Year: 1863

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the whole energy of the Government put forth


with armed men paraded through the State, with


threats of legal proceedings and military force


you have seen less than 10 900 men carried away


more than half OF whom we're in truth volulI-
teers, because they bought with price


Now, that is the doctrine of consolidation carried
into practical effect. Thus one method by which
our Government was made strong has been tried


Is this strength, or weakness? IL this success


or failurel | implore you to look into these
questions yourselves. do not complain OF what
may be said of myself; that l have been mis-


represented; that am charged with treason
with almost all the offenses TO be found in the
catalogue of crime. | have not one word to say
in my own defense, but / do complain that citi-
zens of this State who our political opponents
join in the calumnies against their State
which has done so much To sustain the Govern
ment Cheers. Whenever asked for Justice
and have only asked for justice-it has al
ways led Immediately to the charge that there
was desire to embarfass the General Govern
ment As have said, ours was the only Atlantic
State which, on the first day of January last, had
sent to the war such numbers that it was entitled
TO credit for surplus. That was conceded at
Washington. And il was conceded, too, that
Pennsylvania. New Jersey, and every New Eng
land State save the little State of Rhode Island
were behind. lCheers. Since. the first day OF
January last the State ot New York has sent
10000 men out of its limits defend Pennsyl-
vania Loud applause


The Seventh Ward Democratic Club here
entered the hall with an American flag, and a
banner inscribed Union, Liberty and the Laws, %
amid great cheering Cheers were also given for
Gov. Seymour and Gen. Mcclellan When order
was restored Gov. Seymour continued


Suddenly there cime up a midnight cry from
Washington for help proclamation was issued
fn Ohio panuSv and MARYLAND eallinO for
a hundred thousand men to rally Immediately to
save the nations capital. A friend OF mine at
Washington asked them why they did not call on
New York. "Oh.'' they said, New York has
got copperhead Governor; he will do nothing. "
daughter But New York was called on. aud
the result was that New York was about the only
State that did anything in reinforcing the army
already in the field Laughter and cheers /
do not speak this because | claim any merit |
did but my duty. When the President of the
United States, the constitutional head of the gov
ment, called upon me, as he had a right to call
upon me under the Constitution, responded as
it became my duty to do Cheers. Nov l
want TO state, in justice to the administration,
that while many Republican citizens of New
0rk were traduclng our own great State, l re-
ceived dispatch from the Secretary OF Mar
thanking me for my prompt response and begging
that | would send on our troops ut once to
stir up Pennsylvania and other States to come to
the rescue [Applause. Read the history of
the battle of Getty sburg-the record Of that four
days, fight, where the battle each day surged
from side to side, so that it was not known unrl
the very last moment which army were the vic
tors-see how closely we battled there and then


What man dare saw that the contributions that
New FORK sent at that time did not strengthen
the hearts OF our army, and did not turn the tide
of battle in favor of the old flag? Since the first
day of January last we have raised more than
sixteen thousand volunteers If you will add the
number that we sent in response to the call for
thirty days-and there are times when thirty days
are more than as many years-there are times
when men are sent into thebattlefeld at the very
moment when their services could not be re-
placed by ten years, after work II we add the
number in response to that call, we have
sent, since the first of January, more than thirty


four thousand volunteers to the service of our
cOuntry-more than three times many as the
coercive action of the government produced
more than has been sent by all the other
Northern States OF the Union put together


With these Facts, with this generous support thus
freely given to our government, you hear charged
day after day that the administration has been
hindered by the State of New York When it
was shown how many men had gone from this
State. the Republican papers of this State seemed
to take the greatest pleasure in declaring this
Was not so. and in stating that We had only sent
three THOUSAND volunteers, because by some in
fOrmality they were nOf mentioned in the books
before they were mustered in, but while they
were preparing TO go Does this not prove that
injustice Is being done To this State in the dis
parae cement in which it is spoken of? Does it not
also prove the lesson of which have spoken,
that the government To be strong must be foun
ded in the affections of the people. Thev tell us
that the Constitution may be ses aside. By what
right do you worship your God, as you: consc
ence dictates By what right do you stand up here
in the face of tins community and say, although
| stand alone. no man shall stand between me and
my Maker to the mode in which l shall wor
ship hmf Why, it is written down in the great
charter OF your liberties. Itis by that alone that
you have all the evidence by which that right
exists, and all the means by which that right can
be enforced BY what rght-when you 60 to
your homes, however humble they may be-do
you close the latch, saying. "Ths is my castle?'
1t is only by the guarantee of the Constitution.
What is it that makes sacred the relations be-
tween you and your wife, and sister, and aged
father and mother that sit by your ireside? We
are told that men who talk of constitutions are
traitors to their country. We are told that the
Constitution is 40 writ of protraction against
Abraham Lincoln Il General. though all pow
ertul against Abraham Lincoln as President.
have sustained him freely and fully, frankly and
fairly. did not want him there, but have in
fnitely more respect for him as a President than
General ICheers] These doctrines are
dangerous and revolutionary; they strike at the
existence OF the Government; they enddnger your
national liberties; they threaten to shatter the
very bonds of society itself The Vice President
of the United States in a speech within the limits
Of your own State. said: There are some men
who want the Union as it was and the Constitu-
ton as it is. Well. they can't have them. We
can't have the Constitution as it isf This ques-
ton is involved in the coming elections. / ask
you when you have by the edict of your votes sus-
tanned a party that declares itself opposed 20 the
Constitution. will you have left one-third of that
fundamental law 10 protect your DEFY any man
10 show whenever we have been untrue to the
Constitution untrue 20 our past. defy any
man to show that it is not true that we on our
part have been in favor of exertng every material
and every moral power. aud every exertion of
states manship 10 bring this war to successful
conclusion. aud on the other hand that we have
relrained from placing those obstacles in the way
of that result which placed there by the theor
lists who propose to make it no longer a war for
the Constitution, but war for the determination
OF slavery, and for the crushing of the rights
OF the States for the lessening OF the jurisdiction
OF the Constitution and the widening of that of
the Administration. [Cheers.l These things
involved in the election that is about to take
place. As said in the outset. they concern the
country and the community; they concern each
man in his liberty, in his conduct, in his home.
am still full of confidence; l hope in the Ian
guage of another for the time when the war shall
be passed by and there will be upon the flag ol
country every star that glitters there. and in
the bounds of our Coniederacy State for every
star. Cheers | hope before many months
shall have rolled away, that all will agree that
those men are traitors who would tear asunder
the flag of our country or who would wipe out
from the azure field single star that glitters
there, and that AZ men will unite In restoring the
States to all their original splendor 70 all thei,
glory 10 all their greatness and to all their united