Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-02-27

for the security Of property, ior the peace Of
our streets, for the happiness OF oor homes.
our gratitude is due, under Him who raises up
anil pulls down nations at His pleasure, TO the
Long Parliament, TO the Convention, aud to
William Of Orange" .
Mr.. Speaker, II we want pence that is
not hollow peace we must follow that ex.
ample and make thorough work Of this war:
We must establish freedom in the midst OF
seryitude, and the authority OF law IN the
midst Of rebellion. We must oil the thin
ned ranks of our armies, assure them that
q greaifuI aud loving people are behind
them, aud they will 90 down agius. the
enemy bearing With them the majesty and
might Of great nation. We must follow
the march Of the army with law that will
sweep away the cause Of the whole terrible
revelation. The war began by proclama-
tioh, aud it must end by proclamation, -
We can held the insurgen States in mill
tary suhjection half century il ueed be,
until they are purged of their poison, and
stand up clean before the country They
must come back with clean bande il they
come at oil. l hope TO see in all those
States the men who have fought and suffer
ed for the truth, till 10 the field on which
they pitched their tents. hope to sec
them, like old Kaspar of Blenheim, ou the
summer evenings, With their children upon
their knees. and pointing out the spot
where brave men fell and marble commem.
CRATES IL. Let no breath of treason be
whispered there. would no have no mau
there, like ole from my own State,
who came to the army before the great
struggle in Georgia and give us his views
of peace He came as the friend of Val,
iandgham, the man for whom the gentle
man on the other side Of the House from
my State worked and voted We we're on
the eve Of the great battle. | said to him.
You wish to make Mr.. Vallsndgham Gov
of Ohio. Why? Because, in the language
of the member from New Io,k, MIR.
Fernando Wood, you cannot subjugate
the South, and We propose to with.
darw without trying it longer. In the
next place, We will have nothing TO do
with the abolition war, nor will we give
another man or another dollar for its sup
port. (Remember, gentleman, what occur.
red in regard TO the conscription bill this
mornng) To morrow, cntiDued, we
may be engaged in death struggle with
the rebel army that coufronts US, and il
daily increasing W here is the sympathy
of your party? Do you went US beateu!
or Brsgg beatenH He answered that they
had no interest in fighting, that they die
not believe ia fighting.
Mr.. NOBLE A question right here.
Mr. GARFIELD. cannot yield, l have
no time. You can hear bis name if you
wish. He was the agent sent by the Cop,
perhead Secretary OF State TO distribute
election blanks to the army of The Cumber
berland His name was Griffitbs
Mr.. NOBLE A single question
Mr.. GARFIELD. ! have no time 10 spare
Mr. NOBLE | want to ask the gentle
man il he knows that Mr. Grifitbs has
made question of veracity with him by o
positive denial of the aledged conversation
published in the Cincinnati Enquirer
Mr.. GARFIELD. No virtuous denials 10
the Cincinnati Enquirer can alter the facts
dozen off 'ers
asked him further, How would it af,
feet your party if We should crush the reb
els In this battle, aud utterly destroy them?
We would probably lose votes by it. How
would it affect your party if we should be
beaten. 1t would probably help US in
votes.
That gentlemen, is the kind Of support the
Army is receiving 10 what should be the house
OF its friends That, gentlemen, is the kind Of
sapport these men are inclined to give thia
country and its Army in this terrible struggle.
hasten to make honorable exceptions.
know there are honorable gentlemen on the
other side who do not belong to that cat
egory, and / am proud TO acknowledge them
as my friends. l am sure they do not sympa.
thize with these efforts whose tendency is to
pull down the fabric of our government by
aiding their friends over the border to do it
Their friends, | say, for when the Ohio cleo
tion was about coming off 10 the army al Chat.
tanooga, there was more anxiety ia the rebel
camp than in our own. The picketi had talk
ed face to face and made daily inquiry how the
election in Ohio was going. And at midnight
Of The 18th Of October, when the telegrapbic
news was flashed down 10 u.s. aud it was au-
nouoeed to tie army that the Uuiol had sixty
thousand majority in Ohio there arose shout
from every tent along the line on that rainy
midnight, which rent the skies with jubilees
and sent despair to the heart Of those who
were waiting asd watching across the border. "
II told them that their colleagues, their sympa-
omss iries, at the Nor h, had failed to sustain
themselves in turning the tide against the
Union and its Army. Aud from that hour
but not till that hour, the Army felt safe fron
the enemy behind it.
Thanks to the 18th of October. It told
thirteen of my colleagues that they had no
constituencies!
] deprecate these apparently partisan remarks
il hurts me to make them; but il hurts me
more TO know they are true. ! would not
make them. but that wish to unmask ths
pretext that these men are in earnest. and labor
ing for the vigorous prosecution OF the wal
and the maintepauce Of the Government.
cannot easily forget The treatment which th'
conscription bin received this morning Ever
the few men 10 the army who voted for Val
lsDdigbam wrote on the back of their ticket
"Draft draft but their representatives here
think otherwise.
conclude by returning once more to the
resolution before US. Let no weak sentiments
Of misplaced sympathy deter us from iuaugu
rating measure which will cleanse our natior
aud make it the ft home Of freedom and {
glorious manhoOd. Let rs DOT despise the Sc
we're wisdom OF our Revolutionary fathers, whei
they served their generation 10 similar way
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