Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-04-16

founded and sealed with their blood. Our remedy for
present abuses is not in revolutionary proceedings but
in the exercise of the right of ballot OF which have
just spoken.
Nov, gentleman, [ see around me quite number of
naturazed citizens, and l wish to say a few words to
them The time has come when may speak plainly
to each other ask you my friends, what induced you
to this country? I" To escape tyranny"l Do you
think mpertnent for asking the question and Civ
ing you tt answer to it myself? Why did you leave
the Rhine and the Rhone and the borders of Lake &C.
neva? Why did you leave the Neufchatel and Con-
stance? Why did you leave the Eba and the Scheltd
aud the Hague? Why did you leave sunny Italy, the
scene of civil war for than hundred years, and
why the vneclad hills of France? Why did you leave
Caledonia, stern and wiId and sweet lakes that nes
tie in the bosom of hills? Why did you leave Kilarny
and Kilkenny, and these rated places where Cur
aud Graa thundered agf nt oppression and where
Emmit laid down his lite Applause. Why did
you leave the grave OF your kindred in the Fatherand
TIE Gods acre OF Germany, and the churchyard of
the United Kingdom? Why did you leave the histor-
ic scenes of the Old World, where the Roman, the
Northman, and the blueeyed Goth have been, and
where they have lett the impress Of their moral pow
er, or OF brute foTce-scenes where | have sometimes
stood as it were, entranced, till | seemed to be in
corpofated with the past, while ages surged by me
Why did you leave the beautiful the tender the touch
ing, the subimewby did you leave all these for the
new world Better, perhaps have sometimes thought
IN these Gays OF trial. that the good ship in which you
embarked had been stranded the French, the Ger
man, the Irish coast, and you plucked from he
morseeHs wavenO less cruel and Tem0TseleSS than the
wrath OF man-have returned to your native village,
there to take up the burhen of lie again better This
than that you should have here just taste the
sweets Of liberty, and all at have the cup dashed
from your lips Applause,
And n(w for ny answer You come here to get rid
of unjust law, Of sdiOus taxes that take from the
mouth of labor the bread which it has earned get
rid Of large armies a0d naves that the substance
Ofthe people, to get rid OF stamp and cOnsccpt0n
cts he rid Of and M keen
and bumbal5, the instruments OF the iron rule Great
applause You came hither to get rid OF q vile System
ct eSpolndge tor which language has name, aud
to get rid OF the passport system that stops you a
every frontier town till your passport be v;sed aud
stamped 7 YOu where speech was free az the
press free, where there trial by jury, where labor
was honored, and man. the lord OF his little patch OF
ground, it may be OF his acres could take bis cni
dren in bis and thank God that he was bora IN
land of freedom. Great cheering. This is what you
came for. And EDu came where civil and religious
liberty had found asylum and reared her temples 10
justice aud TO the worship OF the living GCd But,
of foreign lands you whom have sometimes welcomed
to shores, am bound tell you that III things
you have been mised lately d ceived, beguied, and
cast were, into the horrible pit Ia the last year
year which, for its violation OF personal rights and
disregard of constitutional obligations should be atric
en- from the calender-the men in power, dsregarding
the rights Of the people under the Constitution; have
struck down. in succession of outrageous blows many
of the rights which you had acquired here, and the
privileges which you had begun to enjoy, and hava re
neWed here in country some OF the worst features OF
tie rotten dypasties of European and Asac countries
And now, gentlemen, your remedy is in your own
hands United together, and firm in your purpose you
may recover that which you have lost and these
inevitable privileges IN q constitutional way.
Gentlemen Of the different cabs-for [ suppose you
all represented here-I your organization the
noble Impulse, the patriotic PURPOSES the holy aspera
tion and heroic resolve which have characterized the
true friends of liberty in 8ll ages of the worS. Your
the State was represented. This is something which
has never occurred before. Nor is the explanation
difficult one. Every town has suffered more or less by
the Every town has the edge Of its hOri
zon the shadows OF some coming despotism. Every
town has given something of the flower of its youth to
the Some have returned crippled for life; others
have come back 10 tell the story Of how they were
treated by those who should Lave been to them friends
and protectors. Every town is loaded with taxes. In
all Of them there is more or less mourning. Rachel
weeping for her children, and refusing to be comorted
because they not and all of this misery desoation
burhen and oppression, for tie sake of political abo
ltionism. (Appause)
Now, gentlemen, word OR two more and have
done. What is the mission of the hour? 1t is to
speak out and speak plainly, and not only that but to
speak the whole trurh and if you do this you
may say that we have gone far enough in unprof
table and cruel struggle. 1t is time to sheath the
sword and spare mankind" (Great cheering) Al
ready have cur quarrels filed the world with widows
and orphans" But, perhaps, you say to me-some
of you've are to gain by this struggle and therefore
it should go OF. Gain what? If you Conquer
the South, you have got TO keep an srmy there to
hold them in suhjugatlOn and empOVerish yourselves
to pay for it. Ii you deyastate the South and turn
the African loose, you destroy that portion of your
country which was once your best home market and
it into desert Is it liberty that to gain?
Alas my friends you have we'll nigh lost your liberties
by permitting the military to override the civil power
Depend upon it, such contest this at the preseL
tme there be but enc, and that will be despo
tlsm tor yourselves and children. The only hope is
return to peaceful counses the cry should 60 forth from
end Of the land to the other" We have had enough
of this death struggle
But what is to be done, they may say, after you |
get cessation Of hostilities We cannot, perhaps,
penetrate the future and be able to at this moment
what can should be done. But alay the passions
which war engenders, and we shall be at no loss to
find way. God will help us. Applause 1t is
not by force of arms that we are to have another
Union, but By force Of Reason hides her elf
IN these days-a poor, raked shiVeriDg thing-amid
the peltlng OF the sto Go to your army, and they
will tell you they have had enough of slaughter
Brave men will tell you this. There has not one bat
tie been fought since the begun, whether in their
favor against them, that doubts have not arisen IL
their minds to the possibility OF cDnquGIng the |
South Some of them remember what Chatham said |
on the rebeiliCus colonies. They could not forget
either, should forget that the the other
side of the "in7idinus line" OF own kindred |
spirits also, and, rejecting these things these
Of whom am speaking, who are, many OF them, look
ing to Connecticut and hoping for a democratic tri
umph here, [appIause these men began to doubt tie
morale of the L. it for freedom is it the work
of Cain in a multiplied, vast ard .faarfCl form? ihe
pulpit may push il bat the words Of Christ shall
buke the pulpit s-thunder-"Blessad The peace ma
kers for they shall be called the childred OF God"
Tremendous applause.