The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-04-29

November, 1862, hold illegal anc
criminal negotiations with Lord Lv
ons, and avow their purposes to him
the Representative OF foreign ant
unfricullY power, aud persuade ant
urge him to arrange the time OF prot
fcring mediation, with a view to thei
possession of power, and their propf :
ration OF the minds of the people, t.
receive suggestions from abroad. and
when mediation shall appear, by th,
event. TO be the first step toward for
cign Intervention, swiftly and surely
followed b., foreign armed enemies
upon our shores, to join oar domes-
tic enemies; when the war IN Il c
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and the friends of Seymour shall
make the streets of New York run
with blood, on the eve Of another
Gettysburg, less damaging to their
hopes; when the people, exhausted
by taxation, drained of blood, betray.
cd by their rulers, deludcd by dcma
gogues, into believing that peace is
the wav to Union. and submission the
path of victory, shall throw down
their arms before the advancing foe /;
when vast chasms across every State
shall make apparent to every eye,
when too late TO remedy it, that di-
vision from the South, is the inau9ur
alton of anarchy Mt the North, and
that peace without the Union is the
end of the Republic; TEEN, the indie
pendencc OF the South will be IN ac-
complished fact. and gentlemen may,
without treason to the dead Rcpub-
lie, rise in this migratory House,
wherever it may then he in America,
and declare themselves in favor Of
recognizing their masters at the
South. rather than extirminatc them !
"But until that time arrives, it is
the Judgment Of the American peo.
pie. that there shall be no co,npro
misc-that ruin TO ourselves, or ruin
to Southern rebels. is the only alter
native. II is only by resolutions OF
this kind, that nations can rise above
great dangers, and overcome them in
crises like this. II was only by tnrn.
ing France into camp. resolved that
Europe might cXtirminatp, but should
not suhiugatc her, that France il the
leading Empire Of Europe to-day.
Until that day, in the name OF tho
American nation in the name or cv.
cry home in the land, where there i,
one dead for the holy cause, in tho
name Of those who stand before Us
the Liberty oar ancestors have conf
Ael 10 us.-I devote 10 eternal exc
Grafton, the name Of him, who shal
propose to destroy this blessed land
rather than its enemies. l."
Mr.. Davis conclusion was very
much admired, at the time Of its de
liverv. The next day, Mr. Pcnlle
ton, in concluding his speech. (as for
warlcd yesterday devoIelh lis mos
eloquent sentences to a contrast.
close these extracts, with the perora
tion thus replied to:
X y y 1T is because the people o
/ the United Ststes, rising To the heigh
of the occasion, dedicated this gen
Grafton to the sword, pouring out th,
blood of their children, as of no ac
count, and yowing, before high tleav
en-, that there should be no end Il
this conflict, but ruin absolute, or al
solutc triumph, chat we now are villa
we are, that the banner OF the Repub
lie, still pointing onward, floats proud
ily in the ia Of the enemy, that vas
regions are reduced to obedience E
the laws, and that Il great host i
armed array, now presses, with stead.
step, into the dark regions of the re
lbellion. 1t is only by the earnest AN
abiding resolution Of the people, that
whatsoever shall be our fate, it sha
be grand rs the American nation, wol
thy the Republic which has first tro
the path of Empire, and made II
peace, but under the hahner OF vie
tory, and the American people wi
survive in history--and that will say
'us.
1--WE shull succeed, anil lot fail -
| have an abiding confidence in I'll
lirmuess, the patience, the eudurauC
Of the American people; and hayin
determined to stand in history, on I'll
great resolve, TO accept Of nothin
but victory, or ruin, victory is oul
If, with such heroic resolves, We fal
we fall with honor, and transmit ii
name of liberty, committed to OF
, keeping, untarniShcd, to future gel
eratiohs The history OF orr Dcclil
and Fail, contemy ylating the rains
+ the last q eat Republic, and drawiu
E from its + te, lessons on the waywar,
E ness OF mcl, shall drop tear, rs |
2 records, viii sorrow, the vain her
ism of that people, who dedicate
and sacrificed themselves TO the eau!
OF freedom, which their example wi
, keep alive in the hearts Of men, ti
happier generations shall learn
/ walk in her paths. Yes, sir, if Y
must fall, let our last hours be stat
, ed by no weakness.
/, II we must tall, let Ms stand am
the crash Of the falling Republic, NJ
a lie buried in it, ruins, so that histo
may take note that men lived in q
f middle of the nineteenth century VIC
thy of a better fate, but chastised !
f God for the sins Of their forefathel