The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-25
GENERAL BB0jfiteR N NEW YORK.
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Public Reception at the Fifth
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SPEECH OF THE GENE,sAL.
A Plea for Immediate Peace and
'.r Amnesty to Rebels. Mn


General BurLER had public reception
and dinner at the Fifth Avenue Hetel in
New York on Monday last. He made q
speech from which we extract the follow
ing in regard to rendering the South the
olive branch. After abiding to the re-
suits Of the election, he said: ..J'
Now, then, what is the duty of the gov
eminent in the present and future2 War
cannot always last. The history of ma
tiOns, the experience of the world, has
shown this. War, therefore,, must come
to an end; but how? In what way? A
war of this kind is to be prosecuted for the
purpose of breaking down the power of
those opposed to the government, and
bringing them into the fold of the govern
ment, under the supremacy of its laws.
In view, therefore, of the unanimity of the
American people, in view of the strength
and majesty Of the law, in view of tho
might of the nation, might it not be sug-
gested that now is good time for us
once again to hold out to the deluded
men of the South the olive branch of
peace, and say to them, "Come back;
come bacl, now This is the last time of
asking. Come back and leave off. feeding
on the husks, and come with US to the fat Of
the land, and let by-gones be by-gcnes
If bygOnes ale bygones, and our country
will live in peace hereafter" cloud APP
plause.) Are we not able to afford that
now? Do we not stand strong enough3
Do we not stand with Union enough to be
able to afford that to the leaders and to
all .? There mi ,,ht have been reason, l
think, among a proud and chivalrous
people that they would not desert their
leaders in answer to the amnesty of
President Lincoln; but now has come
an hour when we can say, "Come back,
come back, and submit to the laws. and
you shall find exactly such laws as before,
except SO far as they are altered by the
good judgment of the legislators of the
land. (Applause) We are in a condi-
ton now, not taking counsel of our fears,
nor taking counsel from our magnanimity
and our strength, again to make an offer
for the last time; to call upon thsm, and
then shall we not, in the eyes of the
country, have exhausted all the resources
OF craftsmanship in the effort to restore
peace to our country. Qaughter.) Who
shall hinder? Not for the rebel to come
back after fighting as long as he can, and
then chooses so come but to set some time
perhaps the 9Th of January, for the ESQ.,
citation will be as good as any, for all to
come back. And when that time has come
to every man who shall scout the proffer-
ed amnesty of 4 great and powerful nation?
speaking in love, love, in CHARITY, in kind
ness, in hope of ii nee and quiet forever;
We say to them, to ..im, who scouts that
proffered love and kindness, let Us meet
him with sharp, quick, decisive war, that
shall bring the war to an end, to the extin-
guishment of such men wherever they
may be. [Applause. But how is that to
be done? Blood and treasure have been
poured out, spent without measure, until
taking advantage of supposed despotism of
treasure, first, bad men have banded tc-
gether by specializing in that which ought
to be the circulating medium, and raised
upon the poor men the price of Goals upon
his hearth, and the bread upon his table.
Let some measure be taken to stop that,
or perhaps a better measure than any
other is TO le-; it be understood that here
after ,.e Jay no more bounties from the
taxes OF the North, but taking counsel
from the Roman method of carrying on
war, we say to the young men, look to the
fair fields of the sunny South, and unless
they take our amnesty, let us go down
there and you shall have whatever you get
by tair division; We will open new land
offices wherever our armies march, dis
tributing lands among the soldiers, to be
theirs and their heirs forever A harsh
measure, everybody will say; but is it not
quite as just as it is that we should tax
ourselves and raise the necessaries of life
for the purpose of giving bounties and sup
port to the soldier in fighting those men
whom we hay three times over solemnly
called to come and be our friends in
1862. to come in June, in 1868, to come in
September, and in 1854 to come by the
Sth of January, 1866. And when the
clock strikes the last knell of that parting
day. and then all hope of return for those
who have not made progress toward that
return shall be lost forever. No longer can
they live here. Mexico, tile West Indies
islands, or some place that ] care not to
name, because know no land hard enough
W Dc curSeu Will GuoH pi9ooAO0, ouoAi W
their dwelling place. They shall never
come here again look with some con-
siderable interest upon what l believe to
be the present results of this election. l
believe that we have settled the question
of the war by settling the question that
the people are determined to carry on
that war. / think it has always been
claimed that we should BE- strong enough,
after great victory, to offer new terms
of peace to the rebels. I never expect to
see in arms or in council a greater victory
than the one We have achieved. I think
we are now strong enough to make that
offer, and then, / take it, that the most
saueamiah of Our friends will agree with
us when they find that we have exhausted
every resource of craftsmanship in the at
tempt to carry out peace-tbat it is time
then TO make war, and, therefore, without
trespassing too long upon the festivities of
this occasion, and keeping the ladies in
waiting far too long, / answer to what you
were kind enough to suggest, Hook upon
this victory as one which has decide the