Year: 1862

and servitude.


speak with great dflidence for ]
have made no such studious examina
tion as to entitle my opinions to weight
or give me great confidence in them
myself / think no great practical evil
will come Of it, and have the most un-
bounded confidence that our patriotic
| President took all the advice his able
Cabinet could give him; that he asked
aid from the highest sources Of human
help, before he lauchcd scheme the
most stupendous the world ever wit
messed. That there are reasons OF
policy influencing this extraordinary ac
tion which do not understand, | am
morally certain; that there are justifca-
tons in the law which | do not know,
but which research might discover, ]
earnestly hope. / can most fully in
dorso the manly and eloquent disposi.
tion of this same matter, made few
days since, by that high-toned and tai
ented democrat, CIV. N. l.othron, Esq
| will not mutilate his noble effort by
attempting 10 quote it literally. He
put its merits behind him and declared
whether it was for veal or for woe, he
would while this fearful war continued, 1,
sustain tho man he believed had with
integrity issued it. [Applause.l


Supposing, my friends, all men were
AS violent as the few radical zealots now
attempting to mislead both the great
parties in our country who are not
content that we act with them, fight
with them, pay with them and bleed
with them; but they insist we shall .hink
with them, believe with them They
demand that they shall be conducted
with reference to ideas aud war opinions
about which conscicntiously differ, and
in reference to which we believe it dan
cerous and criminal now to disturb the
country.


Is there a pan hero who does not
ardently wish, when this war is over, to
be able. when we stand again on the
floor of Congress, to look the southern
gentlemen in the face, with the proud
consciousness that we fought this great
battle alone? [Cries of No! No.h]
We should hang our head with shame
that 2O,000,000 of proud and prosper
Gus people, Of boasting people, contend
ing with half our numbers, were com
PEELED to cali upon that negro race
whom in Michigan, we deny the right
of voting, whom our Supreme Court
has said may be shnt out of the steam.
er's cabin and the hotel sitting room, by
the police regulations of an irrespoasi.
ble carrier or host and whom we deny
the right of interinarriage and all Just
social stimulants necessary to make him
man and a citizen. Let US suffer
much; let us suffer long, before we will
submit to this humiliation and the great
disgrace. Not one man in ten demands
il, But still remember what this move
ment means, and what it pledges
Though ten thousand black brigades
shall humble the pride aud tarnsh the
glory of our soldiers, still we will sus
tain the government. Applause, and
"that's So Negro or no negro, we
must do it or it will die. Out upon the
miserable doctrine that we are for the
war if we can have the negro with US
but not without. Away with the doc.
trine that we will not fight if he be freed
Leave this foi the degraded partisan
press and the mad radicals, who seek to
coerce our Executive beyond his own
high sense of duty. How will Euaope
look upon our northern bravery, patri-
otism, and self sacrifice, if, with our
great wealth, power and resources, we
concedc, aye, lain and argue that we
cannot subdue these lebels without we
employ the agency of their slavery
Shall wo admit before Chrlstendom,
meet the accusation when we go abroad
read it in history, that northern men
lack the courage, tho endurance, the
patriotism or the polcer to protect our
ioyal brethren of the South from the
tyranny of their rcbelious neighbors,
without destroying alike the institutions
of the faithful citizen and the lawlcss
guerrilla 4? / am ashamed tc say this.
Prolong tho war for Years before
would say this. Reduce me to poverty
first. So say our democratic friends;
so say all the good old wings; so say all
the high toned and manly Saxon men,
who love reputation before the world of
republican power, more than they love
tho fanatcism of creeds parties.


But to all this we ask submission, it.
in the deliberate Judgment of our gov.
ernment such misfortune is neccs sary
If we divide to discuss it in bitterness
aud hostile divisions at home that crown.
ing Disgrace and deeper modification, a
peace at the point of victorious south.
ern bayonets will be our humiliating
fate. We will sustain the war, sustain
the chosen organs of the people, ,wheth.
er We approve or disapprove OF their
agents or their policies.


There is one Idea in this connection
which above all others has forced itself
upon my mind. and from whi ch have
feared the intelligence and manliness of
the North would SO revolt as to cause
great difficulty in the fearful contest. Ii
NO call upon the negro TO defend our
flag to save from overthrow and fall a
tottcring government; if this disgrace
ful appeal is made upon the ground of
necessity; if it is made with The coward.