Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-06-19
speech of senator WALL OF New Jersey.
He Declares for an Immediate Cessa
tiOn OF H0stiiities, SC.


ton OF Hostiiities, Sc.
The New York World Of the 1st instant
publishes, in full, speech delivered by
Hon. James w. WALL of New Jersey, be-
fore the Democratic club Of Philadelphia,
May 9th. 1t occupies nearly five columns
Of small type, and is devoted chiefly to
review of the antec eaents Of tho war. II
quotes the record freely to fix upon the
Black Republican party the responsibility
of this uiquitous War. The following ex.
tracts from the address will be read with in !.
te:est
There clearly was time in the history
and progress of this event, when tho war
might have been averted under the gui,
dance of wise and prudent statesmanship;
but, unfortunately, as | have before said,
the revolution caught us with fools and ia
natics in power. believed at the outset,
as know now, that it would have been M
fnitetg better to haze let the seeding States
depart IN peace SO urged members OF
Congress at the time, and the members OF
the Peace Convention, believed then,
as believe now, that such wise and gem
erous policy would have disaFmed resent
ments, would have softened and subdue
hearts then swelling with hate, but which
resistance must harden, and make more Bit
ter STILL
= < The sword and the bayonet, in a
civil strife like the present, between two
such people, can never help to the propef
disposition in the minds ofeiher section for
wise adjustment, aud can never take the
place of civil wisdom, without which all the
triumphs of the battle field are useless
Soon, whatever may be the result of single
battles, diplomacy must take the place Of
war, or else anarchy, or the resolving this
government into military despotism must
be the result. The idea Of this strife con-
tinaing for two years longer, with the pros
pect Of increased carnage. stagnatlon of bus
siness, Inhibited commerce, is too much fer
any man, Unless it be a shoddy contractor
or Spectator in gold, to contemplate with
composites. Sooner, or later by that rough
experience fearful suffering; that has al
ready come, and will be fearfully aggraVa-
ted by the continuance Of the war, if not by
the more prudent counse!s of a wise for
bearance, tie hour tor ompro5sise and settle
4,ent must come. In view Of the immense
Interest at stake. both for ourselves and those
dearer than ourselves, our children. ace must
endeayor to hasten ITS coming It Is only
fools or knaves who still continue to declare
that we will not treat with rebels we can
not hold parley with tuese who are striking
at the Datjon's life.
); = AS the keen Forecasting statesman
ship OF Mr.. Douglass very early discovered:
.sSubjugation, determination, or separation
must be the result Of a war between North
ern aud Southern States =
$: !: Has not the question Of the war at
last reduced itselfto the alternatives predic
ted by Mr.. Douglas? Can there b, any
possible settlement except Upon the basis Of
subjugation, annihiilatiou, or separation
Sooner than the first two, in Gods name.
in the name of a common humanity, [ say
separation q thousand times
Subjugation or anni"ilation being alike
impossible, I an ~ tavor of an Immediate
cessation d Aostilities, or an armstice-that
mid the lull Of the strife the heat Of passion
shall have time to cool, and the calm. MAJ
este voice of reason can be heard. In the
midst Of such a calm lam eudeaForing to
learn from those in arms against Us what
their demands may be, and inviting their
co operation ia the name Of a common Chris
tianity, in the name al a common humanity,
to some plan OF reconciliation or reconstruc-
ton by which the sections may reunite upon
more stable basis-a plan in which the
questions upon which he has differed SO long
may be tremendously adjusted; and each
section, by virtue Of the greatness develop
ed in this war, may profit by the experience
If it shall be found that sectional opinions
and prejndices are too obstinate. and the
exasperations Of this war have burnt too
deep to settle it upon the basis Of reconcile
alton CIR reconstruction then know that sep
aralton and recognition are inevitable. Ii
there is to be a settlement upon the basis Of
reconstruction, then reconstruction can on
ly accomplish its ends by introducing into
our constitutional system plan Whereby for
ali time to come section shall be protected
agast section
The plan suggested some years ago by
Mr.. Vallandigham bears the stamp of his
clear sagacity and stateslnanlike forecast,
dividing the country into four large sec
tons or masses. and requiring majority
Of the representatives FROM each to consent
to measure before it should become law
Calhoun Notwithstanding the undeseryed
obloquy attaching now to his name, was to
my mind the most honest and camprahen-
sive statesman who grappled with national
problems, and J make bold here to say that
no wiser, purer, more patriotic statesman
ever lived. AS early as 1859 he foretold
this CONFUSION unless his proposed remedy
was adopted. He regarded the institution
Of slavery at the South as the pillar OF their
strength, security and civilization, and its
disturbance by foreign elements as sure to
lead to the dowDfdll of the Union Hence,
his theory of reconstruction looked to the
permanency and sacurity eff that fayorite
and to removing it far from the
reach OF intermeddling puritanical phllan- !
lanthropy. He correctly held that the.
more perfectly q government combines
power and liberty Of the dominant race. the
more perfectly it fulflls tie end of its crea-
ton. He further held that tie govern
ment of the mere numerical majority did
not accomplish this in any reasonable de
gree hence he pronosed what he denomi-