Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-05-07
Right Of Secession.
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
April sth 1864.
REMARKS or Mr. GAprrELp.

between IN. self aud my colleague who has
just addressed you.
recollect on one occasion when two
great armies stood face TO face, that under
white flag just planted, l approached a
company of men dressed in the uniform of
the Rebel COnfederacy and reached out
! my hand TO one of the number and told him
respected him as brave man Though
he wore the emblems Of disloyalty and trea
SOD, still under his yestmenls bebed a
brave aud honest soul.
| ] would reproduce that scene here this
afternoon. say, acre there such flag of
truce--but God forgive if should do it
under any other crcumstances!-- would
reach out this right hand aud ask that
leman TO take it; because honor his
honesty and bravery. ] believe what has
just leu from his lips is lbe honest sen
tment of his heart, and in ulteriug it he
he has opened new epoch in the STORY
of this war; be has done new thing un
der the sun; he has done brave thing
1t is braver than 10 face cannon aud mus
kerry aud ! honor him for mis- candor and
frankness.
But now | ask you to take away the flag
of truce; and / will go back into the Uu
nion lines. and speak Of what he has doue.
| am remiaded by it of distinguished
character in ParadIse-Lost. when he had
rebeIled against the glory of God and led
away third part of Heavens Sons, con
jured against-the highest when after ter
rible battles in which mounains and hills
were hurled 10y each coniendng hest with
CALCULATIONS dre;. when at last the leader
aud his hosts were hurled down nice times
he space that measures night aud day, and
after the terrible fall lay stretched prone
on the hprning lake, Satan lifted up his
shattered bulk, crossed the abyss, lookeo
down into paradise, and, soIianiziug said; ;
(Which way Gy is hell; myself am helr
1t seeps TO me in that utterance he ex-
pressed the very sentiment to which you
have just listened; uttered by one no less
brave, n,align, and fallen. This man gath
theirs mp the meaning Of this great cont est,
the prophecies Of the honr, aud in sight Of
the paradise Of victors and peace, u'iers
them all in this wall Of despair. Which
way l fly is bell. lie ought to add, my
self am hell
Mr.. Chairman, am reminded of two
| characters in tue war of the Revolution as
compared wi b two Others Of the war Of
| today.
The first was Lord Fairfax who dvelt
| near the Potomac, few miles from us. -
| When the great contest was opened between
the mother country and the colonies, Lord
Fairfax, after o protracled struggle with
his own heart. DECIDED that he must go
with the mother country. He gathe' ed
his mantle around and over him grandly
sulemnly aud impreSsyely, and joined the
fortunes of Great Britain against the home
Of his adoption
But there was another mau who cast il
his lot with the struggling colonies, and
continued with them till the war was wei
nigh ended But 10 day of darkness,
which Just preceded the glory of the morn
ing, that other man, deep down in the
damned pits of bis black heart, hatched the
treason to surrender forever oil that had
heeD gained to he enemies of his country
Benedict Arnold was that man.
Fairfay and Arnold Gud their parallel
in he struggle of today.
When this war began meny good men
stood besitatng and doubling what they
ought todo. Their doctrine of State right
| their sympathies all they had ever loved and
longed for, were in the South, and after
long and painful hesitation some of then
at last went With the enemies of the ma
tion.
At that time Robert E., Lee sat in hi
home across the river here doubling and
delaying and going of at last almost tear
fully to join the enemies of his country
He reminds me 10 some respects of Lore
Fail fax the stately royast of the Revolu'
tioD.
But now, when hundreds of thou ands 0
brave souls have gone up 10 God under ttlt
shadow of the flag. and when housand
more, main aimed and shattered 10 the con
test, are sadly awaiting the deliverance
death: now, when three years of terri6
warfare have ragged over Us, when our armie
haye pushed the rebellion back over noun
tans and rivers, and crowded it back int
narrow limits, until wall OF f:e glrds ii
now When the nplifted hand OF msjesti
people is about TO- let fall the lightning {
It's conouering power upon The rebellion
now. in the quiet OF this Hall, harched |
; the lowest depths OF a similar dark Treason
there rises Benedict Arnold and propose
, TO surrender Us all up, body and spirit, n
|, nation and the flag its genius and its homo
now and forever, 10 the accursed iraito'
: to our country. And that proposi'ic
comes-G cd forgive and pity my belove
!, State!-it comes from citizen Of 'he ho
!, ored and loyal Commonwealth Of Ohio
i implore, you, brethren ip this Hon
] not 10 believe that many such births eV
:. gave pangs to my morher State such es s.
, suffened ahen that traitor was born. Su
. pressed applause aud sensation. ! b
: YOU not 10 believe that Oh the soil of th
y Stale another such growth has ever defoe
. ed The face of nature aud darkened the lig
n of Gods day. An audible whisper. "
!, laudigham.'] But ah, am reminded tn
: there are other such. My zeal aud love
f Ohio have carried me far. / retract.
n remember that only a few days since a
g litical convention met at the capital OF
: Slate, aud almost decided to select from j
IN such material representative for the De
q ocratic party in the coming contest; and
ID day, what claim TO be major'y of Dem
. racy Of that State say they have been che
I'd ed or they would have made that cholre.
therefore sadly take back the boast I