The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-06-11
io-l i'falsi5 SPEECH OF Is .s5i. 1T
Hon FERNANDO, WOOD. 9
At the Great Peace Meeting at Cooper
Institute. New York, June Sd. U /

duced, came forward and was greeted with
loud and rapturous cheering He said:
y We have fallen upon evil times. We
have lived too long, ifiwe have outlived our
country. Indications admonish as that the
1 American Union has been severed, ,eand it
may be forever. Disguise it as we may,
candor colnpels the admission that our once
proud republic has. fallen from its exalted
hight. 1t is now PROSTATE. Decried, in
suited, and without second-rate position
abroad--rent asunder BY fearful civil war at
home-ruled by despotic power on princi-
pies of partisan hate, and upon theories of
! Government utterly Rntagonistic to those
upon which our institutions were founded,
we stand before the world an object Of won
der, contempt and ridicule.4 Tines g. facts are
not referred to in spirit of reproach, but
anticipate the record ofhistory, and / shall
leave to others to fix the responsib bility. Il
reproach none. tits not difficult to charge
error or wrong doing after accomplishment
of results. All of US can see causes for mis-
| fortunes that have occurred better than we
can provide preventive. at is human to
| err, it is divine to forgive;' and, while easy
! to commit error ourselves, it is ditheult 10
] overlook it in others. With these senti-
men.s / am disposed to alleviate the nation :
al woes, rather than indulge criticism IN the
causes. l would do something to extricate
! the country from its terrible calamities.-
| [Applause The effort, however feeble, is
ennobling. Eveu the attempt, If made In
good faith is worthy the highest intellect,
and the most elevated patriotism regret
/ that, OF the many of this character OF which
America has boasted, who have h0nored us
in the several departments OF human pro-
gress, none have arisen atthis time Tor this
blessed mission. Heretofore, in every age,
great national exigencies have produced the
man for the occasion. As the Almighty
'tempers the wind to the shorn lamb so
has He, heretofore. provided the instrument
by which great national results have been
accomplished for the advantage of human
ity. As yet, He has not youcLsafed this
favor to us. No man equal to this crisis has
appeared neither in the field nor In the
Cabinet; nor in the many elevated spheres
of private life has the man presented him
self with the brain, the heart and the eopr7
age to seize and work out the great political.
problem now to be solved iu our case, and
to utter efficiently hetrutbs OF reason with
the force and power, equal to the pending
C isis. Those who have the intel'e tual abil tH
have lack ed the nerve ,aandi those with the
nerve have lacked the ability. But there
is another wonder: that in this civilized
population of over thirty millious-,N orth
and South-abouuding with benevolence,
purity. cultivation and enlightened
Cbristiauity, none are found 70 raise the
banner of peace. Among the thousand
spires which rear their lofty turrets to BE-
nignant God, but one coversa a pulpit devoted
to the true principles s,of' Christ, and pro-
claims ION earth peace; good will toward
men, TApplduse and voicesi who ls ltE'J
Tr III IL e. 1c hot n n
gentleman 1 believe, now within these walls
4Mr. Pratt, a preacher from. Staten Island.
G'Good, goodn and threeieheers for Rev. Mr..
Pratt AS if the opposite constituted the
whole duty of man, war! bloodshed aud, ra-
pine-are encouraged, land all u.charitable-
ness taught, as if to mock the spirit of the
meek and lowIy esus.' Those whose pro-
fessious should instil the kindlier methods
of settling human controversy, have been
foremost in the race for human sacrifice,
forgetting that war and hate are children OF
Satan. and that peace and love are the
emanation of the Divine Spirit. L have
looked upon this with wonder. and have
said, 'Oh! Israel, if this be your God am
not surprised that the country. and the
Church are alike upon the road to ruin, and
That God has withdrawn his countenance
from each. Now, without believing that
nv feeble voice and influence can accomp-
lish much toward averting this revulslon OF
our political aud social system, should be
recreant to every impulse OF my hesrt ana
! to every cherished principle of my lie II
! did not throw myself into the.breacn, 10 90
: whatever in me lies to IMPEDE, not stay |,
! avalanche of geu euerai destruction lApPlause
( Without the ability to DO much, nave DOT
Z the temerity to attempt much; but what
7 H. tn hrin
f. can people to a realization of their present
periIous condition. With this spirit and
: with this determination, throw myself into
this cause, and in the language of Senator
! Benton, when he presented proposition to
the United States Senate, with little hope
; of its i'm mediate success, amid the general
| Indignation of his compeers, SOLITARY and
; alone I put this ball in motion.' That pro-
A positioul was to expunge the resolutions from
& the records of the Senate which placed
l mark of condemnation upon the lllustrlous
a Andrew Jackson. Though coutemned and
; Jeoried theu. it finally succeeded, amid the
approviug plaudiis of the whole American
). people. So with this. Though now to be
! denounced by the open enemies OF the
Democratic party from without, and to De
r yet more violently opposed by SO calico
Democrats from within, yet, nevertheless II
I must finally triumph, not only amid tne ap
proving plaudits of the American people
, and, indeed, of the friends of human liberty
progress and self-government throughout
the world. bnt of the very angels of HEAVIER
themselves Benton's effert was to restore
:. the fair fame of gallant hero; mine will b'
to restore the aunity, harmony aud salvation
RI OF the best institutions ever devised for the
: eovsrnment- af man. declare for peace
\ and, as preparatory for peace. am in favor o
! a cessation of hostilities. that propositions
NAV be made or accepted which shall con-
duce to a result in an amicable adjustmen
bof the causes which led to this war
i fCheers and applause.] l am not for peace
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