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Hut (o crown l!io stupendous fraud
and wicked 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 r , the leaders said it
wns a glorious war for Southern Inde
pendence. We all thought tit oiio tiuio
that our inde pendence had been declared
on this hallowed day near a century
ago; that i 1 ft mccrsifiil achievement had
been admitted on the memorable Held of
Yorktown; that it had been secured anil
made perpetual in a written const itit
tion and an indissoluble Union, and that
we had re-sealed it with precious lilood
nndei lhe Old Hero of the Ilei milage in
a second wr w ith England. When and
where did 1 lie pcoplo of the South logo
thci. independence? on what field was it
cloven down? who was its conqueror and
usurper? and when did the peoplo iniiia
to a knowledge of their sad Iosk? Ah!
these wero words of chdnsion; hollow as
sounding hrnss or a tinkling syiuhol; and
qIih! they have beguiled t lit pcoplu into
the open jaws of a bloody and rc-
nioiselos di'Spolisni! Well Disy they
cry out in deep bitleress of Foul,
givu us that plain, old - fashioned,
long-tried American Independence, with
its noblo cdiliec, reHtin upon tho ltniHTS
of Man h ils foundation, its spacious
hnlls and corridors vocal with the fcbid
notes of free thought and free speech, its
altars crowned with the oll'erinna of free
will votaries, its grand proportions and
lolty domes lilliiiK llu! world with won
der and amazunmt, nnd iln prchiding
iretiius looUinp; with admiration on mil
lion of happy worshippers, rather than
that Southern Independence which builds
ils smaller temple on the narrow banis of
the l!uiin ok I'linr-MiTY, crowds the
cells and Rangwsys with tho victims of
a ruthless pcrNcctilioii for opinion's sake,
guards ils outer walla with free men
made conscript vandal against their will
by a iiiineiable edict of a despotic pow
er, revels in the smouldering ruins of the
states of ils friends, and looks with
marked respect and favor on tho rehis
ii nd truppini;s of royalty and rank.
Petty deceits and humbugs were, ns
numerous ns thn wants of rnch locality
required; they may bo properly men
tioned without comment, and then pcr
. mil teil to descend into the sewer from
which they sprang nnd to which thry
rightfully beloiiK. Honest people, were
told if they voted down the ordinance,
grain-growers and ntock-rnisers would
lose, tho .Southern market; men limits
" would hava to pay their Northern in
debtedness in current funds, nnd they
would hnve in turn current funds from
debtors; mechanics would loso the mo
nopoly in their trades, ami have rrater
compclilioii in Yankee workmen; learned
professors would lose their incomes, and
classic halls and retired dormitories o
to the moles and hnl-: preachers and
laymen would bo di-pi iv d of a jiart of
the prolits of u religious newspaper, or
Home other litllu pious machine lor ma
king money, and the opponents of the
jiicHSuro would be voting to put halters
nrouud the necks of the volunteers, and
vould biingoii tin iiiselves and children
a cloud of iiilamy, hs did the tories in
the days of the Kevulution.
Having', by these ineiins, and others
equally unfounded, deluded (oiiliding
and overawed timid Union men into tho
belief that the tiovernment was already
broken up, and the alleged grievances and
threatened outrages were sntln lent to e.
. cuho seei ssion and revolution, one other
thing had to be done to complete, the
direful woi k of the conspirators. It was
an herculean task, but they had master
workmen nuiong them, The people must
lie . latislied t hat success would crow n
their arms and cancel the guilt anil crime
of the rebellion. It could not be easily
shown how a ptoplc, numbering only nix
or seven millions, puuily armed and
' equipped, little used, comparatively, to
hard I a bur, much divided in sentiment
with three millions or more of slaves to
watch and tuke eaia of, having no man
ufactories, no navy, without ample sup
ply of provisions in time of peace, and
under the control id' a (Sovcrmncut will)
little credit, nt home, and none abroad,
could whip twenty millions or more,
armed, equipped and provisioned in the
best style, womb -i fully united on the
prosecution of the war, enured by cli
mate and labor to the severest hardships,
with the regular army and navy of a great
t iovcrnniciit, v hose resources and credit
were a!mo-.l boundless. Imt falsehood
and deception li.ui1 achieved voiulcis in
every ne, why could they not in ibis in
stance'.' lVmngogui a and bad men , have
deceived and misled the people iu. every
free tiovcrnment, why could they not do
si in this country?
It w as asserted that the North was di
vided in sentiment on the justness of the
w ar the South had many fi lends and
sympathizers nuiong the I iciuocrat nnd
liell men in high places a powerful mi
nority would mioii ham;, like dead wi ights
on the movements of the President aud
bis t'shincl, mill, iu due timr, a gr at
peaf c-pi ty w ould - pi iug np aud demand
the recognition of. the Southern (iovern-
luelit. hcte hive you seen any division
of sentiment on the prosecution of the
war until the t'oiistitut ion and the 1'nien
are restored, vxeepl among thp Abolition
leaders and the Abolition presses ?
