Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-03

game and liked, and all opposition of
thoughts and expression shall bedriven from
Congress and elsewhere, and the freedman
of the South shall become the master of the
freeman of the North? Or shall it be when
the State governments and the people of
the revolted States, as such, shall cease to
exist--the former be subverted and the
later replaced with Nortcern Abolitionists ?
In short, Mr.. Speaker, will the party in
power make a definite conclusion and agree
mcnt among themselves as to the conditions
upon which this war shall cease, its horrors
terminate, and all the consequences, wheth-
er good or bad, shall be fully known and un.
derstood We must have peace--a lasting
peace-based upon the Constitution and &C.
mented by the Union We do not want the
peace of death which comes after life is ex-
tinct we want peace which will bring Wig
or, ugity, fraternity and law The great
Canning said, in alluding to the war of sub
.iugation made by Russia upon Poland {:
"Are you to make a solitude, and call it
peace ~ Burke, that immortal patriot,
whose inspired language l love to quote,
said, March 2, l775
''The proposition is peace Not peace
through the medium of war; not peace to be
hunted through the labyrinth Of intricate
and endless negotiation not peace to arise
out of universal discord fomented from prin-
ciple in all parts of the empire not peace
to depend on the periodical determination Of
perpleXing questions, or the precise mark.
ing Of the shadowy boundaries of com
| pleX Government. 1t is simple peace
sought in its natural course and extraordin
ary haunts it is peace sought in the spirit
ofpeoce, and laid in principle purely pacific
| propose by removing the ground of the
difference, and by restoring the former un
suspecting confidence of the Colonies in the
mother country, to give permanent salts
faction to your people and (far from {
scheme af ruling discord) to reconcile then
to each other in the same act, and by tn,
bond of the very same interest which recon
Giles them to british Governments.
Again:
II mean to give peace. Peace implie
reconciliation, and where there has been
material dispute reconciliation does in man
ner always imply concession on the one par
or on the other. In this state Of things,
make no difficulty in affirming the propose
ought to originate from us. Great and ac
knowlcdged force is not impaired either il
effect or in opinion by an unwilling to eXer
- itself. The superior power may offer peac
= with honor and with safety. Such an otfe
from such power will be attributed to mag
nanimity. But the concessions of the wea
are the concessions of fear.
= How eloquent, how truthful, and yet hO'
f applicable to us at this time ? The reason
4 he urges against coerciye policy are in G.
= feet similar to those now urged by the oppC
4 nents of the present war.
t "F'irst, sir, permit me to observe that til
{ use offorce alone is but temporary. 1t ma
| subdue for moment, but it does not +,
= move the necessity of subduing again; an
. a nation is not governed which is perpetl
: ally to be conquered.
| ''Nly next objection is its uncertainty
Y Terror is not always the effect of force an
Q an armament is not victory. If you 4
t not succeed you are without resource, ft
= conciliatfon failing, force remains; but forc
: failing. no further hope of reconciliation
= left Power and authority are sometim
: bought by kindness, but they can never
l.. begged us aims by an impoverished and d
n ieated violence
V "A further objection to force is that yc
d impair the object by your very endeavors
/ preserve it. The thing you fought for
5, not the thing which you recover but d
II prcciated, sunk, wasted and consumed in Il
: contest.
/ Nothing less will content me than acht
o America. | do not choose to consume
C strength along with our own, because in
5 parts it is the British strength that | co
1t sumo do not choose to be caught by
re foreign enemy at the end Of this exhaust
le conflict, and still less in the midst Of it.
- may escape, but | can make no insural
n against such an event. Let me add that
do not choose wholly to break the Americ
y spirit, because it is spirit that has made
to country
h bescach you listen Let the cry Of
ly widow and the orphan. If the stability
It, our endangered institutions, dismembel
n empire, and the absorption Of all our gr,
n industrial and productive interests have
It's terror, think, oh! think of the dark a
us shadowy future awaiting your own posterl
"Peace! Peace! God of our fathers, grant us Pes
th Peace in our hearts and at Thine affairs Peot
80 ON the red waters and their blightCd shores ;
ul Peace for the leagured cities, and the hosts
III That watch and bleed around them and witt
~, Peace for the homeless and the fathcrlcSS,
va Peace for the captive ON this weary way,
list And the mad crowds who icer his hclpleSSnt
IN For them that suffer, them that do the wron!
=: SHINING and Sinned against-Oh God! for all
Ill For q distracted, torn and bleeding land
eS- Speed the glad tldings Give us, give us Pea