Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-04-17
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a Capital Speech.

We have been favored by one of our cti-
zens with q copy Of the New Yo1s Caucasian.
Of the 2lst March, containing fnii report of
,neech delivered by John Mcheou, of the
city Of New York, prominent and influential
nolittion in the old democratic ranks. Tor sav>
ersl sessions member Of the old Congress,
and subsequently District Attorney for she
Southern District of the State OF New York
The sneech was delivered on the Sd Of March.
bsf;re the Democratic Union Association. It
fills upwards of eight columns close print and
small type.
We have read no similar production from a
nublic man at the North with more satisfaction
than thas which we have experienced In the pc
russl of this admirable speech-anc we deeply
regret that its great length prevents us from
publishing it entire in the columns OF the E'x>
press. With our limited space, it is impcssi'
BILE for US to enjoy this qualification without Ire
ouent combinations, which would mar It's sy m
-try ard strip it of half its force by thus dis
ioint,no it. We can therefore, only notice it
in such general terms as will convey to the
reader a sufficient idea Of its merits.
Promising that in point Of style it is wholly
free from rhetorial tnsel-piain, vet lucio with
alive will remark that it is chiefly distin-
guisi,ed by ITS happy illustrations of the pres
ent civil war by references to our revolution
ary history which records the trials apd the trt.
nmnhs that marked our transition from the
Colonial to the National State. Mr.. McKeon,
very truly coucelving that the struggle which
the South is now engaged IL is precisely slnl
lar to that in which the United Colonies em'
barked and succeeded, gives very interesting
narrative Of such historical facts aud cream
stances which characterized the latter, as most
.,rikineIy apply to the former He cites from
the speeches Of Lord Chatham, and the letters
of Rockingham, to show how ardently those
DISTINGUISHED British statesmen sympathised
with the Colonies, and how nobly they stood
up for the doctrines and principles of constitu-
tiopal liberty. He also cites from the
speecbes Of Burke and Fox, in which
were embodied the most eloquent appeals TO
the crown for conciIatory course towards the
colonies-the most severe denunciatons OF the
coercive policy, and the soundest views OF the
important questions and issues involved in the
crisis. The object of the speaker ia this branch
of his discussion is evidently to array the au>
thoritiss of the great statesmen aud orators
who thus opposed aud denounced in the two
Houses of Parliament the conduct of the min.
istrs in inaugurating war for subjugation, and
10 contemptuously rejecting oil measures Of
conciiation. against the Administration of Lin
coln and the war party at the North. He has
succeeded ents ely in this object, for by his his.
torical parallels he has placed them in precise
~ ther real ATTITUDES, Wnlcu correspond II All
points with that Of the British Ministry in the
revolution of l776. Lord North and Seward
are put upon the same platform. The two rev.
olutions originated alike in the attempt TO co
cree back into Union which had lost its con-
stitutonal features, people who had abandon.
ed it and we're determined to be independent
of it. Hostilites in both cases were conouct-
ed in like spirit. The loss in treasure and
and blood will be no less certain and disastrous
to the United States in undertaking to subiu-
gate the South, than was that sustained by
Great Britain in her mad efforts to reduce by
force the proud and free people of America to
subjectioni to her authority, after they had shak
en- It off, Mr.. McKeor has very seasenably
and happily set before the Northern mind these
important lights of history, by which, if they
are not insane, they will discover the mon-
strous folly, besides the immeasurable tarpi-
tude, of their conduct in FIRST approving and
thsn sustaining civil war which is, begond all
question, the most criminal and damaing 10
the government and people who provoked and
press1sted il, Of any that was ever kindlsd up-