here has there been the least faltering
in furnishing men and money ? No hih
cr had tho telegrapic u iivs announced
the tall ot 1-nit soiinlci, ami ttie l resi
dent bad suniinoiied the loyal in. n ol the
country to come t i tho del- nee of Ihu
Capitol and public propel ly, than avast
armV arose, like the hc'hland band of
Modern k l'hu, from loll and valley, city
and town, aimed for the cuiitlict ; and
raell uecessie di iii ind for tmops bus
been so promptly and lolly complied
With that the greatest powei in l.urvpe
r appalled at the polit ical igor and
Uilhlaiy atteugtli of the JVdi rul tiovern
tueut. No ptople have eei duplaveil on
important occaiiou orcuti gem in iu their
Malory, greater unanimity or greater en
thuniastn, for whether defeat or victory
lias attended their arms in Hits or that
battle, it alike nerved their soldiery w ith
Iresli courage and sent a new tlirttl oi
patriotic ardor through theirown hearts;
and it is now too well settled lor any ono
to be in doubt that peace will not come
but with the maintenance of the Consti
tution in ils supremacy, and the restora
tion of the Union to it former integrity.
Hut the superior valor of Southern
men more than counterbalanced, in the
opinions of the leaders and conspirators,
this marked disparity in numbers. It
was deemed quite, a moderate estimate
that one Southern man could whip five
Yankees or Northern men ;' and it was
neither clever nor loyal iu any getitlu
rnan of Southern birth to controvert or
doubt its truth. Noble young men Hock
ed to tho rebel standard tinder the belief
that the w ar would be a holiday of frolic,
and fun and fathrra and mothers cheer
fully gave up their sons and in many in
stances, virtually coerced them into tho
service, expecting their speedy return
with honor and fame cheaply won. Sad
and fatal delusion! The holiday has
turned out to be a carnival of blood and
death, and the weeds of mourning como
in the place of chaplcts of laurel. Who
arc these men of tho North, stigmatized
as cowards aud Hessians and what have
they dono memorable in (ha annals of the
world? However it may gall the crest
ed lip and imperial brow of tho South
ern chivalry, they are bone of onr bone
and llesh of our flesh: our equals iu con
flicts of war and our equals in the arts of
pence. They are descendants of that
noble band which bled freely and brave
ly, in tho war of thu devolution; they
trace back their pedigree to Ilia Anglo
Saxon race, that great family of nations,
whoso blood has watered more battle
fields for the lights of man and whose
genius and euerpy have contributed
more to the march of civilization than any
other race, on earth; they have sprang
from the memorable lino of enthusiasts,
which has given to human liberty the
unities and memories ol a Sidney, a
Hampden, a Warren, nnd n llayne, and
to Protestant Christianity ils brightest
examples of martyrdom; and they who
think that these men, any uioro than
the satno great race in the South, nro
timid cowards and poltroons, mi&takc
tho lich heritage of the blood that runs
in their veins and forget the brave deeds
that made their nii'estora illustrious in
tho pages of history. Who will say
that they have not maintained tho pres
ent war for 1 lie preservation ol t ons
titutioiial .Liberty, the honor anu re
nown ol the race, and more than vindi
cated their rightful inheritance of tho
classic glories of Lexington and Bunker
Hill? 1 hey have sullercd several hu
luililating defeats, but they havo gained
many brilliant victories ; they havo ex
hibited instances of individual cowar
dice and wid spread panic, but they have
given to the glory and renown of arms,
many heroic names and battlo-llelds of
uiillinehing courage and coolness; tho
victories of Pea liidgc, ItoanoLe Island
and Fort I'onelson, countervail tho dis
astrous defeats of Ball's Blulf, Oik Hill
nnd Bull linn ; and the stream of blood
that crimson tho hills and plains of
Shiloh and the wails of death that come
from the valley of the Chickahominy, fall
with crushing weight on lhe traitorous
leadeig and Iheir false aspersions of
Northern courage, (iivc to the South tho
same unanimity and enthusiasm of sen
tinient and purpose, give her tho same
arms and equipments, an equal navy,
and equal resources, and, above all, give
her the old national airs and the old tin
of tho Union to cheer Iter brave sons and
point them in the right way, and the bnl
liant pages of Grecian and Bonian valor
would not surpass her deeds and achieve
ments.
The stereotyped remark that Cotton
was King, wns the grandest cheat, the
subliiuest humbug in this branch of the
scheme of delusion and fraud. Cotton
was the Aladdin's lamp that would con
vert every thing it touched into ingots of
gold and precious metals; it was the le
ver of Archinidcs with the fulcrum that
the crent philosopher sighed for but never
found, with which the world could bo
turned backw ards and forwards tit pleas
ure. It was to render Confederate bonds
and notes equal to gold and silver, to
dot he, feed and equip in line stvle the
w hole nriuv, to break the blockade, and
keep open the Southern ports, lo starve
the (lovernmcnt of the I n tod Males in
to terms satisfactory to the Confederate
Slates, to force from England and France
a speedy recognition of tho rebel dynas
ty, and, if need be, to hi iug over, iu due
tune, tho navies aud armies of Queen
Victoria and F.inperor Napoleon, aud af
file war should bo over and commerce
and trade opened villi the North and
other foreign countries, it was to pour
swollen and overflowing streams of tho
precious metals into every nook and cor
ner of the Southern Confederacy. The
Prime Ministers of his Fibrous Majesty
wire not content with these encomiums
on lhe dignity and power of their mas
ter, lie regulated the commerce and ad
justed tho balances of trade between all
nations; be provided food and raiment
lor the laboiiug millions ot tho world;
be employed aud kept buoy the merchant
marine of all commercial countries; be
prepared the way for tho foot-prints of
the schoolmaster and tho steady strides
of civilization; be graded the road and
laid down the track into distant lands of
pagan and heathenish barbarism for tho
burning wheels of the Sion of Hod, and
though last, not lestd, be conferred oil
some few of the lii.it families in his king
dom the imperial brow and majestic
htrul of nobility . Wonderful king! For
tunate ami happy objects! It is cruel
indeed, to dmrobe thtt king and unde
ceive the subjt-t t, bnl truth, like Ithurii 1'!
