Year: 1863

For the life Of me | can't see how you are
going to get it. Do you expect to get it


trammeling and binding the hands of the L


tion-bv refusing men and money TO carry


the war, or by putting into power an Admi


stration opposed 10 IL? If you do then Y,
are preparing chains TO bind yourselves in


servitude more degrading than that which Il


negro suffers in the South. How can you C


tain peace in any other way than by fghtir


it out? 4 voice By the Crittenden re


oIution.7


It is said that the Critteuden resolutio


might bring it about. The resolution was o
Tered to them before they fred upon Sumte
and not man was ready to take it, and th


North would have been sorry if they had az


cepted it for /, for one, spurn the Critter


den resolution, and l do it for the reason tha


The first gun fired upon Sumter relieved US fror


the thraldom of Slavery and | never desir


to see peace restored, with the political powe


Of 4his Institution reinsiated. What guaren


tee have you, my friends, that the CrittendeI
resolution wonld secure peace-that it wuulC


be acceptable to the other side. and to the peo


pie OF this side? My private opinion is thai
it would be accepted here no more than by
them. Politicians may talk as they please
there are but two issues: one is to acknowl
edge the Southern Confederacy and the other
is submission on their part to the demands of
the Government. You may examine all the
propositions you can ind, and you can come
to no other conclusion than this


But why do you desire peace? You tell me
you want to stop the shedding of blood. Let
me tel you something know in regard to this
point. The men who are fighting our battles
don't want you to make any dishO2orab!e peace
to save them. All that these gallant men ask
of you is to stop your blessed tongues-stop
sowing dissensions-stop giving aid and com
fort to the enemy. and let them fight out the
contest. [Great applause. tell you, my
Democratic friends. your sympathy for the
soldier is all thrown away And as for your
self, there are none of your bones in danger,
and I am afraid will never be, unless you are
by-and-by. [Applause.


What next Why, We are running up an
enormous public debt, aud taxes are becom-
ing heavy. Well, if you want to settle this
war by diplomacy, acknowledge these fellows
md take their debt of eight hundred millions
and pay it also. think, however, that would
not be good financial operation. I think
there would be something made in this respect
by fighting it out, ane. Mississippi fashion, re-
pudialiug their debt. 4 soldier: That's
Just what we soldiers in Mississippi say" /
The soldiers are right, then.


If there is anything in this war besides the
shedding of blood and the increas of taxation.


hat requires we should stop it by accepting a
peace, don't know of it. Is the
suffering in any degree Have we not
he sunshine and the shower? Do we not re-
;eive The fruits of our labor in due season ,
Dur taxes. you say are heavy, and 80 they are;
lut our produce is better, and money is I enty
md as good as ever had and the world is free
% our commerce. Is this war oppressive to
Is who stay at home, in any Injurious way ?
No, we have seen it is not. But you want
he war stopped. Shall I ask you whether
here is not lurking in your mind, behind all
his special pleading this idea, that there is a
little doubt about our being able to whip those
men with the forces we have there, and that
you NAV have to leave the comforts Of home,
md the prosperity Of business, TO help finish
he work =? If you entertain this notion, all |
lave to say is, that the moment you make
peace, that moment this great
abric of government, under which we enjoy
IL this prosperity, is swept away like the
,aseless ia brio Of vision, and you would
Don find yourselves reduced to poverty, as well
IS disgrace. There is nothing that calls to an
honorable peace but the arbitrament of the
word and he who clamors for any other, does
lot understand the position we occupy, or is
ctuated by motive which dislike here to
lame.


Well, yeu want to know what is going to be
he future of this contest you want to know
THAT will b. the st tie of thingns when we sub
ue the rebels-for l have a reasonable belief
hat we are going to whip them after while.
some one is troubled for fear there will be a
asst number Of negroes turned loose, who will
ONE up and interfere with Northern labor
A voice There have been a good many
ere d long time" Yes, there were some
ere before left, thirty years ago, and there
no use to argue on this question, for where
hey will go, or what they will do, We must
cave for the future to determine There may
,e portion Of the blacks that will scatter
tuC 4NOItlls bAI oiAlAll LiOh3 lOA
Innate and the character Of the labor will
rive them away. The probable result will
,e that the political character of the institu-
ion having been destroyed, emancipation in
ONE form will permit them to remain where
hey are. But, for fear such a result may not
ome to pass are you prepared to take the
ther alternative and go down on your knees
nd sue for peace ? Are you ready TO let them
axe all this virgin territory of the West,
nd cover it with their slaves shutting out
our brothers and sons from obtaining homes
Or themselves and their children after them,
n order to keep them away from US Are you
repaired to say that you will yield to them a
ain the political power of the nation? I'll
hat is your way of thinking, it Is not mine
on may as well take the results OF the war
S they come for be assured We viii fOd away
0 dispose Of these difficulties as they spring /
u in our midst Let us trust that in the end
We will be found as true to the great interests
f the country, and succeed as well in dispO
ing of them as we have done with the difficult
les of the past.


My main desire, my friends, to-day, has been |
o satisfy you that there was but one duty or
litigation for every men to take upon him.
elf and fulfill in the present state Of the coun-
ry at the present time. l may have failed, |
nd if 50, let me make a suggestion to my po-
ilcal friends as to party, and l wish you to
,eAr it in mind Go back to the record for it,
md take care that you do not make the same
Mistake. 1t is that no party ever made oppo-
iyiun to a war that was not rent in twain and
orn TO pieces thereby; ard you can not blot
he record out you may Try it, but 1t viii
stick o you and ] am not going aloag with
,ou in your opposition now. The old tories
If the revolution-they are all gone now, but
heir records remain, aud the odium belonging
10 them attatches even to their DESCENDANTS