Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1863-02-12
.N.O2.tEsgf'9s Wears.
Mr.. ValIandieham's Speech.

MI. tGiidhuisHuh W."
In the Federal House Of Represen.
tatives, at Washington, on Weanes-
days. the l4.h ult., series OF resoln-
tions wre under consideration de-
clariug tho rebellion deliberately
wicked and without reasonable ex-
cuse !; that the war was inaugurated
solely for the suppression OF the re-
bellion anG the restoration of the
Union as it was that the Union re-
stored, the war should cease, and the
seeded States be received back toto
the Union with all The privileges and
immuDilies to which they wele origi.
nally entitled when Mr.. Vallatdig-
ham, Of OEio, made speech which
stirred up The Abolition ire to high
pitch. We copy portion Of his re-
marks:
Twenty million people, and every
element Of strength and foice at
command = power, patronage, inhu-
ence, uDanimity, enthusiasm, conf
lence; credit, money, men, an army
and navy; the largest and the uo-
blest ever set 10 the fielc or ahoat
upon the sea; Nth the support al
most servilp, OF every State, county,
and municipality in the North AID
West; with Congress, swift TO Go
the bidding Of the Executive; with
out opposition anywhere at b. me,
and with an arbitrary power which
the Gar of Russia nor the Emperor
of Austria dare exercise; yet after
two years Of more vigorous prosecu-
ton OF war than ever recorded in
history after more skirmishcs. COM
bats and battles than Alexander, Cae.
sar, OF the first Nal oleon ever fought
in any five yeais Of their military
career, you have utter!y. signally, dis
t as .rousIy-. willnot sly igpominiously
= filled to su5due ten million "reb-
els" whom you have taught the
people Of the North ane West not on
ly to bate bnt 10 despise. r bels,
did | say7 Yes, your fathers we're
rebels, or your graDdfathers. He
who now before me on canvass lock ks
down SO sadly upon US, the false, de-
generate, imbecil4 guardians of the
great Republic which he founded.
was rebel. And yet, we who cra-
died ourselves in rebellion, and who
have lostered and lraternized with.
every insurrection in the bincteenib
century everyw hero throughout the
globe, would now forsooth, make the
word +" rebel" rtproaeh. Rebels,
certainly they are; but all the per-
,istent and stupendous Efforts Of the
most gigantic warfareof modern times
have through your incompetency and
folly, avaied nothing 10 crush them
out, cut off though they have been
by your blockade from all the world,
and dependent! only upon their own
courage and resources. Aud yet
they we're 10 be utterly CONQUERED
and subdued in six weeks, or three
months.
, Sir, my Judgment vas made up
E and expressed from The first. /
5 learned it. from Chatham: "My
, lords, you cannot conquer America, "
, And you have not conquered the
South. You never will. 1t is not
lin the nature of things possible,
much less under your auspices
But money you have expended
! without limit. and blood poured out
r like water; defeat, taxation, sorul.
r chers, these are your trophies. 10
: vain the people gave you treasure,
and the soldier yielded up hls lie
. :, Fight, tax, emancipate. let these
said The gentleman from Maine MIR.
PikeG at the last session, "be the
J, trinity of our salvation. Sir, they
j. have become the triuily of your deep
v damuation. The war for the Union
|, lie. in yonr hands,a most bloody and
!. costly failure. The President con-
sifessed it on the 22d of September,
! soIemniy, officially, and under the
t broad seal Of the United States. =
o And he has now repeated ihe con:
!. fession. The priests and rabbis Of
Abolition taught him that God would
not prosper such d cause. war lol
Ifhe Union was abandoned !; war loI
!. the negro openly begun, with stTou-
ger battalions than before. With