Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-09-15


MY voice to-day is for cOncillia-
tion my voice is for compromise and
it is but the echo of my constituents;
beg YOU, gentlemen, who with me,
represent the Northwest; you who
with me, represent the State of Ohio;
you who with me, represent the city
of Cincinnati-I beg you, gentlemen,
to hear that voice. If you will not
if YOU find cOnciliatiOn impossible; if .
your differences are so great that you
cannot or will not reconcile them,
then, gentlemen, let the seeding |
States depart iR peace ; let them eStdb-
Hsh their gOUeTHnleRt and empire, and .
apOTE ont their dcStiRy according to .
the tcisdOB1 Which God has giCe7
them"
THIS UNNATURAL AND UNHOLY WAR. /
Mr.. Pendleton closed his remarka- |
BILE argument in favor of the cOnspi- /
ratOrs as follows:
Gentlemen, to-day you must make 1
your choice. To-day lay aside all .
thoughts of war and cultivate the arts .
of peace. To-day determine upon a /
course decentralization and compromise. /
If you do not, if you insist upon draw I
ing 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 eXtremi- |
ty; for I tUGT1l yOu that eUeI.Y lUOiDid 4
l0hich yOu infict upon the Southern |
people, eUery defeat to JUIich you sub /
ject them, eUeJy deqredditOR yOu may |
hare DOIUeF to make them endure lCit /
rdnkIe in their breasts until THEY |
WASH OUT THE LAST STAIN IN YOUR /
TlT
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-
sentatiyes and received a vote of l36
yeas to 10 nays. [COng. Globe, vol.
| 56, page 56.
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, McClernard and other
Democrats voted for the bill.
REITERATEs PEACE SENTIMENTS.
On the 3lst 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
| icon. Globe, vol. 81, page 654.
al have been in favor of peace from
the beginning of this sectional con-
| trOversy."
al 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; 1 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 rebellion, to de-
ter the Government from arming ne
grOeS:
"The people of the Northwest were
carried away by the excitement of
April and May. They believe that
war would restore the Union.
They feel that the war has been per-
verted from this end; that the Con-
stitution has been disregarded that
abolition and arbitrary power, not
union and constitutional liberty, are
the governing ideas of the Admins
! tration. They are IN no temper to be
trifed Scith. They think they hare
been deceiUed. They are suffering
from the death of relatives and friends.
They are longing for peace. There rs
! danger of rerOlutiOR. There is dan
ger that they may see no ertricdtiOn
| from present difficulties but IA SepdTd-
ton. IlCGyn yOW Of it nor. ! 1cdrn
you iIl time.
NOT ANOTHER MAN NOR ANOTHER DOL
| LAR.
Again. in the same speech, Mr..
Pendleton said:
t'I should be false to every duty as
/ its representative here; false to you,
my fellow Representatives, if l did
not tell you that there is an impress
sion growing with great rapidity upon
| the mind of the people of the North
west, that they hare been deliberately
| deceiUed into this IUdT =; that their
patriotism 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 Con-
stitution, a0hen, IN fact, IL tUds to be an
armed crusade, for the abolition OF
sLdUery. / tell you, sir, that unless
this impression is speedily arrested 1t
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 EXHAUSTED GOLFERS,
/ ANOTHER DOLLAR.
What sweeter comfort could Mr..
PendletOn have given the armed trail
tors than to have stood upin his place
as Representative of the patriotic
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.
1t will be remembered that under
the administration of Mr.. Buchanan's
Secretary of the Navy, Isaac TOucey,
lllt NslI Sill Dc vi NlAN NAONNA AAtAN
been scattered to distant parts of the
world, so that they could not be used,
when the rebels made their attack on
the nation. Mr.. HOucey accepted with
out delay or inquiry the designations
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
upoh them by their commissions on
engaging in hostility to the constitut-
ed authority of the nation.
On the ID of March, 1861, Mr.. Daw-
es, of Massachusetts, reported reso-
luton pronounciDg "this conduct
graver error, highly prejudieial to the
discipline of the service and injurious
to the honor and efficiency of the Ma
Wy; for which he (the Secretary of the
Navy deserves the censure of this
House."
On the adoption of this resolution
there were 95 yeas to 62 nays. Among
those voting in the negative was Geo.
H. PendletOn. [See Cong. Globe, vol.
So, page 1924.
VOLUNTEERS.
, On the 18th of July, 1861, Mr.. Pen
dleton opposed an amendment to a
pending bill, which amendment au-
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