Year: 1863

back from one OF tne urSt placeS-perndps from
the very first place in the Union-for agriculture
mining, mechanical industry, for wealth and
population. 1t means that our earnest sympa-
thies embrace the freemen of the South, who
trained in the school of poverty, are now COM
PEELED by tyrannical power to fight for results
that are in direct conflict with their own chances
of happiness and advancement. 1t means that
we are eager to go to the assistance OF our
friends in our mountain regions, and to give
them security in the natural Businesses of Amer
ican freedom. Nor are we deferred from render
ing loyal support to the Government by the
thought that the war in its results will weaken
Slavery, or even work its overthrow Civil war
has always, in Gods providence, been means
for rescuing men from bondage. Who is there
to deplore the probable result that States where
in times past labor has been despised, should
come to own the true nobility of the working
man, and restore the fields and the workshops to
the free? Take Virginia, for an example. Her
soil is fertile. her air salubrious her springs
renovate health her mountains glisten with
precious ores. There, in her many chambers,
where nature has heaped up stores of gold and
silver, of gypsum and iron, of salt and copper,
an evil spirit has cast over her its spell. and she
sleeps in almost hopeless lethargy. Who will
mourn if the time has come when her long and
deep slumber shall be broken? Who will grieve
if the procession of the Star Spangled Banner,
borne onward to the songs of liberty, shall wake
her from her trance of centuries? Then let her
clothe her beautiful limbs in the robes of free
dom and open her hundred halls to the hands OF
selfdirected enterprise and skill. Applause
The present bitterness will pass away, and the
next generation of her sons will meet ours in
affection, and they will own that from this des-
perate strife has sprung the blessed regeneration
of their lovely land. Nor is union required by
our domestic affairs alone. There is reason to
believe that here in New-York, men falsely u.s.
urping the name of Democracy. have been will
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cies of Europe. These men must be made to
know that they stand alone. CHEERS and cries
of - Good.") A nation which has always pro-
fessed zeal for free trade, aims at monopoly OF
the international carrying trade for themselves,
by sending out ships built in their own ship
yards, to prey upon our commerce. 1t Is here IN
New-York more than in any place in our land,
that the Government should be able to count
with certainty upon unanimous support in its
efforts to maintain, against any foreign power,
the rights and the dignity and interests OF the
country. Applause. So then the love
of the Constitution, the love of liberty, the love
of country a proper sense of overhanging dan
gers just appreciation of our resources, con-
spire to demand the patriotic union of the peo-
pie as our security at home and our only protec-
ton against wrongs from abroad" Applause.
We make the following extracts from
the remarks of Mr.. Raymond:


do not know, fellow citizens, whether there
are any here who feel discouraged at the slow
progress, as they call it, of the war. II there
are, beg them to bear in mind, that war is not
an eXtempOre affair. A war of two great peo-
ple--twenty millions against eight-is not to be
settled in hurry it is a war requiring the COM


bined energies and thoughts, and studies and eX-
perience of the best men Of the whole country
for long time to get ready, and for longer
time to carry into execution the plan they nave
formed ; and like everything else human 1t Is
subject to accidents to contingencies, u Is SUD-
ject to blunders-blunders will occur in this, as
in everything else. The only thing Is, to keep
steadily at it until it is accomplished. zap
plause.) Whatever else may fail, If our courage
does not fail, the end is sure. Let us, then dis.
countenance forever, here and elsewhere all
thoughts of encouragement, all pretence that
the war is not making the progress that 1T ought.
1t is not making the progress we wish 1t were
| making-for one wish it could be ended to-
morrow night, wish it could be done in twenty
minutes. CHARLES MACKAY said everything was
done in America in about twenty minutes. J DO
not expect to see it accomplished in that time.
| You remember he said. in this country he found
it one of our pecuiarities, that everything here
! was done in twenty minutes. 1.-The went to have
coat made, the tailor said it should be done in
about twenty minutes If he went to hire q
horse, and asked the man VIXEN he wanted
it back. he was told in about twenty minutes -
| and II he went 10 see a lrlenu, anu INC strNdut
told him that his friend was dead. He asked how
long he had been dead. and the servant SAID
| About twenty minutes" Laughter. Now


am afraid that all fall little into this habit of
expecting that everything will be done in about
twenty minutes. Why; fellow-citizens, what
great war was ever ended in one. or two, or three
| or five years? Our war for independence was a
mere bagatelle compared with the war which we
are now compelled to wage to maintain that in
| dependence and yet it lasted seven long years.
The war which England waged with all Europe
lasted from 1902 to 1915, and yet the English
people did not get tired of it, How much mon
ey do you suppose they spent in it.,


Well, they spent in that war, the sum OF hve
thousand five hundred millions of dollars. and


yet, when they got through with it they were bet
| ter off than when they started. mean literally
what say their business was better, every man
in the country was making more money than
} when that war started. 1he taxes were heavy.
for they paid---of the eleven hundred millions OF
pounds which that war cost them they paid OF 1t
six hundred and forty millions of pounds by d.
| rect taxation ; the four hundred and sixty mil


lions went into national debt. In spite OF all
that, they were better able all the time to pay
! these enormous taxes on account OF the stimulus
which the war gave to their business, Now we
talk here about the depression Of the country by
the effect of the war upon the business OF the
country would like to know whether 1t is not
a fact within the knowledge OF all of you that
business here in New York today is better than


it was when the war began Are not wages bet
ter in all kinds of business? There are individ-
ual failures-there have been failures, there will
! be such, always but as a general thing the bus.
mess of this City and OF the whole loyal parts OF
this country is better than it was when the war
began. Why? For the simple reason that we
have had added to the ordinary amount OF mon
ey used in our business all the amount spent In
the war. Why. instead of having our ordinary
avocations to give us an income, we have mil
lion of men set to different business, and they
are paid their wages, and send their wages TO
their families ; and taking them away from the
active pursuits OF life, makes room for more,
raises wages, builds evrything up, and gives
new stimulus to every department OF industry
Let me ask any man here il he is doing business
on twenty thousand dollars year. whether he
could not double that business by borrowing
twenty thousand to do it on He has got to pay
IL sometime or other but while he has the use
of II his business is more prosperous than II was


before and he is better able to pay the taxes


which the war causes than If there was no war
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