him. I shall not attempt to follow him in the precise order in which he
addressed the assembled multitude upon that occasion, though I shall
perhaps do so in the main.

There was one question to which he asked the attention of the crowd,
which I deem of somewhat less importance--at least of propriety--for me
to dwell upon than the others, which he brought in near the close of his
speech, and which I think it would not be entirely proper for me to omit
attending to, and yet if I were not to give some attention to it now, I
should probably forget it altogether. While I am upon this subject, allow
me to say that I do not intend to indulge in that inconvenient mode
sometimes adopted in public speaking, of reading from documents; but I
shall depart from that rule so far as to read a little scrap from his
speech, which notices this first topic of which I shall speak,--that is,
provided I can find it in the paper:

"I have made up my mind to appeal to the people against the combination
that has been made against me; the Republican leaders having formed an
alliance, an unholy and unnatural alliance, with a portion of
unscrupulous Federal office-holders. I intend to fight that allied army
wherever I meet them. I know they deny the alliance; but yet these men
who are trying to divide the Democratic party for the purpose of electing
a Republican Senator in my place are just as much the agents and tools of
the supporters of Mr. Lincoln. Hence I shall deal with this allied army
just as the Russians dealt with the Allies at Sebastopol,--that is, the
Russians did not stop to inquire, when they fired a broadside, whether it
hit an Englishman, a Frenchman, or a Turk. Nor will I stop to inquire,
nor shall I hesitate, whether my blows shall hit the Republican leaders
or their allies, who are holding the Federal offices, and yet acting in
concert with them."