Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
spERCH OF JAMES +. BRADY.
A scathing Rebuke to Copper
.. .t heads. .......

Hon. James T. Brady made speech in
Tammany Hall, New York, on Monday eve
ming. March 7th. We reproduce the mate
rial portions Of it: .....,
Mr.. President, Fellow-C Citizens, and Eel
low Democrats cheers] l say fellow-Dem-
ocrats because there are some men in high
places which shall not stop to designate
who have had the audacity to question my
claim to that title. Feeling in my heart of
hearts that had been maligned, / waited
for this moment in Tammany Hall, that /
might put them under my feet. ["Sound,
and cheers Abiding to the introduction
given him BY the old War Horse, Elijah
4. Purdy, ! who declared that he loved him
as his own son, Mr.. Brady said that he was
proud to have such q progenitor. hope,
Mr.. Brady continued, may live as long as
he, and be capable of half the service; and
if God spares my life, trust that as he has,
this night, SO in the waning period of my
lite and as the sunset OF existence closes
fast upon me, may come into Tammany
Hall and let the last falter of my dying lips
proclaim it true to its allegiance in declaring
war against Rebels at home and abroad
[Great cheering. is long time since |
have spoken in Tammany Hall. do not
think it is my fault. Cheers. 1t is thirty
one years since l first, in the halcyon hours
of life, breathed such words as might utter
for the Democratic cause, and never since,
whatever the tongue of slandsr may have
said, have | uttered any words unbecoming
the faith in which Twas educated-t the faith
of Gen. Andrew jackson. Cheers. When
the accursed State Of South Carolina raised
itself in '33 against the constituted authori-
ties OF the Government, he declared what
he would do with it. Passing
from this, he said he did not know at which
to wonder NEST, the ignorance that
the people of New York affected or impu-
dence of those who attempted to practice
upon that ignorance. He had heard men
talk about war and peace, as if indeed these
were terms new in the vocabulary OF history.
He had heard men spoken of as War Dem
ocrats; he had heard men spoken of as
Peace Democrats, as if there could be any
difference between the two upon any decent,
honest, right-minded appreciation of the
language which we all speak. War and
peace were the two great necessities of man
kind the one dreadful, he admitted; the
other blessed they all acknowledged. Peace
was covered all over with benign beauty,
and he bowed before her presence in adora-
ton and worship. Peace, the great con.
quersr of the world War could not last
forever; peace must come. But how does
peace come? While he spoke, in the far-off
regions of Egypt, on the plains of Assyria,
there was peace, but the peace that attend
ed Geath-the peace that hoyered over the
grave-the peace that stood as the weeping
witness Of desolation, and ruin, and disgrace.
And any man, and every man, who, in the
face of this Rebellion, with the sentiments
proclaimed by the South to the North. for
one moment permitted himself to talk about
peace, except upon the principle of restor-
ing the authority of this Government over
every inch Of our territory, was scoundrel.
[Chcers | have seen men in the city Of
New York, continued Mr. B., whom know
and could call by name, lurking in the por-
tisos of hotels-I could point them out
within one mile of this place, and could
prove the charge upon them, and, so help
me God, will attempt to prove it if they
present themselves before the American
people for their suffrages- how they steadily
read the extras proclaiming the defeat of
our arms, and chuckle over any reverses to
our cause. Cries of "Shame!" "ShameW
it is a feeble word to express the intamy,
the debasing and damning infamy, that be-
IOuRs W tllCI " Iuc NbTy 0cHU vi GtSTully.
| would not insult the word SHANE by
tardly, dirty towards Cheers. Mr.. Brady
then alluded to the fact that in the happiest
days of our Union no man dare go to
they were opposed to Slavery But any
Southerner could come here, and in the
public hotel or thorOughfaro, could speak
hio aop mo MT mi hpnt dopnar Of Wiz
lence or insult 1t was hard to bear; but
we did bear it, for the sake of the Comti-
tuition and the Union. We bore it long as
we could, and | think we bore it much Ion
yer than we should. Had the friends of
our domestic traitors been more fortunate
in their effort last July at Gettysburg, they
would have undertaken an attack here, in
which, had they succeeded, they would have
been Joined by their desperate Rebel friends,
who did not dare to take the field with arms
in their hands. a voice" Fernando
Wood. ] cannot stop to speak of any
thing so base. There are some words with
which we can never pollute our lips.
could not kiss my sweetheart, if should
mention that name. Laughter. Now
who began this fght2 The Rebels. But
we will end it. l do not mean to use any
word Extensively. have never spoken Q
word in public since this Rebellion broke
out in which did not go out of my way tc
do justice to the courage, fortitude, anG
magnanimity of the misguided men of ths
South. And we will end it kindly if you O
the South will consent to it; but if you Dc
not, we will end it by establishing absolut,
authority over you, until the Union anC
Constitution are restored. We did not be
gin it; but it is begun, and has proceeded
on two opposite theories. | need not stol
to tell you what onrs was, but will tell yol
what was theirs. My friend, Gen. Meagher
read you some extracts from the papers 0
the South. These Southern leaders, man
of them have known intimately. One O
my personal friends, for whom I had q
kind regard, as genial love, as / eve
felt for any not my own blood, one who he'll
distinguished rank in the Southern army
said to me in the last interview had wit
him, as he was about to return to his home
"We part here, forever; upon any principl
that 1 am capable Of approaching we hay
been friends, if We meet again it will be q
; enemies; no man can resist the appeal {
his people, of wife and sister, and I mus
yield to them" 1 have known these mer
and they have always felt that they Nigh