Speech of Hon. Henry Winter Davis at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, September 24, 1863 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Henry Winter Davis at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, September 24, 1863Are the American people ready for such a restoration as that? N O, N Is all that the Union has accomplished by a hundred thousand of its dead sons, and hundreds of thousands of desolate men and women at home mourning them, to recognize an insolent pretence, which never for a moment has been a fact? If that be not so, then the Union as it was, in the sense of the men who call for it, is an impossibility. (applause.) They delude the people with vain words when they speak of the Union as it was Call the dead to life, clothe his bones with his dissolved ¿esh, restore the soul to the soulless eyes of the thousands that have fallen mar tyrs upon the battle-field, and then you can restore the Union as it was. (great applause.) The attempt is to begin a new civil war. When you order back West Virginia, she will turn to you the points of her bayonets that are now on your side - and justly. When you recognize the butchers of East Tennessee for its Repub lican government, the very ghosts of the murdered dead will lead the living men to battle against you. (great applause.) When you talk of recognizing Kentucky and Missouri as States of the rebellion, you will be overwhelmed by ridicule that no man can stand up against. And that is the Union as it was, in the words of the Democratic orators. Why will they perpetually come before the people with a lie in their mouth and delusion in their right hand?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.