spear of cel. dial tempi c. must unmask
1 1 10 w irked cheat and liunilm. W hat
ever coiiou may be, iu tunes of m ace,
and beyond donl.t is an aitnluof prune
necessity and ilium use alne, it is no
king in u war between the federal Union
and an armed rebeilieti of its di bided
aubjnls. Ancient kingdoms rose, Nour
ished and ft 11 in ignorance of tlui great
tipie; our revolutionary father! fought
through a long and successful war with
out ils assistance, and if its cultivation
wero suppressed to-morrow, the Bun
would perform its regular circuit in the
heavens, the solid globe turn on ils axis
as usual, and earth's babbling millions
find bread and raiment What single
ono of the vaunted promises has cotton
redeemed? Confederate notes and bonds
hafo to bo forced into circulation by mil
itary edict?, the army is badly clothed,
halt fed, and poorly armed; the blockade
is clleclual; the I nion bag still ample,
means, with unlimited credit; the swoll
en streams of gold and silver arc ttirned
into Moods of spurious bank notes; Lin
peror Napoleon would deeply regret, in
view of the equilibrium of great powers,
the dismemberment of tho Union and
the destruction of its rising navy, and
Queen Victoria would be glad lo seo tho
institution of slavery destroyed and the
main growth of cotton transferred to her
India possessions, neither one of them
having the remotest idea of linking lhe!
peace and prosperity of their people to
the sinking fortunes of an almost ex
hausted rebellion. Indignant wrath and
revenge have entered the bosom of the reb
el dynasty and individual fortunes must
perish, and wanton distress bo visited
on hitherto prosperous and happy homes,
because, forsooth, Queens and Lmpcrors
will not bow down and worship tho cot
ton king. President Davis aud his rebel
Congress have applied lhe torch to tho
palaco of the imag'iiary king; and so
the cotton cheat and humbug, the great
est among ils tribe, vanishes, literally,
into thin smoke nnd air, leaving its dupes
to gaze in vacant, wonder on the ridicu
lous delusion
Such were the means in the hands of
demagogues and designing men by whijh
the loyalty nnd patriotism of Tennessee
were overcome, and her people deceived
and misled into rebellion. Ambitious
politicians, influential judges, preachers
of every persuasion, editors of religious
and secular newspapers, parly hacks and
political fossiles of all faiths, were co-
laborers in 1 lie work or deception and
Iraud. Who noes not remember with a
sense of horror tho whirlwind of folly,
delusion and madness, which tho "spec
kled and piebald conclave" of dangerous
men aroused In the country, bearing
down all opposition, and overturning
the sturdiest loyally.' It was criminal
to indulge in liberty of thought; it was
expulsion from the country, and in some
localities death, to exercise the freedom
of speech. Jiespcct for tho 1 ederal Con
Stitution was disloyalty to the South;
devotion lo the Ciuon was high treason
against the Confederate Stales; reverence
for tho old stars and stripes was down
right toryistn, and a kind word for the
free institutions of our revolutionary
fathers was open and delimit antagonism
to tho higher civilization of the new be
public. Disunion struck deep ils roots
and spread wide its branches, and the
eftbivia, distilled from its rank foliage,
maddened tho brain and poisoned the
pure waters of tho heart. Loyal conger
vntivo newspaper! were excluded from
lhe public eye inflammatory Abolition
sluets allowed unlimited circulation
oi r own political press mnailcd or placed
utidir a despotic espionage free discus
sion on tho slump met and frowned
down by vindictive denunciation aud
threats of viulence menaces of death, or
some persanal injury, whispered in the
ears of timid and noii-eomply nig voters
hlo tickets of Lnioirmen threatened with
marks as indelible as tho spot on ths
brow ot Cain, and iu some places tho
business of voting placed uuder the con
trol of bayonets. Doe- s me inquirer ask
how came this luror or madness and tol
ly ? Tell U! first how Peter lbs Hermit
shook Europe lo it centre with the
phantom idea of redeeming the sepulchre
ol Christ; how the Ninth-hen bubble in
toxicated all England, from ths palace to
lhe noting?, ' with dreams of untold
wexlth, or how the Laughing Dance
spread its disgusting follies over every
neighborhood ia which it made its ap
Clearance. And lo this stale of the pub
lie mind, Tennessee was wrenched from
her honorable position in tho Union ao
cording lo the theory of secession, aud
her confiding and generous people, with
nil they held dear and valuable, were
committed to tho impetuous w inds and
w aves of revolution and civil war.
