Year: 1863

exerted every nerve to render Union hope
less, and to convince the people of this
country that the Constitution is, as their
old motto asserts, "a league with death,
and covenant with hell" They are now
at work plotting peace by disunion.


Men of America, you were sleeping
when the enemy thus came into your ci.a-
del. You regarded that Infamous motto of
the American An!i-Slavery Society as
harmless phrase, an idle sound. meaning
less words. Look around you and behold
the terrible results of your mistake. There
is no hamlet, no cottage in the land into
which these enemies of your country have
not crept with their vile doctrines, their
reasonable publications. They shrink at
nothing. They are living falsehoods, call
ing themselves Unionists while on their
hearts is burned, with the brand of their
society, the horrible motto We have SO Of
ten quoted. In the garb of news-venders
they poison your family circles with their
reasonable doctrines, and with their insid-
uous attacks on the [ Union which you prize.
They arc admitted to your social circles,
your lyceums, your churches, your fireside
gatherings-calm faced men, prsteLding
to be the most devoted patriots-and they
| but wait the moment to whisper in the
ears of your children words intended to
shake their faith in the old truths of the
Constitution, the foundation principles OF
the Union. And you, citizens, Americans
men on whom the future Of your coun-
try depends-are you still slumbering
while they SOW the seeds Of distraction on
all the fair fields of your once glorious
country!


No, thank God, you are not slumbering
You are awake, and the waking vision is
most fearful. 4 land mourning around you
are the incentives 20 earnest, loyal labor.
From tile far West we hear the shouts Of
waking millions. From the East the echo
comes back AL around us men ale rally
ing to the Constitution, the hope of the
land, the only hope now. The radical con-
spiracy is frightened, trembling, now ram
pant in rage, now submissive with fear
These radical men must themselves be en-
couraged with the pledges Of the restored
power Of the Constitution. Though but
last week they we're threatening contempo-
raries with suppression, they should be
taught that the returning power OF the law
and the constitution is not to be used for
their suppression, but only to keep them
within the safe rules of public morality and
decency. And the country asks now that
the principles Of American constitutional al
liberty should be everywhere inculcated.
In vain the radical combination teaches
that ''to teach the Constitution is treason"
We have come into new era since that
idea could be forced on the people. Well
may the advocates ofthis worst of treason
able ideas tremOle III view OF the fact that
all the country is awake and looking for
constitutional instruction If this change
in the public mind had not occurred, if rad
ical power over the popular intellect and
pas ions had continued few months long
er, the constitutional President, Mr.. Lin
coin, would unquestionably have been de-
posed, the war ended by dissolution Of
the Union, and anarchy or despo;ism es
tablished in the Northern States. Now
there is prospect that the constitution
will be restored to power, the constitution
al President be protected and sustained by
loyal, conservative. constitutional loving
people. and the nation rescued from the
radical dsunionists.