Year: 1863

interfere, but when despotism sees we ar,


strong, it will stink away. [Applause.l


think we have demonstrated some strength
in the field. What nation before eve


maintained such armies in the field, ant
was SO lavish of its strength?


We are showing our strength to the na
tons of the earth, and if we simply go OF


showing our strength, there will be ne


danger whatever of Intervention. There


will be no danger, because it will not pay


[Cheers.] 1t is true that Great Britain has


behaved very unneighborly. We used tC


think this great Anglo-Saxon family was


to stand together the world over to estab-


lish freedom of the press, freedom of the


ballot-bo1, freedom of thought, freedom OF


speech, and freedom for all; but, of late


years, we have seen manifestations of a


very unkind and unfriendly spirit; and


sometimes have felt as if wanted to


take old mother England and give her a


mighty good shaking. Loud laughter and


applause.] am not sure that this is the


wisest plan; but of this l feel tolerably


sure, that England will not send any more


pirate ships out against us; and l think


when England thinks the matter over


calmly, when she reflects of the Alabama,


fitted out in British port, manned by


British seamen, armed by British guns,
and ever since roming over the seas, plum
dering merchant vessels, without bringing a
single one into any port-when they come
to look over these things, they will con-
clude it is best to pay the American mer-
chants for all the pillage the Alabama has
done. Loud cheers.


We have got sort of new empire upon
our borders in Mexico. Well, gentlemen,
am not much disturbed about that. EN-
pires will not last long in Central America.


Cheers.] don't know how long this en-
pire-if it gets born-will last. There was
an attempt to make an empire in Mexico
some time ago, and if am not mistaken
with no great success. / do not know that
this Austrian Emperor will find his bed of
cllned to think that the roses will
be very few and the bed very hard.
[Cheers and loud laughter l am willing
to trust to the future, and I am perfectly
sure, taking all things into consideration,
that the European monarchs will, in the
end, think it best to keep their institutions
at home. l am confident of this. [Cheers.
do not propose any particular measures
just now. 1t is never wise to announce
what you are going to do great while in
advance of doing it; but think the time
will come when the world will reconsider
these things, and when this Republic of
ours will be re-established from the Gulf
toward the Pole, and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, based upon freedom and free
labor; gathering strength from our present
contest, and rising from it grander than
ever. Cheers. I think the time will
come when this nation, so regenerated and
so renovated, will command the respect of
the world, and people will begin to regret
that they thought it was best to be un-
friendly to us when we were weak
[Cheers.] Now, my llow-citizens, one
word further. l have spoken a word or
two upon the regeneration Of this nation
Just think of it; free labor is better than
slave labor. Now suppose there was free
labor all through the South, do you not
think the manufacturers Of Cincinnati
would have great deal more employment
than they have now? Don't you think that
all this trouble about the negro would come
to an end. when the negro could 20 down
toward the Gulf, and find himself free
there, and be employed there as hired Ia
borer?


How many do you think would be left
in Ohio to interfere with you OR with me?
Would notthat question be settled? Would
not all the heart burnings that grow out of
veloping the resources of that soil would
we not be stronger than eyer? And when
we add to that the removal of this great
element Of strife and contention from our
country, and freedom everywhere prevail
ing-no man obliged to work unless his
employer will give him honest wages, and
every man willing to work to build up the
glorious fabric of our prosperity, do you
not think that we should be economically
and politically vastly stronger than we
ever have been heretofore? Think, there
fore, this rebellion will come to an end,
and that we are to have great nation ba-
sed upon the universal principle of free
labor made homogeneous in all its parts,
and capable Of playing mighty part in
the drama of human affairs. [Cheers.]


When look at this, and remember
''there is Providence that shapes our
ends, rough-hew them as we may when
| remember there is a Providence that
presides over the destinies Of nations-and
all nations are but dust in the hollow of
his hand, to be shaped as he pleases-I feel
even should be deemed by some super
stitious, that God has had hand in all
this business; and out of this great trial
of ours is to come forth a free, intelligent,
and glorious nation, based
upon one principle, and challenging the
admiration of the world. TCheers.7 Think
ing thus, I have been laboring in my hum
BILE way, to do something towards securing
the permanence of reconstructed repub-
lie, and I thought that if labor was to have
Its just reward, 1t was necessary to have
in which that reward could be
paid, which was substantial and perma-
nent and uniform throughout the whole
Loud Cheering.] And SO 1 set
my poor wits to work, to try to devise
uniform currency for this country. [Great
applause.] would not think much of a
uniform currency, if we were not going to
have uniform people. would not think
much of one currency, if we were not 60
ing to have one republic; but if we are
going to have one republic, based upon
free labor, then l want something by
which that free labor can be rewarded, and
by which that reward shall be as safe as
the nation is safe. [Cheers.] I think, gen
tlemen, that have done something toward
that, and it will be reward enough for me
if, at the close of this great struggle, can
think that by constant effort contributed
at all to the progress Of our armies, or to
the safety and honor and welfare of the
country, during that struggle, or after it
shall have closed. [Cheers.]


Now, my fellow citizens, have given
you, not a speech, but rough outline of
ideas as they present themselves to my
own mind. If l had time, could perhaps,
put them into better shape; but 1 have
given them to you as they occurred to me.
But the simple. e.question is, whether you be-