Tho country has been engaged iu thij
unnatural war something over onu year,
and vou cannot turn the eye in any direc
tiou that it does not meet sad memories of
ils presence. At quite an early period,
the arch conspirator in the tiull Slates
uttered the wai ning, that if w ar followed
secession, and they knew it would, ils
seat would be transferred and confined to
the border Slates, and Ihoy have been
sometime, and are now engaged in the
uioiis work of invoking; biuh Heaven (o
abitld them nnd their States from its di
rect ravages and hardships by visiting
the Union armies with the fatal malaria
and epidemics of (he climate. Truly,
Virginia, Missouri, Tennessee nnd Ken
tucky present in every walk, avocation
and pursuit of life, nnd in the (ace of the
country, shocking evidences of the fullil
ment of tho d aholical prophecy; and the
blood-spots on the hitherto staiuleas robes
of Ihcfo brave and noble States, more
numerous than the guilty drops on thu
hand and dagger of the murderous Mac
beth, wiel not out at the sanctimonious
bidding of Ihu Lady Macbeths of the
times. Ah! the ambitious parrici !es in
tho bloody tragedy now being enacted on
the Brainiest ttiratio of the world, have
more cause, as tho mangled bodies of
lathers, brother and son, with lni
trains of weeping mothers, w idow s. sis
tcra and orphans, pass in multitudinous
numbers before tin ir seared eye-balls, to
cry out with chattering teeth.
Hi. ii e ti'it ti. i ' il a it . I" o .'
llij f 'ljf I." Hi
than did dcwlihh Macbeth when the
ghost of murdered 1'anquo rose from the
rath ami nushed h-iii !nm bis banquet
,
Tl,; riwil w ar has taken a broad and
dei prang through our political, religious,
civil and social institutions, and its Ira' k
can be as easily traced as the avalanche
down tho aid of the mountain, or the
htiiTtcaii iu tho dvu-in forest. It has
ovci turned of suspended the a liuiuis-
(ration of civil and criminal taw, turning
loose crime without check, tvnishing the
ermine and imparing the iniluenee of lhe
Bench. It has broken up lhe land
marks of old parties, divided tho people
into new organizations of antagonistic
and dangerous elements, Snd swept into a
common abyss the cherished intellects
and jewels of lhe Common wcallh. It
has taken poscesion bodily of the church
nnd clergy, with now and then an excep
tion, and driven them heedlessly on tho
broad road towards destruction, present
ing to the Christian world the melancholy
spectacle of ministers, who heretofore
plead with burning eloquence and holy
fervor for peace and good w ill among men,
converting their sacred pulpits into ros
trums from vi hieh flow fieiy tides of de
nunciation, sedition and war to the death,
aud of -churches, which had been chosen
and bright lights of Chriftian charity
and brotherly love, vieing with eacli ofuer
as to which could dip deepest its pure
white robo in tho innocent blood of a
wicked rebellion, or could furnish the
largest numherof (icnerals, Colonels and
Captains to lead brother against brother
on fields of blood aud carnage.
It has flooded toe country with a spu
rious paper currency of untold millions
with no pretence of a specie basis ; it has
blockaded the channels of infernal snd
foreign Irado and commerce ; it has
brought on tho States and the citizens a
heavy indebtedness without nmple or
available means of payment ; it has pros
trated public and private credit ; it has
closed the doors of the work-shops and
broken up the business of inn chants and
small dealers ; audit threatens, in its
ramilications through all grades of in
dustrial energy and. life, indiscriminate
want and wide-spread bankruptcy. Why,
sirs traverse tho navigablo rivers, public
highways and lhe devious line of South
ern coast, and lenantless houses, deserted
homes ami plantations, uncultivated and
blighted farms, ruined walks nnd groves
deserted cities and villages, smouldci iug
dwellings, charred bridges, consumed
railway stations, wrecks of wntercrafts,
and burning crops, present a landscape
of diversed ruin for nn artist whose ge
nius delights in pictures of mingled
ginoke and tlanie. " Ils terrible effects arc
Been nnd felt it the various relations and
diversitied phases of Society. It has
destroyed confidence between i.cighbors,
servered long cberi-ed ft ii ndshipB, un-
bridh d silly nnd venomous tongues,
ttirned loose, in wild luxuriance and
without effective restiuint, tho most vi
cious J passions, generated innumerabhi
malignant cliques, implanted in honest
bosoms envy, malice and hatred ; im
paired lo a woful extent public and pri
vate morals ; divided families into vin
dictive foes, put old friends to gra-ping
for each others throals, installed a regu
lar system of exngcralion and lying,
sanctioned the breaking of solemn oaths,
fatnilized the public mind with tho pil
lago and plunder of marauders; iu a word,
it has converted lhe domestic and so
cial circles into coiilinuous and dcplo-
roblo rounds of bitter feuds, implacable
animosities, and now and then secret
assassinations, with lit tle desire or ellort
in man or woman to chango or modify
them.
