Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-04-21
LOCAL NEWS.

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League Of TIL. city took place htheir rooms on
Ninth street, last night And was grand affair.
and for he hisS ssccr,nm oS:srvsS, Il vas equal,
.oeistion: Among ne sadiscr. V. Ysrg. nun
them ia The front o. the hall Ths fair sex seem en-
TO appreciate these meetings, and their presence
Spesfsfs aaaosSc Ss for the s1ssins were Dr. Dr..
Doane, Of the Patent once, and Col Montgomery,
refugee from ylsk.eutg, Mls.lsslppi.
a.EooiatiUn Introduced Dr. Dosne 70 The sudienss.
lie was received With applause Ne raid He was
TO listen 70 bis distinguished fTiend, Col. Mont.
Someryi he therefore pledged them bfevity in the
tema[hs no would make, for he thought Il would
time. II occurred 70 him that thres years ago yea
tsrday, he was n The city Of baltimore, and that
fss and there ne saw ,ons troops from New Eng
national capital against the invader and foe
against the domestic enemy ofthe country. when
timure, he then and there although he had been
~ would BURN ii his political prsjadiss. upon ihs
we swore he would belong to no party but the
party q his country and he now iwsre, before
SSS sf s e ~ but ss
i len, A.. He knew not how other m.a may look a
able 70 know that the people OF this esuusry are
divided upon this question, because there are no
parties before The nation todsy 70 claim he sup
port 70 claim the influence, 10 claim the enersy Of
this people because Of party me..urs.: The only
shall Teo sS tss prlseDIs, n hi, pss.
pie shall be saved and rescued, OF whether they
hai be buried beyond the possibility OF resurres-
when that scene occurred three year. ago ia
Boltimore, he little lthsught the people Of the
city Of Baltimore on the lsth day Of April, 1881,
ne saw the scene q slAughterj u was SAD mo.
said that the American that would moi DO his duty
In UNFOLDING the legal and constitutional govern
mentin this crisis, renders himself dastard1 cow
grace the @s%orisS Of his sss be- s' and he Che
spesher) would give such sooundrel no Pssoe
The man who would All 10 40 n, 'a d1ty ~ hi,
emergency 10 not worthy OF the name OF man.
The first word that such = mans children should
he (the speaker had his way, he would heap the
granite rock. OF the Allegheny mountains upon
such men, and inseribe upon the rocks, There 10
is no party question; he did not speak Of II as
such. II was painful to know that 4 people who
years SnG were dspUsd o Z 1SS az
hands OF traitors and parfioidss.
There therefore can be but ono voice among the
swear IS one man, before God and the world, act
hyield single Inch Of American soil which IL
the Psmo as q Hs MsG la "a n saS or
an ordeal Of three years OF bloody war, there are
bright lines shining In the horizon. We are pro-
bered that three years ago the President Of the
United States was obliged to sneak through haiti
loyal men were shot down IKE dog. IL hat city.
more Tor he benefit Of the soldiers Of The Union,
Lincoln, lie Preiidsnt Of the Gnitsd st..s.. f.nA
Three years ago Mr.. Lincoln run the blockade
was AnS.sss sy Tsa ss q
fogressis that shortly state convention to
the letters from the bondmen OF "My Maryiandr
He asked who was opposing this wiri There Is :
class Of men who have been opposing this war
from from its somneneemsnt; These men have been
liked some Of tho associations that clustered
around that good old party Democratic but to its
,nsme De II said, that u Il the only party which
He then alluded 70 a seurrilous street poster
which wa, Psosrdsd In the .tsees. Of New York
affair, and his speech in the Lesdsmy Of Music in
sness 6ppostion of the psSosfs 70 soa aid p the
Government in crushing the rebellion. The
speaker opposed all compromise with rebels and
Government and Statesmen made in 1870, whom
they proposed 10 compromise liberty with slavery.
and Receiving, but What did slavery ever riTs
liberty Nothing What did liberty give slavery
Tho great northwestern territories, fron which
seek now the oountry's life. slavery never had
anything TO give freedom.
fhey might tell him that the devil standing at
the mouth OF hell could oompro mis-. with An Arch.
angel TO give him the hosts Of the washed hosts,
but what has the dsSil TO give in return simply
between slavery and freedom. The people Of this
country have had enough Of this nsuseous dose
the people have been sold out % slavery under the
penalty OF the outrage. Those men Of The North,
them who now oppose the Government by and by
Of the revolution at the close OF the war and the
"COwboyl" OF 1879. The speaker then alluded to
the .ueteIinses the Democrat. use among the peo-
war.
He showed that tho Democrats Oppose the jus,
was willing to allow any and all men, lei them Be
red, white, black, or green, who nght the battles
Of This country 70 vote. He said that since ths
Christian era nrst dAwned until the day OF cruel
nHion, up TO the present day, there never was hui
zone man, who, by single stroke Of the pen strusl
the fettors from four millions Of human beings
This measure Ii memorable in our hiItoIyi hal
driven hot ahAft In this rebellion, and m adj
tyrants trenble eyerywhere, and from this day
inc name 11s, 81 abraham Lincoln shall be synony
He said II was Appreciated By some that the
whites Would have nothing 70 do. This was AZ
errors the natural laws Of climate forbade this;
the Indian sees in the Western sun the iads1 Of
his home, so the negro sees his In the neighbor
hood ofwhere Macmillan u soaking HIS Wher
this war 10 ended We will settle this boundary
Sn CHOSEN Sas
not single inch OF this continent ShAIl be ruled
over by any foreign emperor or dictator. The
field for labor, when this war shall have ended
will DO just As fruitful a. II was before the war
cotton will be worth AZ much, and IL the Southern
planter will not employ the freemen thai were once
his slaves and refuses 10 work his farm, then ths
and do 1t for them.
He then made a very suggestive Aad truthful
reply to the point often urged about the equality
OF races, and made several unoontradistory Illus
trations. 1t made no difference to him what tn,
n wi Rht Nha hiatt If tha
war and plants our nag In Rehmondj so help hin
God, he was his friend and his brother, and h,
would teach his children TO honor his name ant
their tears. He affirmed that the present Admin
iHtration had done the work OF century, not onlI
In point Of law but In civilization, religion AMI
humanity. The war had drawn men from ever
land and from every corner OF the world. Side b
side In our armies were the oountrymen Of La
iAyette, De kAlb, Baron Steuben and Montgomery
all enlisted under the same banner and nEhtinl
for human liberty. The war has done the work o
centuries. Tho Administration had TsdeemsI
Itself to the world. Abraham Lincoln has been II
saviour In the hAndsIof Cod the American peopl
have Endorsed him.
.. He also made apparent the ridiculouIneEI Of tn
idea that the Republicans were to DO blamed 70
this war, showed that the course OF the Democrat
was not consistent with their professions, an
quoted the heriptural phrase, ny their works y
shall know them" and referred 10 their VAriou
acts BympAthetio with treason.
lie said that the negro IL entitled to life liberty