Year: 1863

difficulty in its being done. = There is no


witchery about this. This precise thing


has been done in the case of Western Vir-


giuia. She went out---staid out for a while


By the aid Of our armies, and by the efforts


Of her citizens, sherevoluti ,uized, she threw


off the government of the rest of the State


of Virginia; she threw off the Confederate


yoke she erected herselfinto State, with


Constitution such as believe is quite


satisfactory to all Of us, especially the


amendment. [Applause. She has asked


to come Back, and has been received back.


entering wsdge Of series of States which


will come back that way. But suppose


they will not come back that way. We are


bound to subjugate them. What then, do


they become? Territories of the United


States--[Great Applausel-acquired by


forcs OF arras-precisely as we acquired


California, precisely as we acquired Neya-


Thoughts we acquired Texas laughter,
and then is there any difficulty in dealing


with these men ? Was there any difficulty


in dealing with the State of California


when our men went there and settled in


sufficient numbers so as to give that State


the benefits of the blessings Of Republi.


can form Of government ? Was there any


difficulty in obtaining her, beyond our


transactions with Mexico? None whatever |!


Was there any difficulty in taking to us the


New State Of Nevada, when she was ready


to come and ripe to come None. Was


there any difficulty in taking any portion
Of the Louisiana purchase, when we bought


her first ? Will there be any difficulty,


when her people get ready to cone back to
the United States, Of our taking her back
again, more than, perhaps, to carry out the


parallel little further, and pay large sum
Of money besides, as we did in the case Of
California after we conquered it from Mexi-
CO? Or is there any uncertainty of recon
structing the Union? These States have
gone out without cause, without right with
ont grievance, and having formed themselves
new influences, l am noe for re.admittiTg
them back, or for having them come back
without re-admssion. | feel, perhaps, if


the ladies will pardon the illustration, like a
husband whose wife had run away with an


other man, and has divorced herself from
him, and cannot take her to his arms until
they have come before the priest and been
remarked. Laughter Ard have the
same feeling in the case Of this people that
people that have gone out but when they
will repent; and when they will come back,
I am ready to receive them And now |
have gone byfAr too diseursively over many
Of these points which desired to bring to
your attention, and let us return, not to
what might have been done, in the depart
ment Of the Gulf, to which you have so fat
tsringlv alluded, and to which will an
swer in a single word. While am graft


fed at the kind expression of your regard,
whether that expression is justified can be
told in a single word. When left the De-
partment Of the Gulf, set down and delib-
erately put in the form of an address, to the
people of that department, the exact acts
| had done while in their Department and
said to them, "I lave done these things"
and have now waited more than
three months, and have yet to hear
a denial from that department, that these
things were done. [Appiause.] And to
that, Sir, I can point alone, as justification
Of your too flattering eulogy, and to that I
point forever as an answer to every slander,
and every calumny.' The ladies Of New
Orleans knew whether they were safe has
any one of them eyer said that she was not?
The men Of New Orleans knew whether
fife or property were safe has any man
ever said they were not The poor of New
Orleans knew whether the moreywhich was
taken from Che rich rebels was applied to
the alienation of their wants has any man
denied that it was ? To that record point
and it will be the only answer that I shall
ever make and only do it now because
desire that you shall! have neither doubt
nor feeling upon this subject. 1t is the on
ly answer can ever make against thou
sand calumnies that have been poured upon
me and mine. To that record I refer for
my answer, and it is the only one to which
[ shall eyer refer to as an answer to and
against the thousands of calumnies which
have been uttered against myself and the
officers who worked with me for the good Of
BUR country. [Applause.]


And now l will say another word on an
,ther subject, in relation to the progress Of
he war and think if you look at what
,as been done for moment, you will see


hat the war has been progressing, and that


90, successfully to its conclusion. Look |
rom 1863 to 1862, and tell me whether
here has not been any progress. Zap
,lause.( Look at our changed position in
North Carolina-look at Port Royal and tell
ne whether we have not progressed. Now
hen, they hold none Of Missouri, none of
kentucky, none Of Tennessee for any val
lable purpose of supplies, because the wes.
ern part is in our hands, and the eastern
,art has been so run over by contending ar.
nies that all the supplies are gone. They
'old no portion Of Virginia valuable for sup
,lies-that is eaten out by their armies.-
We hold one third Of Virginia, one half of
Jorth Carolina we hold our own in South
,arolina, and think we shall, before the


of this month hold little more Ap-


lause.] We hold two thirds of Louisiana,
. wealth and population we hold all of
arkansas and Texas so far as supplies can
o to the rebels, so long as Farragut is be
wesn port Hudson and Vicksburg, TApa
lauseI and believe the colored troops
cid Florida at last accounts. Applause
nd cries of"good."l Now then let us see
. what the rebellion is reduced-to the re-
,ainder Of Virginia. part Of North Carolina
he larger part Of South Carolina, all Geor.
il Texas as said before being cut off -
low why I draw strong hopes from this is