The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-09-16


As Pendleton gave expression in the
above extract, as his own belief, the
theory of the leaders of the Southern
rebellion, the reader will not be sur
prised that the following language
may be found in the same speech:
"ATy voice to-day is for Cancellation, my
voice is for compromise, and it is but the
echo of my constituents; 1 beg you, gentle
men, who with me, represent the North
west; you who with me, represent the
State OF Ohio you who with me, represent
the city of Cincinnati-I beg you, gentle
men, to hear that voice. If you will not (;
if you find conciIiation impossible; if your
differences are SO great that you cannot or
will not reconcile them, then, gentlemen,
let the seeding States depart iaa peace; let
them establish their 0OUeT7tnlent and empire,
and aOOrk ont their destiny according to the
aOisdOA lOlich God has giVel them"
THIS UNNATURAL AND UNHoLY WAR.
Mr.. Pendleton closed his remark
able argument in favor of the conspir-
ators as follows:
"Gentlemen, to-day you must make
your choice. To-day lay aside all thoughts
of war and cultivate the arts of peace.
To-day determine upon Il course of cOncil-
iation and compromise. If you do not, if
you insist upon drawing the sword and
dipping it in your brothers. blood: if you
insist upon this UNNATURAL AND UNHoLY
WAR prepare to wage it to the last extrem-
ity: for I lVarg you that every lOOlagd tUhich
you t1gfict upon the Southern people, every
defeat to aOhich you subject them, every degrG-
datiOR you NHy have pOWer to make them e1l-
dUre, aOiI TGHkLe IN their hearts until THEY
WASH OUT THE LAST STAIN IN YOUR BLOOD
AND NINE, OR IT MAY BE IN THAT OF OUR
CHILDREN"
On the 10th of July, 1861, after the
war had actually begun, a bill, very
like the one discussed by Mr.. Pendle-
ton on the 18th of January, was put
on its passage in the House of Repre-
sentatives and received a vote of 1876
yeas to 10 nays. icon. G. vol. Sc, p.
S.
The nays were: PendletOn and Val
landigham, of Ohio, Benz. Wood of
New York, VOORHEES, of Indiana, Rob
inson of Illinois, Norton and Reid Of
Missouri, Burnett, Harding and
WadswOrth of Kentucky.
s. s. Cox, McCIernand and other
Democrats voted for the bill.
REITERATEs PEACE sENTIIENTs.
On the 31st of January, 1868, after
two years of war, after every patriotic
man had determined that rebels in
arms must cease their war on the Ma
tiOnal flag and submit to the National
authority, Mr.. PendletOn reiterated
the, sentiments we have before given.
ECong. Globe, vol. 81, page 654.l
'I have been in favor of peace from the
beginning of this sectional controversy"
~
T71 said two years ago on this floor that
'armies, money, war, cannot maintain
this Union; justice, reason, peace, may 1
believed it then, have believed it at every
moment since; believe it now. No event
of the past two years has for a moment
shaken my faith"
THREATENS SECESSION ON THE PART
OF THE NORTHWEST.
Mr.. PendletOn then uttered the fol-
lowing threat, to deter the Govern
ment from using every means within
its reach to overthrow the rebellion,
to deter the Government from arming
negro es:
"The people of the Northwest were car
ried away by the excitement of April and
May. They believed that war would re-
store the Union. They feel
that the war has been perverted from this
end; that the Constitution has been disre-
garded; that abolition and arbitrary pow
er, not union and constitutional liberty,
are the governing ideas of the Administra-
ton. They are in no temper to be trifed
iOith. They think they hare been deceived.
They Ure suffering from the death of reLd-
tues and friends. They are longing for
peace. There is danger Of reUoLatiOn.
There is danger that they may see no ertri-
cation from preseut difficulties bUt IN separd-
ton. I Ua1m you Of it nOW 1 UGIn you IN
time.
NOT ANOTHER MAN NOR ANOTHER
DOLLAR.
Again, in the same speech, Mr..
PendIeton said:
"I should be false to every duty as its
representative here; false to you, my fellow
Representatives, if did not tell you that
there is an impression growing with great
rapidity upon the minds of the people of
the Northwest, that they hare been deLiGey'-
nteLy deceiUed into this tCGT; that their pa
triutism and their love of country have
been engaged to call them into the army
under the pretense that war was to be for
the Union and the Constitution, tUbeB, IN
fact, 1t 1VaS to be an armed crusade for the
abolition Of SlGUe1y. 1 tell you, sir, that
unless this impression is speedily arrested
it will become universal; it will ripen into
conviction, and then it will be beyond
your power to get from their broad plains
ANOTHER MAN or from their almost EX-
HAUsTED CoFFERs ANOTHER DOLLAR"
What sweeter comfort could Mr..
Pendleton have given the armed
traitors than to have stood up in his
place as a representative of the patri-
otic people of the Great Northwest, as
he did, and tell them that his people
would not furnish another man and
that their Golfers were exhausted?
What other encouragement did the
rebels want to cause them to persist
in their wicked course?
REFUSES TO CENsURE THE SECRETARY
OF THE NAVY.
It will be remembered that under
the administration of Mr.. Buchanan's
Secretary of the Navy, Isaac TOucey,
the war ships of the Government had
been scattered to different parts Of the
world, so that they could not be used,
when the rebels made their attack on
the nation. Mr.. Toucey accepted
without delay or inquiry the resigna-
tions of officers Of the Navy, who were
in arms against the Government when
rendering the same, and of those who
sought to resign that they might be
relieved from the restraint imposed
upon them by their commissions on
engaging in hostility to the constitu-
ted authority of the nation.
On the I'd of March, 1861, Mr..
Dawes, of Massachusetts, reported a
resolution pronouncing ''this conduct a
grave error, highly prejudicial to the
discipline of the service and injurious
to the honor and efficiency of the Ma