Speech of Hon. Montgomery Blair, at Hagerstown, MD., On 12th July, 1865
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Montgomery Blair, at Hagerstown, MD., On 12th July, 1865: Exposing the Alliance of the American Secretary of State With Louis Napoleon to Overthrow the Monroe Doctrine and Establish a Despotism on This Continent The fact that our veterans are returning to their homes to pursue their more congenial pursuits, after having successfully resisted the attempt to subvert their Government; having maintained the Federal Union as it was, its basis unaltered in any respect, and our Federal Constitution unchanged, save in the amendment which forbids slavery within the Union; whilst it is taken as a matter of course here, because we know that any other result would be impossible, must revolutionize European opinion as to the instability of the Federal republican system. In the end, therefore, our own country will not alone be indebted for its freedom to the valor and patriotism of the noble band we greet here to-day with thanks and blessings. I feel how feeble any words are to express the deep feeling which not only pervades this assembly, but which lives in the hearts and speaks in the eyes of every lover of the human family throughout this world, towards any man who has borne arms in this cause for the love of it. To their unexampled bravery, to their patient labor, to their endurance of cold and heat, hunger and thirst, to their sufferings from wounds and disease, do we owe it, under God´s providence, that we have not now, and possibly in perpetuity, a divided and distracted country, and, consequent thereon, the introduction here of that accursed European system of mercenary standing armies, in whose presence all liberty vanishes like mist. Long may the survivors of this noble band live to enjoy the honors they are entitled to from the people for their services, and that choicest of all pleasures to such men - to witness the prosperity, tranquillity and happiness they have secured to their countrymen. Perhaps there are some of them, some of the younger sort, who would like also the smiles of their fair countrywomen, and might even prefer to see themselves mirrored in a pair of soft eyes to obtaining the homage of all the rest of us. That may seem to be irrational to some, but I confess that a man must be older than I am to be astonished at the preference, especially when the lasses of Washington, our famous highland beauties, are before him. After the display of such irresistible power by the American people, with our well-known disposition to deal justly with all nations, we ought to expect to enjoy a long peace. No foreign nation would wantonly provoke a conflict with us, for, however powerful, it cannot hope for any but a disastrous issue; and yet, but for my confidence in the courage and prudence of President Johnson, I should have serious apprehensions of a war with France, growing out of the ill-judged course hitherto adopted by our foreign department in relation to the intervention of France in Mexico. No one acquainted with the subject can have failed to observe that this department of our Government has hitherto pursued, and continues to pursue, a course in this matter strangely at variance with the feelings of our people and with the recognized principles upon which our Government has uniformly acted. The present ruler of France has exhibited, throughout our late struggle for existence, a most unfriendly spirit, and availed himself of our difficulties to invade our sister republic of Mexico, subvert her government, and establish there a military despotism, under the nominal head of an Austrian prince. Would the crowned heads of Europe submit quietly to similar intervention on our part to establish the republican system in Hungary, Italy, or any other European country where revolutionary movements have arisen from time to time? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare
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