Year: 1861

Meeting Oh LOyatt AmcEhCAuS Ill
Paris.His Remarks ON the Oc.
CaSiOn -


Colonel John c. Fremont made these re


marks at the American meeting in Paris OF


the 30th ultimo:


l am deeply sensible to the warm and
f1attering expressions of confidence and
regard with which l have just been honor.
ed, and still more deeply sensible to your
kind approval of them. They are very
grateful to me, and thank you very sin
cerely. But you will be very sure that !
do not receive them as due to myself; am
conscious that l owe them to the partiality
of friendship, and to that sort of attach
ment which a soldier always feels for the
banner under which be has fought. Here,
here, To him Mr.. Burlingame) and the
other friends around me who have spoken
to-day, / represent the standard on which
old watch words were inscribed. II is
themselves who were the leaders, themsel-
yes who bore with you the heart Of the day,
and who have won their battle gloriously.
And they have come among US here, with
their habitual eloquence to convey to our
true-hearted countrymen at home the re-
currncs of our unalienable devotedness to
the country, and our unbounded admiration
Of the generous loyalty with which they
rallied to its calls. [Cheers.]


A few days back our honored flag was
trailing in the dust at the foot of an inso-
lent foe at present the stars are refulgent
from thousand heights, swarming with
brave hearts and strong arms in its defense.
We drink to them to-day, our brave and
loyal countrymen. Renewed cheers. Faith
fully, too, have our scattered people respon-
ded to them from Italy, from England,
and from France. Well have they shown
they, too, can cross the seas and change
their skies and never change their hearts.
Loud cheering.] am glad that happy
chance has brought me to participate with
you here on this occasion. Here in this
splendid capital of great nation, where
near by US the same tombstone records the
blended names of Washington and Lafay-
ette, feel that breathe sympathetic
air. Hear, hear. France is progress,
and l am happy to believe that here we
shall not see people false to their tradi-
tionary policy. Loud applause.] From
here we shall see no strong hand stretch
ed out to arrest the march of civili-
zation, and throwing back continent into
barbarism. We expect nowhere active CO.
operation, but we look for the sympathy
which the world gives to a good cause.


We are willing to work out our own des-
tiny, and make our own history. Before
the struggle closes, the world will recog-
nize that enlightened liberty is self-sustain-
ing, and that people who have once full
ly enjoyed its blessings will never consent
to part with them. We have deprecated
this war, fratricidal and abominable; most
gladly would we welcome back our people
if they would return to their Allegiance
We would bury, deep as the ocean, the
hasty anger which their parricidal conduct
provoked. But they must return at once
to their allegiance. We shall not permit
them to dishonor our flag and desecrate
our sacred graves. Hear, hear. They
cannot be permitted to dismember our
country and destroy our nationality


Hear, hear. We shall maintain these in
their fullest integrity, in the face of every
evil and at every hazard. Above every
consideration is our country-as we have
learned to love it-one and indivisibe-
loud acclamations] : now aud forever;
and so we will maintain it; we will do our
duty Loyalty, and We will make no compro-
mise with treason, and no surrender to re-
bellion. Long continued cheering.]