New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-07
nlansel Abraham Lincoln bas six months OF non.

before him; OF noD-IDtervepiion by
Congress, aad of non-intervention by Europe, /
trust. He will have no Intervention from Enrone'
II the North ia a unit. II we our political die
cussions if we do not mention the word negro
mill next Decemb r. when Congress will take mp
that theme again, and suppose exhaust it, il il
be exhausted laughter; if we will Danish that
word from our vocabulary and think Of but one
bect. men and means for the war, this Rebellion
will be flushed before Congress can possibly come
together again. iApplause. All that the army has
10 say to the people is, "Give us men and we will
gave you victories" tApplsuso.l You may ex
claim, How can yon be in want of menl Why
yon not able TO defeat all the armies opposed to
yonY For very plain r.asop. II any one OF You
could walk through Southern city, and then walk
through New-York, you would undertand the
reason. A man may pass through New-fofk, and
uDless he is told of 1t, he would not know that this
country was at war, and that the North had bali q
million of In the field, because there Is no per-
ceptible dimnution Of our population or OF our
resources. But 90 through a Southern city, pass
through Southern plantation, go where you will In
the Confederate States, and YOU will tind that more
than twO-tbirds of the population capable OF bearing
arms have been impressed into the military service
whereas in the North not one IN Six, nay not one III
eight, of those capable OF bearing arms are IN Inc
service It il unnecessary that we should make the
draft upon our resources which the South has made
Lei MS make fourth the exertion 10 maintain our
Government that the South Is making to subvert ~,
and we will annihilate the Rebellion In one CAM
paign. Is il not better to make short war OF IT,
and brisk one, than TO proong this strogge Tor
years, and by a sort OF confession OF our lnabi
ty TO invite European Intervention Certain
ly. Every sensible man will agree to that.
single word il reference to the mode Of filling up
the army. 1t must be filled up either by volunteers
or conscrpts. In Gods name, let the State OF New
York have it TO say hereafter that che has fur shed
her quota to the army without conscript-without
resorling to draft Massachusetts will do ii, mark
my word for it. viii You be behndhandi Mark
nv word that half dozan States will furnish their
quota, and they will be volunteers. If New-York
fails. although che may claim hereafter, as hereto
fore, TO he the Empire State in material wealth IN
boundaries in resources, she will have to hide her
humbled head when you come to place States IN the
scale of rank which the patriotism and sefsacrifce
demanded by this occasion shall fix as their rank.
|. can be done. Lei your Governor call upon every
School District in the State-aDd / think there are
abou, fourteen thousand of them-to furnish Its
quota of four or five men, and the entire quota OF
the great State of NewYork would be instantly fur
nished to the Army of the Potomac. That n pre-
clsely what Massachusetts is now doing. Let 1t be
done here. Let tue merchants assembled here to-
day. and the great produce interest here
exert themselves TO effect that one act, and
YOU have all the machinery and the geographical
division necessary to obtain yonr quota at once
II is perhaps out Of place for military officer TO be
here making speeches. find it iTksome myself al
made me familiar with public assemblages; and it
seems hardly right that officers should be compelled
10 come here Leaving their duty IN the field, TO Call
upon citizens TO exert themselves to re~eniorce and
sustain Us. All Of our regiments, those OF my
friend Meagher and mine every regiment presume
that either Of US has for the last forty days,
which has been engaged in the recent battles, needs
nj least two or three hundred men 10 I'LL up Its ranks
IL ia not right that officers should be required TO
come here and make these constant appeals TO the
public. l know you will cay that the agencies OF
the Government, State aud national, ought to be
sufficient But find. when come here, sort Of
depression in the public mind--a dependency, q
lasstude that no government could reach, that
nothing but q reviving renovatiDg effort that must
spring up among the people tbemse Ives, can over
come. You must take the matter into your own
hands We can only stop with you three or four
DAVIS We must 20 back and make our report.
What shall 1t be 7 That the people sre sluggish,
indifferent aad have left us to fate, TO fight 1t
out as best we may Or can go back aud tell
them that my native State is aroused TO its depths,
enforce the Army of the Potomac Can l say
You have a Government adequate 10 every emer
gency. Look at your SECRETARY OF the Treasury.
lie has kept your Treasury foil against all the pre-
dc,ions Of European fnanciers and all local sympa-
thisers. Look at your Navy. II has been quadru-
pied in one year, and has maintained "A blockade
which the English Admiralty were obliged To ac-
knowledge was the most effective ever maintained
in the history Of the world, considering the space
that had to BE- covered BY the blockade. Applause.
Look at your Army. What man to-day can cbal-
lenge the integrity, the energy, or the zeal with
which the War Department is administered No
man can do it.. Look at your State Department
Through the most unexampled difficulty, when one
half of Europe eager for pretext TO intervene
this quarrel-when rome were prone to subject us
10 insult and others were eager IN their arsl0craic
pride to buniliate our democratic Government-un-
der all these difficulties able Secretary Of State
has at once extricated Us, by bis tact and address
from the complications which actually did occur, and
has saved us from fresh difficulties which might have
occurred. Through all and over all be has main
tanned the dignity Of the American name intact
lAppause.l And your President. Let me allude TO
hin again in terms Of affection and o. devotion, be-
cause believe that in the breast Of Abraham Lin
coin ats the heart Of America fApplause. You
can trust him. You Can trust bin in his capacity
in bis patriotism, in bis sagacity for, although he
never held Office but once befors-I have some
thing of politicians in my time, and have some
thing of him, and | think be is more than match
for all the politicians and all the fanatics, and all
the traitors, tina. are now curse 10 our country.
Prolonged applause.
The CHAIRMAE introduced
STEWART l.. WooDroRD, esq, Assistant United
States District-AttOney.
REMARKS OF STEWART l.. wOODFORD, ESQ.
Mr. WooDFoRD. Assistant United States District
Attorney, in substance spoke as follows:
Entering, for the first time, your manifceut Ex-
change, fed as one who crosses the threshold of
-a~yalty and well l may, for in the shock Of this
great conflict cotton has been dethroned, and corn.
At last is rgh,tu King. In the fierce heat Of battle
the white bols have withered and fallen from the
scepter OF the Slave Power, while the wheat-cars
braided Tor our Northern crown have rpened to a
more golden fulDess. LApplsuse.l Corn II KING /!
a of Ina eat here wa no
fields of meat are benoing from the farm-lands Of
ILLINOIS, where the Indian maize grows into gold ;
from the valley Of tho Genesee; from the bill sides
of New England; from the famne-s,ricken fields