Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-04
speech of nr. isichardson, of IIilnoi.


speech OF ur. richardson, of Illinois.
On the 10Th inst, tleLHouse being in commi;
tee OF the whole on the State of the Union, Mr
RICHARDSON said
And | think one of the most sensible procla-
nations that has been written since the com
rnencenleut OF the war WAS written 10y General
Grant when he entered Paducah, Ky. In that
proclamation he laid down this proposition 81
have not come" said he, Ito fight opinions;
have come to resist treason and Ovefwhem IL. |
am not here To force opinions upon YOU. am
here to sustain the Constitution and the suprem-
acy OF the laws
And one of the best signs during this whole
session is the Endorsement by my colleague of
Gen Grant | did not know that my colleague
was prepared TO ndorse that proclamation But,
sir, it j. one that would like TO see written in
letters OF gold upon the skv itself so that all the
world could read. Ii Is the only correct doctrine
that has been proclaimed by any of our Generals
Now. Mr. Chairman. great deal has been
said about the objects and purposes of this war
The gentleman from Massachusetts remarked
that stand III very different position from
what We did at the called session. Well sir So
We do; but the only difference il that we now
have am army Of six hundred thousand men in
the field How did you get them thereE Did
they come there for the purposes of abolition
for overthrow ing the Constitution and the awsY
Not at all You would never have had this ar
my; YOU would never have won the victory at
Fort DonelsOn il il had been understood that
such were the objects of the war. Now, Mr..
Chairman. | will not stop To present any argu-
ment upon this proposition. suspect that, out
of the four thousand men from my Congressional
district who were in the fight at Fort Donelson.
twenty five hundred OF them voted for me at the
last election. | am inclined to believe that at
least that number of them voted for me. did
not get the votes of many of the officers, laugh
ter but | did get the rank and file
Il viii tell my colleague another thing. There
are footsteps of the Republicans in the army, but
the marks of their feet all in one direction.
and when the rank and file return to their homes,
after the rebellion shall have been crushed out.
as the man tolls upon his farm a he labors to
pay the taxation that is upon us. rs he tolls 10
support the old flag of his country, he will not be
very apt 10 try the experiment of Republicanism
or AbOlttionism again That thing Is about used
up. There is not much more of Il. Ii is grow
ing beautifully small by degrees and elegantly
less as it goes along. laughter
Now, Mr.. Chairman. will tell YOU the inev
liable result of this war Is, YOU must hang good
MANY of the traitors could not 20 home To my
people if was not in favor of that. When YOU
hang the extreme men in either section, those in
tire other section will take warning BY their fate.
The extinction of one will be the death of the
other.
1--WE have remained in this House. sir, and seen
strange things going without being able To
help ourselves One of these men in the South
would rhame his district 10y reading an Abolition
document from the North, a speech delivered
here or elsewhere, it matered not; and
other up North would set his district in
blaze of excitement by distributing the print
Ell rawlings of one of the fire eaters of the
South They were like couple of calves IN
spring. standing upon the hillside who constantly
lick elch other; and they are the only ones
ever knew who got fat on it. Laughter In
that way they have sustained two large families
one at the North, and the South. Now, We
might have got along with them but for the
fortunate mistake in le56. We then committed
sad mistake. We believed thirty or forty wears
ago that could make u good Democrat out of
old FeieraliSt: but il deplor tble error.
Laughter You may take a sea she'll from the
>et shpre anywhere: YOU may take il upon the
mountains. or into the forests still il will sing
the song of is ocean home Mr. Buchanan re
mane'i the same at the end that he was in the be
ginning.
This revolution would never have broken out
but for two elements AT the North. the
IRENE Abolition party, and another party which
was infinitely worse party made mp of James
Buchanan. Isaac Toucey. Caleb Cushing. and
other ike men. They were worse than Abol
tionist> because they were smarter. Laughter
give that my opinion.
The Charm in-The genueman's time has ex
PRED
Mr. Richard~on-I very sorry for that.