The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-20
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IMMENSE UNION MEETlM IN
Speeches of James r. Brady, Judge
Daly and John Van Buren,.

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before the time of meeting the hall was
more than filled, and ingress became near
ly impossible.
The attention of the audience was at
tracted to the venerable old gentleman
with bald head and long silvery locks
sitting near the platform. After little
while the old gentleman took a position
upon the platform among others, when he
was cheered.
General PROSPER NJ WErMoEE came
forward and said: "You do well to cheer
this venerable old man, for he is an old
soldier who fought for his country fifty
years ago, and his name is Gen. SWIFT. +"
Loud cheers.
Soon after this General WErMORE intro
ced to the audience Maj. Gen. CoUoH,
commanding the Second Army corps now
at Fredericksburg, who was vehemently
cheered.
Again General WErMORE announced an
other soldier in the person of boy. You
well remember, said General WErMoRE,
that at the battle of Fredericksburg one
hundred men volunteered to cross the riv-
er and spike the guns of the enemy. This
boy insisted upon going with them, but
was told that he was too small. When the
boat showed off he hung On to the stern of
the boat, and went over in the water.
CApplause] Gen. BURNSIDE praised him
in the face of the army. He is drum
mer-boy, and has got his drum here. 1t
was presented to him to-day for his gal
lantry. His name is RoBERr HENRY HEN
DERsHoT-and he shot a rebel. Gap
plause. He belongs to the Eighth Mich
igan Infantry. He will now beat tune
for you [Cheers.l The boy then came
forward and beat tattoo on his drum in
truly artistic style, very much to the
qualification of the audience, who cheered
him loudly.
Mayor OPDYEE was then installed in the
chair, and the meeting organized.
Mr. JAMES T. BRADY was the next speak
er. He said the United States was his
country, and he could acknowledge no
other; its flag was his flag, and he could
accept no other; he would have it defend
ed and perpetuated, with no star nor stripe
torn from it, but with many of each added
to it; made. 10y its glorious history and
associations, past and present, pledge
that, Notwithstanding the gloom which
now envelOps it, there must be for all
American citizens one country, one c0nsti-
tuition, one destiny. [Applau>e.l
At the beginning of the war he had hop
ed and expected that it would soon be set
tled-that the southern people would put
their feet upon the necks Of their leaders
and insist upon the maintenance of the
Union; but he had been disappointed. -
Those of the South had said, on the con-
trary, that if blank sheet of paper and a
pen were handed to them to write the
terms upon which they would return to
the Union, they would not accept the Of
fer; they had thereby declared this to be
o war between the North and the South
for all ultimate results that could flow
from it =; and he would spit upon the north
ern man who, in such u contest, did not
take position in favor of the North -
prolonged applause.l
Mr. dawn DUDLEY spoke next, who
said -
There is only one way to peace, and that
is through grim, victorious war War is a
great calamity. but not the greatest Tur
pitude is greater calamity; dishonor is
still greater. lie repeated some statistics
given him by the Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue, showing that the income from
revenue in the coming year would equal
1925, 600, 900, and that if the war were to
continue year longer at the same cost as
heretofore, the whole debt of the Govern
ment could be easily paid OFT in twenty
years.
SPEECH OF JUDGE DAILY.
Judge DAILY, who spoke next, asked {:
What is the duty OF northern men, with
out distinction of party? Of the men in
the North who talk of peace, compromise,
concession and IN arnistice, he said, if
thew had made up their minds that the
war is hopeless, their conduct was consist
ent; but if they were deslrOus OF preser-
wing the Union, he had little belief in their
WISDOM or, if they had wisdom, he had
doubt of their nationality. Applause.
Gold was the barometer, showing the opin-
MON of the world as to tho possibility of
our success. CApplause.l The doubt was
increased with every additional voice of
northern dissent. [Applause.l Our only
hope was in the earnest and vigorous pro-
secution of the war [Applause.] That
had always been his conviction, and ev-
erything that had occurred had tended to
foster his conviction that our only saliva
ton was in the vigorous prosecution OF the
war. [Applause.]
Advised by the experience of the past,
he Judged that the result Of the war was
certain, except in case of foreign interven-
ton. As to the threatened Intervention
of France, there was no greater encourage
ment for it than the semblance of disunion
in the North. Our greatest bulwark is a
united front. IApplause.]
SPEECH OF JOHN VAN BUREN,.
Mr.. JOHN VAN buren, followed. He
gave an account of the steps by which the
rebel leaders led up to civil war, and Of
their objects. No right of any southern