The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-09-24

"My voice to-day is for Cancellation
my voice is for compromise and it
but the echo Of my constituents
beg YOU, gentlemen, who with me
represent the Northwest you VIII
with me, represent the State of Ohio
you who with me, represent the cit
of Ciucinnati-I beg }ou, gentlemen
to hear that voice If you will not
if you find Cancellation impossible
If your differences are so great tha
YOU cannot or will not reconcile them
then, gentlemen, let the secedin:
States depart in peace ; let them es
tablish their government and empire
and work out their destiny according
to the wisdom which God has .giver
them.
THIS UNNATURAL AND UNHOLY WAR
Mr.. Pendleton closed his remarka
bic argument in favor ofthe conspira
tors, as follows:
Gentlemen, to day you must make
your choice To-day lay aside al
thoghts Of war and cultivate the art:
of peace. To-day determine upon a
course of cOnciliation and cOmpro
mise. If you do not, if you insist
upon drawing the sword and dipping
it in your brothers blood if you in
sist upon this unnatural and unholy
war, prepare to wage it to the last
extremity; for I warn you that every
wound which you iufict upon the
Southern people, every defeat to which
you subject them, every degradation
you may have power to make them
endure will raRkle in their breasts
until they wash out the last stain in
your blood and mine. 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..
Pendleton on the 18th of January,
was put on its passage in the House
Of Representatives and received a
vote of I36 yeas to 10 nays. Cong.
Globe, vol. sc, page 56.
The nays were Pendleton and
Vallandigham of Ohio, Benz. Wood
of New York, Vorhees of Indiana.
Robinson of Illinois, Norton and
Reid of Missouri, Burnett, Harding
and Wadsworth of Kentucky.
S. S. Cox, MeClernand and other
Democrats voted for the bill.
REITERATEs PEACE SENTIMENTS.
On the 31st of January, 1863, af-
ter two years of war, after every pa
trlotic man had determined that reb-
els in arms must cease their war on
the national flag and submit to the
national authority, Mr.: Pendleton re-
iterated the sentiments we have before
given. [Cong. Globe, vol. 81, page
654.
81 have been in favor of peace from
the beginning of this sectional con-
troversy."
Il said two years ago On the hoor
that 'a-mies, money, war, cannot
maintain this Union; justice, reason,
peace, may. | believed it then, |
have believed it at every moment
since, 1 believe it now. No event Of
of the past two years has for a mo-
ment shaken my faith.
SECESSION ON THE PART
OF THE NORTHWEST.
Mr.. PendletcI then uttered the
following threat, to deter the Govern
ment from using every means within
ats -soanh to nHarthrhW the -rehellinn,
to deter the Government from arming
negroes
"The people of the Northwest were
carried away by the excitement of
Apri! and May. They believed that
war would restore the Union
+ They feel that the
war has been perverted from this end;
that the Constitution has been dis
that abolition and arbi-
trary power, not union and constitu-
tional liberty, are the governing
ideas of the Administration. They
are in no temper to be trifed with.
They think they have been deceived.
They are suffering from the death of
and friends. They are long
ing for peace. There is danger of
revolution. There is danger that
they may see no extrication from
present difficulties but in separation.
l warn you of it now. warn you in
time.
NOT ANOTHER MAN NOR ANOTHER
DOLLAR.
Again, in the same speech, Mr..
Pendletou said
II 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 up
on the mind of the people Of the
Northwest, that they been deliberate
ly deceived into this war 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 fof the Union and the Con-
stitution, when, in fact it was to be
an armed crusade for the abolition of
slavery. l tell you, sir, that unless
this impression is speedily arrested,
it will become universal; it viii rip
en- into conviction, ana 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 up in his
place as a Representative of the pa
triotic people of the Great North
west, as he did, and tell them that his
people would not furnish another
man and that their Golfers were ex-
hausted? ? What other encourage
ment 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.. Buchan-
ans Secretary of the Navy, Isaac
Toucey, the war ships Of the Govern
ment had 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..
TOucey accepted without delay or in
quiry the designations of officers of
the Navy, who we're in arms against
the Government when rendering the
same, and of those who sought to re-