American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-01-06
An EInnnenf Ipefnnse.

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field, addressed his constituents ON the
9th inst, and in the course of his remarks
made the following pungent allusion to
the destruction of Kagosima
"Thcre are many people who have great
sympathy with bombarded Charleston
Charleston the nest of the rebellion,
warned for months what was coming up
on her-but they seemed to have no tears
for this delenseess, this innocent outraged
population, perishing beneath British
broadsides, and in execration of the men
who, in the name Of just and mercful
England, have perpetrated these atroci-
ties"
In Subsequent part of his speech he
said on the subject of our war:
"Ona previous occasion ! remember
stating that considered the war in Amer
lea one not 50 much of great and decisive
battles as of siege and blockade. The
! Federal arms have been crowed with sue
cess to a degree which those who spoke
with the greatest confidence year ago
could scarcely have vehtured to predict
The conquest of the whole line of the
Mississippi has cleft the Confederacy asun-
der. 1t has shorn it of half its strength
it has cooped up the rebellion in one cor
ner of America it has exposed to eer-
tain and easy subiugation the vast States
of Arkansas Texas and Louisiana; it has
dedicated anew to progress and freedom
its vast territories stretching westward to
! L., tah
in the programme of secession slavery was
to have extended-and it is one Of the
most odioVs necessities Of that great crime,
that it must forever.sp spread or perish
| / Hear 1t has secured to the Union this
vast growing ground Of the American en-
| pire; out Of which States as great and
popular as the Kingdoms of Europe are
destined to arise; and, finally, it has pro-
pitiath the West. and by insuring high
way for her commerce, and binding up
her mighty fortunes with those OF the
East, has arrested the last great peril which
still menaced the Republic. Cheers.
NO RAY OF HOPE FOR THE REBELS.
&" But these operations have likewise
pierced the Contederacy to the heart
The position which the Fcderals have ta-
ken up at Chattanooga, and from which
manifestly no effort Of the Conlcdcrates
can dislodgc them, will enable them to
prey upon the vtals Of the rebellion
Desperate indeed, the plight to which the
ruined cause is now reduced . Thanks to
the frmncss of the British government
Thoar, all hopes of European aid with
drawn; the steam rams safely siczcd which
were to have raised the blockade cheers
mutiny and treason in the camps at home
Alabama and Georgia full of disaflcction
North Carolina almost in open revolt ;
Kentucky gone; Texas, Louisiana, and
4 Arkansas going half Tennessee gone ;
half Virginia gone Maryland gone; New
Orleans, the greatest city in the Coniede-
ton, the cradle of the rebellion bombar-
ded Richmond in danger; starvation
everywhere, and gold and credit nowhere
[cheers the paper dollar worth just as
many pence as it purports to be worth shll-
lings the remaining sustenance Of the
people in the hands Of gamblers and shar-
pers. immense hostile armies advancing
from every side, and occupying, one after
the other those military positions which
must eventually command the whole conl-
try the republican cause triumphant, and
that by vast majortics, al over the North
~ loud cheers the hope Of pro-slayery
and democratic President, that last among
the many false hopes Of secession, thus eff
iectually " taken away; the courage and de-
termination Of the North rising from day
to day in proportion as they sec the strug-
giles of their victim growing iocbler and
lainter--where is there in all this sin
gle ray Of hope for the South, Or a single
drop Of consolatian for their abettors in
this country?
"Blind indeed must be the man who
has carefully watched or pretended to
watch, the progress Of events during the
year, and whatever may be his desires or
his predictions, has not been forced to
the conviction that the great end is COM
ing-manfully struggled against, again
and again retarded at times apparently
almost arrested-but still coming, like the
sure march of Destiny or the inexorable
Nemesis of crime. And | rejoice that it
is coming. [Chcers.]
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY NOT a FAILURE
Had this rebellion prospered-had
America succumbed-had she shrank
from her terrible responsibilitics-had she
permitted her flag and her laws to be
trampled in the mire, advantage would
have been taken of her feebleness, her pu-
sillanimity, and her failure to roll back the
tide of liberty all oyerthe world [Cheers. ]
We should have been told that State
which submits to its own dismemberment
which commences its own dissolution, that
that State is unworthy place in the great
comfy Of nations, and that that form Of
government had forfeited the respect and
confidence of us all. [Cheers. This re-
beIlion was scarcely hatched when the
exultation of those whose cause is not that
of the people-jumping to the instant
conclusion that it must prosper-knew
no bounds We were told that the
American bubble had burst hear and
laughter ]; that the republic was a rope
NJ sand that the great experiment had
fHiled We were told also to lift our eyes