Year: 1861

government OF my country, and as such
shall give it, in this extremity, all the
support in my power. I regard the
pending contest with the secessionists as
a death struggle for constitutional liberty


STEPHEN A DOUGLAS


The slavery question is mere excuse
the election of Lincoln a mere pretext
The present secession movement is the re-
suit of an enormous conspiracy formed
more than year since formed by lea
ders in the Southern Confederacy more
than twelve years ago. 4 y
But this is no time for detail of causes.
The conspiracy is not known. Armie-
have peen raised, and was levied to ac-
complish it. There are only two sides
to the question. Every man must be for
the United States government or against
it. There can be no neurals In this wars
only patriots or traitors


While l sanction no war on the right
OF others. will implore my countrymen
not to lay down their arms until our own
rights are recognized.


ANDREW JOHNSON.


The stars and stripes should be preser-
we'd, if for nothing else, as memento, as
an emblem of the best and purest govern
ment upon which the sun shone. And
l would invoke the bittercst curse upon
the head of him who would trail it in
the dust. l am willing to place every
particle of property that I possess at the
disposal of the government, il she needs
it in this strife, and if this is not enough,
| am willing to pour out my life blood a
llbation the altar of my country. Ill
fall in this strife, all I ask is that my
corpse be carried to my home in Tennes-
see, wrapped in the stars and stripes, and
that shall be buried among her noun
tains Aud if the Union fall with ne, all
ask is, that, wrapped in the flag which
IS her emblem, shall be buried in the
same common grave. ask no greater
glcry.


GEoRG N. DALLAS.


Let us then be firmly linked as band
of brothers, around this unchanged stand
ard. For my humble self, born beneath,
it having imbibed from venerated faith
er's incuications devoted attachment
to its comprehensive import; haviu e dear
" loved to the last brother who gal
lantly gave his life to its support, and dy-
ing in distant field of duty. found it
his noblest sbroud; having spent my
life contented and happy, though poor
and inglorious, under its protectien: hav
ing been honored far beyond my deserts
by my fellow citizens, and especially
those to sustain whose equality and righas
1 shrink from no personal sacrifice,
come back to you. gentlemen, flied, it is
true, with grief at the national calamity,
but unaltered in my determination TO
stand, come veal or woe, powealess l
confess. but unalterabl. by the flag of the
American Union, the whole Union, and
Union forever.


GENERAL Butler.


We will hold as brother, him who
stands by the Union, we will hold him
as an enemy who would strike from its
a single star. Bat l hear
some one say, "Shall we carry on this
fratricidal war;" Shall we shed our bro
hers blood land meet in arms our brothers
Of the Sontb?" l would say, as our faith
ers did not hesitate to strike the mother
country in defence Of our rights so we
should not hesitate to meet the brother
as they did the mother. If this unholy,
this fratrcidal war is forced upon US |
say woe to them who have made the ne
,essitY. Our hands are clean, our hearts
are pure; but the Union must be preserv-
I'd at all hazards of money, and if need
be, of every life this side of the Arctic
regions, Our faces are
set South and there shall be no footstep
backwards He is mistaken who sup
pose we can be inundated by threats. or
,ai lied by compromise. The day of
compromise is past.


Ex-sEcRETARY Holt


II they (the federal troops) go to the
South, it will be as friends and protectors
to relieve the Union sentiment of the Sc
ceded States from the cruel domi1arien by
which it is oppressed and silenced; to un-
fur the stars aud stripes in the midst of
those who long to look upon them. and
to restore the flag that bears them to the
forts and arsenals from which disloyal
hands have torn it. Their mission will
be one of peace, unless wicked and blood
thirsty men shall unsheath the sword a.
cross their pathway.


It is vain for the revolutienists to ex-
claim that this is "subjugation" Il is SO
precisely in the sense in whichi you and
and all law abiding citizens are sui jn-
gated.


. We I'M pose no burden which we our
selves do net bear, We claim no priyi
lege or blessing which our brethren of