The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-06-04

common cause that has drawn US togeth
. er. And now mark you we all stand to
r gether at this point, where all good anc
just and patriotic men can and do stanc
f with us. Applause ]
And then one thing more: that is the
very point where unpatriotic and selfish
men refuse to stand with US. The verv
point And yet, some of these unpatri.
otto and self-seeking men, and traitors
among them, are very eager to assure
us OF their intense regard. for the Union
and Constitution and country. But
when we turn upon them with the ques-
tlon, Are you for putting down the
rebellion? they are found wanting.
That is ust the only test to apply to
them, and under its application they fall.
reeolect that more than thirty years
ago, when Great Britain was agitated by
the proposition to abolish British Slave
ry, some Quakers supplied themselves
with an image of kneeling slave, and
the appealing question was running out
OF Its mouth, "Am | not a man and a
brofher9, Whaaaaae..s.- .-l:-l--..A--,s-
these Quakers and solicit their votes,
and tell them of the many fine things
they wouldedo if elected-things pecuIi-
arly acceptable to Quakers-theSe cum
ming Quakers would thrust in the face of
these candidates this appealing image,
and ask them, Can you go that !? If
you cant 60 that, we can't 90 you. y
Just so do with these men, when they
prate about their love for the Constitu-
ton, the Union and the country. Task
them, and you ask them, can you go for
putting down the rebellion? If yon
can't go that, we cant go you. O, why
should we go these vile hypocrites-lor
such they are-who talk about being for
the Constitution and the Union and the
country, and yet go, not for putting down
the rebellion, the putting down of which
can alone save these blessings to us, and
the triumph of which will rob us of
them all? And now we have before US
but one duty; our one work is the work
of putting down the rebellion, You
have got to come to this point don't
allow myself to be co-worker with any
one on earth who does not come to
this point. The putting down OF this
rebellion must be done, come what will
to Constitution, and Union, and even
country Applause. Can you go that?
Applause, and cries of 'Yes, yes.
For l hold that our duty to Justice, in
putting down this rebellion, is infinitely
more commanding and absolute than
any duty we owe to the Constitution or
the Union, or even the boundaries of
our country. / claim that we are TO go
| for putting down tho rebAlEon nneondi-
tionally. Can you go that? You are
| not to say, we will consent to put down
the rebellion on condition of saving the
Constitution, the saving of the Union, or
the saving of the, country. You. are to
say, we 60 for putting doEnthe rebellion
unconditionally,a and, that~lis justiwhere
these tcaitQrilas eqeupfs- will not on
some one questions me, Would you go
for putting down this rebellion with all
the possible risks that the Union, the
| Constitution and the country might go
down with it ? l answer, | would. L
answer, make no calculation at all at
that point My only duty has been,
from the first, the putting down of this
rebellion And hence, some old Abollt-
ionists, perhaps would ask me, Do you
90 for putting down of this rebellion at
all possible hazards, that slavery may
survive and be stronger than ever? |
would. l run that risk. Applause
| have no conditions to make in be-
half of any of my hobbies, and have
not had since the day the news reached
me at Peterboro, of the bombardment Of
Sumter Applause. And now let me
here say, that in my philosophy, the put
ting down of crime, cannot bring any
harm to any good, cannot bring any hell
to any evil, Hence the putting down o
this rebellion which is the crime, can
not bring any possible harm to any goot
! in the Constitution, in the Union, or IL
the country, or in freedom-none what
ever. | call it the crime of crimes
/ Earth has never known greater CRIME
6 than this attempt to destroy natiol
;. which had never done anything to pre-
= woke that attempt, nation which ha
:. always been not only just, but exceed
ingly partial to thsoe guilty OF this plrat
:. cal and murderous attempt. Applause.
g And now let me here say, that to max
20 ourselves most effective in this work, W
: ought to cultivate earnestness. Oh
what an immense advantage the Sout
- has over us in that respect
:; III all our carry DSS JO'
- pardon, Mr. President, l didn't incluc
it yourself-[ laughter you are too nea
ie ;s / say if our early Generals had had b
- a tithe of the earnestness that characte
~ ICES the South and Southern Generals,
'11 should not have needed to be meetlI
~ here; the rebellion would long ago ha
% ended. And there is one thing more
i. need to cultivate, and that is resentmel
hn I[ Can you 60 that? ["Yes, sir" and
= ~ plause. know there is sentiment
namby-pamby religion, which takes friG
~, 'se at the idea of cultivating resentme
e", We need more resentment to light
=; :, rebels as we ought to fight them. III
~ has been our want all the way throus
'm I recall conversation with that gr
I'ot ~. and good man, Theodore Parker, VIII
mU' | had a few years before his death
L. conversation on the elements in hun
.eh, : - character. He claimed great credit
not ~ our power of party hating. That's
,aoi I him; and were he now alive, you mi
'non 'n". be sure of having at least one hes
,oIi ,DI hater of the rebellion. He would
's" claim with the Psalmist, Do not
oh1a them o Lord2 hate them with a
. oole Do feet hatred" Perhaps some one VIC
tber ' remind me of the prayer, "Father, l