Year: 1861

propositions? What is he going to say


What will he say to this party in rebel


lion? 1t is pretty thing to talk abou


and for the designing to dupe the North


it is very awkward thing to reduce t.


practice. If you drive out rebellion


you will have loyal people South a


we'll as North. Then they will all d,


what Virginia, and Missouri, and Mary.


land are trying to do, and what Della


ware and Kentucky are doing Are
there any men here who want this Unior
tdivided? "No."] Then do not sym
pathize with treason in any form, in gen
der, number, person or case, in any O.
its ramifcations. Hunt it like a fero
cious monster.


! Shall the feff'destroyers of this beau


tiful fabric be permitted to accomplish
their internal errand, and shall they be
aided in this work of evil by the cry Of
peace? Let none escape under this shall
low pretension. Solomon, the wist
King of Judea, spared not the murder
Gus Joab though he fed for refuge to the
Enclosures of the Tabernacle, and clune
for protection to the horns of the altar
he slew him there. And a cry ,oJ
peace to be negotiated aoiM armed traitors
should secure a city Of refuge to none
am panied to see the vast destruction ot
property that must follow; 1 regret tc
see the prosperity Of the country blasted
and destroyed; regret to see the great
loss of human life that must ensue-
But if these events must come they had
better come with country preserved
than come with country divided and
destroyed. We must fight battles, and
bloody battles. We must call vast nun
bers of men into the field. We must
not go as boys to a general training,
with ladies, and idlers, and members OF
Congress to see the show, but we must
go in earnest-go prepared for action
to fight it as battle, and not to fight it
as a play spell. We must unite as a
whole people, going shouIderto shoulder.
And when we do so we shall conquer
And why? We have the right, we have
the prestige of Government, we have
the sympathy of the disinterested world,
we have the moral and material elements
to do it ALL and to insure victory. Re
bellion has not the financial ability to
stand long war, with all their gains
from privateering and piracy, and issu-
ing Confederate bonds-made lien
upon the property of the people who
were never consulted as to their issue,
and who repudiate them-worth as much
as June frost, a cold wolf track, which
no fnancer fit to be outside Of the luna
tic asylum would give shilling a peck
for. They may vex, they may harrass,
they may destroy, they may commit
piracy, but the reckoning is to come for
all this. They will be brought to the
Judgment of the American peeple-of
their own people. They will be ar
raigned, and who is there will be ready
to stand up as their defenders in the
name Of the Constitution?


81 tell thee CuIloden dread echoes shall ring.


With h!ood-hounds that bark thy fugitive king


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Let every American citizen, instead
of crying peace, peace, when there is no
peace, rally upon the ramparts uutil Sc
cession is silenced; until the roar of ar
tillery has ceased Then we shall have
peace, enduring, perpetual peace, and
us monsters are seldom born of the same
generation, we shall have no more of
this Secession in the present century or
the next This Government is the Gov
eminent of the American people 1t is
ours to use, ours to enjoy, but it is not
ours to subvert. We are trustees. We
are charged with sacred trusts. All we
have to do is to bask in the sunshine of
its blessings. But cursed be the unholy
ambition that attempts to destroy it. [
regard him and treat him as traitor to
his kind. God will set mark upon
him, too; but it will not be like the mark
set upon the first murderer of man-for
that was set for sefety-but this will be
set for destruction. And God grant that
it may be SO. ['Amen."] 1t will be
time enough to struggle over who shall
administer the Government when we are
sure we have one to administer. He
who is not for it, is against it. l have
determined to fight this battle out, but
on no political grounds. 1 stand upon
the Constitutional ground of my fathers.