The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-08-21
BIDDEFoRD, ME-, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2l, 1863.

maintained their integrity to the Union 10,
them oil be sacri6ccd3 (Never y Call back
the troops and leave those Union men oi
Texas, now waiting in other States to &c
back and plant the banner of the Union up.
on the soil Of Texas, as 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 insultcd leave them to
suffer all the horrors Of the Sepoy rebellion
take away from them the last hope, and lei
the savage beasts of the rebellion seize upon
the dying, starving women and children
Call back the troops from Charleston q
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 he hos
given up the ghost. Call them back but
when you do, fellow.citizens, remember this:
that when the Confederate States inaugural
ed this rebellion. they did 1t upon the hy-
pothesis, that there was no courage and no
manliness in the North. They admitted
that We 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, wo 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 COW.
ards name, and sleep ourselves ina coward's
grave! I,
Mo- fellow.citizens; as have said before,
this rebellion can be crushed. it ,riH be
crushed. All that is necessary is for you to
say, and say it with one united voice. with q
spirit of determination and self.sacriice, to
work is done. (Great applause.)
But, follow.citizens, the other question
which come to is one no less important
1t is one which seems to me pregnant with
moro difficulties than even the other. II the
rebellion is crushed, If the armed rebels are
subdued, or taken captiyes, or driven from
the soil, still the work is not oil accomplish
ed for after that is done, If we cannot bring
back this territory into obedience to the con.
stituton and laws of tho United States, and
maintain the integrity of this Union, and
make the flag of this Union wave over every
ZACH of soil over which it ever waved,
throughout the length and breadth of the
land, although not all in vain, still it would
be partially so, and these labors, all thesesac
rifces, all this efIusion of blood, all this sac
riGce of life, will have been without what
should DO and what believe will be their
true and certain reward. How then is that
to be accomplished How are these difficult.
ties to bc met? Fellow-citizens. it is not for
me to obtrude an opinion upon this question
30 pregnant with difficulties, 80 involved in
doubt, and one the agitation Of which, even
now. in this hour Of our success, seems to be
spreading gloom over our community; and
yet, through the difficulties which now seem
to involve US, upon this question, think /
can see the dawn of q happier day.
This question is too apt to be treated as one
which is to be met By negotiation between the
United States and the so called authorities Of
the Confederacy. II 1t is to be met in this
way, the question is a helpless one. IL this
question Is to be settled by negotiation between
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. the ne
gotiation can never end in Union. II between
the Congress of the United States and the Con-
gress of the Confederacy, it can never end in
the reconstruction of this Union. With the
leaders Of the rebellion, felow-citizens, the
question of independence is vital one aques
ton which they never will abandon so long rs
they have the breath OF life in one Of their re-
belious bodies We may as well look at this
question and meet 1t In this aspect. There is
no other way In which 1t can be met and will
be met. So vital is this question to them, so
much to the leaders of the rebellion hate the
North, and hate the Union, and hate republi
can government so much do they hate free
institutions, so much are they wcdedd to the
dream of a Southern empire with lordly aris.
tocracy, that rather than sacrifice these dreams
ofSouthern empire, they will give up even the
institution Of slavery itself.
This contest commenced with MIR. Calhoun
more than thirty years ago, when he was Mt the
head of q conspiracy to effect separation, not
then based upon the slavery question. That
was not then the question upon which these
conspirators seized to ''fre the Southern heart,"
the agitation of which was to end in q monarch
ical or aristocratic form Of government. They
commenced upon the question OF the tariff, the
collection of tho revenue They carried 1t on,
and the rebellion would then have eliminated
in revolution on an issue OF the tariff, as II has
now eliminated in revolution upon the issue OF
slavery, IL IL had not been that we had then at
the helm of State Andrew jackson, and he had
but one way Of disposng of traitors and be-
fore the compromise measures were passed
which suppressed that rising rebellion, as has
since been proved, he had already put his hand
To n warrant for the arrest OF the leading rebels
who were then on the floor OF the Senate mt
Washington. Oh for o Jackson in these times!
(Applause.) Oh for race ofmen that would
follow the precepts OF Jackson and provide hal
ters for traitors instead ofcalling back the
troops that went to subdue them. (Cheers.)
Negotiation with them would be useless. 1t
would be unworthy OF us. They would sena
delegates to treat with Us upon no point but
the one of separation. They once sent such
delegates, and our government had sense Of
manlness and honor sufficient to spurn the
messenger which come from rebel to treat
with his government rs On equal. But II we
would receive any such messengers, they would
treat upon the basis not Of reunion, but upon
the basis OF separation and before any such
treaty as that is entered into, | hope to see the
last man In the North, the last loyal man North
and South, sacrifice every dollar OF his proper
ty, every drop of his blood, and the last breath
of his life. You can't do 1t upon the basis of
peace conventions. We have had congrega-
ton of such, as we have once seen, at Washing
ton such as we have once partaken OF in Bal
timore and Charleston and some OF US know
how harmonious and how productive Of good
results they were *.
II we can treat with this so-called Confedera.
CIV itself, neither can we treat with the organ
lied governments OF the Individual rcbelious
States, for they are actuated b. the same spir-
IL, and like the Confederate government will
impose upon US terms such as our manhood
will never submit to. do not mean to say by
this that would not be magnanimous, that I
would not DO generous, aud element and mag
unanimous to toe but mean to say that ifI
ifssted my clemency or my magnanimity. |