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citizens, cherish these brave youag men, fol
they are your brightest Jewels; they are
your sons and brothers But all are not
here. How shall we speak of the absent ones
those dead heroes whose graves mark SC
many battle-felds, but whose names and
deeds shall forever five in otr hearts and
memories-slive in their immortal deeds;
alive in the hearts of their countrymen; and
ever shall their example live to nerve the
arms and stir the souls freemen when danger
threatens our liberties or our fag2 Then let
their names be cherished as was the memory
Of La Tour d'Auvergne, by the grenadiers Of
France. 4 score Of times he had won, and
a score Of times had refused, promotion; but
his proud title was, /" The First Grenadier Of
France" At length, on desperate day, a
fatal bullet pierced mis- breast, aud he died, as
he had lived, soldier But by an order Of
the Emperor, his name was retained Upon the
rolls, and at every inspection and review the
name of La Tour d'Auvegne was called by
the Adjutant in the presence Of the army,
and It was the privilege Of the Oldest grena-
dier to step to the front and answer to the
name, Died upon the field of honor" And
let US ever remember that our absent heroes
they who sleep the long sleep of death
that they, too, died upon the feld Of honor.
! [Applause.l
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! PERus.
In times Of political convulsion, there is
nothing which so intozicates the mind and
unsettles reason as the exercise of arbitrary
power; it developes the worst passions of the
beart, and brings into action elements ofper-
sonal character not before known to exist
The late conflict has been no exception to the
rule, and the cause of the Union was more
than once put ii Jeopardy BY tie violent, IN
constitutional and tyrannical acts Of those in
power Unfortunately for the country, an
individual was appointed 10 the War Office
who was proven to be as destitute Of patriot
ism as he is devoid Of conscience. Cruel by
instinct and tyrant by nature, he trannpled
| The Constitution beneath his iron heel viola
ted the liberty of speech and the press; in
suited the intelligence Of the army by exclud-
ing from circulation such journals as his ca
price might prescribe, and thus denied to the
soldiers the opportunity Of forming an impair
tial judgement upon public questions under
discussion before the people.
The country was thus menaced BY two
fold danger: armed secession threatened the
integrity Of the Union, on the one hand,
while bad men obtained a dangerous inAu-
enee over the President on the other; the
States were reduced to the dependency Of
provinces, and life liberty and property were
held subject to arbitrary control.
The Democracy desired the overthrow of
the rebellion, and, from first to last, contrib
uted fair proportion to keep full the ranks
of the army, and maintain the integrity of the
Union. [Applause.I Acting upon the max
i'm Of jefferson, that ''error Of opinion may
be tolerated, so long as reason is left free to
combat it." they insisted upon the right Of
free speech, free press, and the invaluable
right Of trial by jury. ...
Taught from my cradle, that without free
discussion, civil liberty must perish, while
yet boy, at my native home, was one Of
seven persons who protected an aOolitionlee-
turer from the assaults of an infuriated crowd.
who would have torn him b pieces; although
I believe in the doctrine taught by him to be
both dangerous and unconstitutional. ftmay
then be well understood that while being, in
heart and soul, opposed to the mad scheme Of
secession, that I was ready to denounce and
oppose every attempt to smother the inesti-
mable right offree discussion. [Applause.I
So welded is Mr.. Stanton to arbitrary
power, so averse is he to the establishment Of
civil liberty, that he continues to interfere
with the bayonet to control elections, until at
length the New York Tribune, the Cincinnati
Commercial, and other distinguished journals
of the Republican party, have denounced |
these usurpations with equal courage and
ability. But the evil still exists, and the peo-
ple alone can apply the REMEDY, for these and
like abuses have grown into stch common
use. that one violation Of the Constitution is |
cited as precedent to Justify another, and /
many Ct our public nen have seemed to be-
Teve that their arbitrary will is paramount to
the Constitution. Thus, Gen. Cox, the dis
tinruished nominee of the Republican party,
in his speech at Ripley, on the 9th Of Au-
pnst complained that the Democratic party
maintains that State rights must be maintain
ed. and that the Union of the States only ex-
ISIS through the Constitution, and that the na-
tional Government has no authority over the
States, only what is delegated by the Consti-
tuition. Applause
Such is clearly the doctrine of the Democ-
racv; such, too, was the doctrine taught by
Washington and Franklin, by Madison and
Jefferson, and by all the early fathers of the
Republic; but while we believe in State
rights, as defined by the Constitution, we de-
nv that State has the right to secede from
The Uni6t., Of nullify law Of Congress.
Gen. Cox maintains that the Federal Gov
ernrient-tbat is, in his meaning the Presi-
dent-can do as he wills, without reference
70 the Constitution, or in other words, that
he power Of the President, like the power OF
IN absolute monarch, is without control
But such, am glad to believe, are not the
7iew5 Of the patriotic people, and if they de-
ire to preserve our free institutions as a leg
ICY for their children, it behooves them to
.ebuke and resist the entertainments OF des-
ootic power. [Applause.I j.