Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-07-01

s party men, the voice Of the preacher hat
a far different tone. Ii reused his country
trnen to the defence Of his home; it neryec
5 his arm in the battle-shock iii soothed hi:
last moments on the field Of death.
Il And here, Mr.. Chairman, let US do an.
7 other act Of Justice. have shown what
+ we're the feelings Of the peace party men
i in the late war. But do not mistake their
i sentiments for the sentiments of the people
j LAT large In no State Of the Union did a
. mejorly Of HE people entertain such views.
The democratic party everywhere was
s unanimous in support of the war. The
! federal party was divided one portion of it
t standing by their country and giving her
4 their utmost aid; the other portion, the
: 'peace-party men, arrayed against her,
!, many ofthem with traitorous hearts, feeling
) as traitors only feel, acting as traitors alone
: could act. Every one has heard of the
Hartford Convention of that period
4 Whether that convention originated in a
: wish to dissolve the Union is question
leave for older men than myself to decide.
,tThose who lived at that day can better deter.
mime il. But, be that as il may, one thing
his certain, and that is, that there was then,
in the ranks of the 'peace-party federalists'
|of the eastern States, body Of men, power
|ful by their wealth, their learning, and their
talents, who were the advocates Of such a
dissolution. And there is another thing
equally certain, which is, that the conduct
of these men during the entire war, merits
no milder appellation than that of treason
able ,... ,sv
Mr.. Chairman, my colleague was not
content with applying all kinds of hard
names to the existing war. He went
farther, and, regardless apparently Of the
evil tendency Of such a course, he dwelt
upon the cost of the war, its ruinous effects
upon commerce, and its terrible destruction
ofhuman life. Itwould be easy, Mr. Chair
man, to show very ample precedents for all
this. 1t would be easy to exhibit similar
pictures drawn by the peace-party men
during the late war. But / will not take up
the time Of the committee to do SO. An
other of my colleagues, my friend from the
Cincinnati district, (Mr. FARAN,) has al
ready brought to the recollection Of the
House the doings of that party. The
extracts from their speeches, pamphlets, dis,
courses, and newspapers, read by him in the
debate on the Oregon bill, many of which I
have now again read, are sufficient to show
that the language Of the peace-party men
'of this present day is wonderfully like that
OF their inglourious predecessors. do not
say that there is any imitation in the case.
] do not know for instance, that my
colleague from Mt. Vernon ever saw
single one of these extracts. | do not
charge him with having drawn his fierce
weapons of denunciation against Mr.. Polk
and the present war from the vast store.
houses OF federal abuse heaped upon MIR.
Madison and the war of 1912 but it must
be apparent to all that he might have done
so. The weapons were there there were
they to be found !; or, at least weapons of
the same sort. When nv
colleague shall send his speech to Ohio,
there will be plenty of old and middle aged
men to say to him.: 'Ah, my good sir, we
have heard oil that before. Thirty-odd|
years ago we heard it. The only differ |, ,
ence is, that you use the words Mexico I.
and Mexicans, instead of Britain and
British;' and inplace ofsMadison,' you {
say Polk
Mr.. Chairman, in no State Of the Union !
we're the people more united during the late /.
var than in the State of Ohio. By the :.
citizens of no State were the 'peace-party
nen' of that day more severely condemned. i
Nowhere did the conduct Of the santi-war
ederalists' of Massachusetts especially,
xcite livelier or more profound ,indig-
'ation. You may Judge from this, what
Vill be the surprise Of the people of Ohio P
vhen they learn, that of the fourteen votes a
ven in this Hall against the bill declaring i
he existence of the present war, their State ;,
nd MASSACHUSETTS, furnished an equal :,
umber-that five of the fourteen were q
iven by representatives from Massachu- a
etts, and five by members from Ohio p
lille from no other State could more than p
single opposition vote be- obtained. Yes, b
+, from no other State could a second man ),
. found to record his vote against the bill. =
Massachusetts, and Ohio gave ten of the o
otes-the remaining four votes were
vided among four States. And if this
range vote shall astonish the people of "
hio, how much win their surprise be in sil
'eased whenthey learn the character Of m
g speech delivered here by one Of their h,
presentatives-delivered after war was !;
'clared2 Mr. Chairman, my colleague =
IS seen fit to warn others--men who arel
8 countrymen, but whom he nevertheless h,
nounces as the authors Of war that he r
rms 'unholy, unrighteous, and dsmnable' !
that terrible condemnation awaits them. -
es, sir, he who has made q studied and %
aborate argument to disprove the title Of de
$ country to territory she claims-he fr,
10 has held hisown Government UP tothe az
,rld us the aggressor in war-he who e
enly accuses It Of being actnated BY ~
sire for aggrandizement and plunder-he Sc
70 denies that Mexico began The war-he til,
70 styles the assertion that she did, in the Of
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