Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-02-15
Especial dispasch to the Chicago Tribune
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WAsHIxoTon, Feb. 7.
Mr.. Alex. Long delivered in the House
TINS evening, the speech recently referred to
IN these dispatches. The notofiety attach
60 TO bis former effort has caused this ens
20 Be awaited for with great deal Of curios-
~, The following are it, main points =
lie said be spoke for himself and was re.
sponsible for what he said. The war was
wrong, and would ultimately destroy both
the North and the South. The var ia for
separation, which always succeeded. Pa
triotism has been paying virtue under the
Administration. For those opposed to the
war, there was the bastile and the mob. II
was war Of geographical unity, and would
end in disintegration. Wars for religious
uniformity ended in religious division. No
soldiers had ever been found better than
ours, but they could not conquer the South.
The other sections would not secede, If we
let the South 60. The Government could
not be held together by force. He had ia
ken no part in the Presidential election
The war was either right or wrong, and
there vas but two sides, for and against it.
The blood Of our fathers, shed for independ-
ence, would rise up in judgment against us
He went iuto long.argument on State Sow
ereignty in reply to Gen. Garfeld's speech.
The United States was not the sovereign
The Federal Government was but an agent
OF the States, acting under letter of AttOr.
ney, which the States could revoke at will.
The issue was independence or extermina.
ton. The rivers of FLOOD led to no harbor
OF Union. They run through mountains Of
debt and valleys Of crime, ending in the
slough Of despair. The gospel Of peace had
been exchanged for war, and the church
cried out for more blood. He quoted Sher-
idan's dispatch of destruction in the valley;
the religious community demand the exter
mination Of the Southern people. Such q
demand would have been a stigma and .
shame in the days of Attllla and Saladan.-
Mahomctanism and Paganism would blush
to own it, If this was Christianity.
he light Of the gospel had not vet reach.
ed our shores, and we must wait until India
sent her missionaries from the banks of the
Gauges to convert US as Rome received the
Cross from the Barbarian of the North of
Europe. God would never allow the South
ern people to be exterminated. lie said our
debt was now larger than that of England,
and the interest twice as great. England
had three times as much property for taxa
ton, as we had, and her people were OPP
pressed and ground to the earth, to pay the
interest. The debt was not in the pay Of the
soldier who got too little, but vas to be seen
and accounted for in the affair Of Cathaline,
the Opdyke trial and similar disclosures.
At the last session he had fallen under the
censure Of the House for expressing his
opinion on the war. Nothing had since oc-
CURED to cause him to take different view.
The ermine Of the judge and the person of
the legislator were helpless before the bay
onet Of the successful soldier. Led on by
military glory, such as Alexander, Caesar or
Napoleon had always stamped on the breath
of popular liberty Look where he would,
he saw the decentralization Of society. Was
it out Of such material gentlemen expected
to erect the arch Of reconstructed Union,
and q violated Constitution No artificers
were equal to the task The Union was
gone. never to be restored. 1.-THE gentlemen
would save anything from wreck, they must
abondon the war, recognize the indepen-
dence of the States, and begin the work of
reorganization anew. in the sp rit Of the
men Of l776. He closed by saying that this
was the last time he would raise his voice in
debate in the capitol. In looking back, he
felt a satisfaction in the efforts he had made
to stay the ctfusion of fraternal blood.