The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-07-22

bis pledge, he would vote no money though
the enemy was in sight OF our Capitol. OF
those five two are now IN tho rebel army. L
will say that on every measures which has
been brought forward in this House TO sustain
the Government 10 its present struggle and 70
give il power to crush this rebellion my col
league has persist ntly, uniformly, and con
sistently, il is proper 10 use the word in that
connection, voted against them. say, so far
as my knowledge goes, he has voted against
the Government at all times.
On the llth Of July last, Mr.. Holman pu
the following iuterrogatory to my colleague;
and mark the answer:
Mr.. HoDMAN. While the gentleman cen
sures the Administration, let me ask him
whether, with his own constituents, be is re-
solved that the Union shall be maintained I"
A very simple question, and easily answer
ed. Now hear my colleague:
"Mr. VALLANDiaHAM My votes shall speak
'or me on that sui jrct. Ny position is de-
fined in the resolution just read. am an
swerable to my conscience and my copstitu-
enis, and not to the gentleman from Indi'
ana"
A Captain Cutie would say, "that is an
answer rs is an answer" "My votes shall
speak for me-" Yes, they have spoken, and
sysry time against t4e Gogsysnsnt The
no answer TO the question, it had no answer
in il, or # il had, tie answer was 80 qualified
Az! restricted that no one c. Id lind 1t. 1t Is
like the goodness, that the old Romans OK
hibited on certain festive occasions, who was
SO covered over with flowers, and flounces, and
furbelows that no goddess could be seen.
But this is not all Of my colleagues 7, cord.
NV colleague, it is well known-or at least it
is known to this House--went with that noto-
rious traitor Breckenridge, to the city OF Bal
tin ore, and there addressed or tried 10 address
the traitors assembled on that occasion. 1t Is
a well known fact, that there was in Kentuky,
rebel camp, named VaIlandigbam, after my
colleague. / understand further, that at a
rebel meeting in Kentucky, my colleague was
posted on flaming handbilIs, to speak to The
rebel traitors, My colleague, l think, ba,
said that he did not know Of their using his
name in this way but they must have known
him and they did kaow him. There is one
thing in reference to the rebels, and that Is
that they always kaow their man. They
would not have placed the name OF my friend
from the L. uisville district Of Kentucky, Nj.
MALLERY, on tho bills to speak at secession
meeting. They know their man, and they
never mistake him.
More than that. Ny colleague during the
dark days of the last secession of the Thirty.
sixth Congress, when this House was filled
with traitors-when Stats after State bad
gone out of the Union-my colleague, in my
presence an in The presence Of others, said,
that the troops of Ohio before they should
march through has district to coerce the South
would hare TO march over his dead body
True it is, thai be denies it; but in that his
memory is at fault. There were others who
heard il, who are now members Of this House
This, Mr.. Chairman is the record Of my
colleague. This is the record which he gives
to the world aud to posterity. When he ialk'
about the Constitution, and when he talks
about peace, what does he meant ! will mo-
T undertake to state what he means by the Con
stir ution. Certainly he does not mean tha
old aud yenerated Constitution which ou
fathets made, and which he has sought t'
sub eit will! leave it for Others to state
what sort of peace we would ave, If We
obt lin the peace which b" seeks. Gentlemen
may cry peace, pc ce, but there will be nc
peace until this rebellion has been crushed
oat Of the land and the Constitution as a as
I vindcated and sustained. We have called
our armies into the battlefield, and the ques.
ton must now h. settled by the stern arbitra
ueut OF the sword. IL cannot be settled BY
compromises. II must be settled by cold steel
The only compromises that can now be allow
ed are the bullet and bayonet.
Gent men, too, talk about reconstruction
There s no reconstruction in the matter
When traitors submit to the laws of the land
I when med rebels give up their arms, ane
! when the secession leaders are surrendered u
their merited fate, this war will end, and no
till then. There can be no peace while tina
/ dirty flag of secession 6aunts in our face.
proposition for peace ut this time made upoI
8 this floor by any members ought to insure bl
instant expulsion. The rebels do not ask fo
peace. They ask fos no quarter. 1t is thei
atlor eys who come forward and ask for peace
The rebels are as defiant to-day as when The
: war broke out. Why, then, do we hear thi
ak alb. ut peace with these Sepoys, who mur
/ der our wou nded ldiers iu cod blood, anc
, who cut of their heads aud carry them a
: horrid trophies through the lanpl We car
have no peace until they are subdued, unti
| these thugs are driven into the gulf. The
bones of our brelherin are now worn as astrinketi
by thase barbariaus. 1t is more than idle tc
, talk of peace with such men. There will be
no peace until they are completely subdued
{ and any action which we may take towards {
peace until they are subdued, will serve only
to strengthen the rebellion.
> Who knows the exulaton and the joy will
which this Democratic address was read in thu
; camps Of the secessionstsl Who can deecrib'
! the thrill of delight which ran through the
, ranks Of the followers Of JEFF. Davis wher
, they read tha address, and found, while
there was condemnation Of the rebellion, Their
, was a Utter deuuuciation OF truo ,nen OF tn.
, North and Of Mr.. Lncoln's Administration
, Who can tell how that address animated ,h
5 hearts aud trengthened the arms Of the rebel
/ 10 strike ,her and more deadly blow a
| the hearts Of our brothers aud sonsa VIII
: can deny that tho whole tenor and effect o
this address, instead Of striking at the traitors
j. to bolster up their causes, and to srrepgthel
2 their hands against the Government
| Rut Mr. Chairman i must hurry on