Year: 1863

The follwing is an extract from speech by
Mr.. Brough at Cleveland, Immediately after
his nomination:


The South has not gone into this war with
out an object For the last twenty-five years
they have been plotting the destruction Of your
Government. They desire ia change your in
stitutions, and build up an oligarchy founded
on African slavery. They had possession Of
your Executive, and turned it into an engine
to aid their purposes. They have forced the
present issue upon you and you have nothing
to do but to fight it out, or turn your backs
and submit to humiliating subsection. There
is no middle course. That man who is not
with the Government to-day, is against it,
"But," say these reasoners, "the Constitution
gives us the right to discuss and abuse the
Government, and we'll SOW the seed Of disaf-
fection in the army abroad, and discourage en-
listment at home andifyou prevent it you will
establish military despOtism." They are al
ready commencing their work. In the Con-
vention which preceded the Convention on
account of which / am now speaking, q COM
mittee oftwenty-three was appointed to draft
resolutions. One of the committee, am hap
py to. say, has stepped aside. [Cheers. Those





against the Government, and not one against
the sympatbizers with the rebellion. In an alb
stract way these men may have the right to
express themselves; but what right have they
more than the tories, who in the time Of the
Revolution, did all they could to thwart the
glorious designs of the heroic Fathers of the
Republic? What right have they more than
the members of the Hartford Convention, who
opposed our second stuggle for national honor
and national existence7 These men had per-
baps quasi legal right to act as they did;
and yet, now upon both generations there rests
the pail Of dishonor, the pail of shame, how
the taint of leprOsy has taken possession Of
their blood, and the brand of pollution is upon
their brows, placed there by Divine Justice,
as it was on the forehead of tho first murder
er that men might know then ever after =
[Cheers.


Let no young man go with that faction
None can afford it. Let him regard the feel
ings OF those who come after him. Let him
not give his posterity cause to regret his hav-
ing lived. Dishonor and disgrace win man
tie him and his children forever.





think of slavery as Othello said Of DeSde-
mona:


''Yet she aio else she'll betrsy men"
Slavery must lie slse it will make more wars.
Should we patch up peace now with the
burden of seryitude still carking 10 the nation
al existence, in less than ten years we would
be making war anew.


1t is wickedness to make peace with such
cause of dissension trameling our futHre pros
perity. 1t is wickedness to yield up that for
which our blood and treasure have been pour
ed out with fervor and generosity worthy
any age oil heroes. It is wickedness to sue
for national dishonor and national destruction,
when we should be straining every nerve and
devoting every capability toward the rein
statement of our national dignity firmly upon
its ancient throne, and those who are turned
aside by these selfish motives Of narrow and
suggestion will have something for
which to feel rentless self contempt as long IS
memory holds its power in their minds Cheers.


For many years, you are aware, l held
ideas of conservative character on this slavery
question. 1 have changed my views
now see the impossibility OF permanent success
in our Republic as long as any portion oft is
afflicted with the the leprous disease. Either
slavery must be torn out root and branch, or
our Government will exist no longer.