Year: 1863

shown our sympathy for the oppres sed and
down-trodden OF the earth IApplause.l The
speaker then referred to the fac. that Ireland,
Greece and Poland had in turn received our
sympathy. EWhen the name Of Poland was
spoken, it was greeted with yociferous ap-
plausp.I A reasonable traitor, one who steals
money, laughter commits a burglary, or any
of the mean offenses which are catalogued
with the damned-any of these minor offenses.
[laughter,l may meet with pardon; but when
YOU find traitor who breaks right out in the
enlightenment of this century, and turns round
upon the history of his own country, and upon
the history CT the world. and says to humanity
$50 back, retreat, lie down, [laughter,l until
despotlsm may be placed over you'-snch
q person isn't creditable now or hereafter.
Laughter and applause.l


Judge Carter arg ued that there was no occa-
sion for the dependency which appeared to
prevail in some portions of the country, for
the rebellion thus far had been an immense
success; and the speaker then briefly reviewed
the progress that had been made from the day
OF President Lincoia'S inauguration up TO the
present hour.


When Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated
[loud applausel upon the front of this Capitol
it was doubtful whether the immense multi
tude that surrounded him would not part in
blood. When he succeeded to the presidency
of this Union, 1t had been demoraliZed, and
wasted away in every fibre OF its strength,
until you found nothing but a miserable, SUI
perannuated old man, looking better fitted for a
gallows than presidential chair, surrounded
in his confidential counsel by a combination of





rocking in the tumult of the hour TApplausel


The traitors were in possession of the Capt.
tol: in possession OF the border States; in possess
sion of the great Mississippi of the West in
possession of your eastern fortificationS and
ports. Where are they to-day. They are cry
ing for bread az pitifuily as ever did Dives for
water. Laughter and applause


Within circumference of less than five
States, a gallant people, with its strong arm
and iron WILL is pressing them from circum-
ference to center, until you can hear the death
rattle in their throats.


The speaker further argued that there was
but one alternatiye-either to fight and let lib
erty triumph, or die as slaves of deSpotism.
There is no such word as peace with the trai-
tors. Let secession sympa hizers cry peace,
peace, as much as they will. 1t is a fight of
life or death, and he prefers life and victory to
death. Applause


There is no Significance in the word "traitor'7
in itself, without an inquiry into the treason
that it denomrates. Jefferson Davis and his
hopeful ''litter'' that surround him, have got
nations liberty before them; well and good.
If, on the other hand, Jefferson Davis is not
only traitor us was our forefathers, but
traitor against all the guarantees of civil,
concerted, and individual liberty. his damna-
tion ought to reach the last hell. Laughter
and applause


He is traitor, and he (the speaker) ar
raigHed him here to-day, as Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court for the District of Column
bia. [Applause. He is a traitor against the
civilization of the nineteenth century. APP
plause.] traitor against all the self -denials
and sufieringS OF our forafatherS who planted
this Government Applause. a traitor
against this progress and this purpose but he
is traitor in behalf of despotIsm that the
eighteenth century had buried and damned.
Laughter and applause:l He is atraitor, not
10 raise freemen to equality, and elevate poor
manhood 10 dignity, but he is a traitor to make
platform OF humanity for despotism to tread
upon Tremendous applause.l And he does
this under the blessed sun of the nineteenth
century. He his traitor to the century in
which he lives.


Judge Carter then retired amid applause,
and was followed by Hon. Horace Maynard
OF Tennessee. He argued that this was en-
phatcally war of the wealthy contra
distinguished from the poorer and the laboring
classes He paid high compliment to the
laboring men, mechanics, and artizans of
Washington, who he argued had ever been
loyal, and would remain so if every one OF
them were turned out OF office tomorrow.
TApplause and cries of ssThat's SOL And what
was true OF the classes here was true of all tha
prominent cities of the Border States. The
rich and exalted were fonnd upon the side OF
treason, and the poor and laboring upon the
side OF the Government. [Applause.j Mr..
Maynard also paid his respects to Conserya-
tlsm, and held that it simply another
name for MILD form of treason. Agrarian-
ism and that kindred class of political ideas he
(the speaker) had ever held in low estimation
His sympathies were always with the many
against the few, and this present conflict was
but another attempt TO wrench power from the
many and place it IA the hands of the few.
The speaker further referred to the fact that
in the rtures made by the South to Europe
it had been avowed that it was the purpose to
establish an aristocracy founded upon negro
slavery. In conclusion, he urged that the war
should be fully prosecuted if 1t required
year, thirty years or lifetime.


Mr.. Maynard was followed by Governor
Johnson, OF Tennessee, who was received with
great applause; some enthusiastic individual
ia the gallery calling out, 'Give ii to them,
Andy


Gov J. thought Washington a most fitting
place wherein TO hold a Union mass meeting.
He avowed himself democrat: not. however,
a democrat OF that stripe who were making
efforts to break mp the Union, but he had learned
his democracy from Jefferson and Jackson.
He argued that the present struggle was one
for free government, and that the allegation so
frequently put forth, that this was republican
war; was untrue, as il was the traitors who
struck the first blow and fired the first gun.


He had few words to say to the people Of
the District of Columbia, many of whom, SYM
pathiZing with the South, went there. Went to
the South TO Join jeff. Davis. And what for
what to do! To take Washington, the capital
of the Government! Those who went South
Went there giving up that which they had for
the purpose of fighting get it back. Laugh
teri That is the sense OF the whole propo-
siton; and because the President took steps TO
prevent the capture of the seat of Government
and its overthrow, he has been denounced.


Governor J. further argued that traitors mus +
be put out OF the way, and the power must not
be lost because there is some doubt to who
has the right 10 suspend the writ OF habeas
corpus. Suspension ofthe writ had no terrors
for any but those who had treason in their
hearts. If you want to find who are traitors,
just shake suspension OF the writ of habeas
corpus at them. Applause and laughter. ]
Gov. johnson then proceeded to show that this
cry of violation of the Constitution was raised
by croakers and peace men who desired to COM
promise. ANY compromise was impossible,
and proposition for one ould be treated with
contempt by the rebels. He reviewed the Grit
tenden Compromise, and showed how it was
defeated by Benjamin, Slidell, and the Southern
men in Congress at that time. The speaker
was opposed to all compromise with armed
traitors, and thought compromise between
light and darkness, virtue and vice, the Deity
and Satan, would be as proper as compro-
mise with the rebels. The word compromise
should be stricken from our vocabulary. This
objection to compromise was received with
great favor by ALL the President, Secretaries
Seward and Usher, and others, joining in the
applause.l


The speaker then drew vivid picture OF the
sufierings of the loya of Tennessee, and
closed by an appeal TO the ladies to exercise
their influence in filling up the army.


District Attorney Darlington next took the
stand, and spoke of the loyalty that had ever
been manifested by the people Of the District
ever since the breaking out of the rebellion,
and in a scathing manner denounced the rebels,