Year: 1861

They are the ungrateful sons Of u fond mother
who danded them upon her knee, who lavished
upon them the gushing love of her noble and
devoted nature, and who nurtured them from
the very bosom of her life /; and now, in the
frenzicd excesses of icentous and baffied am
bition, they are stabbing at that bosom with the
ferocty with which the tiger springs upon his
prey. The President of tn United States is
heroically and patriotically struggling to battle
the Vaccinations of these most wicked men,
| have unbounded qualification in knowing that
he has the courage to look traitors in the face,
and that, in dscharging the duties of his great
Office he takes no counsel of his foes. He is
entitled TO the jealous support of the whole
country, and, may not add without offence,
that he will receive the support of all who justly
appreciate the boundless blessings of our free
institutions


wish solemnly to declare before you and the
world, that | am for this Union without con-
ditions, one and ind visible, now and forever.
am for its preservation at any and every cost of
blood aud treasure against all its assailants--
know no neutrality between my country and
its foes, whether they be foreign or domestic
no neutrality between that glorious flag which
now floats over US and the ingreates and trait
ors who would trample it in the dust. Ny





overwhelming to the Armies of the Republic
over all its enemies. / am against any and
every compromise that may be proposed to be
made under the guns of rebels, while at the
same time | am decidedly in favor of afordng
every reasonable guarantee for the safety of
Southern institutions which the honest convc-
tions of the people-not the conspirators--of
the South may demand, Whenever they shall
lay down their arms but not until then. The
arbitrament of the sword has been defantly
thrust into the face of the government and
country, and there is no honorable escape from
it. All guarantees and all attempts at adjust
ment by amendments to the Constitution are
now scornfully rejected and the leaders of the
rebellion openly proclaim tnat they are fighting
for their Independence In this contemptuous
rejection Of guarantees, and in this avowal Of
the objects of the rebellion now so audaciosly
made, we have a complete exposure of that fraud
which throughout the slavery agitation has been
practiced upon the public creduIlity for the last
fifteen or twenty years. La the light of this
revelation, we feel as one awakened from the
suffering tortures of nightmare, and realize
what baseess dream our apprehensions have
been, and of what a traitorous swindle we have
been made the victims. They are fighting for
their independence Independence of whatY
Independence of those laws which they them
selves have aided in enactng independence of
that constitution which their fathers framed,
and to which they are parties and subject by
inheritance; independence of that benifcent
government on whose treasury and honors they
have grown strong and illustrous When a
man commits a robbery on the highway, or a
murder in the dark, he thereby declares his in
dependence of the laws under which he is a
member. Should he when arrai igned avow aud
Justify the offence, he thereby becomes the ad-
vocate of the independence he has thus de-
clared; and if he resists by force of arms the
officer, when dragging him TO the prison, the
penitentiary, or the gallows, he is thereby fight
ing for the independence he has declared and
advocated; aud such is the condition of the
conspirators of the South at this moment 1t
is no longer question of Southern rights,
which have never been violated, nor of security
of Southern institutions, which we know per.
fecty well have never been nterfercd with by
the general government but is purely with US
a question of national existence. In meeting
this terrible issue which rebellion has made up
with the loyal men of the country, we stand
upon ground Infinitely above all party lines and
party platforms-ground as sublime as that on
which our fathers stood when they fought the
battles of the revolution. | am for throwing
into the contest thus forced upon us all the ma
terial and moral resources and energies of the
nation, In order that the struggle may be brief
and as little sanguinary as possible. 1t is
hoped that we shall soon see in the field half a
million of patriotic volunteers, marching in col
umns which will be perfectly irresistible, and
borne in their hands-for no purpose of con.
quest or subjugation, but of protection only
we may expect within nine months to see the
Stars and Stripes floating in every Southern
breeze, and hear going up wild as the storm,
the exultant shout of that emancipated people
over their delverance from the revolutionary
terror and despotism by which they are now
tormented and oppressed The war conducted
on such scale will not cost exceeding four or
five hundred millions Of dollars; and none
need be startled at the vastncss of this expend.
iture. The debt thus created will press but
slightly upon us it will be paid and gladly
paid by posterity, who will make the best bar
gain which has been made since the world be-
gan, if they can secure to themselves in its in.
tegrity and blessings such a Government as this
at such cost. But if, in this anticipation, we
are doomed to disappointment-if the people of
the United States have already become so de-
generate-may l not say SO craven-in tho
presence of their foes as to surrender up this
Republic, to be dismcmbercd and subverted by
the traitors who have reared the standard of
revolt against it, then I trust the volume of
American history will be closed and sealed up
forever, and those who shall survive this ma
tional humiliation will take unto themselves
some other name-some name having no rela
ton to the past, no relation to our great ances-
tors, no relation to those monuments and battle
fields which commemorate alike their heroism,
their loyalty, and their glory Il


Rut with tho curled lin Of scorn We aro told