Nebraska advertiser., 1863-04-30

that bound US together had not been bro
ken, / would not have thus been left to
follow the dictates Of Gods law and of
humanity. Loud applause
And now, my friends, | do not know
but that / shall commit some heresy. but
as a Democrat, and as an Andrew Jack
son Democrat, / say hat | am not for
the Union as il was. Loud cheersl /
have the honor to say as a Democrat, and
an Andrew Jackson Democrat. that | am
not for the Union to be again as it was.
Understand me. / was for the Union
as it was, because | saw, or thought |
saw, in the future the troubles which
have burst upon Us; but, having UNDER
gone those troubles, having spent all the
blood, and treasure, | do not like to GO
back again and be cheek by jowl" a.
we were before with South Carolina, if
| can help it. CCheers.l Let no man
misunderstood me and | repeat it, lest
il might be misunderstood, | do not mean
to give up a single inch Of the soil of
South Carolina. If | had been alive at
that lime, and had the position and atili-
ty, | would have dealt with South Caro-
lima as Jackson did, and kept her in al
all hazards. But now she has gone out;
and ] will take care that when she comes
in again she will come in better behaved.
Laughter and cheers l will take care
that she shall be no longer the fire brand
of the Union ay. hat she shall enjoy,
whatyher people never yet have enjoyed,
the blessings of a republican form of
Government ICheers. Therefore, in
that view, l am not for the reconstruction
of the Union as it was. | have spent
tears and blood enough on it. in c%oniunc-
ton with my fellow-Citizens, to make 1t
a lille better. Ii was good enough if il
had been let alone. The old house waS
good enough tO~ me but as they hare pull
ed down Lae early part, IprOpOse, when we
rebuild it, to build IL up ruth all the mod
ern improvements. Enthusiastic ap.
plause.
The ~Israelites took possession of the
land of Canaan, which they got from al
len enemies. Has il not been held from
the beginning Of the world down to this
day that the whole properly of alien en-
emies belong to the conqueror, and that
it is at his mercy and his clemency what
shall be done with it? For one | would
take the property of the rebels and give
part of it to the loyal man of the South,
enough to make him as we'll or nearly as
well, as he was before; and | would take
the rest Of it and distribute ii among the
volunteer soldiers who have gone to sup
port the Government. Bravo bravo
And, so far as / know them, if we shall
settle South Carolina with them, / shall
be quite willing TO receive her back into
the Union in the course of a few years.
[Applause.
That leads US TO deal with another
propositon--what shall be done with the
slaves? Here, again, the laws of war.
dealing with that species of property,
have long since settled themselves with
clearness and exactness. II is at the
hand of the conqueror-of the Govern
ment which has maintained or extended
its jurisdiction over the territory-to deal
with those slaves as it pleases to free
them or not, as that Government chooses.
It is not for the conquered to make terms
or to send their friends to make terms
on that question. Laughter and ap-
plause. Another difficulty which seems
to trouble my old Democratic friends Is
the question Of arming the negro slaves.
If these Confederate States are alien en-
emies. is there any objection that you
know of--and if so, state ito arming
one portion of hat foreign country against
the other? No, no. Suppose we were
at war with England, who here would
get up in New York and say we must
not arm Irish, lest they should hurt
somebody? Laugbture and applause.
Again: here is no law, either Of war, or
of nations, or of governmental action,
that l know of which prevents a country
arming one portion of It's citizens or It's
subjects for the defense of that portion
or of any other,
There is one question which l am Of
ten asked, and | will answer it here once
for all-will the negroes fight? On that
subject | have no personal experience,
because l left the Department of the
Gulf before they were fairly brought in
TO action. But they did fight under Jack.
son at Chalmette. Let Napolean III.
answer it, who las hired them to do what
the veterans Of the Crimea could not do
whip the Mexicans. Laughter. Let
the veterans of Napolean l., who, under
his brother-in-law lie Clerc, were whip
ped out Of ST.. Domingo by them, say
whether they will fight or not. APP
plause. What has been the demoraliza-
ing effect on them of contact with the
white man I know not but | cannot for
get that they and their fathers would not
have been slaves if they had not been
captives of war in their own co untry,
made so in hand-lo-hand fights among
the several chiefs. That shows that they
would fight at some time. If you want
to know any more about IT | can only ad-
wise you to try them.
When | left the Department of the
Gulf l sat down and deliberately put in the
form of an address to the people of that
department the executive acts had done,
and | said to them, " You know | have
done these things" / have now watied
more than three months, and l have yet
to hear a denial from that department
thar these things were done. TCheeTs. I