Year: 1861

FELLOW CITIZENS: 1t is to me a source Of
boundless rejoicing that the fTcemcn of Ken.
lucky ale still permitted to call the freencn
OF New York their felow-ctizens. Applause;
Three cheers for kenluckv."l Traitors
within and traitors without have stIiven
increasingly to break that noble old Common
wealth away from the moorings of her loyal
ty and to send her adrlft upon that stormy
Sea of rebellion and treason, where so many
Of ouI States are now being wrecked. But,
thank GOD, neither their ScductlonS, nor their
Vaccinations, nor their thfeatcningS, have
proved Of any avail. In spite of al! their
violence and all their efforts to rend them
asuuder. New York and kentucky this night
stand forward as sisters. The ireemen of
Kentucky are still the brethren of the free
men of New York, united by the same
blessed memories, kindlcd by the same trans.
porting hopes, and animated by the same
stern and nhcXibe resolve to maintain this
Union, whatever the expenditure of life the
struggle may require. She has not now, she
never has had, sympathy with the purpose of
those conspirators. who. at the head of
armies, and in the mad pursuit of power are
now reddening their hands in a nations
blood. Applause. She abhors them as
Rome abhorrcd Catallne, as the American
people abhor Benedict Arnold, as Christians
abhor the memory of Judus Tscariot. That
nbhorIence was fully expressed in our recent
election; and yet, in the very face of that
popular expression, and in defiance and con.
tempt Of it, the public papers now assure us
that the Secessonists are preparing to precip-
itatc that State into the horrors of civil war
simply and solely because she had refused to
sell herself to the devil. Cheers Yet if,
like the political bandit of South America
and Mexico, they traltorously persist in
appealing from the popular vote to the sword,
then venture to predict that it will be found
that the Union men Of Kentucky, with their
love of peace. still carry bullets as well as
ballots in their pockets. A few words in
connection with journey which have
recently made through the loyal States.
have everywhere found the most encourag ging
sentiment in reference to the prosecution of
this war; have nowhere found any feeling Of
exaspeIation against the people of the South,
no bluster, no threa tening, but at every point,
solemn determination to uphold this Gov.
ernment, connected with sadness whose
depth of tenderness should in vain endeavor
to describe Cheers Strong and brave
men, while speaking to me of our unhappy
dissensons, have wept, and honor them for
it, for if strong man cannot weep over the
ruin of such country, and Of such Govern.
ment as this, where is the catastrophe that can
touch his heart All men everywhere seem
now to realize that this is not war upon the
people of the South, bat war in their defense.
and for their dcllverance. Cheers. "That's
true. Ii it were indeed war against
them, we might lay our faces in the dust, and
confess that our glorious institutions are
failure. Bot 1t is war against a band of
conspirators who have arrayed themselves
against our country, and have established
military despotlSm, and who, in the selfish
ness and rcmorse!eSsncss of their undertaking,
are kindred TO those traitors who, in other
ages, have disturbed the repose Of natons.-


Applause. The public mind no longer
occupies itself " ith any discussion as to the
causes Of this war. 1t no longer wastes its
logic in exposing the monstrosities of the doc
trine Of Secession. In the light of current
and recent events. we know well what Seces.
sion was intended to accomplish Too bit
tcry we know what it has accomplished !;
and we would no more think now of gravely
examining, with view of showing its treason,
than we would think of analyzing the kiss of
Judas to prove that it was full of the poison
of treachery. Applause. Equally matured
is the public mind as to the consequences
which would follow the success ST this rebel.
lion. The providence of God, and the most
sacred compacts Of men have made no one
people, and the experience Of three-quarters
of century has demonstrated that in this
unity of country. of government, and of peo-
pie, consists at once our greatness and our
happiness. To disinember these States nov


to cast their miserable fragments upon the
bloody and wild torrents of revolution, to
become the prey of every audacious asprcr


would utterly destroy the last hope that
belongs to US. Equally is the public mind
fixed, in my judgment, in regard to the
character of this war. 1t is not war of con.
quest, or Of aggression, or spolation, or pas.
sion. or revenge; but in every light in WHICH


it can be regarded, it is war Of duty
Applause.] This struggle is intensely a