The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-08-16
-1npAoT OF A SPEECH OF HON. J. B.
Ia w. DOOLITTLE.

THE Hon. J. b. Doolittle, in recent
aab delivered at Madison, Wisconsin,
pa tbe following in reference to the
Philadelphia Convention:
p There is another point in this call
.,heh is equally important.
LIVERY patriot should forever frown
MON all those acts and proceedings,
Everywhere, which can serve no other
,,as,ose than to rekindle the animosities
pr r. var and the effect of which upon our
VI ."oral social and material interests at
n"n,a and upon our standard abroad,
dd;tiering only in degree, is injurious like
war itself.
Now. what is the meaning of that,
.an hat the war is over and blood has
INV TO flow? Now that there are no
wore, wore sons to be sacrificed and laid in
,romat,lre graves, what does it mean?
r means that every honest man, and
hverv patriot, and every Christian
sbou1jd. bv his language, hisconversation,
and mis- conduct, do all in his power to
Sa9 the breach, not to tear open the
rannds afresh. Cheers. But what
Nave we heard, fellow citizens Almost
from the very beginning of the session
all tbe dominant men who lead that
faltion i'm Congress have been in oppo-
stian to the administration of the Ma
tonal Union party. And what do We
hear from Them From the beginning
10 the end. but denuneiations, and that
snirit of hate and war breathed out day
alter day, and poured upon the people
Of the South, who had no representatives
todeicnd them, from the beginning of
the session to the end.
My, fellow-citizens, the very wild
Indians on the plains should teach these
men better how to make peace. Go
among the Cheyennes, the Arapahaes,
the cananches, the Apaches, even the
widest indians of all the plains; they
| may fight with each other, commit all
sort. of atrocities upon each other, but
| When the time comes TO make peace,
| What do they doo They get together;
| tiieg bury the tomahawk; they smoke
the pipe of peace; they shake hands !;
| they say, We are no more enemies
| neW, we are friends" Cannot statesmen
! in the nineteenth century; cannot men
| who have read the whole history of the
| world cannot Christians who profess
| the Gospel of tine Lord Jesus Christ
cannot they do as well in making peace
as those Indians of The plains. Cheers.
And, fellow-citizens, we must look
upon facts as they are. The present
Congress was elected in the midst OF war
and contiagration. They We're elected
as war Congress. 1t was the spirit of
war which breathed into it Il e breath of
life; and war they must have. And if
| il could not be war upon the rebellion
ior the rebellion had given way, and it
could not be wreaked upon tlat-that
war must be waged upon their own Adj
ninistation, which they themselves
elected and PLACED in power. And from
the beginning of the session to the end,
with unrelentlng hostility, they have
waged war upon the Presidehtand upon
every man who assists the President,
including rs humble q person as myself
among the number. But do you suppose
that the waging of this war upon An
urew JohnsOn-upOn that man who, in
the Senate of the United States, stood
Ike rock and rolled back the mad
waves of secession which dashed against
nlh, cheers eio You suppose thai
Ahurew Johnson, who has suffered mere
ior the Union than all the men in the
congress who denounce him; that An
urew johnson is to be driven from the
Petiormance of his high and sacred
uuty as a statesman, as a man, as a
At,nflstian:: Is it to be supposed that by
we VIZ. denunciatiOns of newspapers here IN
"lseonsin, or elsewhere, that faithful
inand who stood by him in sunshine and
III storm will talter for an instant: l
assure s you, fellow-citizens, those men
VINO VINO make these denunciations do not
KNOW the spirit that actuates the men
lEn stand bye Andrew Johnson
tNieerS. l
}. hoW easy for me, as nm individual, to
n o,'v " hoated with the passing excitement
VI VI; the present hour, to have avoided all
s sllls denunciation My term in the
s een does not expire for some years to
t tb; How easy to have avoided al
d da,s controversy, to have acted with this
SS aI'L faction and party! But no,
v,ga,"'ow!.-citizens, tell you, and | assure
ii:u n' ~ Is as certain, in my Judgment, as
n ns". lives and reigns. that unless the
TYPE III this country sustain Andrew
s sna.l now in his determined effort to
sustain ".s' this Union and to arrest the mad
,meef OF this wild tendency to centrall-
4 %"lo,. Your constitutional liberties are
w 15d'led in vortex from which they
IN never rise Cheers That ten