, 1863-09-03
FROM SPRINGFIELD,
Preparations for the Great
Union Meeting.
SPEECH BY SENATOR pQ0LiTTtE, OF
WISCONSIN, LAST EVEhiNG.

srn1Nar1EIp, H., Sept. ?, 1863.
The people arc arriving in crowds to the
ms5s meeting. Tho hotels are fall Every
house In the city, in which Union family re-
sides, is full to ovcrfowing. Some OF ou1
leading citizens are boarding and e1eeping
fem fiftyt one hundred people each. Where
the people who come by trains tonight are
to sleep, it is impossible to say.
Among the leading men here already are
Chandler, Cor. Lane, Doo1ittle, Doughcrty,
Arnold, Trumbu1l, Prentiss, Mollton, ketch.
um, Turner, McClernand, Oglesby and F. 2.
Blair.
There is speaking tonight, to an immense
crowd, In front Of the Court House, by Sena-
tor Doolittle Of Wisconsin, Kctchum, Culver
ard others.
4 salute of 100 guns has been fired. Bands
are playing, DC.
Senator Doolitt1e spoke as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS: War, war, and not
peace, is our true situation. War with all its
ii cetslties, with all Its responsibilities, with
all Its solemn and sacred duties, Ia upon us.
VIC cannot withdraw from them If we would.
As set it has been war against traitors
alone, Though bloody and terrible, 1t i,as
been thus far civil war only, but all who
lock beyond may see looming on the distant
horizon the dark clouds Of a foreign war. 81.
gantic In IT, proportions; . war on ses aud
ite train the rpheaying of the world. War,
then, Is the fssue, the fearful, dominant issue
of the hour. It tranecends all others. Its
stern logi: postpones all others. for Its solu-
tion involves all others, and . solution it de-
Mauds and will have before ali others; aud
until that solution comes have no heart to
INK nh fr11
docs not bear directly upon it.
Fellow cit1zens-the war in which NC arc
engaged Is q var for national life; q war for
National unity; war for republican institu-
ttons; a war Tor constitutional republican
Government, without which there can be no
political liberty tor man, white or black. In
truth We are fighting the great battles Of our
revolution over again. Tie war VIC wage Is
war for the rights of man-a war for na-
tionA independence, Threatened and fmper-
lied too BY reason Of the Intervention from
abroad, and nothing can solye that issue bat
ent duty Is comprised in these few words,
I" I'LL up the ranks," "push on the columns"
If we would save our national life, ne must
fight on; If we would preserve the natioual
Union, We must fight until the rebellion
yields. If ne would maintain our national
tiou5. II We would maintain republican
institutions On this continent, in spite Of
domeetic treason and European inter
Vention, we must fight and conquer
all our foes. We stand in the: van
TIE equal rights fman, where the siugle pair
with their offspring constitute the family
against the ancient order Of Asfatic civi1fza-
ticn, based upon the patriarchal system Of
sln!ery and concublnage: We must fight on,
and fight this battle to the end, II We would
maintain for ourselves and our children the
blessings Of liberty. We must fight and sus-
tain the Constitution Of our fathers, for
liberty is the corner stone II we would give
slavery It's death blow, we must fight until
ne overthrow that rebellion which makes
slavery Its chief corner stone. We must
crush It, grind It to powder, and bury that
corner stone forever under its ruins. If by
Eevera11y preserving our own we would main
tain an example Of constitutional liberty for
all mnnRina, We must fight on, and fight 1t
through. five would maintain our national
credit at par, at home, and abroad, # we
would command the money Of the world, we
must fight until We gain victory upon victory.
From the midst Of this struggle which every
way re look it is all the same. Upon all sides
the same aspect greets us. All voices speak
the same language to Us. # We look into
ourselves, to our own We1-being, tho only
the depths OF our being, is fight on. If We
look beyond ourselves to the good Of
our fellow men, the only answer coming to
us from all who love liberty throughout the
world, is fight on. 1--we look up into Heav.
en the answer comes back to US IN thunder
~ 49,! Eat+3a HaS n+oIest3 -. ~ 49, tufs go -
dom OF the world.
Since the days OF our Revolution, no people
have eyer been trled as re .; now are f. ~ the
nr;sIs ~ hnIsn nn .ira hT 3nost e,gsnsst
PRAYER to Heaven is that We nav be equal TO
the crisis, and understand the epoch IN which