Year: 1862

ferred to tho fact that the company were mdugng in
cigar at the tme) Tho reyereni gentleman proceeded
10 paak Of the char acter OF Washington
him as the great git Of rovidenee 70 De our
typical man. On reading the Farewell Address he was
led o eieve that Washington was endowed with the
eit OF prophecy The things he warned against
upon as and clutching thr The speaker emu
the cardinal points OF the Farewell Adj ress COM
mentng upon them briefly. Washington warned us
not 70 love France and England insanely, but
plant ourselves firmly on our own continent and DO
Americans. Another great lesson Union, as ndis
pensa5 TO nationality, to freedom, power and wealth.
The OF the hour the integrity OF our country,
though sweep 10 OF every rebel foot We must have
aligators Our purpose is that this war shall not end
until ends as Buckner ended the other dan instant,
unconditional Submission He urged them not to go into
the as republicans and not to praise general be-
he happened to be republican but praise the gene
raj who gets the shortest cut to tho enemy aud strikes
home the heart Of the rebellion Another cardinal
point OF the address the importance Of main
tanning the credit OF tho country, and still another
was the institution OF lofty morality, IN
institution OF slavery excluded from the consti-
tuition and the Address, that might sink and leave
in an hour no bubble TO mark the spot Washington con-
sidered slavery an evil sin, and huge economic and
political blunder. and he anticipated its speedy exit as
disturbing element in our history. Freedom should be
national and slavery local. Strike down this rebellion
with an honest s and finally and slavery is irrecoyer
ably staggered Make il local. and you put upon it, as
around the scorpion ring Of fire; and the scorpion, If he
creeps will burn, and if he refuses creep, he must
strike himself and die We would accept ympathy from
Russia but selfreliant enough to stand alone.


We will maintain this Union to tho bitter end not Of
but Of that CHASTITY coniederacy thinking it begins to live
when it almost swings beneath the gibbet. When this
fighting was through with, they would, like honest
men, pay tho bill and then proceed to elabo
rate grand, benetcient and christian civilization


The sixth regular toast, the "Cnion was responded
to by the Rev. Dr. Bellows President Of the Sanitary
Commission who said that the Union, geographical
lactthe North and Sonth-hate each other but 1t
is family quarrel, and you cannot divorce tho Union
which God had ethnolosicay joined together The Union
economical fact and the country cond not ba
broken up because the whole genius Of the people united
them together one commercially and industraly II
singular fact that when victory over the South
had Southern stocks went mp in tho market. He
would like TO ef Davis face he took the oath TO-
day, and also the face of Englandwhen she received the
Of the last days work Of the Union army She
had been bamboozed by her letter writers this side
Of the water. The Union political fact, and the
constitution Of the United States antslavery
document. The Union was moral fact. 1t
ricans, and should not know now to live out Of it,
The Union was spiritual fact. There entrusted to
us sacred duty to vindcate free institutions. Foreign
nations had wrong conceptions of the greatness Of
country conounding our people with the government.
We had an army which vastly superior in manly
character and efficiency any army that the world has
produced In conclusion be gave tho following
timent-"The Unon-the land and the water NOM
tans and rivers lineage and language laws and costi
tuions, interests and Instincts affection and passion,
duty and destiny each and all cry out against its dsso
luton and proclaim il perpetual"


The next regular toast was


The Constitution Of the United States, with all its prv
eges and bessngsmay be perpeuated to the latest
pOstery


WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs Esq, responded. He alluded to the
circumstances attending the election oi Mr. Lincoln and
the breaking out of the rebellion. IL the
stituIion then and IL will be the constitution after
the rebellion is The fundamental principle of the
republican party was TO break down the political power
OF slavery and would continue 10 vndicate that prnci


pie He proceeded to speak Of the relations of slavery to
the constitution


Other given and speeches made response
~ them by well known repub licans and the company
separated at a late hour.