The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-05-04

and military orders which provide food,
raiment. strength and support for she Con-
federaey.
II Mr. Lincoln had made gift Of mil
lions of greenbacks to jefferson Davis to
be used as. bounty money in recruiting the
Confederate army. he could not have done
better service to the cause Of the South
than he has done BY this silly. absurd and
insulting Amnesty Proclamation, and his
equally absurd attempt TO create State Co.
vrrnments by dictatorial power. He has
in effect said to the Southern people: You
shall aut return 10 the Union except under
such local governments as l and nv militia
~ officers dictate and with the aid Of his
friends in Congress he is enabled to add,
in the event Of your Submission and re-
turn, your estates shall be con6scated !;
your property. personal and real, shall be
taken from you: your children shall be
,lisinherited and LEFT homeless and penni-
less TO starve, under the scorn and hatred
Of Northern lanatics; your lands and manor
hou.es shall be parcelled out among our
reta,ners; the Regra. (Freedmen) and the
adventurer shall sit and rule at your hearth
stones. and you-beggars and outcasts--
shall be forbidden representation in our na-
tional councils, and be shut out forever
from Offices Of trust and honor" Such is
the language in which Lincaln and this
Csagress and the preceding Congress have
spoken, and are speaking to the people Of
the Southland now, sir. with such pros
pect before them, as the sequel af submis-
sion. outIawry, disfraachisement. social,
msral and political degradation. penury
for themselves and their children, decreed
as their portion, will they. throw down
their arms and submit to the termsi Who
shall believe that the free, proud American
blood which courses with as qsick pulsa-
tisn through their veins as our own. will
net be spilled to the last drop in resistancei ]
This 10 the source. sir, from whence comes
| encouragement. strength, support and aus
tenance for the CoHfederates; herein lies
the secret Of the unity Of thsir action, the
prolongstion Of the contest, and the des-
peration OF the conflict produced. not BY
any thing said, or measures proposed by
gentlemen upon this side Of the House, or
by any measures proposed or policy advo-
Gated BY the Democratic party, but BY the
acts Of the gentlemen who make the char
ges, and the President and his military
commanders. who issve the proclsmations
and military orders.
CAN WAR REsroRE THE uNioNs
Mr.. Chairman, L have deemed il proper
thus to advert to the charges Of encourage
Rent 10 the Confederates 50 repeatedly
made upon this Asor, andil again recur to
the consideration of the Uaion. Can the
Union be restored by war answer most
unhesitatingly and deliberately. no. never /;
"war 10 final, eternal separation" My first
and highest grosnd Of opposition to its FUR
ther prosecution is that it is wrong il is
in violatioa OF the Constitution and Of the
fundamental principles on which the Fed
eral Union was founded. My second OBJ
lection is, that as policy il is not re-con-
structiye but destructive, and will. il con-
tinued. result speedily in the destruction
Of the Government and the loss Of civil
liberty Ia both Nnrth and Sosth, aud il
ought therefore immediately cease.
i Here Mr.. Long reviews at great length
the views and oplniors enterlaiaed, previ-
ous TO this war. by sumo Of the greatest
statesmen of the country, living and dead.
upcn the right as well as expediency Of
coercing any State into submission. II is
not necessary to follow him in this part Of
his speech. Returning to the subject Of
the war, he continues
WHAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT.
i Three years experience in attempting
"by numerical prepOnderance and militia
ry prowess Of one section exerted to CO.
j cree the other into submission" has con-
vinced me more thoroughly that II il" "as
self contradictory as il is dangerous"--
contradictory because il violates the great
principles Of free government, which de-
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