Washington telegraph., 1864-07-20


countenance, and felt as if werp in a
den of hyenas.
am not here for war, and will not be
here for war, 30 long es have heart
humane and Christian, when war is car
ried on upon such principles. No, sir,
war never did and never will bring your
Union together in such manner as to be
worth one cent. l am for peace, and 1
am for Uniou too; / am as good Union
man as any of you. tLaughter.) am
a better Union man than any Of you.
(Great laughter) l am a Union man.
and have thrown up my head; no, have
not lost that yet. | have thrown up nv
hat for the cause Of the Union, and
cheered at its success. felt ~ anxious
for Its success as any man upon this
floor. l look upon war as disunion.
look upon continued w&r as actuslly
keeping off the Union to a sill laier
period. and scarcely believe a peace
would accomplish Union. Aud surely
If anything will, it is that sweet angel Of
peace. She may unite the cords which
may have been severed by the hand Of
war, and may tis them more tightly TO-
gether than ever before; but If we are TO
have dissolution, in the naino Of God let
Us have it. Let us have il, and instead
of having one great consolidated Govern
ment. and imperious Government, let Us
have Oh this continent two happy Gov
ernments. But, as | said before, look
to peace as the harbinger Of the Union,
if there is any harbiuser to il.
But, sir, am Shareholder, That is
to say, was until Ben. Butler stole ali
my slaves away. (Laughter.) As an
old Democrat. l used TO admire him very
much; but, of course, have not much
admiration for him now. His course
only shows what he always was. ! am
a Shareholder, and / have sat here pa
tiently hearing you insult me every day
with your assertions that slavery was q
sin and the sum of all villanies; for do
not consider that man can participate
in the sum of all viilainies without him
self being a villain. / haye barno all
things, and l have looked upon you as
frantic upon the subject. l have really
compassionated you. Uaughtef) Now,
sir, if slavery is sin, I an willing to
bear the reproach. Bu, as you refer me
to God Almighty Tor my title, l can show
that it is sanctioned by Ills wo.d. You
declare this institution to be crime: you
declare it to be the sum OF ali viilainies,
but | tell you that whoever says my "a
tber was a villain because liz held slaves
and he had slaves and died Chris
tan; whoever says thai my constituents
whom | represent, are villains because
they hold slaves--I know them 10 b.
honest and upright men, doing their duty
as Christians as much 50 as anybody
whoever says these things is :. liar.
viii let no man write such an eptGph
upon the tomb of my father. viii let
no man say such a thing 10 me here in
my presence without calling him to re-
sponsibility. You may consider it a sin
as between yo. aud your God, bat you
shall not use insulting language upon
such subject as that without being
called 10 account.
Sir, the Union is dissolved, and there
is gulf of blood lying between the two
sections; but upon my honor, upon my
soul, repeat that every drop in that gulf
is on the souls of the Northern people.
do not think that any candid man who
looks at the history of this affair can
come TO any other conclusion. From The
beginning of the Government, from the
time of the adoption of the Constitution
down to the time of the election of Ahra-
nam Lincoln, you have been using terms
of insult and terms of irritation, and you
have been doing everything you could g
bring about the very result which i now
upon you. Look at the history Of this
matter. | shall not repeat it; it is too
| familiar, and has been too often repeated
AT first you only cultivated the ground
but when that old scold and wrangler
John Quincy Adams, declared that by
the war power you could emancipRtc all
! .he slaves and sell tiie States which had
slaves to n foreign power, that was the
| day when you commenced ~ exert MI
your powers 10 excite this people 10 re-
/ beliion. Then It was you said You wou!C
not live with them, that the GovcrumrI;
was i compact with hell. and that one %
the most agreeable things in The world
would be to part with the South and
slavery.
That was the announcement: Of your
public men everywhere, that they could
not live with you in peace. Well, they
separated from you, and asked to live Oh
terms of peace with you What did you
dol You Immediately howled out, They
are traitors; We will hang them all, and
when we have hung them we will take
all their property and divide it among
u.s." And, sir, AL this was to be donr,
according to your great 'high law =
apostle, William II. Seward in the course
of sixty days! No doubt, the facility
with which he thought it could he done,
was great incentive to begin the work,
especially as there were lands in the
South, and many other benefits that they
expected to get hold Of very easily down
there.
Well, great many Of the Republican
leaders went out 10 Bull Run in July,
1861, to witness the perfect overthrow OF
the poor Southernels. The lamened
gentleman from Illinois, (Mr. Lovejoy)
/ think, went out there, aud ono member