Visit ils hospital, i s camps, and ils
hundred bat tie-lields; behold ils engines
of death, its heaps of slain, nnd-ils hud
died crowds of the sick, wounded and
dying, and trace back their cll'i cts on once
happy lauulies and circles ol It lends and
relatives, l tie armies or iraicrnai oioou,
now made hostile by designing men, aro
ready and panting for the conllict; they
are armed alter inventive genius and in
domitable i energy have exhausted their
utmost ingenuity and skill to discover
the most destructive weapon!; tho long
ranged artillery plows ils deep fin roughs
through the advancing column-; the light
anus drop the dead, like leaves in au
tumn, thick aud fast on tho ground; the
bayonet charge closes the massive lines.
and for a few moments ot horrible cam
age and suspense, death grapples with
death, kindred blood grapples w ilh kin
dred blood, then th rout and pursuit
neighbor pursuing neighbor, friend pur
suing friend, brother pursuing brother,
with the shouts and murderous blow ol
victors of the field. The Massachusetts
Puritan and the South Carolina Cavalier
meet, bill to hilt, in deadly conflict, they
fall to tho earth locked in each other's
nuns, they become fiiend in the honest
hour of death, their heart's blood ebb
and Hows out iuto one common stream,
their bodies fill one common grave, am
their disembodiedspirits ascend throu
the nir, side by side, to the bosom of
Almighty (iod. Scarcely have tho mad
denned mass sank into silence under the
dust and sm ke nnd exhaustion of the
day, when mothers ami sisters, wivi
and daughter, are seen flitting to and fi
among lhe living and the dead, and the
shouts of joy over loved ones found, and
the wails of sorrow over loved oneasla't),
mingle i i hideous harmony with the
groans ol the dying una lh song of the
victors. Tho quickened beats of tho tcl-
These, are the ripened fruils of sec
tional sgitation, the poisorjed Waters from
the lountains of secession and disunion,
Ilia distress and desolation of groundless
rebellion, lhe distinctive ravages and
woes of civil war. Piace them iu one
scale nnd your grievances and wrongs
under the Union in the other, and whiih
will outweigh? Bring before the mind
the innocent blood and precious lives lost
in Ibis war, and the leaders and their
counsel that brought it on the country,
and which will command the highest ro
specl anil veneration? But wh can fore
tell what unknown calamities and un
speakable horrors, a continuance of lhe
war may add to the cups w hose bitter
contents we have drained to the dregs.
The fell spirit of abolitionism,
t'a iU 'eii'u'.
h ii I ! ti, ni iHcnm, pttiai kitig of ivi'ryii'i
li.-t liai u nan 0,
egrapli convey to distant homes and
fiiemla tile casualties and losses of tho
day, and joy and grief, like light nnd
cloud, follow on the heels of each pulsa
tion, the light anil joy perhaps to be
swept away when the trembling wires
cease t.) fed tho shock of the battle. en
arable fathers bow their heads uuder a
heavy weight of alllietiun; doating moth
ers look to the evening of life with no
ray of comfort on this side of thu grave;
allectiouate w ives lind relief from over
burl tiened hearts in paroxisms of insani
ty; genii kiateis penult nu one to lake
the place of a buried brother in thrir
aching bosoms; homeless oiphan till the
streets and highway s with their ti ars of
sorrow and their cries for bread, and
commonwealths are c lothed in sackcloth
and ashes over the frightful havoc among
their bravo and promising young men.
Standing this day amid the broken hearts,
' w rei ki d hopes and vv ide-rpread ruin of
the rebellion, and looking to the long
train ( f woes and evila that are to follow,
who dors nut feel like ul til ing limn the
depths of l is soul the bin nil.; w ords of
tho poet,
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feiyunt .iiu,m It tabu li. t.,.1
has appeared in open day in thn hulls of
Congress; it has taken fresh courage by
tho absence of the Southern States from
their appropiiatu places, it has gloated
over and bun invigorated by lhe blood
and carnage of tlm rebellion; it has
plnn'cd its unhallowed feet on all the de
batable ground of the Constitution, and,
considering the probable influence of a
persistent and stubborn continuance of
tho war, the increased madness of the
South, an'd a consequent madness r.n the
part of the North, may entail upon the
countiy lhe lerrilic horror of servile in
surrections and servile war. Let us hope
thnt the seal of this book will not be
broken, let us pray that Ibis lust vial of
unmingled evi! will not be empted ou our
hearthstones and family altars; let us al
un:te,heart snd hand, to rescue the Consti
tution from thn remorseless clutches of
Abolitionism, and tho Union from the
jaws of an unnatural rebellion. Why
continue the conllict and endanger still
more tho institution of slavery? Why
sacrifice more men and money on lhe al
tars of tho idol ol lirc-eateis and dis-
unionists? Why resist longer the over
whelming armies of lhe Federnl (iovern
meut, or attempt to delay the certain
doom of ttie rebellion.' ho is so blind
to the signs of tho hour that be cannot
see the word "failure" written on every
fold of tho rebel Hag? who is so deaf to
the thunders of tho 1'uion arms that ho
cannot hear the shouts of victory along
the entire line of tho two armies; and
who is fo dead to the impultes of a lofty
and disinterested patriotism, that ho
does not feel his heart lit up with hopo
and joy at the prospects of saving the
Constitution and restoring the Union?
