Year: 1863

: But, my friends, there is another side (
q this question, that many Of you have nc
: thought about. There is nobody wanting t
arm men proepectively for thing Of that kind
q but there is something else going on. Do yo


know that at the time this rebellion broke ou


in the South, there was a regular organization


to extend the rebellion q little farther thai


the South? There were men at the time VIII


were deep enough STEPPED in vilAiny to a
5 least consent if the South succeeded in estab
/. fishing her independence then they would es
tablish Northwestern COnfederacy, and unit
with the South, if not as one Government, il
sympathy and feeling to arrange their com
mercial relations so as to crush out a certain
/, interest in another portion Of the Govern


ment. Have you never heard men talk in thi


country about Northwestern Confederacy


Have you never heard people say they believ


ed it would be best to cut loose from the Yan


kee States? Have you never heard people
say that we should have to cut loose, because
the Yankees taxed US too much to send ouI
produce to New York that the imposition o.


the tariff was such that we could not stand il
in the Northwest? Have you not heard thati
! If you have not let me tell you about it. Let
me tell you what it means. 1t means this =
That they wouId-at least some of the leaders,
for don't think the masses of the people ev-
er entered into such thing or ever would
| if they could only hold out the inducement and
could only make the people believe that these
rebels could not be put down and could keep
the Mississippi river blocked up so that our
produce could not go down the Mississippi /;
then if the rebellion succeeded, il would be
very easy to convince the people of the North
west of the necessity for a Northwestern
I Confederacy. The people Of the South would
have passed an act declaring the Mississippi
river free to the Northwestern States. That
would have been the programme The open
ing of the Mississippi would have been the
inducement, and the high tariff that would
have to be paid on produce by railroad to the
East, would be such an inducsment also, that
/ il is possible that the men of the Northwest
would have been carried off into the vortex Of
ruin by such sophistry and illusions That
was the programme. When the rebellion had
succeeded in separating the North from the
South, a howl would have gone out from the
Northwestern States, started by this set of
gentlemen, let US cut loose from New Eng
land we cannot afford to send our produce
in this way through that country let us go
South the people of the South will open the
great artery of the nation to US if we will on
y cut loose from the Yankees" With a GER
tain candidate for Governor of Ohio as lead
er of that faction, this would have been at
tempted in the Northwest, am sure. I do
not say he was in any conspiracy, nothing of
that kind nor do propose to give the names
of anybody. l only name him because he
would be fit man and would have accepted
the leadership without the least remorse of
conscience. When l was in Congress myself
great many men talked to me and told me
that we would be bound to establish North
western Confederacy-that there was an abso-
lutte necessity for it, that we could not stand
it any longer. But what have heard from
Southern men, what I have seen in Southern
papers, and the conduct of certain men in the
Northwest, has satisfied me that there was
perfect understanding in reference to this thing.
Why is it that proposition was made in Con-
gress-not in our Congress, but in the Con-
gress OF the so-called Confederate States
why is it that a proposition was introduced
there saying to the Northwest that if they
would only desist from the war, they would
open the Mississippi river to the Northwest ?
That was done in the Confederate Congress-
Some gentlemen in our, part Of the country
are in favor of it too. It only shows the pro-
gramme that was laid down to be carried out.


And these things are perfectly plain. If
men will examine, they will see for them
selves.


PEACE MEN.


You hear peace speeches made very often
TToo g.
am for peace as much as any one can be-
We will meet them half way and shake hands
on this proposition. We are both for peace.
But will tell you what sort of peace am
for. I am not for a Pieos Of a Country
Applause. 1 am for this sort of peace
Before the rebellion broke ont We had peace.
Before the rebels raised arms to fight against |
our government we had peace. While the |
Stars and Stripes foated from Maine to Cali
fornia, and from the lakes in the North to the |
gulf in the South, we had peace. While the
same martial music was played in every town |
and hamlet throughout the length and bredth |
of the laud we had peace. While we had one
army, one navy, one President, Que United |
States, one people, we had peace. Then, |
say, l am for the same kind of peace again,
and, so help me God, 1 want no other kind
Applause.


Now my fellow-citizens, that is the kind of
peace 1 am for. Applause.1 Now these
other gentlemen, who talk about peace, don't
tell you what kind of peace they want. Well,
can tell you. don't want any man to un- !
derstand by my argument that am striking
at any party or set of men. only strike at |
Individuals who are trying to ruin the country.
If, however, the shoes fit anybody, I can't help
it. This is a free country, he can do as be
pleases about it, l suppose. Now let us see
what kind of peace some men are for. Some
men are in favor of peace, expecting to gain
peace by stopping the further !" offensive pros
ecution of the war;" They are opposed to the
further offensive prosecution of the war. Their
argument is this a further prosecution OF
the war is unconstitutional therefore we are
for peace. They all declare this TO be their
position on this subject. We fought the bat
tie CT Thompson's Hill on the 1st of May, |
and whipped the rebels, that was an offensive
prosecution of the war. When we fought |
them at Raymond, and WHIPPED them, it was an
offensive prosecution of the war. The battle |
Of jackson was an offensive prosecution of the
war-it was very offensive to the rebels
Laughter. When we fought the battle Of
Black River, it was an offensive prosecution
of the war. When we invested Vicksburg it
was an unconstitutional act, being an offensive /
prosecution of the war. When we took thir- |
ty-two thousand prisoners we were beyond the |
limits of the Constitution very much indeed;
that was the most offensive act of the war, and
we ought to apologize to JEFF for having done
such thing. Applause.] According to
this argument, every battle we fought to open