Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-05-30


In recent speech at New York, he says;
"Let me make the Generals, and don't
care who make the proclamations. Only let
me put at the head of the advancing columns
of the Union certain men that l could name,
and the Cabinet at Washington may shut
themselves up and go to sleep with Rlp van
Wrinkle till 1872. Laughter. ForI know
men, enc blast of whose bugle horn were
worth a million of men-oniy put them in
the heart of the Rebellion where our armies
ought to be. / believe in Hooker, and
believe in his success. But when it's done,
what of it2 Crafty the North--star:ie
Europe. So far good. But what Is var,
gina if she is ours Barrcnness-exhausted
by two years war-neither army able to get
a pound of sustenance from her acres. 1t
will take two years to make her a sell slls-
tanning State. What is Richmond You
might as well take Syracuse. You might as
well fling hundred thousand men upon
Worcester. jeff Davis can pack up twice
as much as belongs to him in carpet-bag
and carry it away. Laughter The town
is hospital. The yellow flag might beput
there over every house, and we have got to
sustain rather than be sustained when the
United States flag floats above it. Beside
do not like to fight on the rim OF the wheel
and let the enemy beat the hub. Laughter
am no anaconda fancier. Laughter l
would be at the hub. l would put men,
whose names you know too well, among the
black masses of the Carolinas and Mississip-
pi, and fight outward, grinding the rebel
lion to powder. That would come-leave
Virginia to fall into our hands. Why moth
ing keeps her from gravitating to us but the
army. The slave system was dead there
practically before 1861. Nothing but Con
fedcrate forces keeps her southern. And
now she never can be southern. To hurt
the rebellion by bringing the negro into the
war, does not mean troops it means locali-
ties. When we bring the negroes into the
war we fight on his home. in the Cult States
where he ought to fight The heart of the
rebellion is where the negro is. 1t is there
where our army should stand, if victorious
the bottom of the tub is out. And you
know whose name the slave che-ishes like
household words in every hovel, and al
whose bidding he will rise to the stars ano
stripes. Will the slaves fight Well, il
any man asks you tell him no. VIII he
work If any man asks you tell him no.
But if he asks you whether the negro will
fight, tell him yes. Applause If he ask
you whether the negro will work tell hin
ycs--work even for patriotism without wage
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United States promising him $40 a month
keeping the first SO for any stray contra
bands that might join him, taking the seconC
S4 for clothing the contraband himself, anC
) the other So which Sam keeps. Laughter.
Well he fight Ask uigginson. He say
in one of his private letters that when h
carried that Regiment to st. Mary's on
soldier got seven buckshot in the back o
/ his neck, and unlike some white volunteers
, afraid of the hospital, he got comrade t.
dig them out with iack-kniie, and wen
on to the next battle. Laughter Anothe
, wounded in the left arm, afraid OF the hos
pital kept it secret 4S hours, until tn
swelling and pain were too great to b
borne, and at last he owned up sick. !
third, injured in the leg, bore it in silenc
l for the sake of fighting one more skirmisll
: and then, when they sent MIN on pickle
l duty and he could not stand, owned up an,
+ went to the hospital. Applause Do yo
!, think those men will fight Another, wit
most ludicrous carelessness, went into tn
skirmish forward dozen rods, fired, fe
back, forward again, but it was notice
that he moved very awkwardly. When th
skirmish was over, it was discovered tina
/ in order to increase his scanty rations, h
: had picked up live goose when he entere
, the fight, and held it all the time betwee
his legs. [Great laughter. had the pleasul
the other day Of speaking to Gen. Butte
= for the first time IN my life, thanking hil
for New Orleans, and | asked him Ia
experience with the negro. Well, said Ii,
q when Mcclellan was IN the Peninsula,
felt that was very scant OF men, and til
:. army at Corinth might be down upon N
1 ut auy day, and l said to the Governmen
e Send me men if you expect me to kee
8 New Orleans; and they answered, We can
spare you q man, but you must hold New
: Orleans. | sent back word, Then | wi
: go to Africa. He sent to the officers of ii
1 Old New-Orleans Colored Regiments an
said to them, "Will you fight for us
"Willingly," they answered. "Thcn giS
Y me regiment In ten dUys they gave hi
n a thousand men, and brought him the
commissions as line officers. Said he, "Woul
. you like to be colonel or maior!n mo, Sii
d give us white men, Then said the Majo
c General, "give me another regiment the
. another, and, in ninety days four regimen
and battery; and then noticing a mtlatt
: captain, worth half a million, speaking fiy
languages, welcoming him to banquet
). his own house of seved courses sewed c
silver, he thought such man had too muc
! interest in New Orleans to defend it as
IS Captain, and offered him a Majors commi
. sion. The Captain answered mo matt
- where / fight only wish to spend what
have, and fight as long as | can, ii only n
boy may stand in the street equal to viii
e boy when the wal is over" Applause.l
Is we shall never succeed until we sloua
/ off everything that believes in the past, an
Il bring to the front everything that believ
! there is but one purpose-that is, to sa,
IA, Ir,,.- L., 7 TfrI.-
u believe that the President may do an
u thing to save the Union. lie may take
% mans houses, his lands, his bank stock, h
- horses, his slayes-anything TO save Il
ie Union.n
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