The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-22
speech 81 Cen. Hiram WaiArAAxe q,
the New York MnAs Mee1lng, I5lh
Inst.

Gen. Hiram Walbridce, in response tc
numerous calls, next addressed the meet.
ing:
Fourteen months ago, from this very
platform, the city OF New York, in the
presence Of quarter OF million of loyal
citizens, declared that she would not sit
tanely By and behold wicked, reckless,
malignant minority conanmmate the over
throw and ruin of the only representative
constitutional government on GARTH
(Chsers.) htau she Eaed this determi-
nation and announced her will eleven re-
bellious states had attempted to sever
their connection with the federal govern
ment--had torn from the forts, arscnaIs,
magazines, and harbors within their lim-
its the banner Of the constitutional Union.
This reckless, rampant treason. though
long threatened, took the civilized world
by surprise; and. as the conspirators by
thousands poured their murderous hail of
shot and shell upon that thirsty, half fam
islsed garrison ls Fort Sumter fapplause) J,
with its seventy exhausted but loyal men,
they httls realized that throughout the
whole Christian world they wore calling
silently into exercise forces wholly beyond
human control; Tor that man must be an
ntheist, or have no soul, who does not
realize that since that first event God
himsclfhas been manifest in the moral and
political phenomena which this great,
loyal nation now presents. and statesmen
and philosophers and generals, will begin
to reason right and act right when they
realize this great truth. (Cheers) The
establishment offree institutions on the
continent towards anleliorating the condi-
ton Of the human race was second ITO the
inauguration Of the Christian religion, and
their dismemberment and overthrow is
reserved only to Jehovah himself. (Great
applause.) Fellow citizens. when last
We met here, on the occasion to which |
have referred, bold, rank, audacious trea-
son pervadcd almost every department Of
the federal service. Army, navy, am
bassadors to foreign courts, collectors Of
customs, postmasters, the very defcnces at
Washington, limited As they we're, could
not then be relied upon. The nation
trembied for tho safety Of the national
capital; the personal safety Of the Prosi-
dent Was endangered, evon in the execu-
tivcmansion. CONSERVATION and despair
briefly ruled the hour. How stands the
matter now 2 The capital is secured; the
rebels src trembling for Charleston, Sa-
vannnh, and their entire coast, while we
have New Orleans and Nashville, Della
ware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
then on tbs verge Of rebellion, are secured;
Virgins, thcnin the grasp Of the rebels, has
become loyal IN the greater portion Of her
territorial extent. Over eight hundred
thcusand troops hare been called into the
fsld, armed, aaai ippsd ard providod equal
to as .s..:ssssa<r ...:sssa<rS S.,r .;;a;1 ss.-
vice; snvy, hlps PAllas FROM the brain Of
Jova, seems "a. haY4 sRrusugs s. iat oaos into
completes 'exislenee; thrca Thousand mites
Of coAst 'hsve basn blockaded, and land
ing has been effected upon the soil 81 that
pestiferous state whiEhfnt iAsigAtsd md
finally produced this wicked rebellion. -
(Cheers.) ! wolldsthats Va could have
first made our terrible visitation If the
power md resonfce4 ofl the 1zdsesl nv
ernment in quelling the treason. firmly
believing had that been done the 'boEdsr