The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-09
A New orleans Judge ON the RE-
beIliOm.
WHAT HE THINKS OF COMPROMISE.

The following is an extract from truly
able speech delivered Tuesday night last, by
Judge HIERsrAND, of New Orleans, at mass
meeting of Loyal Young Men Of New York.
It win be read with interest ac-
AS said to you in the outset, the object
of the rebellion was success or utter failure,
Like the inveterate gambler, they have staked
their all, even their personal circumstances
to a certain extent upon the hazard of the
die, and they desire nothing but complete
success. With them life without Slavery is
scarcely acceptable any longer. When you
see men with their wives and families aban-
doning their comfortable homes which they
have inhabited for quarter Of a century, and
taking their few slaves with them, and leav-
ing everything on earth else valuable behind,
as have repeatedly seen it done in the city
of New Orleans since the arrival of the Union
feet and Union forces there, you need not talk
to me about compromise with such pc. pie.
Applause.
This rebellion is based wholly and solely
upon that institution. The coast along tile
line Of the Mississippi river has been left
desert-lands are abandoned, luxurious dwell
lings left behind, costly furniture and every
thing else nsidered as naught if only the
. owners could make their escape from the APP
proaching army with their slaves. As has
been said by Gen. Hamilton Of Texas, and as
have heard planters say in the city of New
Orleans, they would drown their plantations
and escape to the woods with their negroes,
and share the last crust with them. Do you
think there is any compromise in the hearts
or heads of madmen like these2 No, there is
but one solution to this Rebellion, and he who
talks of any other is fool or madman.-
That solution is, to dig out the last vestige Of
slavery. As long as you leave the least root
of it in the body polite, it will again grow
and tester in some future day, and inhict
another wound upon the country.
am not talking without my host, fellow
citizens. Three years ago, half of little for
tune that / have been able, through many
vicissitudes, to accumulate, which is not large,
consisted in slaves, and so help me God as /
am living man, whenever they are no long
er satisfied to live with me, as / have already
told them, they are welcome to go, and were
they ten times the number that n w pos
sess, it should be the same. All the slaves
throughout the Southern States, from the
Potomac to the Rio Grande, and from Mis-
souri, to the Gulf of Mexico, would not COM
pensate me for eighteen months more of tribu-
lation such as l have passed through in the
city of New Orleans when it was under the
L. G.. + I
Do not misunderstood me. l suffered neither
in person nor purse l was allowed the liber-
ty of free locomotion in the city of New Or
leans, the liberty of expressing my thoughts
: (applause), took but the solicitude of know
ing that was at any moment liable to be
whipped up and taken before blood-thirsty
Vigalence Committee, and transferred, as
some of my fellow-citizens were, from my
hearthstone, and my wife and babes-yea,
even more, perhaps never again to hear or see
them again.
1t was punishment worse than death itself,
and one which all the negroes in Africa itself
could not compensate me for. You, fellow
citizens, who reside here in the great city of
New York, and are surrounded by these inn
mense resources of commerce, and see your
argosies floating from you every hour upon
yon magnificent bay. bound to every port
throughout the civilized world you who have
your civil institutions; you who are as pros
porous now as you ever were, although the
Secessonsts told us that after secession COM
menced grass would grow in your streets
laughter you cannot appreciate the posi-
ton of the few men in the uthern States
who have been true to their country. Andto
see that there are men in the NJrth who are
trying to embarraas the Government, who
question the business of the acts of the Gov
ernment in opposing this rebellion and trying
to assist it--this is problem that we cannot
solve. [Applause.l
But it is only another proof Of the benef-
cence of our institutions and the solidity of
our form of Government, and the sacredness
with which the laws are executed among you
when you allow these men to breathe the
same air with you and walk the same streets.
Tremendous applause. Had we, in the
city of New Orleans, ever had the audacity to
have questioned the result even of the rebel
lion, without saying anything about the just
ness of the Secession cause, there would not
have been Union man in New Orleans to
have recognized the flag when it was borne
back there upon the breeze by our glorious
tars. Therefore it is mysterious to us, and
only to be accounted for by the strength of
our institutions and the respect for our laws
felt by all the people, that you permit such
miscreants to breathe the same air with you
But have detained you too long. ["Go on,
go on."l have accomplished the object for
which desired to address my fellow-citizens
: of New York before left the city.
As to the ultimate success of this cause, my
motto has been, ever since the outset, that of
the sailor upon the deck of one Of our vessels.
One of the hands commenced to grumble, and
the mate stepping that way asked him, '' You
lubber What is the matter?" "0h," said
he, "this bloody. foul and foggy air." why,