The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-05-11
Unable to make a victorious war ?

unable to make q victorious war?
The gentleman from Maryland besoueht the
House never to be swcryed from its fixed pur-
pose TO prosecute the war s'with the last d,lllar
and ths last man." Sir, his reading told him
such stinging cxhortation would full soon be
| needed. In November, 1881, after Cornwall
lis had surrendeTed Yorktown and the last
battle of the Revolution had been fought, tho
House OF Commons in its address to tho
throne assured his Majesty that it would vote
all the resources of the empire to suppress re-.
| bcIlion in America In March of the rext
year. in the early apriag, in less than six
months, tha& same House of Commons voted
those were enemies of the realm who advised
the further prosecution OF the war. And this
House this aorning voted dewusthe Critten
den resolution, which Less; than three ,yeara
ago wa passed with only two dissenting votes.
Tie gentleman from Maryland paid a splen
did tribute to the power of pubic opihion.--
He compared it to the sea, whose tidal waves
hey the tickle bidding of the moon, andfrolt
AMI swell and sway vi h restless force, and yet
constitute the level from which all height is
measured. @ A
"But, like the ocean,, said he, 'sif has
depths whose eternal stiffness is the condition
of its stability. Those depths ef opinion are
net fEeo" = 1 a 81 roE
Did he forget what horrors s.5ss5 .ssaBfs
t--'-Woo u -
And mOcked tfs dead bones which lay seattle, ed BY.
| What sights Of ugly death within mine eycsl res
Methoueht I saw n thousand fearful wrecks +,
A thousand that fishes guawed upon
All tered in the bettom of the sea- r..
Sir, if there is depths of public cpibion
where eternal stiffness reigns, there gather,
even as fostering death lies in those ocean
depths, the deeaying forms of truth and right
and freedom. Eternal motion il the condi-.
ton of their purity. sasl.9
Did he think this resolution would for nne
instant retard its progress Did he not know
that the gurging waves would wash away every
| trace of its cxistence2 Did he suppose this
run7 effort would avail him? The rocks of
the eternal hills alone can stay the waves af
the ever rolling sea- Nothing but the princi-
pies of truth and rig MT can stay the onward
pro,ross OF public opinion in this our country
az it swc!s and s&ass and surges in this mad
tempest Of passion AID seeks to fnd a secure
resting place.
The gentleman ezharted his friends to ac,
ccpt the issue, absolute victory or absolute ru-
in !; and then he painted that absolute ruin
Even he could corrective it to be possible. He
described this home OF liberty deserted this
temple reared by our fathers destroyed; it's
grace and symmetry and beauty gone; its pill
lars fallen its walls thrown down spd amid
"ths chaos of ruin those who accept this is-a
sue, brave determined, fearful, sorrowing Z
overwhelmed with it in common fate. Ho
exhorted his friends in this House and in the
coun.ry-he expressly excluded you, my fel.s
| low Democrats, aud your constituents-t0 ac-
cept this al:e, native. Do it, he exclaimed,
and let the world know that this age has pro-
duced heroic children upon whom HeaEsE has
visited the sins Of their fathers,
Sir I trust in God the catastrophe may
never come. 7 trust that the ages, as they
roll on, will not thus be called to pass judg-9
ment on the men of these days. But, it it
must be so, my Imagination pictures another
scene When your work shall be accomplish
ed, when your mission shall be executed, when
our Constitution is dead, when our liberties
arc gone, when our government is destroyed, &
when these States-Do longer held secure IN
their proper position BY our matchless Consti
tuition, so that they emulate in accordant ae-
ton the stars, as by divine decree they eneir-a
Gle in their mysterious courses the footstool OF
the eternal thrcne, and extract from the har-
aony of conflicting elements the true music OF
the spheres-shall have given place to "S'ates
discordant, discovered, belligerent, to land
rent with civil feIds and drenched in frater-
nal bloed,'' history will hold its dread inquest,
and in the presence Of appalled, humanity will
render judgment that base and degenerate
children, deserving the teachings OF their Ia
theirs, deserting the teachings of the past, de- N
;arting from the ways of pleaSantness and
peace, rebelling against the wisdom and bene-
fcence of the Almighty, with hearts Tiled
with pride and souls stained With fanatlelsm
and passion, struck the matrieidal blow and at
the same moment indignant and outraged 2
Heaven wreakcd upon them the just retrlnu-
ton of their terrible and nameless crime sr