Year: 1862

by our power of this rebellion.
Have you no faith in God, who
writes the history Of nations !?
Great as is our power, wise as is
our system Of government, brave
as our soldiers, uncQpalled as our
fleets of iron, it is only for Him to
breathe upon us---and our power
will fade. | know that His power
can solve these dark problems of
Our fate Let us do onrsduty TO
the order established by our fathers,
under His wise inspiration, and all
may be well.


In this night of our gloom, my
faith has been in him, even as my
oath to the Constitution which lie
inspired, is made, $50 help me Cod"
Cleaving to that can see the
dawn Of hope! Leaving it, [ sec
nothing but perjury, fraud, and
darker night of disaster. In our
Constitution alone, under Gods
our National salvation enshrined I!


But l have no faith in, and no
hope of this Congress, for they
have no faith in Cod or the Con
stitution. Greece had a law called
the indictment of ilIegaity, where
by any man WAS tried and punished
in common court like criminal,
for any law which had passed on
his motion in the assembly Of the
people, if that law appeared un-
just or prejudicial to the public.
If there were such a law here, how
few Of the majority Of this House
would escape the dock of the Grim
inal and the rope of the gibbet. x
Faithless to their own resolves
faithless to the Presidents message
and proclamations - faithlesS to
their pledges to the army and the
people-faithless to the memories
of the past and the hopes Of the
future-faithless to the Constitu-
tion and to the God of their oath
these maddened zealots pursue the
work of destruction. A few short
months, and even the blacks Of
America will curse them as their
worst enemy. This Congress which
ought to be engaged in holding up
the hands of the Executive, and in
giving aid and counsel in putting
down this armed rebellion,-has
Striven to circumvent the plans o.!
the President, by their immature
and vindictive bills of confscation.


Weary in watching its mad de-
signs of revolution-and its crazy
crotchets of black freedom-and
for the selt-preserve tion of my ma
tive State and the North from the
black immigration with which it
is threatened, l shall go to my home
and ask the ballot to speak its de-
nunciation. A few months and
that expression will be had. On
it depends the fate of the Republic.
My belief is, that the people will
write the epitaph Of this Congress,
nearly as Gladstone wrote that OF
the Coalition ministry during the
Crimean war:


Here lies the ashes Of the XXXVII Con. ress!
1t found the United States in a war Of


gigantic proportions, involving


its very existence.


1t was content to WELD the sceptre of Power


and accept the emoluments of office;
ae and used them to overthrow ~.
the political and social system of the country,


which it was sworn TO protect.
1t saw the fate of thirty-four commonwealth


in peril, but it babbled of the


NEGRO!


1t saw patriotic generals and soldiers in the


field under the old flag;
1t slandered the one, and in the absence of
the other, it destroyed his means of labor.


Ittalked of liberty to the black, and
piled burdens of taxation on white people


for schemes utopian.
The people launched at it the thunderbolt


Of their wrath;
aud its members sought to avoid punishment,


by creeping into dishonored


political graves!


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