The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-29

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deny as final settlements of the con-
troversy, If rendered and sustained
by the Republican members. Hence
the sole responsibility of our disa-
greement, and the only difficulty in
the way of an amicable adjustment is
with the Republican party" Cheers.
Mr.. Hanna then said:
"Ah, Mr.. Chairman, the past is
q terrible and inexorable tribunal.
Its judgments are conclusive and
fnal-its records live forever, and
cannot be changed. Let the Ste
venses, the Summers and the
Chambers go there and try their case
by that tribunal if they dare. They
were offered compromise upon com
promise, but they preferred disrup-
tion and vengeance, the hand bear
ing the beautiful olive branch of
peace was stretched forth to them in
Christian faith; but, maddened with
jealousy and thirsting for revenge,
they chose the miseries of war and
the sorrows of death. History makes
convicts of them all. They have sa-
crificed more than million of vaiua-
BILE lives upon the bloody affairs of
the Moloeh they have worshipped.
The names of their victims come
forth from the tombs of more than
q thousand battle-felds and testify
against them; the blood which cries
from the. ground of Gettysburg and
Chickamauga, of fredericksburg and
Murfreesboro, condemns them; the
bones which sleep by the waters of
the Mississippi, and where the Rap
pahannock murmurs her melancholy
dirge as she sweeps along by the
sunken graves of Charlottesville,
rise up in Judgment against them.
Wretched despoilers, who have done
80 much crime in the name of liberty
and Christianity-who have been
willing to see the nation scourged
with sword of flame and hoof of
fire-who have rejoiced, in their
wicked orgies, to see her rivers run
red and thick with fraternal blood
who have plotted the ruin of more
than twenty-five millions of their own
race, to rnise to an unnatural eleva-
ton four or Ave millions of negroes
who would have sundered every tie.
burned the last house, and beggared
every child in the land, to do, under
the guise of war, what they knew
they could never accomplish inside
the Constitution Of our fathers! -Ac-
cursed scoffers and raving infidels,
| who would have leveled Calvary it
self for q place to celebrate their i'm
pious and drunken feasts! Let them
talk no more of liberty, no more of
Christianity; for their liberty and
their Christianity will forever be
Kissing and mockery where virtue
prevails and truth resides! Great
applause. Who would nothave pre-
ferred any honorable compromise to
the blasting and consuming war from
which we have jnst emerged? An
swer me, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
| Indiana and Mississippi, Ohio and
Kentucky-answer me, sisters ana
| wives of the slain in battle-fathers
and mothers whose parting with the
! last beardless boy has SO prematurely
! ripened the bloom of eternity upon
your sunken and throbbing temples
which would you prefer, could you
roll back the tide Of time and mako
the choice again? The answer leaps
from every heart and bursts from
every lip. I would not sacrifice one
such noble spirit as McPherson's, or
one such brilliant and intrepid soldier
as Stonewau Jackson, for Thaddeus
Stevens, Charles Sumner, Henry Will
son, Zachariah Chandler, and all the
hell brood of the vicious fanatics,
bigots and traitors they represent to-
day" Tremendous and long con-
tinued cheering.
! Mr. Hanna then traces to the door
of Puritanic New England the au-
thorship of notification and seces-
sion. On this point, we think he is
J peculiarly happy. He says:
Qualification was born on the very
soil of the same New England States
whose pulpits are now so prolific of
anathemas against secessionists, and
whose men and women daily suppli-
cate Almighty God for the sweet
privilege of washing their hands in
the blood of Jefferson Davis. Voices:
"That's 50, that's So" and cheers.
The history of the country bears me
out in this statement, and no man
can successfully deny it. Let us turn
over a few pages and see how it is,
81 hold in my hand the address
published by the famous convention
at Hartford, Connecticut, on the 18th