Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-22

al power, present to those left behind, the
scene upon which l now gaze, and bring back
the answer which springs in every heart which
throbs with a loyal feeling, you would be
thanked as alone would be fitting for this
empowering welcome. l remember well, as
l entered your magnificent harbor but few
days past, for the first time in my life, l could
but be impressed with the evidence before me
of the magnitude, the progress and greatness
OF our country, as represented upon but one
single spot of its country. But there was con-
nected with it painful throb, and it arose
from the recollection that all was now being
imperilled; and whatever you, fellow citizens
may have supposed with regard to the pro-
gress of this rebellion, or to the extent, so far
as territory is concerned, or the integrity of
the people of any section of the country, sat
isfied as you may be in your own minds that
it would not go beyond the states of the south,
I entertain a different opinion. | mean to be
understood, if it is to succeed where it is al
ready attempted, in my humble judgment, it
will not stop there's in short, that if the gov
eminent 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
may not see it, when it will give way here
also. Mr.. Hamilton proceeded to investigate
Vic CotuSC VI IlG ItDSlllOu I1du Ile theory
now advanced throughout the south, that re-
publicanism 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 powder and lead were all concen-
trated in the hands of the government, they
raised the cry democracy is a failure. You
perceive 1t is failure, because the United
States government has failed. We must get
rid of the people of the north, because they
are democratic. Slavery and democracy can
not live together. cloud and prolonged APP
plause.) The only reply which he made, SO
long as he could make any, to these statements
as to the weakness Of democracy, was ''gen-
tlemen, 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 aboli-
ton sympathizer, but an active practical abo-
litionst. (Cheering) He feared that there
were those here who still fancied that by some
conciliatory measures the south could be
brought back to the old government. There
could be no greater fallacy. (Applause.) The
loyal men Of the south were praying to get
back into the Union without any condition or
Cancellation. Would any loyal man consent
that jeff Davis should ever be president of
the United States. ("'No, no.
Mr.. Hamilton continued; do want to see
the old government when it shall have assert
ed its power, make a wise and just diScrimi-
nation between the guilty and deluded.
(Cheers.) | want the really responsible
traitors punished. (Applause.) 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-seven millions of
free men, women, and children, have not the
moral and physical power to strangle treason
in fifteen hundred thousand? Is republican
ism to fail on this continent because that
twenty-seven millions are not sufficiently con-
scious of their duty to themselves, to the gov
eminent OF their fathers, to humanity the wide
world over, TO realize the fact that this rebel
lion can alone be crushed by physical force?
L have not doubt but peace propositions will
come from the confederate government, but
they will not come in the shape of an uncon-
ditional proposition to assume the Union as it
was, leaving the elective franchise as it was
We have already seen some of the conditions
or what would probably be called conditions if
h0stilities were to cease. | do not think that
even they would emanate from the cabinet
if | may be allowed the expression-at Rich
mond. They know that if the government of
the United States should, in It's mercy, pardon
their offenses and restore them to their right
under the constitution, their own fellow citi-
zens who have been their victims would
spurn them away, and they are as effectually
cut off from preferment as if they had been
convicted of high treason. The very desper-
alton with which they are struggling 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 a hope Of success, because it is the only
salvation to them. They do not feel for the
sutferings of the wives and children that are
made widows and orphans by this unholy
war; it has never entered the mind of one
man in this rebellion who understood its OBJ
jects to shed tear for all the blood shed,
misery and woe which it involved The war
must be put down by bayonet, by powder and
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 not suffered and
witnessed suffering might not, and probably
would not, have been so earnest in my feel
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 an established government
among the nations of the earth, do you be-
heve that secession would stop there? Are
there not 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 dislike exceedingly to think that
my hopes of the future depended upon the fact
of there being no such men. daughter I
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.) 1t is certain to my mind that if it
once is established that it is possible thing to
tear asunder the states, there will be men
Juggling at it day by day and year by year, and
you will not have the confidence you once
had that these attacks should be resisted, and
you may be led to ask whether, to escape an
archy at lastly had not better have a strong
er government. 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 other be trailing in
the dust, what confidence shall we have
in equal success. l at home felt that
/ was degraded man because | was a
son of the south, and the people with whom
had lived so long had forfeited their birthright
and turned away from me, and | was too big
coward to make myself a martyr. | was