The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-20

Geyernmept i 8,anded; that each ssctiaB
shall legisiate Oh those subjects that partiI
cularly concern them. Now, the Admins
trstion csIls upon you, men Of Psnssylvs-
mia. 70 leeislate for the people Of Georgia
At your wi costsia blood and money. We
cannot trample upon the rights of the peo
pie of another Statei without trampling
upon our " as we'll. e sages. 81
The attempt to gain power by . large Jr
risdiction and, Generalization will result, al7I
ways in weakness. A year ago q person
came, to me to ask my opinion about the
+draft. I said it was contrary TO the genius
Of our institutions that It was the habit
of the people to come together. 10 school
districts and make their voluntary contrl-
buttons and then in towns, and next IN
counties ; and these little contributions at
last swelled up the vast quotasof the States
and made the mightiest army that the
world had seen, until the Government it-
self said, we can take no more, and reject.
ed these offerings. i told them that II
they passed the conscription act it would
prove to be a confiscati0n act against the
North. The act was passed. 1t produced
resistance, and the country shrank away
from it by coming forward and giving large
bountie 1t fell heavily upon the homes
of the poor. 1t proved the most Cypress !,
| i've and burdensUme method that could
have been adopted of obtaining troops.
And 50, my friends of the Loyal League,
a hand was laid upon your property in the
form of bounties and while you talk OF
coniscating the property of the people OF
the South, and prolonged The war for that
purpose, and united the opposition in the
| South, you crushed out the life Of the
North. A selfish, narrow and vlndictive
legislation reaches your own homes, for
you have departed from the wisdom ofyour
fathers and the principles of the Constitur
ton. We must 60 back to these. We
must teach every man in the land that his
person rs sacred, and we will love the laws
that protect him. We must teach the
poorest citizen that his home is sacred
against any power in the State, and he will
love the Government that throws its shell
ter around his loved ones. We must teach
him that the law and Constitution protect
the right of conscience. What has brought
i here the millions of men who of later years
have crossed the ocean ? They have come
here to enjoy not only the privileges which
Almighty God has given us, IN our vast
extended fertile plains, in our wide scope
of territory; but they knew our Govern
ment gave freedom of conscience, freedom
of home. and freedom of manhood. -
If we speak of dangers in the future, we
do not. allude to tho conflict of party
There is no danger that one party will ar
ray Itself against another. But when you
have destroyed the finances OF the country
when you have vitiated its currency, when
you have deranged profitable business sc
that the merchants dare not 60 on, and the
manufacturer thinks it unsafe for him tc
continue his operations because of the I'M
certainty of the future, when the comforts o.
!, life become 80 costly as to be beyond the
reach of men in ordinary circumstances
then you will discover that there is danger
not of a conflict Of parties, but that men o.
all parties, suffering and injured, Republi'
can more than Democrat, because more de-
+, ceived, will turn upon this Administration
and endanger the security and peace of thu
society in which We live. o Is it safe, my
Republican friends, for you to go on pro-
longing this war for the sake of vindictivt
legislation2 The war between France ani
England and Russia was settled wher
! France and England had gained far less ad'
, vantage than We have gained in this con
test.
The men who were drafted this year I'M
der the Eve hundred thousand call have but
one year to serve. The three years mer
who were taken into the army in 1862 viii,
90 out of the service next year. Theil
terms begin to expire in the spring. Ii
nine months the army will need the larges1
additions that have been made to it at any
one time. As the administration shrant
from calling for more three years men Just
before an election, the places to be vacated
by the one year men must be provided to b.
. filled in nine months. and thus is it reason
i, able to believe that the largest draft tina
las yet been made will be ordered at tn,
beginning of the year 1865 l do not speak
= unadvisedly, for the administration has in,
a timated to me that they expect another
q draft. The State of New York had fur,
! nished an excess Of three years men, and
asked that, in making up the quota of New
\ ork, one three years man should be coun'
ted as equal to three one years men.
They said that they could not do that
as they needed men Immediately {; but
they provided that a three years man
should count as one man on this draft, al
one man on the next draft, and a. one mar
again on the third draft, and thus the mat
ter would be equalized. So it appears from
this tbat We are to have at least two drafts
.aprc. (Eoice-"That's refreshing !w)-
Every mar knows that We must have this
further draft. After wal is ended, under
the policy Of this administration we shall
DO compelled to maintain large armies to
hold the people of the South in subsection
to carry out the Emancipation Proclama-
ton and the Confscation act.
appeal to you to investigate these ques>
tons and ascertain what policy and what
party are the most likely TO restore Union
and peace, and when you have decided
what the right is, let no man deter you
from doing it, whatever may be the conse-
q%uences. I'm full of hope this night. |
believe that we are to triumph, and that