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could put down the institution oi slavery
with it. In other words, they woLld not lei
the Southern people come back to their ale
glance to the Constitution unless they would
consent 10 absolve us from ours. They IN
effect said TO them What is required
from you on cur side, that must be enforced;
what is required frcm us on yours, that IS to
b. ,lisrcgarled." Now is there any section
of the people in the Anglo Saxon race that Is
going to submit to that Just turn itaround
and suppose what Nigh, have been the case
tia; the South had been numerically strong
er than ourselves, and this war had got 10
going and we found ourselves likely 10 get
the worst of il and We said TO them: Let
US make peace and come back" bat they
should say to US You may come bach,
and everything that makes for us IN the Con-
stiiuti0n shall he enforced the moment it
makes for Won, il shall be disregarJci.
Now what 10 you say, gentlemen, would
Won stand it? No, | rather think not.
When YOU add TO that tue manner in which
this war has been fought, Eot against the
comhaianis, but the Government has direct
ed its strength toward unprotected women
and children, toward desolating country
where there was not any fighting-that while
We wcr" sending there some two millions OF
men, as brave men as ever livcd--an army
has gone down there aud laid down their
lives and fought as never men fought before,
and grateful country will never forget
those mrn-when they have fought as they
lave for three years. yet they have fought IN
vain Here We are, in this fourth year Of
the war. almost as far of as We were when
We began not quite, hut almost.
We rropos, 10 do now what General Nc
d. NJ, 4. ~, It,l, in
letter 10 which have called yOur attention.
We propose 10 do that, and when we do il
you dent need any other assurance than
what YOU saw the other day by the overtures
that were male at Niagara by the half-agens
and friends of III, 50 called Southern Con
fc,leracy The moment you put yourselves
on this platform, then there is an end to this
wsr. Those States come back TO the old
Union in the old way. and it is clearer than
ligif. Crntlemeu--ihousands on thousands
wcnt on in this way. They supported this
administration with their votes and their
money and their children, and their blood,
and when those men were told. rs they were
told. This is, after all, war for the aholi-
ton of slavery" they said, We don't fight
for him. ! happened to be in the West in
thu frs, year Of this war aud met u man
who had left his pillow in the field and
Joined the army. | asked him, What
are YOU rniH.- to do" BY God. sir, said
he, II am going to open the Mississippi
river" Well, the way they went at it you
know, as Fort DonclSon and Island No. 10
and Nicksburg at.cst They were not fight
ing for the Niger They did not care any
thing about him.
Vel. now, when the thing has been brought
10 point ard the question has Keen put,
"Wili Won take us back now on the terms of
the old Union and the old Constitution Z"
that is what the American people have been
fighting for. What wasthc answer: ''Wc will
take you back when you come connected with
the abolition of slavery. We will take you
hac!, when yUd bring with You on your re
turn the abolition of slavery in those States
and we will not take you back before. Now.
when the time comes that the thing that we
were fighting for is substantially attained.
when those men are willing TO come back,
Law down their arms and come into the old
Union on the old terms, are they welcomed !:
No. We are going Il little further, now,
gentlemen. We are going to abolish slave
nv" is il not protected to us by the Con-
sti,ution which you are fighting 10 maintain =
''Well, yes but that don't make any differ
ence Whatever we have laen fighting for
before. We are FIGHTING now for the abolition
Of slavery We are fighting now FOX what
no man up to two years ago would have pro
posed, to turn loose all the niggers. We are
fighting now for the Niger and nothing but
the niger" Well, row, gentlemen, so long
as we are fighting for the Union, any admin
istrati0n could carry the people along with
it, but when they reached the point where
every man can see for himself that that is
the object Of the contest no longer, they have
reached point where, in my Judgment, the
most Of this people are going to stop. You
cannot carry them beyond that. Now, then,
| saw. not 10 Democrats merely, but to Re
puhcans, men who have honestly, patriotic
ally. voted for, paid for, fought for, bled for,
and who have gone on thus far and support
ed this administration, but simply because
they believed that the administration was
contending for what was vital and dear to us
ALL ask these men, candidly and dispas-
sionately, whether or not they have got
enough of this attempt TO break down the
distinctions that the Almighty set up, and to
whitewash the Niger in the tears. ard blood
of millions Of our peoples Have you got
----p., ~s u2- I-=@ -. .i,A r-c"rn"t h-9- 3
Won and answer for yourselves the question.
