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tho gentleman quoted yesterday. [Laughier.

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| yield to the gentleman at this time.
/ Mr.. Speaker, when came here at this ses-
tsion of Congress I wss solitary and alone. I
could mot say for some time whether anybody
sympathizsd with me; for I felt myself solitary
and alone. Those who ware here around me
were war Democrats. They never invited me
70 their caucus. Those I knew would never let
Tae go into their caucus, and nsver intended
10 apply. would starve ameng them. am
peace man, radical peaes man, and am for
peace by recognition Of the S0n;h, FOR the
recognition of the Southern CoRfsderaeY; and I
sm fer acquisHeencs in the doctrine of secession
Sensation and laughter Laugh IS yen may,
you have got to come 70 it. / thought was
alone. began to take the sadvics Of Cato to
his son,
When vice prevails and impiouE men bear sway,
The pest Of honor Is private station"
l felt like giving up my seat and leaving this
place. stood solitary and alone on this floor;
but new, thank God, there is another soul saved
| [ Laughter I feel that We can baptizs my
honorable IIiend from Ohio, (Mr Long), and
sm glad to have such able aid. I shall not 20
home now. When Cato gave that advice ho
had fought his last battle, and had yielded to
the fortunes and ambition of Julius Cesar,
great as be was. He was about to take vic.
tory over himself by a Roman death beeause
he saw his cause was hopeless- Not 50 ours 1
feel yet there is hope in this House. I feel
through this rustling of the winds there Is a
tornado coming th8t WilbsHeep away the pres
ent mejarity from power, and give it into the
hands Of men who will settle the sffzirs of this
countIy-man who nave somsthiag ike hu
manity-men who have regard for the pFinei-
ples of cur forefathers. Az, I reeolloet how nv
blood cuEdlsd when heard. the discussion on
the ccDfiscssion bill.
The gentleman from Ohio (Nr GarHsId) said.
let them be sxpatriatsd ike tina tories of tbs
revolution. The tories of the revolution had
the mother country 70 run 10, and were pro-
teated there. But where would the gentleman
send those whom be weuld expatriats from the
South, as gallant and noble Eacs IS ever
walked upon the earth; noble IN everything
that constitutes men Of honor and men Of prin-
cipIe-eantlsmen Sir, you would exastrate
those people, their wives and children, snd send
them among strangers TO starVe Another
member from Ohio, (Mr. Spaldiug,) was not
ouly for coRfscsting their property in fee he,
air, went through the catalogue, He was for
I,cOnhseation, he was for sxpetriRtion, and he
was for determination. Laughter He en-
phabized every syllable Of that word and
when be did so. looked at his countenanee
and I felt as if I we're in den Of hyenss
am not here fer WeT, and will not be here
for war so long as I have heart humane and
| Christian, when war is carried on upon such
4
viii bring your Union together in such man
ner as to DO worth one cent I am for pesee,
| and am for Union toe. am a. good a Union
man as any of you. Laughter. 1 am a bet
ter Union man than any of you. FGTeat
laughter I am = Union man, and have
| thrown up my head no, have not lost that
yet have thrown up my hat for the cause of
the Union and cheered ct its success. felt as
anxious for its success as any man apOn this
floor. look upon war as disunion. look upon
continued war as actually keeping off the Union
to q still later period, and / scarcely believe
pesee weuId accomplish Union. And surely,
if anything viii, it is that sweet angel of peace.
She may unite the cords which haYe 5eon sev-
cred by the hand of war, and may tie them TO-
geiher more tightly than ever before but if va
are to hzve dissolution, Ia The name of God, let
us have it. Let US have it, and instead of hay
| ing one great consolidsted Government, one i'm
peTiouE Government, one splendid Government,
let us have on this continent two happy Gov
srnmsnts But, as l said before, lock to peace
as the harbinger Of the Union, if there is any
hArbiDger for IT.
| But, sir, am a STAKEHOLDER. That s 20 say,
was until Ben Butler stole my slaves all
away. Laughter As an old Democrat I used,
| to admire him very much but, of course, I
have not much admiration for him now. His
course only shows what hs always was am
4 slaveholder, and l have sat here patiently
hearing you Insult mo every day with your as
sertions that slavery was . sin aRd the sum Of
/ all villanies; for do not consider that a man
can participate in the sum of all Villanies with
e0ut himself being 4 villain. I have bcrne all
! these things, and / have looked upon you As
| frantic on tina subject. I have really e0mpRs.
sionated yoH. Laughter Now, sir, if slavery
| il q sin am willing to bear the reproAch. But,
/ as you refer me to God Almighty for my title,
can show that il is sanctioned by His Word.
You declare this institHtion to be q crime you
declare il to be the-sum of all Villsnies; bat
tell you thRt whoever tells NE my father was
villEin because hs held slaves-And he had
slaves and died Christian; whoever says that
my constituents whom l represent are villains
because they hold slAves-I know them TO be
honest and upright men, doing thsir duty Rs
Christians IS much as any ybcdy ; whoever
says these things is a liar viii let no
man write such an epitaph upon the tomb OF
kmy father. I viii let no man say such thing
to me here in my presence without calling him
70 responsibility. You may consider it sin as
between you and your God, but you shall not
use Insulting language upon such q subject Is
that without being called to account
Sir, the Union is dissolved, and there is a
gulf of blood lying between the two sections
but upon my honor, upon my soul, I repeal
that every drop in that gulf is on thu souls o.
the EOrtssrn peoPls. do not think that any
candid man who locks at the history Of thf.
affair can come to any other cOnclusip' From
the begiuniaE of the Government, trOi the time
of the adoption of the Constitution down 10 tha
time of the election of Abraham Lincoln, you
have been using terms of insult and terms Of
irritation, and you have been doing everything
YOU could TO bring about the very result which
is now upon yeu. Look at the history of this
matter. I shall net repeat it, il Is toe famihal
and has beeD too often repeated. a. first you
only cultivated the ground, but when that old
seoid and wranglsr, the worst man that ever
lived in this country, even not excepting Aaron
Burr; when that old seold and WTsngler, JOIN
Quincy Adams, declared that by the war powel
yeu could emancipats all the slaves and sell tbs
States which had slaves to a foreign power, that
was the day when you commenced 10 exert all
{ your powers to excite the people to rebellion
Tbenit was you said you would not livs With
lhem, that the Government WAS a compact with
! hell, and that one Of the most agreeable thing
in the world would be to part with the SOuE!
and slavery.
That was the announcement of your public
men everywhere, that they could not live witt
You in peace. We'll they separated from you
and ssked to live on terms of peace with you
What did you dOf You Immediately hoWle,
ont "rhsy are traitors; we viii hang them all
and when we have hung them we VIII take al
their property and divide it among u.s. And
} sir, all this was to be done, according to you
. great "higher law apostle, VIM. FL. Seward, il
, the eourss of sixty days No doubt the faeilit,
) with which he thought It could be done was
! great incentive to begin ths work, especially q
4 there were lands in the South and many othe
7 benefits that they expected to get bold Of yer.
? easily down there.
9 Well, great many of the Republican leader
s went out to Bull Run in July, 1861, TO witneS
: the perfect overthrow Of the poor SouthernerI
The lsmented gentleman from Illinois (d
8 LOvejoy) think went out there, and one men
u Der OF this House from Massachusetts went on
g l think, and one from New York. They ca