The Portland daily press., 1862-10-31


war ITSELF Thus will you strengthen the hands
of the rebels. Erery democratic uictory,
therefore, in any Of the free States, ,ciH haze
the moral influence of rebel rictory in the
tnSurrectionary States. And | assure you
that couscentiously believe that triumph
OF your Organization in New York alone,
would be worth more than victory on the
battle field" to our enemies, but not to us. No
mere moral influence of any action of your
people would or could affect the peace of the
Border States more caamtously than your
success. That would add men to the rebel
army, and secure no stnted means for its sup
port. 1t would nerve the rebel arm to strike
more terrific blows at the life of the nation
than have heretofore been struck because the
rebels would believe your State morally on
the side of the rebellion.
WHAT THE sLAvE-sTATE UNIoNIsTs ASK.
No, sir,-no! The loyal men of 'the bor-
der and more Southern states do not implore
you to continue your party organization. On
the contrary, they implore all loyal men, in
all the Northern States, to abandon their par
ty organization, and TO unite in the election of
their officers, national and state, that they NAV
strike great moral blow at the heart of the
rebellion. Let but the lust and patriotic
men," OF whom you speak, of all parties, do
this, and all will be well with us. Were there
but one party in the free States, and that
heartily united in determination to put down
the rebel cause, the rebels would never enter
upon another winter campaign. The great
mass of them wo1d be induced to throw
down their arms in despair, and implore the
mercy OF that government which yon justly af-
firm to be ''the best government that ever ex-
isted."
NO PEACE WITH DIsUNIoN POSSIBLE.
If there be those among you who begin to
th. frfo 4A
and to regard its suppression as thing imprac-
tcable; who desire and are seeking to find
that, in our condition impossible thing-hon-
cradle pedce--let me forewarn them, they
know not what they do. Peace, and a disso-
luton of the Union our fathers made! Peace,
and the recognition of that monstrosity called
the Confederate Statesw That would be but
the beginning of unending wars, or wars end
ing only with the establishment of other ma
tionaties, if, unhappily, the restoration of the
old Union proved an impossibility.
In the great basin of our majestic river,
above the point where the waters, rolling down
from the western slope of your own Allegha-
nies, unite with those flowing from the base of
the Rocky Mountains, there reside nearly ten
millions brave and stalwart men, who slake
their thirst and lave their persons in the my
riad fountains which join themselves to make
up the Father of Waters"
Think you our ten millions will permit any
million of men, or five, or ten times any mill
ion of men, to hold a divided control and gov
ernance over any part of this majestic river
the highway which Nature has made for us
and our posterity? No, sir, never. So long
as the mighty river upon whose shores write
these lines flows onward to the ocean, so long
will the people of the Northwest hold over 1t
united or supreme control.
TREASON IN TIE FREE STATES
There have been addresses made in the free
states in the past few months--nlade before
reorganization" calling themselves democrat
&c, and applauded by the hearers-that, in my
mind, rankle with reasonable sentiments
sentiments the bare expression of which, con-
sidering the peril by which the national exist
ence is beset, should consign their authors to
the cells of criminals as arrant traitors. Still
these men are permitted to 20 unwhipped of
justice. And there are others whose patience
and II may be their courage, has been exhaust
ed by the failure of the government, during
many months, to subdue the rebels and regain
its rightful authority. and whose hearts sicken
al the waste OF blood and treasure the exer-
ton has already cost the nation. Even you,
in your Albany speech, permit yourself to say
that "the weight of annual taxation" Undue
ed by the expenses of the war; will tax Sc
yerely the loyalty of the North"
Is ii possible that, after having sent their
hundreds of thousands of brave youths to the
field, where they have sacrificed every COM
fort, some even life itself, the hearts of those
who have remained at home have grown so
cold and mercenary that they will cease to af-
ford the sinews oil war necessary to sustain the
honor of their patriot sons and secure the per-
manency of the government? Can such things
be? l shudder to contemplate the possibility
of events SO repulsive to every sentiment of
LOYALTY