Year: 1864

stand up and say that it was wise or well to
replace this administration in power. Loud
applause. Let us then assume that we
have gained victory. and inquire if with vic
tories this administration can restore peace
to the land. Applause. In the first place
you have seen how it has been in those
States that hare been brought back to the
Union; in the Border States that never went
out of the Union; and in those States which
gave to the Administration not only military
and pecuniary support. but even political
support. We have found that, precisely as
we have given the Adminstration political
power, in the same ratios they heve trod
down our political rights. a''Good-good. "
Applause.


When the Administrator went beyond
the effort to restore the Uiaen and maintain
the supremacy of the Constitution, and said
I'VE will drive the Southern people to des-
paration; We will unite them as one nan in
opposition to our arnies we will shed the
blood of our people, and ule upon them e.
nOrmous taxes in order that we may carry
out vindictive and revengeful policy Of
confscation, they do not stop at this.
There is no unconstitutional act passed in re.
gard to the South, that was not accompani-
ed by an unconstitutional invasion of the
rights of the people ofthe North. Cheers
When you said to the South, ''you shall not
have the Union as it was, when they said,
as the Attorney General Of my own State
said in this city few days ago, we do not
want the Union as it was, but the Union as
it ought to be, :" they also suspended the ha-
beas corpus in the North. When they pro.
jected confiscation for the South the courts,
laws, and Judiciary of the North were tram
pied under foot, your personal rights were
not secure and, for the first Time our homes
were liable to be invaded by the sub0rdin.
ates OF the Government. In Great Britain
the humblest hut in the kingdom, although
it may be open to the winds and rains Of hea.
ven, is to the occupant u castle imprcgnable
even to the monarch while in our country
of power is licensed to break within the sa-
cred precincts ofour homes


But look further. As said, armed op
position is driven from the field in Kentucky
Missouri Maryland, and parts of Louis
ana. And yet this portion Of country al


ready conquered requires more troops to
hold it under military rule than are deman.
ded for our armies to fight the embattled for.
ces of the Contederacy. If you will make
the computation for yourselves, from tho
proportion Of troops required to hold thesC
States, you will find that more men will be
needed to keep the South in subjection tC
the arbitrary project Of the administration
than are required to drive the armies of re
bellion from the field The peace you arc
promised is no peace, but 1t is "A condition
which will perpetuate and make enduring
all the worst feature of this war. They
have passed an act off conhscation.---
They say to the people Of the South, wher
we have conquered you, We will take from
you your homes and your property, anc
drive you out without shelter in the world.
This cannot be called war measure, be-
cause the property of people cannot be
contiscated until you can lay your hands or
it; Laughtery it is not measure to hell
our armies for the threat of contiscaton rem
ders the resistance to them more determined
and desperate.


But it may be said, when we achieve vie
tories, then We intend to be lenient. Bu
if you intend to be lenient after victory, why
did you pass these laws to hinder victory?-
lApplause.) But they have done more
They have said, we mould their institution
we will place them under military govern
ment. Mr.. Sumner would reduce the
Southern States to the condition of colonie s,
but Mr.. Lincoln says they may be admit ted
back as States when one-tenth of the popula
ton shall ask it and this onetenth shall gov,
ern, control and represent the State. But
if only one-tenth of the people are willing
to come back, who is to hold the other nine
tcnths in suhjugation? (Great laughte,
and cheering. At whose expense is it tc
be done? My friends of PENNSYLVANIA, il
you want to govern Georgia, if you want
to enable one-tenth of its people to exercise
this extraordinary power over the other
nine tenths, you must pay for the privilege,
you must give up your sons to the work.
You must give them to die Of lingering dis
eases, sickening and sad, far away from their
homes, without even the poor privilege
which they now have, of knowing that they
die upon the battlefield for the tiag Of our
country.


Every intelligent officer of our army will
tell you that the waste Of life is not SO great
during the most active service as in periods
of inaction, when the men are herding to-
gether i'll the camps, when the mind becomes
stagnant, and the system becomes peculiar
ly susceptible to disease Then it is that
the work Of death goes swiftly on. Are you
willing, men of Pennsylvania, to give up
your SONS to the slow lingering death OF
Sauthern camps--in God S name for what !
To inaugurate this monstrous government
Of one-tenth, in violation Of all the princi-
pies Of American liberty; to allow the ad-
ministration this precedent, dangerous to
yourselves, that it is wise and right to main
tain military suhjecton at this enormous
cost of blood and treasure. If this policy
prevails, you are to have a series of drafts
upon your population; you are to have III
creased burdens OF taxation thrown upon
your labor; you are to have a perpetuation
Of that maxim which men are not ashamed
to put forth, that monstrous libel upon oul
institutions; that in time of war there arc
no rights which the head of your govern
ment is bound to respect Read the Dccla.
ration Of Independence ; read your Consti-
tuition. When were these great principles
of public and private security established!
Where was it that you had worked out for
you the guarantees that were aftefwal is ell
grayed in the Constitution, that your rights
of conscience should not be interfered with;
that you should have freedom of speech;
that no nah should lay his hand upon youl
person unless he did by the sacred authority
of the law; that your home, though it might
be the humblcst in the land, yet all blessed
as the shrine of domestic love and affection
should be to you tower of strength secure
and inviolable. How were these great guar
antees obtained? They were won by your
fathers upon the battle field. loud Cheers. J


War does not extinguish libeyty. We
fought our war of the Revolution to win,
preserve and perpetuate liberty. Loud
cheers. War does not suspend the rights
of men; and he who dares to say that Abra.
ham Lincoln, at the head Of his enormous
armies may rightfully do what George
Washington would not do in the darkest
hour of the Revolution, does not know what
constitutional liberty is, Tremendous ap.
plause. The Union cannot be restored un.
der this policy. 1t is not possible to hold
TINT vast extent of country with its neculiar.