46 pared, which will now be read to you ; and a series of Resolutions will be submitted for your consideration. I shall presently have the honor of introducing several distinguished citizens, who have been invited to enforce these resolutions by their eloquent words. Mr. SAMUEL SLOAN read the Address adopted by the Convention of Committees, which was deceived with great applause. Mr. A. C. EICHARDS read the Resolutions adopted by the Convention of Committees which were accepted with cheers. JUDGE DALY'S ADDKESS. The Chairman then introduced Hon. CHARLES P. DALY, First Judge of the Common Pleas, who was received with applause. He said : When two parts of a great nation have divided, and are arrayed in open war against each other, it is a waste of time to dwell upon the causes that have produced it. Having thrown all other considerations aside, and grappled together in mortal strife, nothing remains then but to determine which of the two will be compelled to yield. [Cheers.] There was a time when mediation and compromise were possible. It has passed, and it is of no consequence now who are responsible for the neglect or opposition by which that opportunity was lost. He that supposes that the South would listen to any terms of settlement now, except such as it is impossible for the North to grant, is a political dreamer. Nothing can be done now except what is done by military means. The South has taken its position, and it will not recede from it unless it is compelled to. Whatever Union sentiment may have existed there, it is crushed out, and there is nothing apparent there now but sympathetic unanimity and a dogged determination to persist in the course they have taken. Whatever doubt, hesitation or difference of opinion may have prevailed at first, the sentiment is now universal that they have gone so far that they cannot go back ; that they must now go on, whatever may be the consequence or the sacrifice. Everything with them, then, is reduced to a question of endurance, and the sooner we wake up to the consciousness of this state of facts, the more fully will we comprehend our own position and the obligations and duties that are imposed upon us. [Cheers.] Leaving out of view the political differences which may have incited and led to this war, what is it that the South have determined with such great unanimity to do, and which the North, with equal unanimity, have determined to resist ? Constituting but little more than one third of the population of the whole country, the inhabitants of the Southern States have determined to seize the largest part of our territory, geographically ; to appropriate to themselves nearly the whole of our sea-coast, and the mouths of nearly all our principal rivers and construct out of it a foreign nation. Of the eighty-
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