Vindication of the Union
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Excerpt from Vindication of the Union: Speech of Hon. Joseph Segar, of First Congressional District of Virginia, Before the Union Meeting in Portsmouth, Va;, On Saturday, May 31, 1862 When I last trod the streets of Portsmouth, our country was at peace, and the people of this whole land were the most blessed on the face of the globe. The storm of commercial revulsion which had swept over the land in 1857, bad lulled, and under the influence of bountiful crops and the recuperative energies of our people, the country had reached a point of prosperity it had never known before. The whole land bloomed. The plough was sped, the loom rattled, the anvil rang, and commerce rejoiced. Plenty smiled over thirty-two millions of contented and happy people. Bat, oh God! how changed the scene I "Wild war´s deadly blast is blowing," and has carried desolation to every interest, and every fireside, within our State. We are not only involved in war, but in civil war - a war which has ruptured all the ties of kindred and blood, and brought in hostile meeting, on the same battle field, father a id son, and brother and brother. Our trade is gone; the grass grows green and high in the streets of our cities; the millions of trade we once had with the North, and which gave thrift and comfort, and even subsistence, to so many of our people, has perished; our whole people, from the stripling lad to the hoary head, have gone to the tented field; the price of even the necessaries of life are insufferably high; and the working men and the poor men of every class are at starvatius point. Who did all this? Whose mighty sin is it? Our secession friends say it rests upon us, the Union men - that we, who have stood by the stars and swipes, are responsible - that, by a certain sacred principle of State rights, we ought to have followed our State into secession, or whithersoever else she called us - that we are traitors to our State, because we would do it not - and that, by not making common cause against the vile Yankees, (who, in my judgment, had done them no materiel wrong,) we were playing into the hands of the enemies of the South, and that thus we are responsible for this ruinous war. I am here to deny the charge, and to disprove it. No part of the mountain-load guilt of breaking up our glorious Union is ours. We are not traitors.1 have been so denounced a thousand and twice a thousand times, but I vow I am no traitor. The treason is theirs, who, by secession, have thrown down the pillars of the American Union; and their treason is a double one - treason to their State and treason to the Supreme Government of Union. 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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