Year: 1864

country into all the horrors of civil war
Treason in its madness brought this great
afhiction upon your country, appealed to
arms, fred the first gun, struck the tirst
blow, and forced upon your country the
terrible issues of civil war. 1t left us nc
alternative except the still greater ca
lamity of national abasement, of national
dishonor, and of national degradation
1t challenged US to the wager of battle.
From necessity we accepted thsisue. BY
that isue we abide. By that issue treason
itself abides, be the consequences what
they may.


There can, in the nature OF things, be
no terms of settlement; there can be no
terms of compromise; there can be no
profers of negotiation to traisors in arms
against your assailed and betrayed coun-
try, short of their entire subsection, the
complete overthrow of their military
powers, or their unconditional surrender
and absolute and unqualified submission
to the authority and the laws OF the
Government they have attempted to
destroy, and with the ample sureties for
keeping the peace forever hereafter
Would you concede anything more
Would you accept anything lessf


Talk of compromise on such question
Talk of negotiation with such foe, at
such time, and under such circumstan-
cesl COMPROMISED Compromise of what
pray tell met Compromise of the ques-
ton of our right to exist and to have a
being as . nation? Compromise of the
question whsther we shall subdue the
rebellion, or whether the rebellion shall
subdus US! Compromiss of our right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit ofhappiness'
Compromise of the question of our right
of self-existencs and to self-protection
as a nation upon the earthf Is that
what you meant


Negotiate Negotiate with whom-in
Heavens name. with whom? Negotiate
with armed traitors in the field whs are
seeking the life of the very Government
that gave them birth and nourishsd them
upH Negotiate with armed assassinswho
are seeking to cut your throat, who
demand your life or your inheritance
Negotiate with an enemy who spurns and
laughs to scorn your every suggestion OF
ssttlemsnti The very consideration OF
such proposition at the present tins
and under the existing condition OF
things is derogstory, is abhorrent to every
loyal and manly and independent and
patriotic mind.


Mr.. President, there is but one plain
and palpable course for us, and that is to
prosecute the war with all the vigor and
with all the energy and by ell the means
that God and nature have placed in our
hands, and within the recognized limits
of civilized warfare, to put down this re-
bellion. Sir, this Republic must conquer
the rebellion, or the rebellion will con-
quer this Republic, and there is no Other
alternative.


Trusting that the God of battles, through
the agency and instrumentality OF oui
gallant and heroic officers and men now
fighting in the field for the cause OF the
Union and of the free republican govern
ment. will soon crown our arms with
triumph and give US victory and peace
we wait in hope and in confidence, the
final issue of the contest.


Never despair of the Republic. Thi'
rebellion must be put down. This Unlor
must be restored. This Republic of ours
with all its promises and with all its hope'
for the future and for the world, must b'
saved. Irepeat, this monster rebellion
must be put down; this foul conspiracy
against the life of the best and most
benehcent Government the world has
ever seen must be crushed out. We are
not at liberty to doubt about it; we are
not at liberty to speculate about it. II
is simply and only thing to be done, tc
be done at all events, to be done at al
hazards, to be done at all sacrifices. II
more men arc wanted to serve the
Government, more men will be had. /
more men are needed, whether it be one
hundred thousand or two hundred
thousand or Eve hundred thousand t.
to save this Republic of ours, my life npor
it, you have only to make that necessity
known, and they will not be found wan
ting in the day of their country's peril.
They will be prompt to answer the call
They are not yet willing nor yet prepa red
to give up this Government.


Twill speak for my own State; small
and unpretentious State, small in terrific
~, small in population, but large in spirit o.
patriotism as the expanse of this Repub
lie, with a courage and fortitude and 6
fidelity as firm and immoyable as the
foundation of her own everlasting hills
Though she has already paid sacrifice oi
blood in full measure to the demon ot
this rebellion, yet if more of her sons are
wanted, If the exlsencles OF the country
require it, who know them well, whose
lifelong has been spent among them, tel
you the call is only to come, the summons
to arms only to reach them, and every
man of them capable of bearing arms, il
need be, will be prompt to leave his farm,
his workshop, his home. his houseold,
and make haste TO the red fields of war
yea, and every mother will make haste to
lay her last son in theprime and strength
of his early manhood upon the altar ol
her eountry's sacrifice, sooner than see
the bright orb of this Republic 60 down
in perpetual darkness and night.


That, sir, is the spirit of the Green
Mountain State. That is the spirit of the
El5ssl pesplsJf every State in this Union
That Is TIE spirit and that is the determ.
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