Nebraska advertiser., 1863-04-30

New Orleans know whether they were
fed upon the means taken from the rich
rebels. Has any man denied that q
[Cheers. To that record | point. Ii
may be the only answer that / shall ever
make to the calumnies that have been
uttered against me and mine. CHEERS
l desire to say a single word on anoth-
er subjecl-on what are the prospects of
of this war. It will do you no good TO
give my opinion, simply because it would
be very much like the opinion Of another
man but | will show you a reason for
the faith that Is in me that this war is
progressing TO a successful termination
Compare the state of the country as i.
was on the lst Of January, 1868. with its
state on the lst of January, 1862, and
tell me if progress has not been made 2
On the lst of January, 1862, the Tn.
ion arms held no considerable portion of
Mississippi, no considerable portion of
Kentucky, 70 considerable portion of
Tennessee none of Virginia, except Fl.
Monroe and Arlington heights none Of
North Carolina, except Haiteras; none
of South Carolina except Port Royal
All the rest was ground in struggle at
least, and was regularly furnishing sup
plies TO the rebels. Now the rebels hold
none of Missouri none of Kentucky !;
none of Tennessee for any valuable pur-
poses of supplies, because the western
part is in our hands, and the eastern
part has been so oyerrun by ~contending
armies that all ITS supplies have been ex-
hausted. They hold no portion of Vir.
ginia valuable for supplies, and hat is
not eaten out by their armies. We hold
one.third of Virginia and one-haIf of
North Carolina. We hold our own in
South Carolina. and | hope that we shall,
before the 18th of this mouth, hold a
lutte more. t,nthusiastic cheering
We hold two-thlrds of Louisiana in point
of wealth and population. We hold all
Arkansas and Texas. so far as supplies
are concerned, so long as Admiral Far
ragut is between Port Hudson aud Vicks-
burg. Applause And | believe the
coIored troops hold Florida by last ac-
counts. Laughter and applause. Now
let US see To what the rebellion has been
reduced. To the remainder of Virginia,
a part of North Carolina the largest part
of South Carolina, all Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, a small portion of Lou.
islana and TenneSsee-Texas being, as |
said before, cut off. Now we draw
strong hope from this as the rebel sup
plies came Principally either from Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri. Arkansas
or Texas, aud these sources are now
comparatively beyond their reach.
To this fact | look largely to the sup
preston Of the rebellion and the over
flow of revolution. They have come TO
the end of their consumption we have
not begun ours. Laughter. They have
come to the end of their national credit !;
we have rot put ours in any market of
the world. Applause. And why should
any man be disappointed? Why should
any man say that this great work has
gone along too slow? Why should any
mau feel inpatient l have shared IN
that Impotence myself, and was saying
to a friend but the other day, when saw
that our navy did not catch the steamer
Alabama, that there must be something
wrong in the Navy Department; but |
was reminded how Paul Jones. with a
single vessel, set the whole navy Of Eng
land at defiance, and worked his will up
on the England coast, and that Lord
Cochrane, with a single ship, kept the
whole French coast in terror against the
entire French navy.
He would not charge that the English
minister had been tampering with our
leading politicians, but our leading poll
ticians had been tampering with him.
When he saw hat the other day every
drop of blood in his veins boiled, and he
should like then to have seen any of
those politicians. Laughter. What
kind of politicians were they? Voices
-"Copperheads',' TRAITORS" ''conserv-
alive politicians" Laughter. They
could not be Democratic politicians. Now
he would like to hear Andrew Jackson
speak a few words to those politicians
who now call themselves Democrats. A
voice-he would hang them. No he
would not have the opportunity ne could
not catch them. CLound laughter. He
described these men as defendants in a
direct line of Judas Iscariot. intermarried
with Benedict Arnold. TApplause. and
cries. of "Booby Brooks" Fernando
Wood" SIC. A voice-He knows them
all. Laughter.
He understood that there was a man
in New York Who professed not TO know
the meaning of the word loyalty-Gcries
of "Wood, Wood" and hlsses7-6ut he
would say that it was the duty Of every
man to be loyal to the Government, to
stand to it, and to pardon its errors if it
commits any. The course of the Gov
eminent was onward. The mower mows
on though the adder may wrlthe aud the
copperhead crawl around the blade of
the scythe. Hound Applause. In con-
%cluslon, he had only to return his sincere
thanks for the patient hearing which had
been given to his remarks.
General Butler took his seat amid thun-
ders of applause, which was continued
until he had bowed his Acknowledgements
again and again to the audience.
A down East editor says that be has
seen the c%ontrivance that lawyers use to
''warm up up with the subject" He says
it is a glass concern and holds about a