The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Rev Robert J Breckenridge.

--The temporary organization of the Black Republican Convention which recently met in Baltimore was effected by calling Rev Robert J. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, to the chair. After being conducted thirties by Yankee hands he addressed the Convention. The following extracts from his speech will show its tenor:

Dreadful as they are, these fearful truths run through the whole history of mankind, that whatever else may be done to give stability mean authority — whatever else may be done to give perpetuity to institutions, however wise, however glorious — and whatever may be the philosophy of it, it has been found that the only imperishable cement of all institutions has been the blood of traitors.

No Government has ever stood upon irresistible foundations, which foundations were not built on traitors' blood. It is a fearful truth, but we had as well avow it at once. Every blow you strike, and every rebel you kill, and every battle you win, reluctant as we are to do it, is adding a decade, it may be a century, it may be ten centuries, to the perpetuity of our Government and the freedom of your children.

He is now fully entitled to the honor, or the infamy, as the case may be, of being the staunchest traitor to his country south of the Ohio.