Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-11-29

"Go ont" and applause. If should talk
to you until tomorrow night l could not tell
you tho half of tho long story Of that impris-
onnent At Madison prison we were placed
under the charge of one w. L. Calhoun, the
most contcmptible wretch that now sets foot
upon Southern soil. One of my purposes in
coming home was to talk of Calhoun and his
sympathizers here. When wanted provis-
ions, when my fellow officers were suffering,
many of them being sick and in want of med
icine, when our money was all gone and Cap
tain Gregg had not yet returned, Ihad watch,
a present, which offered to sell. "No sir"
says Calhoun, "you can't do it," l said,
"Pcrmit one of your bankers to come down
here, and let me negotiate loan" "You
can't do that" Then l said Will you per-
init one of your officers to borrow some money
that may relieve these men = "Can't do
tits contrary to our rules" got a Lieu
tenant to take that watch and chain, worth at
least $3.50, and sell it. for me. lie obtained
for it the ptiful sum Of Sl2O, in Confederate
scrip, and with that we purchased provisions.
AS soon, however, rs it was found we had
little money, provisions went up hundred
per cent. Laughter. Calhoun would not per-
nit any one to sell to us except his Commits
sary, with whom he was in partnership.
And now word about the determination
of these people. Some of YOU talk Of ending
this war without severe fighting You are
mistaken. You must fight, and fight hard.
We have not man too many now i'll the
field. We have not enough, strange as it
may appear TO you, for they have too many
friends up here. Immense applause and
cries of That's true."] l will prove that to
you by the record tonight These people
have Kissed into my ear time and again. I'VE
| wish this to become n war of determination"
They have n policy in that. What it is l
cannot tell, unless it is that by making war
of determination some foreign power mny in
tcrfcre in their behalf. Furthermore they
told me, Sir, we have more friends in ILL.,
nois than you have Union men in the South"
They publish that to their people Lest l
may be misunderstood, let me tell you, Re-
publicans, am no Republican. Democrats,
! am no Democrat. am soldier Of my
country. Prodigious cheering. hold in
my hand an Augusta paper, o"c of some thirty
or forty others have in my possession with
articles similar to this one. Cries of " Read
it," read it," This is the Augusta Daily
Constitutiomalist, published in Augusta, Ga.
1t is tho oldest paper in the Southern States,
the one which has the greatest circulation and
is looked upon, next to the Richmond Enqmi
rcr, as the organ of the Confcdcracy. 1t is a
studied effort of these people to divide us here
in the North-to have the West separate from
the East. They continually talk about this
They say, awe like you Western men, for
YOU fight better than the cussed Yankees; !;
we know wa can't whip yon, but we cnn
whip the Yankees two to One." This article
is headed The Great West" and if it hurts
any of you, don't blame me- for you voted
that should road it.
"Therc is, however, evidently in the West
and particularly in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
strong opposition to the present war upon
the South. The tone of the press in those
States, tho public meetings and the Demo-
cratic Conventions, all prove this conclusive
ly. This feeling does not display itself as
boldly opposed to the war per Sc. but assumes
tho form Of opposition to abolition. coercion
and su6jugation. Laughter and chccrs.] 1t
would not be safe to exhibit it otherwise, for
in that event the individuals giving expires.
sion to it would soon find themselves incarcrr-
ated within tho walls of some Yankee bastile,
and their opposition thus speedily and effectu.
ally crushed out. But by protesting devo.
ton to the Union, the Constitution and the
Administration of Abraham Lincoln, they can
organize thoroughly for the work, and thus
secure way to triumph in tho approaching
Fall elections" Renewed laughter and
cheers.)
That article proceeds to tho length Of a col.
umn in the same strain, alluding-I will men,
ton the names-to Carlisle Of Pennsylvania,
Voorhees, of Indiana, Richardson Of Illinois
and Vallandigham of Ohio. (Sensation)
Their papers are full of it. They look upon
your tender.footed souls as traitors to your
country. DO you want to help these men
murder your brothers and break up this Gov.
crnmcnt? If so, in the name Of Heaven lot
US know it, and the Shiloh prisoners will send
you down South where you belong. We
came home fully determined to take all men
by tho hand who think and feel as we do,
that this rebellion should be crushed. We
came home sworn enemies to every man who
sympathizes with rebels or advocates Of com.
promise with the country 3 enemies. (Great en-.
thusiasm.) Oh that you could be sent there
to see the spirit Of these men, and hear them
talk as they feel!
Ladies'! let me say to you / have been
published in all the Southern States as vag
abond who insulted tho responsibility of that
country. In all the conversations that
have had with those people have aimed to
be strictly aAablc. have been very careful
in my conversation with them. Ladies by
hundreds have called to see the Yankee Gen.
eral. Upon every occasion when they sent
me word that the people wanted to converse
with ME. went to the gate. If permitted by
the guard. and talked to them plainly and po-