The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-02-15
Hon. Alexander longs speech.

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' WASHINGTON, Eeb. I. a.,
The House is holding a night session, and
at this hour, s P. NJ, the Hon. Alexander
Long commenced the delivery uf speech,
which was listened to with breathless atten7.
ton. MIR. Long said he spoke for himself,
and Eas responsible for what he said. 1t
was the duty of the citizen TO tender his
advice to those in authority, and the duty
of the Representative tearlessly to express
his sentiments
The war was wrong, and would ruin the
country North and South. Wars for sepa-
ration of geographical parts, were success
fui on the side Of the separationist III
stanccd Portugal from Spain, Mexico from
Spain, the United States from Great Britain
and Others. The cry for separation had
been met by armed coercion and subjugation
and had ended in defeat. Patriotism had
been:a paying virtue under the war policy;
but for those who opposed, was prescription
offered golden reward. Fidelity on the
other, rendered the dangers Of prison
Wars for geographical unity, ended in dis
integration. Wars for religious unity, end
ed in division q a| |ea. .gay,@ I'D. :
No soldiers had ever fought better than
ours but eight millions Of people en- their
own soil, were fully a match for eighteen
millions whose armies had to be transported
to the scene of action. Time. and space
fought on the side of the assailcd, and made
up the difference in numbers ii Victories
won and territory marehed.oyer did not end
the war, The territory we held was what
our brave soldiers stood upon, and was COM
mandedb by their guns. u
The idea was absurd, thatif VIC acguiescsd
in the separation OF the South, other Sec
tions would follow. s.Hs , ia5 .a
Governments deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed, could
never be held together by force. He took
no part in the contest between thecandidates
both of whom were committed to the
war, and differing only in the resources oi
craftsmanship they proposed to exhaust
before externinatng the Southern people.
He stood now where he stood last April
The blood of the Revolutionary fathers
would rise up in Judgment against Union
founded OH coercion. The Union existed by
consent and it could not exist moment
| longer than the consent existed. az, ea
Ii the States had right to throw Oft the
Government of Great Britain, and had nc
right to interfere with Governments made
by themselves, their last condition worse
than the first. Claimed that each State was
| nation; answered General GarHeld speech
| against State Sovereignty He is citizei
of Ohio, only, not citizen OF the United
States, owed the United States'no allegiance,
it was not his sovereign. The Federal Gov
enment was asan agent acting under {
warrant of attorney which the States could
revoke at any time. The issuewas indepen-
dence or determination. -..o.-
The rivers of blood which the war party
followed led to no ocean of union and har
mony, or reposc and safety; but they rar
through mountains Of debt. low vallies O.
profigacy and Crime, through a public ant
individual calamity, and ended at last in tht
slough of despair. 3z st''ta
The cry of the pulpit and church wa
blood, and dispatches like that of Sheridan
that he had burned barns, nils and houses
were receiyed.with joy byrthe followers O
1 the Prince eof Peace te.r.e .ei. i.g.
A large number of those claiming to have
| the morality and religion Of the country, de
manded the determination Of eight millions
of christian men and women from the fact
of the earth, simply for claiming the right
asserted in the Declaration of independence
He would consider himself unworthy O
self respect, if he did not say that from the
pool of total depravity there was issued {
spirit SO irredecmably wicked, it would have
! been shame and stigma in tile days O
| Aleric, Attila and Saladin. If this was tn,
result Of our Sabbathtschool teachings ant
religious instructions we might as well ad
nit that the Gospel had not yet reached ou
shores, and that we must wait until lndi'
sends her missionaries to convert us, from
the banks of the Ganges and Hind0ostan
| God in His Providence ncvoS would ALLOW
the Southern people to be cxterminated.
4 of eur National debt he said We did no
pay one dollarin FIVE as we went along. Gu
debt was now larger than that Of England
and the rate Of interest twice as great Eng
! land had thirty-tw thousand millions o
\ taxable property, while we had in the l0ya
4 States only eleven thousand millions. Tn
debt was not in the pay Of the soldier, VIII
got less than his services entitled him t
| receive The marble palaces Of the contrac
tors, the Opdyke trial, and such like disclo
sures, showed whercit was At the las
session he fell under the censure Of tn
House for what he said He saw nothin
4 since to change his views. The ermine Q
l the Judge and the person Of the I.egislato
! were helpless before the bayonets of til
soldiers led on by the delusion. of militar
1 glory. Some Alexander. some Julfus Cesar
i aad seine Napoleon, had always rsnpc