The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-08-21

/ WOrlu. IL SHOWS nOW OtucT incu ASkoAu A''
It shows how unprejudccd observers look at
this question. And the world measures the
strength of q government now, by Its credit,
when the Barings.and Rothchilds have the
saving of nations; when diplomats can no
longer carry on government without the
aid of fnanciers. How stands the issue
with regard to them? In the Confederacy,
the issues Of the Confederate government oi
paper with which it pays its soldiers, the
currency with which it buys its munitions OF
war and the food with which il must feed
IT'D armies and maintain its troops, is reduced
down to such standard that one dollar in
gold will buy twelve or fourteen dollars OF
Confederate money. Nay more saw to-
day, that clerk in store in Mobile was
taken from there and carried north as far as
Richmond, and sent outside of the lines OF
the Coufederacy, because he sold to u soldier
who had returned from Vicksbnrg, coat
for Union money. This soldier had met at
Vicksburgra Union soldier,-for our soldiers
did come in contact with the rebel soldiers
at that pldce-and happened to put into his
pocket that unknown thing to them before,
greenback; and this clerk had offered to
sell him an article Of apparel for two and n
half dollar in greenbacks or $25 in Confeder-
ate money and well he might; for hap
pen to know gentleman of New Orleans
who has got -four barrel full of this Confed-
crate money, and think he is very sure OF
leaving paper fortune to his children
This single fact shows precisely, not only to
us here in New England, but to the rest of
the world-whcn the credit OF this Confeder.
acy is weighed and compared with the credit
of this Nation-it shows that even there,
within the lines OF this rebellion, they do
not estimate the cause Of the rebellion as
compared with the cause of the Union, as
having more than one chance in ten, being
relatively as 2 IL to 25.
We, on the other hand, have currency
at present only ut some 27 per cent. discount
instead of being deprecated some 10 or l2
hundred per cent. currency daily and
hourly rising in value and credit, while
theirs is daily and hourly depreciating; a
country great, rich, prosperous; nay, grow.
ing richer and more prosperous even now
while we are carrying on this war, instead
Of being impoverished. We can not only
maintain our armies but feed the starving
poor of other lands. We, with population
so great, with country so tceming with lite
and population that we scarcely miss those
who have gone out from among us and have
failed in the strife of battle, we with these
gigantic means Of men and material resour-
ces stand against q country which had but
two sources of material wealth, both OF
which are yalueless now; | say, can we un
dor these circumstances, hesitate or doubt
ono moment as to what is to be, what will
DO, and shall be, tho final result of this con-
test? (Great applauss.)
No, fellow citizens, the fate of this rebel
lion, the fate OF the armed supporters of this
rebellion is scaled, and you may read the
handwriting on tho wall. You may see it
in that pitiful wall that has gono up from
Jefferson Davis to call hack his deserting
soldiers to the standard they have abandon.
cd. You may SEQ it in this fact; pitiful,
imploring, and desperate as that appeal is,
you will find that 1t will meet there with no
response. As fast rs one of their armies has
been defeated, so fast it has been broken up
and demoralized. This was true at Vicks-
burg. This was true at Port Pudson. The
men who were parolled seized every opportu-
nifty of deserting, or flying from the ranks,
and vowing they would never return, that
they were sick and tired OF the contest, and
and that they would not again take up arms
in 30 hopeless strife. have witnessed it
in thousand different ways. l have seen,
myself, and heard them express their senti-
ments; and YOU see it in the tones of the
rebel press when they say that those soldiers
which were parolled in the army of Pember
ton, have crossed into Texas, or gone down
the other way, into Alabama. and remnant
have gone into the camp Of johnson to eat
out his SUPPLIES and then to wander away
from him, never again to fight q battlo.-
From these men, no matter what promises,
no matter what pathetic appeals Jefferson
Davis may make at Richmond, he will re-
ceiye no response. They have been hunted
out from caves and hiding places in the woods
to fight the battles of The rich against the
poor, and they have been kept in these armies
by bayonets. These have been taken away
and they will take good care that they do
not got within their reach again. They will
give JEFF. Davis no response tc bis pathetic
appeal.
No! it is not from Southern soil that you
hear response when he calls back the rebel
troops. You have got to leave the soil OF
the Confedcracy and como over hero into
loyal and patriotic and honest Maine. And
il you put your ears close to the ground and
listen, you may hear coming down from the
hills OF Oxford slight rebel revcrberation
from the lips of Virgin Delphini Paris, cay.
ing. call back your troops Chauncey Burr
and Virgil Paris say, call back your troops.
Here, here, on the soil of Maine, man
dares to rise up and say, call back the men
that are fighting for the flag and for the Un.
ion.
Call back whom, call back whom, fellow
citizens? Call back Rosecrans and his gal.
liant army? (cries of never, no.) leave
Bragg to overrun loyal Kontucky, and give
up to the gibbet and the sword, to the halter,
to torture and death, those loyal men, who,
in gallant Kentucky have 30 long fought the
battles OF the Union7 Call back Grant, and
tell him to bring back your men, for they
have been fighting in an unholy war; tear
down that bloodstained banner that you
have hoisted over Vicksburg, and say that
this was an uuholy strife in which you were
engaged that all those brave and gallant
men who poured out their blood and sacri-
feed their lives while there in the trenches
of Yicksburg. or planted upon the imprcgna-
BILE stronghold the flag OF the Union, have Ia.
bored and blcd and died in vain? (Never.
no, never!) Go down to Louisiana and call
back Banks (neverD and the gallant little
band that Butler took from tho shores OF
New England, and carried down and KEEP.
for months and months, waiting for the time
to come when they should sail up the Missis-
sippi; waiting on little sand spit in the
Gulf, 30 desolate that when he banished I'm
placablc rebels to the spot upon which ho 50