The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-04-19
Speech Of General Garfield.

From the Congressional Reports
We take the following report of the
speech Of General Garfield in reply to
Mr.. Long Of Cincinnati.
Mr.. Garfield Un., Obiol said he
remembered when two armies stood
face to face in the West, that, under a
white flag, he went up to a man in the
uniform Of the CoRfederaey, and
reached out his hand, and told him he
respected him as a brave and honest
man. Though he wore the emblems
Of disloyalty and treason, under his
Eestiments he beheld brave and hon
est soul. He Garfield would re-in-
troduee that scene, with a change only
Of persons. Werethere a flag Of truce,
he would extend his right hand and ask
teh Member who had Just addressed
the Committee to meet him and let him
shake hands with him, because he hon
cred his bravery and honesty, and
because he believed what had fallen
from his lips were the honest senti-
ments of his heart, and in his utter
ing them he had made a new epoch
in the history of the War. He had
done a rev thing under the sun, a
braver thing than most men can per-
form. He would now ask that the
white flag be taken away, While he
to the Union lines and spoke
of what his colleague had done. What
the Member said might be pictured by
Paradise Lost" When Satan, who |
had rebelled against the glory Of God; /
vas hurled down from Heaven, he sud !
denly lifted up his head exclaimiI z
(Which way 1 fee is hell p and, ike
Satan, his colleague might have added, /
''MyseIf am hell" During the Rev
olutionary War, Lord Fairfax, after
leliberation, decided to 60 over to the
mother country, and went over grand
y and solemly. But there was an
5ther man who had joined his fortunes
o the struggling country, and remain
I'd with it till the war was we'll nigh
lone; but, Is in the darkness which
the morning, that man hatch
ID treason, to surrender to the enemy
ii that had been gained. And that
nan was Benedict Arnold. When tn
present war commenced, some men
lesitated as to what they should do,
While others went over to the enemy.
Robert E. Lee, who sat at his home
It Arlington, hesitating and doubling,
It last went over almost tearfully. But
low, when hundreds of thousands of
rave soldiers have ascended to God
nder the shadow of the banner which
.ow waves over us, and when thous-
nds more have gone into state of
icrepitude, when three years Of ter
iic war have been raging and our
rms have pushed back the Rebellion,
nd now, when the uplifted arm of {
lajestic power is ready to
1t fail the 1ightnings of vigorous ex-
cution, here, in the quiet of this hall,
ises the dark purpose of fBenedict Ar
old, which would surrender the ma
on's fag,a nd honor and glory,tO the /
liter curses of the traitors Of our
2untry. For the first time in the his t
Try of the war it is proposed to give J
p the. struggle and abandon the war, 4
nd let treason run riot in the land. P
II. Garfield then controverted his col. r
ague's positions. The issue was now 2
ade up. We should use the common 1
eapons Of war. If with these we I
lould not succeed, we would take E
as he would against the saw V
,e who attacked himself or family. e
e would resort to any element of o
,struction; and, if necessary, he t,
ould fling all constitutional sanctions fl
the winds rather than lose his II
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