Year: 1863

and if invalid it will fall, and it must fall,
because it is invalid. (Great cheering. J
He entirely agreed with the President
when he declared the emancipation policy
to be one of those things entirely inopera-
tive and absurd, and only a bull against the
comet. But he read the letter with regret
because it does not apparently contemplate
any end to the war, or propose a policy
that will bring it to an end in any time
consistent with the safety and interest Of
the American government. On the other
hand we are ready to mark out the policy
on the subject, and to call upon this gov
ernment to declare that its policy shall be
concilatory, and ifthe South returns it will
return with all its rights as they are mark
ed out in the Constitution of the country
Whether the government was ready to say
that or not, the speaker for me was ready.
and hc believed that party greater than
the government and more powerful than
those in Office was ready-he meant the
great conservative party-to guarantee to
the South its entire rights upon its return
to the Union He had never sought to
embarrass the government, but to uphold
its armies and send succor to those battling
there, and he denied himself the ordinary
rccreations demanded by the infirmities Of
man, toiled until the hours of midnight,
that he might do his duty to that portion
of the army from the State of New York.
He had issued more than FIVE thousand
commissions; and he did not believe the
government could find any just dissatisfac-
tion with his action in that matter Re-
ferring to his action in dispatching troops
to Pennsylvania, he gave all the credit to
the soldiers who responded to the call.


In conclusion he again expressed his
hopefulness for the future. He never be-
lievcd that the rights of States would be de-
stroyed; they had seen what bayoncts might
do to displacc ballots at other quarters. but
the principles of civil liberty and constitu-
tional law, and the wisdom of the fathers,
will outlivc al the folly oftheir successors.
One good result of the war was that we
had learned the value Of the Union les
sons had been taught necessary to fit Us for
enjoying the institutions of our country.
Under those institutions they had grown
into eighty years from an insignificant ma
tionality to be one Of the greatest powers
in the world. This much they had known,
but it was but half the truth. All knew
that under our local system Of local self
government We had reached this result
but there were men who believed that we
would have been still greater and more
prosperous under Il government having
more power centered at the national capt.
tai But this war will prove not only that
We became great people under 'hc doe
trinc of State rights and local self govern
met. but that we cannot become great.
happy, or prosperous people if We enlarge
the powers Of the government, exercised in
a region favorable neither to morality nor
patriotism.


BY policy of Cancellation We shall in
vite and unite the people of the South to
return by every consideration of patriot
ism and interest; but to dissolution of
the Union he never would consent, but Ia
Dor for its restoration 80 that every star
that glitters on the blue field of the
national banner should be held as sa-
cred, and he who would strike but one of
those from its place is as great a traitor as
he who would rend that banner assunder.