Ii YOU have, you had better use the privilege
while vet the day remains 10 you, before
up hy hayonets here as it is in Maryland
aad kentucky and Missouri. You had
better use your privilege of helping your
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS better state Of. things.
But if you have not got enough Of it, then
90 straight on in the path which this admin
tra,ion proposes TO You if they can acquire
n new lease Of power at your hands. Send
the rest Of vour children down 10 the slaugh-
Ter from which there are so few returning
foots,cps-oarry up the expense OF living, OF
your daily Tread until you have a population
most OF which is beginning TO find out what
starvation means; surrender to an admins
tra,ion which already possesses every Gle
men, of oppression but ils dignity give the
rest of yoj;r property IN tatlen the rest OF
this mess Of Williams that is hanging on TO the
skirts Of this war.
Now. gentlemen, let us look like practical
men nj the question now of what is
10 h. done Lc; us look, like practi-
cal men, at what this administration pro
poses To- You if their lease Of power IS re-
newell What do tEcy propose TO do Why,
they are going right on; they are going on
in the prosecution of this war; they are 60
ing To abolish slavery and they are going To
coniiscatc all the property i'll the Southern
States; they are going 10 put this people
right, dow II into the mud and they are gcing 10
select the vurs. mlscrcants they have got,
their Buffers and Schcuks, and set them over
il. Wen, how are You going to do il : Why,
We have got 20 90 on with the war. Every
man thai know the senl.mcLls oi tEG south
crn people tells you that on those terms yon
have got TO encounter the last man and the
last woman in thai country. Well, then,
they have Iot 10 raise troops No mans
fool enough 20 believe that this is the last
call. "A voice, "No.D You have been
told lines enough be.ora thai this is
the last cali, they are utterly broken
down" 'thcy are starving" ''onc blow
more will finish Them" etc Now | put it
To YOU if that has not been cried with every
single call that has been made, and now up
comes lhat-highly respectable Mr.. Stanton
l was going to say something else-and in
a telcgram to Gen, Dix informs us that, I'VE
don't want al Of tEst 5G0, 600 after I'll we
have routed tie army of the Southwest, and
Grant says he only wants 100000 more 10
take Richmond and until after election that's
quite enough for You, for after election we
shall lie in for four wears more and then we
should like To see you help yourselves.
Now is there ANYBODY here who is 50 lacking
IN lutclligcn,. a. moi 10 ste that Ii the wal
is 10 % 0n AMI these troops are gone like
the wood cast into furnace, they have got
To- have more; How are they going To get
them How long is it since one single legit-
innate volunteer has ceased going As
told you before, these men al home are not
going They haze got TO raise them by the
DRIFT of course IA they are raising men now.
Well, Congress has already abolished the
communication. and how about the substitute
busncsst Why We are ransacking every
part OF the world TO bus nisgers and Hes
slams for substitutes That's where you are
getting your troops. You have had about
two millions Of the best men in the country
and you can't get them any more You have
got TO buy your Troops, and the men Tint
you are abb 10 lag are a pretty miserable
set. Now it is pTHoscd TO eAtcrmlnate
these Southern people with that KIND oi
stun. We have not succeeded in doing II
with our own Syiive stock: We are
going 10 do it NSy with those Hes
sans that we have bought up, every
man Of whom requires two men to
guard linn. was at the Windsor cnun-
" Court, the other day, at the trial of Gen.
Partridge, WHO was tried for treason, Ter cX-
pgussiun d ,lu,ut OF tue immaculate character