Year: 1864


make their voluntary contributions. and then
III towns, and next in counties: and these
little contributions at last swellcd up the vast
quotus ot the States, and made the might
est army that the world had seen until the
Government itself said, we can take no more,
and rejected these offerings. told them if
they passed the CONSUMPTION act it would
prove to be confiscation act against the
North. This act was passed. 1t produced
resistance. and the country shrank away from
it by coming forward and giving large boun-
ties. 1t fell heavily upon the homes of the
poor. 1t proved the most oppressive and
burdcnsome method that could have been
adopted of obtaining troops.


And so, my friends of the Loyal League,
a hand was laid upon your property in the
form of bounties; and while you talk of con-
fscating the property of the people of the
South and prolong the war for that purpose,
and united the opposition in the South, you
crushed out the life Of the North. A selfish
narrow, and vindictive legislation reaches
your own homes, for you have departed from
the wisdom of your fathers and the princi-
pies of the Constitution. We must go back
to these. We must teach every man in the
land that his person is sacred, and we will
love. the laws that protect him We must
teach the poorest citizen that his home is
sacred against any power of the State, and
he will love the government that throws its
shelter around his loved ones. We must
teach him that the law and Constitution
protects the right of conscience. What has
brought here the millions of men who of
later years have crossed the ocean? They
have come here to enjoy not only the pri-
vileges which Almighty God has given us in
our vast, extended fertile plains, in our wide
scope of territory, but they knew our gov
ernment gave freedom of conscience, free
dom of homes and freedom of manhood.


If we speak of dangers in the future, We
do not allude to the conflict fparty. There
is no danger that one party will array itself
against another But when you have des-
troyed the finances Of the country, when you
have vitiated its currency, when you have
deranged the profitable business so that the
merchants dare not go on, and the manufac-
turer thinks it unsafe for him to continue
his operations because of the uncertainty of
the future, when the comforts of life become
so costly as to be beyond the reach of men
in ordinary circumstances, then you will dis
cover that there is danger not of conflict
of parties, but that men of all parties, suffer
ing and injured Republican more than DEM


ocrat, because more deceived, will turn up


on this Administration and endanger the


security and peace of the society in which


we live. Is it safe my Republican friends,


for you to go on prolongng this war for the


sake of vindictive legislation? The war be-


tween France and England and Russia was


settled when France and England had gained


far less advantage than we have gained in


this contest


The men who were drafted this year under


the five hundred thousand call have but one


year to serve. The three years men who
4 were taken into the army in 1862 will 90 out


of the service next year. Their terms begin


to expire in the spring. In nine months the


army will need the largest additions that


have been made to it at any one time. As


the administration shrank from calling for


more three years men ust before an election,


the places to be vacated by the one year men


must be provided to be filled in nine months,


and thus it is reasonable to believe that the


largest draft that has yet been made will be


ordered at the beginning of the year 1865.


| do not speak unadvisedly for the admins


tration has intimated to me that they expect


another draft The State ofNew York had
furnished an excess of three years men and


asked that in making up the quota of New


York, one three years man should be count


ed as equal to three one years men,
i They said they could not do that as they


needed men Immediately; but they provided


that three years man should count as one


man on this draft, as one man on the next


draft, and as one man again on the third
draft, and thus the matter would be equal
lied. So it appears from this that we are to


have at least two drafts more. Voice
''Ihat's refreshing 2 Every man knows
that we must have this further draft After
war is ended under the policy of this ad-
: ministration we shall be compelled to main
tain large armies to hold the people of the
South in subjection to carry out the Eman-
cipation Proclamation and the Confscation


act


| appeal to you to investigate these ques-
tons and ascertain what policy and what
, party are the most likely to restore Union
and peace, and when you have decided what


the right is, let no man deter you from doing
! it, whatever may be the consequences. /
am full of hope this night. | believe that


we are to triumph, and that once again the
flag of our Union shall float over all this
broad land. Loud cheering. The day will
come again, when III the councils of our par
ty as we call the roll Of States, the Gulf of
Mexico will send up a response to the voice
that shall come from the borders of our great
lakes; Georgia shall echo back to Maine
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and hereafter,
we shall go on governing our country by the
voice and will of the free people of the


States and rendered wiser by the trials and
SulClIiSS lnluuSH WHICH, lucN IllNc puSScu.
May the God of our Fathers-He who gave
them wisdom, to frame our Constitution
and establish our Union, grant us the wis


dom to retrace the steps which we have
: trod, to renew that Union, restore the
q supremacy of that Constitution, and begin
once again our career of national greatness
) and national glory. (Long and continued
cheering


Every foot of available space in the aislcs
and by the entrances, both on the main floor
, and in the gallery, was occupied, as it had
been occupied from clock, when Cover
9 nor Seymour commenced speaking and in
4 this uncomfortable position they stood for


two hours without particle of break, in the
vast mass, intensely silent and interested ex-
cept when they burst forth in ringing cheers.
never before saw such an audience held
together for SO long "A time, but the next
evening at Reading, the-sa scene was re-
peated under the glare Of lamps and trans
> parencies in the open air


The Governor was serenaded in the even
ing at the La Pierre house, and spoke briefly
to crowd that numbered thousands.
t THE Shoddy papers are making the most