Year: 1866

speech at Hagerstown, Nd. In thisspeech he


declared that for five years, byevery means
| in their power, the people of eleven States


OF this Union resolved and endeavored to


destroy this Republic and break down all its


glory; they determined to bre down the


Constitution and destroy the Union, and


ruin atd overtutn and overwhelm you and


me and every lover of the Union, and rule


us and carry everything they pleased.


Let us see in what way ''the people of
eleven Sratcs Of the Union" undertook to
do this. The leading men in the eleven
States referred to Saw. the antisIavery
element assuming such proportions as


led them to believe that they would not


have peace in the Union so long as the in,
stitution Of slavery existed in their States,
and with view of guarding that institution,
and for the purpose Of building up grand
Confederacy, they attempt towlthdraw from


the Union. To do 50, 'ior five years" they
used every means in their power" Had


Il cy succ ed, d. We ate told, it would have
de ,royed tn s Republic and broken down


al its glory" 1t would have done moth
ing OF the sort. 1t would have curtailed
the diners, NJ OF the Union, and then
would have let it much larger in extent
han what New England demanded it should
to under jefferson Administration. To
the extent our territorial limits would have


/ cen curailed, would our glory have been
diminished, and would have caused Repub-


lican politicians to be forever execrated, be-
cause they wonlc not consent to such COM


promise as would have secured us against


war and agairst disruption.


In a political point of view, the eleven


Stnt r,tn Pa, Of bo ITpto nj
are to us much more extensive than if they
were au independent Confederacv. They
are allowed no voice in the Federal Govern


ment, and we have dotted their country
over with Bureaus that are to he country
exceedingly costly. IT, then, there is any
force in the language of General Garfield,
this Republic must be considerably destroy
ed and its glory very much broken down.
Who is keeping it in this destroyed and bro
ken down condition? Not the President,
certainly. Since December last, he has
striven energetically to restore it to its for
mer strength and glory. In return for this
patriotic effort, he has been recompensed by
the recognized leaders in his party with an
impeachment of his fidelity to the party
that 'for five ycars'' did most fourishing
business as ''the unconditional Union par.
ty." The Republican leaders, therefore,
are holding this country in destroyed and
dishonored condition, for no other reason
than that their party may be perpetuated
in power. If they could have had their way
they would have permitted the South to
withdraw from the Union. The Washing
ton correspondent of the Phttddetphm
North american, about the time that Fort
Sumter was fired upon, said that all in
Washington, with the exception of Presi-
dent Lincoln, were for compromising or al
lowing the South to deport The call for
$4,000 men, Immediately after Sumter was
fired on was an experiment 1t was not
supposed that the people would respond in
the numbers and with the enthusiasm they
did Had they not responded the South
tcouu haze been dlloaoed to depart by the Re
publican politicians, who would have hailed
their departure as good riddance, believ-
ing thatit would give their party an almost
perpetual control of the Government
This is the truth as to their feelings. The
people, however, determined otherwise -
They determined that the territorial limits
Of the Union should be maintained, and
with it our Republican form Of Government. /.
That's what they went into the War for,
and the first object of the War having been
they will in due time see to it. that
the Republican form of the Government is
They will not permit body
of conscienceless politicians, to promote the
ends of party purely, to trust ''the eleven
States out Of the Union, they fought to
the death to keep in the Union. The talk
of General Garfield about the Southern peo-
pie ruling us, is nothing but clap trap, de-
signed to delude our people into justi6ca
tion of the disfranchsement of the South
ern people, 80 that his party may rule those
who are not identified with the Republican