The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-02-27

colleague was prepared to indorse that proca
ma,ion But, sir, it 10 one that ] would like
10 see written in letters Of gold upon the sky
itself 40 that all the world could read, Il
il tho only correct doctrine that has been
proclaimed by any Of our generals
Now, Mr.. Chairman, a great deal has been
said about the objects and purposes OF tins
war, The gentleman from Massac husetts re-
marked that we stand in very different posi-
ton from what we did at the called session,
Well, sir, so we do but the only difference
| is that We now have an army OF six hundred
thousand men IN the field How did you get
them therey Did they come there for the
purpose Of aboltion-fOr Oyerthrowing the
constitution and the laws! Not at all. You
would never have had this army; You would
never have won the victory at Fort DonelSon,
| If il had been understood that such were the
objects Of the war Now, Mr., Chairman, ]
will not stop to present any arguments upon
this proposition. | suspect that, cut OF the
| four thousand men from my congressional
district who were in the fight at Fort Donel'
son, twenty-five hundred Of them voted for
me at the last election. ] am inclined TO be.
lievc that ut least tina: number voted for me.
| | did not get the votes Of many Of the officers,
| laughter, but did get the rank and file.
| will tell my colleague another thing
| There are footsteps Of the republicans in the
army, but the marks Of their feet are all il
one direction, and when the rank and file re.
turn 10 their homes after the rebellion shall
have been crushed out, rs the man tolls upon
his farm ~ he labors to pay this taxation
that is upon US, as he tolls to support the old
flag Of his country. he will not be very apt to
try the experiment Of republicanis,n or abo
litionism again. That thing is about used up
There is not much more Of IT, II is growing
beautifully small By degrees and elegantly
less AS it goes along, Laughter.
Now, Mr.. Chairman, Twill tell you the in
eyitable result of.this war il, you must hang
good many Of the traitors could not 80
home to my people if was not in favor Of
that When you hang the extreme men in
either section, those in the other section will
! take warning by their fate. The extinction
| Of one will be- the death Of the other
| We have remained in this house, sir, and
and seen strange things going on without be.
ing able % hel p ourselves One of these men
in the south would inhame his district by
reading an abolition document from the north,
Il speech delivered here or elsewhere, it mat.
tered not and another up north would set
his district in II blaze by distributing the
printed rawlings Of one Of the fire eaters Of the
south. They were like couple Of calves in
spring standing ON tho hillside, who constant.
ly lick each other and they are the only
ones ever knew who got tat on it. Laugh
ter. In that way they have sustained two
large families, one at the north and the 9th
err at the south. Now, we might have been
able to have got along with them but for the
unfortunate mistake Of 1856. We then com.
! nittcd Il sad mistake. We believed thirty or
! forty years ago that we could make god
democrat out of an old federalist; but 1t was
a dcplorabc error. Laughter. You may
take she'll from the scashore anywhere; you
may take it upon the mountains, or into the
forests still it will sing the song pf its ocean
home Mr.. Buchanan remained the same at
the end that he was in the beginning.
This revolution would never have broken
out but for two elements nj the north, one
the extreme abolition party, and another
which was infinitely worsc--a party made up
of James buchanan. Isaac TOucey, Calet
Gushing, and other like men. They were
worse than abolitionsts, because they were
smarter. Laughter. | give that as my
/ opinion.
The Chairman The gentleman's time ha'
Mr. Richardson. | am very sorry for that
Gen. IIallcck telegraphed as follows to Ad
jutant General Baker Of the action OF the St
cond Iowa at Fort Donelson
"Sr. LOUIS, Feb. 10Th.
"ApJ. GEN n B. BAKER
The Second Iowa Infantry proved then
selves the bravest Of the brave. They ha
the honor of leading the column which en-
tered Fort Donelson
III. W. IIalleck Major General"
McCLELL,N's STRATEGY. The \. Y. Time
well remarks Oh Napoeons saying that tire
principle lie at the basis of the science o
war" to keep your force united, to leave n,
weak point unguarded and seize with rapid
ity on important points:
These fundamental maxims, which CAV
victory to such great generals As Alexander
Hannibal and Caesar in ancient Europe an,
Gustayus Adol plus, Turenne and FredercI
the Great in less remote age, are recevin,
,
with which General McClellan's campaign
so auspiciously opening. Here lies one grea
difference between our strategy and that c
the insurgents The latter have never exhit
tied any mastery combinations, followed u
single victory, or reaped the smallest ad
., vantage from success.
AN OSHKOSH REBEL-rhe rebel Col Vool
, hees, captured at Fort Doneson, is probabl
the veritable John c. Voorhees, who former
resided in Oshkosh He went to Arkansa
some three or four years ago, and on tn
breaking out of hostil;ties it was reporte
here that he had entered the military servic
of the south. John, before he vamosed thi
rancho was an active and enthusiastic repub
lican. "What a piece Of work is man. -
OSHKOSH Iris) Courier.
The Coal Mine Catastrophe in Engla
The foreign mails bring us additional par
ticulars of the sad calamity at Hartley, Eng
la nd, by which over two hundred persons los
their lives. The British government will
thoroughly investigate the affair, and orde
an examination of the other coal mines t,
guard against another similar calamity.
This afternoon the bodies of the two hun
dred slain by the deadly carbonic oxide hav,
been solemnly inferred in the silent grave
Such a spectacle as we have witnessed ha
never been seen before by any Engshman
Half, past o'clock was the time fixed for thu
funeral, which had to take place at Earsdor
some three or four miles from here Long