Year: 1861

myself that l should once more enjoy re-
pose in the quiet Of my home, and in
the pursuit l loved. But this ques ton
of Government or anarchy has arisen,
and 1 find it my duty to raise my voice
at the demand of my fellow citizens, un-
| til turbulence is hushed or is crowned with
triumph. Are you in favor of war?-
No; but l am in favor Of putting down
war by force of arms. l am opposed to
war and in favor of peace by putting
down the authors of the war. am in
| favor of peace but l am IN favor of the
oaly course that will insure it-driving
oat armed rebellion, nege tiating with
loyalty. When this country commences
to die it will die rapidly, When this
nation is given up to disruption it will go
TO swift destruction. Rome, to be sure,
was three hundred years dying, but then
its physical powers We're greater than
ours. When we go down we shall 90
down in blood and darkness, but not in
tears, for the dying never weep. Nero,
the last and worst of the Caesars, sung
to his harp while his capitol was in
flames; Tamerlane, to signaFze his bru-
tai ferocity, reared monument of sew
enty thousand human skulls; Attila de-
l,red that the grass should never grow
where the hoof OF bis war-horse trod,-
| Hyderalli left the Carnatic black with
ashes and desolation. But he who de-
stroys the American Union, will be a
greater than al or either. And "the foe
the monster Brandt" who fell upon. and
slaughtered the defenceless women and
children of this valley. will be approved
more in history by men, and be an hon.
ester man in the sight of God than the
despoiler of our late happy Union.


Shall the fell destroyers Of this beauti
full fabric be pecmitted to accomplish
their Internal errand, and shall they be
aided in this work of evil by the cry o
peace =? Let pone escape under this
shallow pretepsion. Solomon, the wise
King of Judea, spared not the murderou:
Joab, though he fled for refuge to inclo
sures Of the tabernacle, and c.ung fol
protection to the horns of the altar, be
slew him there. And cry of peace te
be negotiated with armed traitors, should
secure city of refuge to none. 1 am
panied to see the vast destruction o.
p roperty that must follow. l regret te
see the prospects of the country blasted
and destroyed. I regret to see the great
loss of human life that must ensue. But
if these things must come, they had bet
ter come with country preserved than
with country divided and destroyed.
We must fight battles and bloody bat
ties. We must call vast numbers o.
men into the field. We must not go as
boys to general training. with ladies and
idlers, and members of Congress to see
the show, but we must go in earnest
go prepared for action--to fight it as a
battle, and not as play spell. We
must unite as whole people. going
shoulder to shoulder. And when we dc
SO, we shall conquer. And why? Be-
cause we have the right, we have the
prestige of Government, We have the
sympathy of the disinterested world
we have the moral and material elements
to do it all, and to insure victory. Re-
bellion has not the financial ability to
stand long war. with all their gains
from privateerng and piracy, and issue
ing Confederate bonds, made a lien up.
on the property of the people, without
ever consulting them. and who re2udia
ted them, worth as much as June frost
cold wolf track, which no 6nancier
6t to be outside of the Iunatic asylum
would give shilling peck for. They
may vex, they may harrass, they may
destroy, they may commit piracy but the
reckoning is to come for all this. They
will be brought to the Judgment OF the
American people-of their own people
They will be arraigned, and who il
there will be ready to stand up as thei
defenders in the name of the Constitu
ton ?


II tell thee Culloden's dread echoes sha)
| ring,
With the blood hounds that bark for THY
fugitive King"


What a glorious Constitution we shal
have, when in finds such glorious inter
5 prefers. How strong our institutions
will be anchored upon such foundation
The Constitution will then literally


t 'Live through all time, except throus
| all extent,


, Spread undivided, operate unspent.'


| know there are some who fear th
warlike power of the rebellious States
r They had great deal of power fo
p good, but they have great deal les
f than they imagine, or is generally lima


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