Year: 1863

gdPeu III tndC TASK, IN endeaVOrln5 10 6S-
tabish Republic on this continent in
in 1868, the corner stone Of which shall
be slavery! Now, l wentto Herkimer in
1S4S to lay corner stone, but it was not
this. Laughter. 1t was as much un-
like this as anything you can possibly
imagine, and it adds no additional at
fractions to the contest, as far as [ am
concerned, that they should avow this
cblect in prosecuting the war. 1t is now
a contest forced upon the ne as avehold-
ing and loyal slaveholding States, by
those who are endeavoring to build up
republic based on slavery. To PROSTATE
rebellion that has that object in view,
am willing to devote any means, any
time, any exertions within my power DIR
ing the rest of my life. Applause and
three cheers.


The successful way to prosecute war
is to make an overwhelming demonstra-
ton of strength to satisfy those who are
prepared to resist the rightful authority
of the Government that the resistance is
useless, and that it must be crushed out
[Cheers. Now, gentlemen, there is
nothing, in my humble judgment, there
fore, in the law passed putting this enor-
nous power in the possession of the
President of the United States to deter
me from assisting in a vigorous prose-
cution of the war Cheers | IAN
very well understand how, if | sympa-
thize with the rebellioa-if l deemed
that this war should fail could spend
hours and columns in picking flaws in
this act But if believed that substan-
tial justice required that the great ends
Of prosecuting the war demand that the
whole power Of the government shall be
lodged by the Congress of the United
States in the President thereof, | Will
bow in silence to the act, whether | ap-
prove of it or not Prolonged cheers
If the Pres dent of the United States had
usurped these powers, there might be
a degree of propriety in denouncing it;
but when the representatives of the peo-
pie, legally elected, after due delibera-
ton, assume the responsibility of lodging
these trusts in him, in my humble judg-
ment, and in view of the precedent to
which have referred, no wise man will
ever complain of the act, Applause, ]


The Democratic party, as you all
know, nine years out of ten, controls the
government of the country 1t requires,
therefore, no more patriotism on their
part to be attached to the government
and the country. 1t is, in fact, an at
tachment to themselves. Laughter.
AS general rule they are wise, prudent
and patriotic. Occasionally blind guides
or bad drivers take some sleepy passen-
gers into bad roads and upset them as
they did in l848. Laughter But then
they wake up; the passengers get out;
[laughter;] they inquire the right road;
they get lantern and eventually they
come all right. Laughter l think
they will do so now, and vet it seems TO
me, as a careful man, looking at their
course just at this moment, that it was
prudent for me to get out and walk.


Great laLghter-three cheers Wheth-
er shall step through to get in again or
not, or foot it through, depends upon cir
cumstances. Renewed laughter. But
fellow citizens whatever | am doing, and
whatever anybody else does, | shall sus-
tain this war to the bitter end, cheers
and the city Of New York will do it;
after sending eighty thousand men and
spending three hundred millions of dol
lars, they will not hesitate to go through.


Why was there anything even more
preposterous than this idea that when
we were told by the Southern men that
we must recognize their independence
before they will treat with us; that we
should be wasting time in undertaking
to negotiate peace? When the Presi-
dent of the Confederate Republic, as he
claims to be, denounced the best men in
the North and East and West, as pirates
and hyenas, and what he seems to sup
pose worse than all, as Yankees,


Laughter. is it possible to make
terms with him, or to listen with COM
posure to any arrangement for an ac-
commodation. No Why, who are the
men that have been sent from the State
of New York who are denounced by the
rebel chieftain? l have differed from
great many of them politically. l have
differed from great many of them per-
sonally, but when you find the Kearneys,
the Van Ransalears, the Hamiltons, the
Schuylers, the Dixe's the Campbells, the
Caubrellings, the Dewers, the Kings, the
Wadswo tbs, the Howards, the Vosburgs,
the best blood of the State of New York
who are thus denounced as pirates,
why, submit that it requires more than
ordinary composure to listen to it. Yam
KEGS! They are the Knickerbockers of
New York; they are the best men of the
State of New York; and when they peril
their lives and their blood in defense of
the constitution of the country, and the
Union of the States, he who denounces
| them as pirates and hyenas is as forget
full of the principles of truth and honor
that should govern the language ola gen
! tleman as he is traitorous to the flag un-
der which he acquired political fame.
Loud applause We have nothing to
do but to fight this matter through. We
have no discussion in regard to it, and it
behooves US to look around and see what
assistance we are to receive, or what in
terference we are to meet with. Let me
say one moment to you that am not
one of those who unite in this sentiment
of anxiety about the course of Great
Britain. | happen to have had peculiar
opportunities which it is not necessary
now to advert to, for knowing the people
of Great Britain for the past thirty years.
They will be neutral and in nv humble
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