Year: 1862




lana, and thanked them for their bravery


after the victory was won. Has the colored


race deteriorated since the Revolution, and


our second struggle for independence? They


ought to have wonderfully improved, if


does not lie The sympathiziDg gentlemen in


the free states who are in the habit of talking


about negro equality and charging that as one


of the great ends of the republicans, will hard
! ly deny that the infusion of the blood of the


ehivGlry of the south ought to have greatly
| improved the negro race in that quarter
Laughter Under this influence this race
| should certainly be improved ,and according to


the doctrines of oligarchists, more refined. For,
the nearer they approach the beau ideal of
Southern gentleman, the better they are fitted
to immitate bis martial zeal. AS Thaddeus
Stevens once said the Southern sun has
wonderful effect in bleaching the negro COM
plexion. Great laughter. Do not be afraid
then, gentlemen of being called abolitionist or
the advocate of negro equality, because you de-
mand that your relatives and friends In the
army of the Union shall be succored sustained
and saved from disease and death by the stout
arms of the loyal blacks, bond or free in the
southern states As have said, the only prac-
tical abolitonists are the rebels themselves
They have set more slaves free than thousand
General Hunters could have done. Emancipa-
ton, like the rebellion, is their work, not ours.
AS the Hon. William NJ. EVarts said at Albany
in 1860, as he was advocating Mr.. Lincoln
d" Gentlemen of the Democratic party, you say
you have majority 10 the country, why don't
you unite then aud d feat US at the polls" But
the rebels divided the Democracy then, with
the deliberate purpose of dividing the country
afterwards Nor do they desire to escape this
double responsibility. They wish to cut loose
from the free States in order to enjoy their in
stitution of slavery alone, and it was to save
that institution that induced them to prepare
for and precipitate this war. The only act of
emancipation carried by the Republicans is
the abolition of slavery in the District of CO.
lumbia and if the Republicans had not done
that, they would have deserved the contempt
of friend and foe They were invoked to it by
their own platform and by the authority of the
great publicists Of the South The power ex-
listed, and they exercised it. What has been
the result The emancipation of the slaves in
the District of Columbia has improved them
Thus far the experiment has worked admirably
The repeal of series of laws, operating alike
upon free slaves, has made them ambitious to
do well, and they are now more orderly, more
peaceable, and more thrifty than ever.


So much for several of the most difficult
questions growing out of this war Applause


The sympathzers with Secession who call
themselves Democrats undoubtedly desire o
peace with the rebels, and to bring this about
they are Industrious in dividing the Northern
people, well known that the success of this
plan must consolidate and encourage the trail
tors. No doubt when the uncle of the gentle
man who is now fighting against bis country in
the army of the South-I mean Francis w.
Hughes, of Schuylkill county-was presiding
over the Breckenridge Convention on the 4th
of July, the hope that stirred his heart was
that peace might be accomplished on the we'll
known platform of himself and his nephew. |
perceive that he is so anxious to effect this OBJ
ject that he has taken command of the cam
pagu himself, and will doubtless make tho
State ring with elaborate orations On the basis
Of the Breckenridge platform. The object of
this peace is simply to degrade the people Of
the free States to fill them with factions, to
carve their demain into provinces, and to make
all their great interests subordinate and obedi.
eDt to the slaveholding despotsm. Does any
man suppose that such peace would end the
war? 1t might, indeed, realz Mr.. William
B. Reeds grand scheme tf division and separa-
tion enunciated on the l7th of January, 1861,
at National Hall, while Ma jor Anderson was
besieged in Fort Sumter; it might make New
York free city, independent of State and
General Governments With our Pacific en-
pires lost to US with the great West seeded,
and Pennsylvania bound, like captive, to the
chariot wheels of slavery, Mr. Reed and his
uoulH ayult in tho fulfIu,pnt nf
their prophecies and plans but there would
be no peace. 1t would be one long and Stub
born and exterminating border war-a war Of
sections-a war making the South powerful
and the North powerless. What foreign ma
tions would say to such peace as this it re-
quires no Anthony Trollope to predict. Ap>
plause.


| cannot refrain, Mr. President, the express
sion of my sincere respect of the mannes in
which the Republican party of Pennsylvania
has come up to the good work to-day. 1t was
the duty, aud it will prove to be the Interests.
of that party to act with prompt patriotism in
such crisis But it is so rare for men who
have just elected President, aud who dis
pense such enormous patronage, to exhibit such
magnanimity as We have seen to day, that the
evidence of it deserves to be highly commend.
ed. / have seen SO much crime and falsehood,
such an utter disregard of solemn oaths and
obligations, as the fruits Of the so called Dem.
ocratc rule, that when Mr.. Lincoln was elect
ed President hailed his triumph with all the
more Joy because his bands were clear of these
infamles; because be was under no covenant
with the slave aristocracy. [Applause.


In the coming campaign, although victory is,
in my opinion, certain and sure, we shall have
a bitter aud reckless foe to put down, Should
we fail. our defeat will be accepted as dec
Iaratiou in favor of the rebellion. The Admin
istration will be arrested in the prosecution Of
this unholy war, and the sympathizers With
Secession will insist that their machinations