The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-08-23

these men wisdom and statesman.
ship. Laughter and applause. j.
The Oamanches, Arrapahoes, the
Apaches, even the widest Indians
of the plains, after they have been
at war, know better how to make
peace. { Laughter.) They come
together, they lay down their weap-
ons of warfare, bury the tomahawk
and smoke the pipe of peace; they
shake hands and say we are friends
not enemies, and peace is made.-
And yet, fellow-citizens, has it
come to this, that, in this nine
teenth century, enlightened
men, with the history of the
whole world before us, protesting
to be Christians and to know states
fnanship, when war is over and
! blood has ceased to flow, we do not
know enough to shake hands and
make peace2 Have we not at the
North already suffered enough in
this terrible civil ware How many
hundreds and thousands OF our
fathers, sons and brothers have laid
down in premature graves Where
is the household which has no va
cant chair9 Where is the father
whose son has not fallen or been
wounded in this terrible strife p
Have we not suffered enough2 ? Is
it not enough for me that | have
been called to look into the grave
OF my eldest son-a sacrifice in this
terrible struggles Can / ask for
mores Because have suffered
shall | give.vent to no feelings but
those of vengeance9 Shall pity,
shall Christianity, shall generosity,
shall magnanimity no longer dwell
in the human bosom2 And have
not the people of the South suf-
fered beyond all description g.
Their sons, too, have perished, but
not like ours, in cause which has
triumphed; but in q cause which
has failed and forever overwhelmed
with ignominy and defeat. Their
country has been ravaged by war.
Fire and arson have sweptit every
where. If you follow in that broad
black track of forty miles in width,
of Sherman's march through the
South, do you not see enough in all
the misery which has arisen there
to satisfy even those who cry "Ven-
!, geance-Woe to the Conquered! "
(Applause.) I know, sir, there
have been times in the midst Of
this conflict, while the war was
|, raging, when I have been called to
urge my countrymen to the terri
BILE struggle, when l, too, have Civ.
en- utterance to feelings of vindic-
tiveness, almost of unutterable
vengeance against tho rebellion
and its authors. But when the war
is over, when they surrender, when
they say we give it up, when they
; say we have fought it. out to the
bitter end, when they say we have
; appealed to the God Of Battles, and
the God of Battles has decided
/ against US, we make no further
! struggle; when they bend before
our conquering power, in my heart
, can I find it to say to my country
men: "Strike them again." ZAP
; plause.) No, sirl Who can strike
a fallen foea (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) ....
The interrupter, like hen with Its head
cut off, gave an expiring flop. Said he,
''Do they say that"
Mr.. Doolittle-Certainly they say that.
Governor Orr, of South Carolina, said it in
a speech the gentleman should learn by
, heart. (Great cheering.) Governor Ak
en- says il, Stephens says 1t, all Of them say
. it. There Is not rebel soldier who has
, surrendered who does not say it, and the
+ gentleman never saw one and never heard
of one, nor of a single rebel officer who
does not say It. And if any one has de-
: MED 1t, 1t was perhaps some Of those men
, who remained at home, who did not go to
/, the war, who neither fought themselves,
nor sent their children to fight-(voice,
i "Never had any")-some Of those men who
, have never been made to feel the war in
all its power, may be those complaining
ones at the South, just as we have complain
ing ones Of the same sort at the North, ,and
. they may say thousand things; but I
! have yet to hear of the first soldier or the
; first officer of the rebel army, who does not
say that they fought until they were sat-
isfied. (Applause)
When the war of blood Is over, then
1 there arises moral warfare. Our warfare
l with the South is now warfare of opin-
ion, and In a moral warfare what weapons
: are the strongestp Magnanimity and gen.
!, erosity. Love Is stronger than hatred
, You can conquer your enemy in moral
warfare more by magnanimity, generosity
. and affection than by harsh words, ven-
} geance and denunciatiOn. tCheers.) Such
, Is the doctrine of Christianity, taught by
our Savior two thousand years ago. Such
are the teachings of all craftsmanship
Napoleon even, who was the great model