Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-06-18

IeDellon' nave you no faith In God, who
writes the history Of natiops7 Great as ia our
power, wise as 10 our system of Government,
1rave as are our soldiers, unequalled as are our
neets OF iron, it is only for Him TO breathe up-
On us--and our power will fade. / know tha.
fate. Let US do our duty to the order establish.
Cd BY our fathers, under His wise inspiration.
and all may be we'll.
In this night OF our gloom, my faith has been
IN Him, even as my oath to the Constitution
Mnion he inspired, 10 made, "so help me God!'
GleaviDg to shat can see the dawn of hope (!
Leaving IL, see nothing but perjury, fraud and
darker night OF disaster. In our Constitution
alone, under God, is our National salvation en-
shrined! IL ',5 T---'T -,
But have no faith In, and no hope Of this
congress, for they have no faith in God or the
Constitution. Greece had q law called the in
dictment Of illegslity, whereby any man was
tfieo and punished In common court like
criminal, for any law which had passed on bis
motion In the assembly Of the people, If that
law appeared unjust Or prejudiciaI to the public
Ii there were such law here, how few of the
majority Of this House would escape the dock
OF the criminal and the rope of the gibbet. The
member from Illinois Mr.. Lovejoy would then
receive the beatitudes which follow suspended
animation. Laughter. But what Of the
member from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Kelly.l He
has been ever ready, in bis defense Of black
men and black character, to assail personally
those with whom he differed. He could not pass
oy my humble speech as to Hayu without some
sarcastic hings and much Misrepresentation,
which 1e refused to allow me to answer. He
did not like my style Of description, and won
defed why there was no laugh at my humor about
the negro in court dress. He is more euccess-
iul. lie never speaks but he is laughed at.
his speeches have been well described as being
every word o sepulchre, every sentence tomb,
and every speech grave yard. TLaugbter1.
In this graveyard he thought to bury me, as be
had buried Others. But even that voice-uOr
preteTea nthiL-Whlch is likened 70 the "cry of an
itinerant bull, in pursuit Of society, moaning
upon the broad prAiries of the West' lgreat
laughterl, would,if that GFecian law existed,
be choked forever = He would then find his
melodramatic performance close before the
fifth act, in tragedy, which the audience would
applaud to the echo! Faithless to their own
resolves-faithless to the Presidents message
and ociamations-faithless to their pledges to
the army and the people-fsithless to the mem
ories OF the past and the hopes Of the future
faithless to the Constitution and the God of
their oaih-these msddened zealots pursue the
work OF destruction. A few short months, and
even the blacks of America will curse them as
their worst enemy. This Congress, which ought
to be engaged in holding up the hands Of the
Executive, AID In giving aid and counsel in put.
ting down this armed rebellion, has striven to
circumvent the plans of the President, by their
immature and vindictye bills of confscation Il
has been coopering away at the vessel, hopping
10 around with Infinite pains, by emancipation,
while its bottom, like the tub of the Danaides,
Ia full of holes and can hold no water.
Weary in watching its mad designs of revo-
lution-and Its crazy crotchets of black free
dom-and for the seltpreservation of my ma
tive State and the North from the black immi.
grafton with which ii is threatened, shall 90
TO my home and ask the ballot to speak its de-
nunciatlon. A few months and that expression
VIII be had. On il depends the fate of the Re-
public My belief is thst the people will write
the epitaph of this Congress, nearly ss Glad
stone wrote that of the Coalition ministry dur
ing the Crimean war: a....
Here lies the ashes Of the xxxvII oOnsressl
1t found the United States In war Of
.T. gigantic proportions, involving
its very existence.
1t was content TO WELD the sceptIe Of Power
.rra and accept the emolumentsof once;
| and used them to overthrow
the political and sociAlsysem Of the country, which
;. 10 was sworn to protect.
IL saw the fate OF thrtyfour white commonweaiths IN
| peril;
but IL babbled Of the
NEGRO!
II saw patriotic Generals and soldiers in the
field, under the old fag;
II slandered the one and In the absence of the other
..f It destroyed his means Of labor.
1t talked Of Liberty to the black, and
piled burdens Of taxation on white people
for schemes utopian.
The people launched at It the thunderbolt
Of their wrath;
and lite members sought to avoid punishment,
by creeping into dishonored
political graves
RsQuisscdt!