The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-03-15


forget or forgive the Union party for
saving the nation and spelling their
meditated plans and prospects Of fu-
ture advancement to place and power.
l have said the rebel cause was re-
vived by the encouragement derived
from the Chicago convention. 1t was
so and the vigor thus infused into the
Souls of the desponding rebels led
them to renewed contests upon the
field that cost them and us thousands
of valuable lives-lives Of noble and
brave men mercilessly sacrificed by the |
reasonable resolves and assurances of |
an unfaithful party, led by men, who, |
to attain power, were willing to ruin
their country.
Almost daily, during the most criti-
cal periods of the war, the rebels were
stimulated by speeches and votes of
the Democracy Of this House. They
saw in the proceedings here that Con-
gress was as much divided in its coun-
sells concerning the suppression Of the
rebellion as the great contending parties
were in the field and the rebels had
good reason to believe, as did many
Union men fear, that so many mem
bers, so ardently struggling in their
behalf in Congress, would not be with
out corresponding influence in the
Army, with like sympathies, holding
positions potent for mischief, and that
an unluclly day would come, when, at
at given signal, the Union Army
might be delivered into the hands of
the enemy.
Day after day, leading members thus
inclined declared, with insolent brava-
dc, that they had not voted a man or
, a dollar to carry on the war; and the
} reasonable sentiments were received
by their party with marked approba.
: ton. A member solcmnly declared
e in a deliberate speech in his place, that
= there were but two ways to obtain
: peace: one was by war of eXtermin
r alton, the other by conccding to the
: COnfcderates their demand of separa-
: tiOn and independence; and that he
{ preferred to concede. His party stood
up to him almost to a man, adopting
his offensive, traitorous declaration
g and thereby became as guilty as him
e self.
i Another member rises in his place
i and shocks the moral sense, of all lOya
!, persons present by "praying God Al
/ mighty that we may never subjugatC
Il the South" He is called to accoun
r for his reasonable utterance; the
: Union members vote his condemnation
t but his party rally to his support, justi
f fy his horrid imprecatiOn, adopt it az
Y proper, and save him from expulsion
r voting to retain him as a worthy anC
!, loyal member of this House.
}, With such scenes transpiring in Con
= gress, with such repeated and contin
v ued manifestations of divided counsels
: and in which divisions so large a mum
] Der of members constantly, earnestly
: and persistently adhered by speech ant
: vote and sympathy to the cause of tn
: rebellion, is it not a marvel that we die
n escape miscarriage either in the coun
n Gil or the field? H..-
Sir, any other people, except suchqa
formed and controlled the sentiment
# and actions of the great Union part,
4 of the country, would have been eX
: cited to acts of viOlence-that it wa
J. not so is attributable to the clemenc,
Il and forbearance Of the loyal people,
e But it might not be safe for such me-
IS to presume too much upon the prec6
v dent the men who stand by thei
r. country in such conflicts may not a
+ ways be thus indulgenty toward suc
= fragrant offenders.
With these scenes transpirihg dali
q, in Congress, and telegraphod to the rC
bel leaders by the unbouhded facilitiC
e this city afforded, and by these disscn
u u mated through the rebel camps, it
p easy to conceive how powerfully
,o would stimulate them to action. Ho
y long it enabled them TO hold out, Il
~ vigor it infused into their souls, Il
~ thousands of brave men it brought
q. the sacrifice, no human mind can tel
~ but all men must see, and the cain
=, deliberate Judgment of the world mu
w. say, that the just responsibilities
u this terrible conflict with the rebelliC
nv must be divided, and that while Il
=, active, fighting rebels are very guilt
~ their sympathiZers of the North ha'
iy charged to them q debt of blood al
eu suffering and death of the best al
~ bravest of our loyal sons, that is n
~, M cancelled or forgotten, and faithful, IL
,,gg partial history will so record IT in G
,.,, nu during letters, to stand in the annals
Wy time as a perpetual memorial Of i
amn m mitigated treason.
eo And now that the war is ended, a
ro. the duty of restoring order to
nd country is transferred from the car
oI. to the council, from. the soldier to
,ed civilian, no people assume TO know
re- much and so we'll how to reconstr
nts our Government as these same sym
,ed thizers, who have hung, around
Md neeks Of the loyal men like. net
no millstones from the beginning Of
I'M, rebellion to the firing of the last re
al gun. ... .,......,.. s., ,.'.-r..s
or Mr., Speaker, we expect to do
hat work, and we expect to do it W.
tso but we do not expect to be wrought
gan into indecent haste, either by the
hey portunities of the insurgents, or
y a clamor and abuse of the Opposition
ler; this Hall. We will strive to pun
ess, the even tenor of our way, with hat
My toward none and an honest purpos'
- ....l ..os.o ~ fho s,,fa,.ook, Of