The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-19
YALIIANp1aHAirs SPEECH.

VALLANDIGHAH'SS SPEECH.
We have ! paper besore Us coatal1ing a fun
report of thh speech Of this gentleman recent
ly made in tie United States Congress We
extract a fe \ paragraphs. which We have new
er seen reptEbsisIed ip this section
Sir. nyiaagnent was made up and express
ed from tkc hrst. learned il from Chatham:
My lords you cannot conquer America ?
And you hAke not conquered the S5nth. You
never will. Il is no. IN the nature Of things
possible; much less under your-huspices. Bat
money you have expended without limit, and
blood poured out Ike water. Defeat, debt.
taxation. sepulchres, these are your trophies
Ia vain the pcorie gave you treasure and tile
soldier yielIed up his lifc Fight. tax. enar :
cipate-let these. said tile gentleman from
Maine. Mr. Park nt the lasi session be the
trinity Of our savafion.r Sir, they have be-
come the trinity Of your deep damtation. Tie
war for the Union IS in your hands. a most
bloody and costly failure. The President con.
fessed it on the I'D of September. sslemnly
officially, and rnder the broad seal Of tile
United States And he mas now repeated the
confessions. The Priests ard RabbisFof Absli-
ton taughtI him that God would not prosper
such cause. War the Union was aban.
dpned; war for HE negro openly begun. and
with strenSer batiaions than befo-e- With
burg and yicksbuFg answer.
And nsF, air can this war continne2A
Whence Ii K money 70 carry it on Where the
men2 Can you bbsrow2 From Fho1ng Can
you tax mdreg Mill the people btar itg Wait
till you hare collected what is already levied
How many MILLIONS more Of ~legbl-tenderr-
to-day forty-one per cent below tho par OF
gold--can you ilo4:2 VIII men enlist ROW al
any priceY All, sir. It is easier toldie At home
II beg pardon; bnt trust am not ~discour
aging enlistnsnisF :. II am. then. first arrest
Lincoln, Stanton and Halleck, and some of your
other Generals, aud viii retract; yes, will
recant. But eau you. draft againg Ask New
Bngland-New York. Ask Massachusetts,
Where are the nine hundred tholsand2 Ask
not Ohio-the Northwest. She thought YOU
we're in earnest, and gave yOn all, all more
than you demanded
The vile whosa b.ie first smiled tat day
The fair. fond bride OF yesterevs.
And agfd s7re and riairun gray.
Saw The laysd warriors haste away.
Apd deemed i - 70 grieve.'
Sir. in Bloda she has atonei iorl her cred uli-
"; aDd nog there Il mourning in evory house
Distress anu salness n every heart Shall she
give you ahy mose.
But ought this VA % co4tinues / answer
no-not day. rot an hour What then9
Shall we separated. \ gain nsEier no, no, mo-
What them Aud now. sir. 4 come 10 the grand
est and most solemn problem of statesmanship
from the kegint.p-s of time; and 70 the God OF
Heaven, iliuminef " hearts and minds, I weuld
humbly appeal ftr some measure, al least Of
light and wisdom AMI strength TO explore and
reveal the dark but possible future of this
land.
Sir, this war, ho1rioie as il Isl has taught us
hll some Of the most important and salutary
lessons which everie people learned.
Il First-ft has annilIilated. in twenty months
hll the false and pernicioas theories and teach
Fngs of Abolitionisn for thirty years. and
which mesc appeal to facts and argument
could not have uniaught in half a century.
We have learned that the South is not weak.
dependent, unerterprising. or corrupted bv
slavery, luxury ana idleness; bat powerful.
earnest, Tarliks. nduring. selfsupporting .lfnlI
of energy, and nexhaustible in resources. We
have been taught, and now esnfess it openly.
that African slavery instead Of lleing a source
OF weakness 10 the South. is one Of her main
elements of strength; and hence the military
necessity we are told, Of abolishing slavery
IL order 70 suppress the rebellion. We have
learned, also, that the .non-slsveholdinr white
men of the South millions in number. are i'm
moyably attached &c The institution, and are
It's chief support; md Ahelitionists have found
out, to their initiate surprise and disgust, that
the slave is net PAINTING for freedom = nor
pining IN silent but revengeful grief over cru
city and oppression inflicted upon him. bat
happy contenttd. attached deeply TO his mas
ter, and unwilling least ea.,ir--to accept
the precious boon Of freedom Which they have
profered him. appeal to the President for
the preof. l appeal 10 the fatt1that fewer
slaves have escaped, even frsIh Virginia. in
now nearly two years, than Arnold and Corn
walls carried away IN six months Of Invasion
in 176l- Finally. sir. we have learned and
the South too. what the history Of the world
ages age. and our own history might have
taught Is. that scrvile insurrettior is the least
OF the dangers 10 which she isexposed. Hence,
in my deliberate Judgment African slavery
as an institution, will come out Of this conflict
stronger than when the war began.