Year: 1863

men under the rule of any king, emperor or
! despot. It has taught US the great problem
| Of American existence, for hold that free
| government cannot forever exist upholding
and fostering an institution antsgonistio to
the principles on which It was founded. The
question what do do with American slavery,
was the vsxsd question of the age. Priests
and sagss, statesmen and philanthrOpists
fanatics and conservatives, have sought for
its solution in vain.


These misguided men who made war
without cause, have by their own crimes
/ opened up the way for the regeneration
of the Republic. The torch with which they
thought to fire the Southern heart and burn
down the temple of Liberty, seemed like
WisD to FIRE the Northern heart, and will be-
fore 1t is extinguished, burn to ashes the
miserable fabric whose foundation Is Ameri-
can Slavery. I do not believe that this will
be accomplished Immediately, or that when
1t is accomplished any injustice will be done
to the Southern States, but that it will be
done, I believe as firmly as I do in Gods
justice and mercy.


Mr.. President, doubtless we all believe that
this war is drawing TO close. Our enemies
dispair Of foreign aid, their resources are be-
coming exhausted, the talk of bringing the
war to our own doors has long failed to at
LEdGN dllbuAlDus 1EOLu pOol-
tion to another they fly before the sll-con-
quering armies Of the Republic, and the only
lease Of life they have is from Indictment
skies and the seasons differences. We shall
have delays and perhaps disasters yet, but in
the bright galaxy of the future there is no
such word as fail. As it has always been, We
shall be without aid or sympathy from the
aristocraoy of Europe, but We shall have as
we always have had, the earnest sympathy of
the masses of the old world. Aye, in all the
countries of that old world, there are those
who love and cherish the institutions Of this
country, quite as tsnderly IS We do, and who
look to us as the hope Of the world.


"A little while ago, young American, who
passes Of Switzerland was asked by Swiss
peasant, whom he met, of the war ; its sue
cessss, reverses and prospects, and on learn
ing that the man whom he addressed was for
the Union, told him how earnestly and fer
vsntly he prayed for the success Of the Fede-
raj arms, and how he hourly hoped and ex-
pected to hear Of a Uuion restored,
strengthened and sanctifed and as if to
show that his whole heart was in his
words, he asked him TO step aside from
bis journeyings for a single moment. And
there in niche of the humble dwelling of
the peasant, was little statue Of Washing
ton. Ihis was the only ornament OF his
house and from the benignsnt face of Wash
ington and the leaping cascades of his native
mountains. he gathered the inspiration and
drank in the love Of liberty. This is only an
illustration of what the masses Of Europe feel
and hope for US. In view of these facts, how
mean and degraded 1they appear who, here,
at home, would throw obstacles in the way
of the success Of their own Government and
thereby aid its ensmies


We will not despair of the Republic. We see
the silver lining to the cloud. The ever victo-
rious Grant, the best General in the world to-
day is on the march, and we are assured that
he will not give the rebels sleep to their eyes
nor slumber to their eyelids antiI they lay
down their arms,


And what of the future of the country?
Who can paint its glory?


I see the living tide roll on


It crowns with fiery towers


The icy capes Of Labrador,
The Spanard's land of flowers,
Il streams beyond the splintered ndge,


That parts the Northern showers,
From Eastern rock to sunset Wane


The continents ours.