Year: 1864

has been presented to their breasts
have preferred to wait for the power of
the ballot that power which was it,
lustratcd yesterday in 80 marked a
manner in Hartford. (Applause.)


When corrupt Congress, subserv-
lent to the Edict Of the Pre- ,ident,
passed the Conscriptiou Act, that mo-
ment the war lost it's national character
and became something barbarous. We
all know the nature of a Civil War
a war of carnage, which should be hate
full to the American people. And yet
we have "war party" who look upon
this with indifference. Bloodshed
seems to get popular in our country !
I am not speaking Of bloodshed in the
shock of battle, but Of the indifference
Of the people to the horrible nature
and reality of the things now going on.
"7Hou shalt not kiU," once had a
weight Of sacred authority with our
countrymen but the solemn charge
now falls on unheeding ears. That
awful command against the taking Of
human life, is disregarded. Look at
the many military executions-cruel
and unnecessary.


Here the speaker alluded to partic
ular cases, in illustration and also
spoke of a party of soldiers who lately
took steamers load of eonscripts, from
the East, to Virginia, one of whom
leaped overheard; and instead Of lst-
ting down boat and picking him up,
''they shot him like dog, and let his
body diff out to sea for the sharks
It seems not to have occurred to them
that this wretched conseript may have
a MOTHER, who, with breaking heart,
in her humble cottage home, might
have felt melancholy consolation in
at least having the body of her son
restored to her for burial in the village
churchyard."


B,oodshed, I say, is popular ! What
has become of the "pantlng fugitive"
of the antislavery agitation days p? We
hear nothing of him now. He seems
to have taken refuge under the broken
arches Of the Constitution, while white
men are hunted down.


The character of the war has chang
ed, If it was for the Union once, it is
so no longer. We are plainly told
that it is for the conquest of the South
l. wish to speak to you not as polite
ian, but as friend Of our country
(Applause.) Now let me tell you,
gentlemen, land let me request that
you remember what say,) the con-
quest of the South involves the de-
struction of the liberties of the North
and of the West! That is what it
involves. A fact or two will prove it.


1t involves the necessity Of military
occupation, and military occupation in
wolves tho necessity Of a vast army
standing army and we learned long
ago, from our revolutionary fathers
that standing army is the bane of a
Republic. The South would be helc
as Hungary is held to day by Austria
and the people of the North would b'
called upon for taxes to supp ort this
state of things. Nor is that all. Yor
have got the Military Power over yor
now 1t Is holding the people by th'
throat. You have got Conscriptio n
which is always connected with grea


Military Establishment. But, say
some republican friend. this is only
temporary; it will pass away with the
end of the rebellion, and cease. Never
my friends, never! If you have
Conscription now, you will have Con
scription forever. unless the American
people, by the ballot, or in so me way
forbid it.


The Republican war pro gramme


unless it is changed, will certainly
overthrow all that i 8 solid and valuable


in our institutions. I say


the Democracy may demand that Gov