The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-01-30

uOOpoJ ouu cNeIy Iltno SO ldr I06y nave
been promptly furnished. From the be.
ginning the war has been conducted like
a political campaign, and it has been
the folly of the party in power that they
have assumed that numbers alone would
win the field in contest not with bal.
lots but with musket and sword. But
numbers you have had almost without
number-the largest, best appointed,
best armed, fed, and clad host of brave
men, well organized and we'll disciplin.
ed, ever marshaled. A Navy, too, not
the most formidable perhaps, but the
most numerous aud gallant, and the cost.
liest in the world, and against foe al
most without nagy at all. Twenty
million people, and every element
of strength and force at command
power, patronage, influence, unan>
unity, enthusiasm, confidence, credit,
money, men, an Army and q Navy
the largest aud the noblest ever set in
the field or aaoat upon the sea; with the
support, almost servile, of every State,
county, and municipality in the North
and West; with Congress swift to do
the bidding of the Executive; without
opposition anywhere at home, and with
an arbitrary power which neither the
Czar of Russia nor the Empe. or of Aus
tria dare exercise; yet after nearly two
years OF more vigorous prosecution Of
war than ever recorded in history; after
more skirmiShes, combats and battles
than Alexander, Cesar, or the first Ma.
poleon ever fonght in any five years Of
their military career, you have utterly,
Signally, disastrously-I will not say
ignominiOusl ly-failed to subdue ten
million rebels" whom yon had taught
the people orthe North and West not only
tohate but to despise. Rebels did say?
Yes, yonr fathers were rebels, or your
grandfathers He who now before me
on canvas looks down so sadly upon us,
the false, degenerate, and imbecile guar
dians of the great Republic which he
founded, was rebel. And yet we,
cradled ourselves in rebellion, and who
have fostered and fraternized with every
insurrection in the nineteenth century
everywhere throughout the globe, would
now, forSooth, make the word "rebel" q
reproach Rebels certainly they are;
but all the persistent and stupendous eff.
forts of the most gigantic warfare Of
modern times have, through your incom.
potency and folly, availed nothing tc
crash them out, cut off though they have
been by your blockade from all the world
and dependent only upon their own
courage and resources. And yet they
were to be utterly conquered and sub
dued in six weeks, or three monthsl-
Sir, my Judgment was made. up and ex.
pressed from the first. Ilearned it from
Chatham: "My lords, you cannot con.
quer America" And you have not con.
quered the South. You never will
1t is not in the nature of things possible;
much less under your auspices. But
money you have expended without limit
and blood poured out like water. De.
feat, debt, taxation, sepulchres, these are
your trophies. In vain the peo lie gave
you treasure and the soldier yielded up
his life. Eight. tax, emancipate, let
these" said the gentleman from Maine,
Mr.. PIKE, at the last session, "be the
trinity Of our salvation" Sir, they have
become the trinity of your deep damna.
tion. The war for the Union is, in your
hands, most bloody and costly failure
The President confessed it on the 22d
of September, solemnly, officially, and
under the broad seal ofthe United States.
And he has now repeated the confession.
The priests and rabbies of abolition
taught him that God would uot prosper
such cause. War for the Union was
ab" ndoned; war for the negro openly be-
gun, and with stronger battaIions thar
before. With what success? Let the
dead at Fredericksburg and Vicksburp
answer.
And now, sir, can this war continued
Whence the money to carry it our
Where the men? Can you borrow? From
whom? Can you tax more? Will the peo
pie bear it? Wait till you have collect
ed what is already levied, How many
millions more of illegal tender"-to.d day
forty.seven per cent below the par Of
gold-can you float? Will men enlis
now at any price? All, sir, it is easiel
to die at home. beg pardon; but
trust | am not "discouraging enlist
ments." If am, then first arrest Lin
coin, Stanton, and Halleck, and some o
your other generals; and | will retract
yes, | will recant. But can you draf
again? Ask New England-New York
Ask Massachusetts, Where are the ninC
hundred thousand? Ask not Ohio
the Northwest. She thought you wert
in earnest, and gave you all, all-mort
than you demanded. .. -..-a.
a"The wife whose babe first smiled that day
'l The fair, fond bride of yester eve,
And aged sire and matrOn gray,
Saw the loved warriors haste away,
And deemed it sin TO grieve."
Sir, in blood she has atoned for heI
credulity; and now there is mourning il
every house, and distress and sadness il
every heart Shall she give you any
more? ga ~" '.'' ''i fo I'' 't"" !
But ought this war to coptinue9
answer, no-not a day, not an hour
What then? Shall we separate? Agar
l answer, no, no, mol What them
And now, sir, / come to the grandest
aud most solemn problem of statesman
ship from the beginning Of time; and tc
the God Of Heaven, Illuminer Of hearts
and minds, would humbly appeal fol
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