Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-02-18

can hold the insurgent States in military
subjection half century If needs be, or un-
I'll they are purged Of their dross and poi
son, and leave them to stand up clean be-
fore the country to come back With clean
hands il they come at all want TO see in
all those States the men who have fought
and suffered for the truth tilling those fields
on which they pitched their tents. want
to see them, like old Kaspar Of Blsnheim,
on the summer evenings, with their children
upon their knees, and pointing out the spot
where brave men fell and marble commem-
crates it.
Let no breath of treason be whispered
there. / want no man there. like one from
my own State, who came before the great
struggle in Georgia and gave US his views Of
peace. He came as the friend Of V allan
digham, the man for whom the gentlemen
on the other side of the House from my
State worked and voted. We were on the
eve Of the great battle. said to him, "You
wish to make Mr.. Vallandigham Governor
of Ohio. Why2" because, in the first
place" using the language Of the gentleman
from New York, Mr.. Fernando Wood, |
you cannot subjugate the South, and we
propose to withdraw without trying il any
further In the next place, we do not want
0nllDluk W w WIKI uu huUlillDu NdIf duu
will not give one dollar for that purpose. d"
Remember, gentlemen, what occurred on
the cOnscription bill this moi ming. TO
in oathstruggle with the rebel army
that confronts us, and is daily increasing =
Where is the sympathy of your party2 Do
you want US beaten, or Bragg beaten"'-
He answered they had no interest in fight
ing. that they did not believe in fighting.
Mr.. Noble. A question right here.
Mr.. Garfield. cannot yield; l have no
time. He was the agent sent by the cop
perhead Secretary Of State to distribute
election blanks to the army Of the Cumber-
land.
Mr.. Noble. A single question.
Mr.. Garfield. have no time to spare.
! Mr.. Noble. | want to ask the gentleman
| if he knows that Mr.. Griffith has made a
question OF veracity with him by a positive
denial of the alleged conversation published
| in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr.. Garfield. No virtuous denials in the
Cincinnati Enquirer can alter the facts of
this conversation, which was heard BY q
dozen officers.
| asked him further, GLOW would it af-
feet your party if we should crush the reb-
els in this battle, and utterly destroy them?'
1--WE would probably lose votes by it. -
"How would it affect your party if we should
be beaten?" 1T would probably help us in
votes"
That, gentlemen, is the kind of support
the 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 Army in this terrible struggle. ! hasten
to make honorable exceptions. | know
there are honorable 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 effect of wha
the majority Of them is doing will tend tc
aiding their friends over the border to do it
Their. .friend,, 1 say, for when the Ohit
! election was about coming of, in the army
at Chattanooga there was more anxiety il
the rebel camp than in our own. The pick
cts had talked 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 thousand majority in Ohio
there arose shout all along the line or
that rainy midnight from every tent which
rent the skies with jubilees, and sent des
pair to the heart Of those men beyond ou
lines who were waiting and watching acros
the border" 1t told them their colleagues
their sympathizers, their friends, had al
most said their emissaries, had failed to sus
tain themselves in turning the tide agains
our friends in the contest. And from tha
, hour, but not till that hour, the army hat
, felt safe from the enemy behind it.
, deprecate these apparently. partisan re-
marks; it hurts me to make them; but
, hurts me more to know they ale true.
3 would not make them, but that wish t
\ unmask the pretext that We are workin
! along all in body for the vigorous prosecr
; ton of the war and the maintenance of tn
y Government l cannot easily forget tn
treatment the conscription bill met th
morning. Even the few men in the arm
n who voted for Vallandigham wrote on tn
= back Of their tickets Draft, draft. Iha
i was the voice of the Army. l conclude b
!. returning once more to the resolution DC
fore us. Let no weak sentiments OF mls
y y placed sympathy deter US from inaugurf
Il ting measure which will cleanselour natio
!" and make it the fit home of freedom an
= glorious manhood. Let us not despise tn
n severe wisdom of our revolutionary father
7 when they served their generation in sin
q liar way. Let the Republic drive from /
i soil the traitors that have conspired again
p" it's life, ,;ss God and His angels droveSatana Al
his host from heaven. He was not too me
ciful to be just, and to hurl down in chai
and everlasting darkness the Traitor ange
who rebelled against Him. .
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