Under God, our country will be saved through the united energy, the well-compacted vigor of the people directed by the President of the United States.

Our first duty is to stand by the President, and to hold up his hands.

If, besides calling for troops, he enlist other agencies for the suppression of the Rebellion, he must be sustained precisely as in calling for troops.

And now at last a new power is invoked, being nothing less than that great Proclamation of the President which places Liberty at the head of our columns.

Some there are with whom the Constitution is a constant stumbling-block, wherever anything is to be done for Freedom.

It cannot be so, I trust, with the liberal farmers of this valley.

Of course, the Edict of Emancipation is to be regarded as a war measure, made in the exercise of the Rights of War.

It is as much a war measure as the proclamation calling forth troops, and is entitled to the same support.

It is not a measure of Abolition or Antislavery, or of philanthropy, but a war measure, pure and simple.

If there be any person disposed to discourage it, I warn him that he departs from the duties of patriotism hardly less than if he discouraged enlistments.

The policy of Emancipation, at last adopted as a war measure, must be sustained precisely as we sustain an army in the field.

The Rebellion will be crushed, and the Republic will be elevated to heights of power and grandeur where it will be an example to mankind.

Such a cry will yet be heard from the apostate chiefs in our Rebel States, “Liberty, thou hast conquered!”--and the echo of this cry will be heard round the globe.

Happy in its fertility, and also in its beauty; happier still in that inspiration of Liberty which is better than fertility or beauty.

Resolved further, That the attempt to subject the Republic of Mexico to French authority is an act not merely unfriendly to this Republic, but to free institutions everywhere; and that it is regarded by this Republic as not only…

Resolved further, That it is the duty of this Republic to require of the Government of France that her armed forces be withdrawn from the territories of Mexico.

If they mean nothing, surely the Senate will not enter upon their discussion.

For myself, I give all that I have of intellectual action, and will, and heart, to the suppression of this Rebellion; and never, by my consent, shall the Senate enter upon a discussion the first effect of which will be aid and comfort to…

PRESIDENT,--I, too, hope that the Senate will dare do everything that is right; but I hope that it will not dare to embarrass the Government at this moment, and give aid and comfort to the Rebellion.

I do not say that the Senator means to give such aid and comfort, but I do say that the very speech which has just fallen from him, to the extent of its influence, will give aid and comfort.

Can any Senator doubt that all who sympathize with the Rebellion will rejoice to see this Senate discussing the question of peace and war with a great European power?

They shall not have it, if vote or voice of mine can prevent.

I, too, Sir, am for the freest latitude of debate, but I am for the suppression of the Rebellion above and before everything else; and the desires of the Senate must all yield at this moment to the patriotic requirements of the country.

There is a time to weep, and there is a time to laugh.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.