Year: 1863

You will observe, my friends, that in the
list Of grievances with which l charge Eng
land I did not charge her with tampering with
our leading politicians. So far as any evi-
dence have don't know that she is guilty.
but what shafl VIZ say of our leading pcliti-
cians hat bate taInpered with her have
read of it with much surprise, excited more
than by any other fact of this war l had.
somehow. got an inklng of the various things
thai came up in previous instances; l was not
very much surprised at that. but when | read
a statement deliberately put forward here, in
New York, leading politicians consulted with
the British Minister as TO how these Uniiod
States could be separated, every drop of blood
in my veins boiled, and l would have liked 10
have seen that leading politician. have felt
il Eiy duty here in the city OF New York, be-
cause Of the interest I have in public affairs,
to call attention 70 this most extraordinary
fact-that there are men 10 the community so
lost to pairiotisni, SO bound up in the tradi-
tions Of party. SD selfish, as to be willing to
tamper with Great Britain in order TO bring
about the separation of this country. | had
rather see a hundred thousand men set in the
field on the rebel side-aye, / had rather see
Great Britain armed against US openly. as she
is covcrl ly-than to be forced to believe that
there are among US such men as these, lineal
descendants of j udas IscariOt inteFmaErird with
the race of Benedict Arnold. 1t has shown
me great danger with which we are threat
ened, and call upon all true mcn TO sustain
the Government As you, sir, were rlcasedto
say, the present Government was not the Gov


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but ii is the Government Of my country; it is
the only organ by which I can exert the force
OF the country to protect its integrity; and as
long as ! believe that Government honestly
administered l will throw a mantle over any
mistakes that L may think it has made. and
support it heartily, with hand and purse, so
help me God l have no loyalty TO man or
men; my loyalty is to The Government, no
difference who the people have chosen, so long
as the choice has been coHstituionally made


This is what | understand to be loyalty to the
Government, and was sorry to learn, as did
the other day. that there was man in New
Y York who professed not to know the meaning
of the word loyalty. l desire to say here
that it is the duty Of every man to be leyai to
the Government, and do all he can to cid it in
carrying the country on in the course of glory
and grandeur in which it was started by our
fathers. And let me say to you my friends =
to you, young men, that no man who opposed
his country in time of war ever prospcred.-
The tory Of the Revolution, the Hartford Con-
venfionist Of 1912, the immortal seven who
voled against the supplies for the Mexican
war-all history is against them. The course
of our nation is onward, and let him who op-
rOses it beware. The mower mows on, though
the adder mGy writhe, and the copperhead
curl round the blade of the scythe. it only
remains sir, for ne TO rt peat the expression of
my gratitude to you and the citizens of New
York here assembled for the Kindness with
which you and they have received and listened
TO me, for which please again accept my thanks.