Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-07-17

@1"''eV' " toeCeSSt0H-1He E0lS or Rdd-
f'cattsns-H must be overcome to Restore
the Union.
B. W. Hanna, Esq law partner of the
Hon. D. w. voorhees,, recently made
speech in Louisville, KY, upon the war and
the questions growing out of it, which is
remarkable for its frankness and manliness.
Nlr. Hanna is Senator from the Terre Haute
district in the Legislature of Inaiaua. When
gentleman living in the bosom of a far
northern community, and, moreover, rep
rcsentatlve in q deliberative assembly of
northern State, ulters such plain truths. we
need not despair of having full hearing in
course of time, and of having justice done to
the motives and reasons of the south in regions
where it has been most egregiously wronged
and slapdered.
We copy few extracts from this indie:
pendent grafton.
TIE POSITION OF ANDREW JOHNSON.
Mr.. EIaaEa says that the issue at this time
is ''betwecn pure and noble Caucasian
destiny and the hlighted, withercd, and
ruined condition that rlust follow violation
Of the stern and 1tnmutable laws of our
nature" He continues:
The President of the United States so
understands it, and l believe he is right.
He has taken his stand-has taken his stand
upon the Constitution, and all the combined
powers of tanaticism and hell cannot drive
him from it Here the widest enthusiasm
prevailed throughout the whole of the vast
audience.
This very hour, with grip of iron, he hangs
to to the Iaccrated and bleeding throat of the
Puritan Apollyon. Tremendous cheering !
Viewing the +means resorted to by the
Kad'cals 10 thwart the Presidents policy
Their turning out Of lcgally-electcd members
from their seats-thcir outrages of the Con-
stitution-their measures for degrading the
soutil-their degradation of Congress from
its high character when Madison, and Ran
dolph, and Webster, and Clay, figured in its
halls, Mr.. Hanna concludes:
We Lave been in the midst of gloom and
horrors. The last six years have been an
almost unoroken season of depression and
despair. The face of the land has been SO
covered over with the deep waters of trouble
that there lTas scarcely been so much as an
Ararnt where the taiuting bird of hope could
rest his weary wing. But, after all this. tho
Rndicals are not yet satisfied. They say they
must have more blood-that there must bc
more destruction, more widows, more orphans
aud more heartburnings. They cannot be
satisfied. Aggression is their motto, revolution
their purpose; and it is now for the neope
to say how far they shall succeed. They
can be overthrOwn, and l believe and trust
III God they will be. [Great applause
THE RADICALS REJECT TIE COMPROMISE
AND DEMAND
Mr. Hanna reviews the history of the
election of Lincoln, the issues of the dny-
especially the dogma that the Government
could not endure part slave and part free
and of the efforts at compromise-all of them
contemptuously rejected by the Republicans.
lie dwells with emphasis upon the prolonged
efforts of Virginia to restore harmony and
save the Union-upon the obstinate refusal
ofthe Republicans to entertain the compromise
urged upon them by the celebrated convention
gotten up by Virginia. lie quotes very
appropriately the remarks of Senator Douglas
upon the compromise recommended by the
Committee OF Thirteen, of which Mr. Davis
and Mr.. Toombs, Of Georgia, were members.
Mr.. douglas said:
DShSNO 'hlo ~ bt u lalT ana amlCaDle
adjustment. II you of the Republican side
are not willing to accept this, nor the pro-
position of the Senator from Kentucky. prav
tell me what you are willing to do? address
this inquiry to the Republicans alone for the
reason that, in the Committee ofThirteen.
tew days ago, every member from the south,
including Nlessrs. Toombs and Davis. ex-
pressed their willingness to accept the pro-
position my venerable frend from Kentucky
(Nlr. Crittenden) as fnal settlement of the
controversy, if rendered aud sustained by the
Republican members. Hence the sole re-
sponsibility of our disagreement, and the only
d'thcuI'y IN the way of an amicable adjust
mentis with the Republican party" ECheers7
Mr.. Hanna then said:
All, Mr.. Chairman, the past is terrible
and inexoruble tribunal. Its judgments are
conclusive and final-its records live forever
and cannot be changed. Let the Stevenses.
the Summers, aud the Chambers 20 there and
try their case by that tribunal if they. dare.
hey were offered compromise upon compro-
mise, but they preferred disruption and
vengeance; the hand bearing the beautiful
olive branch OF peace was stretched forth to
them in Christian faith; but nladdencd with
Jealousy and thirsting for revenge, they chose
the mseries of war and the sorrows of death.
History makes conv cts of them all. They
have sacrificed more than million of valuable
lives upon the bio, dy aItars of the Moloch
they have worshipped. The names of their
victims come forth from the tombs of more
than thousand battleficlds and testify AGAINST
them; the blood which cries from the ground
of Gettysburg and Chickamauga, of Fred
erieksburg and Nlurfreesboro, condemns
them; the bones which sleep by the waters
of tho Mississippi, and where the Kappa
hammock murmurs her melancholy dirse as