Year: 1863

mans capacity for self-government, which


was so successfully illustrated until all the
Revolutionary men had passed to their dna
| reward, is to prove humiliating failure
/ Whatever others may do weWwil never


abandon the hope that the Union is, to be


restored, Applause. Whatever Others


may do, we will cling to it 'as the mariner
! clings to the last plank when night and the


tempest close around him. No matter


what may have been done North or South


TO produce it, this terrible ordeal Of blood


which has been visited upon US, ought to


be sufficient bring us all back, tc the con-


seriousness of responsibilities and Duties


The emotions of all good men are those of


sorrow and shame and sadness now over the


condition of their country, when they re-


tire at night, and when they open their eyes


upon the dawning day. struggle against them


though they may. Why should they at


tempt to disguise it? Solicitude which


hinges upon apprehension of PERSONAL dan
ger or personal loss, aud that alone, is con-


lemptible. Trifing men may indulge in
trlhlng word and thought, while the founda-


tons laid by the fathers are crumbling be-


meath their feet; but the art:ficers who laid


those foundations found no time in trihing


while engaged in their grand aud serious


work; nor can you. They could lift up their


souls IN prayer; but they had no heart for


levity and mirth. My friends, you have


had, most of you have had great SORROWS,


overwhelming personal sorrows, it may be;


but none like these, none like these, which


come yelling up, day by day, from the


great fountain of national disaster, red with


the best and bravest blood of the country,


North and South; red with the blood of


those IN both sections of the Union,s whose


fathers fought the common battle of Inde-


pendence. Nor have these SORROWS brought


with them any compensation, whether of


national pride or of victorious arms, For
is it not vain to appeal to you to raise a


shout of joy because the M en- from the land


OF Washington. Marion and Sumter, are


barring their breasts to the steel of the men


from the land of Warren, Stark and Stock


ton; or because. if this war is to continue to


be waged, one or the other must go to the


wall-must be consigned to humiliating
subjugation? This fearful, fruitles, fatal


civil war has exhibited our amazing re-


sources and vast military power. 1t has
shown that united, even in carrying out, in
Its widest Interpretation, the Monroe doc


trine, on this Continent we could with such


protection as the broad ocean which flows


between ourselves and European powers af-


lords, have stood against the world ip arms.
L speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear
that, posecuted upon the basis of the proc


lamations of September % and September
"a, 1867, prosecuted as must understand
those proc!amations. to say nothing of the


kindred brood which has followed, upon


the theory of emancipation, devastation,
subjugation, it can not fail to be fruitess in
every thing except the harvest of woe which


it is ripening for what was once the peer


less Republ [Applause. Now, fellow
citizens, after having said thus much, it is
right that you should ask me, what would
you do in this fearful extremity? I reply,
from the beginning of this struggle to the
present moment, my hope has been in NOR
al power. There it reposes STILL When in
the spring of 1861 l had occasion to address
my fellow citizens of this city from the bal
cony of the hotel before US, then said
had not believed, and did not then be-
lleve, aggression by arms was either a suit
able or possible remedy for existing evils
(applause) All that has occurred since then
has but strengthened and confirmed my con
victions in this regard. repeat, then, my
judgement impels me to rely upon moral
force, and not upon any of the coercive in
strume entalities of military power. We
have seen in the experience of the last two1
two years how futile are all our efforts to
m antain the Union by the force of arms;
but even had war bee carried on by US sue
cessfully, tn he ruinous result would exhibit
its utter mpracticability for the attainment
of the desired end. Through peaceful
agencies and through such agencies alone,
can we hope to form a more perfect Union,
establish justice, insure domestic tranquil
ty, provide for the common defense, pro-


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blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity,' the great objects for which, and
for which alone, the Constitution was form
ed If you turn round aud ask me, what
if these agencies fail; what if the passionate
anger of both sections forbids; what if the
ballot box is sealed? Then all efforts.
whether of war or peace, having foiled, my
reply is. you will take care of yourselves;
wit or without arms. with or without leaders,
we will, at least, in the effort to defend our
rights as free people, build up a great 4
m ansoleum of hearts, to which men VIII 10
yearn for liberty will, in after years with
bowed head and reverertly, resort. as Chris.
tian pilgrims to the sacred shrines Of the
Holy Land.


ADVICE TO WIvEs.-A wife must learn
how to form her husbands happiness; in
what direction the secret of his weakness by
working upon them; she must not rashly
run counter-to his prejudces. Her motto
must be. never to irritate. She must study
never to draw largely upon the small stock
Of patience in mans nature, nor to increase
his obstinaney by trying to drive him; new
er, if possible, to have scenes. l doubt
much if real quarrel, even if made up,
does not loosen the bond between man and
wife, and sometimes, unless the affection Of
both be very sincere, lastingyo II irritation