St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-09-03

they nave got to raise troops. No
mans 1901 enough to believe that this
is the last call. "a voice. "NoN Yom
nave been told times enough before
that ''this is the last call.n sstb.v oro
utterly broken down." ''thev are star nv
ing" lone blow more will finish tban, y
etc. Now put it to Won if that ha,
not been cried with every single c n1I
that has been made, and now n1 con' "'i
that-highly respectable Mr.. Stanton
!! was gong to say something else-and
IN telegram to Gen. Dix informs us
that, I'VE don't want all of that 5O0
600 after all we have routed the orn,v
of the Southwest, and Grant saws T..
only wants 100000 more to take PioI 0
mOnd and until after election thoT,
quite enough for you, for after elect;on
we shall be in for four years more and
then we should like to see YOU helm
yourselves" Now is there ANYBODY
here who is so lacking in intelligence
as not TO see that if the war is to 20 ON.
and these troops are gone like the wood
cast into a furnace, they have got to
have more? How are they going to
get them? How long is it since one
single legitimate volunteer has ceased
going? As | told you before, these
men at home are not going. They
have got to raise them by the draft of
course as they are raising men now.
Well, Congress has already abolished
the communication, and how about the
substitute business Why, we are ran
sacAlhg every part Of the world to buy
mIssers ana Hessians for substitutes.
nj. n''e "He'e you are getting your
lrOoPs' GU nave had about two
millions OF the best men in the countrv
and You can't get them apv mnrS
You have got to buy your troOps. and
the men that you are able to buv are q
pretty miserable set. Now it ia nro-
posed to exterminate these Southern
people with that kind of stuff. We
have not succeeded iD doing it with oUr
own native stock. We are going to do
it now with these Hessians that we
have bought up, every man of whom
requires two men to guard him. l was
at the Windsor county Court, the other
day, at the trial of Gen. Partridge,
who was tried for treason, for express
ing doubt of the immaculate charac-
ter of this Administration. While |
was there some substitutes were being
taken away to camp. Well, they
marched off about twenty, and before
they got to breakfast nine of them had
escaped. Well, the point am coming
to is this: If you propose to prosecute
this war to this extremity you can't do
it with that class Of men. And you
can't do it with niggers either. Well
then, gentlemen, this is what | was
coming to: If you propose to go on
with this war, Congress has got to re-
peal this substitute business altogether.
You have got to go yourselves. The
consequence will be that the next draft
will be one from which there will he no
escape. Then you have staring you in
the face, from the next call which must
inevitably come, draft from which no
man can escape. That is the conscrip-
ton which you have got to encounter
and that is the price which yOn have
got to pay for carrying on this war for
the abolition of slavery after it has
ceased to be necessary TO carry it on
for the abolition of the Union.
If the God of our fathers has not ut
terly deserted us-and don't think he
this colony in the wilderness and led it
by the hand till it was the first Nation
on the face of the earth, till its plain
destiny was to gather together all the
Nations of the world-the God that did
that is not going to let it go to ruin for
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of miserable, dir
ty knot of politicians-and if He has
not utterly deserted us, Gen. Mcclellan
is going to give us on the 4th of March
what this country has lOnged for in the
last four years, President of the Uni
ted States. [Applause.l And these
gentlemen that are making Themselves
merry liz their Offices aud in their con-
tracts had better look out. Don't let
any one misunderstood what say.
We are going to have fair, legitimate,
free election. If it goes against us we
are going TO submit to it-but it won't
go against us. And if it is going to be
attempted to surround the ballot box
with bayonets, then they are going to
see the biggest fight they ever saw.
[UprOarious applause.