The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-10

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the rebel army that confronts us, and is daily
increasing. Where is the sympathy Of your
party? Do you want US beaten, or Bragg
Beatcn?" He answered they had no interest
I in lighting, that they did not believe in fight
/ ing tgfssas4 fl44 ss.sis,s.y - -.
yis Mr. Noble. a question right here. s =
Mr.. Garfield cannot yield / have no
time. He was the agent Sent byth cop
perhead Secretary siof State to distribute
election blanks to the army of the Cumber-
Irland. an 49,. .s..
Mr.. Noble. 4 single question.
Mr.. Garfield. have no time to spare
Mr.. Noble. Sd L want to ask the gentleman
fif he knows that, Mr. Griffith has made a
question, of veracity with him by positive
denial of the alleged conversation, published
10 the Cincinnati Enquirer. s ss
Mr.. Garfield. No virtuous denials 10 the
Cincinnati Enquirer can alter the facts of this
cory yersation, which was heard BY a. dozen
officers '.' s''s'
Iasked him further, ''How would it affect
your party if we were4o crush the rebels IN
this battle, and utterly destroy them?'i We
would probably lose, votes by it.D'' :: How
would It affect your party if we should be
beaten p 1t would probably help us in
votes, ssafn l9tE iii ss51afr 81 sff,f .9fs o. q
That. gentlemen, is the kind of support til
Army is receiving in what should be. the
house of its friends. This, gentlemen, is the
kind of support these men-some Of them
are inclined to give this country and its arniv
in this terrible struggle. 1 hasten toanake
hotlorable exceptions. know there are hon
orable gentlemen, on the other side who do
not belong TO that category. and / am proud
to acknowledge them as my friends. But /
say that the effeet-of what the majority of
them is doing will tend to pull down the
fabric of eur Government by aiding their
friends over the border to de it. Their
friends, say, for when the Ohio election was
about coming off, in the army at Chattanoo-
ga, there Was more anxiety in the rebel camp
sthansin our own. The pickets had talkei
face to face, and made daily inquiry. how the
election in Ohio was going. And at midnight
of the 18th Of October, when the telegraphic
news was flashed down to us, and announced
to the army that the Union, had sixty, thous-,
and majority in Ohio, there arose shout all
along the line op that rainy midnight from
every tent, which rent the skies with iubilees,
aud sent despair to the hearts of those men
beyond our lines who were ,s.waiting and
watching across the border It told them
their colleagues, their sympathizers, their
friends, had almost said their euissrfies,
had failed to sustain themselves in turning
the tide against our friends in the contest
And from that hour, but not till that hour,
the army had felt safe. from the enemy be-
hind it. -sss's.'s ss' 'sitssss
= | deprecate these apparently partisan re-
marks lit hurts me to make them butSit
hurts me more to know they are true.s7I
would not make. them, but that wish .toaun-
mask, the pretext that we are working along
all in body for the vigorous prosecution Of
theswar and: the maintenance of the Govern
lnent. cannot easily forget sthe treatment
The eonscription bill met this morning. Even
the few men in the army who voted for VAL
slandighafn wrote on the back Of their tickets,
HDraft, draft.D That was the voice Of the
Army. concludeiby returning enee more TO
the resolution before u.s., Let no weak senti-
ments of misplaced sympathy deter us from
inaugprating measure which will cleanse
our nation and make it the fit home Of free-
dom and glorious manhood Let us not sdes-
pise the severe wisdom of our revolutionary
fathers, when they served their generation in
a similar way. Let the Republic drive from
its soil the traitors that have conspifed against
its life, as God and His angels drove Satan
and his host from heaven. He was not too
merciful to be just, and to hurl down in chains
and everlasting darkness the .'traitor angelo
who rebelled against Him. a. gre 70 7'.e7