LETTER PROM GOV. SEYMOUR TO AN IMMENSE
DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN ORANGE COUNTY,

NEW YORK.

"EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, VO ALBANY, June 29, 1863. June 24, 1863.} "GENTLEMEN: I regret that I cannot attend the meeting to be held at Middletown, Orange Middletown, Orange county, on the 2d of July, my engagements are such, that I cannot gratify myself by being present on that occasion.

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cordial and fraternal Union, founded on interest, and cemented by affection. This was the Union founded by Washington and Franklin, and the patriots and statesmen of the Revolution; and that is the only Union that can be preserved and perpetuated. You might, perhaps, by superior force, drench in blood the fields of a sister state. You might, perhaps, wrap: her villages in flames; but you could never afterwards restore such a state to the “Our motto must be at this time, that we Union established by the Constitution. No, will do our duty and demand our rights, we will fellow citizens; WHEN THE STAR OF THE STATE do every duty demanded by the constituted au- IS EXTINGUISHED IN BLOOD, IT CAN NEVER thorities acting within the limits of their ju--BEAM AGAIN IN THE BANNER OF THE UNION, risdiction, whether we like or dislike their for it will no longer be an equal, a sovereign. policy. We will demand all our rights of such or a sister state, Speech in 1850. all or card de est que authorities, whether they like or dislike such demands.

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SENATOR TRUMBTLL ON THE TYRANT'S PLEA.

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"It is now apparent to all, that our country can only be saved by harmonious action among "Necessity is the plea of tyrants, and if our the people of the North. It is equally clear Constitution ceases to operate the moment a that harmonious action can only be had upon person charged with its observance thinks there one platform; and that platform is-the Union, is a necessity to violate it, it is of little value. the Constitution and respect for the laws. We are fighting to maintain the ConstiHarmony, can never be made by threats, de-tution, and it especially becomes us in appealnunciations, or unconstitutional arrests of per- to the people to come to its rescue, not to viosons or seizure of property. It is easier for the late it ourselves. How are we better than the Government to impose such illegal practices, rebels if both alike set at naught the Constitu than it is for a free people to submit to them. tion.-Speech at Chicago, June, 1863. "God grant that the afflictions of our country may teach our rulers this simple truth, and that these same afflictions, may rouse in the hearts of our people the same patriotism and firmness in the defense of our liberty, which animated our} fathers in the Revolutionary struggle, con le fanovas odt lo "Yours truly, in wholesa HORATIO SEYMOUR.

GEN. MO’CLELLAN ON
ON CONSTITUTION AND
DOLE CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION.
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"The General commanding takes this occa.... sion to remind the officers and soldiers of the army that we are engaged in supporting the constitution and laws of the United States, and in suppressing rebellion against their authoriSENATOR HARRIS, OF NEW YORK, ON THE DES- ty; that we are not engaged in a war of rapine

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'England with her many wars, and often scarcity of men, never resorted to this despotic measure. It was a mode of raising armies only used by despots, but never by republican governments, and the principle, if adopted, would provide large standing armies, which almost inevitably lead to despotism. In a government of delegated power, and which rested upon the consent of the governed, it was inexpedient and unnecessary.

"Congress had not the power under the constitution, thus to destroy the militia of the stitution, thus to destroy the militia of the states, which the constitution provided for as a reserved force of the Union. If this measure were adopted, there would be centralized power."Speech in Senate on Conscription Bill.

ROBERT J. WALKER ON STATE SUICIDE.

"Will civil civil war preserve or restore the Why do not the people have the same er the s Union ? * * Can a vanquished state, thusiasm in the war, that they had at first? even if she can be vanquished, ever again be Then they put a million of men in the field. come a member of the Federal Union? No, The country is still in peril, more than at first. my countrymen; let us learn, ere it be too and why is not our army of two million late, that this never can be a Union of victor men now put into the fild? It is only becaus and vanquished, of sovereign and subject of the bad policy by which you states, but must be a Union of equals, which is the dogmas of the abolitionists." From his the Union of the Constitution. It must be a last Speech.

