Washington telegraph. [volume] (Washington, Ark.) 1839-1871, 1863-05-06

| Keeps on naS'hG great speeches. They are
fine literary efforts, and in the absence of other
current literature, serve to entertain us here
in the South. as well as they do the vast crowds
who listen to him, and see in his denunca
| tions of the Republican party, some hopes of
practical results, to wit: the turning out the
present po'wees that be, and putting themselves
in.
He is playing on the wrong string, however,
to afford us much music other than the pleas
ure of reading good thing. His text is a
vigorous prosecution of peace" in order to
restore the Union. He seems to think if the
people of the North would cease fighting, the
people of the South would turn out jeff. Davis
whilst they turned out Abe Lincoln-all would
elect new Presidents, Senator's, and Congress
men, who would come together like a band of
brothers, make it all up, restore the Union,
join hands, face the world like the actors in a
play, and let the curtain drop upon scene of
mutual pardon. gushing tears, melting affec-
tons, shouts of &c pluribus unum," and all
that.
l. is pretty picture 1t has not at all de-
ceiyed Vallandigham, whom we take to be a
man of sense but may serve to captivate the
poor devils of the Northern masses, who now
begin TO see their folly, in throwing away the
pearl of the South, ''richer than all their
tribe, and would fain recover it by fair
means, (after foul fails them that they may
make money again, and save their souls alive
1t may serve his political purposes, but we can
not be parties to the imposition of any such de-
lusiye hopes, even upon enemies whom
we despise. No lie can live without destruc
tion to its parents, and all its nurses If the
North seeks peace for any such purpose we
much prefer not. clay on McDuf, and
Our hands are in, and our blood is up We
fight fo- all the stake at once. The s'stars and
bars must not sink out of the sight of nations.
| henceforth and fcrever-to crafty any sort of
sentimentalities-to be dropped for any loving
| embraces and lie there in the dirt the memo
mortal of a bloody revolution. Excuse US.
We have not room for Vallandigham's speech
in FULL. Would not publish it if we had. 1t
is dangerous food for weak minds. But here
are few specimen bricks-enough to judge of
the whole structure and show, when separated
from the mortar of his barney, exactly what
the al ceitect intends
X II am not for peace on
any terms; | would not be with any country
on the globe. Honor is the life of the nation,
| and it is never to be sacrificed have as hi
and proud sense of honor, and have right
TO have il, as any man in the South, and love
my country too well and cherish her honor too
profoundly, for one single moment to consent
TO dshonOrable peace. A voice-..The
whole couptry."l Yes, the whole country;
| every State: add I,unlike some of my own par
ty, and unlike thousands of the Abolition par
| tv, believe still, before God, that this Union
can be reconstructed, and will be. TGreat
applause That is my faith, and | mean to
cling to it, the wrecked mariner clings to
the last plank in the shipwreck. But when |
see that the experiment of blood has failed
from the beginning, as | believed it would !
am not one of those that proclaim now that we
shall have separation and disunion. an for
going back to the instrumentality through
which the Union was first made, and by which
alone it can be restored. [Cheers.
My theory upon
that subject is this-stop this war TCheers. I
Let parties in the South be organized, as the
parties never will while the war lasts, upon
some other question than repelling invasion
Let opposition parties spring up there; re-
| store all the ordinary instrumentalities an as
| have said elsewhere, allow all the great and
powerful natural causes which impel us to re-
union, to operate and have .heir full effect,
and then, through the ballot box in the Sonth,
men will be put in power, elected Presidents
! and constituted Cabinets, and chosen Senator'S
and Representatives, because the people will
it so, who will agree to terms of settlement
| and compromise with the men whom the people
of the North and the West will by that time
also have made Presidents, Cabinets, Senators
and Representatives. [Cheers.]
But there is a people
in the South just like us, as intelligent, as
brave, as well informed, as acute in discerning
their own interests, and obedient to THEN own
duties we are and when they that duty
and interest both combine to demand the re-
construction OF the Union of these States they
will do then our fathers did in 1887.
r [ desire to reason
| this case with the men of the South, when we
have got through reasoning it with the men of
the North and West When we have accom-
plished that work. and re- establis he'd all our
own liberties, freedom of speech, of the press,
and of elections, here, then | desire that an
appeal shall be made to the people of the
South, and that by their consent now, as in
1887, this Uunion shall be restored. | have
that faith in their Intelligence, their patriot
ism, their wisdom, and their craftsmanship,
to believe that this result will be accomplished,
and feel confident that either ehe men now
in power there, will be obliged to yield to the
popular demand or, failing to yield, they will
be obliged to do what We propose to compel
Lincoln and his party to do on the 4th of
March, lS65-to give place to other men.
Cheers. Without entering into detail, these
are my reasons for the faith that is in me for
the restoration of the Union of these States,
and my conviction is as earnest as ever penetra-
ted the heart of man.. | believe it, speak 1t
thus because believe it,
Then shall we escape the commissions which
have visited other countries, the scenes of rev.
otions of former times will not be enacted
in cur midst; but peaceably and quietly I'M
der the Constitution, and in accordance with
law, the changes of administration successlvey
year after year, will go on in this country
Before Goa believe, and it is the faith and
hope OF my heart, is destined once again, in
peace, prosperity and happiness, to realize that
most splendid of visions that ever fell upon
: hIman eyes Que Union, one Constitution one
Destiny.
And in the midst of all this Quixotic ma tier
there is not a word of recognition He knew
well enough that to.pronounce that word would
have been to lift the veil of Mokanna. as il