The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-07-07
HII.LsDALE, MICH, TUESDAY, JULY I, 1868. ]

speech Of Senator Wall. OF New jersey, be.
fore Democratie Club of Philadelphia, is q
passage more fully expounding the Democrat
ic plan than any other We have seen. He
says: IN
"Subjugation or humiliation benig alike
impossible, am in favor of an immediate
cessasion Of hostilities, for an armistice-thaI
mid the lull Of the st,ife the heat Of passion
shall have time to cool. and the calm voice
Of reason can be heard. Ia the midst noi
such calm / am for endeavoring to learn
from those in arms against us what their de-
mands may be, aud inviting their co-opera.
ton in the name of common Christianity,
iu the name Of common humanity, to some
plan of reconciliation or reconstruction by
which the sections may unite upon more
stable basis--a plan in which the questions
upon which we have differed SO long may be
harmoriously adjusted; and each section, by
means Of the greatness developed by this war,
may profit by the experience. If shall be
found that sectional opinions and predjudices
are too obstinate, and the exasperations of this
war have burned too deep to settle it upon
then l know that separation and recOLstruc
tion are inevitable" .,~-- ~..n 4,
4 Here is the whole plan: an armistice, and
then "inviting our cooperation" During
that armisiice they hope the "calm, majestic
voice of reason" aud a common Christianity"
might do something considerable. The game
as they calculate, would then be on the board,
with stakes so tempting! Mr.. Wall would
eudeavor "to learn from US what our demands
are" 1t.D -,gr-
Anything in reason he would be prepared
to grant us; but if we replied, our demands
are, that you bring away your troops from
every inch of our soil, that you leave the Bor-
der States free to decide on their own destiny
that you evacuate all our forts and towns
which you now hold, and make US rid Of you
and the whole breed of you forever, then Mr..
Wall would exclaim; What! do you call that
the calm, majestic voice Of reasonf ls that
your common Christisni,ya He would say,
when spoke of the calm, majestic &C., /
meant the spoils; when / said a common
Christianity, meant money. Let us talk
rationally-how Inuch common Christianity
will you take? r- a
In vain is a net spread in the sight Of birds.
We are ware of them; and will watch them
well, and the friends Of the Union, "whereso
ever found" Our views go a lille further
than Meirs-we hope so to disorganige and
disintegrate society in their county that they
wM rush into armed revolxtion and anarchy.
We spit upon their ballot boa. We care
not what they demand" in resolutions, nor
what helpless trash may proclaim on the
" housetops." We do not believe in their pow
er to attain so much as an armistice for two
years to come. If an armistice, indeed, were
offered, and the invading troops were with
drawn, Of course we should not object to it,
and good use could be made of il.
But mark well, ye armistice mongers dur
ing that suspension OF hos tilities all negotia
tions must be between Government and Gov
crnment. Our lines shoull be more strictly
guarded than ever. No negotiations or fra
Of parties by public meetings or
private conferences; no bargaining with the
calm voice Of reason; no secret pocketiug Of
Walls "Common Christianity"
But armistice there will be none, and we
are glad of it. Our sovereign independence
is already won and paid for with treasures Of
brave blood. II shall not be id6y psddlers,
10 be built into Yankee platform.