Year: 1863

told them Of our services. | told them
what was true, that New York " as the
only Atlantic State that had given more
than its proportion Of troops under the
calls of the President. Great cheer
ing.) Iimplored in vain. The rash
experiment was made. What WAS the
result : Why You have seen that New
York one year ago Voluntarily gave one
hundred and twenty thousand of her
sons to the service Of her country, and
yet under the draft with the whole en-
ergy Of the government put forth, with
armed men raraded throughout
the State, with the threats oflegal pro-
ceedings and military force, You have
seen carried away less than ten thous-
and men, more than half Of whom were
in truth volunteers, because they we're
bought with price. Now that is the
doctrine Of consolidation carried into
practical effect. Thus one method by
which our government was to be made
strong has been tried. Is this strength
or weakness f! Is this success or failure!
impl9re you look into these ques-
tions yourselves. DO not complain of
what may be said ofmyself; that have
been misrepresented; that am charg-
ed with treason; with almost all the
offences to be found in the catalogue of
crime. | have not one word to say in
my own defence, but do complain that
citizens of this State who are our polit-
zeal opponents join in the calumnies
against their OWN State, which has done
so much to sustain the government
| (CheerS.) Whenever | have asked for
justice for the State-and | have only
asked for justice-it has always led
Immediately to the charge that there
was desire te cmba~raSs the general
government. As | have said, ours was
the only Atlantic State which on the
first day of January last, had sent to
the war such numbers that it was cnti-
tied to credit for surplus that was con-
ceded at Washington. And it was con-
ceded too, that Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, and every New England State,
save the little State Of Rhode Island,
were behind. (Cheers.) Since the first
day Of January last, the State of New
York has sent fifteen thousand men out
Of its limits to defend Pennsylvania.
Loud applause.)


The Seventh Ward Democratic
Club here entered the hall, with an
American flag, and banner inscribed,
''Union, Liberty, and the Laws" amid
great cheering. Cheers were also given
for Governor Seymour and General Nc
Clellan. When order was restored,
Gov. Seymour continued


When we were so agreeably inter-
rupted by our friends from the Seventh
Ward, | was speaking of tie service of
New York. New York is the only State
IN the Union that has given bounties to
volunteers from its State treasury with
out regard to the question whether there
was or was not to be draft made
Since the adjournment cf tie Legisla-
ture have been laboriously employed,
with the whole of my staff, in the work
OF filling up the ranks of volunteers.
loud cheers Suddenly there came
up midnight cry from Washington for
help. A proclamation was issued to
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland,
calling for hundred thousand men to
rally Immediately to save the nations
capitol. A friend Of mine at Washing
ton asked them why they did not call
on \. York. "Oh," they said, "New
York has got copperhead Governor
he will do nothing Laughter.) But
New York was called On, and the result
was that New York was about the only
State that did anything in reinforcing



the army already in the field. Laugh
ter and cheers I do not speak of this
because I claim any merit did but
my duty. When the President of the
United States, the Constitutional head
Of this government, called upon me, as
he had right to call upon me under