Year: 1862

| PNSS '' ~ PoSoiuio ludt SeHuenen can
hope 10 reconstruct the Union by pursuing
a policy OF unreenting severity? Can they
expect TO re-establish concord and bro,herly
love BY pushing hostlities 10 the extreme


verge? What is the Union worth wi,bou,
mutual respect and reciprocal ami,y TO
bind The sections What a Union of un


willing States, driven into companionship
! at the point OF the bayonet and held there
by military power Such Union would


not be worth the shedding OF one brave
mans blood. We want their hearts or we
want them not at all. And we cannot con-
quer hearts with bayonets, although they
should outnumber the spears of Xerxes. II
not brought back by negotiation they are
gone from us forever To say their Sold
iers, lay waste their lands, and burn their
cities may be within our power. But 10
hold them in subsection, would, in itself, be
a final reputation Of the first principle of
Republicanism. Prosecute this war until
you lave accomplished the necessity of
holding subdued section in subiection,
and the world will look in vain for a re.
public on the Western Hemisphere.


Sir, love 10 entertain The hope that our
Union will be restored upon the foundation


laid down by our fathers; and desire no
changes in the plan of that glorious super.
structure But am no, so unnatural wor.
shipper Of the Union as 10 seek its saliva
ton with the destruction of those whose
welfare it was conceived TO build upon
the dead bodies Of my countrymen.
would purchase its redemption otherwise
than by anarchy and ruin. would not
fling away the substance TO perpetua,e the
name. Every drop Of blood that is shed in
this struggle will weaken the bond Of Union
between US. One word of Cancellation at
this crisis will do more to save the coun-
try than all the achievements, past and 10
come, of your victorious soldiery.


Why should not that word go forth even
now, in the hour OF the triumph of The
Federal arms. If there has ever been
period in The histories of republics when
prolonged civil strife has failed to curtain
the liberty OF the masses, have not read
that history Alright. Already, with one
years bitter experience, we have beheld
some of the dearest privileges of American
citizenship wrested from our grasp. And
how long, at the same rate, before, upon
the convenient plea of necessity, shall we
be stripped OF other rights which heretofore
have made US deem ourselves freemen g.
How long, while personal liber:y even now
depends on The nod of an official How
long, while free born American citizens
can be left 10 lauguish in basties, beyond
the reach OF the constitutional tribunals of
the land and al the mercy of the Executive.
How long, while The press, the guardian of
liberty, the friend of the masses, is shack
led, gagged, cowed down 10 sulled silence,
or worse yet, become The minion of party?
How long, while voters are arrested at the
polls by military process, and Legislators
are hurried off 10 prison before they can as.
sumo their sacred functions How long
while the parizans of the Abolition party
are coming money out OF the blooi of their
countrymen, parading their snowy patriot-
ism and shouting "Union," with their arms
up 10 the elbows in the public Treasury p
How long, sir, will the people of the North,
taxed beyond endurance, robbed and cheat.
ed BY an evercraving horde of political by.
enas-how long will they have choice
between freedom and anarchy, between a
republic and despoism? Alas we slill
n hp nj
we the reality ? Ii is entirely at the option
@; one man, or OF council OF men, wheih.
er the citizen shall breathe in freedom the
air OF Heaven. Al the 'open sesame" OF the
Executive, the gloomy portals of The Bas.
tiles La Fayette or Warren will cape to re.
ceiye him. And this is the Republic was
taught to love.


Sir, this is only a symbol Of what must
inevitably be, should the South be crushed
into the Union, You may bring The South
TO terms with your hayonels, but when you
have done so you will have made a bond |
OF air; covenant whose seal will be a
military despolism, and 10 break il at the |
first opportunity will be an aim and pur-





they have attempted once they will mol fail |
TO attempt again, when smarting under the |
remembrance of defeat, when cherishing |
the deadly hate that war to the ut,erance |
will engender.


For the sake of Union now and Union |
hereafier-not an enforced Union, but the
strong Union Of willing hearls-le ell the word
OF peace go forth, lei the hand of reconcile
alton be extended. Why, sir, have heard
such words of bitter haired expressed
against these Soulherners by Northern lips,
that fear it may already be TOO late ever
10 renew The bonds OF fraternity. Such sem
imenls, have heard of impacable resent.
ment of thirslng vengeance, of sectional
lnlipalhy as Hannibal was taught TO nur,
ure against Rome, as Rome in her quench.
ess jealousy conceived towards Garbage
o the end. And the doom of Carthage
nay be accepted by tie South rather than
eunion al the bayOnel's poini