Year: 1863

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are everywhere. There Is not a grave


yard from this Capitol to Maine that does


not show its monuments Of sorrow and


woe; not a village that has not evidence


Of mourning all yer it. And yet these


damnable outlaws. who have attempted


to stab and destroy liberty, have their


friends and sym pathisers at the North. -


They are not "ny brothers." in the cant


phrase Of Northern sympathizers. They
are rebels 1t is only loyal men who are


my brothers. [Applause.] Yes. sir. with
all the great wrongs they have commit


ted, with the sufferings they have hesped


upon the nation, with those ed.handed
crimes whose enormity must make even


humanity blush. these men have their


friends, aidere, and abettors scattered ill
over the North; and are held up public
martyrs. And we are asked to disband ON
army for their relief and benefit. On
what principle? On the principle that if
you only leave them alone six months,
they will change their policy and come
back again into the Union. Leave them
alone Was there ever a criminal who
did not want to be let alone?


mo rogue e'er felt the halter draw,


With good opinion of the law"


Why, sir, these mems necks ache for
the halter. And yet we are told that they
are innocent men; that they have been
prosecuted Oh to slay our citizens is
entirely excusable. They are openly en-
couraged to decimate the North, murder
our people, ravage our seas. destroy the
best Government that ever God or man
devised. And with these men WE are to
make peace upon such terms as they may
prescribe. will make terms with them.
but they must be such terms as shall not
destroy my manhood and my liberty, and
above all. shall not destroy my country.
None otherNhave they right to demand.
none other will the loyal men Of the land
ever concede to them. To do so would
be to commit crime ~ great IS that
charged upon the enemy of the Union.


Talk about mskipg terms with these
men. You can make no terms with them
that will not come within one or the 9th
er Of these alternatives, and the men who
cry "peace" know it, Great God ! is not
this country, with all the institutions of
civil liberty which our fathers planted
upon this continent, worthy Of every eI-
fort that men can put forth to save it If
twenty million men cannot defend these
against eight million rebels,
if they must yield, it must be set down
not to their weakness. but to the degener.
acy Of the age; and it is time for us to
repent in sorrow OYER our depravity and
our eowardice. Sir, l tell you we have
the men, we have the money, and we
have the loyalty and courage to accom-
plish that end, in spite Of any cry of
peace" that may come up to us.


When "peace" men ask, can YOU hold
States in subjugation? | say
do not care how you hold them. do
not care what you do with them in the
emergencies Of war. They are in rebel


ion now. and the only thing for US to
lecide for the present, Is. whether we
shall conquer them or permit them to
conquer us. One or the other event is
Inevitable. When thief is caught in
he act Of taking your property, and you
Irrest him, do you stop to listen to his
INQUIRY. and debate the question what
'ou are going to do with him? You hur-
y him off to the magistrate, and leave
i'm for the officers Of justice to dispose
#. 1t is not at this time a debatable
question, what are You going to do with
hese men? They are in rebellion and
S all ought to be, they must be put
own. We can put them down, notwith-
landing all the blunders that have been
ommitted since the commencement of
ne war and notwithstanding the obsta-
les we have to ell counter. l know the
eople Of the country are discouraged with !
lxation; they are discouraged by sending
rtniss into the field to be slaughtered by
,e cateless manner in which our cam t
aighs have been conducted. l know all t