The phantom of a Southern Confederacy
lias had its nsy ot delusion and blood
it has beguiled and misled thousands of
good and honest men into ruin; it will
soon bo a frightful dream of tho past
and many of tlioso who now look upon
the departure of the phantom as a sad
disaster, will regard it in years to come
ns a great and abiding blessing. The
(iod of nature has so cut the channels of
our great rivers, and piled up our lofty
mountains, that two rival and hostile re
publics could not exist long in this coun
try, and yet preserve the true spirit of
free ( .lovernmcnt. The two sections re
so connected with and dependent upon
each other, that no treaty could establish
permanent peace between the people of
tho two Governments. Border wors
would devastate each side ol llio divi
ding line; large standing armies would
become matters of absolute necessity,
heavy taxes and permanent conscription
laws would soon impoverish and subdue
tho people, aud, in some popular commo
tion, a ta sar or a Napoleon in ambition,
would spring up and put himself at tho
head of the army, and, a military despo
tism would bo erected on (ho ruins of
freo Government. Such would be tho
inevitable destiny of the Southern Con
federacy, even if ueace was preserved
between itand the Northern (J jverninent,
for it carries in its bosom the scciU of
anarchy and of its own destruction.
But we need not dwell on Iho-diro ca
lamities and consequences which would
follow a permanent disruption and divi
sion of our great and hitherto happy
country. Few there arc outside the rebel
army who think that tho rebellion can
much longer survive tho powerful and
deadly blows which havo been for mouths
pt and are now beinir given to it. Ill
reeling and tottering, like a drunken man,
to its fall, and it cuniiot be very long un
til all life, all spirit, all vitality, will be
extinct in it brused and mangled body.
Tho largo Union army, with the aid of
tho war vessels and gunboats, has com
pleted thn circle of (ire and sword around
Iho very heart of the rebellion J it is daily
and hourly contracting and narrowing
the lines, and soon tho roar ol artillery
and the deep note of victory at any
point will b heard around the whole cir
cle. Barely in tho history of military
campaigns, ha such an almost unbroken
series of victories crowned lhe march of
any great captain, or combination of
great leaders, a has attended the Union
army on land aud water since the Moony
battle of Mill Spring, wheie many bravo
Triineasecans fell to rise and mingle with
us no more. This victorious army has
complete control of the entire Southern
coaats, blockading tho ports and holding
the must important town and cities; it
ha substantially captured the great
Father of Waters, aud ilotillas and gun
boat now plow it turbid and boiling
current from the mouth lo Cairo, divid
ing tho rebellion iuto two parts, and
opening up this great channel of com
merce and trade to the w hole valley of the
Mississippi; and llalleck, Buel, Morgan,
i'ope and McClellan aro moving south-
urd w ith their triumphant columns, and
at the same time and in concert, column!
. . . . i ... . i. .
art) coining noainwaru irom me
line. If it be km snd proper to jude
tho future by tho event of the past and
tho ndiablu signs of the present, h can
doubt but that the rcbclliou will I
crushed, bene and muscle, in body and
spirit, between thosa ponderous weights,
It li.av be that heavy disarlx rs w ill U-fall
the advancing column ; it may bo that
Ihunsanda of brave soldier will ;.";'Jr: ut
iheir Me bln.as)ii hard fought, ytt uu
fortunato Cell's ; it may be that thu cir
cle of lire and g word will bo broken al
sum unguarded point; but there will
spring up lrom the grave cf tl.s slam,
!f from tho sown teeth of the Dragon,
Iwo armed men for one to fill th vacant
places, the circle will be speedily re
united, and the doom of tho re he I i ion,
only signalized with other hecatombs of
priceless victims, and tho restoration of
the Union, with additional baptisms of
precious blood.
Our illustrious ancestor indobrd tho
food hope that the nobio (.oveiutueiit
they Wrought out for thuiiselvi s and
their remotest descendant would at nil
times have the iwer and ability to de-
na ana protect itself against over
throw; but they had not, funned, iu
their brightest visions of Its future
grandeur and greatness, any just con
ception ol the political power and mili
tary strength w hich it has displayed in
this fearful crisis. We were ignorant
of them ourselves, our Lest informed
statesmen did not fully comprehend
them, and the powers of Europe grelly
underrated them, lieing oblivious for
the time to the sad causo which called
them into action, who can contemplate
the inexhaustible resources, the immense
army and the invincible navy of Iho
Fed ral Government, and not cherish
emotions of pride, wonder nnd admira
tion. Who can transport himself back
lo the origin of our free institutions and
behold tho little rivulet now swollen in
to an irresistible torrent, dashing down
mountain sides and along ravines, car
rying everything before il, (he twinkling
star now grown to be tho full-orbed
planet, rolling onward and upward, its
ponderous weight of light, the grandest
and greatest among tho luminaries in
tho lirniauicnt, and not feel his soul
kindling into rapture at the thought that,
this great people are my brethren, and
Ibis grent country is iy inheritance.
When the war shall havo been terminat
ed and the States reunited in tho bonds
of a harmonious Union, what a magnifi
cent work will have been accomplished.
Tho foundation of our liberties will bo
widened and deepened, tho bonds of tho
Union strengthened and made more in
dissoluble, the national flag rescued
from the dust and elevated lo tho zriiith
of dignity and honor, our name and re
nown in arms, on laud and sea, become
in a pre-eminent degree the wonder and
terror of tho decaying dynasties of the
Old World, our exnmplo of self-government
made forever the fixed Btar of
hopo iu the vim of tho lover of freedom,
iod unnumbered centuries of united anil
happy celebrations of this day added to
thoso which have already passed.
