Year: 1864

against men: but / do protest by the love


we bear to our families, | do protest in the


name of the most sacred relationship, that
to punish a woman for an exhibition of true


womanhood, for clinging with love and ten
demess even to the erring, is a mean tyran-
ny unparalleled in history. tGreat applause. J
[ met those men, few days since, at Chica-
CO. Their forms, theircountenances all about
them bore the airof true nobility and when
they stated in the convention the wrongs
and outrages to which they had been sub
jected by an ungratcful administration, an
administration which chung to them like
frightened children in the early hours Of
peril. 1t drew tears into every eye, and We
| felt there could be no hopes from an admin
istration that could sink so far below the
level ofmanhood as to heap such insults up
on the people of Kentucky What has the
administration done for the Union in its
management of that great State?


But go on a little further eastward to the
State Of Maryland. 1t is perhaps doubtful


what course that State would have taken if
left free to act for herself. But | ask you
if for the past three years the control of the
government, in shaping its policy and its
! domestic relationships, has been of char


actcr that tended to bring that State back to


its allegiance? (Cries Of mo, no. y You
! know 1t to be true that men Of that State,


who clung with patriotic devotion to the flag
| OF their country, are to-day writhing under


the injustice Of this government and cursing


it from the very bottom Of their hearts, be-


cause they have been thus trampled upon?
! (''Ihat' so, " and applause Within three
days General who holds military control


in that State, ordered the only paper there


which had put up the name of George b.
| Mcclellan tremendous and continued cheer


ing) for the Presidency to be suppressed -


The people of Maryland were undertaking


the discharge OF a great and solemn duty


when they entered into this Presidential can
vass. 1t is their right to critlcise the actioii


of this Administration. What reason was


given land invite your particular attention
| toit)-what reason was given for this ac-
| tion? Ii the paper had violated the laws,


why not bring its propretors into court ?
| But the order states that the commanding


officer fears there will be popular violence
! We are actually told that within forty miles


Of the very capital itself, under the shadow
Of the vast armies we have given to it, the
| Administration cannot guarantee protection
to citizens Ill the exercise OF their chartered
| rights.


When your delegates met at Chicago for
the purpose of placing presidential ticket
III nomination, an order was issued by all
other general, land it has not been disavow-
ed that the people of Ohio, Illinois and


lndiana-States that placed Mr.. Lincoln i'll
the presidential chair; that gave him over
whclmlEg maiorities-should not be permit
ted to purchase powder, shot, ammunition,
or arms Of any description. And thus you
are told by another order that as | said,
while our armies are battling southwark, re-
bcllious discomfort is travelling northward


until it has reached the lakes, and in three


great States Of this Union this AdminiStra-


ton has lost confidence in the peoplc-aye


and the people have lost confidence in it
Great applause. | will not follow this sub
ject farther, but implore each man within
the sound Of my voice to lay the map of our
country before him, then to take the edicts
of generals and the legislation of Congress
and sec how far, by the showing Of the hd-
ministration and Its friends, discomfort has
spread itself since the commencement of
this war Is it not then gross wrong to
the people Of this country, and to the armies
Of the country, for them to point you to the
battlefield, and tell you there is but one
way to restore the integrity Of this Govern
mcnt, and that by force, and force alone


They tell you this to divert your attention
from the fact that they have not only sig
nally failed to cooperate with the army, and
to avail themselves of victories; but have un-
done the work of the soldier, and nude it
impossible for themselves to restore the
Union, whether we have victories or not


Applause. ..,.


[ will assume that in the next thirty days
the army Of Lee is destroyed; that of Hood
annhilated, and every form of organized
opposition is driven out of the field, and
then our Republican friends who have look
| ed forward hopefully to victories that were
to bring us peace and Union, will see for the
first time the full measure of the impolicy
of the acts Of the Administration For the
first time they will see the dangerous posi-


ton into which our country has driited,
, amid the smoke and carnage of battle.
These victories will only establish military
governments at the South to be upheld at


the expense of northern lives and treasury


They will bring no real peace if they only
introduce system of wild theories which


will waste as war wastes theories which will
bring us to bankruptcy and ruin. The Ad-


ministration can not give us Union or peace


after victories. (Applause.) Men of Penn
sylvania | remember that in former years


our country, under the policy of conserva-
tive men, increased from a people of three


millions to a nation Of thirty millions; that


within the lifetime of one man it advanced
from feeble colonial existence into the full
measure of one of the mightiest powers up
on the earth. saw the husbandman cheer
fully laboring, sure of the fruits of his toll


The light taxation that fell upon him was
nothing; he could count his gain almost clear
as he pondered how he would give some new
comfort to his family, some new advantage
Of education or of social condition to his
children.


saw cheerful labor in your workshops
the machinery, instinct with life, that seem.
ed to perform duties almost of animated
men. | saw your streams leap forth in the
morning from your hills, and glide away at
evening into their rest, after turning the


mechanism that gave wealth to your State


To-day the weary laborer turns up the sod


with the consciousness that the larger part


of his product must go to pay the cost of
the bloodshed and carnage. And he labors
on with still less courage when he feels that
perhaps the son that he has looked to az


the companion of his labor hereafter, is to be


torn from him for the purposes of war


When | enter your home | find that the


mothers, the sisters and the. wives go less
cheerfully around to their daily dutiesj and
when there is sadness by the fireside there


is sadness and gloom throughout the land
| Great applause How can VIC return again


to our former condition-free and prosper


Gus, the admiration and the envy of the


world? Men tell you that victories will do
| it. Victories alone will not bring back these


things. If we had had a wise, just, mag


nanimous administration we have already
won victories enough to have given us peace,


prosperity and national happiness. lCheers. J
1t is only because the public mind has
been occupied with the great drama of war;
| - &c o,,lx, hncousn Won haya haap xyotob;o, :,