The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1864-09-09
gFF 1eN lNa JeN WEEKLY PAPER BHFegB TO AeRzUR ReaaS
Brave Words.

Below wo give an extract from the speech
of Maj. Gen. Garfield in Congress, who spoke
so eloquently Tor the Union armies. Lot
every one read it carefully;
Mr.. Speaker, If we want peace that Ia
not hollow peace, we must follow that ex'
ample and make thorough work OF this war,
We must establish freedom in the midst OF
icryitudc, and the authority OF law in the
midst of rebellion. Wemust ill the thinned
RANKS OF our armies, assure them that
grateful and loving people are behind g! to
sanction and encourage them, and they VIII
go down against the enemy bearing with
them the majesty and might Of o great ma
ton. We must follow the march OF the
army with free and loyal population we
must protect that population by tho strong
arm oil military power. The war was an.
nounced by proclamation and it must end
by proclamation, We can hold the insur-
gent States in military subsection half cen.
fury II need be, until they aro pursed OF
their poison. and stand up clean before the
country. They must como back with clean
hands If they come ut all. | hope to see in
oil those States the men who have fought and
suffered for the truth, tilling tho fields on
which they pitched their tents. | hope to
see them, like old Kaspar of Blcnheim, on
the summer evenings, with their children
upon their knees, and pointing out the spot
where brave men fell and marble commence
rates it. Let no breath of treason be whis-
pcred there. would have no man there.
like one from my own State, who came to
the army before the great struggle in Geor.
cia and gave II, his views of peace. lie
came us the friend of Vallandigham, the
man for whom the gentleman 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 tn mako
Mr.. Vallandigham Governor of Ohio -
Why?" "Beciuse. in the first place. you
cannot subjugate the South, and We propose
to withdraw without trying 1t longer. In
the next place, we will have nothing to do
with this abolition war, nor will wc give
another man or another dollar for it's sup.
mort" "To-morrow. ] continued, "we
may be engaged in deatli. struggle with the
rebel army that conlronts us, and is daily in.
creasing. Where is the sympathy ct your
party? Do you want MS beaten, or Bragg
beaten?" He answered that they had no
interest in fighting, that they did not believe
IN fighting.
| asked him further. How would it of.
feet YOUR party if we should crush the rebels
in this battle and utterly destroy them? "
eve would probably losc votes by it, y
How would it affect your party 1t we
should be beaten?" ut would probably
help us in votes"
That, gentlemen, IL the kind of support
the army is receiving in what should be the
house of its friends. That, gentlemen, is
the kind of support thsc men nrc inclined
to give this country and its army in this ter
riblc struggle. hasten to make honorable
exceptions. know there are honorable gen
tlemen on the other side who do not belong
to that category. and am proud to acknowl-
edge them as my friends. am sure they do
not sympatbize with these ctInrts whose tell
dency L. TO pull down tho fabric of our gov.
ernment by aiding their friends over the bor-
der to do it. Their friends. say, for when
tho Ohio election was about coming Oft in
the army ut Chattanooga, there was more
anxiety in the rebel camp than in our own.
The pickets had talked face to face and made
daily inquiry how the election in Ohio was
going. And ut midnight of the 18th of
October, when the teegraphic news flashed
down to us. and it was announced to tho
army that the Union had sixty thousand ma
iority in Ohio. there aross q shout from
every tent along the line on that rainy mid.
night, which rent the skies with jnhiees, and
sent despair tn the heart OF those who We're
- voitinp and watching across the border. "