East Saginaw courier., 1865-08-30

Kunkel and Hughes seemed to be
most sympathetic with the South
The same may said of Kentucky;
though since, both Burnett and
Symmes have been Confederate sena-
tors. They were both enger for com
promise during the winter Of 1861,
and Burnett even returned to the
next Congress in 1861. He is now
under bonds for treason. Virginia had
Garnett, DE Jarnette, and Edmund
son, most disposed toward Southern
Confederacy. Bococke, Smith, Jen-
kins, Leake and others were determin-
ed to go with the State. They did
not labor to foster compromise. Pri-
or was at times with, and at times
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eager as he seemed for q scpaia ate
Confederacy. His career is known,
with its vicissitudes. Tho fate Of
Jenkins, no was classmate Of
mine, was what might have
been expected. He fought bravely
and died courageously at the head Of
his cavalry. Rich in tho patrimony
Of splendid farms along the Ohio and
Kanawha, surrounded by friends who
elected him to Congress when barely
a constitutional age, just married to
daughter Of the diplomatist, Bowlin
of Paraguayan memory, and coming
from that part of Virginia where Sc
cession was the exception, his fate has
seemed to be as unnatural as il is sad.
Ex- Governor Smith of Virginia, was,
perhaps, the most remarkable in the
delegation. He was a fluent debater,
ready at repartee, and brave to fault.
/ am indebted to him for aiding in
the special exchange of prisoners.
Since the war, when could get little
or no aid from Congress or our own
Government, and scarcely vote on
my resolutions urging exchange, till
too late to save the lives of thousands,
l received prompt and generous aid
from this inveterate insurgent, which
President Lincoln, when informed Of
it by me, reciprocated with the re-
mark that "he would not De outdone
by Extra Billy in extra kindness. +"
But the man among Virginians who
labored most noLly for the Union was
John S. Millson of Norfolk.
Botel,.r began the same good work
by moving for the committee of
Thirty-three but TO MilIson. more
than to any one, did we owe the vote
of Virginia in favor of the Union,
given in February, 1861. / franked,
at his request, many thousands of his
unanswerable speech to Virginians.-
1t was complained of us by some of
the Hotspurs, that we had the census
copied to flood that State with Mill
sons speech. This was true. In this
work no one gave to Gen. Millson
moro effective aid than Sheirard
Clemens, of Wheeling, whose elo-
quence never did better execution,
whose zeal never tagged, and whose
Unionism never wavered. In looking
over the names of members Of other
States, wish / could find more than
/ do of whom this may DO said. Not
counting Tennessee, led 10y Nelson and
Maynard Kentucky with Mallory at
its head, and Missouri led by the ga :
liant Phelps saving Joshua Hill, of
Georgia, Houston and Cobb Of Alaba-
ma, Gilmer and Vance Of North Car
olina, Bouligny of Louisiana, Hamil-
ton, of Texas; and excepting such
men as Branch, Of North Carolina,
Rust of Arkansas, and Taylor of Lou
isiana, distrustful of secession as the
cure for Southern ills, though less pro-
nounced in their except
ing these and few others not so con-
spicuous, the whole array of Southern
talent, led by Miles, Cartel, Pugh (of
Alabama), Bococke, Garnett, Smith,
Pryor, Crawford, Curry, Hindman,
McRea, Barksdale, Lamar, Wright and
Keitt--nearly oil except Pugh and
Smith, young men--was thrown in ia
vor Of the prccipitate action, without
any zeal and little attempt to COM
promise. Even such men as Winslow,
Smith and Branch, of North Carolina,
and Reagan of Texas, elected as con-
servatives against the disunion senti-
ments Of their districts, covered be-
fore this band of southern talent and
; the pressure brought 20 bear from
their homes inspired by hopes of in
dependence. Tho wives, daughters
and other female connections of South
ern members were in the galleries con-
stantly, to cheer by their presence and
smiles the fervid efforts Of these seces-
sion orators.
For impetuous debate, there was
lamar, of Mississippi, scholarly and
defiant For logical humor, Gov. Nc
Rae of the same State, successor to
General Quitman, one Of the happiest
Of speakers, an original slave-trade
secessionist, though educated in Ohio;
for parliamentary skirmishing, there
was Bocockc of Virginia for vituper-
ntive philippe, there was Roger A.
Pryor; for courteous and beautiful ell
ocution, Alexander X. Boteler, OF
Harper's Ferry; for staggering bra
vado, toned with an eloquent phraze-
o.ogy, there was the vain aud clever
Keitt; for smooth and trenchent dia-
lects, there was Porcber Miles Of
! Charleston, who earned his place in
Congress 10y his care Of the sick in the
fever stricken city of Norfolk. in 1855;
for statesmanlike and vigorous debate
there was Branch, OF North Carolina
for broad wit and hearty brows, there
was Gilmcr of North Caroline; for
: subtitle ratiocination. of the Calhoun
pattern, there was Pugh Of Alnbama,
who had all the pith, without the ar
tistic polish, Of his colleague, Curry ;
for offensive and vivaeious readiness,
there was Hindman, who, almost
alone of these leaders, has been con-
spicuous in tho war. Branch, Ruilin,
Keitt, Jenkins, Bsrksdale and Rust
bava had imnortaut commands. and