ADDRESS. I have been invited to say something to-night on the great subject which is now agitating the country. It is certainly the duty of every good citizen to examine for himself the questions at issue, when a conflict like this is shaking half a continent, and is · to be decided between the rising and setting of the sun, on a day rapidly approaching. And it seems equally his duty, after having thoroughly satisfied himself upon the merits of the great debate, to do what in him lies for the furtherance of that which he firmly believes the Right. There have been important elections in this country during the brief three-quarters of a century which comprehends the whole of our national life, -that turbulent, full-throbbing, exultant national life, the like of which the world never knew before, and which has something appalling in its very strength. For if so brief a span has sufficed to |