, 1864-09-23

and then Wlll-hear."
How different the language he held two years
ago, when in a letter, dated August 22d, 1862, in
writing to this same Greeley reprehending his
abolition rashness, he said: ~ amfor the Union
with or without slavery. Whatever l do, or for
bear to do, am forthe Union" | applauded
that sentiment then and reprobated that
course of Greeley Now we have to ap-
plaud Greeley and reprobate Lincoln Mr..
Greeley, in editorial of yesterday, says, " that
the pacfcaton of the country is neither so diff
cult nor so distant as seems to be generally sup
posed" This is full of meaning. 1t means
that the Union is not impossible, with honora-
BILE dealing to restore it, But so far as Mr.. Lin
coin is concerned he made it impossible by his
conduct The people are pOnderingtheset things.
Already to my own knowledge hundreds who
once gave him their countenance, are withdraw
ing it and turning TO wiser counsels for deliver
ance from these troubles
Will not history, nay, not the living present,
curse this execrable tool Of fanaticism who thus
even in the agony and article of our national
demise, filings away the hopes ond interests of
this nation
A Voice.-God d-n him. Laughter and
cheers.
Mr.. Gox.-I cannot join in the earnest impre-
cation of my gentle friend. Laughter. While
do invoke that Providence may deal merciful-
ly with the President, Ipray that the people in
November will damn him to an Immortality of
infamy. Immense applause Think of it, in
the very midst of the strife, while calling aloud
to some seventeen States ofthe old Union to send
him half million more to be added to the two
million who are wasted and wasting-when
about to consume $500, 900, 600 more of the re-
suits of labor, to be added to the two thousand
millions already SPENT in the midst of a war of
bereavement, destruction, desolation and death
unequaled, this executive trher; this retailer of
smutty stories; this vulgar tyrant over mems
thoughts, opinions, presses, letters, persons and
lives, rejects the blessed opportunity which the
Angel of Peace tenders to our afflicted land, for
a restoration the Uuion and the salvation of
our Government. [Cheers.]
cannot sympathize with those who, despair
ing of the returning affection and allegiance of
the South, have been to ready too bid her fare
well forever. | love her too dearly as part of
my own life and as part of the national being
l can only say of her
If farewell-it to fare apart
And disunited-then farewell-ReOer! r.
There is but one hope left. You cannot have
peace through him, but you can defeat him in
November. His defeat removes the hempediments
to peace and union. His retiracy gives freedom
to the white if not to the black; freedom from
illegal arrest for thought, for expression; free
dom from war and for peace; freedom and union
under the old Constitution. Cheers. If this
could be secured to-day, the two armies of both
sections could unite again as once the army uni
ted. Mcclellan and Lee, Beauregard and Grant,
could lead them toward Mexico, and, renewing
their old associations there, and underth blessed
folds of the old and fully starred flag, yindicate
the Monroe doctrine, and drive that ape of Euro
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plause If the Union could be restored, the
jubilee of the people would makethe air resound
with their rejoicing and that ''peace which pas
seth all understanding" would lift up their heart
in praise to God, and our nation to its old posi-
ton in the world. Cheers.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Cox's address, three
cheers for him were proposed and given with
hearty enthusiasm.