The Portland daily press., 1864-11-17
spesoh q Rst. ]. 3. Walton.


-ensmv,s. center ON that day, and all that re-.
mains for Gen. Grant to do is to take care of
the severed and wavering wings.
The decisions OF that day as made bv the
American people are such as NAV well fill us
with rejoicing First. They then decided
for Liberty through Popular Sovereignty.
They have said they would be free-that they
would maintain their freedom at all hazards.
The question OF the hour is not one of African
slavery only, but Of Anglo-Saxon freedom,
more OF human freedom. Color makes no
difference with the genuine Secesslpnls,t;;
The doctrine they preach is-"Copstde Seoa.o
otun .labor.p If Won are a poor man--no mat
terwhat Won NAV be intrinsically as a man
you may be the manifest man thai GOD ever
made. and vet the man for whom you WORK
should We the right to crack the whip over
Won ord drive YOU to the field as he would
his cattle Now the people have repudiated
a doctrine so infamous as this, and in doing SO
thew have demonstrated also the purity and
strength of our political institutions and their
determination to uphold the rights of man
through the maintenance of these institu-
lions. The Oligarchy OF the South has long
been FESTIVE under the rule of the majority
They have long since even declared that De-
mOcracy Is a failure. But we of the lOyal
States seem to be obstinately attached to the
doctrine and teachings of the Fathers, shat
the majority should rule; that the people are
and ought to be sovereign" Indeed this is
the problem God has given this nation to
solve-Cdn the people rule?
In no other country-with the exception Of
Mexico, some of the South American states,
France and Germany, where the endeayors and
experiments in this direction, have proved for
the most part failures-has the doctrine of
popular sovereignty been distinct issue be-
fore the people. And 1 say this, even while
see before me on the page of history, the So
called republics of Greece, Rome, Switzerland,
and even with my eye on constitutional Eng
land. The liberty of Greece was but little
more than the rule of the nabob in the cities.
whoruled with despotics authority over the
rural population. Slavery existed under the
otherwise free institutions of the Roman re-
public, and whore slavery exists popular soye
reignty could not exist. They believed in
liberty. but only for the Roman people. They
believed in popular sovereignty, but the Ro-
mans were to be the sovereign people. The
republic of Switzerland, even though it were
a perfect exempliflcation of popular sove-
reignty, lives by the mere sutferance of the
surrounding despotism.
The struggles In English history, renewed
from age to age against the despotism OF the
throne, have been for the most part to secure
and conserve the prerogatives OF Aristocracy.
AAC f0oh DOuy Vi bAO PCOtAC W oaJ AdfC AAolA4
ing to. do with the government. Every mans
house is his castle, and every man has the
right OF trial by jury, freedom of conscience
in religious matters these are the issues which
have been for the most part before the English
people. Well then may we rejoice to day that
God has enabled us to decide this vast and
| important principle of human government.
But again we may well rejoice in the main
tenance of our Nationality. The people have
| decided that the Nation shall live. Ii this re-
I bellion should prove successful, no one believes
that disintegration will stop where the present
rebellion would draw the line of separation
across the continent. States would nullify-
! cities would secede, until we should find our
selves involved in disorders and conflicts which
would subvert our liberties, blot out our civil
ization and prove our utter destruction.
But the people have declared against such a
result; and what makes this declaration so
sublime Is the fact that our Nationality is the
highest political expression of human brother
mood, the fraternity of the race. Every drop
of blood shed in this conflict, therefore, ce-
ments the brotherhood of the race. The pres
ent contest tends to wipe out state lines, and
national boundaries, to level mountains, thr ow
| up vallies, bridge oceans, and hasten the day
when every man shall take his fellow by the
hand and call him Brother. ~
Once more. We rejoice that this is an age
0fSdeas. The Tongue and the Pen now ruls
the world. Bayonets and batteries play asub-
ordinate part Ideas principally are deciding
this contest. 81 tell you Tom" said South.
ern man, as he gazed in forced admiration al
the dauntless bearing of our Massachusetts
soldiers in the streets of Baltimore on the ever
memorable 10Th of April-sI tell you Tom
there goes Old Bunker HiH." And what did
ne mean? He meant this - Massachusetts,
men seldom fight save for principle, and then
they are hard to whip. But this spirit Is by
/ 40 means confined to Massachusetts,. Bunker
Hitl casts Its shadows across The Continent.
| And this fact is to be remembered in the re-
construction of our affairs after the fight in the
field is over. 1t will not do to ignore Truth and
Justice, nor even TO compromise with that gi-
ant and tyrannous Evil which has so nearly
proved our ruin. Slavery must be destroyed.
There is no other way of salvation. Suppose
we could strike down rebellion without touch
ing the letters of the slave, and restore the re-
bellious states to their former status in the
Union,-the Peculiar Institution would con-
tinue to spawn the same social and political
heresies, to breed the same principles and just
such men as are in arms against the govern
ment to day, and the next generation would
have to fight the same battle over again. But
is it said we must confiscate the property OF
the pfOminent rebels and col0nize the South
with northern freemen? Well suppose we do !;
instead OF our colonies converting the South
to freedom. the South would convert our
colonies to slavery, and not many years would
pass either, before these very fathers, sons and
brothers would be facing US with weapons In
their hands, IN rebellion far more powerful
than the one which now threatens our exist
ence. snow me one man VINO has preserved
his integrity under such circumstances, and
will show you fifty who have gone down be
ore the Dagon Of slavery. No, no, nothing
~lii 40 LOT US now but Justice Slavery must
pc destroyed. Anything IS constitutional
wnicn enables us 10 accomplish this result. !
lsed 70 De an anu-siavery man OF the moral
'uaslon scnooi; out thank God / am now
converted man. believe now in fire and
:wcta, ne ea ana powder, thunder and tighten
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n, "Smte from 4, the (. church It's leprous limb,
The Ro5Ssmsns s1 elf anS a b nay
hschains the stake has bound on him },
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