Speech of Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau (of Kentucky)
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Excerpt from Speech of Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau (of Kentucky): Delivered at the Great Union Mass Meeting It was so with the Democratic party before and during the war, and in consequence of this it lost the power which it so long held and (like all other parties) so much abused. A large portion of it followed its leaders into the vortex of secession, whilst a still larger portion, more in opposition to the Republican party than anything else, took ground against much that was done in the prosecution of the war. And now when the Democratic party seem inclined to take their stand with the President, on what they term Constitutional ground - and, in fact, the very ground that he and the Republican party occupied during the war - we find extreme Republicans, obeying party trammels and party interests, running away from that position, and swearing they never held it. [Laughter and applause.] And the reason given for this is, that as the Copperheads were in favor of it, they must be against it. ["That´s so," and applause.] Parties well drilled and organized instinctively avoid each other; and to-day men denounce that which they were in favor of yesterday. But you meet here to-night to endorse a man who, ignoring party lines and party discipline, stands bravely up for the Constitution of his country. [Applause.] He has not counted the cost, but has promptly and fearlessly taken the position, and will hold it to the end. [Applause.] The Result Of The Conflict. Now, fellow-citizens, the war is over, and the action of Congress naturally prompts the inquiry, What did we fight for, and what did we gain by it? For what purpose did we prosecute the war? I will answer you in the words in which every Union man in the United States would have answered you for the last five years: "To save the Union." And yet we are told to-day in the Halls of Congress that the Union is destroyed; that although we triumphed in the war, the Union is gone. Who tells you this? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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