Year: 1863

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it. Do you hear how they are met OF
the other side of the line? Do vor
know how the Richmond papers ciuc.
kle over this thing-not that it will
bring peace or compromise but they
say; "Fhe fellows are divided among
themselves, and we will whip them bv
and by" That is the result of the fac.
tious and traitorous course on this side
Of the line Hear the conspirators
Il" We will whip them by and by and
re-possess ourselves of the Mississippi,
when we will re-organize new Con,
federacy and take in the West. We
will dot by the aid Of the Peace party
Of the North" But there is nothing
oft, for there is rot peace party that
will dare to move in such an effort -
But you give just as much aid and com
fort to the enemy by your professions
as if You did aid them. If any Of my
Democrat friends here can recommend
this course with the duty they owe to
their country, to be engaged in pro
ceedings of this kind, ] can not. Is it
a duty to your State, or your country.
or your God? Is it duty to your par.
-ty even? fit is, wipe that party out.
Ny desire and ambition is to see this
great Democratic party foremost III the
fight, to avenge the act by which, be-
fore the first gun was fred at Sumter,
the Democratic party was slain in the
house ofits friends. For if / have any
more party bitterness OF feeling in me
it is because they struck down the De
mocratic party before they assailed the
Government. ..---


Have you any more objections to the
prosecution Of this war? If YOU have.
| would like to know what they are.
for have no more on my list, & | made
it up'from speech of a distinguish
ed friend Of mine on the other side. in
which supposed he had them aIlsum-
med up.


Well, you say You want peace be.
tween the divided sections. Bless
your souls, my friends, so do |, and so
does every man in the length and
breadth of this land; and so for seven
long years through the war Of the rev
olution, we.wanted peace all the time
and 50 in the war of 1872, we asked for
peace continually. Bit during nei-
ther OF these were We willing to take
peace if it trammeled our hands or sac
rifced our honor. If you want peace
now, pray tell me how you are going to
get it? What is Your programme |
have read seven or eight speeches re
Gently, and l have heard of none but
that proposed by Fernando Wood, and
that is by diplomacy. But diplomacy
is not sharp enough on the edge yet.
You have heard about peace compro-
misses, but the papers of the Southern
States, from the Richmond Enquirer,
down to the lowest seven by nine, have
howlcd back the proposition in Your
teeth, and declared you should get no
peace but byacl1nowledging the South
ern Confederacy. Are you willing to
give it up, and acknowledge the Con-
federacy? [''No, not Are you pre-
pared to dissever the bonds of the Tn
ion? ["Never"1 Then don't talk
about peace, till you conquer it by the
sword. Don't talk about peace till yon
have won it with honor, under the
Constitution and the flag, and reduced
the rebels to subsection. ! tell youthat
you can win no peace by diplomacy,
for they will make no concession to
you, and they will spurn you, if You
ask them to make it. .......


Well how do you expect to get peace?
For the life ofme, cant see how You
are going to get it. Do You expect to
get it by trammeling and binding the
hands of the nation-by refusing men
aud money to carry on the war. or by
putting into power an Administration
opposed to the further prosecution of
it? If you do, then you are preparing
chains to bind yourselvs in servitude
more degrading than that which the
negro suffers in the South. How can
you obtain peace in any other way
than by fighting it out? 4 voice
BY the Crittenden resolution.


tits said the Crittenden resolution
might bring it about. The resolution
was offered to them before they fred
upon Sumter, and not man was ready
to take it, and the North would have
been very sorry ifthey had accepted it;
for /, for one, spurn the Crittenden
resolution, and l do it for the rea-
son that the first gun fired. upon
Fort Sumter relieved us from the
thraldom of slavery; and l never
desire to see peace restored, with the
political power of this institution rein
stated. What guarantee have you, my
friends, that the Crittenden resolution
would secure peace-that it would be
acceptable to the other side, and to the
people of this side? My private opin-
ion is, that it would be accepted here
no more than by them, Politicians
may talk as they please, there are but
two issues one is to acknowledge the
Southern Confederacy, and the other is
submission on their part to the de-
mands of the Government You may
examine all the resolutions you car
find, and you can come to no other con
clusion than this.


But why do you desire peace? Yor
tell me you want to stop the shedding
of blood. Let me tell you something
know in regard to this point. The mer
who are fighting our battles don't wan


you to make any dishonorable peace
for them. All that these gallant mel
ask of you is to stop your blessed ton
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