Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-03-15


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H- The Hon. =. \. PLAETs, from
the Bfeigs district, made a spoec., in
Congress, on the oath ult., from whicn
we make the following extract:
Sir; l am not easily moved, but /
confess to little impatience, sitting
here from day to day and hearing
the members of the great Union party,
to which am proud to belong, de
nounced as radicals, fanatics. reyo-
lutionists, disunioulsis, and enemiea
of the country, By gentlemen whose
position, if not their purpose, makes
them the accomplices Of traitors.
say accomplices, for effects follow
causes regardless of 10 ems mociy.
Arsenic kills without respect to the
mode in which it finds access to the
human organism. If ,aken 70 com
nit suicide it does It's work. II
placed in your food by the assassin
it performs its work as well And
if taken from the hand Of your phvsi-
clan and friends its work is still The
same-death: not from the motive OF
the actors. hut from the relation es
tablished between the drug and the
organization. And SO results follow
IRON the position men occupy with
out regard to their motives.
1t is the position Of the opposi-
ton, then; with which an dealing,
and | shall leave their motives 70 bC
accounted for by themselves. And
1 say here in my place, without fol
lowing our brave boys through rebe
prison pens and bloody iefeld;
/ to unmarked graves, that every one
of them owes his murder more &c
northern Democratic ballots than Il
southern Democratic bullets. No
so much, sir, to the armed rebel q
the South as to his Democrat fellow
partisan q. the North is the mother
/ indebted for the massacre other son
1 the wife Of her husband, and the
orphaned children of their father
For every life so sacrificed and dol
lar expended and debt incurred do
hold those and their partisans re
sponsible, who with hrazen check
hurl these epithets 81 US. l cam'
here, sir, expecting, for time q
least, TO be a silent me.Lber doing M
duty in q quiet way. rs I have beer
doing so far. But l will not sit still
any longer and hear this language
repeated without retorting rs thini
it deserves. l said l held the nor
thern Democrats responsible for al
horrors of the rebellion, and ] repea
it. l do not say ner care whethe
they cherished conscious treason ii
their hearts or only the reckless pas
sions of partisan hate. Their posi-
tion in relation to the contest We
the same in either case, as | viii pro
ceed 10 demonstrate.
Sir, men are moved to action By
motives; and no motive is-strons
enough to move them at all that doc
not hold out some hope of success
Strike hope from the heart aud yol
paralyze the arm. No enterprise
can be commenced without there-i i
some hope of carrying it through
nor can it be continued when all hop,
is taken away. Jeff. Davis and hi
CO conspirators in the South woulC
not, nay, they could not, have strucl
the first blow but for the hope they
INDUCED of accomplishing their fel
purpose. But if the whole Nortl
had been united in sustaining tn
Government, he could not have haC
any hope of its overthrow. 1t wa
simply from expectation of aid from
the northern wing Of the party tina
made the first blow 4 possibility
And were they not justified in thei
expectations?
Who had been the leaders of tn
party for years? just the leader
of the rebellion, whom gent!emel
are clamoring to admit again to tn
vacant seats by their sides; that leg
islation may be expedited by tn
bowie knife and the biudgeon, as o
old. Davis. Breckenridge, Stephens
Mason, Slidell, Benjamin. Hunter
Wise, and their like, ruled the part.
as they ruled their slaves; and neve
slaves obeyed masters more servil
ley, only these surpassed their mas
ters in the audacity of their abus
of Union men. Why every dirt
paper and dirtier demagogue poure'
out their Trades upon the friends Q
the Union in terms in which false
hood and vnlgarity struggled for th
pre-eminence. Abolitionists, Blac
Republicans, fanatics, disunionist:
amalgamationists, woolly heads
lnigger Forshipers were the genties
i terms employed. and these vel
houled ont Is ipcessen;
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