Year: 1865

do Tor them, and for the cause &


truth and righteousness, just wha! II


necessary to restore 10 them the 6les-


sings which they enjoyed prior to th'


advent oithe new party that hal
come into power. That is what the,


ask you to do.


Bnti now, gentlemen, what is the


first thing to be donel The first


thing is 10 bring our great and gIori-
ous country together again. The


first thing, to which We must direct
our attention as free men, leavinz
the past to take care of itself, and
looking now to the discharge OF our
high duties for the future, is to Co
operate lnanfu!ly, resolutely and
determinedly, in restoring our coun-
try, until we see the happy spectacle
oil thirty odd States again in peace,
represented in the National Council.
[Applause'l


How this ia to be done precisely |
do not stop to inquire. Ny baud
and my heart shall be- with any man
who, under the Constitution and in
obedience 10 it, uses his best Efforts
to bring again into tho National
Council and into tue family reunion,
all those who were of our glorious
and extensive country. Having all
this to do, my fellow citizens, what a
task is upon US stlil Hardly more
difficult was the task Of unbUryirg
again those cities at the East tha.
had been buried hundreds Of feet
deep in the erupticDs from the
mountains. Hardly less than rescn-
ing Pompeii from its burial pace, is
the business that now devolves upon
us is to rescue our old genuine Con-
sttutiou and laws from the vast rub
bish that has been heape] upon them.
In doing this, however, let me say to
you as citizens in the honest dis
charge OF yoNc duties, it will be your
task to see that the burden which
the party in power have laid upon us
and upon the country, shall be equal
ly laid upon the property OF the
whole country. We will 60 back
again to the good old proposition that
liberty aud equality lie at the iound-
alton Of our institutions.


We will come back again to the
proposition that our Government shall
not be made to build up ars:ocraciea
in it, moneyed or otherwise. Never
made, or intended to be go, that
!hose who have the most Of this
worlds goods should be the very last
to give cent of it to relieve the
public treasury (App'ause J What
is the fact upon this suhjectl Gen
tlemen, the fact is, and | wish every
man, and every country. to under
stand it, and to appreciate it. The
fact is, that while your rights have
been trampled on, your liberty o..
speech taken away, your men hurried
to bauisbment aud bss!iles, this party
in power have been builns up a ma
tional debt of-the Lord knows how
much. They tell us now that it is
over three thousand millions; and
the further fact is, that along with
the building up OF this great national
debt, which they have been accu8-
toned to call a national ble8sing,"I
they have accompanied it with love
to the moneyed interests Of the
country. If you take this debt, they
say yon shall stand independent OF
the States in which you reside. No
troublesome tax gatherer shall nov
present himself at your door, and ask
anything from you. II ever there
was a successful attempt, 80 far as
they have gone, to create moneyed
aristocracy, privileged from all obi,
cations OF sharing the public burden,
this is one. 1t was hardly worse in
France, prior to the revolution. |
say 20 you now, that your duty will
be, as soou as you can get the ma
chinery Of the Government to oper.
ate-as soon as the family have as
sembled around the family chcle, to
see to the administration Of that
liberty and equality which lie at the
foundation OF our institutions. If
you want to get all the benefits OF
protection in a very large degree,
You must contribute, according to
your substance, to the public burdens.
That will be one thing to which We
must direct our attention at a very
early DAY. But, gentlemen, you are
all perfectly aware of another at
tempt, now being made. The negro
race upon this continent have been
taken up by these privileged gentle
men, and they are undertaking now
to bring them into perfect aud conf
plete association and equality with
man who were pioneers. who came