Year: 1863




very unkind and unfriendly spirit; and
sometimes | have felt as if | wanted to
take old mother England by the hHir and
give her mighty good shaking. Loud
laughter and applause. | am not sure
that this is the wisest plan; hut of this
feel tolerably sure. that Englsnd will not
send anv mnr.. pirate ships out against us;
and | think when England thinks the
matter over calmly-when she reflects of
the Alabama. fitted out in British port.
manned By British seamen, armed by
British guns. and ever since rowing over
the seas, plundering merchant vessels.
without bringing single one into any
port-when they come to look over these
things they will conclude it is best to paw
the American merchants for all the pill
lage the Alabama has done Loud
cheers.


We have got a sort ofnew empire upon
our borders in Mexico. Well. gentlemen.
am not much disturbed about that
Empires will not last long in Central
America. Cheers. don't know how
long this empire-if it gets born-will
last. There was an attempt TO make an
empire i'm Mexico some time ago, and If
am not mistaken it was no great success
do not know that this Austrian Empar-
or will find his bed of roses there, but
am strongly inclined to think that the ro-
ses will be very few and the bed very
hard. TCheers and loud laughter. / am
willing TO trust TO the future, ami | am
perfectly sure. taking all things into con-
sideration, that the European mOuarchs
will. in the end. think it best to keep
their institutions at home. am conf
dent of this Cheers.] l do not propose
any particular measure just now. II is
never wise to announce what you are go
ing TO do a great while in advance of do
ing it; but | think the time will come
when the world will reconsider these
things, and when this Republic of ours
will be re-established from the Gulf to-
ward the Pole, and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, based upon freedom and free
labor; gathering strength from our pres
ent contest, and rising from it grand..r
than ever. ICheers | think the time,
will come when this nation. so regenera-
ted and renovated. will command the re-
spect of the world. and people will begin
to regret that they thought il best to be
unfriendly to us when we were weak
TCheers Now. my fellow citizens, one
word further. have spoken word or
two upon the regeneration of this nation.
Just think of it; free labor is better than
slave labor. Now suppose there was free
labor all through the South, do you not
think the manu- 'acturers of Cincinnati
would have great deal more employment
than they have now? Don't you think
that all this trouble about the negro would
come to an end. when the negro could go
down toward the Cult, and find himself
free there, and be employed there as a
hired laborer?


How many do you think would be left
in Ohio to interfere with you or meF-
Would not that question be settled?-
Would not all the heart-burnings that
grew out OF it come to an end, and with
free labor developing the resources of
that soil would we not be stronger than
ever? And when we add to that the re-
moval of this great element of strife and
contention from our country, and free
dom everywhere prevailing-no man
obliged TO work unless his employer viii
give him honest wages, and every man
willing TO work 10 build up the glorious
fabric of our prosperity, do you not think
we should be economically and politically
vastly stronger than we ever have been
heretofore? | think, therefore, this re-
bellion will come to an end, and that We
are to have great nation based upon the
universal principle of free labor made
in all its parts, and capable
of playing a mighty part in the drama of
human affairs. [Cheers.


When we look at this, and | remember
there's a Providence that shapes our
ends, rough-hew them as We may"-when
| remember there is a Providence that
presides over the destines of nations-and
all nations are but in the hollow of His
hand, to be shaped as He pleases-I feel,
even should be deemed by some super
stitious, that God has had hand III all
this business; and out of this great trial
of ours is to come forth free, intelligent,
prosperous and glorious nation, based up
on one principle, and challenging the ad-
miration of the world. Cheers. Think
ing thus, l have been laboring in my
humble way, TO do something toward Sc
curing the permanence OF reconstructed
and l thought that if labor was
necessary 10 have its just reward, it was
necessary to have something in which that
reward could be paid, which was substan-
tial and permanent and uniform through
out the whole country. Loud cheering.l
And so set my poor wits to work, TO try
to devise a uniform currency for this
country. Great applause. would not
think much of uniform currency, if we
were not going to have uniform people.
would not think much of one currency,
if we were not going to have one republic,
based upon free labor, then want some
thing by which that free labor can be re-
warded, and by which that reward shall
be as safe as the nation is safe. Cheers.
think, gentlemen, that | have done
something toward that, and it will be re-
ward enough for me, if, at the close of
this great struggle, can think that by
constant effort | contributed at all to the
progress of our armies, or to the safety
and honor and welfare of the country, du
ring that struggle, or after it shall have
closed. [Cheers.l


Now, my fellow citizens, / have given
you not speech, but rough outline of
ideas as they present themselves to my
own mind. If had time could, per-
haps put them in better shape; but have
given them to you as they occurred TO
me. But the simple question is whether
you believe that this is a country worth
saving; whether if you believe that this
Republic is worth restoring; whether if
you believe that it is we'll for the world
that America shall live; whether if you
will, yourself, do your part. How glori-
ously you have done it thus far How
readily you have come forward with your
resources! How promptly you have sent
your brothers and sons to battlei How
nobly they have gone! How gloriously
they have Fought What undying names
they have inscribed upon the roll of their
country's history! You have done your
part well thus far. God bless the army !


Enthusiastic shouts and cheers. God
bless the glorious people who have thus
far nobly sustained it! And shame and
dishonor to the man, whoever he may be,
who will refuse by his vote or his voice to
sustain it tomorrow Loud cheers.


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