The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-07-23

bnOSe nineteen years. L ne CHIC VI Six
generations of Puritans, / was taught at
a mothers knee to love purity before
peace. And when Daniel Webster taught
me that the Union meant making white
men hypocrites and black ma6 slaves;
that it meant lynch law in the Carolinas
and mob law in Massachusetts,; that it
meant lies in the pulpit and gags in the
Senate; when I was told that the cement
ing of the Union was returning slaves to
their masters; in the name of the God that
[ loved and had been taught to honor, l
cursed the Constitution and the Union,
and endeavored to break it, and thank
God it is broken F ~
This man is now one Of the bright and
shining lights of the abolition or Repub-
lican party, and 4 verify believe that he
has not advocated a measure for nineteen
years" but what will be carried out by the
legislation of the Thirty Seventh Con-
gress.
Mr.. Chairman, why did not my colleague
tell this House and the country that the
very men of the South whom he arraigns
and for whose present misdeeds he tries to
hold the Democracy of the North respon-
sible, were ready to accept the Crittenden
compromise as full and final adjustment
of the difficulties that then threatened to
disturb the peace of the country? N
take the following from the speech of
Senator Douglas, from whom certain gen.
tlemen now frequently quote, delivered in
the Senate, January 3, 1861:
GIN the committee of thirteen, few
days ago, every member from the South,
including those from the cotton States,
Messrs Toombs and Davis, expressed
their readiness to accept the proposition
of my honorable friend from Kentucky
Mr.. CRITTENDEN as final settlement
Of the controversy, if rendered and sus-
tanned by the Republican members
Hence, the sole responsibility of our disa-
Egreement, and the only difficulty in the
way of an amicable adjustment, is with
4 the Republican party ~ 7ss,a.s.
+, Does not my colleague know that propo-
sition was never accepted? Does he not
know that all this misery and ruin and
lsufering and bloodshed and death could
have been avoided by the adoption of
those propositions Does he not know
that all the homes made desolate by this
terrible conflict, that all these cries of woe
and agony of the countless widows and
orphans, would not have been, if those
compromises had been passed. And yet
sir, to carry out the opinion ofea gentle.
man in the other end of the Capitol, Mr.
i CHANDLER, of Michigan, that 'sthi.
j Union, without little blood-letting voult
not be worth rush, this adjustment wal
refused. In Gods name have they no
been gratifed?o Has those not been g
little blood letting21 Under the delusivt
cry that s'there's nothing wrong,v ant
nobody hurt, this sore calamity has
come upon US, and the bones. Of. thousands
of our fathers and brothers and sons ars
now bleaching upon a hundred battle.
fields, and all to crafty the stabbofness
of the secessienists and abolitionists. Sir
the secessionists are most fearfully guilty
Guilty In placing their acceptance of the
compromise upon the contingency of the
: support of the Republicans. Guilty foi
their attack upon Fort Sumter, and thu
plunginga the country into this terribl,
civil war. -
: But afew weeks have elapsed since tn
. committee on the conduct of the war CAV
j llus detailed report of the horrible bar
o barities and atrocities committed by tn
: Irebels, at which the soul shudders and tn
4 heart sickens One would scarcely cred
: it that such enormous wickedness could b
: lperpetrated in a civilized country. Sue
g things. in war like, this, may be locke
: fors Even our own Republican pape,
1are publishing items from the seat of wa
Is scarcely credible. The State Journal, th
J Republican organ of Ohio, publishes th
n following from correspondent In tn
n Mountain department: $50
:, q We had one of our men taken prisol
I'D er after being decoyed into a house by Il
Il guerrillas, and then murdered His brail
- were beaten out twith rocks. His enrage
: comrades made a descent upon the heu'
and seized the man-took him out al
shot him. They then carried out u
L. wife, lately confined, and not yet able
at leave. her bed, and laid her and her bal
onIupon the ground, and fred the misesat
of cabin The next day some Of our scos
I'd found the. poor. woman in a dying conc
it tion, her baby dead; for they had been e
pit Iposed all night to a hard, cold rain stor
to The scouts built a shed oyer her, and sc
lis to camp for, an ambulanee and sarget
It. She asked them if her husband would I
ey soon. be. released, so he could help h
on Poor woman, she did not know that he
nd been shot, and his body left lying will
he a hundred yards of her. What NAL
lse the affair more horrible is, that, on inv
tigation, it turns out that the man was I
.el la bushwhacker; on the contrary, go
&c Union man-nowise concerned in the mi
ne der of our soldier G
tv From letter of a soldier in the thirt
lat sixth9 Ohio regiment, pablished in t
10 Marietta sIntelligencer, another Repub
ng fcan paper, and the home organ of my Q,
us league, IMr. CUTLER / extract the f
ct, flowing: s5o q
u 90 The captain, at one place, sent
lis down to a house with three men, with ,
.ce 1 ders tosearch the house, fire thsouthous
ne land bring off all the, cattie- that were
Gu enough to kill I got thewoman to tai
s.s rs ing with one of the men, and seizins
70 brand from the Fireplace, set % barn (
y of wheat afre. Il took of two hors