Year: 1862

promise Of 10000 men from each of tn


States Of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois


backed by the promise of the Presiden


OF the assistance Of tho whole power o


the Federal Government, that euables
them 10 defeat the efforts of the conspir
ators, and hold Kentucky steadfa,t to he,
allegiance. Had VIC been situated 6v,
hundred miles away, where would v,
have been.


Dr.. Breckenridge dwclt at som, length
on the fact that the late Presidential eiec
tlon showed by its results that there wa.
no hope Of giving the rebellion the char
actcr Of n revolution in whi.h the major
'ty of the people Of the seeded State.
ac1ulesced. If the people Of the fifteen
States had gone into the movement unit
ed'y, NO power on this continent could
have prevented thcirsuccess. Itwas no,
a national movement so that the whole
thing vas prec9neerted to accomplish bv
obtained by fair and open movement
sustained by the popular will. 1t was a
failure SO far as a concerted movement
was concerned, and the cry that it was
unanimous was false pretense upon the
part of those who used despotic power
to give 1t that appearance. They said it
was unanimous while an uncessinc wall
for dciiverauce come up from the South.
In East Tennessee it was heard from a
people who had suffered as no people ever
had sutf before for conscience sake,
1t was great mistake therefore to sup
pose there were no loyal people there,
and that all were Confederates in the
slave States. Though he himself was a
Confederate in that view, yet he doubted
whether more loyal man could be fouud
in the State of Onio.


The next great lesson to be drawn from
the condition Of the country, was in the
ability of the people to crust. the rebel.
lion, and restore the Uuion in all its in .
tegrity as it was before the war Who
ever can look at what has been done
within the past year, cannot doubt that
ability. The speaker reviewed in brief
the substantial pro yress made in that time
upon land and sea lie had never had
particle Of doubt that twenty millions Of
people IN the free and four millions of
Ioyas people in the slave States, could do
what they pleased with four millions in
arms against the Government. 1t was
an utter absurdity to doubt what we co d
and would do


lie drew a wide distinction between
the work of crushing the rebellion and
that OF restoring the Union TIE one
must be done by the Nation and is the
work Of war the other is a work Of
peace, and must be accomplished within
tAfnSs a d5ie ii ~IehIftsvv, llhtee. lhtee. latter mas
ed that would be the model upon which
the work of restoring the States would
b. { unded 1t shows that this is awork
capable of being done. We are solicit
,ous about the time it will take. With
US time is everything ; but we should re-
member that in the life Of Nations time
is nothing. England was six hundred
years in conquering piece in Ireland, if
they give US half that time everything
will be quiet in the Sonth. lie had call,
ed up these things simply that We
mi .ht not be discouraged in the work be
fore US.


There was another aspect of the con
dition Of the country that to him was an
extremely y remarkable revelation, and that
was the demonstration, on a grand scale,
of the character Of the American people,
in this great crisis through which they
are passing. Suppose the rebellion had
occurred in tie Roman or Russian Fun
pire. Here was conspiracy that had
been il preparation, with an Administra-
ton preceding its development, prepar-
ing the way for i, by scattering the navy
in different seas, weakening the army land
running its credit.


He did no. know whether it was thro'
the inb cilty or corruption Of that Ad-
ministration tha;this wasaccomp'ishei but
he knew that posterity would execrate its
memory. And yet, with all these pre-
celiu. advantages 10 its favor the rebel.
lion is failure, and We see IA free people
doing what had never been done by a
people before, aud what no nation had
ever done.


Nor were there any such fundamental
differences among our people as rendered
a separate nationality imperative. Great.
cr differences existed in the German EN-.
prc and in the Swiss Cuntons, and yet
they constituted natiOnalities. The slave
States had not all gone off in body, and
the border States were loyal to the heart.
1t was not, therefore, the difference ia
social systems that rendered a common
nationality Incompatible.


He considered the tremendous demon
stration of the military strength of the
people and their adaptability to arms, not
the least remarkable results of our pres
cnt condition We had mustered large
and he would add better army than was
ever brought into the field before, and
without compulsion. In France grea,
armies were raised by ccnscription in
England the press gang had been resortcd
to, and in Russia the knout; but her,
we're 100000 volunteers in arms, ant
500 900 more ready to volunteer, with I
clear conception of the consequences in
volved, and the bravery. the gallantry
and the heroism. displayed on the field
constantly rem inded him Of what th'
Duke Of Wellington once said. that when
ever he got into a scrape his soldiers 90
him ont. The world never saw anytl,in:


like it before.


Another remarkable development wa


the ability to sustain and carry on tn


war. With expenses nccruing at the rat


of perhaps ten thousand million a yea


tho credit of the Government increases


and its bonds are at premium. AM


when we add to this the contribution