New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-07

~ IN both branches ~ Co'B'.'s az .Hst lin
DEFY you 10 Iopt olt tlrRi' "'' VI 'na Govern
m nj which should bgye provoked '.oy hostility o.
yonr mart But as tong An Ter. IA breath in NY
! bod,-it you make l. quesifon between Ihe S0u'h
and tho Nodh--I should Yak wa unworthy OF
,he mot er wh0 bore me dIi not 20 for any por.
ton Sustained by The Constitution Of the United
States lA,plan-e. And now, gentlemen in con
clusiOn, l propose 10 answer tiat question 10 nv
Southern frierds: What viii come Of this war
Yoa say You will never consent to be united with
w. We say that Ge will never agree TO The exist
epce Of two military Governments arising out OF tbe
ssne people on The same territory The issne ~ dis'
met. lCbeerel How is this to be resolved
VIII tell you, gentlemen, my opinion, and yet mapy
here, in accordance with that difference OF opinion
10 which | have referred, will diner with me.
have said in the earlier part Ol my remarks ' ~
there were some qualities OF the New EnSind char
acter which did not commend themselves Closely 10
my special regard. At the same time you viii per-
nit Inc 70 cay that the most cisiLterestsd acls oil
friendship which have ever received have been
from people opposed to me in political se-iiment.
| lUproar near the door, go orr Go
ONT Oh, 1 will 60 on. That 10 no
Rebels. [Cheers and laugher.l My opinion IL
! founded upon this. / remember on sn occa1on
when we celebrated st. Patri,ks Day-a circum'
stance TO which never had any special objection
ss when we made punch for oilers and Jndys OF our
selves and still grew warm in the glow of social ip-
trrcourse-Gen Shields lcheers made this remark
that wherever the Yankee located blacksmith
shop q tavern, or q fchool-house, he never was
known to secede from it. lCheer.l Can you re-
member any instance 10 the countraryI why half
WAY between Cairo and Suez on the Grand Desert.
q Yankee opened home 10 Introduce the travellers
Of that region TO en- institution called buekwheat
/ flour sap.Iacks, tlaughterl had them cooked to
nicely BY a regular aud mOment0ns tick OF Yankee
clock. Laughter and CHEERS. And II we have
come TO The POSITION called the falling off place
shall find n Yankee there sitting on the brink with
bis legs hanging over, and looking off aud signing
not ike Alexander for WORLDS 10 conquer, but
that this world is 30 small. Applause.l Now l
tell nv Southern brethren that their only chance Ii
To let The Constitution be their guido, for II these
Yankees once get down into that Southern territory,
who have n theory about this war, and put arme
| into the hands Of the negroes loud cheetihgI ana
mt I'D their long feet the tables OF the estates
of which they tAke possession, do MT want 10 he
the layyer N an acton OF ejeclment. [Great augl-
ter and applausel. l sincerely believe tina. unless
the gentlemen OF the South VIII manifest come I'm
J geriug renAsnt OF attachment 10 the Union, aud
! agree that the Constitution of the United States
shall pre- serve Us ~ people in the territory that
We occupy the end Of TIL. war Will be occupa1oni
and Mr. Iii Ihayer, whom | have never had the
pleasure of seeng in advance Of me has illustrated
The fac, that whenever you show any place TO the
Yankeo to 40 TO-, he goes there, aud when he gors
there hs siays there, aud when they propose 70
remove him they fad il exceedingly cihcui
Cheers You will pardon me for relating an anec-
note. 4 man IN hotel IN ew-OfleAn. heard MS
| end ia th, next room who was subject 10 night
mare. making a fearful noise. lie went Ia and said
d" Why, YOU are in dreadful State :" Why,
In frI.Gteusd," answered bis friend, | have bad
"A dreadful dream" ibid You dream Of death
Wore han that" Did yoa dream oil The
devil r. Worse than that well, then, what
did you dream of" Z" thought was back in the
State OF Maine :" [Great laughter.l Tha, class Of
Ieoplo can never be defeated. l am sorry 10
say IT, am mn unwilling witness, and | hope my
leuiOuic friends, to whom the first speaker alluded,
will excuse NE when | tay that neither Whirky
pune nor lager beer will overcome those ICON
ocs.ts. Before saw the ruins Of tbs old world
thought should shed q tear over them, bn; when
discovered that they were the sepping-.!ones by
which the human rose to It's Presnt hight they
became pleasant sight 10 me. Hero civilization
ha. found its lari resting place. There is no place
to which 70 go back; civilization knows no regurgi-
tst1n. II has no refuent wave. The people OF the
South IN the slogIe State OF Virginia would never
employ the necessary phy,ica power to redeem that
hausted soil. Nobody will cay, after my discourse
closes trat have been very eulogisic TO the speak
g. but seriously, in tie presence of nv Uod, IN the
exer,i,e Of the beet capacities that know how 10
employ say TO my friends OF the South, however
gallant and chIyalric, and pefsevsrng may be their
struggle IA The field. all history will he false, all
Enal0.nes fallacous, every promise TO the human
al absurcty II This people who have con-
quered the barren East aud conquered the ocean .
,.d lie Il ing conqner all circumstances of pr- |
walton, shall not the whele Of thi, continent |
before this country expires. Loud aud continued
applause.
ID AVID pUDLLY FnLD was introduced amid ap-
rluse lie said: Mr. Chairman and fellow -ciizens |
|, was rot nv expectation AZ IL was NY wish thai 4
Lis meeting shoud lie addressed chiefly By SPEAKERS
,y,o-e political aiinltles were with parties other
.hnn that which placed thi, Administration In power;
and sncn understand, MIR. Chairman, il is 10 be- |
Butu wGs thought best not to DC wholly 90. There
is a common ground on which we all can stand
icheersl; and that ia firm, uoalteriug purpose
put Gown this Rebellion by force 81 arms. zap.
liause By force OF arm- aud, / will adj, BY force
Of arms alone. Cheers. Other qreelions rlay be
por pOned and laid aside. Who got Us into this war,
how we got into II, aud who is responsbe for it =
these are questions about which my friends who
have spoken, aud who are to speak, and nyself,
may diler; but those arc questions that we can
settle hereafter. Now we have something else 10
do. lCbeers.l Then there hre questions about the
conduct OF TIL, war. They think that 1t should have
been conducted IN ono way ana IN another, aud you
perhaps In still another but that question can ALEC be
determined hereafter The past 10 past, inexoraby
past and ar, to-day all agreed upon this one propo
.ition, that there il but one way 10 peace and that
way is through earnest, grim victorious war, lGreat
applause. Undoubtedly war is Ii efeat calamity.
The destruction Of property tho waste Of life are all
appalling; but war is not the greatest cnlamtes
Serv,ude is greater calamity. lChecrs. Dishonor
Ia u greater. lCheers War Is IA necessary and
Indispensable OWL 10 certain conditions OF society.
But thete peace men sSk US loyal men: Will you
war upon the homes Of your Southern brethren !
Will you carry carnage aud Oscillation among your
Southern friends: your countrymen T. We are not
willing TO carry destruction 10 them or TO their
homes. We arc warring-lot IL DO under
stood bore and always all parties Ara agreed
upon thst-we are warning TO 0becute the Union |
laws aud assert tho Federal supremacy undor all
circumstance and at ali timed, and We war only |
upon that which stands In the way. lChsers Take I
Viclsburg II you please. There are homes auI /
markets aud pleasant places Ia thut town; and il IL I
wore still peaceful town on the banks of the I
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