The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-11-07

announces It's intentions IN respect OF the
slaves of the rebels, declares that the war is to
be prosecuted only for the supremacy of the
Government, and the solidarity of the Repub-
lie. Let the rebels lay down their arms: let
them return to their allegiance; let them dis
| perse and go to their homes; let them cease to
| be usurpers and murderers, and there will be
| no confscation of their property, no emanci-
| patton OF their slaves, no servile insurrection.
Their peculiar institution, although held ac-
cursed by us. will continue to receive constitu-
tional and political sanction; their cotton will
find an eager market, with quick sales and in
creased profits: and the whole military force
OF the United States, if need be. stand guard
at their hearth-stones, to protect their women
and children from violence and HARM But let
them keep their bood-staned hands upon the
throat of the nation; let them continue pirates
on the sea and highwaymen on the land; let
them spread carnage and death among peo-
pie whose magnaninity they have called cow
ardice, and whose generosity they have an
swered with treachery and deceit; let them,
in word, continue this war upon us, till the
advent OF the coming year, and their blood,
and the blood of their wives and children be
upon their own heads. Impartial history will
not inculpate us, if their stubborn wickedness
ends in a drama of horror which humanity
shudders to contemplate Oh, misguided men,
be entreated while yet there is space between
you and doom. Stretch not out any farther
your hand against God, and "run not upon the
thick bosses of his bucklers."
There is natural way of ending this war,
better than that proposed by peace-democrats
or submissionists; better than to disrupt the
nation; better than the project of two rival re-
publics within geographical limits admitting
of but one; better for us, better for mankind.
The plan is simple, honest and manly: Let
them end the Uar who begun it. From the
first boom of treason's cannon until the last
act of rebel horse-stealne in Pennsylvania,
this has been war of aggression upon the
North. 1t is the North that has been dragoon-
ed and insulted and defied; it is the North
that has been refused the freedom of speech
and the right of petition; it is the North that
was denied the right of joint tenant in the
common property it is Northern men who have
been tarred and feathered and ridden on rails !:
IT is Northern women who have been stripped
and striped it is Northern Senator who was
murderously attacked in the Nations Coun-
Gil Chamber, by band Of brutal and eowardly
rufiians: it is the North that suffered long and
was kind 1t is the North that was not easily
provoked; that bore all things, that endured
all things; it is the North that was struck; it
is the North that was wary of an entrance to
the quarrel; it is the North that "being in. will
bear it, that the opposed may beware of her."
The North ,cas last In the tight; the North
trtu Ut tuSJ UUL OF ~. we ulu not seek III, Dut
we will not shun it.
This is not only the natural way of ending
the shareholders war, but it is the only way.
Let it be at once and clearly understood that
We of the North can never recede. can offer
no compromise, be party TO no treaty. Our
seli-respect, our honor, our pride, the safety
of ourselves aud our posterity, free institutions
throughout the globe, liberty and the rights of
man, make it impossible. Primary instincts,
forbid. We may be Involved in ten years, or
twenty years war, bsiore our Constitution
defeats and Stays its enemies; we may be drv-
en- or fall into a broi! with England, France or
the world; we may be defeated on the Poto-
mac and the Mississippi, by Lee and by Beau
regard; the rebels may be recognized: our
currency may depreciate, our commerce cease,
our lands be uncutivated: our sons and our
selves I'LL unknown graves: all these ills, and
all imaginable distresses and caamities may
come upon us as consequences of the war
made against us. We must accept all rather
than recede. We fight for Civilization, Chris
tianity and Freedom, against Barbarsm, Inf
deity and Slavery; we fight for ourselves and
the race, and can not, must not, will not COM
promise the heritage of freedom, and the in
terests of mankind. Each succeeding genera
tion will begin the strife where we leave it off,
and each age consecrate itself to the cause of
uputiulilg 1AhitIiCdu l-iDsItl.
In the shock of opposing forces, victory
eventually goes where it properly belongs, and
unless eight millions can conquer twenty mil
lions, unless such Il minority, with no excess
OF mental, moral, or material advantages,
can vanqulsh such a majority, possessed of
wealth, intellect, and education, and physical
power the issue may be mathematically as
certained. Add to this that
Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel inst
And ba hutt had nur,ln eEad, s,c ctoaI
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted"
and although the end may not be reached by
our childrens' children the problem is already
solred
Mr.. President, and men of Massachusetts,:
When this rebellion shall be crushed out. the
historian will find in the achievements of your
glorious State ample material for commenda-
tion and praise. True TO your revolutionary
character, you have nobly maintained the lib
critics TO secure which your ancestors sacri-
feed their lives, and made every inch of New
England soil a heirloom Of. freedom. In
your State the first blow for iIiah's enfranchise-
ment was struck, and the first blood of the
Revolution was split;
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fred the shot heard round the world"
In this last war for constitutional liberty
and democratic government, your sons were
the first martyrs. The names of Whitney and
Ladd will be embalmed in the same urn with
those of Jonas Parker and Jonathan Harring-
ton; and the Massachusetts Sixth divide the
honors with the "minute men, of Acton and
Bedford
l tender to you my most respectful acknowl-
edgments for your generous reception; and
here in this cradle Of American liberty, with
in these walls which have echoed the eloquence
of Webster and Choate, and Sumner and Will
son, and Andrew, and Banks, and Everett.
surrounded by the represented lineaments of
the great dead, and animated by their life and
example, l renew my VOWS to Freedom, and
solemnly swear 10 defend and support the
United States against all her enemies.