Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-07-22

luJO- our very midst, ana. ABOUT our Own
homes. Now, upon ono thing all partics
are agreed, and that is this;
Until we have a united North we can
have no successful war. Until We have
a united, harmonious. North We can have
no beniffcent peace. How shall the uni.
ty of all parties be obtalned2 I wish to
say few words to you upon this point,
which, firmly believe, .is;one of the most
important considerations to which 1 could
call your attention Is harmony to le
coerced? I appeal ia you, my RepubH-
can friends, when you say to US that the
nations life and existence hangs upon
harmony and concore here, if you your
selves, in your serious moments, believe
that this is to be produced by seizipg our
persons, by infringing upon our .righ htsrby
insulting our homes, and By depriyiDg US
Of those cherished principles for which
our fathers fought, and to which we have
always sworn allegiauee2 [Great ap-
plause. I DO appeal to you my Repub-
lican friends, and Eeg that you will re-
ceiye this appeal in tho earnest and pat
riotic spirit which prompts me to make
is. I appeal to you If .yod are not doing
yourselves and your country great
wrong when you declare that harmony
and unity Of parties are essential to save
the nations life, essential to the highest
interests Of our land, and yet stigmatize
men as true and honest as yourselves,
and whom experience has proved to have
been wiser, too, as men who do not love
their.oopntry, and who areuntrue to their
institutions. P, IT, r@ 0.
How, then, are We to gctthis indispcn-
sable barmony-tbis needed unity {? It
is not to be obtained by trampling upon
rights; tits not to be obtained BY threats /;
it is not to be obtained by coercion; it is
not to be obtained by attempting to close
our lips when we would utter Che honest
/ purposes Of our hearts and the warm con
victions Of our Judgment. But, ny Re
! publican friends, there is a mode by
(which it can be reached there IS a mode
by which the nations life can be saved
there is a mode by which, in the end, we
will restore this Union Of ours, and bring
fback those various privileges which were
50 wantOnly thrown away. Wo came to
you in no spirit Of arrogance. We 60
not come to you asking you to make any
CONCESSION of advantage to US. On Che
contrary, we only say to you, holding in
your hands and in your control almost all
the political power Of your country, to
exercise it according to your chartered
rights. Tremendous applause We
only ask that you shall give to US that
which you claim for yourselves, and that
which every freeman, and every man who
respects himself will have for himself
freedom of speech, the right to exercise
all the franchises conferred by the Con-
stitution upon an American. [Great ap-
plause.]
Can you safely deny US these things
Are you not trampling upon US, and upon
our rights, if you refuse to listen to such
an appeal? Is it not revolution which
you are thus creating when you say that
our persons may be rightfuIly seized, our
| property confsoated, our homes entered
Are you not exposing yourselves, your own
interests, to as great peril as that with
which you threaten us? Remember this,
that the bloody, and reasonable, and rev
oIutionary doctrine Of public necessity
can be proclaimed by mob as we'll as
by Government. [Applauso.] Re
member all the teachings Of history; and
we implore you, with regard to your own
interests, to stop and inquire if you arc
not doing yourselves and your own fam
/ lilies, and all that you hold dear to YOU,
an infinite wrong when you sustain pro-
positions that tear away from them, as
we'll as from US, all the projections which
the Constitution of your country has
thrown around public liberty, Great
applause
Can you tell when ambition, love Of
plunder, or thirst for power, will Induce
bad and dangerous men to proclaim this
very principle of public necessity, as a
reason Why they should trample beneath
their feet all the laws Of our land, and
the institutions Of our country? I ask
you again to think if measures like these
give power, dignity, or strength to our
Government? ! ask you, on the other
hand, if these governments have not lived
out the longest periods, which, in times
Of public danger, instead Of shrinking
back from the principles of liberty and
the barriers Of order, have raised aloft
these great principles, and battled under
them, and thus given strength to the
hearts of the people, and gained the res
peot of the world. [Applause.] I ask
you if it is not an evidence of weakness,
defeat and discontinue, when, in the pres
euce Of armed rebellion, the Administra-
ton IS compelled to assert that the very