, 1863-11-10

long aR LQey propose no auFrenn6fs they Aft
entitled to ask no terms. What has happen
fruit Of their own crimes; but It was fruit or
daf1e not BY man, but Of God.' Wlthou
seeking to divfEe His ways, think that thu
future Will be like unto the past. The insur
1ection will perish under military power, nee
etfarily and therefore lawfully exercised, aai
slavery will perish Rith It.
DOORS OPEN ALWAYS TO TIE PRoD1aAL SON,
Nevertheless, an willing that the prodi
gal eons hall return The doors, SO faf as
an concerned, shall always be open to him,
The longer he is content to feed uoon husks,
the sooner he will hunger. The Ionger ha Il
content in his dslllance With the hariot Of re-.
bt1lion TIE greater will be his ultimate dis
gust with her embrace The prenter his
hunger and his diegust, The deeper viii be his
repentance and the more lasting his reforms.
tiou.
BUT NO INVITATIONS.
shall send no Invitations after him; and
Jet, Speaking not for myself, but for vol and
me Mnele Ameitc.9 An people, express the
prevent the fatted calf being .laino for his
Welcome when he does come back. saving
penttently, brothers. hare offended, and
desire reconciliation
COST or WAR.
The sympathizers with the rebels tell Us of
debt, taxes and blood. Was ever soyereieuty
and freedom saysd without the expenditure
ofmoney and Of life? It is the lot appointed
TO nations to endure War with Its evils, rs
well as to enjoy at intervals peace and pros.
peFaty. Who caused the debts, the taxes and
the shedding of blood? The cauuonade. OF
Sumter answers the Hho1e question st once.
ln conflict like this the question is mot one
efabstract enfFe,iog; but which Of the con.
eIding parties suffers most. Viewed In this
light, the whole Of Tie suffering which the
war has produced has fallen upon the insur.
i exempt. In the insurge1t- States there is
not one citizen who Is not poorer and the
more unhappy for the var. n the }oyal re-.
gisns there Is not State which Is not
stronger, nor citizen who Is not the richer
for the tame cause. The increase Of wealth
which arises from the new national discipline
Of Industry which the var has obliged us to
adopt has enabled us to paT all increased
debts and taxes as easily as ne paid the debts
and taxes existing when the Wur begun. Nor
must ne forget that 1t is only Question Of
whoEe debts and whose taxes We shall pay
Iot whether we shall pay any. We pay either
the debts and taxes Of Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis and Robert 2. Toombs. In
tie one case we have an equivalent Of dollar
for dcllar for whit We pay, and the greater
equfva1entof national safety and honor. In
the other case We pay twelve dollars in gold
tor one dollar Of Confederate money, NTH
the additional loss df eternal disgrace and
ruin.
RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE.
Fellow citizens, forty eeyen is so near to
fifty that Nc may use round numbers. Fifty
ytars ago, then, first saw and asceuded the
Hudson river. For forty Elk years It was
constant study through the agency Of that
river, and artificial extension Of Il to the
lakes and the Miasissippi, to fort1fy the IN.
IGN 1 se ssd develop The greatness and prosperity
GEAR revealed new. enlarged md Gratifying,
success OF that policy, until the year 1850.
Thep, on my way to the national capital I
descended the Erie caDal and the Hudson
river. I Surveyed the cities that had grown
up on their banks with wonder, and the vast,
admiration, But then there was the alarm,
mutteril gs nnd and deep, threatening civil
war aud revolution. I was obliged to nv to
aQprehcId, to grasp thi. danger If l could,
and grasp it with all its magni!ude aud ter
ro,s. What Is reyolutionf It Is the subver-
Ill this happiness. and the substitution Ia It's
place If scenes Of blood and universal desc.
la.ton. I said to myeelf-Is this Inevitable :
It is In one care, WIS the answer. The Demo.
cratic patty throughout the United States,
which has virtually held the zeins Of govern.
ment for half century, has been ovefthrown
BY constitutional majority In the election.
disappointed chiefs hare refused submission
and reto1ted to civil. u.war. II the Damocratic
party Of the United States lend themselves
directly OF Indirectly to insnrrectiou, civIl
war is inevitable, and . ferocIous. bloody, all
Fe1TadiDg revolution il indefinitely tastaned
ED IN successful inyasicn and pacidcatton
nnder foreign conqueror. Whist shall be
done in this emergency !? Tbs angwcr
was Iotv1our. PItrent 1t by apnesls
to the patriotism Of all parties, aud saTren-
der Of al their conflicting interests, preiu-
dlces and passions to tbs common safety.
This win enable us to prevent revolution, If
possible; to meet and conquer 1t. If ns must,
VIII these means prevent It? I know not.
This Is Of the knowledge which God retains
to Hfmken He indicates the means and with
holds for the trial Of our virtue the results.
But ne thau not long be left Without indIca.
tiors Of The re:ult. Three months, eix months,
twelve Ronths, twenty tour mouths, thirty
menlh6 Wil dfEcloae either the fact that the
Democratic masses Ct the United States are
ais1oya1, and that the revolution will there
fore p1eYoll, or the fact that they fi.e to the
true spirit, to the lofty heights Of patriotism,
and the country Nlu be saved. That time has
come ut last. Not SO soou as In cur impa-
tience ne wisbed, but as soon, nc may b.
JAOfCf I'D HAa UG6t 414 U0I Ht11A16. 1ue
ocrattc masses, dieca1ding leaders. have at
tanned the height Of patrio1t.n. They are In
the field; they are in the Cabinet; they a.e
In tie canvass, counse1ing, voting, fighting,
generously, loyalty, nobly, to make the cleo.
ton Of. Abraham Lincoln President of the
United States from 1881 to 1855. q fixed, IRE.
slstible fact. II will BE- done, The country
is fayed, and there remains nothing isit to
complete tie grvat and painful drams but that
which cannot be- long delayed, the submission
Of the irEurgents, and thus the restoration to
peace. Ard what peace mny ne not expect
that to be-! 4 Peace that establishes forever
ne R1!asusabllly Of the republican, rapre.
or ultimate restoration Of four million bond.
men to freedom; the security Of the Ameri-
can continent agalIst equally the evils ct in
ternal anarchy and foreign aggression, The
angels OF Heaven might tune their harps to
the symphony Of euch d peace.