Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-04-18

lieve we shall In the passage OF this measure.
This is no time for elimination or re.crimins.
tion. II is useless now to discuss the causes,
which have brought the country to Its present
condition. have no heart for such an under,
taking. We stand upon the dread threshhold
of civil war, and we must act. The
President has called out the militia oil
the States, declaring in his proolama.
tlon that the laws are opposed and the execu
tion thereof Is obstructeo by combinations too
powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course
Of judicial proceeding. Threats have been
made against the Federal Capital, and fears are
entertained of hostile invasion OF the terri
tory of the Northern States. ~. c. q. vr
The Government whose seat Is at Washing.
ton, is our Government. The States that are
loyal thereto are our country. BY that Govern
ment and that country, in sunshine or storm, In
peace or lwar, right or wrong, we will stand.
The honored ensign which floats over this capi.
tol, the emblem of our past prosperity and
Union, is the flag OF our hearts. 1t Is hallow-
ed by every memory that can make such an
emblem dear. We will maintain II to the last
The soil of our State, and our sister States
which are loyal to that flag, must not be desc.
Grated BY the footsteps OF the invader.
The Federal Capital must not be assailed,--
In the defence OF these we will spend our last
farthing OF treasure and our last drop OF blood.
Around our imperilled country we lock shields,
| and by her we will stand or fall.
MIR. FLAGG said: Mr.. SPEAKER, am one
of those who have from the first steadily moved
and voted to suspend the rules, that this bill
might pass instGntsy. l did so, because knew
Jefferson Davis and his army of traitors, In all
their rapid operations, moved under suspen
sion of all rules, without waiting to hear from
their constituents. Hh
The times are pressing, and, letting those
who should bear the blame of provoking this
war, belt our duty to meet the crisis es becomes
us, and do our dIty In defending what may yet
be defended, and saving what may yet be saved.
II is our fate: we cannot resist our fate. IL Ia
our duty:-we must do our duty. War is here!
not It's shadow or spectre,t but war in person,
real as steel and living as fire.
| l, for one, would accept the issue, and meet
war with war, strong, quick and hot If / can,
here to-day, give my voice for 1t, none should
hold back. The fret call Is for o march on
Charleston. Sir, that city was my early home.
There and thereabout were born father, broth.
er, sister, aud there still dwell the larger num-
Der of my kindred nearest of blood. / have
loved II more than any other spot Of the earth.
Less than one year ago, was there. reyis-
tied the old and well loved scenes of my happl-
est days. stood on the border Of Its bay,
where, as boy, had played and bathed In the
waters that washed it. looked out at old Castle
Pickney, Fort Johnson and Fort Moultrie,
and on the ocean beyond-still the same, un.
changed. Time had written "no wrinkle
on Its azure brow" Looking at renowned old
Moultrie, remembered how, thirty years be.
fore, had strolled along its parapeta and clam
bered up the gun carriages to look curiously in
to the mouths of the great black cannon, and
wondered II actual war, such as had read, Of,
would ever come again, and against tohom IL
would be waged, and tohat flag would wave over
the foe against whom those pyramids of ball
would next be hurled, little dreaming the flag
that was next to culver to their detonation would
be strange, tratorous sheet, unknown among
nations, or that those balls would fall around the
true banner Of the Union.
turned and visited the old, crumbling moss
grown church where received my earliest re
ligious teaching, and through the iron railing
looked upon the graves of my plsymates and
relstives-loOked my last look. Sick o.
heart-for ! fOresaw what was coming
walked into the forest where once gathered
yellow jasssmine flowers, whose perfume nj
Northern vine can equal, and from the grey
pe.like, funereal moss, dropping from the sat
ancient oaks, plucked branch to bear awal
as q memento of my latest, last visit there for
ever. shook the dust from my feet, and lef
the State, never 10 return. 0, gentlemen, II
can give voice to devote that city to siege ant
assault, who should vote MOI
II Il has been said: "Your country, may she al
! ways be right;-but your country, right 0
V wrong" The motto does not express my heart
Our Government may be In the right, or may b
In the wrong; but our country is altoays right
can neUsT be wrong. -sfsr
n II have long and steadily striyen for, an
: counseed peace, it has been because believe
l. peace would give us Union. If now say, wal
: il is war for the Union-peaoe for the Union
8 war for Union - concessions for Union
force for the Union-treasure for it-blood 70
3 it-death for it-EvERYTHING FOR THE UNION!
Mr.. PARR followed ..
Mr.. SPEAKER, the present moment should b
q one of solemn reflection and deep thought. Th
crisis that is now upon US was plainly foreshad
: owed by Washington, the father of his country
u and handed down to us In his farewell addresl
i How much better it would havo been for th
9 American people, as body, to have faithful
carried out his advice thus given them.
can, for one, truly thank God, and say tha
his farewell address has been my political chal
6 thus far through life. / can lay nay hand upo
/ my breast and say before my God and this Az
lt sembly, that the troubles now upon US have bee
brought about by other bands than mine.
l. peace should not be restored before / como
e lay this mortal body of mine down for the la
time, / can say of truth to my wife and N
e children, that your husband and your father
= skirts arc clear of the blood that has been ,
may be shed In this unnatural war, brought upC
the American people by traitors to the Unio
.e both North and South.
But, Mr.. Speaker, shall vote for the billno
under consideration, for the reason the Presiden
under the decision of the Supreme Court of Il
United States In the Dorr case, is the sole judG
a OF the necessity of calling for troops. The ref
"a sal of a State TO comply with the requiremen
N of the President, is o declaration that they q
o not mean to comply with tho requirement of Il
. Constitution, and is decided intmation thI
! they intend to leave. The refusal Is Violate
a of the Constitution, and denial of bindir
moral obligation. sr ta- 49,,
Il Mr.. Speaker, le. us all of one accord implo,
IA Almighty God, to present some patriotic Amer
In can statesman, who shall successfully preye
the further shedding of blood, and fually sett
= all our troubles 30 as there may be ye-un,t
h of all the States.
- Mr.. ANDREWS said Three days az
- when the bill was introduced into this bran,
a Of the General Assembly, announced that n
- vote would be recorded in its favor. could u
J. do other wise, because, in the second week OF Il
present seseion--nearly three months ago--re
:, olutions looking toward an emergency OF th
"A kind, and pledglng the whole strength of Il
d State, received my approval. have oppos,
- the suspension of constitutional rules, that r,
N uuire all bills to be read three several days
fore the final vote, not because have hesitat,
a moment as to the propriety, uneer the orcun
l. stances that exist, in making this unprecedent,
"a appropriation, but because it ia an applicable
of money to the support of troops, and not