Year: 1863

I ded that more than one nation should
ever occupy this country. He gave us


the lakes for our Northern boundary, and
the rivers stretching to the seas upon


whose waters floats our commerce to the
nations of the world; while man has done
all that can be done by science to bind
US together by means of railroads, which
extend like mighty links over all the


land. r-


You must conquer the whole country
or abandon the whole country; you must
preserve this as one Government or see 1t
rent into twenty or fifty different fac
tions.


THE RIGHT OF SECESSION CONSIDERED.


have not proposed to-day to argue
with you the question of Secession, but
say to you that that dogma so destructive
to the principle upon which this Govern
ment was established must be crushed out
or there will be no unity or national life
| hereafter 1 think old jackson settled
the question: of Secession when he knock
ed Calhoun and his argument down with
/ his proclamation.


/ think-every man in this land will de-
ny the right of secession. | had a talk
with an old friend, whom saw in this
audience a few minutes ago. | said to
him, "Do you admit the right of State
10 secede?" NO, sir. / do not 'Do
you admit the right of Washington eoun-
ty to secede from the rest of the State ~


No" Suppose she won't be coaxed
back ?" Il will use gentle force to bring
her back" "But suppose she has stolen
all your guns and asks you to come on
and fght?" 81 will just tell her, way
ward sister, 90 in peace Those were
John Van Buren's words but he has re-
pented of them. Now take that princi-
pie and apply it to the States how long
but it would be folly to ask how long
would the United States hang together
how long would there be two States pull
ing together? How long before you
would be cut into clans, with more chief
tains than the Roman Empire in the days
of its dissolution How long would you
command the respect of other nations or
of yourselves? The doctrine is too mon
strous to be thought of for an hour
When you talk to me and say, Don't CO.
cree anybody" Ianswer that we coerce
man for almost every crime he commits,
and why cannot you coerce the man who
endeavors to break up this Government
To say nothing about a constitutional ar
gument, common sense forbids the idea.
You may talk till you are hoarse, you
have got to continue as one Government
and united people or be divided into
factions, each subject to danger from ev-
cry other in the land. ..


THE DUTY OF EVERY NAN.


Then, is there any doubt in the mind
of any man as to his duty in this contest?
That is his as every mans duty to
to give his best efforts to the end that we
may settle the rebellion and build up this
Government strong again, as God Almigh-
ty disigned it to be, and what we are try
ing to make it.


PERORATION. ---.


This country, my friends, is the last
hope of freemen throughout the world
1t is the field upon which civilization
hourished and science begun to accom- |
plish its great purpose. The nations and |
people of the old world are marking its |
progress from day to day, as it enfran- |
chises man from every servitude. And |
you are going to give it up? Young men
can you afford to give to your prosterity a
heritage worse than your fathers gave to
you? If you can, you are faithless not
OQly 10 YOUR own ud1uOOu, DuI W Out /
God. You are bound to have one coun-
try, one flag, and one destiny. And
what country shall This be? What
but the country you had before the rebel
lion raised its paracidal hand to strike it
down? That country with the incubus
Of Slavery wiped away a country that,
like weary man that has laid down by
the roadside to rest, has risen again, and
IS marching on to its great destiny. What
lag? What other than that old flag,
which has given protection to your sires
md yourselves from the day of Declara-
ion to the present time. What flag, but
hat which smiles on your peaceful assem-
1lage to-day. Stand by it then, let it be
he flag of this Union restored, reared
loft to float forever. Or when it falls, if
all it must, let there be nothing around
t but crumbling walls, and nothing above
t but the Angel that shall speak the end !
# Time and the beginning of Eternity
Long-continued applause followed this
lequent peroration, which, as well as the
rgument of the speech, had evidently
made deep impression on the minds of !
hose present. Good music and other Q
peeches succeeded until late hour in a
he afternoon, when the vast assemblage
uietly dispersed.