Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-02-03

the truth tiIling those fields on which they
pitcbed their tents. want to see them, :
like old Kaspar Of Blsnheim, on the sum n
mer evenings, with their children upon 1
their knees, and pointing out the spot u
where brave men fell and marble commem- e
crates it.
Let no breath Of treason be whispered
there. want no man there, like one from t
nv own State, who came before the great Q
struggle in Georgia and gave us his views /
of pesoe. He came as friend Of Vallsn- '
digham, the man for whom the gentleman
On the other side Of the House from my
State worked and voted. We were on the I
eve of a great battle. said to him, "fou
wish to make Mr.. Vsllsndigham Governor
of Ohio. Why p Because, in the hrst
place" using the language Of the gentle
man from New York, Mr.. Fernando
Wood, I " you cannot subjugate the South,
and we propose to withdraw without try
ing it any further. In the next place,
we do not want anything to do with an
abolition war, and will not give one dol
lar for that purpose" Remember, gentle
men, what occurred on the conscription |
bill this morning. Tomorrow" 1 con-
inued, 1--WE may be engaged in death |
struggle with the rebel army that contronts
us, and is daily increasing. Where is the
sympathy Of your psrty2 Do you want
US beaten, or Bragg besten2' He answer
ed that they had no interest in fighting,
that they did not believe in fighting.
Mr.. Noble. A question right here.
Mr., Garfield, l cannot yield have
! no time. He was the agent sent oy the
= copperhead Secretary of State 10 distrlo-
I ME election blanks to the army OF the
t Cumberland.
q Mr.. Noble. A single question.
e Mr.. Garfield. 1 have no time to spare.
4 Mr.. Noble want to ask the gentle
T man if he knows that Mr.. Griffith has
n made a question Of verscity with him by
e a positive denial Of the alleged CONVERSE
l. ton published in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
n Mr.. Garfield. No Virtuous denislsin the
d Cincinnati Enquirer can alter the fsots OF
le this conversation, which WAS heard BY
ID dozan nfs~~-s.- .
" asked him further, Il How would it sf-
u feet your party If we should crush the reb'
he els in this battle, and utterly destroy
q, them2" We would probably lose votes
be BY it." How would it affect your party
* il we should be besten2' "It would
lis probably help US in votes.
as That gentleman, is the kind Of suppor
ce the Army is receiving in what should o'
il. the house Of its friends This, gentleman
lat ia the kind OF support these men-some o
Dr., them-sre inclined to give this oountr!
I'm and its army in this terrible struggle.
ge hasten to make honorable exceptions.
lse know there are honorable gentlemen o.
ell on the other side who do not belong to tina
nv category, and 1 am proud to scknOWledg
Of them as my friends. But 1 say that tn
zu effect Of what the majority Of them is doin
lue will tend TO pull down the fabric Of on
,ur Government by aiding their friends owe
at the border to do it. Their friends, l gay
ust for when the Ohio election was about com
ub- ing of, in the army at Chattanooga ther
the was more anxiety in the rebel camp ths
in our own The pickets had talked fac
is to face and made daily inquiry how th
] election in Ohio was going. And at mic
1ne nieht Of the 18th Of October, when the te
rir- egraphic news was flashed down to US, an
ion announced to the army that the Union hs
eed sixty thousand majority in Ohio, thel
the arose 8 shout all along the line on thu
at rainy midnight from every tent whiC
the rent the skies with jubilees, and sent de
'ote pair to the heart Of those men beyond OF
Var lines who were " waiting and Wstchin
ice, across the border" 1t told them the
the colleagues, their sympsthizers, the
er; friends, 1 had almost said their emisssrie
i'd, had failed to sustain themselves in turl
,ess ing the tide against cur friends in the col
Iore test. And from that hour, but not till tn
lust hour, the army had felt safe from the en-
Tsr, my behind it.
ave I deprecste these apparently psrtiss
. it remarks it hurts me to make them; b
nan | iJ nurIB me uIUrG " AHUW 6uoy -
tie I would not make them, hut that wish
are unmask the pretext that we are WOrkir
rlh- along all in body for the vigorous pr
oke secution of the Government / cam
easily for get the treatment the eonscri
zed ton bill met this morning. Even the fe
d in men in the army who voted fer VAllandi
With ham wrote on the backs Of their tieke
less "Drsft, draft" That was the voice Of t
me Army. I conclude by returning once mo
and to the resolution before us. Let no wei
for sentiments Of misplaced sympathy def
in us from iuaugursting measure which VI
na- cleanse our nation and make it the
lgte home Of freedom and glorious msnhoo
Tree Let US not despise the severe wisdom
,en- our revolutionary fathers, when tn
men served their generation in q similar va
IS a Let the Republic drive from its soil t
It Of traitors that have conspired against
net life. as God and His angels drove sati
ome and his host from heaven. He was n
into too merciful to be just, and to hurl dow
In in chains and everlasting darkness t
heir traitor angep who IT belled again
aou' Him.