II
there might be In this assembly despondent
hearts. besponding for whsti Did you think
that this was holiday pastime, TO crush re-
bellion that has been thirty years In progress,
and that has now eliminated with four millions
Of supportersH Did you suppose that you were
TO march to bloodless victory, or to succes.
sion of easily won triumphs, over people 80
terribly In earnest o. the traitors who are at.
tempting 10 pull down the fair fabric Of this
Government imagine that no reflective man
entered upon this contest with any such views
but II he did, let him but compare the many
brilliant victories to the few and Insignificant
repulses, and he will have no ground for dc
spondsnoy. But, With the grand and decisive
assured Of ultimate and an early triumph.
[Applause.1 After briefly referring to bis re.
cent travels from Maine 70 Louisiana, he said
have viewed that once proud capital Of the
proud State Of Louisiana. From the dome Of
that Capitol there foated the glorious Stars
and Stripes Of the American Union, and under.
meath the flag, away down in the depth below,
there laid folded up that secession rag which
recently told Its tale Of treason to the people
Of Louisiana, and was quietly folded up and
distinctly labelled by q Massachusetts, colonel
city of Boston," Then will 20, and In future
times, when citizens of Massachusetts, read this
great rebellion among the other rebellions that
have been suppressed, and when In peaceful,
united country their children can hardly real
ize that such thing has been as treason
against such Government a. this, the people
Of Massachusetts will point TO their rebel flag
and say that that once Haunted Its reasonable
folds over the State House Of Louisiana, and
II was replaced by Northern men, by New
England men, with the glorious Stars and
Stripes. [Applause,] And in that State Of
Louisiana that glorious emblem Of the Union
was defended by the men of the green hills Of
Vermont, from the piney woods and forests Of
Maine and from the, shores Of Massachusetts,
bay. [Cries Of " Good" and applause.] And
they will carry down there with them some
lessons that they have had handed down
to them from the Rock Of Plymouth, from the
Declaration Of Independence, and those Arti-
cles Of Confederation that came over In the
Mayfower. That will be permanent blessing
to the men Of the Southwest that they will read
hereafter for their good. [Applause.l Ipsss
down again To that fair and magnificent Ores
cent City, the wonder and the pride of the
South; the centre, the head, the front, the fnan.
cial power, and the very heart of this rebellion;
where the Slidells and the Yanceys have con-
cocted their schemes that have resulted In this
outbreak Of treason; and there beheld, from
the City Hall, the Mint and the Custom house,
and all along on every tapering mast that line
the shores Of the great Mississippi, this glorious
flag that Farragut had planted and Butler de.
fended-[applausel-and since the hanging Of
Numford no other rebel will dare to insult.
Long and loud applause.l Long rope and
short shrifts In the Crescent City Of Louisiana
tells the tale Of the man who dares pull down
ing along the Gulf Of Mexico, until came to
the embattled towers that protected the entrance
to that great gulf, there / saw the flag Of my
country wave out its glorious folds And then,
passing along the shore, as passed Beaufort
and Port Royal, Hatteras, and Norfolk, until
came again into the free, proud, and happy
New England, and seeing, no where along this
route, one single rebel flag, nothing but the
flag Of my country. [Applause.l Then, ask,
has nothing been done? Have we any cause
for dependency? [Cries Of d" No, no."l When
9 man can travel from the mouth Of the Mis-.
sissippi to the Passamaquoddy bay, and see no
done nothing to crush out this rebellion But,
fellow. citizens, there is more to do. There has
been, permit me to say, but one party in the
contest that 10 really In earnest. Those who
are engaged In this work of treason, devote all
their energies, all their property and all their
blood to the Infamous cause In which they are
engaged. The Government has, at its com
mand, oil the resources Of the country In men
and In means Of every kind. mean that which
styles itself and assumes to be Government !;
and that accounts for the wonderful energy that,
Win inltou meuub ~ nlAo 0lsplhyeu. AtuhS QUITO
call upon the people, who are engaged with
them, and the call will meet ready response.
To show the zeal Of the rebels in Louisiana,
when the leaders made demand for materials
for cannon, every church, every plantation,
every steamboat, sent its bell; and the people
not only sent their plate, but the ladies' their
jewelry; everything that could be applied 10
that purpose was freely granted. am also In
favor Of placing within the power Of our Gov
ernment everything that can be applied 10 or
made servlceable to It's use TO bring this wicked
rebellion to close. was sorry to hear It said
that there was no need Of the application Of the
priaciple OF confscation In this beautiful city.
As soon should have supposed that my heart
would have rebelled against It's members, as
Washington should hold within Its precincts o
traitor or sympathizer with the treason. II
there be any spot upon earth whose every AZ
sociation, hope, and interest Ia connected with
and dependent upon the prosperity Of this Gov
ernment that spot Is Washington.
The women Of Georgia furnished the funds
for building formidable iron plated ram OF
Savannah, which 10 now said to be finished, and
Is expected to visit the nelghborhood Of Fort
Pulaski and our feet.