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PRESIDENT HARRISON ON THE RIGHTS OF THE tary provisions in behalf of private and personal rights, and the freedom of the press." James Madison.

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POWER.

The citizens of each state unite in their persons all the privileges which that character GENERAL HARRISON ON ENCROACHMENTS OF confers, and all they may claim as citizens of the United States; but in no case can the same person act as citizen of two separate states, and He is therefore positively precluded from any interference with the reserved powers of any state but that of which he is for lhe time being

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The old-fashioned republican rule is to ernment does not acquire too much power. watch the government. See that the governKeep a check upon your rulers. Do this, and your liberty is safe. And if your efforts should result successfully, and I should be placed in the presidential chair, I shall invite a recurrence to the old republican rule, to watch the administration, and to condemn all its acts which are not in accordance with the strictest mode of republicanism. Our rulers, fellowcitizens, must be watched. Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they can obtain.

Our confederacy is perfectly illustrated by the terms and principles governing a copartaership. There a fund of power is to be exersised under the direction of the joint counsels of the allied members, but that which has been reversed by the individual members is intangible by the common government or the individmal members comprising it. Experience has abundantly taught us that the agitation by citizens of one part of the Union of a subject not see around me were near enough to hear me, give an experimental confided to the general governmen is product- and of sufficient age to ive of no other consequences than bitterness, answer, they would tell you that no lover is alienation, discord, and injury to the very satisfied with the first smile of his mistress. cause which is inçended to be advanced. See kis Inaugural.

COPPERHEAD" SAYINGS.

The enjoyment of liberty, and even its support and preservation, consists in every man's being allowed to speak his thoughts, and lay open his sentiments.??-Montesquieu.

"The supremacy of the civil over the miliftary authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the hon - est payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith; the encouragement of agriculture and commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arrangement of all abuses at the bar of public reason.

If the ladies whom I

"It is necessary, therefore, to watch, not the political opponents of an administration, but the administration itself, and to see that it keeps within the bounds of the Constitution and the laws of the land."-Speech at Fort Meigs, 1840.

JOHN Q. ADAMS ON THE "LINK OF UNION."
[Adams before the New York Historical Society, 1839.]

"But the indissoluble link of Union between the people of the several states of this confederated nation is, after all, not in the right, but in the heart. If the day should ever come (may heaven avert it) when the affections of the people of these states shall be alienated from each other, when the fraternal spirit shall give way to cold indifference, or collisions of “Freedom of religion; freedom of the press; interest shall fester into hatred, the bands of freedom of the person under the protection of political association will not long hold togeththe habeas corpus; and trial by juries imparer parties no longer attracted by the magnettially selected. These principles form theism of concilliated interests and kindly symbright constellation which has gone before us, pathies; and far better will it be for the peoand guided our steps through an age of revolu- ple of the disunited states to part in friendtion and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, ship from each other, than to be held together and blood of our heroes have been devoted to by constraint." their attainment; they should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction; the loadstone by which we try the services of those we trust, and should we wander from them in moments of error and alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety."Thos. Jeffèison

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him (Mr Wythe) express himself alarmed "I was struck with surprise when I heard with respect to the emancipation of slaves.Let me ask, if they (the North) should even attempt it, if it will not be a usurpation of power. There is no power to warrant it in that paper (the Constitution.) If there be I know it not. But why should it be done?Says the Honorable gentleman, for the general welfare: it will infuse strength into our system. Can any member of this Committee suppose that it (emancipation) will increase our strength? Can any one believe that the American Councils will come into a measure which will strip them of their property,

To support the constitution which is the of the Union, as well in its limitations its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the states, and to the people, as equally incorporated with, and id ester sential to t to the success of the general system, to avoid the slightest interference with the rights of conscience, or the functions of religion, so wisely exempted from civil jurisdiction; to preserve in their full energy, the other salu

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