Year: 1864

! that which IL cannot DO amlSS; to do better
| than any one else. 1t shall represent our
national power and dignity; it shall maintains
our foreign affairs and treaties. That is the
! principle upon which our government is
! founded; that each section shall legisate on
those subjects that particularly concern Them
/ Now, the administration calls upon you,
men of Pennsylvania, to legislste for the
| people Of Georgia at your own cost in blood
aud money. We cannot trample upon tho
! rights Of the people of another State With.
| out tramplng on oEr OVID as well.


t The attempt to- gain power By large ju-
| risdiction and Capitalization, viii result al
ways in weakness. 4 year ago a person
came to ME to ask my opinion about the
draft; | said it was contrary to the cesips Af
our Institutions thatit was the habit of the
| people to come together in school districts,
and make their voluntary contributions, ard
then in towns, and next in counties; and
! these little contributions at last swelled up
| the vast quotas of the States, and made the
mightiest army that the world had seen, urs.
! til the Government itself said we can take
no more, and rejected these offerings. told
them if they passed the consumption act it
would prove to be confscation act against
the North. The act was passed. 1t produ-
ced resistance, and the country shrank away
from it by coming forward and giving large
bountes. It fell heavily upon the homes Of
the poor. 1t proved the most oppressive
and burdenSome method that could have
been adopted of obtaining troops.


And, SO my frieds of the Loyal League,
/ hand was laid upon your property in the
form of bounties, and while you talk Of con-
| tiscating the property of the people Of tho
South and prolonged the war for that pur-
pose, and united the opposition in the South
you crushed out the life of the North. A
selfish, narrow and vindictive legislation
reaches your own homes for you have depar-
ted from the wisdom of your fathers and tho
principles of the Constitution. We must
go back to these We must teach every
man in the land that his person is sacred,
and we will love the laws that protect him.


We must teach the poorest citizen that his
home is sacred against any power of the
State, and he will love the government that
throws its shelter around his loved one. We
must teach him that the law and Constitution
protect the right of conscience. What has
brought here the millions of men who Of
later years have crossed the ocean? They
have come here to enjoy not only the
privileges which Almighty God has given
us, in our vast extended fertile plainS in
our wide scope of territory but they knew
our government gave freedom of conscience,
freedom Of home, and Freedom Of men-
hood. --rzE


IF we speak of dangers in the future. we
do not allude to the conflict of party. Them
is no danger that one party will array itself
against another. But when you have des-
| stroyed the finances Of the country, when
YOU have vitiated its currency, when you
have deranged profitable businesss so that
the merchants dare not go on. and the manu-
facturer thinks it unsafe for him to contiAue
his operations because of the uncertainty Of
the future when the comforts of life become
so costly at to be beyond the reach of men in
ordinary circumstances, then you will dis
cover that there is danger not of conflict
Of parties. but that men of all parties, suf.
fering and injured Republicans more than
Democrats, because more deceived, will
turn upon this Administration. and endan.
ger the security and peace of the society in
which we live. Is it safe, my Republican
friends, for you to go on prolonging this war
for the sake of vindictive legislation? The
war between France and England and Rus
sia was settled when France and England
had gained far less advantage than we have
gained i'll this contest. -c


The menwho were drafted this year un.
der the five hundred thousand call have but
one year to serve. The three years men
who were taken into the army in 1862 will
go out of the service next year Their
terms begin to expire in the spring. In
nine months the army will need the largest
additions that have been made to it at any
one time. As the administration shrank
from calling for more three years men just
before an election, the places to he vacated
by the one year mon must he provided to be
filed in nine months, and thus It is rcasona-
bic to believe that the largest draft that has
vet been made will he ordered at the begin
ming of the year 1865. | do not speak un-
advisedIy, for the administration has intim-
ated to me that they expect another draft.
The State Of New York had furnished an
excess of three years men and | asked that,
in making up the nuoto of New York, one
three years man should be counted as equal
to three none years men. at


They said they could not do that, as they
needed men Immediately; but they provided
that three years man should count as one
man on this draft, as one man on the next
draft and as one man again on the third
draft, and thus the matter would be equali-
zed. So it appears from this that we are to
have at least two drafts more. Voice
\
that we must have this further draft. Af.
ter war is ended, under the policy of this
administration we shall be compelled tn
maintain large armies to held the people Of
the South in subiection to carry out tho
Emancipation Proclamation and the Con6s-
cation act.


! Iappeal to you to investigate these aucs-
tons and ascertain what policy and what
party are the most likely to restore Union
and peace, and when you have decided what
the right is, let no man deter you from do
| ing it, whatever may be the consequences. -
am tnll of hope this night. / believe that
we are to triumph, and that once again the
flag of our Union shall float over all this
broad land Loud cheering The day
will come again when in the councils of our
party as we call the roll of States, the Gulf
of Mexico will send mp response to tho
voice that shall come from the borders Of
our great lakes; Georgia shall echo back to


Maine, the Atlantic to the Pacific, and here
after we shall 60 on governing our country
by the voice and will of the flee people Of
the States and rendered wiser by the trials
and sutferings through which they have
passed, May eGod of our Fathers--Hs
who gave them wisdom to frame our Consti-
tuition and establish our Union, grant US
the wisdom to retr,sce the steps which NE
have trod, to renew that Tnian. restore The
supremacy Of that Constitution. and begin
once sgain our career Of national greatness
and national glory, tIong and continued
j cheering. a R
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