The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-08-14
Con. shepleY Il Portland.

The gallant Shepley, who Is now On q or'e'
visit to his home. accepted an invitation
from tho loyal ci.iscnsof that city to address
them on National Affairs at their City Hail.
last Monday evening. We shall publish the
speech next week, and our readers will be IN
debtod to the enterprise of the Portland Press
for having the speech geographically re-
ported. In the mean time we give below the
following eloquent extract. twill be re-
mombered that the copperhcad candidate Tor
governor, Bradbury, stands pledged, it elect
ed, to withdraw our troops now in the field
Referring to this copperhead, Gen. ShePley
said: u, d, rs,i rr-.tI ~ 5- fri
No! it is not from Southern soil that you
hear a response when no calls back the rebel
troops. You have got to leave the soil OF
the Confederacy and como over here into
loyal and patriotic and honest Maine. And
If YOU nut your ears close to the ground and
listen, YOU may hear coming down from the
hills of Oxford q slight rebel reyerberation
from the lips of Virgin Delphini Paris, say
ing, call back your troops Chauncey Burr
and Virgil Paris say, call back your troops.
Here, here, on the soil of Maine, man
dares to rise up and say, call back the men
that are fighting for the flag and for tho I'm
ion. .'h. go i' lH'la r.i.l
Call back whom. call back whom, fellow
citizens? Call back Rosecrans and his gal.
liant army? (cries of never, no.) Leave
Bragg to overrun loyal Kentucky, and give
up TO the gibbet and the sword, to the halter,
to torture and death, those loyal men, who,
in gallant Kentucky have so long fought the
battles OF the Union? Call back Grant, and
tell him to bring back your men, for they
have boon fighting in an unholy war; tear
down that blood.stained banner that you
have hoisted over Vicksburg, and say that
this was an unholy strife in which you were
engaged; that all those brave and gallant
men who poured out their blood and sacri.
feed their lives while there in the trenches
of yicksburg. or planted upon the imprcgna-
bic stronghold the hag OF the Union, have la
bored and bled and died in vain? (Never,
no. neverD Go down to Louisiana and call
back Banks (nevcrD and the gallant little
band that Butler took from the shores of
New England, and carried down and kept
for months and months, waiting for the time
to come when they should sail up the Mlssis-
sipp; waiting on n little sand spit in the
Gulf, so desolate that when he banished i'm
placable rebels to tho spot upon which no so
long kept his troops, all rcbeldom broke out
in one universal wall because of the enormi'
ty ofhi cruelty. Yes, call back Banks and
give up Louisiana again, now ready and
waiting to como back into the Union give
hcr up again to the rebellion, and let those
loyal men, who, through fire and sword, have
their integrity to the Union let
them all be sacrificed? (NoyerD Call back
the troops and leave those Union men of
Texas, now waiting in other States to so
back and plant the banner Of tho Union up
on the soil of Texas las well as those who, with
their wives and their children, are in the
woods and in the caves, hunted by dogs, and
when discovered, hung up to the trees, BUTCH
cred. tortured and insulted; leave them to
suffer all the horrors Of the Sepoy rebellion ?
take away from them the last hope, and let
the savage beasts of the rebellion seize upon
the dying, starving women and children
Call back the troops from Charleston OIL
should like to see them do it.) Call back
the troops from Charleston, call them back
from the city where this rebellion was inaug-
urated, where it had its birth place. where
there was but one Union man and no has
given up the ghost. Call them back but
when you do, fcllOw-citizens, remember this:
that when the Confederate States inaugural
I'd this REBELLION, they did it upon the hy-
pothesis, that there was no courage and no
in the North. They admitted
thatswe had three times the means, but they
said we were nation greedy of gold, that
we were devoid of the sense OF honor. that
we had no courage, no manliness, and that
rather than sacrifice our comfort, or our
means, or our lives, we would readily give
up the contest. Call back the troops and
let this vaunt OF South Carolina be true, and
let us admit that all they said OF us was true,
and let us hand down to our children and
our children's children the heritage Of q cow
ard Is name, aud sleep ourselves in towards
grave! ... t
No fellow.citizens; as I have said before,
this rebellion can be crushed. it piR be
crushed. All that is necessary is for you to
say, and say it with one united voice. with a
spirit OF determination and sell-sacriicc, to
say the word-it shall be crushed, and the
work is done. (Grcat applausc.),