81 have come in their majesty. Th*y have " come as the winds come when forests are rended.'' They have ** come as the wares come when naries are strandvd." We are here to-day, not to speak and acclaim, but to act and incite to action. [Appliose.] We know that this monster rebellion cannot be spoken down ; it most be fought down ! [Cheers.] We are assembled to animate each other to renewed efforts and nobler sacrifices in behalf of our imperiled country. There is hardly one of us who has not, at this hour, some endeared relative on the bloody fie:ds of Virginia. The voices of our armed and suffering brethren literally cry to us from the ground. To-day we hear them. To-day let us h ed them. [Applause.] The call for fresh troops comes to us from aloved and trusted President from faithful and heroic Generals. [Loud cheers.] This day determines that it shall be answered. [Renewed cheers.] Let each act as though specially commissioned to obtain recruits for a sacred service. [Applause.] Fremont- is here. You have heard his voice. He has told us to uphold our Government and sustain our Generals in the field. Whatever officer uiay go to battle with the President's commission, will be made strong by a loyal people's prayers and confidence. [Loud cheering.] The army and navy, the President, the Cabinet and the Congress, have done all that can now be effected by them. The issue tod.iy is with the people. Do you ask activity on the part of the President ? Recall his personal labor and supervision in the council and the field. Do you seek a poiicy ? Look to his solemn conference with the loyalists of the border State?. [Cheers.] Do you demand legislation? Witness the matured laws that Congress has spread upon the statute-book. Ajurist from the bench of our highest tribunal once declared a maxim which shocked the country aud the world. It is ours, with our representatives, to respond : A RKBKL ' HAS xo RIGHTS WHICH A WHITE MAX is BOCXD TO RESPECT !" [Loud and long continued cheering, with waving of hats and handkerchiefs.] A traitor cannot own a loyalist ofany race. Xor can " service be due " to national conspirators, except at the call of public justice. [Laughter and applause] The limits of civilized warfare must and will be observed ; but those limits are broad as the boundaries of the ocean, and they lie far beyond the lives and the treasure of traitors in arms. [Cheers.] In this mortal combat between the enemies and the friends of republican liberty, wherein treason scruples at nothing, patriots must neglect no means that God and nature have placed in their hand?. [Loud cheers.] These institutions were reared on the ruins of British pride. Their foundations must be reconstructed on the crumbled pretensions of southern oligarchs. [Renewed cheers.] We mast, and we will, repel force by force. Tney who press an iron heel upon the heart of our noble nation, must perish by the sword of her avensjin? sons. God grant the time may be near when every rebel leader may say his prayers, and bite the dust, or hang as high as Hainan. If we are wise, and true, and brave, the American Union, like the snn in the heavens. shall be clouded but for a nieht. Still shall it move onward, and every obstacle in its pathway be withered and crushed. [Renewed and continued cheering.] Victory, indeed, cannot be won except by arms. Our institutions were the gift of the wounded and dead of the armies of Washington. Shakspeare said, and we re-utter in a higher sense, " Things bought with blood must be by blood maintained." Look to our armies and rally the people to swell their wasted ranks. Go. you who can. And spare neither men nor money to enable others to march to battle. [Cheers 1 Let loyal men permit no question to distract or divide them. Care not what a mans theories may be, so that his heart feels and his hand works for the I men. Kverv citizen. North or South, who prays for the success of our arms, and who labors for the vindication of our Constitution, whatever may b 11
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