New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-28
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
spEEcH BY DIR. eRoWNsoN,
HOW TIE VAR SHOULD DE PROSECUTED.
The Duty Of the Government and the
Duty Of the Citizen.

spoke as follows: ,,I
FrLLow.cIrrzExs: au not accustomed to houors
of ,h;s kind and theI e;rre do no. well know bow 10
re.nond IN them Several v0ices--" Louder.
NV friends trnst you will b-ar with me little
wbiir for know very well if speak ae leud as l
can at the outset shall not be able, IN very thort
while, to mike my self beard. voice" DO as you
Gentlemen, do no, consider this honor 81 intended
for me personally but take II AZ an ev dence OF yonr
love of country, and willingness to recognize and to
compliment. any who, in these times, shows
that he is attached TO his couLfry ana Is Wiling 10
do something for II.
Gentlemen, these are times when every msn VINO
has any sort of manhood in him, should be IN
earnest III saving the integrity AMI life OF Ids gret
American nation. Loud applause. II Is not the
right Of any in times to feel lDdiHorent,
or 10 cay that The great crisis IN which we now are
is Que that does affect him, and III Inch be need
take no oobcern. The questions now before Tie
country are such 20 come home TO the very bosom
and business of every man, woman, ana cinid' II
this whole American COZ nudity. Ibe Die VI q
nation is at stake. The existence OF the country Is
at stake.
l need hot tell Won that when country ia goue all
is gone. l'' That So" md applause. Then with
out u country are we without home, abo nome
less man is one If the most desoate beings thaS yoa
eau imagine. Not only % the hie-lhe very exist
ence OF our county at stake, but that which hss
made our country recognized as great aud GLORIOUS
{ at for which We have most valued 1t, namely as
the exIobeut Of Freedom, is The home Of the Tree,
as a coun'ry destined III the designs OF Providence
to prove what u,an is, and may be whenever he Is
free 10 Huns. II. The umes are not, however, INC
most auspicious WE could wish.
There is much that IN solemn, much thai IL dark,
ono thar is deryOudng in our ,oGdition. L 90 not
pretend to disguise from myself. and wouia no'
disguise from you II l could, the d"Reers 10 wblch
we are seG. Ii not holiday war III WHEN we
are engaged. II is aganIst weak and contempti-
BE foe thst we are wHLiug BATH; but Al Is with
determined foe, whose sreDgth L. however, nesr, II
not quite equal to- our owp and who Will put forth
all the strength he has, while we, as yet have
not begun 10 put forth 1.-THE OF our own ldlpiause
and here is the danger. g That's 40.
We have supposed that. by our superiority OF
number and wealth, could march over The forces
aud triangle in TIE dust ali that were opposed to u.s.
sweeping them away az tie whirlwind sweeps awsy
the chaf IL il not 70. IL We look az the question
rs we odsht 10 look at 1t, we shali ilno that our
strength, Instead Of being much superior, as
affairs now stand is hardly equal. Look 1T these
Southern States which have seeded, or virtually
eeceded-are in hostility 10 the Union. What Is
their ren-th
You know as well ar do that we need the whole
DO ulatioh Of country that Lot all tue allie BODIED
men OF the country Can be expected 10 taAe up arms
end fight because your armies must be suosisted,
yonr families must be supported, the industry OF Tue
country must 20 on. or else the armies themselves
cannot BE- sustained. II you lauce at our eueUy IN
these tpes Won will find that he has Mboring
people. He Ia- four millions OF popula.ion-lbor-
ers and those with the present character OF South
err ipdu try are sufficient to sustain the whole pop
nation OF thoee Srs'~s and leave the whites Tree TO
Now, If the South can sustain their armies by
these 900 600 la6Orers 1t would require sometbi
Ike L. 900 900 at the North 10 perform the same
duty with the complications of Northern industry
Chat 900 Oo0 eau lerform at tue South. How
then, are we TO NEE, this crisisi Leaving then
ak uillious afte drawing their seven million, auC
Us onl, six. How We 10 meet this We cer
do it only by saking away from them the support
they derive from these TOUR millions OF lsOorers
Loud applause.
am not tere an Abolitionist Isprlausel, or al
Anti. Aboli'iouist. Rem wed applause. 1 stanc
here, gentlemen, American citizen. tCries o
GOOD" aud applause i stand here in love wit
the Union that We have hitherto called the UnlleC
States. We do yet love it ss naiIon, az
country; love 1t Is my country IT, Good good,
III aud applausel al d as yours ana | ain here, az
wherever an, for the Countrywide naiiOl first. Tx
nation secODd. and the uation last lapplause aud tc
die when the nation itself dies. IL Good ana ap
pIause.
have asked not for Additions sake yet I tell
you there tire from Is, 900 200 o. men within
The radius of fifty miles Of you Il armed to the
teeth ready 10 cut our tbroas, and Why are they
there because they have the slave laborers al
home to raise their bread com and wheat. and TO
take care o. thoir plantation Now, what l want
10 do. is to take away from them tbose rlaves
that they shall have to 60 home aud raise
their own bread, attend TO TIER own plantations.
aDd protect their own families. Applause l do
not want them here TO cus your tLros.s or mine,
and the way not 10 have them here Is TO provide for
them work az home. Laughter.
So far, am in favor Of Abolitionism. am in
favor of q, taching thOse slaves III ali The rebe cus
Sistes from their masters, ard deprivi0g them OF
their service. l not whether they render us
any poeirive service not; but ! say if eau
take aw.y their services IRON rhrir masters THEN
owners or from the Southern cause we have added
equal to 8GO0,U0J 10 our own population. lAp-
piause.l / know there is great heeitaDcy about it.
Many people talk OF constitutions Of the horrors of
San Domingo, and ell those things. 1 understand
perfectly well what the Constitution ssys. When
the agitation Of the question Of Slavery threatened
to erdanger the union oi these STATES, opposed it.
/ fs,d Down with agitation" Cheers When
now TIE UnIon IL threatened IRON another cause,
and Shaver, ~ the uain thing which sustain The
party OPPOSED 10 Ibe existence of tits Government;
when il is, my judgm III, impossible to preserve
both tue Union and Slavery, / say down with
Slavery. lNociefous APPLAUSE Let every tlsve
30 Tree, but let tie country he saved. Renewed
spllaure.l Aud "nlers we are prepared To say that
to u very sOon and ~ say II, moi rs AIN saying It,
srrivate Individual from this platform, but until
We are PREPARED TO say from the Capitol and from
tne White House, tones tuat will mug throughout
the whole civilized world, the dan. ers which
threaten Us will not be diminished. Applause, aud
sri-- of " That's so.'
. do not stand here 10 find fault with the Govern.
pIen, There are many things, no doubt, reuiss III
its actions; many things which l would like
70 have had different; many things which ii 1
had been the Government would have done dit
ferenlly lApplauso. But lheu an not lbe Gov
efnuient. lVoice-"i wish you were, snd laugh.
ter We must sustain the Government we have
isIrlausel, only praying God that the Government,
may always prove equal 10 the wants VI the ooun-
sry. Cries vi Ibats ~, And applause l
know there are many difficulties aboz. it. Many
ne look only st the oLst.cies and the little obec-
tioDs which may be brought against this and Ina,