Year: 1866

false to friend. I leave you here to-.
day believing that you viii not desert
me, and God willing, / will never desert
you. And now in bidding you good bye,
Invoke the blessings of Heaven upon
you and the people of the entire country.
As the President concluded ne was heart
lily applauded by, it seemed, the entire
crowd. Secretary Seward was intro
duced and was greeted with enthusiastic
applause. He said:


Fellow Citizens: never before had the
honor to speak to any portion of the peo-
pie of Indiana. am very sorry that
the circumstances under which
I appear before you are unpropi-
tious to speaking now, but there is
time enough left before passing from
this platform to the platform of the rail
road cars to call your attention to q sim
gle proposal, which if it should prove
suitable to the reflection of the American
people may guide as safely through the
subsiding excitement of great and des.
olating war to the calm and happy shore
of blessed peace. 1t is this reflection,
namely: in all other States and nations
since the beginning of time, governments
have been called into being without
popular consent by reason of the want
of education, intelligence and equality
among the people. Such governments
have been made so strong that they have
always tended towards the oppression of
the people. There was then no relief
against oppression except in revolution,
and revolution is incident to all govern
ments il the world, not excepting that
of the United States. 1t is often right
full in all other governments, while
it is always wrong in our own. We have
been blessed with measure of intelli,
gencs and equality, and with form of
government in which needful progress
and reform can be carried on through the
instrument of peace and peaceful meas
ures. There is never any necessity
aud, therefore, never any right of revo-
luton. Never In all countries the
object Of party is to prosecute reforms,
but in other countries they. are neces-
sarily presented by revolutionary means.
The tending of the revolution, however,
is to bring the government to the ground
that q new one may be erected in its
place. We cannot have a revolution
uCEo uO ouOOOoolul "iVh'
out the same result Therefore, there
can be no reform of our government by
revolution ary means. We had an insti-
tuition of slavery; a curse entailed on US
which we sought to remove by peaceful
means. The party upholding slavery
thought it right to resist by revolutionary
means the consequence We have just
passed through. With the blessing of
God and the valor of the people of the
United States, the virtue of the people
of the United Jtates and the skill of the
leaders of the army and navy OF the
United States, we have passed through q
reform through the agency of free speech
and the ballot.box, putting down and
suppressing revolution which sought
to overthrow the Government. The les
son ask You to draw from this rehec-
ii en- is, when any party of men seeking &
reform ask you to resort to sword, pistol,
musket or cannon, then recOllect they
are engaged in an effort to bring down
our blessed Government upon our own
heads. Can you imagine what would
have been more unfortunate to the peo-
pie of this whole continent if the revo>
luton at the South had succeeded? 1t
would have been said that the North had
not bravery,virtue or intelligence enough
to prosecute our reform through the con
stitutional agency of free spirit and free
suffrage Give us free spirit and a free
ballot and there sno measure of social
amelioration and progress which the
American people cannot accomplish at
some time. This government has not in
terfeIed to deprive any citizen of life,
liberty or property, for any purpose, ex-
cept to call them all into requisition for
the support and defense of the whole
American people You of Indiana have
new become border State. Before aud
during the war the border States were all
on the south side Of the Ohio and west
of the Mississippi. The result of the war
is that the Southern States are to be
henceforth loyal to the Union, while
prejudices and passions still serving the
contest seems to make the Northern
States unfraternali


The party were escorted to the depot
by committee Of citizens, and took the
cars for Louisville, kentucky.