Year: 1861

are not subjugated, feel no hesitancy in telling
you 1t is the best Government stock IN the world
that know Of 1t is eight per cent. interest; and
/ ii We succeed in short time, III 4 few years, if
not more than one hundred millions, or two hun
dred millions are issued, | have but little doubt
/ they viii command considerable premium. The
old United States stock fsix per cent bonds), five
years ago commanded fifteen and sixteen per ct.
and went as. high as twenty per cent. Take the
Central Railroad The stock Of that company
commands fifteen per cent. premium now. These
bonds pay eight per cent. seml-annually;. there
fore, If there is short war, these bonds very
will command fifteen or twenty per cent; but
cand0r also compels me to state tl.at ii Lincoln
overruns us-ii We are sutjusatcd, these bonds
will not be worth single dime, and nothing else
you have will be worth anything. Ii we are over
run, they will be worth just as much as anything
else you have and nothing else you have got Will
be worth anything. 4auehter.l So that is the
whole Of it.


Let us, then, come up and contribute what we
can. L say to the planter that L do not wish to
urge anybody, but let everybody discharge his
duty to the country as he feels it. But upon this
subject OF the war, | Will detain you few min
utes, because it is common inquiry with me, how
long [ think tie war will last-whether or not it
will be u short one. Well, my countymen, | will
tell you this, that it is known only to the Ruler Of



and mortal vision. know not; | would notknow
if L could. 1t is the mysterious future; but there
is one thing | tell you with confidence, and
that is, it is going to last until the enemy is
whipped and driven from our soil. Tremendous
applause. And it will require men aud money to
do it, and the best way to make it a short is
to send men into the field, aud to raise means
enough to support them in the field to drive the
enemy out. That is the best way. That is the
tn make hort war in iS ha
planters can contribute; and when tell you it is
an uncertain war, cannot account for its duration
upon any rational principle. 1t is tanatical war
and wherever tanatclsm gets control of reason you
make no speculation in regard to it. This is
a against in every Of the term
IN the first place, many OF those engaged in it are
engaged in crusade no.nnally to amelorate. the
condition Of portion Of our population. They
engaged in crusade to make things better
than the Creator made them, or to make things
equal which he made unequal 1t is in1pious in
that great deal Of the tanaticism of the war
springs | doubt not, from that source. Such an
effort never could succeed were they to oyerrun US
and drive away. These very people would do
some are reported to be doing il Virginia
(of which [ neither affirm or deny the truth D
capture the black population and send them of
to Cuba for sale. But there is thing certain,
that they more carry out their fanatical de-





mountains, for the Great Creator-the Ruler of
the heavens and the earth-He that made man
and fashioned hln-made inferior to the
other, and made some to differ from others. This
tanatlcal sentiment of the North will more
make the negro equal to the white than it
will make the leopard change his spots the
Ethiopian his skin. 1t is war against the inter
est Of those who wage it, aud, Of all the people
who will suffer by it, the New England States will
suffer the most. Their trade cut off, their sup
plies cut off, their source of wealth cut oh where
are they to trade hereafter? We furnish them a
market; no other people Of the world Go. They
cannot sell their goods to Great Britain, for they |
are supplied by British manufactures Nor can
they furnish Germany or France Out Of these
two hundred and fifty millions oi goods they sold
hey do not send ten millions to the old world. 1t
III came to the South. We are their market. We
wished to continue to trade with thenl, but they |
would not perform their part Of the compact, and
carried out the old adagc Of the man who cut off
his nose 10 spite his face, [aushter; and cannot
lccount. for it except on the old koman maxim,
hat he " whom the gods to destroy they first
nake mad"