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these, nearly 200,000 of our negroes were marslialled 
against us, as well as multiplied thousands from the vast 
tide of immigration from Europe that flowed in during the 
war. Yet this mighty power, with an estabUshed govern- 
ment, a regular army, a navy, machinery to manufacture all 
the appliances of war ; with the inexhaustible granaries of 
the West to feed their armies, and all the world open to 
their shipping, by which they obtained all the munitions 
of war necessary to keep a million of men in the field, was 
resisted for four years by 5,000,000 ! These 5,000,000, 
before the war, had no established government, no army, 
no navy, no treasury, but a meagre supply of arms and 
ammunition, and, by the blockade of their ports, were 
shut out from all the world. They had to create the ap- 
phances of war; from raw militia create and organize 
armies for their defence ; and yet, with all this disparity 
in men and means, they during four long years defended 
themselves with a valor and prowess scarcely equalled in 
the annals of history. Twice they carried the war into the 
enemy's country, and caused President Lincoln to tremble 
for the safety of bis capital. The subjugation of these 
5,000,000 by 26,000,000, with their foreign enlistments 
and 200,000 negro soldiers added, cost the North, in killed 
and wounded, and in death by disease, not less than 
1,000,000 men, and not less than $4,000,000,000 of 
treasure. It has left the nation overwhelmed in debt, and 
produced a degree of demoralization in society the evils 
of which arc incalculable. 
And what produced all this? The South loved the 
Union of their fatliers. They were proud of and gloried 
in the names of the statesmen and heroes which they had 
given to the TJni')n. They had studied political science 
under such mastefs as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, 
