Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-03-11
4 Brief and Telling speech
from Gov. Richardson.

made few remarks Mandatory Of the pol
icy Of Gen Giaut in Kentucky and Ten
nessee. We quote from the official report
in the Globe:
Mr. STEVENS obtained the floor.
! Mr. R'chardson-Wil the gentleman
I yield to me for moment?
Mr. 5teyens-l yield to the gentleman.
Mr.. RIchardson-I am very much deligh
tea at the annunciatiOn of my colleague
/ Mr.. Washburne this morning. Ii is one
oi the delightful signs of the times.
Mr.. Stevens hope the gentleman did
not expect me TO give way for general de-
bate. l am informed by the Department
that 1t 10 important this army bill should
| pass TO day.
MIR. Riehardson-Oh, yes; the army;
Will get to that in moment. 1t is the
verg subject rose to discuss. Laughter I
! Mr.. Stevens-I hope the gentleman will
not enter upon any general discussion.
Mr. Richardson-I will not take long.
say l congratulate my colleague upon his
! announcement here to day.
/ Mr. Stevens really hone the gentle
man viii not interfere with the passage of
this bill. tits absolutely necessary that we
| should pass it speedily
/ Mr.. Richardson-I would have been
through By this time if the gentleman had
/ waited
Mr.. Stevens-If had known what the
| gentleman wanted, he would not have be-
/ gun.
The Chairman-The gentleman from Il
iinois IS entitled TO the flopr.
! Mr.. Richardson-My colleague alludes to
the proclamation of General Grant on his
entering the borders of Kentucky.
Several MEMBERSHIP no.
Mr. Rchardson-We ell, my colleague has
indOrsed Gen. Grant.
Mr.. Washburne-Yes, sir.
Mr.. Richardson-And | think one of the
most sensible pr0clamations that has been
written since the commencement Of the
var was written by General Grant when he
entered Paducab, Kentucky. In that
proclamation, he laid down this propositions:
4 have come to resist treason and 20 over
wheim 1t. | am not here to force opinions
upon you. am here to sustain the con-
sutution and the supremacy Of the laws
And one of the best signs during this
whole session is the Endorsement by nv
colleague of General Grant. | did not
know that my colleague was prepared to
indarse that proclamation But, sir. it is
!
tiers OF gold upon the sky itself, so that all
the w'rld could read. 1t is the only cor>
rect doctrine that has been proclaimed by
any of our generals.
Now. Mr.. Chairman, q great deal had
been said about the objects and purposes of
this war. The gentleman from Massachu,
sets remarked that we stand 10 a very dif-
tercnt position from what we did at the
% all !
the only difference is that we now have an
army OF six hundred thousand men in the
field. How did you get them there p? Did
they come there for the purposes of aboli-
tiOn-for oyerthrowing the constitution and
the laws? Not at ALL You would never
have had this army; Won would never have
won the victory at Fort Donclsou, lift had
been understood that such were tie objects
Of the war. Now, Mr.. Chairman. will
not stop TO present any argument upon this
proposition. l suspec. that, out of the four
thousand men from my Congressional dis
trict who were in the fight at Fort DoneI-
son, twenty five hundred of thom 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 ;he officers laughter but did get
the rank and file
l Will tell my colleague another thing
There are footsteps at the repub lichns In
the army, but the marks OF their feet are MI
in ore direction, and when tie rank and
file shall return to their homes after the re-
billion shall have been crushed out. as the
mat tolls upon his farm as he labors tG nav
this taxation that is upon us, as he tolls t.
support the old flag of his country. he will
not be very apt to try the experiment of
repuhlIcanlSm or abOiitionism again. The
| thing is about used up. There is not much
more "G it. 1t is growing beautifully small
by degees and elegantly less as it goes
along Laughter
Now, Mr.. Chairman | will tell you the
/ inevitable result of this war is, you must
| hang good many of the traitors | could
not 60 home 70 my people il 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 VIII be the death of
| the other.
/ We have remained in this House, sir, and
| seen strange things going on without be-
/ ing aUle to help ourselves. One of these
I men III the South would inilame his district
( by reading an abolition document from the
/ North, speech delivered here or elsew here.
! 1t mattered no:; and another up North
would set his district il llaze Of excite
ment by distributing the printed rawlings Of
ne OF the fire eaters the Of South. They
were like couple Of calves in spring stan
! ding m the hillside, who constantly lick
each other; and they are the only once |
| ever knew who got fat on it, Laughter.
In that way they have sustained two large
families, On at the North and the other at
the South. Now, we might have been able
to have got along with them but for the
unfortunate mistake 1856 We then com
mlrtsd sad mistake. We believed thirty
or forty years ago that we could make a
good democrat out of an old Federalist hut
1t wa- deTlorable error. Laughter l.
You may take shell from the sea shore
anywhere you may take it upon the noun
tains or into the forests still it will sing
the song of It's ocean home.
THE MIsER's PUNIsHMEST-A miser
died once, and he being the first Of that