Year: 1863

/ the JUL before tney were liilfly DfOu9h


into acton But they did fight unde


Jackso nalmette. More than than
! Let Ma con III. answer, who has hlreC
| them To 70 what the veterans OF the CrI


mes cannot do-tO whip the Mexicans-


Let the veterans of Napoleon l., unde
] LeCleve, who were whipped out at San
! Domingo. say whether they Will fight o
not. What has been the demOraliZin.
effect upon them as a race by their con
tact with white men, know not, but


cannot forget that their fathers woulC
not have been slaves, but that they were


caDtives in war. And, if you want t.
| know anv more than that, | can only al


wise to try them. Great applause. j
| Passing to another logical deduction from
! the principle that are we carrying on wal
against alien enemies, | meet the ques
tion whether we thereby give foreign na
tlons any greater rights than if we con


sidered them rs rebellious portions of Oul
country. So far rs the rebels are con


cerned, they are estopped from denying


that they are alien enemies; and so, as


tar as foreign nations are concerned, al


though they are alien to US, they are up
on our territory, and until we acknowl-
edge their independence there is no bet


ter settled rule in the law of nations than


that foreign recognition OF them is an


act of war And no country is more


bound to that view than is England


which held the recognition by France of


our own independence to be an act OF


war; and declared war accOrdingly.-


What, then, is the duty of neutrals? Let


US take for example the English nation.


They have 10 treaty with the rebels, no


open relations with them. They have


treaties of amity and commerce with US.


A contest arises between us and our enc


mics to whom they are strangers, and


they claim to exercise the same neu-


trality ~ if the contest were between


two nations with which they had treaties


Of amity Let me illustrate: have two


friends who have got into fight. | am


on equally good terms with both, and do


not choose to take part in their quarrel.


hold myself neutral. But suppose one


of nv friends is fighting with a stranger


of whom know nothing that Is good !;


| have seen nothing but that he would


fight: Is it my duty then TO stand perfect


ly neutral? 1t is not the part of a friend


rs between men nor between nations


The English say. we will not sell you any


arms. because we should have TO sell the


same to the Confederate States. To that


1 answer, You have treaties of Commerce
with us by which you agree to trade with
US. You have no treaty of commerce
with the Rebels / insist that there is a


greater duty to us, considering this as a
separate nation-an interlOper trying TO
get admitted into the family of nations.
There is still another logical consequence
which, in my Judgment, follows from this
view of the case A great question put
to me has been: how are we 10 get those
men back how are We to get this terri
tory back ?-bow are we TO reconstruct
the Union? | think that is much better
answered upon this hypothesis than upon
any other. There are but two ways in
which this contest can be ended. One
is bv revolutionizing given portion of
this country, and having them ask to be
admitted into the Union; the other is to
bring it back by the triumphal car of
victory. Whenever any portion of the
of the South shall become
again part of the Union, and shall erect
into a State and ask us to
take them back with such Constitution
as they ought to be admitted with, there
is no difficulty III its being done. There
is no witchery about it. This precise
thing has been done in Western Virginia.
She went out and stayed out for while.
By the aid of our armies, and by the eff
forts of her citizens. she re-revOlutionized
and threw off the Government of the
rest of Virginia and the Confederate
yoke. erected herself into State, with a
I l,lsn.-. -, =
sfactory to you, especially with the
came back, and has been
received again into the Union. This Is
the first, the entering wedge of the series
Of States which will come back in that
way. But if they do not come back, we
lre bound to suhiugate them. What
then do they become? Territories of the
United States (Applause-l We acquire
.hem precisely as we acquired California /
and Nevada: not exactly as we acquired |
Texas. Was there any difficulty in deal |
ne with the State of California? ? Will |
here be any difficulty in our admitting,
IS a new State, Nevada, when ready TO
,ome in and ripe to come in? Was there
my difficulty in taking in portion OF


he Louisiana purchase? VIII there be


my difficulty when her people are ready,
n our taking them back again Will


here be any difficulty in reconstructlng
he Union. when those that have gone


ut without cause, without right, without
.rieyance. that have formed themselves
nto new States and taken upon them
elves new alliances, are ready to return?


am not for taking them back without
l feel as husband might


eel, whose wife had run away with an


ther man and divorced herself from him;


should lie unwilling to take her again


o my arms until we had gone before the
riest and been remarked. L have the
anne feeling with regard to these people ;
tho have gone out. When they repent
nd come back, l am ready to receive {
hem, and not till then. (Applause. J
o your fiattering allusiOns, Sir, to my [
cts in the Department of the Gulf, | will
nswer a single word. When left that
department., | sat down deliberately and


ut in tho form of an address to the peo-
lie of that Department an exact account {
[ the acts had done while there and [
said TO them: You know | have done (:
hese things; no man can deny 1t. /;
ave waited more than three months,
nd have not yet heard any denial from
nat Department that those things were
one. To that fact point as the iustlii- !
alton of your too hattering eulogy, as an


nswer forever TO every SANDER and every
llumny. The ladies of New Orleans I
new whether they were safe. Has amy $
ne of them ever said she was not? The '
len of New Orleans knew whether their I
fe and property were safe. Has any
ian ever said it was not? The poor of G
ew Orleans know whether the money a
lat was taken from the rich Rebels was @
d out to them. Has any one OF them 7
enied it? (Applause.) To this record t
point as the only answer l shall ever Z
Iake to the calumnies that have been /
oured upon me. and upon the officers I
Tery where in that Department that c
ded so successfully in carrying out every 5
fort for the good of the country. ZAP
auSe.) | desire now TO say single v
ord upon the question, what are the e
'ospects of this war? My opinion would "
; no better than that of another man I
1t let me show you the reason for the u