Year: 1863




III. answer, who has hired thom to do what
the veterans OF the Crimea cannot do--to
whip The Moxicans. Lot tho votoraRs OF
Napoleon l., under Le' Glove, who were
whipped out from San Domingo, sny
whether they will fight or not What has
been tho demoralizing effect upon them,
as race. by their contact with white men.
/ know not; but cannot forget that their
fathers would not have been slaves, but that
thoy wore captives in war. And, If you
want to know any more about that, can
only advise you to try them. tGreat ap-
plauso.I Passing to another logical deduc-
ton from tho principle that wo are carrying
on war against alien enemies, meet the
question whether We thereby give foreign
naiions any greater rights than If We con-
sidered them as rebellious portion OF our
country. So far as the reboIs are concerned,
they are estopped from denying that they
are alien enemies; and, so far as foreign pa-
tions are concerned, although thoy arc
alien to us, they arc upon our territory, and,
until VIC acknowledge their independence.
4 there is no hotter settled rule IN the law of
nations, than that foreign recognition of
them is on act Of war. And no country is
more sternly bound to that view than is En-.
gland, which held tho recognition by France
Of our own Independence TO be an act of
war, and declared war accordingly. What
.heu, is the duty Of ueutrals; Lot us take
for example the English nation. They have
no treary with the rebels, no open relations
With thcm. They have treaties Of amity
and commerce with us. A contest arises
between US and our enemies, 10 whom thoy
arc strangers, and they claim to exercise the
same neutrality as il the contest wero be.
tween two nations with which they had
treaties Of anity. Let mo illustrate: l
bavo two friends who have got into fight
| am on equally good terms with both, and
do not choose to take part in their quarrel.
I hold myself neutral. But, suppose one
Of my friends is fighting with stranger, of
whom know nothing that is good havo
seen nothing except that he would fight (; is
it my duty then to stand neutral? It lie
not the part Of friend, as between men
nor between nations The English say, We
will not sell you any arms, because we should
have to SELL the same to the Confederate
States. To that answer, You have treaties
of commerce with us, by which you agree
to trade with us. You have no treaty Of
commerce with the Rebels. I insist tina,
there is q greater duty to US, considering
this as separate nation--an interIoper try.
ing to get admitted into the family of ma
tions. There is still another logical conse
quence which, in my judgment, follow
|, from this view OF the case. great cues
tion put to me has been: How are we to pe
' those men back :-how are We to get thi
n territory ?--how are We TO reconstruct th
n Union 7 think that is much bet,er OF
( swored upon this hypothesis than upon an
, other. There are two ways in which th
contest can be ended. One is BY re-revolu
tionzing given portion of this country, an,
haviog them ask TO be admitted into tn,
Union the other is TO bring it back by th.
triumphal car of victory. Whenever any
portion of the inhabitants of the South
shall become again part of the Union, and
shall erect themselves into State, and ask
Us to tske them back with such Constitu-
I ton as they ought to be admitted with, there
is no difficulty in it's being done. There is
no witcbery about it. This precise thing
has been done in Western Virginia. She
went out, aud stayed out for a while. By
the aid OF our armies, and by the efforts of
her citizens, she re-revolutionized, and threw
off the Government of the rest of Virginia
and the Confederate yoke, erected herself
into a State, with a Constitution which
believe is quite satisfactory to you, especial.
iy with the amendment, came back. and
has been received again into the Uuion. -
This is tho first, the entering wedge. of the
series of States which will come back iu
that way. But, If they will not come back,
we are bound to subjugate them. What
then do they become: Territories of the
United States. tApplause.l We acquire
them precisely as We acquired California and
Nevada; not exactly as we acquired Texas.
Was there aay difficulty in dealing with the
State of California Will there be any diff.
fculty In our admitting as new State. Ne
vada, when ready to como In. and ripe to
como ins Was there any difficulty in TAX
ing In a portion of the Louisiana purchase ?
viii there be any difficulty. when her peo.
Pile are ready. in our taking them back
again Will there be any difficulty In re-
constructing the Union, when those that
have gone out without cause. without right,
without grievance. that have formed them.
selves into new States, sad taken upon
themselves new alliances, are ready to re-
turn1 lam not for taking them back with
cut re-admissiou. feel as q husband
might toei, whose wife had run away With
another man. and divorced herself from
him l should bo unwilling to take her
again to my arms until We bad gone before
the priest and boen remarked. I have the
same feeling with regard to those people