Where do wo find on Ibis day, our own
beloved State, and w bat part will she
take in this great work? Ia an hour of
folly and delusion Teiinesseo wns driven
by adverse winds from her anchorage in
a peaceful and secure harbor, and for near
Iwelve long months she bullelted the
stormy rea of revolution and civil war
under the guidance of nn unfa'thful anil
treacherous helmsman. Many of her
crew died from disease, or were slain in
battle, her precious cargo was scattered
far and wide on the angry waves, and the
noble little vessel itself carried into tho
eddy ing circle of Iho whirlpool; anil, in
this condition, her helmsman inglorious-
ly abandoned the deck, leaving crew, car
go and all lo extricate themselves, or go
dow n into tho bottomless abyss. But,
thanks bo to stronger arms and better
rouncils! We lind her people this day
readied from tho imminent, peril, nnd
struggling to get back into the old harbor
in hope of preventing further destruction
of property and further i llusion of blood,
and wlio does not seo that this Would bo
speedily accomplished, but for prominent
and disloyal men, who mislead them into
revolt aud civil war, and still oppose
their return to Iho Union.
Disloyal Mkv ok 'JVa'skssle : Will
you, iu view of the groundless causes,
enormous evils, and hopeless prosper Is,
still urge the further orosceuliou of the war
for the ends and purposes of ambitious
and selfish leaders? How many more
lives must bo lost, and how much more
blood bo shed before you will be ready lo
cry "hold, enough?" How innny more
bright stars of genius and promts must
bn blotted out of our brilliant galaxy
before tho wild Utopian dream of a Soul h
ern Confederacy will cease I bewilder
your heads and hearts ? Aro brave and
generous Tennesseeans to remain much
longer uuder all odious and despotic con -
icription law, as a living wall of ih fence
around the political and military leader
of the rt hellion ? Have you not already
enough innocent blood on tho skirts of
your garments, to make your pillow any
thing but one of peace and repose? Poll
der these solemn and appropriate ques
tions and answer them wisely lo your
own sense of duty. Il is not my purpose
to inquire on this occasion what you
may have dine ti embark our belovi
Male in the revolution and fratricbl
w ar, imr w Let her you were the authors or
vic tim of delusion and deception, but to
implore yon, whether tho one or the other,
to maku this day memorable in your lives
by rt turning to your loyally and to your
w hoio country. Few there sen in thi
part of the State who were not over
whelmed or prostrated by tho fury ol the
popular storm, and fewer still who stood
firm Slid erect, like the feturdy oak, with
no weather-beaten side to indicate III"
direction of the current. You must, know
that tho storm ha passed away never
to return aaiu in all human probability,
and you inuat admit that ample time hat
ha been given to remove all piejudice or
deluaiuu, and to allay all patsion; afi 1
if you still persist iu your courae of dis
loyalty aud revolt, no foresight can tell
what moment you may bo ciuxhcd be
neath the wheels of nn incensed and out
raged Government, or trampled in the
dust by tic counter revolution of an limb -reived,
Ix-rcav-d and enraged people, lie
ware how yon longer dally w ith the r'n In
ciicy and tol lu-ai ant e of thu Government,
ami how you presume lunger to revile the
time-hnnortd Hag of tho country!
Fl'.IKsUS AND LOVKIH n 1 II K I ! :
I el the impics-ive recollection of the
day n mind you that our fr. e institution
were 1'iiri baaed at the saertlo e of lum h
puciou blood and tna.iire; that they
hlVA l.M-M- tL I r IIMII. i I I;., I to us I'V lirevmi
tW.-i infant, with open months and up
lifted hands, will beseech us In hand
1hem down, unimpaired, to theirday snd
generation. In achieving Ihtm, our fath
ers toiled null bled Ihiiiuh seven Year
of triumphs and reverses, of long march
es and wearisome, ic treats, under buvnioe
suns and over l, cn ground; and will
you falterin tho work of preserving am!
transmitting them to your pos'eiitv be
cause lhe arrow if calumny and abnsn,
dipped in the gall and malevolence ol
bbghfvd ambition and humbled piide,
fail thick' nnd f.il along Tour pflilnvtiy'.'
They uaied tho haughty frowns of piui
ces and nobles; can you not enduro the
silly insoliueo of ietty traitors and re
bels? They faced the i atl tv of British
musketry; can you not despice with
complacent si orn tho harmless venom of
disloyal tipgurs? They quailed not at
tho mouth of tho cannon; and will you
fear tho paper bullets of a prostituted
press wrapt in smoke? Gird up your
strength, shako from your limbs the let
ters of doubt and fear," look steadfastly to
the end, mi. I come bravely ond manfully
up to the gn at work. The profomvd woes
and sorrows of this bloody unrl uncles
war w ill soon bring a ti ne of calm reflec
tion and thought, of painful regrets Cor
the past and hopeful visions for tho
future, and when that day comes, the cb
uliliou of billernesa and strife must and
will subside. Tho lime has been, and
w ill come again, when you and your de
luded countrymen w ill alike look to tho
Federal Government, with ils veteran
army and gigantic navy, as the surest waU
of defence against tfm ravages of civil and
foreign wars; to theCoiiMlitution as tho on
ly brond and firm basis of Iho American,
system of si'lf-government; to the Union
as the smitten rock from which gush up
tho living; fountains of national mid indi
vidual prosperity nnd happiness, and
will together follow Ine Stars and Stripes,
as did the Israel of (bid the nillar of
cloud by day and thn pillar of firo by
night, to higher nnd nobler developments
of American Liberty and Civilization.
