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and should share the natural consequences
nf their own acts

and should share the natural consequences
of their own acts.
And I, born of Connecticut parents,
bearing in affecfionate remembrance the
viriuesyofmy honored ancestors, and yield
ing TO no man in admiration ofthe intelti~.
gence, refinement, industry and thrift of the
people ofNew England, do honsSly6elie@
that d.ey, IN common svih all The great Noaah
srLo shared IN the original causes and enjoyed
large part Of he profits resulting front cotton
and stave labor, should be charitable and
liberal an ds yfaql distribution Of The pqturdl
II slavery then was the real cause Of our
civil war, or even the preaext for it, sndif
children must inherit the sins of their
fathers, even in the third and fourth gep-
erations, then none Of us who trace our
origin back TO she earlier days of this Re-
pnblic can escape this mathematical and
philosophical conclusion !; or, in, the
language of DIR. Draper: S- t1.
( "Guilty, then, both of us in the sight Of
God, let us not vex each other with mutual
eriminanon, but bear our punishment with
humility" sc.g sis.a Z
How has this punishment been parfi-
TONED by the result Of the war? We Of
the North have to mourn the loss Of
fathers, brothers, sons and friends, aud are
burdened with a vast national debt, bind-
ing on us in fact, in Law and in honor,
never, | hope, 20 be questioned by any !
honorable man in America till every cent
. Il paid. tsas'lf
Look 10 the South, and YOU who went
with me through that land can best say il
they, too, have not been fearfully punished.
Mourning in every household, desolation
written in broad characters across the whole
face of their country, cities in ashes and
fields laid waste, their commerce gone,
their system of labor annihilated aud de-
atroyed. Ruin, poverty and distress every
where, and now pestilence adding the very
cap-sheaf TO their stack of misery her
proud men begging forpsrdon and appeal-
ing for permission 10 raise food for their
children, her Eve millions Of slaves free and
their value lost to their former masters
forever. How any Southern gentlefnan,
With these facts, plain and paipable, eyery-
where staring him in the face and recorded |
forever in the book Of history, can still |
boast of his Lost Cause" or speak of il in |
language other than of shame and sorrow,
passes my understanding and instead of
being revived, / know that THEN Lost
Canse will sink deeper and deeper into in
fanny as time more keenly probes its hid
den mysteries aud reveals them to the
light of day. rs
Now that slavery is gone, and gone for-
ever, with ITS unhappy wrecks left behind,
and all danger Is passed, If any set of men /
again appeal 10 war when they have courts
to secure their rights and redress their
wrongs, l wonld trust our national destiny
again to those grand old national laws
which raised our country through the long,
tedious vassalage of colonization; which
carried us safely through the ordeal of our
Revolutionary war; made onr flag famous
on the high seas in 1872; led our con-
querlng armies to The gates of Mexico in
lS47 and has borne us gloriously through
Tour years of as hard war as ever tested the
manhood of any people, s-E "a = 4
Let us renew, as far a. lies in our indi
yidusl person, thai system which Bancroft
tells us guided our fathers before the ReVo4
luton; "the system which had been re- T
yealed in India; the system which com
bines and perfeets the symbolic wisdom of
the orient and the reflective geuins of
Greece; the system conforming to reason,
yet kindling with enthusiasm, always
Fastening reform, yet always conservative
! prOoidmiag absolute equality among men, get
not guddeaiy dboiishino The alaeqaGl insfitu-
ttOlsSef saeisfg,' guaranteeing absolute freedom,
| vet ineossqng memorable Restrictions Of datg,l
! in the highest degree theoretical yet in the
/ highest degree practical; awakening the
1 inner man TO consciousness of his destiny,
and yet adapted with exact harmony to
| the outward world at once divine and hu-
man. This system was professed in every
/ part OF our widely extended country, and
4 cradled our freedom"
I With such a spirit peryading all our
country once Inofe~--with oiir population
increasing thirty-three per cent. every
ten years with our national wealth de-
veloping in even a greater ratio with
our frontiers pushing back in every di-
rection with farms and villages and cities
apidly covering our vast national do
main with mines of gold and silver and
iron and coal pouring ont wealth faster
than ever did the cotton-felds of the
South, with forty thousand miles Of finished
railroads, and other thousands in progress
can any one doubt our present strength,
or calculate our future destiny. eTgs,-rf
II our friends at the South viii heartily
3 and cheerfully join with us in this future
course, ], for one, would welcome them
as our equals, but not our superiors,
and lend them helping hand. But if,
like spoiled children, they will cling to
the dead past and shut their eyes to the
coming future, would only call their at
tention TO that wave of emigration that
has swept over our land from the Atlantic
TO the Pacific and must turn back and how
+ South. They may oppose, but their OPP
position will be as vain as il was for them
to try and stop the Army of the Tennessee
which swept the length and breadth Of
their land. The next war OF Northern in
vasion will not desolate their land, but
will fruotifY and regenerate it."