Year: 1863

vet was q revelation that might not have been


prevented by compromise made in timely


and graceful manner. Great appla .se Our


prayers were unheeded Again. when he con


test was opened. we invoked those who had


the conduct Of affairs not TO underraie the


power of the adverSary-not to undeFraie the


courage. and reSoarceS, and endurance of oar


own sister States. All this warning WAS treat


ed as sympathy with treason. You have the


results of these uuheeded warnings and unheed-


Ell PRAYERS they haze stained our soil with
blood they have carried mourning into thou
sands of homes and to day they have bronght


our country to the verv verge of destruction.
/ Once more | come before You, TO offer again
an earnest prayer and bid you listen TO the


warning. Oar country is not oulv at this time


torn by one OF the hloodiest wars that has ever


ravaCed the face of the earth, or of which his


tory gives an account. bat. If we turn our faces


10 our own loyal States, how is il there? Do


YOU not fnd the immunity divided into poll


teal parties, strongly arrayed against each


other and using with regard to each other


terms of reproach and defiance Is it not


said by those who support more particularly
the Administration. that we who differ honest
IL. patroticaIly, sincerely from them with re.
gard to the line of duty. are men of treason BILE


purposes and traitors TO our cou0try? ("iIear,


hear But on the other hand. is it not true


that many Of our organization look upon This
A administration as hAStile TO our rights and


liberties look upon our opponents as men


who would do us wrong in regard to our most


sacred franchises need not call your atten


tlon TO the tone of the press or to the tone Of
public feeling to show you how at this mo


ment parties are thus exasperated, and stand


in almost defiant attitudes TO each other 4


few Years ago we were told that sectional strife


waged ia times like these. would do no harm


to onr country; but you have seen the sad and


bloody results Let Us be admonshed now il


time and take care that this irritation this


feeling which Is growing up in our midst shall


not also ripen into civil troubles that shall car


ry the evils of war into our very midst and


about our own homes. Now, upon one thing


all parties are agreed, and that Is this Until


we have q united North we can have no sue.


cessful war. Until we have a united, harmo-


Mons North we can have no beneficial peace


How shall we have harmony? How shall the


uuity of all parties be obtained ? | wish to


say few words to you on this point; which


| firmly believe, is one of the most important


considerations to which could call your at


tention. Is harmony to be eoerced? appeal


TO you. my Republican friends. when You say


to US that the nations life and existence hangs


upon harmony and concord here. if you your
selves in your serious moments, believe that


this is to be produced by sezng our persons, by


infringing our rights by insulting our homes,
and by deprivng US OF those cherished priuci


Piles for which our fathers fought, and TO which


we have always sworn allegiance? Great ap


plause.) do appeal to you, my Republican


friends, and beg that you will receive this ap


peal in the earnest aud patriotic spirit which


prompts me to make it. | appeal to YOU ifI
you are not doing yourselves aud your country


great wrong when you declare that harmony


and unity OF parties are essential to save the


nations life. essential to the highest interests
Of our land. and yet stigmatiZe men true
and honest as yourselves. and whom experience
has proved to have been wiser, too. as men


who do not love their country, and who are
untrue to their institutions. How, then. are


we to get this Indispensable harmonv-this


needed unity? 1t is not to be obtained By


trampling upon rights it is not to be obtain
ed by threats it is not to be obtained by CO.
ercion ii is not to be obtained by attempting
to close our lips when we would utter the hon
est purposes of our hearts and the warm con
victions of our Judgment. But, my Republican
friends. there is a mode by which it can be
reached; there is mode by which the nation 5
life can be saved there is mode in which
in the end we will restore this Union of ours
and bring back those glorious privileges which
were so wautony thrown away. We come to
you in no spirit of arrogance We do not
come TO you asking YOU 10 make concession
of advantage to US. On the contrary. we only
say to you, holding in your hands and 10 your
control almost all the political power of your
country. TO exercise it according to your char
tered rights. Tremendous applauSe.) We
only ask that you shall give US that which y0u
claim for yourselves. and that which every
freeman, and every man who respects himself
will have for him>ef-fr freedom of speech, the
right to exercise all the franchises conferred
by the Constitution upon an American
Great applause) Can You safely deny US
these things? Are you not trampng upon
US, and upon our rights, if you refuse 10 listen
to such an appeal? Is it not revolution which
you are thus creating when you say that our
persons may be rightfully seized, our property
coufscaed, our homes entered Are you not
exposing Yourselves, your own Interests. TO as
great peril as that with which you threaten
US? Remember this. that the bloody and
reasonable, and revolutionary doctrine of pub /
lie necessity can be proclaimed by mob as
well as by government. (App!ouse) Re
member all the teachings of history; and we
implore you. with regard to our own interests
to stop and inquire ii you not doing your
selves and your own families, and all that you
hold dear to you, an Infinite wrong when you
sustain propositions that tear away from them
as well as from US, all the projections which
the Constitution of your country has thrown
aroand public liberty. Great applause Can
YOU tell when ambition. love Of punder, or
thirst for power, will induce bad and danger /
Gus men to proclaim this very principle Of
public necessity, as a reason why they should
trample beneath their feet all the laws of our
land, aud the Institutions of our country? l.
ask you again to think if measures like these
give power, digaity. or strength TO our Gov
ernmeot? | ask you, on the other hand, if
those governments have not lived out the long /
est periods, which, 10 times of public danger, /
instead of shrinking back from the principles |
of liberty and the barriers of order, have raised
alOft these great princinles and hattIpd nnder