Wo have much lo cheer drooping hopes,
inspire trembling hearts, mid nerve fecblo
arms in the bright dawn of light that
skirls the horizon, ami promises a el ud
Icss day of hope, nnd peace, and joy.
Let the noble b it q i', w hicli our ances
tors launched this day eighty-six years
ago, and freighted with a cargo more
precious than prici less gems and jew els,
hut pass unhurt this strife, Ibis shock,
this Icnrlul reef, this last rock of dan
ger, and a houhdliisa ocean of deep S!1'J .
quiet waters will spread out before its
voyage, w ith gentle winds and waves t i
salt it on ; ami one and all, from hill
top nnd valley, bainlel and city, will
unite as In happier days, in one deep,
grand shout, to th" old voyager
" Hll .11
I Ml Ill"
, imr It-ir ta lin-'i I ll.. wi !
r i-. "ur lull.,. . u.n pny r i, mil" 0-a n.
rl"i . if ililliCui il ' Vr i ur (V .11
lilt Hill. Ill I-, .! till Willi tin
generation, grtatly eiilnmed lu value and ! your I
Lami'.;: Tho array of blight ryes
and sad laces, which overhang this vast
assemblage, like sunshine snd cloud, be
tokens that the angel of dm III has let
II y a shaft here unit I here in youi- midst.
If you have tempted or dared this sad
trial of his archery, blame not tho arch
er it the shall lias l.illen at your door,
anil the cloud gathered over your house-
Id. J he excessive ze.il and per-iub nt
fervor of many Southern l.idie, will lie
the most inexplicable luysteiv of (he
Ii'ebcllion in future times. What juat
ground or reason have they for falling
out with il, or breaking up the Fcdcii al
Government ? in no oilier country has
woman olUincd equal dignity and in
fluence ; in no other government has her
wants and comforts In en so carefully
provided for and protected. Woman
was not fashioned in her sweetness of
voice, her gentleness and purity of heart,
refinement of intellect and exquisite una!
of person to sound the w ar-cry, to bid
brothers shed each other's blood, to plot
treason and rebellion, or to dare Iho
perils or mingle in the havoc of buttle,
i. allies, you tan do much towards pro
longing the war and increasing tho
pangs of private gr ief ; but you can do
more l slay lis bloody inln and soften
its bitter sorrows. Hher shall will bo
speeded to the fatal mail,, and other
clouds will come galbeiing and rest over
your city. Dntilul daughter, that ven
erable foim w hich you loved and revered
fioin the cradle, may pass away never to
return; allcclionaln wile, that. SHolig
arm of manliness an I robin bearing ou
which you have hung dining the happi
est bonis of life, may (all and leave yon
tvilhoiit hope ; kind mother, the casket
of cheiished family jowels may fie bro
ken open, and the hriehb-t eem f (h
group be (lashed iu pieces. Let Inn be
eeei h you in the name of Christian hu
manity to line up in your strength and
B-"i' l us ill stoppin'; i he unnaiuiai war,
and bring back your fathers, husbands
and sons to the pea-e nod salety ot qui
et, happy lioim s.
Soi i n lis or 'I in. ; si ( jii.mv : Yi u
are welcome, thrice wil nine, iu this spa
cious ball ou this National Pnihday.
Whether you come from the one Stato or
another, w In Iher yoil dw ell on the anow-
lad hills of M.iio" or tho golden stream
of Caliloinia, w hi tin r you l..vor the same
or dill', rent local ins'ilotions, wo are fel
low -countrymen th" same gri n' Pepub
lie, speaking one language, pr iilesiuK one
hiisllaiii'.y, arid bound together in the
bonds of p' i p ,"J' ' '"'on under Iho mini'
Nalinloil l 'ons'il ul i "il, Willi one honored
II. ! lloat in,; oi cr in, and one grand des
tiny a w ai' nig us. Tli i i I your da y ; t hr
is our 'lar, I' is the bn lb-right iuln i it am n
uf all tine A no i ic i:i fni no u, and wher
in r it is ('lihialid, they are welcome,
thrice w i home.
y, i.. M woi anhGi.vi; trvu.s "i' Tiia 1'iTv
Ccl '.. Ii. : You have, Hi the appointment
of this cell liiation, as well a in a more
unmistakable manner, il'osti ated your
n ver. in . f ,r th,' iiob'e louiidcr o' our
1 1 1 e in I ul i on-, your loyally lo llie I 'd
Hal Constitution, and Jour devotion lo
the Union of the Males, wnimin II"'
abiding coiivn tiou that the memories ol
the hoiimed (i-ad in ""'' cel..' ! '
last. n,; than Una leeobccuoiia
Uv ' thai the s lid fooiid.tm:! ft
aoii'ul t 'l'V of P o k "'t
lll.t lie
of lb.
consecrated with additional liieiiioiu
and glories; and that million of yet on-
locai,. r or I.m.c r
ytem ot s- II goVi
liian t' e Lii hi oui
, nt; that the plot.
