ess the spirits of his own countrymen,
nothing that shall encourage the enemies of his country, or give
them moral aid or comfort." That is the rule. Now, Judge Thurman,
how does your conduct square with it? I do not propose to begin at
the beginning of the war, or even just before the war, to cite the
record of Judge Thurman. I am willing to say that perhaps men might
have been mistaken at that time. They might have supposed in the
beginning a conciliatory policy, a non-coercive policy, would in
some way avoid the threatened struggle. But I ask you to approach
the period when the war was going on, when armies to the number of
hundreds of thousands of men were ready on one side and the other,
and when the whole world knew what was the nature of the great
struggle going on in America. Taking the beginning of 1863, how
stands the conflict? We have pressed the rebellion out of Kentucky
and through Tennessee. Grant stands before Vicksburg, held at bay
by the army of Pemberton; Rosecranz, after the capture of
Nashville, has pressed forward to Murfreesboro, but is still held
out of East Tennessee by the army of Bragg. The army of the Potomac
and the army of Lee, in Virginia, are balanced, the one against the
other. The whole world knows that that exhausting struggle can not
last long without deciding in favor of one side or the other. That
the year 1863 is big with the fate of Union and of liberty, every
intelligent man in the world knows--that on one side it is a
struggle for nationality and human rights. There is not in all
Europe a petty despot who lives by grinding the masses of the
people, who does not know that Lincoln and the Union are his
enemies. There is not a friend of freedom in all Europe who does
not know that Lincoln and the loyal army are fighting in the cause
of free government for all the world. Now, in that contest, where
are you, Judge Thurman? It is a time when we need men and money,
when we need to have our people inspired with hope and confidence.
Your sons and brothers are in the field. Their success depends upon
your conduct at home.

The men who are to advise you what to do have upon them a dreadful
responsibility to give you wise and patriotic advice. Judge
Thurman, in the speech I am quoting from, says:

"But now, my fri