The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-05-04

AT meeting held in Philadelphia on.
last Friday night, Mr.. Albert n. Galbert,
delivered the following pertinent sd-
dress:
I'VE owe a debt 10 the leaders of the
rebellion What? Thoroughly read in
history, understanding the principles OF
political economy, familiar with the
springs of national action, they insugura
ted this rebellion. They were not mis-
led They knew all the consequences
of the venture they made. They knew
that if the North were loyal and brave.
they must wade through seas OF blood.
yet they cast the die and assumed the
risk,
They had no great moral end in view,
no lofty political principle 10 vindicate.
no worthy object TO achieve. But two
things were to be accomplished, person
al aggrandisemcnt, and, rs they hoped,
the perpetuity of slavery. Yet they
sounded the tocsin whose first peal made
the whole world tremble BY fraud and
force combined, by falsehood nost foul.
and intimidation Of every degree. they
misled the masses, and organized their
forces. They lowered in the very sub
Unity of all conceivable crimes, false
uOCuS, SSsasSluatlou, staINA-
ton, savage cruelty to prisoners, sacri-
flee of honor and pledged word, all these
were but departments of the one great
crime that comprehended all, the most
stupendous treason the world has ever
seen.
A million of our men lie cold in death,
the result of their experiment. Thou
sands of our homesteads have been de-
stroyed, the air is black with the sombrc
drapery Of those who mourn, the glare
Of burning cities has liz the heavens. and
the earth has become crimson with blood,
that these leaders might try their expert
ment. The world has stood APPALLED, at
their fiendish cruelty. The men, the
object, the means were all unholy yes,
satanic; and we are asked to take these
men to our hearts; not only to forgive,
but to conciliate, TO love, to honor.
1t is shameful 1t is atrocious. I Icare
not though a thousand Ward Becchers
had said it, it is atrocious. 1t insults tho
memory of our dead heroes, and the
faces of our living ones. 1t defles God
and ridicules our national existence. 1t
proclaims the satanic principle, the more
heinous the crime the less guilt. Ii
man in your midst commits murder
You hang him: il he commits burg
larry, you imprison him. These have com
mitted tens of thousands of both, and we
are to forgive and embrace them. A
while ago you hung Captainfilordon for
engaging in the slave trade, and the men
whose legitimate ultimate would have
been it's re establishment, we are to em.
brace.
You hung Captain Beall few weeks
since, aud after him ag:in Kennedy, and
the devils in human form who employed
them you ask the nation to forgive and
love. With the sunken cheeks and lack
lustre eyes of our poor starved soldiers
now in our midst, with the sight of the
skin Of living men dried over the ex-
tremities of bones like dried meat, to
blister our eyes with funeral columns,
teeming with deaths from starvation, we
are asked to clasp the hand of their saw
age destroyers in fraternsl pressure.
Never. Never! Never! / call not
for vengeance, but for Justice; stern, in
exorable justice. No more severe than
that which you administer in your courts
every day, Justice which proportions
punishment to crime. demand that
the majesty Of the Government shall be
that sneers of Europeans
at our rope of sand shall not be justified;
that these men oblivious of every NOR
al restraint, shall be turned loose in the
South to poison its springs of life, to be
returned again to our National councils
to polute the air of our capital. l de-
mand that premium shall not be put
upon treason for all time to come de-
mand that the eXcitable people of South
shall not be continually tempted by the
fatal facility of crime and improbability
of punishment, to renewed attempts mp
on the National existence. We owe to
the leaders of the rebellion indexible JUS
Justice. (Great applause-