Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-11

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constitute the principal part, and will be read
with interest;
THE DAY.
We have the right 10 come here aud say
that this is our national day, and that We
viii celebrate il Just when and how we please
We viii fire guns display badges, and read
what we please, for il is our day--your day
my day. We are all free in this country
And when did we acquire this freedom
Just ninety years ago-these Young ladies
nave sung to as in melody 50 sweet, that
remember il well--iust ninety years ago a
: few men assembled away of there on the
Atlantic, and told the world that a new ma
ticn was born. I wish they had called il
Columbia then, but thew called il the United
States Of America We have inherited the
name, we have inheritcA the freedom. Now
II becomes US to-day 70 transmit both TO
those who may come after us and we will
doit Applause.
But like all people we are not governed
by reason alone; we arc full Of passion.
am full Of passion and act wildly; 20 do you,
and 50 do all men We do not always fol-
low the dictates of pure intellect and reason,
and are swayed hither and thither by reason
and By passion. Passion carried US into enc
foreign war with England and into the Mex
lean war, and, finally into the great war
the great war which ] rejoice is now over,
thank God, and you the living witnesses OF
its results. lGreas applause / know that
you associate my name in this last war
see that almost every face before me is that
Of a returned soldier; men Drowned and
bronzed with the sun Of the South. Every
one Of You has seen and c0mprehended the
r
ing they had sustained wrongs, endeavored
70 break down our history You said mo"
They said Yes" There was no use IN dis
cussing IL further; it had % be fought out
You boys of Illinois knew it-knew il had
% be fought out. All argument all reason,
all discussion should have ceased on that
day Every man capable Of bearing arms,
as you all did, should have seized his mus
ket, rushed 10 the standard Of his country,
and rescued it from danger. Great cheer
ing.l
THE STRATEGY OF THE WAR.
believe as general rule, there was a
full understanding among the Generals Of
the army. But we often had TO be very care
fol lest information of our intentions should
gel abroad, and it would result in your loss,
the enemy being at once prepared. IL /
had informed you in advance that | was
going, for instance, to do a certain thing, as
q matter of course our enemy would provide
against Il, and many Of you who are now
alive might not be here. Now 1t was our
desire, the desire Of every officer, every gen
eral officer, 10 accomplish a certain thing for
yoll and to restore You back healthy to your
families.
We did not like 70 see bloodshed, but we
were determined 10 produce results, and now
what we're those results? To make every
man, woman, and child in the South feel
that IL they dared to rebel against the flag OF
their country they must die or submit. Im-
mense enthusiasm.
That was the problem which we had TO
solve. As long as they met us man to man
and face to face we went at them directly
ia front. Laughter. But when they tried
to play tie glme Of drawing us on further
and further, and compelling Us 20 leave gar
rises here and guards there, absorbing our
main strength, intending 10 whip the re-
mainder, it became necessary for us by in
tellect TO defeat that scheme Of theirs. We
therefore had TO make them believe that we
were going TO do one thing and 60 and do
another. Laughter.
Now, YOU an may remember that when
We had taken Ailsnta fairly and openly, II
looked as though our army would be strung
cut on a line Of six or seven hundred miles
and the head Of the column would be but a
few divisions and brigades. Wewere strung
out from Nashville clear down 20 Atlanta,
Had ] then gone on stringing ont our forces,
what danger would there not have been OF
Their attacking the little head Of the column
anE Of crushing il? You, soldiers, are gen
eHals enough 10 see that. Therefore, | re-
solved in a moment TO stop the game OF
guarding their cities and 10 destroy their
cities. Sensation. -
Now, my friends, / know that, all the
werid over, there are parties that denounced
me as being inhuman. [''Thats so'-"Can't
see itPl Iappoal 10 you to say if ] have
not always been kind and considerate 70
YOU That's So" / care not what they
say. That's right"l 1 care not what
they say, but / say that it ceased 10 be our
duty to guard their cities any longer, and
had / gone ON stringing out our column,
little by little, little by little some Of your
Illinois regiments would never have got
back home, and you would have been
crushed. Therefore / let 60 the whole
country; took one army myself and gave
my friend GEORGE H. Thomas one, and VIC
whaled them both. LGreat applause.
Therefore, IL Atlanta were destroyed, aud
Columbia and Savannah, and all the cities
Of The South had been destroyed, | say il
would have been right, because il was neces-
sary to produce the results in view. 1t did
produce the result; and now, ladies' You see
your young friends returned 10 you, wives
see their husband, and all are reunited here
in this handsome grove in Illinois, and God
knows j hope you may never 60 forth again,
but IL you have 70 60 forth / know you will
respond quicker than you did before, if pos
sible. lCheers,
FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE NATION.
A ~ The future. 7 assure YOU ! have been
~ over that part n the country which is as
sienca b me have never vet during any
psri o. 5iy history seen the country looking
prosperous the grain rowing so iuxu-
riantly, and the people so well contented and
happy, the table so beautifully spread and
all tais, too, out on the plains of Kansas
where, six years ago, il required an escort Of
three hundred men 70 guard an officer sent
60 pay of a garrison. Now / can 90, and
anybody can 60 with a single horse away
out 10 the limits Of Kansas, or even to Col
orado, without an escort, and that too at the
close OF a long and terrible WAL So that l
say that we are progressing 10 the end we
have in view, and that whether the politi-
clans, whether the statesmen, / will call
them, the Judges aud lawyers, viii adopt a
policy 20 produce the desired result, / don
know, and don't much care, because it Will
be done anyhow. Laughter and cheers
! say If the farmers, mechanics and bust
ness men viii go on and attend 20 their own
business the people Of Missouri will do the
same, Iowa the same, and so it win be all
over the Western and Northern country,
and the politicians will be compelled to
adapt their policy 10 this end, and that is
she true end, namely, the great prosperity OF
our country.
Therefore, il is unnecessary 30 even alludc
10 the position in which the national affairs
are placed, for do not intend TO oompre-
bend or understand them. Il is not my
task; but il is my task 10 sec that the forces
placed at my disposal 70 put down opposi-
ton 30 the laws quickly and forever, do their
duty. Cheers. Whenever the United
States Mars AL comes 20 me and tells me
that his power is resisted, and he has not
sufficient civil force 10 execute the laws, If
have soldiers / viii 20 % his assistance and
see that the laws are enforced. And my
friends, II that rule is carried out In the land
Ii the laws of Congress are TO De enforced
wherever this asg hoats-then in truth are
We nation 10 all intents and purposes at
home and abroad.
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