True Democrat., 1863-03-11

disciplined, ever marshaled A navy, too, not the most formidable perhaps, but the most numerous and gallant, and the costliest in the world, and | against foe almost withouta navy at all. | Twenty million people, and every element of strength and force at commaud-power, patronage, influence, unanimlty, enthusiasm, confidence, cred 1 it, money, men, an army and a navy, the largest and the nobest ever set in the field or ahoat upon the sea; with the support almost servile, of every State, county, and municipality, in the North and West; with Congress swift to do the bidding of | the Executive; without opposition anywhere at | home, ant with all arbitrary power which neither | Car of Russia nor the Emperor Of Austria dare l exercise yet alter nearly two years of more wig orous prosecution of than ever recorded in history after more skirmishes, combats and battles than Alexander, Caesar, or the first Napoleon ever fought in any five yeaas of their military career, you have utterly, signally, dsastrousy-l will not l say ignominuousl y-faed to subdue ten million "rebbels," whom you had taught the people of the 1 North and Vest not only to hate but to despise. Rebels did say? Yes, your fathers were rebels, or l your grandiath,rS. He who now before me on canvass looks down so sadly upon us, the false de- l generate, and imbecile guardian of the great Re- l public which he founded, a rebel. And yet 1 we, cradle cd ourselves in rebellion, and who have fostered and fratcrnized with every insunecton in the nineteenth century every where throughout the 1 globe would now, forsoOth make lhe word ' reb. l ei' a reuroach. Rebels certainly they are but all the persistent and stupendous efforts of the most gigantic warfare of modern times have, ! ing to crush them out, cut off though they have ! been by your blockade from all the world, and dependent only upon their own courage ana re- sources. And vet they were to be utterly conquer 1 ed and subdued in six weeks, or three months Sir, my judgment made uD and expressed from the first l learned it from Catham: " My 1 lords you cannot conquer America" And you have not conquered the South. You never will It is not i'll the nature of things possible; much less under your auApiceS. But money you have expended without limit, and blood poured out like water defeat, debt taxation, sepulchers, theseare your trophies. In vain the people gave you trea- sure and the soldier yielded up his life. "Fight, tax, emancpate, let the'e," said the gentleman from Maine, (M Mr. Pike,) at the last session, |" be | the traity of our sava.ion." Sir, they have be- c}me the trinity of your deep damnation The war for the Union is, in your hands, most bloody and costly failure. The President confessed it on the 22d of September soIemnly, officially, and un der the broad seal of the United States. And he has now repeated the confession. The priests and ral,bis of abolition taught m that God would not prosper such cause. War for the Union abandoned; for the negro openly begun, and with stronger battaons than before. With what success2 Let the dead at Fredericksburg and Vicksburg answer.
 Aud now sir can thia war continue? Whence the m yney t1 carry it oa? Where the men? Can you borrow? From whom? Can you tax morel Will the people bear it2 Wait till you have col. Iected what is already levied. How many millions
 
 below par for gold-can you ioat2 Will men en- list now at any price? An, sir, 1t is easier to die at hone--I beg pardon; but trust l am not 'dis- cour.ging enlistments." If am, then first arrest Llncon Stanton and Htlleck. and some of your other generals, and l will retra7t; yes, 1 will cant. But can you draft again? Ask New Eng land-New York. Ask Massachusetts Where are the nine hundred thOu3ani? Ask not Ohio the Northwest. She thought you were in earnest, and gave you all, atl--nOre than you demanded.
 'sTne wife whose babe 1rst smiled that day,
 The r,ir, onl hri'ie of ytster ev.,
 And aged sire aod mstron
 Saw tie loved warriors ila.ts away, And deemed It sin t) grieve.'
 | Sir in blood she has atoned for her creduitv; and now there is mourning ill every house, and dis tress and sadness in every heart Shall she give any more?
 But ought this war to continue? I answer no not dav not an hour What then7 Shall separate7 Again 1 answer no, no, no. What then? And now, sir, 1 com to the grandest and most solemn problem of statesmanshlp from the beginning Of time; and to the God of Heaven, ilu- miner of hearts and minds would humbly appeal for some measure, at least, of light and wisdom and strength to explore and reveal the dark but | possible future of this land.
 CAN THE UNION OF THESE STATES BIZ EEsToRED7
 HOW SHALL IT BE DoNE1
 And why not7 Is 1t historically impossble7 Sir the frequent civil wars and conflicts between the States of Greece did not prevent their cordial
 
 the thirty years Peloponnesian war, sprnging, in part from the abduction of slaves, and emLl tered and disastrous as it was-let Thucydides speak wholly destroy the fellowship of those Stases.-- The wise Romans ended the three years social war, after many bloody battles, and much atrocty, by admitting the States of Italy to all the rights and privileges of Roman ctzenship-the very object to secure which these States had taken up arms. The border wars between Scotland and England, run ming through centuries, did not prevent the final union, i'll peace and by adjustment, of the two kingdoms under one monarch. Compromise did at last what ages of coercion and attempted conquest had failed to effect. England kept the crown, while Scotland gave the king to wear it}'and the memories of Wallace and the Bruce of Bannock- burn became part of the glories of British history. pass. by the union of Ireland with England--a f union of force which God and just abhor; and vet precisely "l Uni m as it should be-" of the abol tioasts of America. Sir, the ri valre. of tl ho ses of York and Lancaster filed s all England with cruelty and slaughter; yet com promise and intern arriage ended the strife at last al the white rose aId the red blended in one. : Who dreamed aonth before the death of Crom-
 we'll that ill two years the people of England after | twenty years of civil war and usurpstion, would,
 with great unaninlity, restore the house of Stew l art in the person of its most worthless prince, r. whose father, but eleven years before, they had . | beheadedl And who could have foretod, in the l. beginning of 1872, that within some threc years, Q that Napoleon would be in exile upon desert is-
  - intervention did it. but 1t is strange history. Or , who then expected to nephew Of Napoleon, thirty five years aer with the consent of the peo :? ple supplant the Bourbon and reign Emperor of ', France7 Sir, many States and people, once se- If parate have become united in the course of ages q through natural causes and without conquest; but IT I remember single instance only in history of it States or people once united, and speaking the $ same language who have been forced permanently esunder by civil strife war, unless they were se- n narrated bv distance or natural boundaries - r The secession of the Ten Tribes is the excepton 3. these parted without actual war; and their subse- ouent history is encouraging to secession But n when Moses, the greatest of statesmen, would se cure distinct nationality and government to the !, Hebrews, he left Egypt and established his people Il ;n distart country. In modern times, the ether lands ttiree centuries ago, their independence s by the sword; but France and the English Channel e separated them from Spain. So did our Thirteen e Colonies; but the Atant Ocean divorced us from : England So did Mexico aud other Spanish Colo : nies in America but the same ocean divided them $ from Spain. Cuba and the Canda5 still adhere to $ the parent government And who now, North or South in Europe or America, looking into history, sh all presumptuously say that because of civil war : the reunion of these States is impossiblel War,
 indeed while it lasts is disuAion: and, If 1t lasts long enough will be final, eternal separation first, {; and anarchy and despotism afterward. Hence l 1Nr hv hnn